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Evening star., 1939-10-12
Latin American
Goodwill Delegates
On Air Tonight
Women Will Bid
ForeweIl to Capital
In Nationwide Hookup

Latin Americas five goodwill del
egstes will speak to their native
lands tonight after broadcasting
their farewell to Washington.
The delegation. whose tour of 40
American cities is sponsored by the
Peoples Mandate Committee, will
broadcast over a Nationwide hook
up of the National Broadcasting Co.
at 6:15 pm. With them will be AS
sistant Secretary of State Adolph A.
Berle, jr., who will wish the five
young women bon voyage" on their
six-week jaunt across the country.
Program in Spanish.
Immediately after the broadcast,
the program will be repeated in
Spanish and carried over short
wave circuit to Latin America.
Highlight of the delegates last
day in Washington was to be the tea
at the White House with Mrs.
Roosevelt. Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife
of the Secretary of State, was to re-
ceive the guests with Mrs. Roosevelt.
Miss Mabel Vernon, director of
the Peoples Mandate Committee;
Mrs. Gerard Swope of New York,
national vice chairman; Miss Louise
Watson of New York, treasurer, and
Miss Mary Winslow, United States
representative on the Inter-Ameri-
can Commission of Women, were to
accompany the delegates to the
White House.
Other events scheduled for the
delegates today were visit to
Trinity College, a tour of Catholic
University, a luncheon at the Inter-
American Center of George WASH
ington University as guests of Dr.
George Rowland Cox and meetings
with DR.. Leo S. Rowe at the PAN
American Union and Secretary Per-
kins at the Labor Department.
Reception Planned.
Late in the afternoon the dele
gates were to be received by the
Undersecretary of State and Mrs.
Sumner Welles if they return in
time from the recent conference of
American republics in Panama.
The five young women, who spent
yesterday in Baltimore, will leave
Union Station at 1926 o'clock to-
night on the special car in which
they will tour the country. Their
next stop will be Durham, N. c.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Father Brosnun FeIicituted
On His Diamond Jubilee

He hunts them with q camera. For
many years he has given illustrated
lectures throughout the country
using his own slides. He was said
to have been pioneer in the de-
velopment of colored slides Of flowers
and plants and for many years
served as official photographer for
Georgetown and other Jesuit insti-
tutions.
Among the best known of Father
Brosnan's picture slides are those
he made to illustrate a lecture on
Dante's Inferno" and of the famous
madonas throughout the world.
Father Brosnan taught at the Hill
top for many years before and after
he joined the faculty at Woodstock,
which is now the theological semi
nary afaliated with Georgetown
University. AS a skilled scientist,
he planned the laboratories at Wer-
nersville, Pa, and several other
Jesuit novitiates in the East One
of his valuable collections of pictures
Is a Photographic record of the de-
velopment of Georgetown University
over a half century.
Evening star., 1939-10-12

said, lis witnessing the growing
dominance Of organized forces that
seek the destruction of those social
institutions and agencies that have
safeguarded and encouraged the
spread Of the evangelical faith"
DR.. Weaver made plea for re-
newed emphasis on religious liberty
ito battle what seems to be ex-
tinction of this inalienable right
throughout all lands" He referred
to the relationships and their rapid
spread and commented that mo
one of these modern Caesars is
favorable to our evangelical faith"
The IS delegates, representing %
Baptist churches in the District and
vicinity, were to hear reports of va
rious boards this afternoon Sched-
uled to speak on the program were
David Linden, director of non
resident service of the Board of
Public Welfare; the Rev. John l..
Nixon, director of social welfare in
the Washington Federation Of
Churches; John r. Pinkett, member
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Evangelism Facing
Crisis, Dr.. Weaver
Tells Baptists
Growth Of Forces
Opposed to Faith
Is Stressed

Evangelical christianity is facing
the most serious crisis in all history,
DR.. Rufus w. Weaver, executive
secretary of the District Of Colum-
bia Baptist Convention, today as
serted before the 11th annual ses-
sion of the Baptist convention o:
the District at the Mount Carmel
Baptist Church.
The civilized world" DR.. Weaver
Evening star., 1939-10-12

of the Executive Committee Of the
local Community Chest, and the
Rev. A. Joseph Edwards, pastor of
the Zion Baptist Church.
Memorial services also were to
take place this afternoon under the
direction of the Rev. DR.. Walter H.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Fox Chase in Town

ANDOVER, Mass, Oct. IL Ps-
The citizens of this town are still
. little breathless about it.
A red fox dashed down a quiet
residential street yesterday, pursued
by pack of baying hounds.
No one knows just how it came
out.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Actress Gets First Papers

LOS ANGELES, Oct. IL P.-Isa
Mirandi, described as Mussolinys
favorite actress upon her arrival in
Hollywood, obtained her first Amer
lean citizenship papers yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-10-12

Brooks, for 81 years pastor Of the
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.
The four-day convention Is to end
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1939-10-12

A pigeon built nest and reared
a family on the books under Shake
speare's arm on a statue in London.
Evening star., 1939-10-12

Makers Of high quality steel In
France are operating at capacity.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
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device, but after all there are other
houses where they can ride the
range-until trap primer is finally
installed.
X X *
Did you ever stop to think of all
the heat which goes out the wrong
side OF all the radiators in your
house? Unless your house is well
insulated you can well imagine how
much heat Is lost between the back
side of those radiators and the
house wall. OF course, quite a lot
OF 1t goes to warm up the wall you
Will say, and correctly, but never
theless large amount keeps on
going until it reaches the open air.
Radiators, as you all know by now,
give of their heat in the farm of
radiant energy, and unless some
thing Is done to direct the rays
back into the room, your radiators
are doing only a part-time job. It's
just like a light with and without a
reflector behind it. Light rays oper-
ate much like heat waves in this
respect and obviously give off much
more light with shiny backing-up
surface than they do against dark
background
You can get aluminium ref1ectors
now to put in back of radiators
which will eliminate this foolish
waste and send the heat out into
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Permits
Continued From First Page)

dwellings, 1925, 1929 and 1893 Fort
drive NV; to cost $4,000.
Federal Services Finance Corp,
7l8 Jackson place NV. owners; E.
Burton Corning. architect; Warren
Spencer, Inc, 1850 Jonquil street
NV, builders: to erect additional
brick and concrete and stone story,
718 Jackson place NV; to cost S18,-
$50.
Carl Iver Johnson, 3037 Ordway
street NV, owner, designer and
builder; to erect three 2-story brick
and cinder block dwellings. 5431,
5435 and 550l Broad Branch road
NV: to cost $4,000
Pichler-R Richmond Construction
Co.. 1920 K street NV, owners and
builders; William Crusemire, de-
signer; to erect two 2la-story brick
and cinder block dwellings, 1907 1909
Northampton street NV; to cost
$1,000
Hyman Chester. 1870 Seventeenth
street Sc, owner Earl Won Reich
enbach. designer; builder not Sc
lected; to erect one 2story brick and
cinder block store and apartment,
3706 Nichols avenue Sc; to cost
$1,000.
Colonial Construction Co., Inc,
1927 I street NV, owners and
builders: D. Johannes, jr., designer;
to erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block four-family fiat, 3436 Texas
avenue Sc; to cost $4,000.
H. Franklin Kreuzberg, owner; G.
Arthur Brodie, designer; Walter
Dawson, 1909 Morrison street NV,
builder; to erect one 2-story brick
dwelling and Office, 1000 Myrtle
street NV; to cost $4,000.
Joseph Rosen, $500 Fourteenth
street NV, owner, designer and
builder; to erect one 2-story brick
and cirder block dwelling, GALS Lu-
zcI avenue NV; to cost $4,000.
Washington American League
Base Ball Club, owners; Thomas w.
Marshall, designer; George A. Fuller
Co., Munsey Building, builders; to
make alterations and repairs, 2O15
Georgia avenue NV; to cost $4,000
Dr.. Charles P. Ryland, 4901 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV, owner; Ed
mund w. Dreyfuss, designer: Robert
A. Grahame Co., 1924 K street NV,
builder; to erect one 2-story brick
dwelling, 44l0 Forty-ninth street
NV: to cost $1,000
Jacob Zarin Realty Co., 1888 Fiji
teenth street NV. owners and
builders; George T. Santmyers, ar
chitect; to erect one 2-story brick
and cinder block and frame dwell
ing, 6504 Thirty first street NV;
to cost $1,000.
Delaware Realty Co., Inc, 5651a
Fifteenth street Sc, owners and
builders; John R. Cadle, designer;
to erect three 2-story brick and
Evening star., 1939-02-04

the room where it belongs. Because
of their lightweight. clean
characteristics, they should prove to
be just the thing you have been
looking for to give the old heating
plant a boost.
These handy dandies are very
easy to install, also, and should re-
tain their high reflective powers for
a considerable length Of time with
out your having to bother with
them. They will not corrode easily,
and the bright surface might also
add pleasant decorative touch to
the dark wall in back of the grim
looking radiators.
If you want to test this idea, don t
take our word for it, but get piece
of the material. First feel the wall
after the radiator has been gently
warming it for a time, then place
the piece of foil in back of it and
see how little heat gets through.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS.


Sewer gas and vermin are not
pleasant subjects of conversation,
but every now and then even the
best of families Is confronted with
either one or the other. In fact, to
safeguard the health of yourself
and your family you should imme-
diately investigate the source of
these Affections If and when they
occur.
In many cases you will find that
both the gas and animal visitors
come from little = used drains in
easements and garages, and get up
into the house because the water
seal has had a chance to evaporate.
The obvious answer is to keep the
water seal closed at all times, but
this Is not as easy as it sounds.
Hence, something must be installed
which will fill the trap automatic
ally without your having to slosh
water across the cellar floor.
A little primer Is now being used
by smart modernizers which auto
matically fills the trap when you
run the cold water in a supply line
nearest the drain. This little de-
vice is made of non-rusting metals
and every time some one runs some
water into sink or lavatory it will
permit water to flow into the Of
Tending drain. The valve which
controls this handy operation is not
actuated by springs or anything
which would tend to get out of Or
der, but utilizes a vane arrange
ment that should have a long and
uneventful life.
The trap primer is equipped with
syphon preventer, and is self
cleaning so that you should be able
to install one inexpensively in a
handy supply line, pipe 1t up to the
water seal and forget it. The ver-
min that formerly sailed up the
sewer with little or nothing to pre-
vent them taking over your entire
house will probably resent this little
Evening star., 1939-02-04
cinder block dwellings,, 1748-1750-
1852 w street Sc; to cost $4,000.

cinder block dwellings,, 1748-1750-
1852 w street Sc; to cost $4,000,
total.
Young Mems Shop, Inc, 1919 F.
street NV, owners; L. C. Mayors
designer; NJ Cladny Construction
Co., 635 F street NV. builders; to
make alterations 1919 F. street NV;
to cost $4,000.
The Homer L. Kilt Co. 1880 G.
street NV, owners: Donald S. john
son. architect; to make alterations,
1880 G. street NV; to cost $4,5GO.
Clyde L. Fowler. 1884 Otis street
NE. owner, designer and builder; to
erect one 2-story brick veneer and
tile dwelling, 1906 Otis street NE;
to cost S4,5O0.
j. P. Scott, 124S Ninth street NV,
lessee; A. S. J. Atkinson, architect;
Charles c. Kennon, Inc, 814
Eighteenth street NV. builders; to
erect one 1-story brick addition.
1248 Ninth street NV; to cost
$1,000.
Stanley Co. of America, Inc, 702
Earle Building, owners; Beacon Sign
Co, 81 N street NV, builders; re-
place present marquise, sol Thir-
teenth street NV: to cost $1,000.
Stephen Chaconas, owner and
builder; L. w. Giles, architect; re-
pair fire damages, 807-8O9 H street
NE; to cost s1,500.
F. L. Belin. 1923 Twenty-eighth
street NV, owner; to erect retaining
wall, 1911 Twenty-eighth street
NV: to cost $500.
Armand A. Lambert, 221 Sheridan
street NV. owner; National
Weatherproofers, Takoma Park
Md, builders; to make repairs 22l
Sheridan street NV; to cost 5000.
Joseph H. Milans, 1405 G street
NV, owner; julius Wenig, archi-
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Star Staff Photo.

tect; Louis Kaplan. 1511-1513 H
street NV, builder: to erect one g.
story brick addition, 14l3 H street
NV: to cost $500.
Cannon Shoe Co., owners and
builders; to make repairs, 1l48
Seventh street NV; to cost 5000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman Chester,
1870 Seventeenth street Sc. owners; !;
to make repairs, 3704 Nichols avenue
Sc. to cost $500.
Carl liver Johnson, 3037 OrdWay
street NV, owner and builder; to
erect three brick and tile garages,
5431, 5435 and 550l Broad Branch
road NV; to cost $3.50.
H. kaufman, 705 H street NV,
owner; Lloyd C. Mayors, designer;
Victor Esenstad, 627 Massachusetts,
avenue NV, builder; to make
alterations. 705 H street NV; to
cost 5000.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Work to Sturt on Stores

Construction is expected to be
started shortly on the proposed
s25o,000 theater and shopping CEN
ter to be erected at Glebe road and
Randolph street. adjoining Buck
ingham community in Arlington
County. Glebe Parking Stores, Inc,
are sponsors of the project, while
the c. H. Hillegeist Co. will handle
ropto1c
Evening star., 1939-02-04
The Brides Room

The bedroom of New York bride
is smartly decorated, with walls
painted gray-white and ceiling yell
low. A black carpet covers the floor
and draperies of yellow chintz in
close glass curtains of cream color
net.
Evening star., 1939-02-04

If you aren't convinced then, we
give up, and hope you continue to
enjoy heating up the great outdoors
for the benefit of your nelgnbors.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-03-30
TOURING RACKET WATCHED BY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCERS
Operators Get Millions of Dollars and Leave
Trail of Sufferers From Use of
Wildcat Motor Cars.

in Washington to transfer the passen-
ger to a car bound South The St.
Louis broker will assure the passenger
that he will not have any waiting to
do at the Nations Capital.
When the passenger gets to Wash
ington the broker here asks for his
usual 81 deposit, although the passen-
ger has supposedly paid his full fare
to Atlanta. The Washington broker
promises to return the So deposit, but
it always turns out that the deposit
is used up in finding car. 1t may
take two days before car comes
through Washington bound for Geor-
gia and, in the meantime, the passenger
attempting to travel cheaply must sleep
and eat.
There are cases on record when
riders in wildcat cars have been obliged
to pay for motor or tire repairs on a
trip because the driver was without
| funds.
The wildcat always stops at town
ahead and asks the broker to arrange
another trip for him. Sometimes he
picks up new load and proceeds on,
driving with very little sleep, a prac-
tice responsible for many accidents.
Watching activities at a travel btu
reau for one day reveals the tremen-
dous profit the broker enjoys, Mr..
Higgs declares. In the course of "a
hours he sends out at least 80 cars
with four and five passengers in each
sometimes more. Since each passen-
ger pays the broker about 81 for the
service the broker averages about $3.50
a day, out of which he pays only for
telephone, electricity and rent
The broker, until this racket was
exposed, advertised his cheap-rate,
share-the-expense plan in newspapers.
But today most newspapers will not
accept such advertisements.
The EVeni1tg Star, Washington, D. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-03-30

Nitrogen fertilizer is one form
of plant food which largely in
fluences an apple tree in making
its new growth, in the develop
ment of fruit buds, and in the
setting and maturity of the fruit,
the horticulturist said. At this
time of the year, or a short
time before the trees bloom, is
when many of North Cardinals
apple growers fertilize the trees
with commercial nitrogen in the
form of nitrate of soda.
The amount required is Deepen
dent upon the size of the tree
and the rate of terminal growth,
Niswonger advised. He said a
good guide to follow in deter
mining the amount is: One pound
of nitrate of soda for every one
half inch of trunk diameter; for
example, if the trunk is six inch
es in diameter, three pounds of
nitrate of soda is usually suffi-
cient if a permanent cover crop
of grass or clover is used in soil
management. If the orchard soil
is of @0od fertility and the land
is clean cultivated during most
of the growing season, it may be
advisable to use a lesser amount.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-03-30
By ]. W. Carter.

Rave you ever noticed an adver-
tiSement offering to share expenses"
on an auto trip to California and been
tempted?
Many such advertisements are part
OF a travel bureau racket that has
been plundering our less prosperous
citizens for the past few years and
which law enforcement bodies from
the Federal Bureau of Investigation on
down intend to wipe out.
Wildcat is the word for these fy-by-
night racketeers who have robbed,
crippled and killed hundreds of per-
sons IN their unlicensed and uninsured
cars. Less tragic, but decidedly irri-
tatlng, is their frequent abandonment
OF passengers at stops after the fare
has been paid.
The dispatcher of wildcat auto trans
portation offers the public safe, "
cheap" and comfortable" transporta-
ton in new sedanS" on a ''share-the-
expense" basis that has been widely
advertised and operates from bureaus
all over the United States. In front
of each bureau are signs listing i'm
portant cities and prices. Rates are
about l cent a mile-cheaper than bus
or train fares.
The racket has been billling the
public of millions of dollars annually,
it was said by Arthur G. Higgs, attor-
ney in the Section of Law and En-
forcement of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, in a recent interview
Mr.. Higgs acted as witness at prescott
tions at Denver, Colo, last May IN
which 81 wildcat operators were in
dicted for violating the Motor Carriers
Act and % convicted. Up until that
time wildcat operators had felt safe
from the law
But not long after the Denver con-
victions the travel trade resumed work
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-03-30
March Issue Of
Presbyterian Is
Issued This Week
DIR. ]. H. Carter to Return to
County in July. Big Ridge
Invites Presbytery.

The spring quarterly issue Of
THE ASHE PRESBYTERIAN is
being mailed this week to the pa
per's large list Of subscribers.
This issue carries a schedule OF
the Christian Chautauquas for
the ensuing season, full informa-
tion about Easter services to be
held in various Presbyterian
churches in Ashe county and a
number of other interesting news
items about different church &C
Invites.
DR.. J. H. Carter, founder of
the Christian Chautauqua move
ment in the county, is going to
return to Ashe in July and con-
duct the Chautauqua at Jeffer-
son, it is announced. Several
other outstanding Presbyterian
ministers are scheduled for this
spring and summer.
Invite Presbytery in July
The officers and Auxiliary of
the Big Ridge Presbyterian
church are inviting Presbytery to
hold the State July meeting
with them and at that time to
dedicate the new church build
ing, the paper states.
The April meeting of the Pres
bytery will be held at the Col
linstown Presbyterian church in
Stokes county on April 18th, and
the Presbyterial will meet in
Winston-Salem on April Is and
10, it was announced.
At the April meeting the
Presbytery will make it's deci-
sion with regard to the petition
that was presented last July by
35 people, petitioning that they
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-03-30
After They Have Been Plundered
and Otherwise DAMAGED.

on an even larger scale. AS fast as the
Government closed one bureau its op-
orator opened for business at another
address. So far Mr.. Higgs and his
agents have closed three bureaus in
Chicago, one in Oklahoma and II in
Denver. Gradually they are working
their way eastward according to MIR.
Higgs, leaving law enforcement agents
in every important city. There seems
little chance that these "panders," as
Mr.. Higgs terms them, can indefinitely
defy Uncle Sam. They are, he declares,
doomed.
The careers of these men started
with the wholesale improvements of
roads all over the United States in
the last few years. Excellent high
WAYS made speed and, therefore, profits
possible.
Most of the wildcat drivers, he says,
are former convictS and often transfer
wanted criminals across state lines in
the same cars with innocent passengers,
endangering their safety with the pos
sibiIities of police pursuit.
The travel bureaus" are found
mostly in second-rate hotels, small
rooms and apartments furnished spar
ingly with road maps, chairs, a tclc-
phone and agency address cards-a
simple set-up that enables the bureau
chief to depart at a moments notice, II
government or local authorities get
on his trail, leaving nothing OF value
behind.
Usually the bureau is near a bus
station, where the wildcat broker
spots travellers with rundown heels
and luggage. The pander approaches
the likely looking prospect and asks
him his destination.
If he is bound, say, from Kansas
City to San Francisco, the wildcat
will offer to take him there in new
car, cheaper and faster than by bus.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-03-30

The prospect, probably going on a
short vacation, with very little money,
often likes the proposition.
Upon acceptance the passenger is
taken to the bureau headquarters,
where he deposits 81 for the broker,
the remainder OF his fare going to
the driver. He then waits until the
wildcat has solicited full 1oad-this
may be two or three hours or some
times a whole day.
When the car is ready for departure,
with luggage strapped to the roof and
sides, the driver warns the passengers
to say, if the car is stopped by an
officer. that they are all friends on a
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-03-30

via the uninsured wildcat route, lost
her eyesight when the car in which she
was a passenger collided with the
rear of truck in Missouri. Numerous
accidents too long to list, resulting in
death or permanent injuries, have been
caused by wildcat accidents, Mr.. Higgs
declares. Indignities to women are said
to be common.
But, of course, there are honest folk
who want to share expenses on auto
trips. These are known to the wildcat
operators as angels" and sometimes
they get passengers from these bureaus
Mr.. Higgs says that several travel
brokers have confessed to him they
could not operate without the wildcat
drivers because the angels" conduct
financial matters in too legitimate a
fashion.
Therefore, the "angel" is forced to
wait at bureaus until the broker has
loaded all of his wildcat cars with
passengers. The "anger' may wait as
long as two or three days for a load
and then get only some hitch-hiker
with just enough money to get to his
destination, and that's ALL
In many cases the broker will make
an arrangement with the angel tC
take a passenger who will pay him at
every stop. When the angel tries tc
collect his fare at the first stop he
finds that the broker has doublc-crossec
him. The pa 5senger's full fare has beer
collected at The start of the trip.
The wildcat transfer" system ha:
its weak points, too.
If broker in ST. Louis has a ioao
of about three people heading fol
Washington, D. c., and a last-minutt
passenger comes in with fare to At
lanta, Ga, the money is not refused
The broker puts him in his Washing
ton car, giving him bureau card OF
which is written request for the agen
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