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Evening star., 1939-03-02
Montgomery Court Crown
Junior Hiqhs' Goal

The fourth annual Montgomery
County junior high school basket
ball championships will be decided
tomorrow night at the Leland School
court in Bethesda.
Leland, defending champion; Ken
sington and Sherwood Junior Highs
and Landon School have entered
teams.
Drawings will be held tomorrow
morning for pairings for two games,
with winners meeting in the last
game of the evening for the title.
First game starts at 7:15 pm.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Sextets Play for Title

Sherwood and Georgetown A. C..
will play for the women's basket
ball championship of the Washing
ton Recreation League at 9 o'clock
tonight at Boiling Field. Sherwood
earned the chance to meet George
town by upsetting Hyattsville, 27-12
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Calls Old Basketers

All former members Of Company
F, Hyattsville National Guard, bas-
ket ball team from 1920 through 1899,
are requested to communicate with
Sergt. John w. Devlin either by mal
or 1T Hyattsville 232 between ana
II pm.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

Totals - 51242 Totals IL : ?!
Referee-M. Enright. Umpire-W. En-
right.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

over G. w. being the only game
either has lost at Tech.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

bunker In full uniform and for 8
minutes watched the enemy across
the river with field glasses but moth
ing happened.
Two German soldiers on duty told
me one Of their comrades had re-
ceived ham from home and that
he waved it at the French.
They said the Poilus called: wish
we had something like that"
Offered to Swap Fruit.
The soldiers said the French then
knocked some pears and apples OIL
trees on their side and made a ees-
ture that they were willing to swap
some fruit fox q piece OF the ham.
Sometimes, these German soldiers
said, the Frenchmen gave the Hit
Ter salute In fun, at other times
clenching their fists In the Com
munist greeting.
One stock phrase of theirs is
mix la guerre" (No war; and an
other is Nous voulons Ia paix" 1--WE
want peace).
On the river side Of the French
bunker opposite us I read in big
white letters in German: 1T is for
hidden to paste advertisements
here" Underneath was a cartoon
Of Hitler.
The German soldiers said that
one day the poilus called across to
them: HAS your Hermann Goering
Evening star., 1939-09-29

(field marshal and air minister)
become any thinner"
Such is the war in this sector Of
the West Wall.
The commanding general told
us the French fired q few desultory
shots from machine guns about once
q week but at no time In these 28
days have the Germans under his
command returned q single shot.
No artillery has been used by
either side in this Rhine sector.
Plenty Of Guns in Sight.
That the Germans have plenty of
artillery available was shown us to-
day. We inspected one artillery posi-
tion after another, beginning with
"heavy guns" then increasing in
size the farther we came away from
the frontier until the climax was
reached 20 miles from the border.
There We saw gigantic cannon
capable, we were told. Of catapulting
deadly loads for incredible distances.
II 1t was true that we saw at least
twice as many Notifications, pill
boxes, concrete and steel obstruc-
tions, barbed wire entanglements
and mines in the Saar region than
on the German-Belgian and Ger
man-Luxemburg frontiers. it equally
Is true that the Rhine valley again
Is doubly fortified, compared with
the Saar valley.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Big Guns of West Wall Silent
As Soldiers Trade PIeosontries
French Decline to Shoot at Germun Generals
Who CuImIy Observe Life on Other Side

this tour Of German Seigfried forti-
flcations, that the giant would be put
into action only in case the French
or English bombarded German
towns.
Soldiers Fish, Bask In Sun.
Standing on the right bank of the
upper Rhine I saw one French SOL
Gier leisurely fishing, another riding
away from his bunker on bicycle to
some point farther inland. Two other
Poilus were stretching themselves
out lazily in the warm, autumnal
sunshine.
They and other men on duty GER
tainly must have seen the general,
his adjutant, several colonies, lieu
tenant-colonels, captains and lieu
tenants guiding our party of six
journalists.
Yet they made no attempt to
shoot. In fact, the general said on
the previous day he stood atop his
Evening star., 1939-09-29

Here along the Rhine one en-
counters bunkers every so feet. Also,
we saw many devices in this section
Of the West Wall that we had not
observed anywhere else.
Canals Can Be Flooded.
For instance. there are deem ca
nails artificially constructed 30 as
to drown any tank or armored car
that might break through the Nazi
distractions and bunker turrets.
At certain point 3-inch wide
steel contraptions looking like the
ribs Of an ocean liner had been
planted into the scenery in such
way that tanks and armored cars
must run into them and turn a
complete somersault.
They were hidden so that an
approaching enemy coul6 not notice
them until 1t was too late.
The German Army considers the
Rhine valley to be the most inn
portant strategically Of all sections
Evening star., 1939-09-29
BY LOUIS P.LOCHNER,

0y LOUIS r. LOCHNER,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY ON
THE WESTERN FRONT, Sept. 2s.-
Yesterday afternoon I stood only
$50 yards away from a French bunk
er. yet no French soldier made the
slightest move to shoot q. me.
What is more, no French soldier
shot 1T the generals with broad red
coat lapels and red trouser stripes
standing next to me.
The Rhine River separated us as
I, standing next to a German bunker,
calmly observed life on the French
side.
A few hours later stood beside a
cannon Of greatest caliber" which,
I was told, can fire at an object
farther than anything hitherto
known to artillery.
But again was assured, as so
often In the past three days during
Evening star., 1939-09-29

OF Germany. Hence the fortidca.
tions here not only stud the banks
OF the Rhine, but extend far back
ward.
There isn't farm in the whole
Rhine valley that hasn't some hid
den bunker. observation stand CT
anti-aircraft stand.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

Many new villages have been built
In Greece in the last few years.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20
newspaper.

for the timid. When these ex-
tremists get their hands on the
neutrality bill, it is likely to show
signs of wear before they are
through. There is threat of fill
buster. In filibuster, the Senators
who oppose a bill talk until every
body else gets tired and goes home.
Then the bill is defeated.
There is one remedy for a fill
buster. It is known as the "Cloture
Rule. 1t limits each speaker to
one hour Of debate on the bill, but
can be invoked only by petition
signed by two-thirds of the mem
bers of the Senate. 1t is no easy
matter to get sixty-four Senators
to sign a petition to keep a fellow
Senator from talking. Every solon
knows that someday he may be
leading his own talkathon.
So that is the way it stands. II
Congress has not adjourned by the
time you read this, it may yet be
going strong when the Capitol
steps are white with snow and a
Christmas card salesman is lying
in ambush in every Congressman
outer office.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20
The authors Of merry Go Round,

The authors Of Merry Go Round,
a Washington gossip column which
not only can be wrong but fire.
quently is, quote Mr.. Roosevelt as
saying In response to point blank
inquiry as to how he felt about a
third term, I'm like a ball player
who has been pitching long time
I ought to have a rest"
We do not know whether or not
the President made the statement
attributed to him. But if.he didn't
he might very well have done so
with perfect propriety. And the
country would applaud such a
statement if he would make it
publicly. He has been in the
pitchers box long time now. At
times he has done amazingly well.
at other times he has shown a dis
position to be wild and to disregard
signals. At any rate. the time has
come when the country ought to
send in a new pitcher.
Mr.. Roosevelt "ought to have a
rest" We believe he Is going to get
one after January, 1941.-The
(Roanoke. Va Times. a Democatic
newspaper.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20
Principal Features of
Revised FHA Law

Principal features of the amand-
ed FILA statutes follow. (All
changes now are in effect with the
exception of Title ! dealing with
modernization and Improvement
loans, where the revisions become
effective July u:
l. Authorization for the Presi-
dent to increase to $4,000, ,O0O,OU0
the amount of outstanding mort
gage insurance obligations the FILA
may have at one time. The present
limitation is $3,OO0,000,00O and the
outstanding principal obligation at
this time is approximately $1,4O0,-
900 900. not including approximately
$4O0, 100000 in outstanding com
mitments to insure.
2. Continuation of the FHA' s
authority to insure mortgages on
existing construction until July l
1941. Homes financed with FHA-
insured mortgages will continue to
eligible for FILA financing in
definitely
3. Requirement that in the re-
financing of mortgages the apphc-
ant for insurance must file a certi
ficate that the mortgage holder has
refused to grant him equally favor
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20
ARIZONA IN
WASHINGTON
BY BOB MERKLEY

This IS the time of year when
everybody around the National
Capital, instead of saying "watcha
know?" or 'howya doing. ?" is ask
ing about the adjournment of Con.
gress. So | dropped in at Congress
man Murdock's office to see what
he knew about it.
ut depends on many things.
the Congressman explained. There
are several legislative matters still
unfinished. The greatest of these,
perhaps. is the neutrality bill. AS
you know, the House has already
passed a bill with a limited arms
embargo known as the Vorys Am
mendment. This bill, if passed by
the Senate. will stop the shipment
of guns and ammunition to any
warning nation. That will please
Hitler. and he is the one We want
least to please"
However" Mr.. Murdock said,
"if. we do away with all neutrality
legislation. we shall make VERT
able powderhouse out of our
country in the event of war be-
tween the European democracies
and the dictator nations. Our auto
mobile factories will be making
trucks and tanks. our shlpyardS
will turn out submarines and even
orr watch factories will yield to
the profit in time bombs and deli-
cate instruments of death. Though
We may keep out of the actuai
fighting. our country will bear IN
this war an even greater burden
of expense than it did in the last
7 want some assurance that there
will be no unreasonable profit in
the manufacturing of munitions.
That will help to keep us from
turning our nation into an arsenal.
The Congressman said the bill,
as passed by the House, Is likely
tn meet with trouble when it is
presented to the Senate.
There are Senators who are
violently opposed to anything like
neutrality laws, and there are
those who think that by the proper
legislation we can pull in our sails
and lie in a quiet port until the
stormy Atlantic is once more safe
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20

SURE you can drive home alright Don't let 'em feed
you any of that bunk about letting somebody else take
the wheel Any time old Pete stand on his two feet
he can drive an automobile. drunk sober WhatSh a
few drinks between friends anyway You show 'em who's
going to drive.
Pile em into the That sweet little wife of yours,
who's such swell kid if she does nag you about
driving when you're drunk And that funny couple with
you who want take taxicab home. Imagne Wanting
to take cab Pile em in Step the gas. Whoopee Go
places.
Brother, you're not the big shot you think you are
You're just fuzzybraned, quored-up obstinate ass
with about as much right to drive automobile on the
public highway as a monkey from the zoo would have
won't appeal your reason because it's obvious that
you haven't any won't appeal to your emotions be-
cause they're picked
only hope you'll start to drive home night alone,
when you've one too many under your belt Then hope
some little emergency will arise which your added brain
and fumblng hands won't enable you to meet hope
you'll have encounter with tree telephone pole
that will land you police cell and your junk
heap you sober up hope the baseness of your con-
tinued offenseS against society will be borne in upon
you with sickenng clarity hope the newspaper head
lines will scream out to all your relatives and friends
and business acquantances: PROMINENT LOCAL
MAN GETS DRUNK AND LANDS IN JAIL.
Yes hope an Al-Wise Providence will arrange this
little lesson for YOU And before you kill somebody
q you surely will you continue to drive when you are
trunk.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20

large scale rental housing projects
to be insured under Section 2O7, a
limitation is added to the effect
that no such mortgage shall ex-
ceed the amount which the ad-
ministrator estimates will be the
cost of the completed physical i'm
provements, exclusive of the follow
ing: Public utilities and streets;
taxes, interest and insurance dur
ing construction; organization and
legal expenses, and miscellaneous
charges during or incidental to con-
struction. The maximum interest
rate on such mortgages is fixed at
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20

able terms.
Extension indefinitely of the
aut ority of the FHA to insure
MOI cages on small new homes in
voly .ng loans of not more than So
400 5or terms UP to 25 years. Under
the old bill the maximum maturity
of IS years reverted to 20 years,
as of July 1.
5. Authorization to continue in
sur nee of lending institutions
against loss on property improve
inert loans up to $2,500 each, with
new provision empowering the
administrator to charge an insur-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20

ance premium not in excess of q
per cent to offset a portion OF
operating expenses and losses. The
maximum maturity is fixed at three
years and 80 days, except with re-
spect to loans which are made for
the purpose Of financing the con-
struction of new structures for use
in whole or in part for residential
or agricultural purposes.
6. Establishment of a prevailing
veg scale to be determined by the
Secretary of Labor on large-scale
projects. (SectiOn 207.)
Z. With respect to mortgages on
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20


Az per centum of the outstanC ing
principal.
s. The establishment of natio nal
mortgage assC Citations under ! tie
III Is placed Under the control OF
the administrator by providing that
the need for such association as
determined by him shall be coQdf'
ton precedent to their establish
ment. The territory in which such
associations may operate is ex-
tended to include Alaska, Hawaii
and Puerto Rico, in addition to The
various states and the District of
Columbia.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20
State Dairy Dept.
Rulings on Label
ing Milk Products

All establishments selling or
serving Frozen Milk are required
by law to display a sign, stating
Frozen Milk Sold Here" This
sign must be in plain view of, and
at an easily readable distance from
the counter to be served with such
product. Also, all establishments
serving matted milk must prepare
and use the individual bottle OF
milk for these malts as the law
REQUIRES that it should be done.
Quoting from Senate Bill No. "a,
Section 10. mo restaurant, hotel
lunch counter, boarding house
cafe. soda fountain. school or
hospital shall serve milk or butter
milk other than in such original
container, except that such con-
tainer may be opened and emptied
in the presence of the ultimate
consumer thereof"
1. Market Milk. Name and ad-
dress of the dairy or distributor
and the wording Raw Market
Milk"
2. Grade "A" Ray Milk. Name
and adress of dairy or distributor
and the wording "Grade "a" Raw
Milk"
|. 8. Grade "a" Pasteurized Milk.
Name and address of dairy or dis
tributor and the wording Grade
"a" Pasteurized Milk.
4. Grade "A' Pasteirized Milk,
Homogenized. Name and address or
dairy or distributor and Grade
"a" Pasteurized Milk, Homogeniz-
ed.'
5. If only a portion of the milk
or cream has been homogenized,
then the label must read: Name
and address of dairy or distributor
and "Grade GA" Pasteurized Milk,
Partially Homogenized." For ex-
ample: johnson Dairy, Bedford
Indiana, Raw Market Milk or.
johnson Creamery, Bedford, In
diana, "Grade "a" Pasteurized
Milk. Partially Homogenzied.'
6. Chocolate Milk Chocolate
milk is defined as whole or ADJUST
ed or SKINNED milk to which has
been added in a sanitary manner
a chocolate syrup composed OF
wholesome ingredients, and which
is labled with the grade of milk OF
milk products from which it is
made. If chocolate milk contains
less than three and one-quartel
per cent (3A per cent? milk fat
the label shall indicate the pei
centage of milk fat which the milk
has been adjusted"
The word market the woro
raw" the word "pasteurized," and
the word "hamogenized" and the
words partially homogenized" mus'
be in type, the letters not less
than 1s inch tall and not less thar
1/16 inches wide, and be plain and
easily readable.
A glass milk bottle will be cor
sidered properly labeled only wher
the cap theron bears such informa
ton as herein required, and when
double capped, the top cap shall
bear such required information. A
paper or composition milk bottle
may have such information printed
thereon, or on the cap thereof. ANY
dairy product displaying upon the
label thereof or by reference
placard or advertisement, any
symbol, letter, figure, word, OF
combination thereof, indicating OF
suggesting that such product is oil
a grade, class, quality or composl
ton other than it's true grade, class
quality, or composition, or thai
shall no have been labeled as here
| in ronnirad for such iS miShranded
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20

NEW YORK-A clearing house
for lost children under the super
vision of Is young police women
has been established at the New
York Worlds Fair
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-07-20

NEW YORK-The hot dog is
still the hot dog at the New York
Worlds Fair. 1t is sold at 50
stands on the Fair grounds and ii
still cost a dime.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-09-07
EAST MAY TEST HATCH ACT

Registrations for town elections total 1876 the
Town Clerks office announced Saturday. Only eight
candidates had filed for the positions the Town
Council the COoPERAToR went to press Monday
night. Short mite-ups all the candidates will
be publ shed in next weeks paper.
A surprise to Greebelt's Town Council cleo
tions Labor Day weekend with the announcement that
Councilman Sherrod East, who Last year received
the largest popular vote, again candidate.
It is believed by that this development was
not anticipated by Mr.. East, his petition for
candidacy having been filed by John P Murray, a
close friend and supporter. The spectacular angle
Of this move lies in the fact that Mr.. East is a
civil service employee and subject to the restric-
tions which the Civil Service Commission has es-
tablished since the passage of the Hatch Act.
It is quite possible from present indications
that Mr.. East's friends to test the legality
of the Hatch Act it is currently applied to
government workers.. However, the CooPERATR
goes press it is not definitely known whether
not East will accept the nomination. That should
be known by tonight or tomorrow. At any rate the
present made in Mr.. East's behalf by his sup
porters is believed to be the first of its kind
to question the legality of the Civil Service Com
mis- sion's interpretations of the Hatch Act.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-09-07
Local Voters Protest
Hatch Bill Application


met Tuesday, August q and began circulation of
petition asking the U. S. Attorney General for a
ruling in regard to the coming town elections.
About IS residents attended the hastily-called
meeting to hear Walter Herwagen urge that active
stand be taken towards securing the right to hold
office and parti cipate in political campaig s of
purely local nature. Discussion from the floor
brought out several technical points which
holly debated by tho in attendance.
Mr.. bierwagen, opening the session, said, nThe
elections of the town of Greenbelt are of a non
partisan nature, and it purpose and decision
to respect that very ADM rab1e condition. Yet, with
the enactment Of the Hatch Act, crisis appeared in
political life, as well in many other oomnni
ties in the Washington There need of
immediate action,yet there seemed to be effective
or concrete result. Those that had the problem in
their hands bro ght forward ruling opinion ap-
Pile able to non-parti ele ctions such ours.
And the election date was ever drawing nearer. Tt
was necessary to bring about public demons tion
Of this kind to emphasize the need for to
strike home to tho authori ties that Ching
the problem the concensus Of opinion of those peo-
pie whom the Hatch Bill most vitality affecting"
"here", he continued, "under the Immediately
available interpretations and gu ides less than 20
per cent Of the residents-the non-goverment work
ers-are eligible to seek to hold office. It is
manifest opinion that this restric tion is in
fringement upon franchi Sc; and any such in
firing nent is transgression upon our civil 1iber
tles-liberties that were guaranteed to US by the
BILL Of Rights incorporated into Ameri can Con-
sti tution.n
It pointed out that many government workers
living here afraid to protest against the
recent Civil Service ruling for fear of losing their
jobs and being subjected to other penalties. Mr..
Herwagen asserted that this tituted the worst
dmger-this loss of freedom Of speech.
To date about 300 Greenbel tiers have signed the
following petition:
To the Attorney Gene raj Frank j. Murphy:
We, the wdersi ged, citizens Of the town of
Greenbelt, Prince Georges County, Maryland, respect
fully petition the Attorney-General to render a
ruling concerning the eligibility for election to
the Town Council Of Greenbelt, Maryland Of employees
Of the Federal Government, including those under the
Civil Service.
The undersigned feel that the Hatch Act, designed
to "prohibit pernicious poll cal activitiesn should
not apply to the strictly PARTISAN town elections
of Greabelt, and particularly should not apply in
mum CT pa1ity in which approximately 8o% Of the
ployed citizens are employed by the Federal Govern
meut. ne feel that the interpre tatiUs Of the Hatch
Act given by the Civil Service Comm in the
civil liberties and franchise Of the great ma jority.
Ill ha
Evening star., 1939-02-15
In Mrntnriattt

HUGHES. GEORGE R. In sad but low
GEORGE r HUGHES. who died one year
ago today. February 15. 1888.
He suffered hours yes. hours Of pain
To wait for cure. but all in vain;
Till God alone knew what was best
And called him home to give him rest.
HIS LOVING SISTER. MRS. ANNIE M.
DAVIS.
-sCHAFER. CONRAD. In sad but loving
ther. CONRAD sCHAFER- who departed
this life thirty-two years ago today. Feb
"A' SON CHARLES. AND FAMILY.
SMITH. LOUISA. tribute of love and
devotion to the memory Of my mother. Mrs.
LOUISA SMITH. who passed away seven
years ago today February 15. 1882.
DAUGHTER, EDNA SMITH TILGHMAN. .
SPARROW. MATTE AND BASIL. In
loving memory Of our dear mother, MAT
TIE SPARROW. who passed away sixteen
years ago today. February ID, 1923. and
our devoted father BASIL SPARROW who
entered into eternal rest eight years ago.
January 30 1881.
Leaving us in sadness they went away,
First mother. then daddy. were gone to
stay;
Yet memories linger through the years
OF ones who are gone that We loved so dear.
Faithful and honest in all their ways.
Devoted and true to the end of their days:
Loving and gentle. patient and kind.
What a beautiful memory they left behind
THEIR LOVING CHILDREN