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Evening star., 1939-05-11

been a hard day and I was grateful
for moments rest. The old gentle
man, much to my annoyance,
seemed inclined to talk.
He made conventional references
to the weather and the stuffiness of
the car. To all of which nodded
vaguely and closed my eyes. The
old man took the hint and remained
quiet.
We had passed Old Orchard when
1roused up and glanced through the
window.
Its beautiful country, isn't it?"
the old man asked.
Its all right" I said, "if you
like it."
He ignored the rebuff.
Its long time since I've viewed
1t from a car window, though. Usu-
ally motor back and forth to Port
land. But today He went on
and on, relating one of those tire
some biographies which seems to
be a habit with old men. I dozed,
scarcely hearing more than two or
three words of the entire recital.
A few minutes later the conductor
came down the aisle. He was
veteran on the line and I had struck
up speaking acquaintance with
him. 1t was because of this greet
ing that passed between us that I
could not perceive the expression
on my companions face. Yet could
hear his words we'll enough.
Hello" he said. addressing the
conductor. Remember me?" He
chuckled, rendering five dollar
bill with his ticket. There's the
money for that fare I owe you"
And he chuckled again at the blank
expression of the conductors face.
Don't remember, eh? Well, you
passed me down to Dover one day.
1t was Tuesday. I didn't have any
money and had no other way of
getting down. Told you Id pay
you back. Remember now?"
The conductor stared in bewilder-
ment. Then slowly light began to
dawn. He smiled He pocketed the
money. BY jove, stranger, I've
passed many a penniless passen-
ger in my day. but you're the
first to ever pay up!"
Evening star., 1939-05-11

suspected the problem that ranked
inside me.
"You see," he finished, IT had
promised to pay back the money for
that fare when Conductor Ellis
made his return trip from Boston
Well, to he perfectly frank, I didn't
because I didn't have the money
I felt ashamed of myself"
But why" I asked, should Ellis
act so all-fired bewildered when you
rendered him the money? I should
think he would have remembered
at once when you reminded him Of
the incident"
Henkle chuckled again and looked
through the window. Because" he
said, lit was just So years ago last
Tuesday I made that promise. I've
been trying to forget it all these
years and haven't succeeded"
(Released by the Associated Newspapers)
Evening star., 1939-05-11
Social Agencies Unit
To Be Discussed

The work Of the Corrections COM
mittee of the Council Of Social
Agencies will be outlined at meet
ing of the council at 1915 pm. Mon
6ay at the Y. w. G. A., Seventeenth
and K streets NV.
Speakers will include Mrs. Pearl
Klein, chairman of the Committee
on Facilities for Women; James
Allen Nolan, director of the Wash
ington Criminal Justice Association;
Frank r. Jelleffff, member of the
Board of Indeterminate Sentence
and Parole; James v. Bennett, di-
rector of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons, and David A. Pine, United
States attorney for the District.
Evening star., 1939-05-11

A low priced stove for
your cottage or camp.
Green and black fin
ish with undershelf
for pots and pans.
Glass tank. Station
ary burners.
Evening star., 1939-05-11
I Balance
Ix hAUun Monthly
CHARGE

$50 gallons per hour capacity.
No storage tanks required. Air
volume control prevents water
logging. Relief and foot valve
included. Splash oil system for
safe fabrication.
Plumbinq-Basemen
Evening star., 1939-05-11

author Of two other books, "Sym-
pathy and Saving in Giving" writ
ten in 1921 when he was in COM
munity chest wori, n Louisville, KY.
and Social Woi., Administrator"
written in 1881 while teaching at
George Washington University.
Evening star., 1939-05-11

Direct pressure pump. Compact,
needs very little floor space. Fully
automatic reciprocating type.
Sturdy u h.p. motor. Delivers
200 gallons per hour.
umbino-BdSemenk
Evening star., 1939-05-11
Street Completes
Third Book

Elwood Street, whose service as
director OF the Board Of Public
Welfare will end next Monday, has
completed his third book, which is
to be published this summer Dy
McGraw-Hill of New York City. II
is called THE Public Welfare Ad-
ministrator."
Mr.. Street said he used his eX-
periences here as welfare admins
traitor in his new book, which ne
described as a handbook rather than
q theoretical treatise. He is the
Evening star., 1939-05-11

He grin n e d
b r oa dly an d
moved off down
the aisle, pro-
PEELED from the
rear by a group of
jostling youths,
en- route to the
smoker.
There was Moth
ing particularly
unusual about the
incident. Con-
ductor Ellis had a
re pu tation for
that sort of thing.
He W as kind
hearted and ap-
preciated the fact
that a lot of peo-
pie were out of
work. Yet there
W as S ON ething
about the trans
a tion h a t
aroused my curl
Evening star., 1939-05-11
Card Party Tuesday

A card party for benefit of the
Hospital Service Association will be
held next Tuesday night in North
east Masonic Temple, Eighth and
F streets NE. under auspices of the
Executive Board of the National
Union Assurance Society. Harry
Selinger is chairman for the event,
which is scheduled to begin at 8
o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-05-11
PROMISE.
By Richard Hill Wilkinson

The train coach
was nearly filled,
and there was a
mad scramble for
seats when five
passengers, among
them m Use f,
boarded the car
At Portland.
I was fortunate
enough to ge t
comfortably locat-
ed beside a white
haired old gentle
man who smiled
pleasantly a n d
pushed over to
give me room.
He seemed actu-
ally glad that it
was I who had
captured the seat.
I thanked him
and sank back
against the plush
cushion. It had
Evening star., 1939-05-11
Dr.. Belts to Speak

DR.. Rome A. Belts, associate sec
retary of the American Bible Society
of New York, will speak at the
weekly luncheon meeting of the
Washington Round Table to be held
Evening star., 1939-05-11
jolly Polly

T. O.-'Men's interest" is the cor
rect form, not mems interest" The
rule is that when a plural noun does
not end in the possessive is formed
by adding S, thus: Children's
clothes, geese's heads, two reindeer's
antlers, womens hats, four oxen's
tails.
Evening star., 1939-05-11

at the National Press Club at 1890
pm. tomorrow. DR.. Belts topic will
be THE Book for the World Of To-
morrow" Charles v. INLAY will
preside.
Evening star., 1939-05-11

"If he hits me, I'll sue him." Is
sound logic If you don't mind your
heirs quarreling over the judgment.
Evening star., 1939-05-11

osity.
I glanced at the old man and
found his eyes watching me. Il
thought that would set you wonder
ing, young man." he chuckled.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
President Pays
Sentimental Visit
7oFormer Office
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt made sur
prise sentimental journey" last
night to the building where he had
offices for eight years.
He journeyed across West Execu-
tive avenue from the White House
to the State Department, where he
worked when he was Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy from 1918 to
1920.
In the days when the handsome
young Assistant Secretary of the
Navy worked there, the stately old
structure was known as the State,
War and Navy Building and housed
all three departments.
The President made his visit the
occasion for helping select the Of
fees which some officials of the
Executive Department will occupy.
1t is planned to transfer some of
the Budget Bureau to the State
Department Building and possibly
some of the new executive assistants
with passion for anonymity"
Mr.. Roosevelt was received at the
side entrance by Secretary of State
Hull and Others. He was escorted
through some of the 134 miles of
corridors in black-and-white marble.
When the President saw the ONCE
he once occupied, he exclaimed: /:
We'll, here's my old bailiwiekI" f~
Evening star., 1939-07-26

was to notify his distraught par
ents.
Mrs. Fender, 'the happiest
mother in the world" to hear her
sons voice again, had waited impa-
tiently most of the day to see her
boy and take him to Bangor hos
pital where her husband was re-
cuperating from an eye injury suf-
fered in the frantic search to find
his son. He was so overcome when
Dom telephoned him last night
that he could only choke out the
words: II love you"
In Trackless Underbrush.
Dom wandered away from his
father and his twin brother Henry
in thick cloud atop the mile high
mountain week ago Monday. After
missing his father, he told the Nc
Moarns, he started down the trail
to find him but fell into a hole,
scrambled out and wandered into
the trackless tangle of underbrush.
Aimlessly, he wandered, losing all
track of time, until he reached
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
Il followed downstream until
came to a telephone line. Then
followed that until I saw the river
and the camps"
He wore an old burlap sack he
found in the forest and once he
stumbled across an abandoned hut
where he found a bedspread which
he took along to use as blanket.
Not once did he lose his courage:
he just couldn't Rain wet his
matches and he tried vainly to put
his Boy Scout training to use by
making fire with sticks and stones.
he saw two bears-"one of them so
close I could have touched him"
I saw them and they saw me,
too. I was scared and 1 guess they
were as scared as I. Because when
ran. they ran the other way.
TT was awful cold And the flies
little flies with big sting, never let
me alone"
When finally he reached the tele-
phone line, he old Mr.. McMoarn: he
was so tired that: IF I'd lain
down just once again, I think it
would have been the last time. I
never could have got back on nv
feet"
Evening star., 1939-07-26
hadge Evans and Kingsley
E|ope as Curtain Falls
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
YORK VILLAGE, Me, July &c.
Madge Evans. 30, beauteous blond
film and stage star. deserted the
ranks of Hollywood bachelor girls"
today in a midnight elopement with
Sidney Kingsley, 80. Pulitzer prize
winning author of Men in White"
and Dead End"
Miss Evans, long one of the best
known members of the film capitals
bachelor girl set, sped away from
the stage of the Ogunquit Playhouse
last night without even waiting to
change the dress she wore in the last
act of Brief Moment
An official of the playhouse, who
announced the wedding, said the
couple was attended by Mr.. and
Mrs. Damian OFlynn. Mr.. OFlynn,
an Ogunquit actor, was quoted as
saying Mr.. Kingsley had to borrow a
ring from him in order to complete
the ceremony, performed by justice
of the peace in this village.
Mr.. Kingsley, players said, came
to Ogunquit from Hollywood this
week presumably for a visit. They
said the couple previously had an
nounced their intention of marrying
lin the fall
Evening star., 1939-07-26
Bridge TO Be Closed
In hon-Rush Hours

Arlington Memorial Bridge will be
closed to vehicles and pedestrians
in non-rush hours on August and
4 while painting and resurfacing of
the roadway on the draw span is
under way, the Office of National
Capital Parks announced today.
The bridge is to be closed from
$50 am. to pm on both days.
The resurfacing and painting are
part of repair, maintenance and
installation work which has been
under way under three contracts
since June.
The contracts call for painting of
all exposed surfaces of the draw
span, installation of an asphalt
wearing surface over the concrete
slabs forming the top of the CEN
tral span, repairs to the seats of
the span girders, resetting of gran
ite curbing, installation of electrical
heating In the west abutment and
laying a submarine cable to the
west abutment.
The painting contract was let to
the Maryland Painting Co. of Balti-
more for $9,245. That calling for
the asphalt surfacing, repairs to
the girder seats and resetting of
curbs was let to Corson & Gruman
of Washington for $14,726, and that
calling for the electrical installa-
ton was let to the Gill g. Simpson
Electrical Co., Inc, of Baltimore,
Md.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
British Plan Air Service
To America This Week
BY the Associated Press.

Ey tiIt 1SSoCldteQ fresS.
LONDON. July 26.-The British
air ministry is planning trans-At-
lantic substratosphere service for
next year with land planes spanning
the ocean at a cruising speed of
more than four miles a minute.
Construction of three 32-ton ma
chimes. one designed to cruise at
275 miles per hour at 25O0O feet,
already has been started at Ro-
chester. Kent. The planes were
ordered last year.
The Society of British Aircraft
Construction, disclosing details of
the new planes. said each would
have 3,000-mile range bucking a
30-mile headwind with a pay load
of $500 pounds in addition to a
seven-man crew. One-third of each
planes loaded weight of 71OO0
pounds will be structural weight
and one-third fuel and oil.
The planes will be powered by
four Bristol Hercules 14-cylinder,
sleeve-valve engines.
The passengers-24 on day trips
and II on night flights-will be
sealed in a "pressurized" fuselage
and will breathe supercharged air
approximating sea level density and
obviating the need for individual
oxygen apparatus. Engineers be-
lieve that the ordinary all-metal.
stressed skin construction will be
suitable for the pressurized fuse
lage.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
Boy, 6, Lost in Woods
Searched For by Troops
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, July ga Ma
tional Guard company and a Ma
tional Guard airplane were ordered
today into the search for 6-year-old
Russell Jensen of Albert Lea. Mimi,
as 900 possemen began final effort
to locate the lad.
Gov. Harold StaSsen ordered the
National Guard aid at the request
of county authorities. Sheriff E. c..
Churchill, Hubbard County sheriff
said he believed the boy, missing in
the mosquito-infested wilderness of
Paul Bunyan Forest in Northern
Minnesota since Monday, would be
found today or never" The guards
men and the plane were expected
to reach the scene of the hunt by
noon.
Meanwhile, in Albert Lea, the
boys physician disclosed Russell
had been suffering from a severe
case of trench mouth when he was
taken north to speed his recovery
and expressed doubt the boy could
withstand being lost for long.
Meanwhile, Canadian provincial
authorities, Northwest Mounted Po-
lice and Forestry Service airplane
from Kenora joined in the hunt for
F. c. Lambert, SO, of Chicago, lost
during a fishing trip in the almost
inaccessible Manitou Lake country
near the Minnesota Canada border.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
W. P. A. Discontinues
Handicrafts Unit
Laboratory Here
Work in Thot Field to
Be Continued, However;
Other Changes Made

Due to curtailment of administra-
tive funds, it was decided today to
discontinue the work of the Techni-
cal Services Laboratory in WASH
ington as a service of the Works
Projects Administration and trans
fer such activities in the field of
handicrafts to the Federal Arts
Projects.
officials said this means that the
building occupied by the laboratory
at 22l6 M street NV. would be va
Gated probably by September /.
Adrain Dornbush, director of the
labora tory, and his assistant, Whit
ney Atchley, will continue, however,
to work in the field of handicrafts
under the direction of Lawrence S.
Morris, executive assistant for the
arts projects.
Other staff changes in the Divi-
sion of Professional and Service Prof.
ects were announced by Col. F. c.
Harrington, commissioner of Works
Projects.
G. OFT Romney. formerly director
of the Southern California w. P. A
recreation division and more re-
Gently on the Washington staff as
consultant on recreational facilities
has been appointed director of the
recreation section. Russell Bender
has been named director of the pro-
duction and service section in the
professional and service division.
Recently he has been serving in the
Washington Office as acting director
of the projects review unit.
In place of Mr.. Bender, Wilfred de
st. Aubin has been appointed di-
rector of the projects review unit.
He was formerly project analyst.
The resignation of George Max
well, assistant director of education,
also was announced. He is leaving
August l to accept a position with
the Educational Policies Commits
sion of the National Educational
Association in Washington.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
Coaster Champion III
With Throat Trouble

Carl Cederstrand, Washington's S
12-year-old Soap Box Derby cham
pion, was i'll today with sore
throat at his home, 3719 Appleton
street NV.
His confinement began last week
when he tumbled off the new red
bicycle awarded for winning the
Glass B Derby, and injured his
knee. The sore throat followed
According to Carl's father, the
champion will be up and about in
few days, ready for the trip to
Akron, Ohio, to race for the ma
tional and international Derby
championships on August 13.
While Carl is i'll, he has the bene-
fit of another prize he won in the
Derby, a portable radio for taking
his third heat. He has the radio
at his bedside.
Carl's white streamlined racer,
now bearing the names of The Even
ing Star and Washington, will be
shipped to Akron next week for
exhibition in a department store,
along with. the cars of 124 other city
champions, prior to the national
races.
Evening star., 1939-07-26

A disturbance Of marked intensity is
moving eastward over Hudson Bay, Port
Harrison. Quebec. 1856 millibars te946
inches. and broad trough extends thence
southwestward to Minnesota Pressure is
low 10y also over Montana. Arizona and the
interior Of the Pacific States. Blythe, Calf.
lo06.S millibars 1913 inches and Havre.
Mont: 10l0.s millibars t29.S5 inches).
The Atlantic disturbance is moving slowly
eastward with center about 400 miles
southeast of Cape Race Newfoundland
8. s. President Harding 1OO5.l miilbars
!29.6S inches) Pressure Is high and rising
from Alaska southeastward to the Western
CANADIAN Provinces Juneau Alaska. 1O25.1
millibars (3n.@7 inches). and over New
foundland the Atlantic and Gulf States
and a the Western Atlantic Ocean, Belle Isle;
inches), and St Georges. Bermuda, 1o22l.7
millbars naalilsn l3o;l7 inches, Showers have
States Tennessee. the Ohio. the Upper
Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys,
Kansas. the Southern Rocky Mountain and
Southern Plateau regions and portions of
the lake region. The temperature is above
normal over the greater part of the United
States and Southern Canada. but cooler
weather is now overspreading the Western
Canadian provinces.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
Richmond Tempers
Drive on JoywoIkers
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, July 26.-Rich-
mond's campaign against jaywalk-
ing, launched yesterday with a furry
of enforcement that left at least
10 offenders ticketed, was tempered
today by reminder to police by
Chief Jordan that they must use
discretion.
TN the enforcement of the jay
walking law" Chief Jordan said,
Officers must use a great deal of
discretion. Our only object in the
enforcement of this law is to save
pedestrians lives.p
Late yesterday II jaywalkers had
paid 81 fines. Two others told po-
lice they would take their cases to
court.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
Lost Colony Riddle
Apparently Solved by
Messages on Stones
Wandered Southwestword,
Died, Carvings ReveoI;
Authenticity Not Certoin
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Ga, July 26.--
DR.. H. J. Pearce, president OF
Brenau College, asserted today dis
covery and translation of 13 stone
slabs apparently recording the burial
of GA members of the famed Lost
Colony" of Roanoke Island may go
far in solving what he called "Mys-
terry No. of American History"
The educator and his son, DR.. H.
j. Pearce, jr., historian at Emory
University in Atlanta, announced
yesterday the finding of the stones
on the Saluda River near Greenville.
S. c., which purport to unfold the
TRAGEDY Detailing colonists settled
at Sir Walter Raleighs behest in
1887.
The educators emphasized that
no claims were being made as to
the authenticity of stones at pres
ent. They are still under investi-
CATION" they said.
May Rewrite History.
But if the stones do prove to be
genuine, DR.. Pearce declared, some
commonly accepted facts in Amer
ican history must be discarded
The Pearces laboriously deciphered
the carved lettering in ancient Eng
lish, checked the messages with
writing of the period and on his
torical facts.
The stone-told story indicates, the
historians said. that the colonists
wandered about $50 miles southwest
from the North Carolina coast, es-
tablished graveyard and camp
or stockade on a hilltop near the
Saluda River and remained there
at least two years.
Sixty-four of the harassed Eng
lishmen were buried at the Saluda
site and in 1591-the stones bear
dates of 1889. 1890 and 1591-17 of
the remaining "a were massacred
by Indians The seven survivors
wandered still farther southwest
ward
Says Virginia Dare Massacred.
Acquisition of II of these stones
followed discovery several weeks ago
Of a granite piece presumably car
rying a message from Eleanor Dare
to her father which listed the II
massacre victims, including her
daughter, Virginia, and her husband,
Ananias. Virginia Dare is generally
believed to be the first white child
born in America.
In 1897 tourist stumbled upon a
stone signed "E. w. D." conveying
news of the massacre. 1t was this
discovery that set off the search for
other signs of the lost colony.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
Demoroy to Leave
On 6-Week Parks Tour

Acting Director of the National
Park Service A. E. Demaray is
scheduled to leave Washington July
80 on six weeks investigation of
several national parks, including
Hawaii National Park in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii.
In his absence Chief of OPERA
tions John r. White will be acting
director.
En- route to the West Coast Mr..
Demaray will visit Rocky Noun
tain (Colorado) and Yellowstone
National Parks and headquarters
OF region 4 of the Park Service at
San Francisco. He will sail from
there August II and return to Los
Angeles September S. On his way
East he will visit Death Valley
National Monument, Boulder Dam
National Recreational Area, Zion
and Bryce Canyon National Park
and the North Rim of the Grand
Canyon. He will arrive in Wash
ington September Is.
Evening star., 1939-07-26
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHERMAN, Me, July 26.-Donn
Fender, 12-year-old Rye IN. " lad
lost eight days in the tangled North
ern Maine wilderness, was joyfully
reunited with his mother, Mrs. Dom
aid Fender, today after being car
ried by canoe down the East Branch
of the Penobscot River en- route to
a Bangor hospital.
Mother and son met on the river
bank after the boys canoe was
brought to the shore, and there he
was lifted up so she could embrace
him
Thank God you're safe" said the
mother. only God could have
saved you"
Dom sobbed as he clung to his
mother. Gee, I'm glad to see you"
he said as they kissed.
The boy then was placed in a
waiting ambulance and the 83-mile
trip to Bangor was started.
Earlier an amazing tale of tena-
ciouS courage had been spilled from
the lips of very tired little boy who
literally had found himself.
Refreshed by an unbroken nights
sleep, the boy awoke this morning
feeling fine and was apparently
making rapid recovery.
While an army of searchers
secured the steep, crevasse- SCARED
sides of lofty Mount Katahdin,
Dom, Boy Scout, wandered 35
miles from the peak on which he
disappeared July II, followed a
brook and then a telephone line
until finally he came last night to
the first human habitation, the
home of Nelson E. McMoarn, 81, of
Sherman, a guide
Il ate what berries I could find, -
Dom told Mr. McMoarn as Mrs.
McMoarn gave the haggard, emaci-
ated lad soup and coffee before
sending him to bed. 'I drank water
from stagnant pools until I found
fresh water"
He was all but naked. his clothing
torn off by the tangled growths
through which he had plowed re-
lentlessly for days, his body was
covered with sores, scratches and
insect bites, but his first thought