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Evening star., 1939-03-11
Montgomery
School Bill
Introduced
10 Items in Measure
Call for $l75,000
Expenditure
BY JACK ALLEN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March Ii
The school construction program
evolved by the Board of Educa-
tion to meet Montgomery County's
needs during the next two years
made its appearance in the House
before the State Assembly took
leave of the capital for a week.
end holiday.
Embodying 10 items, seven Of
them dealing with actual building
projects and the remainder pro-
vidlng for the purchase of ground
for school expansion purposes and
the purchase of equipment, it calls
for the expenditure of Sl75,000.
FUNDS would be raised by the
county commissioners through the
sale of bonds with the maturities
bearing interests at rate not to
exceed per cent year. They
would be retired within 80 years
with the first installment due not
later than five years after sale.
Lists Bethesda School.
The bill calls for a new ele-
mentary school to be erected at
Bethesda in the area east of Wis
consin avenue and north of the
East-West highway with not more
than 100000 to be spent for a ac-.
quiring site and constructing
the first unit.
The measure also provides that
an additional unit containing five
classrooms be built at the Parkside
School, near Silver Spring, at a
cost not to exceed $4,000.
The remainding funds from the
bonds sale would be expended on
the following projects:
Additional schoolrooms and grad
ing of ground at Alta Vista Ele-
mentary School.
Grading of ground at East Silver
Spring Elementary School.
Completion Of unfinished class
room, requiring grading of ground
at Glen Mont Elementary School.
Acquisition and treatment of ad-.
ditional land at Gaithersburg School.
Acquisition of additional land and
construction of additional classrooms
at Poolesville School.
Three additional classrooms at
Damascus School.
Additional rooms at Sherwood
High School, in Sandy Spring.
Acquisition of additional ground
and grading at Woodside Elemen-
tary School,
Furniture and equipment for all
schools.
Carries Emergency Clause.
The bill, which carries an emer-
gency clause making it effective
upon enactment, was accompanied
by second measure which would
relieve the commissioners of the
necessity of selling approximately
SITS 900 in school construction bonds
authorized in 1887. .
Aid in executing the 1887 program
was given the county by the Public
Works Administration, with the re-
suit that after the entire S724 00u
program was provided for, the coun-
ty still had about S175,O00 in bond
authorizations which it found ur-
necessary to use. However, the 1857
act directed the commissioners TO
sell the entire S724,0OO issue ard
new legislation is needed to relieve
them of that duty. The second bill
would accomplish this, and at the
same time validate the bonds that
have been sold. -
A third related bill, introduced
several weeks ago, repeals the 49,
enactment as another step towai i
freeing the commissioners of III.
obligation to sell the remaining
Sl75,O0O in bonds. 1t completed is
course through the State Assembly,
yesterday by passing the Senate.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Police Leaves Cancelled
For Six Occasions

Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superin-
tendent of police, yesterday can
celed all leaves of officers on these
days:
April 6, Army parade; IL. Junior
District Of Columbia Day; II, open
ing baseball game and Daughters of
American Revolution convention;
May S. arrival of Minister from Mic
aragua; 13, school boy patrol, and
June 8 snd 8, visit of King and
Queen of EnRaS6.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Treasury Asks More
Coast Guard Officers
BY the Associated Press.

~ VIC <1obUCIdLcU EIGSS.
The Treasury requested Congress
yesterday to authorize an increase
IN the number of officers of the
line of the Coast Guard.
Assistant Secretary Stephen B.
Gibbons in a letter to the House
said the department desired to add
l54 officers, create two new district
commanderships, .the position of
assistant commandant with the
rank OF rear admiral and designate
the engineer in chief as rear ad-
miral while on duty. The increase
would be gradual over five years.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
KuehIing Asks Transfer

Superintendent of Police Ernest
w. Brown had under consideration
today the request of Police 1t. Ben
jamin c. Kuehline, veteran execu-
tive of the Detective Bureau, for
transfer to less strenuous assign
ment in one of the precincts on
account of his health. Maj. Brown
said a change would be made as
soon as a successor to the lieutenant
in police headquarters could be
found
Evening star., 1939-03-11

Islanders, he says. A single verb
may have thousand different de-
clensions.
Islanders Self Sufficient.
The islanders are self-sufficient,
says Father Hubbard, although of
late years many of them have gone
to Nome every summer to obtain
some of the luxuries of life. Their
main sources of livelihood are the
seal and walrus herds. Besides, the
island, consisting of Ia square
miles, yields several varieties of
edible roots and grasses.
The natives have combined
communist t-capitalist economy. The
Walrus meat is stored in a COM
munal cold storage cave in a cliff
side and is shared equally through
out the long winter night. The wal
rus tusks, the sale Of which is the
only source of revenue, are also
shared equally, except that the
owner of a boat engaged in the
hunt gets an additional share to pay
him for his investment.
The boat used is the character
istic large Eskimo skin boat, but
these have been fitted out with out
board motors purchased from mail
order houses. In one of them last
summer Father Hubbard and eight
companions made 2,000-mile trip
northward through Bering Strait
and eastward along the Arctic coast
of Alaska and Canada until they
were forced to turn back by the ice.
Women Never Gossip.
The houses tied to the cliffs,
Father Hubbard says. remain Sc
cure in the winter storms. Each
family has its own home and ap-
pears to be satisfied with it.
This is the only place I ever
heard Of" Father Hubbard said,
where the women never gossip.
never heard them do so, and
Father Lafortune tells me he never
has, either, in his 35 years on the
island. They are so contented with
their lot in life that they do not
need this form of escape necessary
for women in most communities.
"The husband is always boss.
There is no disposition to question
his authority. Yet these women
seem very happy. If it were not
for the scourge of tuberculosis
could hardly imagine a happier
place"
During his stay on the island
Father Hubbard erected a bronze
figure of Christ with outstretched
arms, the angle of the arms en-
comprising both the shores of North
America and Asia. 1t stands al
most on the international date line.
Father Hubbard will lecture on
this Arctic Utopia at Constitution
Hall Wednesday evening.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Man Stricken on Woy
To Work Dies in Car

While on his way to work in an
other mans car, James Vinson, IS,
colored, died presumably of heart
attack, early today.
Fred L. Voigt of Potomac told
Officer c. v. Jones of the Mont
gomery County police that he had
been bringing Vinson to work every,
morning in his car for several weeks
and that this morning the man
complained of feeling i'll. He
thought Vinson had tainted until he
reached the home of DR.. E. A. A.
Dunn, Bethesda, Md, who pro-
nounced him dead. Bethesda police
said an autopsy will be held TODAY
to determine the cause of death.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
VOL to Intervene

The Federal Communications
Commission yesterday granted the
American Broadcasting Co., opera
tors of Radio Station VOL here,
permission to intervene in the hear
ing to be held on the application of
Lawrence H. Heller of this city, for
the construction of a new radio sta
tion here. Mr. Heller seeks the IA
cilities formerly used by Station
VOL, 4
Evening star., 1939-03-11

grandchildren. They had three sons
and two daughters. One son, Robert
E. Royal, is highway engineer in
Arlington County.
Born in Lunenberg County, Va,
March 80, 1857, Mr.. Royal believes
"the right kind of man is better
off married"
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Girl Reported Missino

Mrs. Sarah Woodbury. Of It'll
North Capitol street yesterday asked
police to be on the lookout for her
daughter, June Cecilia. 16, missing
since March S. She said the girl is
5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 80 pounds,
has reddish blond hair, gray eyes
and fair skin. She wore a gredk
suit, white scarf and white oxfoYe{
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Farmers Share Small

The farmers share of the con-
sumer's dollar spent for So repre-
sentative foods in 1888 was the
smallest IN four years-only 40 cents
compared with Is cents In 1887.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Bond Concert

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band Orchestra this evening
at $50 o'clock in Stanley Hall John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, Spirit of Freedom '-Loesch
Overture, "Herod" -Hadley
Entr 'Acte--
(a) AT Evening" -Debussy
(b) "Adagietto From Fifth
Symphony" -Mahler
Excerpts from musical comedy,
Little Boy Blue" Bereny
Popular numbers
"Bubbling Over With Love- -Ager
barcelona - Evans
Valsette, "A Kiss in the Dark"
Victor Herbert
Finale, "The Steel King" st, Clair
"The Star Spangled Banner" ;,
Evening star., 1939-03-11

Islanders, he says. A single verb
may have a thousand different de-
clenSions
Evening star., 1939-12-31

infant skull came from a river gravel
which overlies an ancient sea forma-
ton. Evidently the ocean had re-
treated and left this coastal strip
of land which man almost at once
had occupied.
High Type Indicated.
This child, judging from the
anatomy of its head, may have been
4 years old. It's face must have
been human, as indicated by the
high vault Of its brain case and
the almost smooth eyebrow ridges.
In fact, it bears all the earmarks of
q type which stood in the direct line
of evolution of our kind.
Evidently man had lived before
Java and Peking Man had died out.
In fact, the two groups had for
some time developed side by side,
each taking its origin from different
ancestors. It is a strange picture
to contemplate-this primeval trop-
ical islands that was born from the
sea, peopled by two human creatures
much more different from each
other than a brain truster Of our
day is from an African pigmy. With
such new revelations on human
origins we may well ask ourselves
what future explorations may not
discover next.
(copyrisht. 1889. By New York Times Coz
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Essay Competitors Get
Picture of Moon

A photograph of the moon, in
closed in a souvenir folder, is be-
ing distributed by the National Cap
ital Planetarium Committee to run
ners-up in the committees recent
essay contest.
In addition to the 16 principal
prize winners. AZ contestants are be-
ing sent copies of the photograph,
which was taken through the 40
inch rejecting telescope of the
United States Naval Observatory
here
The Capitals need for a plane
tarium to bring the heavens into the
ken of the layman was the theme
of the contest.
The committee is studying means
Of obtaining funds for construction
Of planetarium in the city. Capt.
j. F. Hellweg, superintendent of
the Naval Observatory, is chairman.
and Stephen Macy, president of the
National Capital Astronomers Asso-
citation, is vice chairman.
Evening star., 1939-12-31

familiar phrase In the travel world,
but relatively few know the capital
of Brltish-owned dots Of land about
so miles of the Florida coast is 10
Gated on the Island of New Provi-
dence.
Guadalajara is famous through
out Mexico for its beautiful women
and is known as the "City of the
Dancing Eyes" The city's national
reputation also is based on fine food
and excellent music.
Wilmington, N. c., observes Old
Christmas January 6 in recognition
of Twelfth Night. In the nearby
community Of st. Helena the Rus
sian immigrant farmers celebrate in
the homes and hold church services
on January 7. At ROdanthe, N. c.,
for reasons even the oldest native
cannot explain, Christmas is by ira
dition celebrated on the night of
January 5, although the younger
generation has come to recognize
the significance of the "mainlander"
Christmas of December Is. Chill
dren of Rodanthe still are frightened
by "Old Buck" the antitheses OF
Santa Claus, and obedience at this
time Of the year is dependent some
what on the stories told OF the
menacing ogre.
Snow plane service from New York
to Burlington, one of the better VIM
ter sports Fairgrounds in Vermont,
has been inaugurated by Canadian
Colonial Always. Six flights are
operated daily between Gotham and
Montreal, two of them stopping at
Burlington. Special excursion rates
fol- skiers include the carrying of
equipment free. BY plane, Burling-
tone is hour and IS minutes from
New York; Montreal. hours.
Many varieties of the camellia
japonica flourish in the town OF
Lafayette, La, founded by the ex-
lied Arcadians A close relative OF
the gardenias nurtured in the
Norths hothouses, the blossoms
range in color from snow-white to
deep rose pink. They flourish in
Lafayette's mild weather in Decem-
Der and January. and the town on
January 70 will hold its annual
Camellia pageant. The three-day
midwinter fair and flower show will
be climaxed by the reign of La
Refine aux Camellias,' with her
court.
The coralstone which Bermudians
use to build many Of their houses is
deep cream In color when first quar-
ried. After weathering, 1t turns a
pale blush gray.
Evening star., 1939-12-31

manship produced by the early men
of Europe, these rough pebbles with
their clumsily fluted or simply
sharpened edges looked like the
pathetic first attempts of novices.
We felt, somewhat suspicious Of
those we found on the first day.
Weeks later, when we had collected
a series of hundreds of these rudi-
mentary tools and definitely estab-
nshed their authenticity, We would
not have exchanged them for the
most refined specimens in existence.
We then realized that we had found
something new, a Stone Age culture
entirely different from anything
Europe has produced, and distantly
related to that of Peking Man.
The instruments were fashioned of
hard volcanic rocks.
We spent several months in this
region increasing our collections and
studying the geological formations
in an effort to find out how long
ago the makers of these instruments
lived and what animals shared the
country with them.
We travelled next to the mining
district of Mogak. where we pitched
our camp on a green meadow facing
mountains comparable in splendor
to those Of the Tyrol. Here, we had
been told. the incessant mining for
rubies and sapphires had turned up
many fossil finds. We, let it be
known that we were interested in
"old bones" and soon we were be-
sieged by men, women and children,
all with something to sell us.
Why Prices Were High.
The prices asked were so uniformly
high, however, that we asked the
headman's son to tell us why. And
he, a graceful figure in lettuce
green skirt. yellow blouse and pale
pink kerchief, tried to explain. 1t
seemed that the Mogokians believe
that the large fossil bones which
they unearth while mining are
dragon bones. And everybody there
knows that, when pounded into
powder and swallowed with a little
water. a dragon bone will imbue the
.imbiber with some of the original
creatures strength and power.
From Burma we went to the island
of Java. We Travelled, of course,
over the sea; yet as geologists we
knew that thousands of years ago a
land connection existed, that pre-.
historic man and other mammals
migrated from India to the lowlands
of Burma, and spread, on the one
hand, to South China and, on the
other, to Java.
Java is of the highest interest to
science. No find of early man has
Evening star., 1939-12-31
BY HELMUT DE TERRA.

The luxuriant jungle vegetation
most fatal handicap to those who
seek the remains of early man; the
lush growth covers everything. For
tunately for our purpose. the oil
field of Yenangya1lng, in Burma, is
stripped clean of trees and grass.
Oilmen operating there had occa-
sionally picked up stone axes on the
surface of ancient river terraces,
indicating that early man had lived
on the banks of the great 1rrawaddy
River. With this as our clue, we
made Yenangyaung the first OBJ
jective of the Southeast Asiatic ex-
pedition.
To reach this point our party
went by steamer to the Burmese
harbor of Rangoon. On the way
to the train which was to carry us
into the interior we fought our way
through a whirling, pulsating cloud
of tiny green flies. The overnight
train trip. however, took us beyond
the reach of these insects. At day.
break we changed to a small paddle
wheeled river boat, loaded with
dried fish-its odor is unforgettable
which is the staple of the Bur-
mese diet.
Yenangyaung was hardly akin to
a tropical paradise. A blazing sun
glared down on the dun-colored
cliffs and gravel pits, whose bare
surfaces returned the light until
our eyes found it difficult to register.
We must have picked up and dis
carded hundreds of plain, ordinary
pebbles before We finally found-in
a gravel pit close to the river bank
our first genuine stone tools.
Compared with the beautiful fist
axes of intricate and precise work.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Coleman Jennings
To Receive Medal Of
Cosmopolitan Club
Award to Be Presented
At Special Meeting
On February 8

Coleman Jennings, president Of
the Washington Community Chest,
has been chosen to receive the Co.'S
mopolitan Clubs Distinguished
Service Medal for 1899 "for the most
outstanding and unselfish service
to his community" during the year.
His selection was announced yes
terday by DR.. j. Rozier Biggs, chair
man of the clubs Distinguished
Service Medal Committee.
The medal will be presented at
q special meeting Of the club on
February 8 at the Carlton Hotel.
Mr.. Jennings, widely known as
philanthropist and for his work in
connection with youth projects, was
selected for the honor from an ex-
tensive list of nominees, whose
names were sent in by club men,
bers and the general public. Be-
sides DR.. Biggs, other members Of
the committee were Robert E.
Buckley, Arthur w. Diffenderfer,
Robert w. McChesney. William L.
King and James E. Collifower.
Ihe award is belng given Mr.. Jen-
nings not only for his work as head
of the Community Chest, it was ex~
planned, but because of his many
community activities, one member
of the committee declaring Mr. Jen-
nings has made Washington sy-
nonymous with youth work, not only
nationally. but internationally 1t
was pointed out that he travels
many miles annually at his own ex-
pense to carry on his work in be-
half fyouth of the country.
The annual award by the club Of
Distinguished Service Medal was
conceived by DR.. Biggs while he was
president of the club. Every year
since DR.. Biggs has served as chair
man Of the committee to select
person to receive it.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
$4,000 Postmusters
Under Retirement Act

More than $1,000 postmasters will
come under the Federal Retire
ment Act tomorrow.
They include $4,000 from fourth
class Offices and 1000 from first,
second and third class offices.
There are still 10000 postmasters
from the first, second and third
class Offices to get retirement bene-
fits when they are classified under
the Ramspeck-O'Mahoney bill.
Postmasters were made eligible
for retirement at the last Congress.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Philosophical Society

F. G. Brickwedde, retiring presi-
dent of the Philosophical Society of
Washington, will speak on Some
Complexities of the Simple Element
Hydrogen" at a meeting of the
society at the Cosmos Club at $50
pm. Saturday. R. E. Gibson will
serve as president in 1910.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
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Evening star., 1939-12-31
Discoveries in Java
Promise More Clues
To Earliest Man
GeoIoeist Tells Of Crude
Tools of Primitive
Humans in Burma

At recent meeting of the
American Philosophical Society
in Philadelphia, Dr.. Helmut de
Terra, geologtst, reported discop-
cries indicating the eristence of
a ne1D branch OF early man 1Dho
lved some hundreds OF thousands
of years ago in Southeast Asia.
DR.. de Terra had to traDel many
thousands OF miles during the
last te,D years to obtain these eDi-
denceS. In the tollo,Uing article
he tells of his experiences on er-
peditions to Burma and JdDd.
Nogales international., 1939-03-11
HELP SEND MARCHING UNIT
TOTHE SAN FRANCISCO FAIR!
LET'S ALL PUBLICIZE CITY!
Businessmen And Other Citizens To Be Called Upon
To Help Defray Expense Of Sending Famous
Drum And Bugle Corps To Exposition
MR.. BUSINESSMAN AND OTHER CITIZE

MR.. BUSINESSMAN AND OTHER CITIZENS:
Pretty soon you will be called upon to contribute
toward defraying the expense OF sending the No
gales High School Drum & Bugle Corps and Drill
Team-100 strong-to the San Francisco Exposition
in June July.
Appearance at the big fair of the Nogales march
ing unit-an organization that making Nogales IA
mous-will be the GREATEST THING IN A PUB
LICITY WAY EVER LAUNCHED IN BEHALF
OF NOGALES and in addition to that the trip will
be reward for the fine boys and girls and Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert King, directors, who have been de-
voting many hours gratis toward putting Nogales on
the map the past several years.
week or so ago we heard a radio announcer In
city some distance from Nogaes announce that the
Noeales marching unit rs THE BEST IN THE
UNITED STATES" We folks in Nogales, natural
y, admit that's true, and the thousands OF persons
in San Francisco and the towns enroute to San Fran
cisco who will see the Nogaes unit, will ascertain
the radio man entirely correct
NEVER BEFORE HAS NOGALES HAD AN OP
PORTUNITY TO GET SUCH PUBLICITY AS
WILL BE ACCORDED THIS CITY by the visit
of the drum and bugle corps and drill team to the
Golden Gate. 1t will be the sort of publicity that
could not be bought for tens of thousands of dollars
The entire community is proud Of it's marching
unit To be proud of organization is one thing and
the cost Of sending 100 students special train to
San Francisco is another.
The International is confident that YOU MR..
BUSINESSMAN AND OTHER CITIZENS, WILL
CONTRIBUTE LIBERALLY-every dollar you can
afford-to help defray the big expense in sending
your drum and bugle corps to the exposition
Kick in with a smile when called upon to con-
tribute and remember that when you do you are do
ing your part toward publicizing Nogales and max
ing it possible for the marching unit to have trip
and vacation they have we'll earned.
Nogales international., 1939-03-11
1872 MEN WORKING AT FOUR
MINES In PATAGONIA AREA
Payroll At Trench $4,000 Every Two Weeks, Blabon
Announces At Meeting OF Chamber Of
Commerce At Patagonia

One hundred and ninety men
are now employed at four mines
in the Patagonia district, it was
stated by G. J. Bible Of Pata-
gonia at the regular monthly
meeting Of the Santa Cruz
County Chamber of Commerce
in Patagonia Thursday. night.
Of this number, he said, 162 are
working at the Trench, 18 at Wash
ington Camp, 6 at the Worlds
Fair and 4 at the F1ux.
The payroll every two weeks at
the Trench amounts to $4,000, &C
cording to r. G. Blabon, who add
ed that a lot of this money is go
ing to Tucson. He said completion
of the paved road from Patagonia
to Nogales would help Nogales ant
already the improvements on thC
highway have cut the driving tim
down Is minutes.
Other speakers at the meeting
were C. H. McNulty, Writ G. Bow
man, C. B. Wilde, A. S. Hender
son, Hugo w. Miller. o. H. Oldfa
ther, Don Smith, Lester Mershon
Captain James Howatt, Mrs. JOIN