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Evening star., 1939-05-21
Byron Urges Canal
Restoration Projects

Secretary Of the Interior lckey'
aid in securing Federal appropria-
tions to finance additional restora-
ton work along the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal in Frederick, Washing
ton and Allegany Counties has been
requested by Representative Byron,
Democrat, Of Maryland.
Mr.. Byron said last night the
new canal projects would provide
employment needed by Western
Maryland residents now engaged in
other Works Progress Administra-
ton undertakings rapidly nearing
completion in those counties.
His plan has the Endorsement Of
c. Marshall Finnan. superintendent
of National Parks, and engineering
parties have already been ordered
into the field to make the surveys
necessary before the proposal can
be considered formally.
At present s500.O00 is available to
restore the historic canal from the
District of Columbia to Seneca, in
nearby Montgomery County. The
work is to be carried out on q pre-
tentious scale to that point. with
the canal to be made ready for
boating. and the property skirting
the waterway to be improved with
modern park facilities.
Representative Byron declared he
would not suggest that similar de-
velopment be made in the upper
counties of his district, but would
ask only for the money actually
needed to repair stretches of the
canal so Frederick, Allegany and
Washington County people could use
the waterway for boating.
A few days ago Mr.. Brown. who,
while Mayor of Williamsport OBJ
tanned approval Of the first Federal
works projects granted in Maryland,
asked Government officials to make
some provision whereby Maryland
residents would be given preference
in the employment of labor on the
canal project in Montgomery.
Employees must be chosen from
civil service rolls at present.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Providence Day Nursery
Celebration to Be Today

The second annual celebration at
the Shrine of the Miraculous Medal
at Providence Day Nursery, 408
Third street Sc, will be held today
from 4 to 6 pm.
The celebration is sponsored by
the Ladies of Charity of the Nurs-
cry, and members will entertain
guests at a silver tea after the
celebration at the shrine. The Holy
Comforter Boys Band will furnish
the music.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Officials Study
Federal Reserve
Building Tax
Session Requests
Commissioners to
Rule on Legality

District ofhcials yesterday began
formal study of whether the munich
pal government should attempt to
levy real estate taxes against the
monumental headquarters of the
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, on Constitution
avenue.
The question bobbed up recently
at meeting Of members of the
House Banking and Currency Corn
mittee. The District, in the past,
had not attempted to tax the prop
erty on the assumption that the
agency was Federal instrument
tality.
Tax Assessor Fred D. Allen, 1t was
revealed yesterday, asked the Com
missioners to have ruling on the
legality Of imposing a real property
levy on the property The District
would gain sizable bit of revenue
If the tax can be imposed, since the
assessed value would be high.
Search for Facts Ordered.
Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal directed members of his staff
to search the facts in the case and
legal precedents. The question was
discussed at the Saturday confer.
ence of his staff on tough assign.
ment' cases. He said no decision
was reached.
Mr.. Allen advised the Commits
sioners the site for the Federal Re-
serve headquarters was transferred
by deed dated January %, 1885,
from the United States to the Fed
eral Reserve Board. This document
carries the notation quit claim
deed" he added, reporting that the
purchase price given in the deed
for the land was s754,583.
Act Provision Cited.
Mr.. Allen found that the act Gre
ating the Federal Reserve Banks,
approved December %, 1918, carries
the statement that Federal Re-
serve Banks, including the capital
stock and surplus therein, and the
income derived therefrom shall be
exempt from Federal. State and local
taxation, except taxes upon real es-
tate"
Mr.. Allen said he had been in
formed that Chairman Steagall of
the House Banking and Currency
Committee had stated that other
Jurisdictions tax the real estate Of
Federal Reserve Banks.
Information gathered by District
officials was that when the site for
the property was sold to the Federal
Reserve System. that agency coll
lected the price in assessments
against member banks of the Federal
Reserve System.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
New Shenandoah Span
At EIkton Dedicated
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ELKTON, Va, May 20.-Repre-
sentative A. Willis Robertson sound
ed praises Of both Senator Harry F..
Byrd and Highway Commissioner
Henry G. Shirley in an address dedi-
eating a new 580-foot bridge over
the Shenandoah River here today.
"A crowd of 1900 persons witnessed
the opening OF the bridge, at the
junction of the Blue and Gray trail
and the East Side highway. The
Ribbon across the bridge was cut
by Joyce Louderback, 5-year-old
daughter of Archie Louderback of
Elkton, as Mayors Ward Swank Of
Harrisonburg and L. H. Bruce Of
Elkton shook hands.
r. J. Snapp, president of the Elk
ton Chamber of Commerce, gave a
history of five previous bridges at
the same site. the first having been
constructed in 1888 from funds
raised by selling tickets at 81 each
to nearby residents
kilograms of regret were read
from Gov. Price and Senator Byrd,
who were invited but could not at
tend.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Students Have Most Trouble
With English and French
Education and Health Courses Are Most
Difficult for CoIored Pupils

What subjects are Washington
high school pupils having the most
difficulty in mastering?
A survey of first semester fail
ure percentages in the various
courses. revealed yesterday by N.
A. Danowsky, statistician of the
public schools, showed the white
students have the highest propor-
ton of failures in English 9B, French
ga and shorthand /.
The colored pupils of senior high
school level, the report showed. had
the highest percentage of failure
in physical education 9B, health
instruction lib and electricity ga
The white pupils taking English
9B had failure percentage of 22.4
and colored students in physical
education 9B had a 325 per cent
failure.
Grading Systems Differ.
These figures compare very favor
ably. it was pointed out, with
similar survey made in a New York
senior high school recently which
showed a 46 per cent failure in
mathematics In this New York
report, the very smallest failure fig
ure was in science and was ISL
per cent.
School officials said, however,
that the New York pupils are graded
on different system under which
the papers are marked in Albany,
N. Y. and not by the teachers of
the courses. Thus. it was pointed
out, the personal factor did not en-
ter the grading.
Mr.. Danowsky pointed out that
on the basis of enrollments German,
Spanish and art are among the less
patronized subjects in the senior
highs, while the Junior highs alsu
reported smaller number of pupils
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Alexandria Woman, %,
Gets Year in Prison
BY Stan Correspondent of The Star

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 90
Mrs. Rose Raines, %, of the 200
block of King street, was sentenced
to a year in the penitentiary on
charges of contributing to the de-
linquency of seven minor girls and
receiving stolen property, when
taken before Judge James r. Dun
can in Domestic Relations Court
today.
The woman was arrested by De-
tective Russell Hawes who told the
court she encouraged the small girls,
aged 8, 8, 10, 10, II, IA and l6, to
steal cosmetics and clothing from
several local stores. Before passing
sentence, Judge Duncan lectured the
woman.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Putnam Evudes Report
He Will Wed Toniqht
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 2o.-George
Palmer Putnam, husband of the late
Amelia Earhart, declined tonight to
say definitely whether he would be
married tomorrow, but one Los An
geles newspaper even set the time
and place for the ceremony.
The Examiner said the publisher
would marry Jean-Marie Consigny
James, society divorce, at Las Vegas,
New, at $3.50 pm.
II honestly don't know that I'll
be married at Las Vegas tomorrow
and $50 certainly sounds like an un-
likely hour" Mr.. Putnam said.
Mrs. James. who divorced William
Robert James, son of q Federal
Judge, this week, could not be
reached for comment.
Evening star., 1939-05-21

enrolled in the modern languages
than in any other subject.
Officials were quick to note an
increase in the number of pupils
taking Latin in the junior highs
over those enrolled year ago. In
the colored junior highs, the num-
Der of pupils taking Latin was found
to exceed the number taking eithe,
Spanish or French.
Homemaking Courses Gain.
Homemaking courses registered a
gain in the senior highs. but a loss
in the Junior high level. Some boys
were even enrolled in the course
in the white senior highs.
Broken down by schools, Anacos-
tia, among the white senior highs.
had the smallest percentage of fall
ure and Deal in the white junior
highs. Cardozo led with the small
est percentage among the colored
senior highs and Terrell among the
junior highs in those divisions.
School officers warned that this
was not necessarily revealing be-
cause of the different standards in
vogue among the schools.
An A in one school might not
get better than a B or C in grade
at another" an official explained,
A slight falling off in the subject
enrollments in the Junior highs
among the white schools, it was
thought, could be somewhat at
tributed to the falling off in the
general junior high enrolment over
last year. There are 142 fewer
pupils in the junior highs now than
there were at this time last year.
1t was stated.
Likewise in the senior highs. an
increase of 388 pupils over the num-
Der last year is bound to be re-
hected in the increase in course
enrOllments in some instances
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Portrait Painter Dies

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 20
P.-Mrs. Eloise Polk McGill, Texas
portrait painter, died at her home
today.
Mrs. McGill, a descendant OF
President James Polk, considered
her best work the Madonna Of
Mercy" altar piece in the bene-
dictory's priory at Washington, D. G.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Will Address Convention

DR.. Riley D. Moore Of Washington
will be one of the principal speakers
at the 43rd annual convention of
the American Osteopathic Associa-
ton to be held June $3.50 at Dallas,
Tex, a release from association
headquarters at Chicago announced
today.
Evening star., 1939-05-21

Russia's last census Indicates 1t
has a population Of 170,120, 900.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18

! east Of Lublin) There Is fighting
around Lublin. Polish troops east
Of Lublin are cut off from retreat
eastward"
The Russian invasion Of Poland,
which had been announced here as
having "the full knowledge and ap-
prevail OF the German government"
was hailed In the controlled Ger
man Press today as "a final blow, at
Versailles"
Germany Explains Russia
Berlin, Sept. 18-(UP)-The Ger
man government today issued the
following official announcement in
connection with the advance Of So
Wet Russia troops ito Poland:
I'm order to prevent unfounded
rumors apropos the task Of German
and Soviet Russia troops operating
in Poland, the German government
and the government o: the u S. s.
r. declare that the operations OF
these troops have no detectives de-
trimental to the interests Of Ger
many or Soviet Russia or in any
way conflict with the letter and
spirit Of the non-aggression pact
concluded between Germany and
the Soviet Union. On the contrary,
the tasks of these troops is to re-
establish quiet and order in Poland.
which have been disturbed by the
disintegration OF the Polish state,
and to help the population to re-
store conditions for their existence
as q state"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18
LOCAL PLANTS
FEELING BOOM
Continued from Page l,

MIR. Driscoll said that the 10 per-
cent increase at the American Brass
Co., was restoration Of q wage
deduction placed in effect In April,
1888. He said that more than $500
employees Of the concern would bene-
fit.
Waterbury factories have been
buster since Sept. ! than they had
been In number Of years. Last week
more than 100000 in government
orders was received by local plants.
Revision Of the neutrality act, or
even elimination Of the present en-
barge on arms and ammunition,
would mean even a further spur to
local industry.
Further industrial gains within the
next few months would be a boon to
the city, particularly with regard to
the critical situation of the city well
fare department. This department
faces deficit of $4,000 or more,
which would be materially reduced
If additional business gains took
many persons from the relief rolls
and gave them private employment.
Demand Is Made
It was learned that employees of
the Mattatuck Mfg. Co. through the
Waterbury Brass Workers union
made demand on the firm for q 10
per cent wage increase. Negotiations
were reported underway.
The Waterbury Tool Co., one of
the principal firms engaged in sup
lying materials to the Navy de-
partment, reported that 1t was not
contemplating" pay raises.
Another firm, the Waterbury Far
rel Foundry Co., Is likewise not af-
fected.
Harold Madden, labor superin-
tendent of the American Brass co.
announced that the increase at his
firm was effective as Of yesterday
and would affect all employees OF all
plants. Approximately 1000 persons
will benefit. Plants included besides
waterbury include Ansonia, Tor
rington, Detroit, Mich, Kenosha.
Wisconsin and Buffalo, N. Y.
Mr.. Madden said the increase
would benefit $500 Waterbury en-
ployes.
John H. Goss. president of the
Scovill Mfg. Co.. said that the sub
ject of wage increases was under
consideration"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18
TOWN COMMITTEE
Is DETECTING
Continued from Page u

Town committee members claimed
that the committee was not at all
representative of the Democratic
party, and that the only active DEM
ocrats were Judge Mascolo and MIR.
Scully.
Several members of the town COM
mittee said today that they would
be willing to resign, If 1t would be
for the benefit Of the party, If they
were assured that their successors
would be chosen by an impartial
group of typical Democrats. How
ever, they said they would refuse to
resign If their successors would be
chosen by Chairman j. Francis
Smith Of the Democratic State Cen
trail committee or members Of his
group.
May Be Showdown
Tonight's meeting may well mean
a showdown on the Democratic party
situation in the city, and there were
indications that a possible open bat
tie might develop. Most members of
the town committee agree that a
change in personnel should be made
but are opposed to the drastic plan
of wholesale designations offered by
and headed by Mr.. Scully.
Rumors of additional designations
from the town committee tonight
were being heard today. It was said
that tonight would see the retire.
ment from the committee of Tax
Attorney George r.. Guilfoile and
perhaps several others. -Four mem
ber5 of the committee have resigned
since the move for reorganization
started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18
TWELVE DEATHS
in NEW ENGLAND

Boston, Sept. 18-(UP)-Week-
end accidents took IL lives in New
nEgland.
Boating accidents caused the
drownings of Harry Price, SIS, of
Dorchester, In the Charles. River,
Cambridge; and Charles Herb, %,
Of Mt. Vernon, N. Y, at Candle
wood Lake, Conn.
Thomas Santolucito, 6, of Med
ford, drowned after tumbling into
the Mystic river while enroute home
from a movie. John Budano, As, of
Worcester drowned at Warwick, r.
l., while swimming.
Four-year-old Raymond Chabot
OF Worcester was killed near his
home by an automobile. Five au-
tomobile fatalities were reported In
Connecticut.
Arthur Brouilette, As, Of HolyOke
was killed by a train while crossing
tracks In Holyoke. Francisco Rigo-
II, ~, father Of II children, was
killed in q fall at his Waltham
home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18
Germany Strikes Back
Hard At Great Britain
CONTINUED from Page -

come when the German army front
NOW extneded far eastward In
Poland beyond Lwow and the Brest-
Litovsk and almost to Vilna--is es-
tablished face to face with the adj
vancing Russians.
Italy continued to maintain q
strongly neutral position in the
Mediterranean and Turkey, a close
ally of Russia yet also bound to
Britain and France, appeared to be
seeking the same ground. In Tokyo,
the Japanese government made the
most of circumstances permitting 1t
to concentrate on its conquest OF
China but the Nationalistic newspa-
per Kokumin warned the United
States against "antagonizing" jap
an.
For almost all nations directly or
indirectly involved In the conflict,
the next move was in doubt. Only
Poland, crushed between the two
great powers which she had sought
to play against one another since
the World war, was in the process
of violent partiticning for the fourth
time in her history and had no de-
cision to make.
While Rumania and the little Bal
tic states nervously wondered
whether still other former Russian
territories such as Bessarabia might
also be protected" there was spec
ulation on which Of several possible
courses Stain might be choosing:
Possible Stain Plans
!. Russian opposition to Ger
many on the grounds that Hitler,
If he won the war, would then turn
to conquest Of the Ukraine. So far
there has been no indication that
Stain would choose this course.
2. A war combination of Ger
many, Russia and Japan which
would-as some Nazis envisage-
create a vast block reaching from
the Rhineland to the Pacific, lead
to the Illustration of the British
blockade of Germany and ultimate
triumph for the Nazis IN the west
while permitting Japan to complete
its conquest of China, outing for
eign interests from the Far East.
3. A Russian policy of encourage
ing Germany, France and Britain
to fight 1t out to point of exhaus-
ton in Europe, leaving Russia the
dominant power and thus permit
ting her to step in whenever 1t be.
came most advantageous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18
the Ukrainian and the White Rus
sian minorities.
Peace Not .Exnected

sian minorities.
Peace Not Expected
But in fact it was not considered
likely that either London or Paris
would take such action, as it could
be of no help at present to the
crushed Poles and might end what
ever chance there may be Of pre-
venting Observation-Disclosures by
many Nazis. of Germany, Russia
and Japan against the so-called
western democracies.
The germ of hope on the part of
the Allies lay in the fact that Nazi
Germany and Soviet Russia now
were practically face to face along
a common frontier. Nazis announc-
ed the Soviet advance with jubila-
ton on the grounds that 1t was
done by agreement and that they
could now turn all their forces
against Franco and Britain without
fear that the British blockade at
sea would starve them out.
But Stains ultimate detectives
remained a mystery-probably as
much to Hitler as to the Allied
leaders.
Stain Is Puzzle
Years of mutual suspicion and
hostile propaganda; the long-stand-
ing Nazi dream Of a Ukraine con-
quest and the words of Hitler de-
nouncing the Soviet leaders as COM
mon criminals lay behind the adj
vance of the Nazi and Russian
armies toward their historic
rendezvous on the plains of Poland.
For the moment, every move
made by the Soviet government APP
peared to be an aid to Hitler, but
technically Stain had so car mere
ly declared that his req army was
moving into Poland to protect
minorities that were once Russian.
In both Moscow and Berlin, it was
indicated in official sources that
Germany and Russia would estab-
lish a new frontier line extending
from East Prussia southwark through
Brest-Litovsk and Lwow to near the
frontier junction. This
would cut off the eastern third of
Polish territory that contains the
white Russian and Ukrainian areas
and roughly reestablish the border
that existed before the World war.
Whether a small buffer state
would be created was not definite
ly indicated.
Any of these theories might be
read into the swift developments
Of the last two days, but none is
likely to be substantiated until
Stains ultimate aims are made
clear.
The next hint, however, may
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18

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was completed in 1928. Its total cost
including conversion was about
100000 Cat par about 20,000, 000)
The information ministry said
that Courageous had been serving
with the reserve fleet since August,
with reduced complement of air.
craft, Since the war started it was
said,. it had been protecting mer-
chant ships against submarines.
First Warship Down
1t was the first sinking of a war
ship by a submarine--except for
whatever action Germany took
against Polish ships in the Baltic.
The ministry of information is
sued this statement:
1.-THE admiralty regret to an
nounce that his majesty's ship
Courageous has been lost by enemy
submarine action.
"She was commissioned with the
reserve fleet in August with a re-
duced complement Of aircraft and
since the opening of hostilities had
been performing good service pro-
tecting ships of the merchantile
marine against U-boat attacks.
Survivors have been picked up
by destroyers and merchant ships
which are now returning to harbor.
Sub Believed Sunk
1.-THE submarine was Immediately
heavily attacked by destroyers and
was believed to have been sunk.
His majesty's ship Courageous is
one of the earliest aircraft carriers.
She was originally completed as
cruiser In 1917 and was converted
after the war as an aircraft car
rier.
Next Of kin will be informed as
soon as information can be obtained
as to the names of survivors"
The ministry said aircraft car
riers had been considered particu-
larry suitable for protecting long
trade routes because they were fast
and could send out airplanes to de-
tect submarines and drive off COM
merce raiers.
Courageous was rated at 80 knots,
with 10000 horse power engines. 1t
carried a normal oil fuel load OF
$3.50 tons and maximum load Of
J. $40 tons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18
HITLER LECIONS
SWEEP COUNTRY
CONTINUED from Page y

It was announced officially that
the German and Russian army
operations in Poland had no objec-
tives conflicting either with Ger
man-Soviet interests or with the
German-Soviet non-aggression pact
The communique on Polish oper-
atoms said that Lemberg, chief city
in the southeast, had peen sur
rounded, and Lublin, between Lem
berg and Moscow, had been cap
tured.
parts Of the German army have
reached a line extending from Lem
berg to Wlodzimirz to Brest-Litovsk
to Bialstok and thereby occupied
the greater part Of Poland" the
communique said.
(That line would form an arc en-
comprising approximately the west
ern two-thirds of Poland)
Behind The Lines
Behind this line the destruction
and imprisonment Of several scat
tered remnants Of the former Po-
lish army is progressing at several
points. The strongest Of these sur
rounded Polish groups, comprising
approximately one-fourth Of the
Polish army, Is pressed together
southwest Of Wyszogrod (27 miles
east-southeast Of Flock and so West
of Warsaw and has been disinteg-
rating since yesterday.
ION Sept. II the Polish radio adj
dressed a plea to the high COM
mand of the German army to re-
ceive a Polish negotiator. The high
command declared its readiness to
receive him. Up to midnight Sept.
II no negctiator reached our troops.
"There have been no particular
hostihties In the west. A French
plane was shot down by q German
plane near Saarbruecken. There
were no air attacks on German ter
ritory Sept. IT,"
Warsaw Under Siege
Warsaw had been under siege for
more than a week and the Ger
mans claimed to have surrounded
1t several days ago.
German military headquarters
had broadcast to the city by radio
suggesting that Warsaw send two
negotiators to mo Mans Land"
outside the city under Q flag Of
truce at 10 o'clock last night TO
make the arrangements.
The army high command said
that the Poles had not replied and,
two hours after the time set, no ne