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The Ely miner., 1939-05-18

conferS with Albert Canning,
chief constable of Scotland Yard,
about guarding the British king and
ru queen on their
Sfeuth to Guard American of
British RovoIfv the ''Deadwood
Dick" tradition
which the British like to think is
typical of this country-a long, lean,
reserved, tight-lipped Kentuckian,
with sombrero, the guardian of
five Presidents, camera-eyed and a
crack pistol shot. He will be there
when their majesties 60 to the White
House, but he will not be conspicu-
Gus He merges with the scenery
like a chameleon.
He saved Clemenceau's life
during the Paris peace confer
ence. Guarding Woodrow Will
son, he rode in an automobile
Immediately behind the "Ti-
gers" car. He saw an assassin
level a gun. Shooting from the
hip in a lightning draw, he
cracked the killers wrist.
He is the one man the President
has to obey, an advance man who
interviews police, maitres d'hotel,
transportation officials and chefs,
even editing menus, and, on occa-
sion, speeches, if they indicate too
much of a tax on the Presidents
receptive energies.
At II, he was a deputy sheriff
of H0pkinsville, KY. As spe-
cial agent for the railroads, he
touched off his first national
headlines by trapping the "CaIi-
fornia Kid" desperate ma
rauder who had long eluded cap
ture. President Theodore Roose-
welt gave him special assign
ments which routed him into the
White House secret service de-
tail in 1913. In 1885, he be-
came head of the detail, which
congress had authorized after
assassination of President Nc
Kinley.
He is six feet tall, gaunt and Sc
IlOUS, SIdyhlS INV, tiC OCttCL W
fade into the crowd.
John r. STEELMAN, the govern
- ment's special mediator in the
Appalachian soft coal dispute, was
once a blanket stiff" riding the
Ex-Blanket Stiff rods. rods with tn the the
Boils DolDn Our from Arkansas
Labor Disputes to the western
wheat fields.
There, in the postwar boom days,
he earned So day and invested his
savings in a Henderson college A. B.,
a Vanderbilt M. A. and University
of North Carolina Ph. D. Heading
the government Cancellation service,
he smoothed out 4,231 labor dis
putes, involving 1913, 400 workers. in
the 1888 fiscal year. He was an
Arkansas farm boy, working the
southern logging camps. He is tall
and dark, and friendly and easy
going in manner.
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The Ely miner., 1939-05-18
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH ". LaBINE
Rome-Berlin Diplomatic Tactics
Designed to Speed New Munich;
France, Britain Lack Direction

NOTEWhen opinions these columns they
The Ely miner., 1939-05-18

too, approve every word OF advertising
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Burning, scanty or too frequent urinz-
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The Ely miner., 1939-05-18

Today's popularity
Of Dodn's Pills. after
many years of world
wide use. surely must
beacceptedss evidences
Of sosisfsct0rJ use
And favorable public
opinion supports that
of the able physicians
who test the value of
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The Ely miner., 1939-05-18

COL. EDWARD STARTLING, who
~ confers with Albert Canning,
chief constable of Scotland Yard,
about guarding the British king and
The Ely miner., 1939-05-18

Copyright. 1899.
Evening star., 1939-09-23
1076 1SSh Ct NV

2 rooms, bath tno kitchen). Switch
board and elevator service. Resi-
dent manager. (Tel. Dist. 1858
Met. 0945)
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1896 R STREET
1 and 8 rooms. kitchen, bath. Eec.
refg.
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1915 N STREET

4 rooms. kitchen and bath. Elec-
trio refrigeration. Res. Mgr. Ele-
vator. Switchboard service.
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AslA CONN. AYENuE

451] CONN. AVENUE
Living room. dining room, dinette,
screened or enclosed porch. bed
room, bath and kitchen.
Living room. dining room. dinette.
enclosed porch; 2 bedrooms l
and 2 baths and kitchen.
Res. Mgr. Elevator. Sec. Switch.
board. Refg. on house current.
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VALUES WORTH SEEING
1901 CALVERT ST. NV.

! room and bath (no kitchen).
2 and 3 rooms, kitchen, bath
and porch. Elec. refg. Resident
manager.
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2i27 P STREET
34O7 2ofh ST NV

3 and 8 rooms. din. alcove, kitch.
en- and bath. Electric refrisera-
ton. Resident manager.
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47ol CONN. AVENUE

Living room. dining room. porch. 2
bedrooms. bath and kitchen.
Refrigeration on house current.
switchboard.
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1850 ADAMS MILL ROAD
3 rooms. kit, bath, porch. Electric
refrigeration. Resident mana9er
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1878 RIGGS Pl. NV.

2 and 3 rooms. kitchen, dinette,
and bath. Res. mgr. Refg. on
house current.
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33l4 MT. PLEASANT STREET
room, kitchen. diuetts, bath,
Elec. refg. Res. Mgr.
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z222 QUE STREET

Entrance hall, living room. dining
room. 2 bedrooms with ! and Q
baths, kitchen and pantry.
Electric reffigeration. Res. Mgr.
Elevator. Building desi-ably 10.
Gated Just of Mass. Ave.
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$500 18th STREET

Furnished or Unfurnished.)
and 8 rooms. kitchen. bath and
porch. Refrigeration on house
current. Large enclosed porcnes;
garage, Resident manager.
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sEDGWlcK GARDENS
3726 Conn. Ave.

room. Murphy bed, bath. foyer.
enclosed porch (s.w. exposure).
rooms, bath. dinette. solarium.
kitchen ESQ. exposure). Garage.
Refg. on house current. Res.
Mgr. 24-hour elevator and switch
board service.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

tirement age last Roland NJ. Brennan.
fall by direction of President Roose-
welt. He holds the long-distance
service record for District officials,
having been in the municipal service
So years.
Mr.. Brennan, who lives at 1923
Varnum street NE, entered District
service in 1910 as a clerk in the
trees and parks division at a salary
of $720 year. He served successive
ly in the sewer division and the
water department and the executive
Offices. He was made chief clerk
of the engineer department in 1925
and 10 years later was promoted to
secretary to the Board of Com
missioners to succeed the late Daniel
E, Garges.
Mr.. Brennan was selected for the
purchasing officers post because OF
his knowledge of the detailed work.
ings of the various District Depart
ments, the Commissioners said. The
position carries a salary grade Of
from $4,000 to s5,400 a year.
Mr.. Hargrove, who lives at 260O
Thirty-siXth street NV, entered the
District service in June, 1887, as a
member of the field party service
of the Highway Department. He was
made purchasing officer in April,
1911, and has held the position %
years.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Murphy Says F. B. !.
Police Report Finds
Nothing Unfavorab|e'
Results Of Inquiry
Submitted; Findings
Not Made Public

Attorney General Murphy has on
his desk the report of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation on it's in
quiry in connection with the num-
bers racket here, but it is likely
nothing will be made public on it,
Mr.. Murphy said at his press con-
ference yesterday.
The investigation was completed
last Saturday, as Mr.. Murphy had
requested, because of all the confu-
sion it was causing. It had been
carried on for several weeks. Nu-
merous policemen had been ques-
toned by F. B. I. agents.
Mr.. Murphy took occasion again
yesterday to point out that the in
vestigation had revealed nothing
unfavorable to the Police Depart
ment. Since his press conference
a week ago, when he announced
he had asked the F. B. 1. to con-
clude its investigation, the promo
ton of IA police officers was ap-
proved by the District Commission
ers. The promotions had been held
up pending the outcome of the
Investigation.
Another investigation, concerned
with "a certain Police Court mat
ter" is just about completed, Mr..
Murphy said.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Woman Wins Her Initial Plea
To Be Allowed to Keep Ducks

The Commissioners granted a 30
day extension today to a hometown
er and taxpayer" who threatened to
dispose of her home unless she is
allowed to keep her two pet ducks.
Miss Frances Washington Weeks
of 1864 Eskridge Terrace NV. asked
the Commissioners to modify their
regulations in favor of her ducks, as
they had for the pet monkey of a
legless pencil vender and for pigeon
fanciers
The feathered pets have come
afoul of a regulation banning poultry
pens within 500 feet of public schools
in this case, the Francis Scott Key
School. The Commissioners granted
the reprieve while they study the
case further.
Previously, the city heads had
turned down Miss Weeks request for
an exception. Miss Weeks appealed
to Senators Pepper and Andrews and
Evening star., 1939-08-04
| Yuma Street
Is Blue, Workin'
Ion the Levee

Residents along Yuma street Sc,
angry over the Districts failure to
provide better drainage facilities for
their section, are preparing to lodge
another complaint with the Com
missioners tomorrow.
The Rev. George j. Cannon, of
ia Yuma street, pastor of the Wash
lngton Highland Baptist Church.
who last night pitched in with his
nelghbors to erect a makeshift leyee
against storm waters that have been
flooding their homes, said today he
planned to visit the District Building
again tomorrow to renew an appeal
for help.
For years, he said, the basement
OF houses on Yuma street have
been flooded by rainwaters coursing
dawn Xenia street and through a
sloping alley bisecting the block
bounded by Yuma, Xenia, First and
Second streets.
Although the area has been
promised a storm sewer, nothing
has been done to alleviate the un-
healthy condition, Mr. Cannon said.
Mr.. Cannon and other residents
built three-foot levee in the alley,
with earth and sandbags last night
while storm clouds were gathering,
but when the rains came, citizens
on xenia street complained the
water was backing up toward their
homes. Policemen forced the work
erS to tear down the dixie,
Evening star., 1939-08-04
GraveI|y Point Fill
a|fDone, Completion
By Year S End Seen
Work on Hangers and
Terminal Building May
Stort in 30 Days

With three huge dredges pumping
sand and gravel into Washington
National Airport at Gravelly Point
at rate of approximately $500
cubic yards an hour, the airport fill
today is half completed.
More than 7,750,0OO cubic yards of
fill already has been put in place
and, unless something unforeseen
develops, dredging operations should
be completed by the end of the
year, Col. R. S. Thomas, of the local
Army Engineer Office, reported yes
terday to Col. Sumpter Smith.
chairman of the Air Safety Board
OF the Civil Aeronautics Authority
and chairman of the Engineering
Commission on the airport project.
The total fill will amount to ap-
proximately 100000 cubic yards.
Filling operations were started in
February, but only one dredge was
in operation at that time. With
three dredges now operating "a
hours day-one of them the
"Gulfstream," largest and most
powerful dredge in the United
States-engineers expect the re-
mainder of the fill to be completed
in less time than the first half re-
Quired.
Civil Aeronautics officials also an
nounced that the job of constructing
the terminal building and hangers
will be started very soon, possibly
within the next 80 days.
BY next July the huge airport,
joint project participated in by P.
w. A., w. P. A., the Army Engineer
Corps and the c. A. A., is expected
to be ready for service.
The filling of one of the four main
runways is virtually complete. 1t
will be $500 feet long. Another
runway will be $500 feet long.
In all, miles of runway will be
built on the 750-acre air terminal
tract, located a mile down the
Potomac River from Washington
Hoover Airport.
In addition, approximately 1000
ACSV. VI edhlWdy Will NC pIUNlUcQ III
the $9,880,000 airport project. The
runways will be $50 to zoo feet
wide.
Unlike the present airport, the
finished surface of the Gravelly
Point field will be above flood stage
Of the river. The surface will be
1877 feet above sea level. The high
est point reached by a flood here
was 113 feet. This occurred during
tho March, 1885, flood.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

While his mother and other mem
bers of his family looked on, 8-year-
Did George Tarant yesterday ran from
between two parked cars near his
home, at 2917 Twelfth street NE.
police reported, and was run down
and fatally injured by a delivery
truck.
The accident occurred about 7
pm. as tn mother, Mrs. Beatrice
Tarant, and her other children. Will
liam, jr,, 10; Barbara, g.; Robert. 3,
and Elsie, l, sat on their front porch.
The child was given first aid by
D1. j. F. Harrington of 1928 Twelfth
street NE. and taken to Sibley Hos
pital.
George died at the hospital after
midnight of internal injuries, frac.
tured ribs and shoulder. The death
was the 50th traffic fatality on
Traffic Bureau records so far this
year, as compared with 56 this time
last year.
In addition to his mother, brothers
and sisters, George is survived bv
his father, William Tarant, a timer
The truck, police said, was operat-
ed by Mike Leon, As, of 102 Riggs
place Sc. An inquest will be held
later.
Armando di Gennarp, 10, of s27
G street S.W. suffered leg injuries
last night when hit by an automobile
at Fourteenth street and Independ-
ence avenue S.W. He was treated
at Emergency Hospital.
Police today we're looking for two
colored men who abandoned stolen
automobile last night after it
crashed into an electric light pole
and a parked automobile at Fiftieth
street and Sheriff road NE. The
parked car was virtually demolished.
Neighbors called an ambulance,
but the two men had disappeared
when it arrived.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Singing Butcher, First Song
Published, Looks to Success
Ambrose Sprinkle
On Way to Becoming
FuIl-Time Composer

Ambrose j. Sprinkle whistles a
merry tune these days as he serves
up meats to Bethesda housewives.
The 31-year-old butcher is on his
way to becoming full time COM
poser. Publication last week of his
song, waltz ballad, has given him
visions of retiring from the prosaic
life of cold cuts and shoulder of
lamb and getting down to serious
composing at his home, 5546 Wess-
ling lane, Bethesda.
Il want to write songs that will
be an asset in the field of music, y
said the quiet-spoken composer
publisher, land I don't mean swing
numbers, either. They pass with the
coming of a new week"
And he feels that he will make
go" Of composing, especially since
he has married the girl who gave
him the inspiration for his first
number, 20 Sleepy Moon" The
song was written before their mar
riage three years ago. Composer
Sprinkle hastened to explain that
copyright fees and other publica-
ton costs are rather steep. which
explains the delay in printing %
Sleepy Moon"
An accomplished guitarist, Mr..
Sprinkle does all his composing on
that instrument. After that it has
to be transposed to piano. He is
musical in other ways, too. For a
number Of years he has sung tenor
in the choir Of the Universalist Ma
tional Memorial Church.
If Mr.. Sprinkle can gain follow
ing as song writer as good as that
of the singing butcher" he is pretty
certain of success. He has a tune
for every customer, even if it's just
an order for soup bone. The boys
at the store are his most enthusiastic
Evening star., 1939-08-04

appointed by the
city heads pur-
chasing officer
effective Deem
ber /.
On that date
Marion C. Har-
grove, who has
been purchasing
officer for %
years, will be re-
tired. Mr.. Har-
grove, now IN
his list year,
was given an ex-
tension of Serv-
ice beyond re-
Evening star., 1939-08-04

Movieland's newest "oomph girl
cast big brown eyes on the Capital
today for the first time and found
herself mirrored in many other
pairs of eyes, some of them green.
For Susan Hayward has the sort
of personal magnetism that makes
her stand out like a gardenia in a
bed of dandelions, and naturally
forces her to become the object of
envious glances.
About feet 2 inches, slender,
my-complexioned and with lots
of auburn hair, she was trinity
dressed in tailored gray suit as
she stepped from an Eastern Air
liner at Washington Airport this
morning.
If she was worried about a
100000 breach of contract suit filed
against her by a beauty model
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Reconditioning Work
On T.. & 0. Canal Due
To Start in Month
Bunk on Potomac Side
To Be Reconstructed to
EnobIe Filling Waterway

The key construction job needed
to place the historic C. & o. Canal
in condition so it can be filled with
water from Seneca, Md, to Wash
ington will be started in about
month, it was learned today.
Bids for the reconditioning of
that bank of the canal nearest the
Potomac River at Whitewater be-
tween CropleS and Great Falls will
be opened August %, the National
Park Service said today. Engineers
said the contract would probably be
awarded within two weeks after
that date. The time allowance of
180 calendar days starts with recep-
ton Of the contract award.
The contract calls for the fur
nishing and placing of earth fills
and construction of concrete retain
ing walls, spillways, culvert, stone
walls, trestle and other work
The towpath bank of the canal at
Whitewater, which is roughly miles
above Cabin John, is in the worst
condition of any portion of the en-
tire waterway, Park Service engi-
neers said. This is because the por-
ton of the canal from Great Falls
to Whitewater, a distance of about
2 miles, was natural overflow
channel of the Potomac before the
original builders walled it off to form
part of the canal.
Floods Damaged Canal.
Originally. during flood stages,
water was diverted by natural rock
formations Immediately above the
falls, raced down this channel be-
hind Bear Island and tumbled back
into the main river channel. The
canal builders walled the channel
off with dikes as high as 20 to 80
feet at either end of the island and
controlled diversion of water into it
with small dam at Great Falls.
The great flood of 1889 damaged
this portion of the waterway but it
was afterward repaired The flood
of 1896, however, tore out the greater
part of these dikes. Thereafter it
was impossible to keep water in the
canal channel.
A total of II units. including
trestle over which the towpath is to
run, are listed in the specifications
Of the contract. Some come only
under alternate bids, however.
Engineers explained the idea be-
hind the construction job is to form
the retaining walls, dikes, cribbing,
earth fill and rip-rap so that it will
be easy for flood water to flow over
the top of it along a wide front car
rying away a few feet of easily re-
placed topping This will prevent
the flood waters from tearing deep
gashes in the canal banks.
c. c. C. to Do Much of Work.
With the exception of one or two
minor contract jobs further down
the canal the rest of the recondi-
tloning work on the old thorough
fare can be done by c. C. c. boys
and workmen hired directly for the
purpose by the ONCE of National
Parks.
c. c. c. boys now are busy clean
ing the canal bottom and repairing
the towpath while skilled workmen
Of the Office of National Capital
Parks are busy repairing the stone
work of the locks and making new
lock gates and accessories.
The contrsr<Afunds are to be paid
from $500, ,00 )hich was left over
for improvement work after $2,OO0,-
600 of the s2,500,000 P. w. A. funds
in hand were used for purchase of
the canal from the B. & o. Railroad.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

impresario in New York City, she
didn't show it.
Her press agent explained that it
was another of those cases where
person, who had a small part in
publicizing an actress before she got
started, tries to cash in when she
reaches stardom"
And Susan-here for a personal
appearance tonight at movie the
ater-apparently is on her way to
becoming a star, since she already
has played opposite Bob Burns in
Our Leading Citizen" and has the
feminine lead in Beau Geste."
While here, Susan will visit the
Capitol-but not to- kiss every SEN
ator, as Boston newspaper put it..
That, she says, was the idea of a
reporter who learned that Miss Hay
ward was only 20 and then recalled
that Senators kiss all the babies. y
Evening star., 1939-08-04

secretary-treasurer of the Mary
land-Virginia Milk Producers As
sociation, and as an example of
the potency of Midwestern milk,
mentioned the names of several
members from Midwestern States.
who, he said, were not reared on
milk from the local milkshed. Two
of these named weigh at least $50
pounds. And, in contrast, he COM
pared them with Representative
Smith, Democrat, of Virginia, a
member of the Producers Associa-
ton, who sponsored the resolution
which resulted in the milk investi-
cation. Mr.. Smith weighs less than
200 pounds.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

Representative Green, all of Florida,
who wrote asking the Commission
ers to consider what might be done
about the ducks.
There is nothing in your regu-
lations," Miss Weeks wrote the Com
missioners, ito prevent pigeons from
flying around school buildings and
causing them to be as unsanitary as
the outside of the District Building
for many years" miss Weeks prob
ably referred to the starlings)
But you object to my two pet
ducks that are in a wide inclosure-
under control-on my own property"
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Boy Killed by Truck
As Family Watches;
50th Fatality
Inquest to Be Held;
Youth, IS, Is Injured
When Hit by Car
7 Truffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending 8 am. today:
Fatalities, Child pedestrian).
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured, 4.
Motorists arrested, POT.
Pedestrians injured, 8.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, II.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

boosters They bought the hrst IL
copies of 20 Sleepy Moon"
If this first number clicks, I will
follow up with four other songs" he
stated. The next publication is a
fox trot ballad called THE Squeak
Of the Old Rocking Chair"
The sole song written thus far
that is not of popular appeal is a
ballad-ballads are his favorites-
dedicated to those who died in the
Olympian train wreck in Montana
in June of last year. Mr.. Sprinkle
knows the family of the Bethesda
youth, Randolph Perkins, who died
in the disaster.
Composer Sprinkle feels he's going
to miss the singing to the swinging
OF his meat cleaver when success
arrives. But it will be worth the
sacrifice if he can devote his entire
time to composing.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Haiti Official Leaves
After Short Visit

Dumarsais Estime, Minister of
Education and Agriculture in Haiti,
left Washington for New York to-
day after short visit. He mace
trips to the Agriculture and In
terror Departments, the Library of
Congress and the Government
Printing Office.
Minister Estime's journey to the
United States marks his first trip
away from the island on which Haiti
Is situated. He came to this country
primarily to attend the recent World
Poultry Congress in Cleveland.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Mrs. De Shuzo Transferred

Mrs. Katherine De Shazo, teacher
OF physical education in the Cleve-
land Park and Chevy Chase area
for the public schools, has been
transferred from Johns Hopkins in
Baltimore to the Washington Sana-
torium in Takoma Park, Md, where
she is recovering from a kidney op-
GRAFTON, it was learned today.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Band Concert

BY the United States Army Band
in the Army Band Auditorium at
1890 am. tomorrow. Capt. Thomas
F Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner,
assistant leader.
Program.
March, "Joyce's list New York
Regiment" ----------------Bo Boyer
Diorama, Scenes From the
Sierras'' --- Bennett
Quartet, Two Pairs of Slippers"
Putnam
Keig Garvin, Clarence Hurrel, RAN
dolph Walters and William
Vogelson, trombonists.
1dyll, Indian Summer" Herbert
Popular, Hot Pretzels,"
Glahe and Tinlm
Waltz. "The Blushing Bride"
Laurendeau
March. King Cotton" Sousa
THE Star spangled Banner"