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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-06
Church Notes


 The Brotherhood. chorus of the Salem Lutheran church will re- hearse tonight at 7:30, and the Con- cordia Sick Benefit society will meet at the church tomorrow night at 8 with the Evangeline circle also meeting at the same time, with Ethel Salmonson and Ellen Ander- son as hostesses. The church coun- ell will meet at 8 p. m. Wednesday. A session of the Junior Confirma- ton class is scheduled foy 3:30 D. m. The Ladies' Aid society will convene at the church at 8 D. m. with Mrs. John Gisslander as hos tess.
 The children's choir will meet at { p. m. Friday, the senior confirma- ton class at 4:45 pm. and the jun- for choir at 2 p. m.
 The Luther league of this church is planning a cake sale for next Friday in the Carlson store on Church street. The committe con- sists of: Mrs. Arnold Lundin, chair man, Mrs. John Van Vlandren, Mrs. Eldon Rohs and the Misses Elna and Esther Lundin.
 Birthday Party
 A party was held recently by Mfr. and Mrs. William Brush of Rubber avenue for their son, William, Jr., who observed his fifth birthday. Attending were: Raymond and Jo- seph Hanley, Arthur Benson. Bruce Miller. Thomas Noble, Larry and Nicholas Errichetto and William Brush, Jr.
Evening star., 1939-01-12

Marcn, Z,4OU,UUO IN April, 2,20O 900
in May and 100000 in June.
BY comparison. the administration
contemplated using S875, 100000 for
100000 jobs in February and
March 2.875,00o in April, 2,775, 900 in
May and 2.70O00O in June.
Further backing up its action in
trimming the administrations
geSted figure, the committee saio
that at no time since w. P. A. was
started in 1885 had expenditures ap-
preached the total which would be
available for the current year should
a supplemental s875, 100000 be ap-
propriated.
That amount. it said, would bring
the total available for the year to
81 ,227 ,350,272, compared with Sl,478,-
S58,500 in the 1888 fiscal year. ST.
699 ,069 l66 in 1887 and 81 ,305, 1902 ,58l
in 1886.
Since the Appropriations Subcom-
mittee early this week Topped $780,
100000 from the Presidents request,
administration lieutenants have not
been overly hopeful that the House
would restore that amount
| G. o. p. Leaders Uncertain.
Democratic leaders. however, ma
neuvered the parliamentary situa-
ton to put each member on record
for or against the $875 900 900 fund
They also insisted that enough
money be voted to operate w. P. A.
until June 80 rather than for a
shorter period.
Republican leaders were uncer-
tain whether they could obtain the
support of enough anti-administra-
ton Democrats in the House to
block a five-month appropriation,
but their demands for prompt
changes in relief policy paralleled
plans of a number of Democratic
Senators.
Meanwhile, Senator Byrnes, Dem
ocrat, of South Carolina called his
Unemployment Committee together
to continue writing a new for
mula for relief distribution. Some
members said one proposal was to
require that so per cent of the
relief money to be spent in State
be determined on the basis of that
States population and so per cent
on the basis of its unemployment.
Senator Byrnes and his colleagues
hoped the committee could agree
on a formula in time to insert it into
the pending appropriation bill
House leaders expect to finish action
by the week end, and the measure
may reach the Senate floor next
week.
There also was considerable senti-
ment in the Senate committee for
including provisions against poll
tics in relief"
Representative Taber of New York
said the House Republicans pro-
posal for only limited appropria-
ton at this time was based on their
belief that definite relief pro-
gram" should be formulated, and
that this could not be done before
the w. P. A. exhausts its funds
February 7.
It was expected that the Repub-
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Mrs. Worthington, 81,
Widow Of District
Leader, Dead
Daughter Of C|ossmote
Of Grant Recalled
LincoIn's Death

Mrs. Rebecca Britton Worthing-
ton, widow Of Charles Worthington
member Of one of the citys oldest
families. died yesterday at her home
in the Toronto Apartments in her
9th year.
Mrs. Worthington had been resi-
dent of Washington since the Civil
War, and one of the keenest pleas
ures Of her later years was to de-
scribe the historic events she had
witnessed here during a long and
active life to her children, grand
children and great-grandchildren.
Mrs .Worthington was born at
Tampa, Fla, while her father, Capt
Forbes Britton, a classmate of Gen
Grant. was in Florida with an Army
unit helping to put down an upris-
ing of the Seminole Indians.
Married in 1860.
The former Miss Britton was liv-
ing in Texas, where her father was
stationed, when she met Mr.. Worth
ington while he was on hunting
trip. Mr.. Worthington married her
in 1860. The couple had planned to
live in the West, but changed their
minds when the Civil War broke out
Planning to return to Washington
Mr. Worthington found the usual
routes blocked by the embattled
armies. He took his bride to Mexico
Later they sailed for New York from
Tampico in small sailing vessel
which was four weeks at sea.
The couple arrived in Washington
just before the assassination of Pres
ident Lincoln. Mrs. Worthington
retained a clear memory of this
tragedy and other momentous events
in the history of the young and
growing Capital.
Husband Died 20 Years Ago,
Mr.. Worthington died about 20
years ago. His family came here
from Annapolis and settled in
Georgetown before the District OF
Columbia was laid out as a Capital
City.
Mrs. Worthington is survived by
two daughters, Miss Eliza P. Worth
ington and Mrs. Elizabeth Trescott,
both Of Washington; two grand
children, Mrs. Philip Torrey of Phil
adelphia and Mrs. G. Wade Martin
of Washington and three great
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10
am. Saturday at st. Matthews S
Church, of which Mrs. Worthington
was a member Interment will be
private in Rock Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Two Youths Captured
In Baltimore After
Highway Chase
Escape Hail Of Bullets
As Police Attempt to
Holt Stolen Car

Two youths accused of stealing an
automobile In nearby Arlington
County were captured early today
In Baltimore suburb after escaping
hail Of police bullets during a 90
mile-an-hour chase on the WASH
ington-Baltimore boulevard.
More than 10 of1lcers-represent-
ing Washington, Maryland State,
Baltimore and Baltimore County
police-were involved in the chase
which began shortly after Thomas
De Lashmutt, construction engineer,
OF Arlington, reported his car stolen
Washington police radioed State
officers after the car was seen head
ing for the Baltimore road. State
Patrolmen c. c. Serman and Thomas
johnson, cruising the. boulevard,
saw the car pass a few minutes later
going about IS or 80 miles an hour. !"
They took up the chase and police
IN Baltimore were called. The lat
ter Immediately stationed several
men at the city limits.
About 20 shots were fired when
the car careened wildly through the
Gordon. Officers said the gunfire
was not returned by the occupants
OF the machine.
The car was finally chased into
a dead-end street in Lansdowne,
Baltimore suburb, by Officer Nor
man Brooks of HalethOrpe. Md. M.
lice, and the occupants jumped out.
Offlcer Brooks captured one OF them
and the other was caught a short
time later.
They are being held at the Hale
thorpe Police Station pending their
removal to Arlington County. Po-
lice said the youths escaped yester-
day from a Virginia mental institu-
ton.
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frequently walked beats with Sergt
Ernest w. Brown, now Maj Brown
superintendent of the force.
The new jurist still Is a Bladens-
burg town commissioner and has
been for six years. He was presi-
dent of the board last term.
Aided Civic Projects.
A member of the Bladensburg
Citizens Association besides being a
town official, he has played lead
ing part in obtaining appropriations
for the correction of pollution in the
Anacostia River, for flood control at
Bladensburg and for elimination of
the dangerous bottle neck" in the
Defense Highway at the Peace Cross
He is officer of the day for the
Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp
Spanish-American War Veterans, a
member of the Prince Georges
County Chamber of Commerce and
the Policemen's Retirement Asso-
citation.
The jurist is married and has two
children. One is Bernard Osterman
of the Procurement Division, Treas
ury Department; the other, Motor
Cycle Policeman Joseph v. Oster-
man OF the Traffic Division here.
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Dfatha.
Enu ADn

WINsLoW. EDWARD. On Tuesday,
January 10, 1889 EDWARD WINSLOW
Of 35 Defrees st NV. beloved husband OF
Blanche Dreer Winslow, father OF Gwen
dolyn Winslow Haywood, brother of Edith
Perkins. Milton and William Winslow. He
also leaves other relatives and friends.
Remains resting at the, w. Ernest Jarvis
4 pm. Thursday: January 12: thereafter at
the residence of his daughter 1917 3rd
Funeral Friday, January 49, at 1890
p.m;, from the Second Baptist Church. 3rd
St. bet. and I sts. NV. Rev J. L. F.
Holloman officiating. Interment Arlington
National Cemetery. Relatives and friends
invited 12
WORTHINGToN. REBECCA FORBES,
On Wednesday January H. 1889 at her
Is9E FORBES T:{so woRITAiNGToN: I E il her s7th
Services at ST. Matthews Catholic
Church Rhode Island near Conn ave NV,
where mass will be offered on Saturday
January IA. at 10 am. Interment Rock
Creek Cemetery. ia
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BY JACK ALLEN.

by JACK ALLEN.
Vincent A. OSterman unbuckled
his .38-caliber revolver, released the
catch on his badge, sighed and slid
them across desk top to the Met
ropolitan police forces property
clerk.
He was retired; through with law
enforcement work after 80 years in
the game. No more beats to pound,
no more patrol boxes to pull, gone
forever was the need of arising early
to appear in court after long tours
of duty.
That was nine months ago and he
was correct on all counts except one.
The former Washington police
man, who has lived in Bladensburg
since 1923, settled down to a quiet
life upon his retirement, but the
Democratic party offered him a
place on its ticket last fall and he
won.
He's Judge Osterman now and be-
ing member of the Orphans Court
for Prince Georges County he still
has to get up early and rush off to
court whenever that tribunal is in
session.
Native of Capital.
Judge Osterman, who is So, was
born in the Nations Capital and was
educated in elementary schools here
and at Gonzaga High School. He
served as ships writer in the Navy
during the Spanish-American War
and was honorably discharged in
1905
On July l of that year he was ap-
pointed to the police force. worked
three years in the I'd precinct on
Fifth street, II years on the police
boat In the harbor precinct and the
remaining 18 years at the 18th pre-
clnct in Anacostia, Is of them as
desk clerk.
While in the od precinct he
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Heart Attack Fatal
To Julius Reiners
Al MI. Rainier
Former Press Club
Manager Was Friend
Of Dignitories

julius Reiners, who for more than
q quarter OF a century as manager
OF the National Press Club was q
friend to a host Of Government OIL
cials. newspapermep and visiting
dlgnitaries, died early this morning
OF heart attack at his Mount
Rainier home. He had been in III
health for several years and two
years ago retired.
A native Of Germany, he was So
years old when he died. He came to
this country when IL years old and
Tor the last 80 years had made his
home In Mount Rainier, where he
was generally known as "the
pioneer"
He numbered among his close
friends several Presidents, the
Prince Of Wales, now the Duke of
Windsor; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
Lord Northcliffe and a host of ma
tionally famous writer's and cor
respondents.
Active In Social Affairs.
Though manager of the press club
ne was an active participant in its
social affairs and responsible for
direction of many of its entertain
ments. He had good baritone
voice and was q member of the
famed Press Club Quartet which in
cluded Marvin H. Mcintyre, secre-
tary to President Roosevelt; the late
Morton M. Milford, director of pub
lie relations for the Works Progress
Administration, and John j. DAILY,
feature writer of The Star.
When the club was in its old
quarters at Fifteenth and F streets
NV. President Taft frequently on
Sunday afternoons would stroll over
from the White House to chat with
him. Better known as Julius, he
liked to tell of the difficulty Mr..
Taft had in getting up the narrow
stairway and how he had to assist
the President to make his way to
the second floor quarters.
Made Friends With Wales.
When the Prince of Wales visited
Washington he struck up a warm
friendship with Julius which later
resulted in a personal request for a
visit in Buckingham Palace by the
then King Edward. Similarly when
Lord Northcliffe visited the city
Julius became warm friend and
constant companion.
He knew every outstanding WASH
ington correspondent and newspaper
man here since 1910 and counted
as friends Presidents Harding,
Coolidge and Roosevelt. He first
became acquainted with the present
President when he was Assistant
Secretary of the Navy.
Though known to hundreds of
prominent people he joined only one
organization-the Mount Rainier
Volunteer Fire Department, of
which he was president for many
years.
Prior to becoming manager of the
Press Club he worked as butler
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Theodore Bodenwein,
Publisher, Dies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON, Conn, Jan. "a
Theodore Bodenwein, IA, editor and
publisher of the New London Day.
died today after lingering illness.
He had been in hospital since Oct.
% and was being treated for heart
disease and complications.
Mr.. Bodenwein was formerly Sec
retary of State and a prominent
member Of the Republican State
Central Committee He started in
newspaper business as a boy by
printing one-page ad sheets with a
rubber stamp.
He was charter member and q
director of the Associated Press.
Survivors include his widow, the
former Edna G. Simpson, and two
children by former marriage, Cor
don BodenWein of New London and
Lyme and Mrs. Eugene R. Miles of
Cleveland, Ohio.
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for several prominent Washington
families. He was a member Of the
German Lutheran Church, but had
been inactive in recent years be-
cause of his health.
He Is survived by his widow, Jen-
ME; three sisters, Mrs. Hanna Flem-
ing, Mrs. Annie Hanson and Mrs.
Elizabeth Rockman, and two
brothers, Otto and Henry, all of
this city.
Funeral services will be held at
Gasch's funeral home. Hyattsville,
Nd, at pm. Monday, with burial
IN Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
W. P. A.


would nullify. in effect, a presiden-
tial order to blanket w. P. A. ad-
ministrative employees into the civil
service February l. the committee
said w. p. A. was a temporary
agency.
Optimistic Statements Recalled.
The administrative personnel
upward Of 10000 individuals-the
committee said also should be con-
sidered temporary workers.
With reference to recovery, the
committee noted that President
Roosevelt in messages to Congress
had commented on substantial busi-
ness and industrial improvement.
Furthermore, it said. Col. F. C.
Harrington, w. P. A. administrator
had stated there had been rapid
and extensive recovery since last
July and that the number of work.
ers in industry and agriculture had
increased by more than 100000 in
the last six months.
Col. Harrington, it said, also
stated that a further increase OF
100000 in private employment was
anticipated by June 30.
Re employment on the outside is
definitely on the upward trend and
the committee can see no justifica-
ton for anticipating that there will
be need by the end of June, 1899
II months after the recession was
reversed and the upward trend
started, to continue to employ on
Works Progress Administration
projects approximately 100000
more persons than when the recess
sion started back in the autumn
of 1887"
Would Purge Malingerers.
w. P. A rolls, the committee said
should be purged of malingerers
and many others who manage to re-
main on the rolls continuously It
held that such purging should effect
a reduction and make room for more
eligible persons.
It said testimony on the bill indi-
Gated about 10 per cent of those now
on w. P. A. have been there since
the agency's inception.
There also are many unemploy-
ables on w. P. A. who should be
cared for by established relief agen-
cies financed by other than Federal
funds, the committee asserted.
The committee said it felt the
Presidents position that Congress
might desire to legislate to divorce
relief from politics was sound.
Corrective measures, it added
should be considered either by a
different committee or deferred fol-
consideration by the Appropriations
Committee when it takes up the
relief appropriation for the year be-
ginning July
Spread Suggested.
The $725,00O,0O0, the committee
suggested, could be so spread out as
to provide for 100000 w. P. A
workers In February, 100000 in
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Mrs. Si9noro l. Bow|es
Funeral Services Held

Funeral services for Mrs. Signora
L. Bowles, 88, of l408 Newton street
NV. who died recently. were held
at the George w. Wise Funeral
Chapel with burial in Congressional
Cemetery.
A native of Nelson County, Va,
she had been a resident of WASH
ington 48 years. Mrs. BoWles was
the widow of William C. Bowles.
She was member of St. Andrews
Episcopal Church.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Minnie c. Tribby and Mrs. Maude
c. Barber; two brothers, B. Agee
Bowles and Norman S. Bowles, jr.,
all of Washington: 8 grandchildren
and l3 grandchildren
Evening star., 1939-01-12

licans later would attempt to put
across their long-advocated plan of
returning relief administration to
the States.
The United States Conference of
Mayors estimated in a statement
yesterday that 1,l41,300 w. P. A.
workers would lose their jobs by
June 80 if Congress should slash
the w. P. A. appropriation to
$725 100000
Other estimates ranged from
100000, a -off1cial prediction
by persons connected with w. P. A.,
to a figure between 100000 and
100000 forecast by the Workers
Alliance.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Z. A. Morrow Dies

BALTIMORE, Jan. IL P.-
Charles A. Morrow, widely-known
contractor, who added in rebuilding
Baltimore after the disastrous fire
of 1904, died here last night after
an extended illness. He was 10.
Funeral services will be held Satur-
day and burial will be in St. Anne s
Cemetery at Annapolis.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
U. F. W. A. Meeting TONIGHT

Mrs. Gabrielle Forbush, president
OF Treasury Credit Union, will speak
at meeting of Treasury Local II,
United Federal Workers of America,
tonight at 8 o'clock The meeting
Will be at U. F. w. headquarters,
532 Seventeenth street NV.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Garn uf Chunks.

MCDOWELL, HENRY b. We wish to ex-
press our sincere thanks and appreciation
to our friends and .neighbors for thsir
and beautiful floral tributes at the death
Of our beloved husband and brother, HENRY
B, MCDOWELL. THE FAMILY.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Judge Ostermon Once Walked
Police Beat With Mai. Brown
Elected to Bench After
Retirement From
D. C. Force

This Is one of a series of
sketches on ne,Dly elected officials
OF nearby Maryland and Virginia.
Another 1DiI appear tomorrow.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
1tt Mrntnrtun1 .

BANKS. META. Sacred to the love and
memory memory Of our beloved daughter and sister
beyond four years ago today, January l2.
1885
Evening star., 1939-06-12
more Than 300 Seek CROSSING
|On transatlantic Air|iner

II want to be your first passenger. :"
The humorist, killed with Wiley
Post in an Alaskan crash in 1885,
was cheated Of the chance to make
either the first regular Pacific pas
senger flight in 1896 or the Atlantic
crossing
Several applicants for seats ac-
companied their letters with checks.
The champion check writer sent
$500.
Initial passenger flights will be
by way of the Azores and Lisbon
to Marseille, the eastern terminus
for the so-called "Soutern route"
over the North Atlantic. -Four days
prior to the first passenger flight,
P. A. A. will start mail flights on
the Northern route" to South
ampton via Shediac, New Bruns-
wick; Botwood, Newfoundland, and
Foynes, Ireland.
Due to temporary necessity for
stopping overnight in Lisbon, the
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enter. A boy who has passed
his 18th 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 Ne1Us
Evening star., 1939-06-12
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June 12.-More than
300 persons have put in their bids
for seat in the big airliner which
will inaugurate regular passenger
service to Europe June %.
More than twice that many have
applied for reservations on that or
a subsequent flight.
Pan American AirWays, whose
41l2-ton flying boats will be the
first commercial planes to ferry pas
sengers across the Atlantic at $375
trip. set the date for the inaugural
take-of last night.
Just who will 60 in the IS or so
seats available will be announced
later.
Some of the reservations" are
years old. First position on the list
originally belonged to Will Rogers.
IF you boys ever get around to
flying the oceans" he said in 1881,
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Boys Join Final Rush
To Sign as Entrants
In Soap Box Derby
Rolls Close Saturday.;
500 Already Listed
For July 8 Event

Listen to the Soap Bor Derby
Parade on Station WMAL at 4:45
o'clock this afternoon. The pro-
gran, includes entertainment by
Dick Wedding, ~, singer, and the
Cauanauqh family and inter-
Uiews 1Uith Hubert H. Cleary,
Eliot Junior High School 1pood-
shop teacher, and t,Uo Eliot boys
competing in the Derby, Donald
Phillips, 13, and Gilbert Tilgh-
man, ID.
Facing the final deadline for Soap
Box Derby entries" boys 10 to Is
years old, inclusive, today began the
annual last t-minute rush to sign up
for the Washington area races,
which will be run on July 8 under
sponsorship of The Star and the
American Legion.
The registration rolls, already
numbering more than 500 boys, will
close next Saturday night. After
that will come three busy weeks,
with actual arrangements and final
plans confronting Derby sponsors
while the hundreds of Derby candi-
dates finish work on their racers
Derby Director o. c. Holleran an
nounced today the personnel of the
Finish Line Committee, which on
Derby day will take racers off the
course at the end of each heat.
George Rohrick, member of Nc
Groarty Post of the American Le-
gion. will be chairman of the COM
mittee, with Mack Clark as vice
chairman. The members are Ed
ward B. Dittoe, John st. Petrie, Roe
Hutchings, Frank E. Elvidge, Ru-
dolph Blick, George McAllister, Al
bert Hall. Robert Murtaugh, George
Lands. Ray Miller, Herbert Audas,
Lloyd E. Henry, Robert D. Beeton,
Robert w. Campbell and William
E. KelSon.
Four boys will race down the
course in each heat. Only one of
them can win. and the winners car
will be set aside by the Finish Line
Committee to be sent back to the
starting point for another round
Racing cars of the losers will be
dispatched to a central point. The
site for this years Derby will be
announced later.
Registration for the Derby is be-
ing conducted by Chevrolet dealers
in Washington, Alexandria and
Clarendon, Va; Silver Spring and
Hyattsville, Md. Boys who wish to
enter must be accompanied to the
nearest dealer by parent or guard
ian and both must sign the appli-
cation blank and the safety pledge
Dealers furnish each entrant with
the 1889 official rule book.
Watch The Star for Derby NeUs.
Egypt raised over 1000 900, 900
pounds Of cotton last season.
Evening star., 1939-06-12

union said, convicting him on seven,
dividing on six and acquitting him
on one.
The union said that "in the divided
verdicts, the division was geograph-
ical-representatives of the Gulf
district finding King not guilty. The
recommendation, however, was
unanimous for when a majority
of the ports in the Atlantic and Gulf
districts concur, the action becomes
final"