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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-22
Indian Village Club

The Indian Village Social club
had a call meeting at the home OF
Mrs. Matte White, Gus Smith
being host. Plans were completed
for It's spring frol1c. Saturday,
April, %. al the Lsrk's club. After
the meeting the members and
guests gathered around the table 10
psrtake OF lovely luncheon
Bridge was then played.
The guests present were Mrs
Mattel Forniss and Miss Pope. Ev-
erybody reported a swell time.
Mrs. Mable walker Is reporter.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-22
N 9 i e h b o r h o o {
Friendship Club

The Scotch Avenue Neishbor-
hood Friendship club met Monday
April 10. At the home OF Mrs. Lula
Taylor. 60S3 Scotch avenue. Mrs.
Nellie Johnson presided.
Mrs. Beta Scott was chairman OF
the Program committee. and \ very
excellent program wa rendered.
Those participating included Mrs.
Flossie West, Mrs. Beta Scott. Mrs.
Essfe Tallisfero. Mrs. Lula Taylor,
and Mrs. Beulah Young.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-22
Vacation Club

The Vacation club met April 16
AT tho home OF Mr. and Mrs. Rob
crtson. AS Tennessee street. Dur
ing the business Session two new
members were taken into the
club.
A delicious repast was served by
the hnsiess
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21

Libby Lodge No. IS, A. F. & A.
NJ, held their annual election and
installation of officers Thursday
night. Officers elected, appointed
and installed were:
Marshall Murray, worshipful mas
ter; Donald c. Hargreaves, senior
warden: Carl F. Crane, junior war
den; VIM. W Blew, treasurer; VIM.
J. Anderson, secretary; John f. Nc
Gully, chaplain; Louis G. klenck,
marshall; Merrill Tester senior
deacon; James M. Blackford, Jr.,
junior deacon; Dexter Shaurette,
senior steward: Edwin c. Kemp,
junior steward; John F. McCully,
organist; Fred Burlingame, tiler.
Retiring Master Otto H. Nord-
strom, presented each officer with
a gift
Past Master John F. McCully then
presented the retiring master with
a past masters jewel.
After installation an oyster sup
per was given the members with
R. w. Smithherger, M. K. Kedzie
and Jack Rowland in charge. A So
cial hour was then held.
Two new members, Charles K
Mace and Pearlie v. Kitley, were
elected members by affiliation.
A committee was appointed to
have Christmas tree placed on the
marquee in keeping with the holt
day SEASON.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21
SMALL THOUGHTS

Jesus Christ is a God to whom we
can approach without pride, and be-
fore whom we may abase ourselves
without despair.-Pascal.
Last Sunday Chris Ramlo picked
two rosebuds from bushes he has
at his home This is another proof
that Montana weather is the best J.
There are many beautifully dec
GRATED homes over the city and the
big question of who will win the
prize offered by the Lions again
stands out !.
We should like to congratulate
the Tamarack staff upon the recent
edition The material was fine
and we'll worked up
At this time there being Christ
mas spirit hiding around every cor
ner and good will being shoveled
out by the barrel full we find there
is little news on that good old half
way mark between unprintable
gossip and stuff with little or no
! kick in it so guess we'll just run off
at the mouth for short spell =.
Someone told us the other day
that they are still looking in vain
| for the street signs which were
supposed to have been erected this
fall we hope those stencils
don't meet the same fate that the
unfortunate signs met some years
ago permanent resting place
/ in the dark corner of some store
| We have been informed that Moo
H Davidson and Red Gompf will put
IN skating rink as soon as old
man weather agrees with them
1t seems that local post office
employees are doing an excellent
job of distributing Christmas mail
here and sending it out Their
oJ o&11iA MI I'D III WGli llidl IL ID IlOl
necessary to wait around the win
dow for half an hour to buy a stamp
but instead you are taken care OF
almost Immediately of course
there are always exceptions to the
rule, some one will undoubtedly
call our attention to that exception
Schools and colleges are always
preaching tradition The com
mander of the Graf Spec really
showed the boys what tradition
was when he committed suicide
in order to right himself with some
body because he had to scuttle his
ship ]. Instead of the worn out
What is this younger generation
coming to-" ii should be What is
! this modern civilization coming to :,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21
Hostfsses at Lovely Party.

The Royal Neighbors enjoyed q
lovely Christmas party Wednesday
Dec. Is. The afternoon was de-
voted to the children's party and
was enjoyed very much. The chill
dren gave recitations and vocal and
piano solos.
After the regular lodge meeting
IN the evening, delightful Christ
mas party was enjoyed by a large
crowd. Gifts were exchanged and
there was fun for all.
AT the close of the evening re-
freshments were served in the din
ing room, from a beautifully dec
Grated table with Yuletide adorn-
ments predominating. Mrs. Bessie
CloWers and Ella Baenen decorat-
ed the table.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21
Bowls Kalispell Teams.

Pop Kessel and his boys-ken-
meth Brown, Clarence Larson, Bob
Fowler, Victor Baker and Robert
Larsen as business management
to Kalispell last Saturday to bowl
the Kirkpatrick and the Glacier
Dairy teams. The score of the
games were as follows:
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21
Answers Silent Fire Call.

A silent call was made on the
Libby fire department Monday at
approximately one o'clock to the
Mrs. Otto Davidson home. No dam
age was done for the firemen had
the blaze under control soon after
arriving there
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21

Libby Lodge No. IS A. F. & A. M.
will be the hosts to dancing party
at the Temple Saturday evening.
Dancing will begin promptly at
nine o'clock and the Christmas mo-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21

tiff will be carried out. All MEM
bers are requested to be present
and each one is asked TO invite a
guest.
Ladies are asked to bring sand
witches.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-21
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY Hal

Once again Ii is our distinct pleas
ure to wish all our friends and
enemies the cherriest and happiest
of ChristmaSses 1t Is our wish
that old Santa will treat you better
than he ever has before and that all
good things may be yours during
this holiday season
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Medical Society Head
Praises Drive for
Cancer Control
Dr.. Mallory Suggests
Wider Program Of
Lay Education

DR.. William ]. Mallory, president
of the Medical Society Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, today praised the
cancer control campaign being
opened here and throughout the
country by the Women's Field Army
in cooperation with physicians and
surgeons.
DR.. Mallory listed as first on a
list of four outstanding needs in the
District. "a more widespread and
comprehensive program of lay edu-
cation" He called on the public to
support the "educational and enlist
ment campaign" now getting under
way.
Better trained physicians also are
needed, DR.. Mallory pointed out.
This problem is being considered
by the National Advisory Cancer
Council" he said. land is one in
which the council can and should
cooperate with medical schools and
medical societies all over the coun-
try.
More use of diagnostic and treat
ment facilities" also was recon-
mended by the Medical Society
president. THE American College
of Surgeons" he said, 'is in a posi-
tion to advise and help toward this.
More permanent support for re-
search is sorely needed" he de-
clared. There Is about the same
amount Of money rasied annually
for the study of cancer and for the
investigation and study of infantile
paralysis. Cancer kills 100 times as
many people as infantile paralysis.
This comparison is not made to de-
crease support for infantile paraly-
sis. but to increase the support for
cancer research to something like
proportional basis
DR.. Mallory also listed among the
notable developments during 1888
in the drive against cancer the
National Cancer Institute at Be-
thesda, Md, in connection with the
National Institute of Health.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Jokesters Revive 2 Old Guos
And Introduce q New One

Human nature being what 1t is. a
lot Of old gags cropped up today
and at least one minor innovation.
AS usual, some ghoul telephoned
police to say that a man had leaped
off the Washington Monument.
That one is older than the Monu-
ment, If possible.
Anyhow. It's older than that sad
April l about the turn of the cen
tury when the reporters In the press
room at headquarters laughed and
laughed at a message that a man
had jumped of the Monument.
April fool!" they shouted, April
fool!"
It wasn't long before their city
editors were shouting the same
thing at them without the april" !"
A suicide had chosen All Fools
Day to take that awful plunge.
Since then, however, the Monument
windows have been heavily barred.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Senate Approves
$10,000,000 a Year
For War Materials
Measure Also Provides
$500, 900 Annually for
Development Of Sources
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BY a topheavy 56-to-13 vote the
Senate approved yesterday legisla-
ton authorizing the Army and Navy
to purchase and store $4,000, 900
worth of strategic war materials in
the next four years. The measure
now goes to the House.
The bill. sponsored by Senator
Thomas. Democrat. of Utah. orig
inally called for an authorization
of s25 100000 a year for purchase
of strategic materials for four years.
The sum was reduced to $10000,000
annually Dy a 33-to-31 vote Thurs
day.
Senator Thomas told the Senate
yesterday he had a memorandum
from the War Department stating
that a four-year s10O,OOO,OO0 allo-
cation was necessary and that such
a sum would not be in conflict
with President Roosevelt's budget
estimates. Senator Thomas said he
merely wanted to give the Senate
that information and did not wish
to ask for reconsideration of the
vote reducing the projected outlays.
In addition to the funds au-
thorized for such strategic ma
terials not generally available in
the United States, the bill would
permit expenditure of s500,0O0 a
year for four years for development
of domestic sources of strategic ma
terials.
Senator Bilbo, Democrat. of Mis-
sissippi offered an amendment re-
quiring the transfer of 100000
bales of cotton from the Commodity
Credit Corp. to the War Depart
ment to be held in storage in an
ticipation of war emergency. He
withdrew the proposal. however,
when Senator Thomas asserted that
provisions of the bill would en-
power the President to dispose of
the cotton at any time if it were
transferred to the War Department.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Chamberlain Fears Hitler Subs
More, Simon Lake Contends

Prime Minister Chamberlain Is
much more afraid of Hitler's sub
marines than he is of the German
air force, in the opinion of Simon
Lake-the old man of submarine
construction.
Mr.. Chamberlain. Mr.. Lake be-
Germany was able to do to Great
Britain in the first year of the World
War, and fears the same thing will
happen again in case of war because
no adequate protection against deep
diving submarines has been evolved.
And, as a matter of fact. 1t is a re-
lated subject which brought Mr..
Lake-inventor of the level keel SUBJ
marine now used by all navies-to
Washington and the Raleigh Hotel
yesterday. He said in an interview
he had come to Washington to inter-
est the Navy Department in cargo
submarines as the only vessels In
which wartime commerce and troop
transportation could be carried on
with a reasonable degree of safety.
Used Since World War.
Cargo submarines have been used
in a small way ever since the World
War when the German cargo sub
marine Deutchland made two COM
mercial voyages bere before America
entered the war.
Mr.. Lake, who after q lifetime OF
working with undersea craft In
spired by reading Jules Verne in his
childhood. has another mission in
Washington. He Is here to get an
extension of his permission from the
Treasury Department to hunt for the
British frigate Hussar. which sank
in 1870 in the East River. supposedly
carrying a quantity of treasure.
"Of course" Mr.. Lake admitted
yesterday. II wasn't the inventor Of
the submarine. Submarines had been
operated successfully before my time,
one by Robert Fulton. by way of in
terest. But I held at one time the
bacis patents which make the mod
ern level keel submarine-one which
does not dive nose foremost but low
ers its bulk under the water on an
even keel by means of hydroplanes.
These have, for the most part ex-
pired now. however"
Mr.. Lake made his first subma-
rine experiment at the age of 10
when he capsized rowboat in Toms
River, N. j., and tested his staying
powers in the submerged air cham
ber.
His first successful submarines
crude n-shaped affair called the
Argonaut-was built in 1894. In 1t
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Band Concert

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band Orchestra this evening
at $50 o'clock in Stanley Hall. John
S. M. Zimmerman. bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, "Repasz Band" (Williams-
port, Pa -Sweeley
Overture, THE Emperor" Kiessler
Two songs:
(a) my Heaven on Earth"
Neuman
(b young Werner's Parting
Song" -Nessler
Excerpts from musical comedy
"Alone at Last -Lehar
Poular numbers:
"A Little Coon's Prayer" Hope
"Ain't Love Grand?" Conrad
Valse de concert, 'Liebesfreud,"
Fritz Kreisler
Finale, "Our Sammie's" Vandersleet
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Lisner Will Ru|inq
Allows $441,000 for
Home for Women
O'Donoehue Holds
Funds Can't BE Used to
Endow Another Gift

Under ruling of Justice Daniel
w. ODonoghue in District Court,
attorneys said today. SAL 900 will be
made available for the creation of a
home for aged and INDECENT white
women in the District. A ruling on
litigation over the will of Mrs. Laura
Hartmann Lisner, the jurist held
that under the residuary clause all
the unused balance of ST ,00000 she
left to her late husband, Abraham
Lisner. department store magnet
here. plus income. went to his estate.
This. counsel said. totals SAL 900.
The court was asked whether any
part of the legacies. payable under
certain provisions of Mrs. Lisner's
will, can be used to set up an en-
dowment or other fund to provide
income for the maintenance of ad-
ditions or buildings contemplated
by the testatrix. Justice O'Donoghue
ruled that it could not.
Blind Home a Beneficiary.
Lawyers declared that the Henry
and Annie Hurt Home for the Blind.
3O5O r street NV, which was left
100000 under the will of Mrs. Lis
ner, has no fund with which to
maintain the projected addition.
This the testatrix planned to have
named the Laura Hartmann Lisner
Memorial, but lawyers made it clear
that the home has not rejected the
bequest.
The National Metropolitan Bank
of Washington and Leon Tobrlner,
trustees under Mrs. Lisner's will,
asked District Court for construc-
ton of the will and for instructions,
making DR.. C'oyd Heck Marvin,
president of George Washington
University, and Mr.. Tobriner. ex-
ecutors under the will of Abraham
Lisner, the defendants in the case.
Mrs. Lisner had bequeathed to her
husband 100000 and the court
was asked whether the main body
Of this estate and the undistributed
income of a trust fund is distribut-
able to the executors under his will
and if not to whom?
Attorney C. F. R. Ogilby repre-
sented the petitioners. Lawyers ex-
planned that the question of whether
any part of the legacies in question
can be used to acquire real estate
upon which to erect projected ad-
ditions to the charitable institu>
Observation-Disclosures under Mrs. Lis
ners will-was not involved. 1t was
said that with the exception of the
Henry and Annie Hurt Home for
the Blind, the other beneficiaries
had sufficient land on which to
erect additions.
Among Other Bequests.
Mrs. Lisner left 100000 to the
Washington Home for Insurables,
Wisconsin avenue and Upton street
NV, for an addition to be known
as the Wilhelmina C. Hartman Me-
mortal; $4,000 to the Presbyterian
home for the Aged, 1918 Newton
street NV, for an addition to be
known as the Laura Hartmann Lis
ner Memorial; $4,000 to the WASH
ington Home for Foundlings, 4610
Forty-second street NV, for an ad-
dition to be known as the Laura H.
Lisner Memorial, and 100000 to
the Washington ID. c. Sanitarium
Association at Takoma Park, Md.
for accommodations for the treat
ment of psycopathic cases and nerv-
Gus disorders.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Elmer J. Davidson
Staying Case Echoes
In Tax Contest
Estate Counsel Seeks
To Deduct Sum for
Character Defense

Are expenses incident to securing
conviction of an alleged murderer
in a case where the defense attacks
the character of the victim deduct
ible from the gross estate of the
victim prior to imposition of the
inheritance tax?
This is the question on which the
Districts Board of Tax Appeals will
have to rule in connection with a
petition filed yesterday by Michael
NJ. Doyle. counsel for the estate of
Elmer J. Davidson.
Mr.. Davidson, a former Washing
ton lawyer. was shot to death on a
lonely road in Stafford County, Va,
October 4. 1887. Walter L. Ross. a
17-year- -old ex-Marine. is now serving
a 1O-year sentence for the Staying.
Mr.. Doyle asserted in his petition
that the defense attacked the char
acter of the decedent and that it
was important to the estate that
the case be properly presented so
that the good name of the decedent
would be vindicated."
For this reason he claimed the
following alleged expenses deducted
from the gross estate: $500 paid to
w. w. Butzner as special prosecutor
in the trial, S100 paid to Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald for testi-
flying at the trial. 500 to 1t. John
Fowler, ballistics expert of the Dis
trict Police Department. to testify at
the trial; SIS to the S. H. Hines Co.
for exhuming the body and 5000 for
perpetual care of the grave in Rock
Greek Cemetery. The trial was held
in Stafford County.
The tax assessor, however, refused
to allow the deductions and as
sessed the estate inheritance tax at
$1.256.66.
Evening star., 1939-04-01

he cruised for thousands of miles in
Chesapeake Bay.
Russia Gave Him q Start.
Like most American inventors I
had to take by idea abroad and it
was Czarist Russia which gave me
my first chance. They were at the
time engaged in the Russo-Japanese
War and I built them some," he said.
Mr.. Lake went afterwards to Ger
many and England as a builder and
adviser and eventually found his way
back to America In time for the
World War. He's been at it ever
since and has been granted 100
patents on various devises here at
one time or another.
Perhaps it's because his invention
has, in the main, done more harm
than good so far. or 1t may be an
other reason, but his hobby right
now is to put undersea craft to
peacetime work for salvage and cargo
purposes.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Having Company?
Workhouse. Cooks
SuQqest Recipe

When the chefs and stew
ards of District institutions get
together they often come
through with suggestion like
the following for "old-fashioned
beef stew" by the cooks at the
District Workhouse.
Take $50 pounds of fresh
beef. cubed, and add 500 pounds
Of diced potatoes, so pounds of
onions, 8 cans of carrots and SO
cans of peas. Cook beef until
tender and add potatoes. Cook
Is minutes and then add other
vegetables. Cook for Is more
minutes and you will then have
q real meal for 1900 persons.
Evening star., 1939-04-01

The other gag which has its roots
deep in Washington folk lure is a
message to call Mr.. Fox at Co.
lumbia 0743." For years Zoo attend
ants chuckled and disillusioned the
dupes as gently as possible.
Being optimists, they thought the
jolly old custom would lie down and
die Of old age. But instead 1t
gathered strength and vigor with
each passing generation.
Today the gag Is so active the
telephone company questions every
body who calls the Zoos number.
The special operator who handles
the calls expects about 1,700 before
nightfall.
The minor innovation was sprung
on several innocents today who were
persuaded that q lady at District
2525" wanted to discuss their
financial affairs with them.
"Such impertinence," exclaimed
one Office goat-there's one in every
office. Maybe she thinks I'm over
drawn again I'll tell her a few
things!"
Cut On and or Wire.
But the lady had the last word,
being q combination Of sound track
and various gadgets that cut her on
and of the wire, once she speaks
her piece.
you can start . bank account
for one dollar :" she began.
"1've already started one," shouted
the dupe, "and you know it's more
than one dollar!"
"The time." continued the voice,
'is HAT"
II know what time it Isl" shouted
the dupe.
How about the score!" asked the
Office audience.
The lady meanwhile had hung up
with great deal Of hnality and
more mechanical ingenuity.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Owen Seriously III

Representative Emmett M. Owen
Of Georgia today was seriously Ill
Of bronchial pneumonia at Emer-
gency Hospital.
Mr.. Owen, who is 81, contracted
q cold last week and was admitted
to the hospital when his condition
became worse.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Skeleton of Baby
Found in Vacant House

An electrician found a baby's
skeleton wrapped in 12year-old
newspaper late yesterday in va
cant house in the TOO block of @
street NV.
Herbert L. Prince. "a. of GOT
Jackson street NE, said he discov-
cred the skeleton when he broke
through ceiling plaster to find an
outlet for wires he was installing.
The newspaper wrapper was dated
,Juiy. 1927.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Chemicals Burn Student

Jack Wolfe, II, of 1926 Varnum
street NV. was burned on the hands
yesterday when chemicals he was
mixing at Roosevelt High School ex-
ploded. He was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital and sent home, po-
lice reported.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-13
Wouldn't Let Patrol
Car Pass; Pays S25

Edgar Scheibel of New Tim
wouldn't let a highway patrol car
pass him onshighway SO Monday
night.
He said he didn't know it was
a highway patrol car when he
came into municipal court We'd
nesday, pleaded guilty to a charge
of reckless driving and paid a
SIS fine.
Scheibel told Judge N. R. Ry-
erson he didn't like to have cars
pass him on graveled roads be-
cause they threw up stones at his
windshield.
Redwood Falls police arrested
owners of cars carrying 1888 Ii
cense plates this week. Leslie
Marsh and Lloyd Struckmann
both paid So fines on old license
counts.
r. Garman, a WPA worker,
was brought before Clifford James,
special municipal judge, Monday
on a charge of fishing without a
license. The complaint was sign
ed by Came Warden w. H. Quist.
Garman was given a fine of $40
suspended on condition he pay
costs amounting to 81.
A charge of drunken driving
April 9 brought a $50 fine to Ru-
ben Terhell who pleaded guilty
Tuesday before Ryerson. His
drivers license was suspended for
a year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-13
KITE DAY TO BE
ANNUAL AFFAIR

Inspired by the interest shown
in their Kite day at Memorial
Field Saturday, leaders of Boy
Scout troop 33 plan to make the
event an annual one and talk of
branching into model airplane
activities.
About a dozen kitesters joined
in the affair, competing for prizes
of theatre tickets and model air
planes.
Leon Pease won the award for
the smallest kite, successfully
flying a six inch model, using
thread for string and wrapping
cord for a tail.
With five foot, six-cornered
kite, Frank Forbes took prizes for
the biggest kite and the one which
let out the most string.
1t was large enough to carry
auxiliary parachutes which were
switched off to drop through the
air. NJ ,s.ss
Kenneth Parsons had the FAM
ciest kite flown successfully, his
entry including an auxiliary box
rigging which affected its air
maneuvers. E. G. Korfhage, and
John Hoepner, scoutmaster, were
judges.