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in Washington since the Novem-
Der election. They'll he sending
out a search warrant for him
o In view of recent policies
and appointments. however, he
probably figures it's a waste of
time - and breath - to stick
around Washington.
young Bob LaFollette ap-
pears TO be a broken and dis
pirited man since the defeat OF
Brother Phil for governor and
the election of a reactionary Re-
publican TO the senate as his
colleague. He apparently feels
that the LaFollette star, which
has lowered over the national
political horizon for almost fifty
years, is sinking.
The senator has not delivered
an extended or stirring speech at
the present session of congress.
although economic and social
issues close to his heart have
figured in floor debates. He sits
in melancholy mood at his desk.
listening carefully but uttering
no word. More and more he
moves across the chamber so as
to SIT near his fathers old crony
Uncle George" Norris of Ne
braska.
Nor has he rushed to the de-
Tense of the New Deal at this
session, as he has been wont TO
do whenever 1t came under at
tack. A smart, practical politico.
he probably feels that. in view of
Wisconsin's recent conservative
trend. IL is wiser to keep mum.
Which is a difficult job for a
LaFollette,
II the % Republican senators
staged a Darkroom convention
TO nominate a presidential candi-
date today. their almost unani-
nous choice would be Senator
Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan.
He might also get a few votes
from d m o cratic members
across the aisle.
The man from Michigan i'm
presses his colleagues as q con-
scientious. well = meaning. hard
working fellow. He virtually ran
as a New Dealer the last time.
and was one of the few Republi-
cans to survive. He has assumed
a statesmaniike rather than q
partisan attitude toward the
president and the latter's policies.
rejecting or approving various
proposals in accord with his
judgment as to their merits. He
is likabie. comparatively young
and a good talker, though no
orator.
vandenberg makes a psrticu-
lar appeal to anything : 10 : win
GOP-ers because of their private
suspicion that FDR might back
him, provided he got the nomi-
nation and a Democratic conven-
ton controlled by snu-Roosevel-
tans named q reactionary. That
sounds fantastic, but Washing
tons cloakroom p~oliticos don't
regard il as an impossibility.
Incidentally. much of the Michi-
gander's senatorial strength de-
rives from their animosity to-
ward Tom Dewey, whom they
hold to be an outsider" trying
to chisel in.
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WANTS 1T CALLED
TACOMA NARkOWS BRIDGE

Editor. The Times: | have no.
ticed that a large number of
persons in our fair city are
deeply concerned about picking
a new name for the new bridge.
Many of them have written to
our papers suggesting a wide
variety OF names that they be-
lieve would benefit our city from
an advertising standpoint. Some
OF these names, in my opinion.
would be rather puzzllng to an
out of town visitor.
II has been suggested that the
span be called Jubilee bridge.
This would not be suitable as the
bridge is not scheduled 10 be
completed this year.
Some one else believes that il
should be named after the noun
tain. l believe that our noun
tain is getting it's share OF pub
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FLA LOANS

Money borrowed under the
Federal Housing plan is money
which is potentially due 10 the
United States In case a borrow
er does not repay his loan. the
United States takes the loss.
Congress has ruled. however.
that the United States has first
claim on his property and comes
ahead OF all his other creditors.
Dickson borrowed a thousand
dollars from a bank under the
FILA. He fell behind in his pay
ments and the United States
paid the bank the amount Of the
loan. Dickson then became in
solvent There was not enough
money TO pay everyone. The
United States demanded that il
be paid in full before the others
were paid.
In n recent decision the
preme court Of Washington up
held the pcs ton Of the United
States. Said the Jurists:
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PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

licity all by itself. and that an
e%asterner would fail to see what
the bridge and the mountain
have in common.
Several citizens believe that
it should be named Army-Navy
bridge, or Fort Lewis-Bremerton
bridge. l think that this would
be very good publicity for the
two services or the Fort and the
Navy Yard city. but ! fail to see
where it would benefit Tacoma.
| believe that this span is
great enough to be it's own ad-
vertisement, and that it should
retain the name of the body of
water that it spans just as the
people of San Francisco did
when they named their Golden
Gate and Bay bridges. Let's call
it Tacoma Narrows bridge, and
let out-of-towners know that
it's in Tacoma.
DEAN W. STICkLER.
1918 So. Yakima ave.
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the progressive ideas that have
come out of the city council.
He is the man who led the fight
TO defeat the senate bill that
would have turned over our pub
lie utilities to the state. He is
the man that is still trying to
get a new and respectable city
hall for Tacoma.
And so I say to the skeptics,
look around and you'll find that
most of the important jobs are
still being held and handled by
I'VE old men"
HARRY A. HOWSE,
5lS So 52d
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SCIENCE NEWS

1t used to be that hot coffee
or chocolate used to be a treat
in the workingman's dinner pail.
Now, through a newly invented
electric lunch bucket, he can eat
his entire meal warm. All he
has to do is attach a cord on the
lunch box to a light plug. and
his meal will heat up in IS min
utes. The bucket has a number
of separate removable compart-
ments.
Goldfish. pike and salmon are
the only fish that do not sleep.
There are records of eagles liv.
ing 100 years or more.
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ID A COMMON ERROR

Do not say. Il paid 8 visit TO
New York City; say, made a
visit"
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ann letters MUS cfve am ard
sccresx u writer Onls initials
vii - published when requested
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Clarence Phelps Dodge
Is III in Colorado

Clarence Phelps Dodge, former
president OF the Washington Com
munity Chest, yesterday was re-
ported i'll in Denver, Colo, where he
went to recuperate after a serious
pneumonia attack suffered while
visiting in California.
Mr.. Dodge and his wife recently
went to Denver, where they rented a
house and planned to remain for
several months. They left Washing
ton about year ago.
A daughter, Mrs. Charles w. Eliot
wife of the executive officer of the
National Resources Board, has gone
to Denver to be with Mr.. Dodge.
Formerly publisher of the Colorado
Springs Gazette and Colorado Re-
public Leader, Mr.. Dodge retired and
came to Washington in 1880. He
soon became active in civic affairs
and IN 1884 was elected president OF
the Community Chest. He served
four terms. He also was active In
other civic enterprises, a member of
the Washington Board of Trade and
q trustee of the Brookings Insti-
tuition.
In 1888, when District Commits
sioner George Allen resigned. Mr.
Dodge was mentioned prominently
for the position.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Housing Loans Approved
Tota|ing $30,193,000

BY the Associated Press.
Approval by President Roosevelt
of $50 0,193, 900 Of low-cost housing
loans for Is projects in 16 cities was
announced yesterday.
The cities and loans were:
Birmingham. Ala, 81, 1872 900; San
Francisco. 1896 900: New Haven, So
536 900; Miami, $1,005, 900: Tampa,
81 ,982 900; Columbus, Ca, $1245,-
900; Fall River, Mass, $937 900; Hat
tiesburg. Miss, $744,000; Harrison,
N. j., $993, 900; Jersey City, $2,3S7,-
600; Newark, 1886 900; Columbus,
Ohio. $3,514,000: Portsmouth, Ohio,
1899 900; Toledo, 81 ,29S 900; Chatta- :
nooga, Tenn, $1,6S3, 900: Nashville,
$2,516, 900.
Nathan Straus, U. s. H. A. ad-
ministrator, said the loans would
cover 80 per cent of the total con-
struction cost of $33 $50 900 for the
Is projects and would bring loan
contracts to date to . total of $780,
900 1000.
Evening star., 1939-06-25

inspectors passed every safety test.
He explained he kept the car in
condition himself, and allows no
one else to drive it.
Checking over the records of the
weeks tests, ]. Earl Steinhauer, su-
pervising inspector of the testing
units, disclosed yesterday that q
total of 1,702 taxicabs and 1913 pri-
vate passenger cars were rejected.
On the other side of the ledger
were approvals of 2,527 taxicabs
and 1,370 private cars. Thirty EIGHT
trucks were approved on first ex-
animation and 4S were rejected.
Defective headlights, stop and
rear lights, bad brakes and defec-
tive wheel alignment, in that order,
headed the list Of causes Of rejec-
tions, Mr.. Steinhauer said.
Some others were disqualified for
torn floor mats, defective emergency
brakes, broken windshields and
windshield wipers.
Still others lost out when they
discovered that IN expired drivers
permit viii cause disqualification.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Mrs. Edward R., Stab|er
Rites 10 Be tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Miriam
Cutler Stabler, 79-year-old CO.
founder of the Alexandria (va)
Free kindergarten, who died Fri.
day at her home in Forest Glen
Md, are to be held at the resi-
dence at 2 pm. tomorrow. The Rev
Harry Lee Doll, rector of the Christ
:2iscopal Church, Alexandria, will
ohciate. Burial, with a Quacker
service, is to be in Woodside Gene
terry, Sandy Spring, Md.
Born at st. Johns, New Bruns-
wick, Canada, the daughter of James
Cutler and Sarah Hartshorne Cut
Ter, Mrs. Stabler attended DR.. Sar-
geant's School Of Physical Train
ing and the Garland School of Kin
dergarten in Cambridge, Mass. She
lived for many years in Alexandria
Va, where she was one of the
founders and the first president of
the Alexandria Free Kindergarten.
Since 1880 she had lived at Forest
Glen.
Surviving are her husband, Ed
ward r. Stabler, retired druggist:
one son, Edward Kenneth Stabler,
executive secretary of the Little
Businessmen's Association, and three
sisters, Mrs. William D. Hartshorne
OF Lynn, Mass; Mrs. Frank Nor
gan Of Stamford, Conn.,, and Mrs.
William Faulkner Of Portland, Me.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Mother Who Got High School
Diploma Wants College Deqree
Mrs. Mason B. Leminq
Realizes Ambition
Of Her Childhood
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Three nights a week for three
years. Mrs. Mason B. Leming, Chevy
Chase clubwoman, homemaker and
wife of the attorney who presented
the Government with a $4,000 900
tax victory last year. tossed an Eng
lish grammar or a French notebook
into her car and drove 5 miles to
school.
Daytimes, she crowded her home
work" into the odds and ends of
time left over from taking her young
daughter to school, working in her
garden, supervising the youngsters
piano practice, attending club meet
ings and managing her home.
The other night, Mrs. Leming got
her reward, the bit of paper she's
wanted for Is years-her high school
diploma.
Took Business Course.
Mrs. Leming. whose hair is gray
ing now-she wears it ''upswing" in
curls-stopped high school at the
end of her sophomore year because
her father wanted her to take a busi-
ness course.
After she was graduated from
business school, she got job which
she kept until she married Mr.. Lem
ing, career man in the Bureau of
Internal Revenue. Mr.. Leming Sue
cessfully handled the prosecution
in the Rascob-Du Pont case last
July.
The Chevy Chase matron fire.
quently thought about that diploma
she didn't have. In fact, she ad-
mits she was getting a complex"
about it. She didn't like the idea
of her daughter Nancy, who's
years old now, knowing she never
was graduated from high school.
She never did anything about 1t,
however. until she told her neigh
Dor. Miss Mildred Dean, chairman
of Latin in the high schools, that
she certainly would like to finish
high school.
We'll, why don't you?" asked Miss
Dean.
THAT was all I needed" Mrs.
Leming smiled. "The next day
went down to Roosevelt High School
and registered for night school,"
That was In 1885. The following
year she didn't 60. But in 1897
Western High Scnool opened its
night school and Mrs. Leming went
back again.
1t was hard that first year, she
admitted. Lessons don't come so
easily after 20 years. But the last
two years she sailed through with
no trouble at all.
"Its funny thing" she said yes
terday. when I was youngster
in Central barely got through, but
in night school, though the work
wasn't any different from what was
given in the daytime, made IA
AS. B and 2 C's. I think,
without realizing 1t, life teaches a
great deal that helps you pass
courses"
The C's were in French. Mrs.
Leming found that her toughest
subject.
Considers Self Lucky.
She thinks she's lucky that her
husband was willing to let her spend
Evening star., 1939-06-25

three evenings a week away from
home. OF course. Ito keep peace in
the family" she spent her other
evenings with him playing bridge OF
going to the movies.
She was fascinated by the people
that shared her classes. There were
housewives. college graduates want
ing to brush up on a single subject,
like French; stenographers trying
to better their positions, students
who couldn't get their college di-
plomas without necessary high
school credits. There even was To-
year-old veteran from Soldiers
Home. There were women there who
kept their jobs and their homes run
ming, too.
Night school has made Mrs. Lem
ing anxious to go on studying. After
Nancy gets to junior high school
and can get around by herself, Mrs.
Leming says, she's going to take
some college courses. Now that she
has started. she thinks she might as
well get college degree, too.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
1921 Auto O. K, 1899 Rejected
In New D. c. Inspection Tests

Even If you have a nice new, shiny
car, don't be too sure it's a cinch to
pass the Districts automobile In
spection tests.
Among the 4,579 automobiles in
spected at the two testing stations
during the first weeks operation
Of the new law was a brand new
1899 model, whose owner drove con-
fidently into the. inspection lane
but emerged with a red face and q
red disqualifying sticker.
Brakes, steering mechanism,
wheels, windshield, flooring? o. K.
Tenders, running board, bumpers,
horn ETC.? Excellent. But when it
came to examining the headlights
on the new machine the inspectors
found them OF line and were forced
to reject the car. The driver was
somewhat ruined, but had the lights
adjusted and was OK'd on second
examination.
Another motorist veered into the
Southwest station at SIS Tenth
street S.W. In . machine Of vintage
1921, but to the ama1ement Of the
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Search for Mans BODY
To Be Resumed Todav

At daylight today harbor police
were to resume dragging the Po.
tomac River near Chain Bridge for
the body of Herman Rosin. 28. who
dlved into the river from the bridge
at l I'm. yesterday.
The rock-studded river near the
bridge was dragged all day yester.
day. but no trace of the BODY was
found, and police ceased their search
about o'clock last night.
Returning from a party with two
friends early yesterday morning. Mr..
Rosin, on a dare, dived the IS feet
from the south span of the bridge
into the river, after one of his COM
panions, Robert Fletcher, Is, of 1850
Canal road had successfully made
the dive.
Mr.. Fletcher said he saw his
friend come to the surface after the
plunge but not knowing anything
was wrong, swan ashore. When Mr.,
Rosin did not come in Mr.. Fletcher
began to search for him. Harbor DO
lice took over the hunt at down.
Mr.. Rosin lived at 2424 Chain
Bridge road. Mr.. Fletcher and the
third member of the party, Richard
Allen, 80, of 2428 Chain Bridge road,
were questioned at the seventh pre-
cinct yesterday morning and then
released.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
|Pepco Station
|zoning Petition
To Be Heard
PIdns for Structures
To Be Considered
On Wednesday

Plans for the construction Of
three electric substations to serve
the growing Northeast area will be
considered by the Board of Zoning
Adjustment at a public hearing at
the District Building Wednesday, on
petition by the Potomac Electric
Power Co.
The company has requested per.
mission to erect the substations at
1925 South Dakota avenue NE,
1901 Lawrence street NE. and at
1920 Twenty-second street NE.
The board also will consider an
appeal by Martha Campbell Seal
for permission to establish a gaso-
line service station at 237 Carroll
street NV, in the Takoma section.
and an appeal by Lizzie c. Gregory
for permission to inclose a rear one
story porch at 905 Forty seventh
place NE.
Extra Hearing Planned.
District oflcials also announced
yesterday an extra public hearing
will be held July ls by the Zoning
Commission to consider two pro-
posed changes in uses Of property
and an amendment to the zoning
regulations dealing with establish
ment of bowling alleys.
The question of bowling alley
rules has been considered at the
past two hearings and was passed
over pending further revision Of
the proposed change. Bowling al
leys could be permitted in first
commercial areas within 200 feet
OF a residential district, provided
approval was obtained from the
Zoning Commission as well as from
the adjustment board, if the amend
ment is approved in its present form.
The commission and the board
would have to find that the bowl.
ing alleys would not interfere un-
reasonably with the most appro.
pirate" use of neighboring property
under the zoning plan.
To Study Lot Rezoning
The commission will consider a
proposal for extension of the "A''
restricted classification to lots
abutting the south side of Courtland
place NV. between Kingle road and
Twenty eighth street, lots on the
north side of CORTLAND place be.
tween Klingle road and the east
line OF parcel 54 over SO, and all lots
on the west side of Twenty ninth
street between CORTLAND place and
Cathedral avenue NV. Approval Of
the change would prevent erection
OF apartments on the properties.
The other case is a proposal for a
change from residential "a area ia
residential "a restricted property
bounded by Second street. Nichols
avenue. South Capitol and Chesa-
peake streets S.W.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
District Is Reported
Free Of Diphtheria
For First Time
Dr.. Cumming Emphasize.
Increasing Use Of
Preventive Steps

The District is free of any case OF
diphtheria-for the first time in
history-Dr. James G. Cumming,
chief of the Bureau of Preventable
Diseases of the Health Department,
reported yesterday.
DR.. Cumming said a great increase
in the use of preventive steps, par
ticularly the immunization of in
fants, has cut the incidence and
death toll. from the disease in recent
years, emphasizing that further
progress can be made.
Applied medical science has
changed the picture, he explained
Up to the beginning of the present
century, he said, practically every
child contracted the disease before
it reached the age of IL, and one
out OF every eight patients died.
IF we had the same mortality
that prevailed 40 years ago." he
said, there would be sacrificed in
Washington the lives of about 800
children each year."
Introduction of diphtheria anti
toxin about 40 years ago, he said,
saved the lives of thousands, and
later the immunity test and the
toxoid treatment for prevention Of
the disease were developed.
In 1882, when but 1878 infants
were given impunization, there were
l6 deaths from the disease, DR..
Cumming said. In 1888, he added,
5,091 infants were given the pro-
lection, and there were but seven
deaths. In both years, about II 900
babies were born. For the present
year, so far, there have been but
two deaths from the disease al
though 160 cases have been reported.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
~. S. Is Tokinq
Il Poll on Press
| Releases

Government agencies have be-
gun to circularize their reading
public" to find out who wants to
receive press releases after July I.
The reason:
A prohibition written into the
Treasury-Post Once appropriation
bars the franking-except under
certain conditions-of releases un.
less they are specifically requested.
, The proviso was sponsored by Sem
ator OMahoney, Democrat, of Wyo-
ming, former First Assistant POST
master General, who told the Senate
that the loss to the Post Once De-
partment for handling franked mail
from the executive establishments
had risen from $8,537, ,730 In 1928
to $35, $50 ,807 last year.
Matter will be mailed, whether
requested or not, to educational in.
stitutions, public libraries and pub.
lie authorities. Documents offered
for sale by the superintendent Of
documents also are free Of the ban.
Evening star., 1939-06-25

"any movement for an increase in
the pay to the pages, preferably by
placing them on the annual instead
Of on the session roll"
They also proclaim they "are
unalterably in favor of supplying
pages with neat, simple uniforms
at the expense of the contingent
fund; and we also favor, in the
same manner, furnishing the pages
with complete baseball equipment
50 that their team in competition
with the Senate pages may the Bet
ter uphold the prestige and tradi-
tions of the House"
Speeches, debates, dramatic skits,
feats of magic and music will high
light the dinner. John McCabe, one
Of the chief pages, viii be master
II eeremouiok
Evening star., 1939-06-25
House Pages to Dine Tonight;
Want Longer Congress Session

With a program of action calling
for longer session of Congress,
increased pay and complete baseball
equipment, pages of the House Of
Representatives will gather at the
Mayflower Hotel tonight at Z o'clock
for their seventh annual dinner as
guests of Representative Shannon,
Democrat, of Missouri.
In q list Of special orders printed
on the program for the dinner, the
pages announce they favor prolong-
Ing this session beyond July ire
gardless of the merits or demerfts
OF neutrality or other legislation,
ABOUT which we know nothing, in
order that our per diem pay may
continue indefinitely"
another resolution heartily favorS
Evening star., 1939-06-25
U.S.. Junior Chamber
Accepts Capital Sid
For 1910 Meetinq
LocoI Delegation Of IS
Attends Session
In Tulsa

Months Of effort by the WASH
ington Junior Board Of Commerce
was crowned with success yesterday
when the United States Junior
Chamber of Commerce voted, in the
closing sessions of it's national con-
vention at Tulsa, Okla, to hold its
1910 convention in the National
Capital.
Washington won out over Min
neapolis and Atlanta, both of which
withdrew before the second vote
was completed, according to an AS
sociated Press dispatch.
Seattle. Boston and Grand Rapids
Mich, made preliminary bids for
later conventions, the dispatch said
War Avoidance Urged.
The Associated Press reported the
convention voiced a declaration that
"the United States should not en-
gage in any foreign armed conflict
1t also adopted a resolution sup
porting the Civilian Conservation
Corps program after striking out
proposal that some military train
ing be included. This was the only
change in resolutions submitted al
the closing session.
Perry Pipkin, 34-year-old Mem
phis (Tenn) insurance agent, was
elected national president.
Washington received awards for
membership activities, safety after
hours" and for getting out the
vote"
Is In District Delegation.
A delegation of some Is men,
bers of the local Junior Board at
tended the convention with the OBJ
jective of obtaining the next annual
meeting of the parent organization.
Among those who made the tril
were Minor Hudson, president
Fred B. Linton. executive secre-
tary; Lyle F. O'Rourke, immediate
past president, and several members
of the Board of Directors of the
Junior Board.
Although only S years old, the
Washington Junior Board is one
of the 10 largest units in the coun-
try. Open to business and profes-
sional men under 35, it now has q
membership of more than 500.