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Evening star., 1939-11-16

Plan Further Conquest,
The speleologists had made excel
lent progress for single trip. AL
ready they were planning further
conquest. Next time they will bring
more rope ladder, say $50 or 200 feet
in place of the rs they had. This
should enable them to reach the bot
tom of the pit easily-so they said.
Then they will bring an extension
ladder to shoot up the opposite wall
into the cavern the Bloch Vorkoeper
crew discovered. Then they'll be
ready to explore this mysterious
passage.
Mr.. Stephenson computed the
depth Of the Schoolhouse pit at 40
feet.
Mr.. Bloch was particularly jubi-
liant. He had found In his journey
through the pit cave pearl-one Of
the rarest of subterranean discov-
cries. This was a smooth, perfect
specimen, and he also had the lime
rock in which it had been imbedded.
Caye pearls, because they are 50 sell
dom found, are Of decided scientific
interest.
Two long -eared bats-unusual for
this part of the country-were cap
tured and presented alive by Mr..
Stephenson to the National Museum
of the Smithsonian Institution,
which was glad to get them.
Ready for Hellhole.
The next day the. explorers were
ready for the Hellhole, which opens
from the surface of mountaintop
about q mile and half from
Schoolhouse entrance. The winch,
with 200 feet Of steel cable wound
about it, had been taken there the
day before. 1t was necessary to
build q scaffolding stout enough to
hold it. This was done under the
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Evening star., 1939-08-31

Remove letter from each word and spell the word
called the letter
the word have from correctly
a Of the oak family.
Yesterdays
Ietter-Out
(T) BAITERS-RABIES canine diseased
CR) PERIANTHS-THESPIAN (an actor.
% IRKSOME-SMOKER Che enjoys tobacco.
(C) CORPSES- SPORES minute organisms.
CK) QUAKERS- SQUARE (has four equal sides).
Evening star., 1939-08-31
Peter hurried back to Jenny Wren

Peter hurried back to Jenny Wren
and, it must be confessed, he looked
sheepish. You were right, Jenny
Wren. He isn't black at ALL" con-
fessed Peter.
of course I was right, I usually
am" retorted Jenny. "He isn't black,
he isn't even related to the Black
bird family and he hasn't any busi-
ness in this country, anyway. He's
a foreigner. That's what he is, a
foreigner"
But you haven't told me who
he is" protested Peter.
He is Speckles the Startling, and
he isn't really an American 1T all, /"
Evening star., 1939-08-31
jolly Polly
A Little Chat on English
BY JOS. j. FRISCH.

G. M. S.-AWful is one of the most
abused words in the English Ian
guage, but what can be done about
it? Probably 80 per cent of the peo-
pie use it regularly in the sense of
very, as in She's awfully consider
ate" He was in an awful hurry"
I'VE had an awfully good time"
Awful means filling with awe; pro-
foundly impressive, terrible, ap-
palling.
Evening star., 1939-08-31
Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS

The longer Peter Rabbit stared
at the stranger in the Old Orchard
the more he realized how mis-
taken he had been in thinking that
he was dressed all in black. Now
that Peter was so near he could
see that the stranger was speckled
all over with tiny light spots. Under
meath he was dark brownish- gray
His wings and tail were the same
color, with little touches of buff
His rather large bill was yellow.
Evening star., 1939-08-31

replied Jenny. "He comes from
across the ocean the same as Bully
the English Sparrow. Thank good
ness he hasn't such a quarrelsome
disposition as Bully. Just the same,
the rest of us would be better salts
ned II he were not here. He has
Evening star., 1939-08-31

ter" said Peter. What I want to
know is, whether or not he is of
any use?"
Il guess he must be of some
good" admitted Jenny Wren rather
grudgingly. Eve seen him picking
up worms and grubs, but he likes
Evening star., 1939-08-31

it turns almost black. Most of us
wear different colored suit in-win-
ter, but our bills remain the same"
He seems to be pretty well fixed
here and don't see but what the
thing for the rest Of you birds to
do Is to make the best Of the mat
Evening star., 1939-08-31
Artist Wins Praise

Carlos Sitoula, newspaper COM
positor and self-taught painter
held an exhibition of So landscapes
in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and won
high praise from art critics.
Evening star., 1939-08-31
By Alfred AndrioIo
BY willard
v Mormon Marsh
ADVERTISEMENT.

grain and I have suspicion that
if his family becomes very ntSAeroQs,
and suspect it will, they will eat
more of Farmer Browns grain than
they will pay for by the worms and
bugs they distroy. Hello! There's
Dandy the Waxing and his friends"
Evening star., 1939-08-31

had 10 go away for few days on
business, so Junior thought the time
had come to prove his business
ability. A man came in and bought
a radio from Junior and Junior
couldn't wait to tell his father. When
he did tell him, he said: I'VE made
10 per cent on the radio, but if you
had bought it wholesale for 10 per
cent less than you did and I had
sold it for 20 per cent profit, we
would have made 25 cents less than
we did. Juniors father thought that
sounded pretty complicated but
finally he figured out how much
Junior had sold the radio for. Can
you?
ANSWER on Page C-l1)
Evening star., 1939-08-31

The moon looked down upon thrilling
race through the wilderness. In the LEAD,
Ukah and D'Arnot urged their swaying
mount to greater speed. Behind streamed
the Tohrian elephant patrol. ours was
the captains beast. He is faster than the
Others" Ukah declared
Evening star., 1939-08-31

Old orchard. Did you notice that
yellow bill of his?'
Peter nodded. "I certainly did"
said he. II couldn't very well help
noticing It,"
well. there's a funny thing about
that bill," replied Jenny. In winter
Evening star., 1939-08-31

Gradually the fugitives drew away from
their pursuers. Ukah, who knew the coun-
try well, turned his mount into cross
trail, then into wide river. 1--WE will swim
the elephant downstream he said, then
we might evade them, for in the water
we leave no spoer"
Evening star., 1939-08-31

taken possession of one of the old
houses of Yellow Wing the Flicker
and that means one less house for
birds who really belongs here. If
his family increases at the rate
Bully's family does, I'm afraid some
Of US will be crowded out Of the
Evening star., 1939-08-31
Broin TwizzIers
By PROF. I'D. FLINT.

Juniors father owned a radio store
and Junior wanted to work in the
store. He hadn't finished school,
but he wanted to 60 to work anyway
becaues he didn't like school. One
vacation he worked in the store and
at that particular time his father
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Social Service School
Gard Party Monday

Plans have been completed by the
Washington Auxiliary Of the Cath
olic School of Social Service for
benefit card party at the Wardman
Park Hotel Monday night, proceeds
of which will 60 TO the establish
ment of a scholarship in the school,
Mrs. j. Rozier Biggs, president OF
the auxiliary and general chairman
of the card party, announced names
of number Of distinguished spon-
sors Of the event and predicted it
would be largely attended.
From the party will be broadcast
a radio program, 10:05 pm. to 10:l5
pm, over a Nationwide network
OF the National Broadcasting Co., to
be heard by about 100 similar groups
meeting in various cities in the in
terest of social service. Speakers
will include Mrs. Earl r. Reynolds
Of Chicago, national president of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, and Miss Agnes G.. Regan
of this city, executive secretary OF
the council.
Among the committee chairmen
for the benefit are Mrs. Arthur
Mullen, Miss Elizabeth Dolan, Mrs.
Charles Neil, Miss Rebecca Stanley,
Mrs. James Collifower, Mrs. Will
liam Brennan, Mrs. Charles McMa-
hon. Mrs James c. Norton, Mrs.
John Victory, Miss Mary Kolb and
Mrs. G.. r. De Bruler.
The school, located at 2400 Nine
teenth street NV, is affiliated with
Catholic University and is headed
by Father Lucien Lauerman, direc-
tor. 1t is a graduate school and
confers the degree Of master Of arts
Among the sponsors for the bene-
fit are Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes. Mrs. Hughes, Princess Mar,
garet Boncompagni, Msgr. Michael
J. Ready, president Of the Executive
Board Of the school: the Very Rev.
Arthur A. OLeary, S. j., president
Of Georgetown University; Msgr.
Cornelius F. Thomas, the Right
Rev. Francis j. Haas. professor of
economics of the School OF Social
Sciences at Catholic University, and
the Right Rev. John A. Ryan. soci-
ology department, Catholic Univer-
sity.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Soup Box Derby Rules

(No:e 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, minia-
ture automobiles or coaster
racers, built and driven by boys.
The winner will represent
Washington in national and
international finals at Akron,
Ohio, in Augusta
These rules are your guide
for the second WASHINGTON
SOAP BOX DERBY:
/. Eligibility: Boys Of Wash
ington and vicinity not younger
than 10 nor older than Is may
enter. A boy who has passed
his 18th birthday on the day of
the local race is ineligible.
Members Of the immediate
1amlly OF employees OF Inc OLdT,
the Chevrolet Motor Co., Chew
rolet dealers or employees OF
Chevrolet dealers will not be
allowed to compete.
2. Rule books and entry
blanks: Secure these and sign
your safety pledge at the sales
rooms of your nearest Chevrolet
dealer in Washington, Alexan-
dria or Clarendon, Va: Silver
Spring or Hyattsville, Md. You
must be accompanied by your
parent or guardian, who must
also sign.
Read The StGr Regularly for
Derby NeDs.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Fair Trade Practices
Bill Opposed by
Anacostia Citizens
Street improvement
Program Endorsed
By Association

The so-called fair trade practices
bill was condemned last night by the
Anacostia Citizens Association, act
ing on report by the association S
Committee on District Affairs.
At the instance OF w. j. Tucker,
secretary, the association decided to
join the postcard campaign being
waged by the District Suffrage As
sociation for an elective rather than
an appointive city council in the
reorganization of local government.
Mr.. Tucker pointed out that the as
sociation was not indorsing the Grif-
fenhagen plan, but asking for an
elected council in case the reorgani-
zation bill goes through. To date
the association has taken no action
on the Griffenhagen report.
The probable opening Of r and
Eighteenth streets Sc. into Mime
sofa avenue during the summer was
announced by L. w. Thompson,
chairman of the Committee on
Streets and Highways, in reporting
the results of conference with Dis
trict street officials.
Back Improvement Program.
Mr.. Thompson presented, and the
association approved, a street-im-
provement program in. the Anacostia
community. Especially stressed was
the need for opening Sixteenth street
into Anacostia Park
Improvements were asked for the
following streets: Ridge place, Six
teenth to Seventeenth streets Sc;
Seventeenth street, @ street to Min
nesota avenue; r street, Seventeenth
to Minnesota: Eighteenth street.
Minnesota to Good Hope road; S and
T streets from Seventeenth to Eight
zenith; v street from Sixteenth to
Fendall street, and Sixteenth from
w to Galen street.
The District street officials were
asked ito do what is possible with
available street funds"
Two Proposals to Committee.
A request from the Consumers
Council for action on the proposed
Scent tax on fuel oil and a COM
munication from the City, Wide
Playground Council indorsing de-
partment Of Fairgrounds in the
pending reorganization of District
government were referred to the
Committee on District Affairs for
report.
Mrs. Phyllis Plemmom was chosen
to represent the association at the
hearing next week of the Board of
Education on the 1910 school budget.
r. P. Wylie of the Volunteer
Speakers Bureau addressed the citi-
zens briefly on the work of the Com
munity Chest. Stanley E. Otto pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
The Political Mill
Hitler Shorpens Differences Between
U. S. IsoIutionists and Administrations

the British and the French are
playing today. And Just as ohvi-
ously the Germans and the italians
are seeking to show the United
States that 1t will be wiser to re-
main aloof. The latter realize that
sentiment In this country is with
the British and the French. They
cannot hope for support from this
direction-but what they hope is
that traditional American policy
handed down from George Wash
ington, to avoid entangling alli-
ances abroad will maintain. They
realize, however, that this policy
was badly smashed in 1917, and they
are by no means sure 1t will not
be smashed again.
In the meantime, there is a wide
difference of opinion whether Presi-
dent Roosevelts peace messages
have helped to halt the dictators OF
not.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
All NPoIice Boys Club Branches
To Have Racers in Derby
Legion Post to Aid
Groups Entering
Coaster Event

Every branch of the Boys Club of
Metropolitan Police will have at
least one racer bearing its colors in
the Soap Box Derby this summer.
Forrest L. BinsWanger. director of
the club, today promised The Star
and The American Legion, co-spon-
sors of the Derby.
News picture exhibitions of Wash
ingtons initial Derby, held last July,
and of Derby-racer building activi-
ties are now on display at the five
branches of the Police Boys Club.
1.-The Derby is our main project
from now on. and We are doing
everything possible to stimulate in
terest in it. Boys who represent the
club probably will build their cars
at home and at school, but the
club itself will give them all neces-
sary help and cooperation" Mr..
BinsWanger said.
The club director announced that
the Police and Fire Post of the
American Legion would contribute
financial aid for club members en-
tered in the amateur coaster racil g
event. He said, however, that other
contributions of materials, tools
and funds" would be welcomed.
Legion Posts to Aid.
o. C. Holleran, director of the
Derby, stated today that posts
throughout the District were plan
ming active participation in the pre-
Derby building campaign, as we'll as
furnishing man power for staging
the Derby early in July.
There are other groups of boys
who also need aid in sharing the
fun and interest that go with
building cars and racing in the
Derby" Mr.. Holleran said. He re-
ferred to boys at the Good Samari-
tan Home, SO K street NE, who have
formed a Derby club, at the Merrick
Boys Club, 6O8 Massachusetts, ave-
nue., NE, and at Baptist Temple
Recreation Center, Tenth and N
streets NV.
Copies of the Official rule book for
the 1899 All-American Soap Box
Derby, complete with rules and reg
ulations. as we'll as plans, pictures
and helpful suggestions, are now
available at the salesrooms of Chew
rolet dealers for boys who have en-
tered or plan to enter the Derby.
They arrived yesterday and now re-
place simple printed copies of the
rules which were printed for boys IN
the Derby when the books failed to
arrive on schedule.
Entry Lists Grow.
The list of Derby candidates grew
today as several more boys regis
tered for the racing event. The lat
est entrants are: Howard Hill, 13,
of 1926 Georgia avenue NV, stu
dent at Macfarland Junior High,
who was in the race last year;
Franklin w. Moedel, IA, of 4107 FL
licott street NV. Reno School;
Robert A. Marshall. 13, of 4525 Illi-
nois avenue NV, Mcfarland High;
John Wallace Haldeman, 10, of 327
Upshur street NV, Petworth
School; Walter B. Nelson, 13, Of 1903
Belmont street NV, st. Pauls
School; Albert Valaer, IA, of 3211
Adams Mill road NV. Central High;
Thomas Walker, 13, of % Allegheny
avenue, Takoma Park. Md, Pau
Junior High: Roger H, Bergstronl
Il, Of $40 Upshur street NV, Mac
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Traffic Counts
Cost Mail. Truck
| Driver $40 ~.

Mail truck drivers have no right to
violate traffic laws regardless OF
their hurry, Judge Walter j. Casey
held in Traffic Court yesterday.
Fining Edward P. Tillinghast, 46,
mail truck driver for the Civil Aero
nautics Authority, total of $40 for
four offenses, all committed within
q period of two hours Thursday,
Judge Casey said:
"You apparently think that Just
because you drive mail truck you
can disregard traffic laws entirely.
That is not the case"
Tillinghast, who said he was in a
hurry, was stopped on three differ
ent occasions yesterday by Pvt. L. A.
Hartnett and Motor Cycle Officer
G. E. Rabbit for passing q red light,
driving on the wrong side Of street.
car loading platform, driving on the
wrong side Of q street and speeding.
Evening star., 1939-04-29

Douglas named
nrst Mathews
enegecal Douglas made the issue eputed
commission until Smith had LETT n At
Smith resigned Suc ard feelings
the Cs abest onas also
Douglas job that OF counsel the
P.W:A
utilities division however, was mere
which occaoned by conflict over
craftsmanship knows the bare outline OF
Thinking that Commissioner
law practice the New
groups Douglas place was Robert May
would not have it. Leon Henderson,
would the job and the President was persuaded
Henderson to the vacant commlssonersnp Wle
recommending Frank be upped to the chairmanship
upped at this writing because OF the new
within the s. While the appointment was stu IN doubt
virtually suspended at the commission FRIENDS OF Two
officials Purcell and Chester Lane started
circulated OF frltess mission
Shields avorie Wall Streeter to persuade
other than Henderson, Finally the
when the President for Commissioner
he wished Frank to be chairman
asked him back to the commission
being New Deal appontee duifully
did bid. Commissioner Mathews had his back
up, Commissioner Heay tough Vemonter,
supposedly
pendent body Even for himself. the lineup
Eicher and Frank against Mathews and Hea No election
possible
President called in Heay tried to him. but
Heal adaman And unless Hea changes his mind the
Evening star., 1939-04-29

probable Commissioner Mathews
Meanwhile the c. temporarily suffering from complete
will
through From the office boys upward the agencs officials
publicly
will i'll among
the is decline. which
difficult subordinae All
suggests the simple moral that maintain its admins
though is the E. c. will be about done for
big shakeup.
y inner
Evening star., 1939-04-29
U. 5. Seeking 10 Free
| Prisoner in Germany
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Representative Bloom, Democrat, Of
New York said yesterday the State
Department had been trying, at his
request, to obtain the release Of Leib
Schenker. elderly New York i'm
porter held in Germany on a charge
of high treason.
Representative Bloom said Mr..
Schenker, naturalized American
citizen for about 40 years, had been
arrested in Prague at the time
Germany took over ho-Slovakia.
He was charged with illegal ex-
change transactions.
1--WE got him released at that
time" Mr. Bloom said, hut he was
re-arrested later on a charge Of
high treason-something about a
plot against Hitler's life"
Representative Bloom said he
understood Mr.. Schenker had been
taken from Prague to Reichenberg
and was being threatened with trial
by the Peoples Court in Berlin.
He won't have q chance If he's
tried there" Mr.. Bloom added.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Concert, Bruces' Idea.

Dining at Washington on Easter
Sunday, after the Marian Anderson
concert at the Lincoln Memorial,
this writer asked his host who had
thought up the idea Of the concert.
The host nodded to another guest
and the guest nodded to the host.
It was mystifying, but soon clear
that Edward Bruce and his guest.
Oscar Chapman. had worked up the
idea between them.
Today, Mr.. Bruce, chief OF the
section of fine arts Of the PROCURE
ment Division of the Treasury.
heads a committee OF distinguished
men and women to procure funds
for a memorial mural of the con-
cert in the Department Of the In
terror Building. Having witnessed
the deep emotion of that crowd OF
5000 persons, as Marian Anderson
stood at the feet of Abraham Lin
coin in the late afternoon sunlight
this writer understands Mr.. Bruce S
desire to give the occasion fitting
and permanent recognition.
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Evening star., 1939-04-29

elated his did bother ask what
answered Poles rushed
occupied it before they took Teschen.
The general staff raised with the Fuehrer and
pointed that that nsgnhcan Bohumn nothing else but
the vital railroad Of Oderbg where the principal lines from
Germany
porant railroad center in Eastern Germany.
Hitler replied the could
not change matters for the time being least But that the
Poles turned the Reich and Hitler has denounced
the willing the of
general old Oderberg-he by
Evening star., 1939-04-29

And What
They Do
TeIevision to Make
Bow at New York
Fair Tomorrow
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

Radio, automobiles, airplanes,
moving pictures and virtually all the
other technical 10-strikes of the
modern world came in between the
first and second Chicago Worlds
Fairs. About all that New York has
that is brand-new In opening her
fair Is television, taking its bow at
| 1880 pm. tomorrow, with q telecast
OF the inaugural ceremonies.
Unlike Britain's garret inventor,
John Logic Baird, Allen B. du Mont,
putting his by-line on the new tele-
vision set, came along through the
channels" in which promising
young technicians are grooved these
days. Out of Rensselaer, Polytech-
mic Institute in 1928 he was em-
ployed as tube engineer with the
Westinghouse Co. in Bloomfield, N.
j., until 1887, when he became chief
engineer of the De Forest Radio Co.
But when he caught the television
germ he did just what Baird did,
the only difference being that he
hoied up in cellar instead Of an
| attic.
1t was in 1881 that he quit a good
job to play hunch. The hunch
was that the cathode ray was the
joker in the Pickering television
deck. So he dived into his base
ment, built his laboratory and
stayed underground until he was
ready to come up with a cathode
ray tube which is pretty nearly the
works in television. The image, in
a magical synthesis of light and en-
ergy impulses, finally blooms on the
flared-out end of the tube.
In 1887. Mr.. du Mont rounded
up some capital and built a sizeable
two-story laboratory at Montclair.
N. j., employing AZ men. BY 1898,
Paramount Pictures had declared
itself in in big way, and. at last
accounts, Mr.. du Monts enterprise
was virtually a subsidiary of this
corporation. That is interesting in
view Of the fact that, in England,
they already are televising events
for the moving picture screen. 1t
/ is indicated that the Du Mont
rig may be to subject to the same
development.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Steinberg CoIIapses
On Guilty Verdict

Michael Steinberg indicted on two
charges of receiving stolen jewelry.
collapsed in District Court yesterday
when a jury returned a guilty ver-
dict in one of the charges. although
Judge Jesse c. Adkins placed him on
probation after sentencing him to
serve from one to three years.
The defendant required treatment
at Emergency Hospital. He was
found guilty of receiving property
stolen from Castelberg's Jewelry
Store. 1904 F street NV. but was
acquitted on a second charge Of a
similar nature.
Percival j. Ableman. an employe
Of the General Accounting Office,
who was on trial with Mr.. Steinberg.
was given a directed verdict of ac-
quittal by Justice Adkins. The Gov
ernment was represented in the
cases by Assistant United States
Attorneys John w. Fihelly and Allen
j. Krouse.
Also placed on probation by JUS
tice Adkins in another case were two
men accused of hurting a brick at a
truck belonging to coal company.
some Of whose employees were on
strike. Their probation period is
18 months.
The defendants, Webster M.
Courtney and Russell Fowler. were
indicted on charge of assault with
a dangerous weapon after a brick
hurled at a Griffith Consumers Co.
truck during a strike early this year
struck little girl on the street.
Courtney and Fowler entered
pleas of guilty to simple assault.
Justice Adkins sentenced them to
six months on each of three charges.
the terms to run consecutively, and
then placed them on probation. As
sistant United States Attorney
George E. Mcneil presented the
Governments case to the jury.