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Evening star., 1939-06-08
Soop Box Derby Rules

Mote to boys: The Star and
the American Legion again are
sponsoring a Soap Box Derby
this summer for boys of the
Washington metropolitan area.
The Derby is a race of motor
less, gravity-powered, mini
ature automobiles or coaster
racers. built and driven by boys.
The winner of the local Derby
on July 8 will represent WASH
ington in national and interna-
tional finals at Akron, Ohio, on
August 13J
These rules are your guide
for the second WASHINGTON
SOAP BOX DERBY:
/. Eligibility: Boys CT WASH
ington and vicinity not younger
than 10 nor older than Is may
enter. A boy who has passed
his 10th birthday on the day
of the local race is ineligible.
Members of the immediate
family of employees of The Star,
the Chevrolet Motor Co., Chev-
rolet dealers or employees of
Chevrolet dealers will not be
allowed to compete.
2. Official rule books and en-
try blanks: Secure these and
sign your safety pledge at the
salesrooms of your nearest
Chevrolet dealer in Washing
ton, Alexandria Or Clarendon,
Va; Silver Spring or Hyatts-
vile, Md. You must be &C
companied by your parent or
guardian, who must also sign.
Read The Star Regularly TOR
Derby NeUS
Evening star., 1939-06-08
IS Girls to Take Part
In St. Roses Festival

Seventy-five girls will participate
in the spring festival of st. Rose S
Technical School, a Community
Chest-supported institution, to-
night and tomorrow at pm. in the
school auditorium. Two playlets,
vocal numbers and dancing will
make up the program.
Diplomas and certificates have
been awarded Claire Frances Fiege,
Marjorie Angela Lynn, Ruth Lor-
raine Connery. Mary Catherine
Fink. Doris Marie Helbig, Mary
Teresa Sullivan, Elizabeth Barbara
Waskviac and Marie Jennings
Morris.
For the first time this year, &C
cording to Sister Mary, superin-
tendent of the agency. the school
has been affiliated with Catholic
University.
Evening star., 1939-06-08
Legion Auxiliary Unit
Elects Mrs. Quinn

Election of Mrs. Edith Warren
Quinn. 2131 Florida avenue NV. as
president of Cooley mccullough
Unit, No. %, American Legion
Auxiliary, was announced following
Tuesday nights meeting at the Y.
W. c. A.. 6l4 E street NV.
A charter member of the unit,
Mrs. Quinn is also Legionnaire and
a charter member of the U. S. S.
Jacob Jones Post, No. 2. She is a
veteran of 20 years service with
the organization, having held posi-
tions in the Legion, auxiliary and
the Eight and Forty.
Other officers named were Mrs.
Ann zaruba and Mrs Margaret
Gauges, vice presidents; Mrs. joan
ma Hynson. chaplain; Mrs. Ethel
10th, historian; Mrs. Beulah C.
Mumford, sergeant at arms; Mrs.
Emma M. Warren, property GUS
todian, and Mrs. Pauline Chambers
and Mrs. Gladys Scriviner, color
bearers.
Evening star., 1939-06-08
Broadcast Describes
How Derby Entrant
Won By a Shirt
Combs Reviews Race
At Akron Lost Year
In Talk Over WMAL
ATTENTION, BOYS!

Entries for the 1889 WdShinq-
ton Soap Boa Derby close Satur-
ddy, June II. Nop is the time to
register. Remember-tle Derby
Is one month from today, July 8.
The story of how Bobby Berger
l4-year-old Omaha (Neb) youth
won the 1888 National Soap Box
Derby championship by shirt-his
own silk shirt-was told over Sta
ton WMAL by Charles E. Combs
manual arts instructor at Paul Jun
ior High School, in yesterdays Der
by radio broadcast
Mr.. Combs and several of his
schoolboys from Paul were specta-
tors when the national and inter-
national Derby finals were run at
Akron, Ohio, last August Is.
II was standing near the starting
point" Mr.. Combs related, when
the Berger boy started taking of
his silk shirt. Race officials pro-
tested. You can't do that. they
told him. You read the rules, he
told them. There's nothing in the
rules about this And so Bobby
took off his shirt.
Silk Acts Like Sail.
"The officials asked Bobby why
he wanted to take it Off" the shop
teacher continued. His reply was
This is silk, and going down the
course in the wind it acts like a
sail That wasn't all. Later Bobby
took off his undershirt, stripped to
the waist. And he won the ma
tional championship by photo
graphic finish in the final heat
really by his shirt
]. Leroy Poole, 13. whose car trav-
eled the fastest heat in last years
Derby; Carl Lee, 13, and Freddie
Regeimbal, l3. students of Mr..
Combs. were interviewed on the
same radio program by Announcer
Raymond Michael.
Entertainment was provided by
the Thompson School Sixth Grade
Glee Club, with Mrs. Lee Crandall
music teacher, as accompanist. Miss
Frances Carroll teachers the club
William Raab, 16 accomplished
young pianist, concluded the musi-
cal program.
Another Broadcast Tomorrow.
Tomorrow Derby broadcast will
be presented over WMAL at Las
pm. with c. l.. tUncle BUD Ward
and Mrs. Ward, directors of the
National Children's Frolic. again
providing youthful entertainers for
the Derby audience.
There will be Gay Hess, 13-year-
old singer; David Branch, Is
pianist, and the Mease Trio, COM
posed of Carolyn and Ernest. Ia
twins, and Josephine, Is. Carolyn
plays the cello, Josephine the violin
and Ernest sings.
John Williams, manual art in
structor at Powell Junior High
School, and two boys building
Derby racers in the school wood
shop, Alfred Robinson, l3. of l72s
Euclid street NV, and Davic
Smith. Is, of POST Park road NV.
will be interviewed by Mr.. Michae
on the radio tomorrow.
watch The Star for Derby Ne,Us. =,
Evening star., 1939-06-08
Improvements Planned
In Contested Area

Studies designed to improve liv-
ing conditions in one of the most
congested areas of Washington
the territory between S, Harvard
North Capitol and Sixteenth streets
have been placed before the U
Street Neighborhood Council.
I'VE aim to improve the health
standards. housing, recreational ia
cilities, standards of living and
school facilities in our area" said
Council Chairman Arthur o. Wal
Ter. The studies, touching on these
subjects, it was pointed out, will
serve as basis for the councils
action to get improvements.
Evening star., 1939-06-08

Chapter Of the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored
People, will talk on THE Problem
of Negro Health in the District OF
Columbia"
Evening star., 1939-06-08

2 to $50 pm. at the Mount Ver-
non Place M. E. Church, under the
auspices of the District of Columbia
Health Forum. DR.. C. Herbert
Marshall, president of the District
Evening star., 1939-06-08
Dr.. Seckinqer to Speak

DR.. Daniel Seckinger, assistant
health officer of the District, will
discuss Health in the District of
Columbia" at the conference on Dis
trict health to be held Saturday from
Evening star., 1939-06-08
Drown in Beer Vots

Two women were drowned re-
Gently by falling into vats of beer
beneath their houses in East Lon
don, South Africa.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
family life and the health and safety
Of the workers.

Secondary schools in England are
to be made more attractive.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
By the Way
Continued From Page B-3)

and finally called
admitted reluctantly
and that still they toddng
but that relief sight and definitely
day and all would be
The dawned bright phoned
all the heirs settlement
Suddenly of lady
that
the last time she had this friend
sened her with the drawing
of the house, great
back this dd!! Needless
untold complications friend ably
finally persuaded lady that would happier
fat check spending
the center Of house with friends
To make long short
the check going
aheadbusy beesand hope shall be telling
this enchanting house!
News notes: Robbins
mother Mrs Warren Deno Robbins
small cocktail Robbins
Jeke Paris spending time with Reynolds
Mrs Moran McConhe
Mr. Mrs Harold Hinton Yorktown for
Mr. Mrs Wayne Mrs Written
spending the week White Sulphur Springs, West Va.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Mrs. Keyes
Study Guild Event
Scheduled for
Next Tuesday

The first benefit for the Study
Guild of the Washington Catholic
Cathedral Parish since its organiza-
ton two years ago will be held next
Tuesday at 8:15 pm. when Mrs.
Frances Parkinson Keyes will give
lecture, 'Lisieux to Lourdes," at
the Playhouse, 1914 N street NV.
Mrs. Keyes, well-known author,
will tell of her travels In France,
where she was when the war broke
out and where she had gone in
search of information on the life
Of Bernadette of Lourdes. A book
she wrote coming home on the ship,
on the life of the famous French
saint, will soon be published.
Msgr Edward Buckley of st. Mat
thew's Cathedral will introduce the
speaker.
The Study Guild is an organiza-
ton OF young working women inter-
ested in the study of literature.
which meets in the basement of
st. Matthews Cathedral, where
friends have arranged attractive
furniture and good lights for read
ing. There they discuss books and
periodicals of current interest A
lending library has been estab-
hshed, from which books NAV be
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Your Hair
Comes Before
Your New Hair-do

Have it reconditioned be certain it is its
shining best before you attempt eIomorous
change in hair style. Perhaps it is dull and
Iifeess still fighting the effects Of the post
worm months. Come in to the Beauty Salon
then, and let US prescribe treatment. Our
experienced operators can help to restore the
noturoI charm and Iustre to dry or oily hair as
we'll as hair that has become brittle from per-
monent waving. Telephone District $500 for
your appointment
BEAUTY SALON, SECOND FLOOR
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Authors
Are Feted
By Women
NewspapermenGive
Recipe on How
10 Write Books

1t may still be the reporters dream
10 write the great American novel,"
out the number of Washington
newspapermen who haven't written
book Is rapidly decreasing, as one
OF the latest authors observed YES
terday at luncheon meeting Of the
Women's National Press Club. at
the Willard Hotel.
The occasion honored four men
who have recently published books
on the Washington scene. Frederic
William Vile, author of News Is
Where You Find IT.; Kenneth G.
crawford, author Of "The Pressure
Boys and Bertram Hulen, author
OF Inside the Department of
State, were three of the guests-and
all of them newspapermen. Edwin
Rosskam, author Of WASHINGTON:
Nerve Center" who made the fourth,
also had place In the local galaxy
OF writer's as his volume was CO.
edited by Ruby A. Black, Washing
ton newspaper woman and president
Of the club.
The guests gave 5-minute recipes"
on how to write a book on WASH
Evening star., 1939-10-25

ington and otherwise discussed their
brain children"
Mr.. Vile, who remarked that he
alone Of the quartet had COM
mitted" an autobiography, used the
perpendicular pronoun" sparily in
his discussion, but graciously gave
q toast Ito the ladies'"
Mr.. Hulen "boasted"-his own
word-that his is the first book
about Washington by a newspaper
man which did not criticize any,
body or express an opinion on any
thing. It was designed, he ex-
planned. to show how the wheels
move in the State Department. He
gave as his recipe: Keep ever
lastingly at It,"
Mr.. Rosskam, whose book is 4
combination Of pictures and text,
said the technique results in 4
short hand Of ideas" He explained
the difnculties Of making pictures
and text complement each other
without duplication OF ideas.
OF the four Mr.. Crawford prob
ably was the most Illuminating on
how a Washington newspaperman
feels when he writes q book.
The recipe. he agreed with for
mer speakers, calls for getting q
Evening star., 1939-10-25

publisher as the first step. After
that, he said, the budding author
should acquire . typewriter table.
Once the rules have been estab-
lished that the children must stay
out Of the particular corner of his
bedroom the author has selected as
his workshop the writer must be-
gin to find good answers to his own
arguments for not working, he add
ed. The last, he indicated, prob
ably Is the biggest effort Of all.
After the volume Is finally COM
pleted-perhaps months after the
publishers suggested date-a news
paperman Is made to feel by some
Of his friends that he is really an
author" he continued. When the
reviewers commence, however, the
writer begins to feel perhsps he can
forget about being an author" and
60 on about his work.
Evening star., 1939-10-25

borrowed at q small rental. Others
besides guild members, both men
and women, are extended the privi-
leges Of the library.
Proceeds from the benefit will be
used for the purchase Of needed
additional books. About 40 young
women are members of the guild,
which has grown rapidly since its
organization.
Ofacers Of the guild are Mrs. Rob-
ers L. Walsh. leader; Mrs. Wilfred
Chaput. treasurer; Miss Anita ST.
Laurent and Miss Margaret Iwinski,
corresponding secretaries, and Miss
Patricia Moran, recording secretary.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
D. A. r. Board Meets And Lunches

The national board, Daughters Of
the American Revolution, met here
In executive session this morning to
discuss business matters of the So
ciety, with the executive officers,
State regents and vice president gen.
erals in attendance. A luncheon at
Memorial Continental Hall was
served at the conclusion of the
meeting.
Mrs. Henry M. Robert, jr., presi-
Evening star., 1939-10-25

dent general, will entertain tomor-
row the members at a colonial tour
Of Annapolis, which is her home.
A Dutch treat dinner was held at
the Mayflower Hotel last night by
those attending the board meeting.
Yesterday a large group attended
the opening exhibit and lecture held
by Miss Helen S. johnson in the
D. A. R. Museum, on early samplers
OF Colonial children dating from
1743 to 1880.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Junior League

The annual opening luncheon of
the Junior League of Washington
will be held at the Shoreham Hotel
Tuesday at pm.
Dr. Abraham Flexner, former di-
rector of the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton, will address the
group, as will Cecil Lester Jones,
president of the Washington League.
Mrs. John Twohy, I'd, of Norfolk,
director of Region 3 of the Associa-
ton of Junior Leagues of America,
will also speak.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
A. A. u. w. Launches
Survey of Labor's
Working Conditions

With publication of a study guide,
Fair Labor Standards-What Are
T'hey?" the American Association Of
University Women is launching
Nationwide survey by college-edu-
Gated women into working condi-
tions In their home communities.
Jean A. Flexner and Esther Cole
Franklin have prepared the publica-
ton which contains a presentation
OF current labor problems and their
background.
The survey is also intended to
learn how labor standards affect
Evening star., 1939-12-02

having 4 protecting mesh Of metal
across the fireplace opening is dou-
bled when that mesh hangs from
q rod across the top Of the fireplace,
without the tendency to tip over
when you push 1t aside to add an
other log to the fire.
Specialization has come to fire.
place screening, as to most things
around the modern house, however.
There is the special problem Of
what to do in those rare instances
when andirons project beyond the
face of the fireplace.
Sometimes fireplace equipment Is
bit diversified for a small fire.
place. If you want your andirons
to stand out from the hearth, the
fire curtain can be equipped with
inserted sections of free-hanging
lengths Of chain, which draw easily
over the andiron shanks and in
close them In perfect safety. The
free-hanging chains look like a 2
foot section of metal fringe in the
center of the screen, running for
about 7 inches at the center bot
tom. The ends Of your andirons
stick out beyond the screen, that's
all. The fire is safely guarded Just
the same.
Curtain-nk fireplace screens are
made in a wide variety. There are
types which attach inside the open.
Evening star., 1939-12-02

on fairly smooth surfaces, slightly
less on more porous surfaces.
It also may be used on outside
brick walls, as q sealer below the
opening on parapet walls and as
caulker for structural cracks and
services.
Signs Of dirt on the fresh wall
paper. No home is free from the
telltale film of dirt that seems to
appear from nowhere, no matter
how careful you are. Do you know
how to get it off without hurting
the paper?
Try new wallpaper cleaner
which looks like mustard -colored
dough and comes in 25-cent, So
cent and $3.50 cans. 1t is much
drier than you expect such cleaners
to be, but you knead a handful in
your hands until it is pliable. Then
rub. Use vigorous, even strokes,
wiping in one direction only, taking
care not to touch the surface with
your hands. 1t should remove most
surface soil and will not interfere
with further cleaning of imbedded
soil with cleaning fluids or soap
and water when the paper is wash
able.
This wallpaper cleaner may be
pressed hard against the paper
without danger of smudging or
sticking. It flakes readily, carrying
of most of the dirt in the crumbles.
Sweep the crumbles up when you
are through and throw them away
with the rest of the dough you have
used. What is left of the dough is
safe to use again.
This cleaner may be used on
washable and non-Washable wall
paper, may even prove useful in
cleansing painted walls. Keep some
on hand and small spots may be
removed before they become notice.
able blemishes on your walls.
X X X
The popularity of fire screens
which hang like curtains from the
fireplace frame grows with leaps
and bounds. The great advantage of
Evening star., 1939-12-02
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

How can I make my basement
walls good looking enough to war
rant turning the space into ping
pong room when the walls are part
cement and part brick?"
This rather plaintive query was
put to us recently by reader who,
like so many householders these
days, had become recreation room
conscious after living for some time
in house in which the basement
was used only for heating equip
ment. Apparently many people be-
lieve, like her, that a basement
which has the familiar patchy look
OF a raw basement is well-nigh
impossible to transform without
actual rebuilding of interior walls.
OF course, the making of new
walls by application of strong, water
proof panels or tile is an excellent
way to do over a basement-but
not the only way. You can paint
those brick and cement walls to
make them good looking and water
proof, too.
We have just heard about a paint
(really a member of the ceramic
family that makes an even, hard,
smooth surface over almost any
kind of wall. 1t seems perfect
answer for the perpleXed basement
remodeler who does not want to go
in for construction of new walls.
This special paint is made with a
metallic base chemically treated to
produce waterproofing qualities.
But unlike most paints, it contains
no oil and no casein 1t produces a
thick, porcelain like. white surface,
closely anchored to the pores of the
masonry for which it is designed,
easily applied to either damp or dry
surfaces and definitely moisture-re-
sistant throughout its life. It's max
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Old Colonial Home
Sold in Waterford
epec,al DISPATCH to The Star.

special DlSpdtCn 10 Inc Oldl.
WATERFORD, Va. Dec. 2.-Real
estate transfers in Loudoun County
in the last few days include the
fine old Colonial brick residence be-
longing to D. H. Cooley here to Leroy
and Edward Chamberlin. They will
include the property in their build
ing and restoration program for
this historic little town. In the
Lovettsville community the 105-acre
farm of Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Beatty
has been sold to Mr.. and Mrs. w. B..
Williams of Arlington, who will take
immediate possession.
DR.. James T. Jackson of Leesburg
has purchased the Agnes Dibrell
place, consisting of large frame
house and several acres of ground
on Cornwall street, in Leesburg. DR..
Jackson plans to erect a modern
dwelling on the vacant lot. A 220-
acre tract of land west of the Oat-
lands Farm has been sold by George
C. Carter to Morton C. Eustis of
New York City.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
consistency-from one resembling q

consistency-from one resembling q
cement-l like compound to a free
flowing paint. Where paper or
fabric is to be used over 1t, the
thicker coat would be more suitable,
to form a durable and smooth sur
face for the application of the fin
ish material. Where some of the
pattern and texture Of brick is de-
sirable on the finish surface a thin
coat should be used.
The ceramic paint is odorless,
poisonous, readily repaired and
acid-resistant. 1t sets in three hours
and dries hard in IL. One coat only
is used, with a covering capacity of
from 100 to ITS square feet a gallon
Evening star., 1939-12-02
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ers even claim it has a certain
amount of resistance to hydrostatic
pressure because it is a coating of
ceramic material fused onto the
wall.
The paint gives a fine finish in
itself, but it is possible to use tinted
paint over it, or calcimine, casein
paint, even wallpaper or fabric, If so
desired. 1t can be mixed into any
Evening star., 1939-12-02

ing, or to the face Of the mantei.
Others have free-standing, portable
frames. There Is also q wide va
riety of designs, finishes and sizes
so that practically any fireplace from
medieval to modern can be fitted.
Prices range from 50 to well over
500 . flreplace-depending on size
and your choice Of designs and fin-
ishes.
Editors nOte-For further in
formation about products de-
scribed here, write the Misses
Ducas and Gordon, 230 West
Forty first street, New York City,
and inclose stamped, self-ad-
dressed envelope.
Evening star., 1939-12-02

Seven States and Mexico share the
water of the Colorado River under
an ALLEGATION approved by Congress.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-06
San Diego Interests Fight New ANA
Park Plan Out Of Fear Highway
viii Link |. A., I.V., Hays Says

Certain interests in San Diego
continue to fight ANA Desert State
park not because they don't want
the park but because they fear
shortcut highway between I'M
perial Valley and Los Angeles may
be built through the park, Robert
Hays, secretary manager of the
El Centre chamber OF commerce,
said Thursday.
These interests continue their
agitation against the park by pre-
tending it will ruin agricultural
prospects and place it beyond pos
sibility of cultivation by Colorado
river water" Hays said. The park
mfringeS on the area the oppoSi-
ton talks about in only one small
instance. And there is no Colorado
river water allocated to this region
and if there were it would have
TO be raised from 400 to $500 feet
Some San DieganS, he continued
resented an inference that Impe-
rial Valley wishes to cash in" on
the popularity of the desert. The
inference was made by Henry Har-
ris of El Centre in a letter read
to the San Diego county board of
supervisors this week. Harris is
chairman of the tourist and pub
licity committee of the Associated
Chambers of Commerce of Impe-
rial county and sought to correct
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-06

that was so exhausted from lack
of sleep that / let go the helm
and pitched headlong into the
bottom of the yacht. When I awoke,
I found the .. K. (the yacht be-
ing buffeted by a storm and the
cabin and part of the deck ripped
off by the wind. Shortly afterward
I saw the rocks ahead but 1 had
no idea where I was although ]
supposed I had crossed the Allan
tic and was near some South AM
erican point.
Soon the O. K. was carried UP
onto the rocks and I was thrown
into the water, I waded through
the surf to the beach from where
I watched by boat splintered by
the waves beating it against the
rocks.
when day broke, I saw I was
on an island, cast away without
food or water. Throughout the
day I felt weaker and weaker. Dur
ing the seven days l spent on the
island, it rained twice and I was
able to scoop up enough fresh wa
ter in my cupped hands to Slake
my thirst. I had taken off my
clothes to use them as signals and
in my trousers pocket I found a
magnifying glass with which I
tried to cook seagull eggs by at
tracing the suns rays. 1t couldn't
be done and I ate the eggs raw"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-06
Husband Abused
Family Says Wife

Mrs. Annie B. Tilley field a di-
vorce suit against PerviS E. Tilley
Wednesday in which she alleged
that his mistreatment of her four
children by a former marriage was
more than she could endure.
She alleged that he used vile and
vulgar language in their presence,
drank intoxicating liquor to ex-
cess. neglected to provide for the
family, and insisted that she work
and support him. She said he used
his meagre earnings for his own
pleasure.