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Evening star., 1939-10-05

operation. This policy requires that
We do not permit strategic islands
to fall into hostile hands. It means
that We interpret the Monroe
Doctrine to include the prohibition
Of penetration by foreign nations
through propaganda or otherwise in
this hemisphere. The great body Of
expert opinion on national defense
agrees that We can make this hemi.
sphere safe against all comers. The
destiny Of our Nation should be
worked out In this hemisphere and
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Checked for Your Protection u

No buyer could possibly check any
portable lamp without complete lab.
oratory equipment.
But If the lamp delivered to your
home bears this GER RTIFICATE you can
be ssre that you are getting the sight
saving protection, the electrical safety
and the construetional advantages you
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Joseph 6. {. Hopkins Wins
GEORGETOWN Award

Joseph G. E. Hopkins of New York
prominent Catholic poet, was an
nounced today as the winner OF the
Georgetown College Journal award
for the best ode commemorating tAe
University's 150th anniversary year.
His poem "On the Sesquicentennlal
of Georgetown" was the unanimous
choice of the judges and was chosen
from more than 100 entries submits
ted from q States and Al cities. The
selection was made by Aline Kilmer'
widow Of Joyce Kilmer, the famous
World War poet and author OF
Trees; the Rev. Leonard Feeney
S. j., editor of the weekly America;
and Myles Connolly, editor, novelist
and critic. Mrs. Kilmer herself Is q
lecturer and poet and past president
of the Catholic Poetry Society OF
America.
The author of the Georgetown
sesquicentennial poem is an English
instructor at Notre Dame College and
Loyola School in New York City. He
is a graduate of Fordham University
where he edited the Fordham
Monthly.
His verse and short stories appear
in America, Commonweal, Columbia
and other magazines. He is treasurer
of the Catholic Poetry Society and
business manager Of the puohcatlon
Spirit.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Pickets Withdrawn
From Airline Office

Picket lines were withdrawn tC
day from the Eastern Air Linz
Office, 808 Fifteenth street NV
upon orders from A. P. Martii
president of the Air Line Mechanic
Association, instructing striking
A. L. mechanics to return to wori
The strike started April IA over
wage and hour issue between til
union and company officials.
An Associated Press dispatch fror
Newark, N. j., where Mr.. Marti
has been negotiating with E. A. !
officials for the past three week
said that the union leader ha
ordered withdrawal of picket line
at Newark, Washington and Atlanta
The dispatch quoted Mr.. Marti
as saying that the pickets would b
replaced, however. if the compan,
refused to take back the strikers.
The strike. first system-wide at
tempt in transport history, received
almost full support from E. A. L
mechanics, II of the 13 local main
tenance men walking out, William
Briggs, District traffic manager TO
the company, announced at the out.
set.
When the strike started April II
mechanics from Miami were brough
to Washington to replace the strik.
ers here. 1t was not known today
whether the imported mechanic.
have been sent back to Miami OF
retained at the local field.
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School Board Takes
Year 10 Dismiss Two
For |nefficiency
BoIIou Cites Example
Of Griffenhoeen
Revomp Proposal

1t is taking the Board of Educa-
ton more than a year to fire two
custodians for ineffciency.
Supt. Frank w. Ballou called this
to the attention of the board yes
terday as concrete example" of
what could be the result if all school
personnel were placed under a spe-
cial personnel department for all
District employees, as proposed in
the Griffenhagen reorganization
plan.
The custodians were rated un-
satisfactory in May of last year.
Through appeal to the District Per-
sonnel Classification Board and
later reference to the Civil Service
Commission the matter was finally
put before the board yesterday with
a final recommendation that two
of the three men be dismissed at
the end of whatever accrued leave
they might have. The other, whom
the schools had also recommended
be dismissed, was ordered denoted.
Would Shift Inspectors.
Board members, however, ap-
proved the proposal that Child La
Dor Act inspectors, now under the
schools. be transferred to the pro-
posed Department of Labor of the
Griffenhagen proposals.
w. A. Draper of the District re-
pair shop called the attention Of
the members to serious emer-
gency" confronting the schools in
the matter of the repair of buildings
and grounds.
Characterizing the situation as
"deplorable," he summed it up in
his letter to DR.. Ballou by pointing
out that in the last 10 years $15,-
100000 worth of buildings have been
added to the school system. In this
same decade, he said, appropria-
tions for repair and maintenance
have been the same or In some
years actually reduced.
Funds Held Inadequate.
He expressed concern over the in
adequacy of the 1910 appropriation
as passed by the House and said he
had reported its inadequacy to As
sistant Engineer Commissioner H.
S. Bishop.
Other action taken by the board
included approval of the use of
school buildings for serving lunches
to underprivileged children during
the summer and approval of hav-
ing a notary public at each senior
high school.
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Band Concerts

BY the United States Army Band
in the Army Band Auditorium this
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl
Hubner, assistant leader.
Program.
March, "Bombasto" o"-------Fa Farrar
Concert piece, Northern
Rhapsody" ~-------------H Hosmer
Trombone solo, "Elegie" from
Lies Erinnyes" "-------- Massenet
Keig E. Garvin, soloist.
Popular. Donkey Serenade,"
from the "Firef1y"- y"----- Friml
Characteristic, Cuban Dance"
Cervantes
Waltz, Military" "------- Waldteufel
March, "Colt's Armory" Smith
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine
Band tomorrow at 2 pm. in the
Marine Barracks Auditorium. Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader; William
F. Santelmann, second leader.
Program.
''The Marines Hymn
March, Rifle Regiment" -S Sousa
Overture, yellow Princess"
Saint-Saens
Trombone solo fantasie,
Annie Laurie" Pryor
Musician Robert Isele.
"Pines of the Appian Way" from
Pines Of Rome -Respighi
"Kol Nidrei'' Bruch
Waltz, "The Sleeping Beauty"
Tschaikowsky
Polonaise from Third Suite"
Tschaikowsky
March, GLORY of the Marines"
Grabel
"The Star Spangled Banner"
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Chas. Edison Improving;
MAY Resume Duties Soon

Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison, confined to his New
York apartment by illness, probably
will be able to return to his desk here
within three weeks, it was said today
at the Navy Department. Mr.. Edison
Is not in serious condition, it was
explained, and is keeping in close
daily contact with departmental
affairs.
Mr.. Edison maintains daily contact
with the Navy Department by tele-
phone and has instructed that pa
pers requiring his personal attention
be brought to him in New York by
his administrative assistant, who is
expected to make the trip about
twice a week.
In the absence of Mr.. Edison and
the long illness of Secretary of the
Navy Swanson, Admiral William D.
Leahy, chief of naval operations, has
been designated Acting Secretary of
the Navy.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Longston, U.S.. Housing Project,
Is Year Old Tomorrow
Bumper Crop Of rs Babies Forms
Prize Exhibit for Celebration

A bumper crop of Is babies, born
during the first year of their parents
tenancy at Langston Terrace or
Benning road NE, where the United
States Housing Association rehoused
274 colored families, forms the prize
exhibit for the projects initial an
niversary celebration starting to-
morrow.
Without single infant death
reported to mar the Langston rec
ord, Government housing officials
as well as many Of the mothers
attributed it largely to the change
from overcrowded living conditions
in the city's slums.
Franklin Thorne, manager of the
project, revealed in his annual report
that of the 274 families now enjoy
ing the physical advantages of
improved housing at Langston, 122
families were removed from one
room lodgings for families of three
or more individuals and all came
from surroundings conducive to
disease and delinquency. Those
twin complaints of the slums, cou-
pied with a high infant mortality
rate, constitute none of Langston' s
problems.
The District Health Department,
too, cited the infant statistics at
the Governments low-rent housing
project as highly indicative of the
change from the slums to decent.
sanitary living conditions. The alb
sence of deaths among the babies
was regarded as especially signifi-
cant when compared with the Dis
trict's colored infant mortality rec
ord of 70.8 per 1000 live births
Figuring on three persons to a
family, health officials said the
Langston birth record also was well
above the 244 per 1000 for colored
families in the District.
A Momentous Event.
The first baby born at Langston
is Nittie Lorraine Rucker, whose
birth was momentous event since
it occurred May 2, 1888, the day
after her parents moved into ore
of Langston's better homes" The
father, George Rucker, is an un-
skilled laborer for the National Park
Service. He is paying $22 a month
for modern dwelling unit with a
sizable back yard, where formerly
he paid $18 monthly to live in a
lodging house where Is persons used
the single bathroom.
Mrs. Dorothy Miller, whose idea
it was for the Langston tenants to
celebrate the first anniversary OF
their new-made lives, is glad of the
opportunity to pay $27.75 a month
to get her family of two children
out of the single room they formerly
occupied. Her husband is a taxi
driver.
There is a definite community life
at Langston and it is not main
tained solely for the 274 tenant
families. Wisely, Manager Thorne
has opened the various club activ-
tiles to the people residing in the
neighborhood. He had to overcome
a little objection at first on the
part Of the tenants, but he has over
come that just as the tenants them
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mrs. Roosevelt Completes
Wardrobe for Royal Visit

George will sail on Saturday. No
royal wardrobe that has Travelled
overseas has ever before created
such luggage problems as the pack
ing of the whale-boned crinolines
which the Queen will wear.
Even the packing of Queen Mary's
Durbar gowns was simple compared
with the problem of insuring that
Queen Elizabeth's fragile crinolines
many of them in white and Law
ishly embroidered-do not crease
The hooped petticoats will be hung
in large wardrobe trunks and the
voluminous skirts will be packed fiat.
All her majesty's evening skirts
for the tour sweep the ground. Her
crinoline frocks are in tulles and
satins, mostly white. some richly
embroidered in gold or silver. With
them she will wear diamonds or
pearls.
The Queens day ensembles will
set fashion for shaded tones of
the. same color. Few of her outfits
introduce a second color. Hat,
handbag, even buttonholes and
gloves match. Much white fox has
been used for trimming.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Gov. 0'Conor Vetoes
Slot Machine Bill
For Prince Georges
Wishes Of County
Boord Rejected
By Executive

Gov. Herbert r. O'Conor late yes
terday stopped a legal move in
Prince Georges County to return
slot machines as tax revenue rails
ing devices.
In vetoing the slot machine bill
passed by the last session of the
Maryland Legislature, Gov. O'Conor
went counter to the twice-expressed
wish of the Board of County Com
missioners that it be enacted into
law. Acting on the request of Gov.
O'Conor that they express their
wishes on the bill, the commission
ers asked Tuesday that the bill be
signed. The vote was to /. with
DR.. Harry M. Bowen dissenting.
Chief among the opponents of
the bill was States Attorney H.
Winship Wheatley, jr, who raised
no protest when the county board
decided to ask for the legislation,
but who has consistently opposed it.
Wheatley Hopes for Bills.
With the disapproval of the slot
machine act, Mr.. WheatIey held
greater hopes for the signing of the
bills sponsored by him which would
make mere possession of gambling
paraphernalia prima facie evidence
OF guilt and to provide for the issu-
ance of search warrants for sus-
pected places.
The bill vetoed by the Governor
would nave permitted the licensing
OF the machines with fees of SIS 900
for distributors and 500 for each
machine owned or operated by a
business house. Proponents claimed
1t would bolster the county's revenue
by $4,000 to $4,000.
Mr.. Wheatley opposed the bill on
the grounds that introduction of the
machines on legal status would
increase crime and bring an unde-
sirable element into the county.
O'Conor Cites Platform.
With the veto of the slot machine
bill for Prince Georges and measures
which would have legaized pinball
machines in Anne Arundel and
Charles Counties, death of the pin
ball machine legislation for Mont
gomery County seemed assured. In
vetoing the three measures, Gov.
OConor referred to the Democratic
platform as being vigorously op-
posed to resorting to pinball ma
chimes as a means of raising
revenue"
Evening star., 1939-05-04

selves have overcome the slight feel
ing of resentment they first en-
countered in the neighborhood.
The community life is governed
and directed by a residents council,
of which Norwood Williams is chair
man. It also serves as a medium
Of management criticism by tenants
and gives an opportunity for the
management to discuss general COM
munity problems. Contrary to gen.
eral conceptions of such projects,
there is nothing resembling pa
ternalism in the management at
Langston.
Each group Of families living in
an apartment building or group of
houses and flats elects one of its
members to serve on the council.
Collective buying of groceries is
saving the tenants money through
purchasing clubs and a credit union
has been organized.
Learn to Help Themselves.
Meeting together for recreation
and self-development, these low
income colored families are learning
to help themselves in many WAYS.
The Mothers Club has helped equip
the kitchen and recreation hall,
where community entertainments
are given regularly. Three w. P. A.
workers conduct pre-school nursery
classes, where there is an average
attendance of about 40 children.
A slogan contest has helped stimu-
late interest in keeping the sur
roundings tidy. There is rapidly
growing aquarium, started by q
guppy "fan," and camera fans have
arranged dark room, where they
develop their own films. Men are
learning some of the useful arts in
self-help groups.
Manager Thorne called attention
to one significant fact as evidenced
in the Northeast Benning area that
demonstrates what Government
housing experts have long con-
tended.
During the year since the first
tenant moved in, private dwelling
construction has been stimulated in
the general vicinity of the project.
about 200 dwellings and several
small apartments have been built
since Langston opened" Mr.. Thorne
said.
That Langston tenants appreciate
their new environments and oppor-
tunities is evidenced from Mr..
Thorne's financial report. OF the
$78, ,314 due from the tenants in rents
for the year, there was a los of only
$35.78 due to vacancies. To date, IL
families have moved for various
domestic reasons. The vacancies
were filled promptly, the only delay
being due to repainting of premises.
bad debts" accounted for loss of
$49.33, traced to two accounts.
When it is considered the average
income of the families is $96 a
month, the financial record of the
housing development Is a tribute to
its management and the selection of
families from over $500 applicants.
Beginning tomorrow afternoon
and continuing through Sunday, the
community will celebrate the first
anniversary with exhibitions and
demonstrations. A Photographic
record Of the 2S Langston babies
will be q feature.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Suspect Arrested
In $1,000.a-Week
Theft Business
81, 500 in Stolen Goods
Is Recovered in
Rooming House

A 27-year-old man, who Is charged
with developing burglary into a
81 ,000-a-week business here, was
held by police today.
Pickup squad detectives said the
man was suspected of committing
30 burglaries in the Northwest Sec
ton, in which $4,000 worth of prop
erty was stolen during the past two
months.
He was arrested several dayxs ago
in a rooming house in the 2700 block
of Thirteenth street NV, where
he lived with his wife and 4-year-
old daughter. The wife, who is 81
years old, was jailed and police
matrons are caring for the child.
About $4,000 worth of the stolen
property was recovered, but police
are fearful that the rest-the most
valuable pieces-have been disposed
of. Citizens whose homes have been
entered since the first week of
March, when the suspect is believed
to have started operations, were
urged to come to headquarters for
a view of the recovered loot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Fowler,
622O Piney Branch road NV, came
to headquarters last night to look
over the loot, and inadvertently
furnished a little comic relief. Mr..
Fowler searched through the stolen
goods for an overcoat he lost to
burglar, but was unable to find it.
At this time the suspected burglar
was brought into the room. Mr..
Fowler took one look at him and
exclaimed joyfully:
That's my coat he's wearing"
Police say the man denies the
thefts, claiming that the stolen
goods found in his place were bought
from a colored man. He is also
wanted in New Haven, Conn, on
HOUSEKEEPING charges.
The loot consisted to large ex-
tent of furs, valuable clothing and
jewelry. Police believe that many
of the burglars victims have not
reported their losses and urged
these persons to come to headquar-
tiers to view the recovered property.
Almost all the burglaries occurred
in substantial neighborhoods in the
Northwest.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Filling Of Airport
Due 10 Be Finished
By Thanksgiving
5000, ,000-c Cubic Yard
Job to Rank as One of
Finest Ever Made

The hydraulic filling of Washing
ton National Airport, involving the
moving of 100000 cubic yards of
sand and gravel, will be completed
by Thanksgiving at the present rate
of progress, and will rank as one Of
the finest hydraulic fills ever made,
according to engineers in charge Of
the work.
Sand and gravel now are being
pumped into the airport at the rate
of $4,000 cubic yards day, newspa-
permen we're told during an inspec-
ton trip yesterday afternoon as
guests of F. r. Warner, superintend-
ent of the American Dredging Co. of
Philadelphia, and Army engineers in
charge of the project.
Two giant contract dredges, larg-
est of their kind in the country, and
Army dredging equipment now are
moving fill at a rate of 1885, 900 cubic
yards a month, it was reported.
The material being pumped, COM
posed entirely of hard sand and
water rounded stones, was described
by Mr.. Warner as Ideal for the
airport but hard on dredging ma
chinery."
Equipment Wears Out Speedily
Six-ton dredging cutter heads,
costing $3.50 each, last only week
less If they encounter such OBJ
stacles as an old gasoline engine
which was completely chewed up
by the American dredge Pennsyi-
vania. Only the fywheel was found,
lodged in the dredge pump. The
remainder, reduced 10 fragments
probably is buried in the airport.
Pumps, at $1,000 each, last only
three weeks. Steel pipe, which car
ries the material from the dredge
into the airport catch basin, wears
through in 10 days and must be
replaced constantly. Huge ball and
socket joints, which make the pipe
line flexible, do little better. They
average three weeks.
The size of the pipe line replace
ment job can be appreciated when
1t is pointed out that the great
contract dredges, Pennsylvania and
Gulf Stream, now are pumping
through pipe lines each approxi-
mately 1000 feet in length and
growing daily at the rate Of two to
three sections of 16 feet each.
How the Dredge Operates.
New sections of pipe, weighing
1900 pounds each, must be man
handled" into place on the fill.
The Pennsylvania now is working
IN Georgetown Channel of the Po-
tomac River, deepening the channel
from 20 to So feet as it goes. The
sliding Of material from the sides
Of the cut, however, reduce the
average depth to AZ feet behind the
dredge as it works its way upstream
The dredge swings back and forth
on an arc Of $50 feet, averaging one
swing and return in a little more
than an hour. after which it moves
ahead five feet and swings again,
It pivots on q 34-ton "spud" dropped
deep into the river bottom through
q sleeve on the stern of the dredge
It Is swung back and forth on this
pivot by winches connected by
cables with heavy anchors on oppo-
site sides Of the channel.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
| Lamp to Reveal
| Now Invisible
IFinqerprints

Fingerprints that have defied de-
veloping-prints that cannot be
brought to light by the usual meth
ods-no longer will remain secret
to local police detectives.
A new 5000 ultra violet lamp
placed in use yesterday in the po-
lice headquarters Photographic lab
oratory promises to reveal the elu-
sive smears and stains not visible
to the eye known technically as
the analytic ultra violet ray ma
chine, the new apparatus will be
of value also in detecting forgeries,
it was pointed out.
Inspector Bernard w. Thomp-
son, chief of detectives, said the
latest addition is part of proposed
new equipment to increase the eff
cheney Of the department.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Beach Residents to Meet

The annual meeting OF the C1ti-
zens' Association of Selby- on the
Bay, Nd, will be held at 3 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon in the COM
munity's clubhouse. All members
of the association and all persons
owning lots are eligible to attend.
The association, which acts as the
managing agency Of the community,
will consider a program Of summer
improvements and expenditures as
well az q social program Tor the
season.