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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-10-12
Gaithersburg PIT. A.
Meets October 16

With Mrs. Charles Hershey in
charge of the program the Gath
ersburg PIT. A. will hold its
monthly meeting, Monday, October
16, at 8 p. M, in the Gaithersburg
High School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-10-12
Barbee Announces
Dance November 10

Alger Yale Barbee, chairman,
has announced a dance win be held
November 10, at the Manor Club,
under the auspices Of the United
Young Mems Democratic Club.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
100, 900 III, Chicago
Weighs School CIosinq

CHICAGO, Feb. Is (P).-A survey
of Chicago public school attendance
was undertaken today to determine
whether they should be closed in an
effort to check the spread of in
f1uenza and other respiratory dis
eases.
A school survey last week dis
closed 100000 pupils and 200 teach
ers absent because of illness.
William H. johnson, superintend-
ent of schools, was among the "flu"
victims. He said the decision to
close the schools rests with DR.. Rob-
ert A. Black, acting president of the
Health Board.
More than 300 influenza cases and
nine "f1u" deaths have been record
ed. Thousands of other cases, less
severe, do not appear on official rec
ords, DR.. Black said.
Glasses in the University of Illi-
nois Medical. Dental and Pharmacy
Schools in Chicago were suspended.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Girls School Head
Dismissed in 1887
Asks Hearing
Dr.. Carrie W. Smith
Appeals to House
D. c. Committee

Charging that her summary dis
missal by the Commissioners in 1887
as superintendent of the National
Training School for Girls had been
detrimental to her reputation and
professional standing, DR.. Carrie
Weaver Smith today appealed to the
House District Committee to grant
her public hearing.
DR.. Smith told the committee she
was discharged without notice on
recommendation of the Board of
Public Welfare Her dismissal fol-
lowed several riots among girl in
mates of the institution.
Chairman Randolph said he be-
lieved the committee should grant
DR.. Smith a hearing. Action on
her request was postponed, however
at the suggestion of Corporation
Counsel Elwood Seal. who urged the
committee to hold a private con-
ference with the Commissioners be-
fore deciding to grant a hearing.
The next meeting of the District
Committee will be held Monday in
stead of Wednesday. Chairman
Randolph said a decision would be
reached at that time as to whether
the regular weekly meetings should
be changed from Wednesday to
Monday.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Art Exhibit Ballot
Results Announced

Donald Fife was the holder of the
lucky ballot that won for him the
picture he would like to win,' "By
the Dark Tunnel" by Florence A.
Everhart, the Society of Washington
Artists announced yesterday.
The winning ballot was one of 300
cast during the two weeks of the
societys exhibition at the Corcoran
Art Gallery. Each voter indicated
the picture he would like to win and
the most popular picture. Ballots
were counted and the lucky ballot
drawn yesterday.
Honors for popularity went to
Gladys Nelson. Smith for her paint
ing of little boy with a drum,
entitled Boy" Henry Wadsworth
Moore took second place with "Still
Life and Elizabeth Muhlhofer's
"Gladiolus" captured third place.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Punch and Judy Outfit Used
To Entertain Orphans Stolen

It takes mean thief to steal q
Punch, and Judy show from an or
phan.
Thus bitterly reflected Frank Por-
tillo, the amateur clown, as he sur
veyed his looted automobile this
morning.
The show was gone, all of 1.-THE
grinning Punch and Judy, Sambo
and the comic Policeman, the Devil
and the Alligator.
Gone, too, was the magic black
box from which Portillo spirited
juggling balls, cap pistols, absurd
clown suits, etc., for the delight of
the city's orphans and crippled chill
dren.
The thief had cracked the wind
shield of the car with a crowbar
while it was parked on Champlain
street, a few blocks from Mr.. Por-
tillo's home, 1760 Euclid street NV.
Mr.. Portillo, the night before, had
left inside the props" he planned
to use to entertain children ut st.
Johns orphanage.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Georgetown Students
At Masses for Pope

Resident students of Georgetown
College and the Jesuit faculty men,
bers attended a solemn mass OF
requiem for Pope Plus XII, at am
today, in Dahlgren Chapel.
The Rev. John E. Grattan, S. j..
dean of the College Of Arts and
Sciences, celebrated the mass, as
sisted by the Rev. Charles J. Foley
S. j., deacon, and the Rev. John S.
Creaghan, S. j., subdeacon. The
Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j..
president of the university, and the
other clerical members of the faculty
occupied the sanctuary.
At 9 o'clock another mass was
celebrated by the Rev. William Null
cahy, S. j., which was attended by
the day students, including those of
the School of Medicine, and the lay
members of the faculty. Father
Mulcahy is professor of medical
ethics and student counsellor in the
Medical School.
Evening star., 1939-02-15

For five years now the amateur
clown has been giving entertain
ments at frequent intervals to chill
dren in institutions of Washington.
His only compensation has been the
laughs ne gets.
The Punch and Judy figures are
manufactured by a Chicago con-
cern whose work, Mr.. Portillo feels,
cannot be duplicated. y
The props" are fairly expensive
and hard to replace, and, in addi-
ton, Mr.. Portillo and his young
audiences have become much at
tached to them. The only movable
articles which the thief left were
Mr.. Portillo's yard-long clown shoes.
If the thief wanted to 60 into
the clown business" said Mr.. Por-
tillo sadly, ''he would have taken
them, too. If not, what possible
use could he have for our things?
He couldn't sell them for q penny.
Maybe his conscience win hurt him,
and he'll bring them back" 3.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Henry Bond Appears
In Piuno Recital

Henry Bond, young pianist from
Memphis, Tenn, gave his first WASH
ington recital last evening at
Epiphany Parish Hall. His program,
ranging from two Beethoven Minuets
and the "A Flat Major Sonata, opus
no." to Grieg, List, Ravel, Critics
and de Ashlozer, attained rare
technical heights in Griegs "Ballade
in G Minor"
The ability of youthful musicians
to interpret the modernists was in
dicated by Mr.. Bonds colorful, in
cisive renditions of Ravel's ''Minuet
Antique" "Sonatine," and Critics
'The White Peacock" His effortless
technique permits development of
inner voices and tonal implications
and he should go far as a gifted in
terpreter of the modernist school.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Blond Bill Heurinq

The subcommittee on parks and
recreation of the District Commit
tee will hold another public hearing
Friday at 1890 am. on a bill in
troduced by Representative Bland,
Democrat, of Virginia to prevent the
Commissioners from using a site in
Southwest Washington adjoining
the Farmers Produce Market for
an automobile inspection station.
The first hearing was held q week
ago.
Evening star., 1939-02-15

are well known. The problem they
present is-will the unhealthy con-
ditions be corrected and so reduce
the needs for hospital beds, or must
Washington build more and more
hospitals as monuments to neglect?
Perhaps the cheapest way to make
a big reduction in the hospital needs
is to conduct generous program of
health education to tell people how
to keep well, about vaccines and
other preventive measures, and
where to go and what to do if taken
i'll. Washington now spends about
one-fourth of what it could spend
profltably on health education.
Public health nursing, I believe,
offers the greatest single opportunity
for getting and keeping the un-
derprivileged people well and cut
of hospitals. The nurses discover
early stages of illness that may be
corrected through treatment by a
private physician or at a clinic.
Washington needs more clinic facili-
ties now.
Even when the INDECENT sick must
go to the hospital, there are other
facilities and services that may
shorten the hospital stay. One is
the medical-social service worker
who aids the physician in many
ways and often can make it possible
for q patient to leave the hospital
sooner than otherwise.
Perhaps the greatest lack in facil-
tiles for the sick in the District Is
the absence of anything like enough
beds in homes for convalescents or
those chronically i'll. Hospitals are
for the acutely ill and it is far
cheaper to care for many long term
patients In institutions of a far
different type.
The inclination to use brick and
mortar to house beds for the acutely
i'll because one or two hospitals have
been crowded is understandable, but
the fact remains that for most types
Of illness health Is purchasable"
and hospitals are to q great extent
An admission Of the failure Of other
health measures.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Bill Would Create
New Court District
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A bill to create an additional
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals-the 11th-and change the
makeup of every existing circuit ex-
cept the 7th, was introduced yester-
day by Representative Chandler,
Democrat, of Tennessee, member
of the House Judiciary Committee.
The new 18th circuit would en-
brace Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana
and Oklahoma.
The realigned 4th circuit would
include Delaware, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina, and meet at
Richmond and Asheville.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Archbishop Cicognoni Sings
Requiem Mass for Pope
immaculate Conception Shrine Throneed
For Solemn and Impressive Rites

Camden; James E. Kearney, Bishop
of Rochester; Gerald P. O'Hara.
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta: Will
liam A. Griffin. Auxiliary Bishop Of
Newark; John N. McNamara. Auxil-
iary Bishop of Baltimore; Michael
]. Keyes. Titular Bishop of Aero
poll; Constantine Bohachevsky,
Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Diocese, and Paul Yu. PIN,
Bishop of Marking.
Prayers for Deceased Pope.
The full genius Of the Catholic
Church for ceremony was brought
to bear for the celebration of this
mass, which is a liturgical COM
ponent of the ordinary mass, the
first mass for the Feast of All Souls,
the burial service and special pray
ers for the deceased Pope.
The assistant priest was the Right
Rev. Patrick j. Mccormick, vice rec
tor of Catholic University. The
deacons of honor, vested in black
dalmatics, were the Right Rev. Peter
Guilday, J. U. D., professor of Amer
ican church history, Catholic Univer-
sity, and the Right Rev Edward B
Jordon, dean of the Catholic Sisters
College. The deacon of the mass
also vested in a black dalmatic, was
the Very Rev. James w. OBrien,
secretary of the School of Sacred
Theology. The subdeacon, wearing
black tunic, was the Very Rev
James M. Campbell, dean of College
of Arts and Sciences. Catholic Uni
versity, and the master Of cere-
monies, dressed in cassock and sur
plice, was the Rev. William L. Lallou
assistant professor of theology at
Catholic University.
The summer of 1886 was the last
time the apostolic delegate saw the
Pope, for the repose of whose soul
he offered the mass. That was but
little more than three years after
Plus consecrated him archbishop of
the titular see of Laodicea.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Syracuse Alumni to Meet

Paul BatZell Of the Social Sc
curity Board will speak at a meet
ing of the Syracuse University
alumni here at 1890 pm. tomorrow
at Wesley Hall. Possibilities of es-
tablishing scholarship in local
high school for Syracuse also will
be discussed, it was announced by
Mrs. Gerald Flood, who is in charge
of arrangements.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Linking District Vote
To Reorganization
Plan Opposed
Suffrage Agitation Might
Defect any Change,
Kennedy Warns

Chairman Kennedy of the special
subcommittee of the House District
Committee in charge Of the Griffen-
hagen reorganization plan an
nounced today he did not propose
to allow current agitation for local
suffrage to jeopardize congressional
approval of the proposed new mu-
nicipal setup.
THE reorganization report care
fully avoids the suffrage question, =
he declared, "and I don't believe it
should be injected into the picture
now. Local suffrage is a separate
and distinct problem, and should
not be tied up in any way with re-
organization.
II believe in local suffrage, but
I fear If the question becomes in
volved in the reorganization plan,
the District might get neither at
this time. What we are trying to
do is to effect a reorganization of
the District government that will
save the taxpayers here at least
$1,000 900 a year"
Elective Council Proposed.
Suffrage advocates have proposed
that as the first step in that direc-
ton, residents of the District be
given the privilege of electing men,
bers of the proposed city council
that would serve as the govern
ing BODY under the new setup
On the question of method of
selecting members of the governing
body, the Griffenhagen report said !:
80 Great pains have been
taken to propose no feature of ad-
ministrative or operating organiza-
,tion that would need to be changed
should Congress decide upon a
governing body different in size or
constitution from that proposed or
provide for different method of
choosing its members from that
now in use"
Report Now Available.
One thousand copies of the reor-
ganization report became available
to the public today. The 86-page
document may be procured in the
House and Senate document rooms
in the Capitol or at the House Dis
trict Committee headquarters in the
old House Office Building.
Mr.. Kennedy plans to mail copies
OF the report to all civic and busi-
ness organizations.
Public hearings on the plan will
not start until next week after
District officials and civic and busi-
ness leaders have had time to study
the proposed changes.
Evening star., 1939-02-15

Of Flu, Grippe
Fills Hospitals
Official Reports Fail
To Reveal Its Extent,
RuhIond Soys

A widespread acute respiratory in
lection OF near-epidemic proportions
Is making the rounds of Washington
homes and ofnces, DR.. George C.,
Ruhland, District health officer, de-
clared today, adding that Official re-
ports do not give an accurate picture
OF the extent of the infection.
Hospitals, meanwhile, reported be-
Ing filled nearly to capacity with
grippe and other respiratory condi-
tions. DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, superin-
tendent of Gallinger Hospital, said
the admission rate was fairly high"
Tor colds, bronchitis, pneumonia and
influenza.
AT Emergency Hospital officials
stated the admission rate was run.
ming high with a leeway of only a
few beds from the 2SO capacity
figure.
Miss Gertrude Bowling, director
OF the Instructive Visiting Nurse
Society, reported ''heavy load"
with 800 new cases received last
week, most of them acute respira-
tory conditions.
Hospitalization Demands Up.
Group disqualification, Inc, which
has been furnishing disqualification
10 an increasing number of mem
pers on a prepayment plan, now
has many patients in hospitals. it
was learned.
Figures on the number of persons
from G. H. I. now in hospitals were
not available early today, but
spokesmen for the organization
said many patients now were re-
ceiving the benefits for which they
had paid in advance. Thirteen hos
pltals are on the list of those CO.
operating with G. H. I.
Not many deaths have been caused
by the spread of the disorder, Miss
Bowling added, but the number of
cases has increased greatly. In the
poorer sections. two and three mem
bers OF each family have been
stricken, she said.
While DR.. James G.. Cunning, chief
OF the Bureau of Preventable Dis
eases in the Health Department,
said the city was not suffering from
a flu epidemic, DR.. Rutland said
there were more cases this year
than last year.
Rutland Gives Warning.
1T is true that so far as the Off
cial report is concerned" DR.. Ruh-
land said, there is no flu epidemic,
but there's no doubt that there
exists widespread respiratory in
fection that is rapidly spread from
person to person"
He repeated his warning that any
one with the symptoms of a cold
should 60 to bed and stay there
People have no business spread.
ing this Infection" he declared.
The United States Public Health
Service reported its latest data
showed a concentration of influenza
cases in three Southern States. 1t
added, however, that the total for
the Nation was far below that of a
year ago.
Most of the 5000 cases noted in
the last week, the service said. were
in Texas. South Carolina and Vir-
ginia. For the comparable week in
1888 the Nation reported 4,300 in
f1uenZa patients.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Considered Hospital Plan
Held Needed in District
Survey Of Space, Beds and Buildings May
Remove Wish to Build New GoIIineer Unit

EDITORS NOTE-Rtchard
Mackenzie, 1Dho serued as con-
sultant to the Budget Bureau
last year in a surrey OF Federal
hospital facilities that brought
him into close touch pith the
local hospital situation, presents
his DietDs on District health and
hospital problems in the tollo1D-
ing article. The opinions er-
pressed are Mr.. Mdckenzie's oUn
and not necessarily The Stdr's.)
Evening star., 1939-02-15

auenza patients
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ey cannot tax such the au Senator
two weeks The shewdy
pubcans Charles L. McNary
partial judge has been heard
dusty"
The truth pretty nearly everything there
issue has been said already Senators mind repetition
they do
Democratic Steering
sderng other legislation
no requests for special bills No committees have for
Relations Committee
except listen another affects
fveact night would
Evening star., 1939-10-06

to depend upon whose OK is gored.
The only thing of which we can be
absolutely sure is that it will be our
OK If he strays into these pastures
Of dissension." AS to the young men
now in the battle line overseas, Van
denberg called them "the class of
1910, which now answers reveille." !"
Let's Look at the Record.
Not often does one man contrive
to monopolize an issue of the Con-
gressional Record. That grade has
just been made by Representative
Jerry Voorhis, Democrat, of Califor-
mia, whose America Must Stay Out
of War" speech on October 2 fills the
whole six-page issue of the Record
Of October 3. AL Smith made a rec
ord in the Record this week, too, by
having his recent anti-embargc
broadcast appear twice, after simul-
taneous introduction in both House
and Senate,
Evening star., 1939-10-06
Gen. TrujiIIo's Family
Awaits Him on Yacht
Nv ths A~soc;,,.S prn,,

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 6.-The family
Of Gen. Rafael Trujillo, army chief
of staff for the Dominican Republic
came here by train yesterday from
New York and Washington and
boarded the generals yacht, Ramfis,
to await his arrival by plane.
Sonora Trujillo, who recently Wis
tied France, was accompanied by
her 10-year- -old son and an infant
daughter and by Sonora Matilde de
Pastoriza, wife of the Dominican
Minister to Washington.
The party plans a visit to Havana
within the next few days, return
ing here to greet Gen. Trujillo.
Evening star., 1939-10-06
Federal Code Revision
Sought by House Bill

Creation of a joint congressional
committee to revise the judicial code
of the United States was proposed
in resolution introduced yesterday
by Representative Chandler, Demo-
crat, of Tennessee.
For the past three years the House
Judiciary Committee has been
making special study of the Fed
eral judicial system. The Chandler
resolution would have joint COM
Evening star., 1939-10-06

mittee of five Senators and five
Representatives with authority to
employ personnel to do the detailed
work.
In addition to recodification, the
committee would be empowered to
propose needed changes in existing
statutes to bring the basic law up
to date.
Many changes have occurred
since 1909, when writing of the
present code began. Representa-
tive Chandler emphasized that
many changes are needed to mod
ernize and simplify the practice as
well as expedite trials.
Evening star., 1939-10-06
Observations
Excellent Opportunity Goes Begging for Great Speech
On Real Reason for Arms Bon Repeal

Charles Seymour. Remember, more
over, that he was talking to q group
of "our boys" probably 80 per cent
Of whom would be fighting II we
went to war. Taking as his text
King Solomon's prayer for wisdom,
DR.. Seymour insisted that issues
were being fought in Europe to
which we could not close our eyes
and upon the result of which we
dared not turn our backs. A defeat
for the Western democracies would
necessarily be regarded as a disaster
of the first water, he stated.
Peril in Nazi Victory.
Purely in the political field"
President Seymour continued, I'VE
could not view with any comfort
situation characterized by the pre-
dominance in Western Europe of a
victorious Nazi government, which
has opened the eastern gates of the
continent to the Russian flood of
Communistic imperialism.
Our Nation will not sacrifice it's
peace because this or that legislative
enactment is maintained or repealed,
or by reason of any alleged group
interest in commercial boom for
through haphazard hysteria. We
are not governed by fatalistic
onrush Of circumstance. We can
maintain free decision as our inter-
ests dictate"
When COnnally Was Disarmed.
AS I sat listening to Tom Con-
nally's stentorian plea for the neu-
trality bill-an irreverent Dixie
press galleryite called it "a good
anti-lynching bill speech" I
couldn't help recalling the occasion
on which the Texas Senator, then a
member of the House, was disarmed
In Great Britain during the World
War. Tom had arrived on q visit
to the embattled European scene.
AS John Bull was at the height of
his troubles with the rebellious
Irish, any alien landing at Liverpool
or Southampton bearing the good
Gaelic name of Connally was auto
matieally suspect. When the Amer
lean was asked by the customs
authorities If he carried any arms
on his person he promptly produced
a revolver, which, 1t was explained,
was not an unusual accompaniment
OF a Texan on tour. He was relieved
OF the artillery, which was turned
over to the United States Consul
General in London, Robert P. Skin
ner, for safe-keeping. A few weeks
later. hearing 1 was on my way
home for brief vacation, Mr..
Skinner intrusted me with the deli
cate mission of seeing that Repre-
sentative Connally's weapon was
duly restored to him. And it was.
"The Skyline of Futility."
Senator Vandenberg. who, if GER
tain things happen, may have deliv-
cred his speech of acceptance" in
the Senate on Wednesday, diyested
himself of some snappy phraseology,
OF which he's no mean master.
Speaking of the 10000 Americans
killed in the World War, the editor
statesman said: Their crosses dot
the skyline of futility" Discussing
this idealogy which we hear about,
and which is pleaded to our interest,
1t seems to be dangerously fluid
sort OF thing. Frequently it appears
Evening star., 1939-10-06
Some Qualifications

Besides the probability that debate
operating in favor of quick action
about the embargo The mail
However they be exhorted will be difficult
ntes and members of other antepeal
they have written already
None OF this should TAKEN absolutely
he ong on repeal at least two to but would
instant President
who have been willing line behind like
ne "ou 1ee free to walk out again Other possible developments
as indication
with success would damaging
lee also possible developments
OF brief debate without affecting struggles
nave
OF the soday credits take time to despite the
the credit OF the bill
sacred Neutrality Act The problem of
merchant also
Bailey working
80
Evening star., 1939-10-06

their real argument, SO knowingly put
by the veteran George Norris, that
repeal will help to keep America out
Of war by helping to avert the only
situation in which this country
might consider fighting-danger of
defeat of the English and French.
AS for the Senators on the other
side, with all their sincerity and
eloquence, they can hardly make
much Of the idea that. if the en-
harpo is renea1eH Germany will OF.
Evening star., 1939-10-06

problem that 1t
seems W ortiz
while to empha-
size again the
simple and clear
alternative that
confronts t h e
United States In
the formulation
Of a consistent
neutrality policy.
The mite d
States can con.
sistently follow
either of two
courses. It can
either, as the
pending bill pro-