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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
POTOMAC I0DGE 10
BUILD IN Old SITE
Proposed New Location
On Frederick Road
Abandoned

At a committee meeting Of Pc
tOmac Lodge, |. o. 0. F.. it was
decided to instruct the architect,
Harry Yessler, of York, Pa. to pro-
coed with the plans on the site
of the temple destroyed by fire,
on South Potomac street. The
foundation is now up. The new
building. Of brick, will be three
stories high. The old building was
four stories in front and three in
the rear but the new building
will be three stories front and
back. 1t is expected that the new
building will be completed and
ready for occupancy about the
first of the year.
A site on Frederick street, just
beyond the Municipal Swimming
Pool, had been considered, but it
was decided at the meeting to
abandon these plans.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
WASHINGTON COUNTY
APPLE CROP IS GOOD
Although Reported Sixty
Per Cent OF Normal
Yield This Year

Washington county's apple crop
it is estimated will be go per cent
OF a normal crop. This is prac.
tically what it was last season.
However, there are a few more
variety yields this year than last
season. Just exactly what the
crop this year will be is impossible
10 tell at this time, but it is figur-
ed it will be at least 40 per cent
below normal Various varieties
switch year from year, some va
rietie8 which were heavy the pre-
cedlng year being curtailed the
following season.
The early varieties. although not
1lassed specially among the stand
RS, are: Transparent. now
here; Williams Early Red. Veal
tn. Summer Rambo, Sm0kehouse
pr Tandevar, Grimes Golden and
possibly q few others. Then the
standards coming in the Fall are
Yorks, Staymen, Delicious, Black
Twigg, Baldwin, Northwestern
Greening Jonathan, Rome Beauty
and others.
The Ben Davis, which is the
past has been something Of q
money maker for growers, suffer
ed a severe rebuff in the drought
Of 1880. when hundreds upon hun
dreds Of these trees died. They
have good shipping qualities, some
of them going to South American
markets.
The York Imperial is a good
shipper and a good variety for
revenue. Some Yorks have been
shipped to European markets.
Other varieties have also gone to
Europe but the great majority of
them are Yorks.
A very fine quality of apple is
raised in this county. The largest
orchards are just west of Hancock
where many acres are bearing in
the Tonoloway and other nearby
orchards. Young apple trees seem
to be doing the best in the way
Of yield and quality.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
GOOD HAY CROP IS
RAISED IN COUNTY

The hay crop in Washington
County, generally, is reported
good. The gathering in of hay by
the farmers is now in progress.
Glover, timothy and alfalfa and
some sweet clover are the kind be-
ing cut and hauled into barns and
sheds or stacked in fields for feed
for stock during the coming win
ter. Considerable alfalfa is now
being raised, although it has been
popular feed in the West for
some time. Three crops can be
raised off the same field in one
season. Stock like it. 1t original
ed in Asia Mindrt Alfalfa has
been grown in the East for about
thirty years.
In addition to feed for stock the
farmer uses sweet clover to pillow
down for soil Improvement and
also as an emergency crop in case
of failure of other hay crops.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14

The myriad pleasures of sight
have been regained for the semi
blind through use of the teloptic-
magnifier, a new type spectacle lens.
members of the American Academy
of Optometry were informed recent
ly. Representing the largest spec
tacle magnification yet achieved for
distant vision, 800 per cent, the new
device has already returned chill
dren i'm blind institutions to public
schools.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14

The ways of politics are very
very strange indeed. Only
few brief months ago the City
Hall boys were hustling tickets
for a testimonial dinner in the
Automobile Commissioners hon
or. 1t was even rumored that
he might become gubernatorial
dark horse, come November '42.
At that feast they praised him
and they toasted him. But new
moon has come over the noun
tain since then and now the
Commissioners is in the poIiti-
cal doe-house or wherever it is
they put head men when they
seem to disagree with the
gang. 'Taint fair, say the ex-
Mayors followers. 'Tis fair, say
his opponents. 'Tis just too bad
say the neutrals. 'Tis most un-
fortunate, say the timid souls.
'Tis heIIuvamess says |.
William Preston Lane, Demo-
cratic leader of the county, who
has been pushed around rather
roughly during recent months,
as far as appointments are con-
cerned, reminds me of the late
Barry M. Hartle, one of the
shrewdest politicians Washing
ton County ever produced. In
stead of broadcasting his feel
ings, Lane is sitting tight, say
ing nothing. and, incidentally,
becoming politically stronger as
Time Marches On. State lead
ing land don't mean small
fry, eitheI!) are more frequent
ly stumbling up the steps to
his law office, and I'm laying
coin of the realm that they
amt seeking legal advice.
The betting is two to one that
there will be no change in the
management of the Light Plant
office; the Water Commission
ers sent pink slip over to the
plant at WiIiamsport few
days ago. That's all.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Tenney

Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Tenney
and son, Robert H. Tenney, Evans
ton, H., are visiting Mr.. Tenney's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Ten
ney. East irwin Avenue. Before
returning home, Robert Tenney
will enroll at Dartmouth College,
Hanover. N. H., where he will ma
jor in business administration.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14

Mrs. George White moved into
an apartment in the Grey Gables,
at the corner of Potomac street
and Wayside avenue, vacated by
Mr.. Weigand.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
MRS. ESM Err ILL

Mrs. w. Walter Esmer, Of the
San Mar Orphans Home. is very
i'll at the Union Memorial Hos
pital, Baltimore, where she under
went major operation.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14

Why not a traffic police
man at the corner of Po-
tomac and Franklin Sts.?
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14

Winners of the recent seaside fete
at Long Beach, Calf, were awarded
with golden shell trophies by Miss
Jane Walsh, who handed out the
n~izes given in connection with the
city's annual surf, sun and sand Gel
ebration on the famed silver strand.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
BUILDING HOME

Leon Sewers, formerly of this
city, now an electrician for New
York City, is erecting on Long Is
land, a new home which he will
occupy about August 1.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
PROWL-ER

A prowler was surprised at the
home of Mrs. Leila c. Mohler, COS
North Mulberry street, but made
his escape down porch post in
the rear.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14

Rohrer and Snyder have reded
Grated the interior of their furn
ture store room on West FRANKLIN
street.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
VISITING HERE

w. B. King, Baltimore, is visit
ing here.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14
HANGOVERS
Nv LITTLE HElSkELL

IL
The momentous question now
before the City Fathers is the
selection of name for the un-
derpass on Elizabeth street. TWO
monickers have been suggested
the EIgin Underpass in honor
of the former Mayor and the
Pryor Underpass, honorlng the
late Judge Pryor, a prominent
resident of the West End. Not
so many moons ago when Mayor
EIon was head man at City Hall
and had the situation we'll under
control. his enthusiastic follow
ers went right uo to the coun-
ter when the suggestion was
made that said underoass be
named for him. But times DO
change. Came that appointment
placing him in charge of all the
gas buooes in the State OF
Maryland, and when the former
Mayor resigned and took up his
new duties the lads at City Hall
lat least some Of 'em) transfer
red their affections to Mayor
Richard. The ex-Mayor's friend
Iy visits to his old hunting
grounds likewise caused erumb-
ling. I'm told, and finally there
City Hall where only one had
bloomed before. And now the
boys are all adither, or sumpin'.
To perpetuate the name of Mr..
Elgin, they figure, would be
bad politically. To ignore him
would also be bad politically. So
what? Well, what's brain trust
for, anyway?
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-07-14

Advance plans for the annual
Dahlia Show to be held September
28 ana 20 are announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
Transit Co. Makes Plans
10 Pay Wage Increases

The Capital Transit Co. today was
making plans to pay $4,000 in re.
troactive wages and a new wage
scale for some 1000 employees, esti-
mated to cost the company from
$3.50, 900 to 100000 a year.
The pay boost was awarded yes-
terday by unanimous decision Of
three arbitrators. Attorneys Walter
.. Clephane, chairman; Edmund L.
Jones and Charlton Ogburn, whose
word is binding under the contract
between the company and the union.
an A. F. of L. affiliate.
Mr.. Ogburn said the companv
estimated the cost of the new sched.
ule at up to 100000. COMPANY
omclals today were uncertain as to
when the payroll for the retroactive
wages would be completed.
The new pay scale was made re.
troactive to July l, when the last
contract ran out. It affects bus and
car crews. track and shop employees.
The award also required the COM
pany to pay time and a half for
overtime following and 8N hours
work. The old basis for overtime
began after 10 hours work. Provi-
sion was made against the lay-off
OF car operators because of exten.
sion OF one-man car service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
Baby Rushed Here by Plane,
Boat May Escape Operation

Travel seems to agree with s.
month-old John Vincent Broaddus,
whose mother rushed him here from
Alaska by boat and airplane only to
learn he probably won't need an
operation after all.
Johns father, John P. Broaddus,
a former District diving champion,
is a teacher in the Indian service
stationed at Koyuk, Alaska, some
$50 miles by air from Nome. The
Broaddus family and that of the
radio operator were the only white
persons planning to spend the winter
in the village.
So when John went "off his feed"
he caused his parents more than
the usual alarm Mrs. Broaddus and
John flew to Nome in an airplane
which had been called to the back
country to take out an appendicitis
sufferer.
A physicians diagnosis at Nome
convinced Mrs. Broaddus she should
catch the last boat out Of Alaska
before the ice closed in. The two
reached Seattle In nine days and
new here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG,

You have no-English passenger
coming in on the 1l:40," says the
outgoing worker. Looks like a quiet
evening"
The night worker, whose hours
stretch across the desolate period
when the light in the Travellers Aid
Society booth is a lonely beacon in
Union Station, mods and takes off
her hat.
A few minutes to glance over the
files and her first customer arrives.
He is breathing hard and despair is
written all over his young face.
Il checked my bag through on my
ticket" he tells her, and now
can't find the ticket. I've looked all
over for it and I haven't any more
money. What'll I do?"
His destination is Philadelphia,
she learns. He turns out his pockets
and produces IL cents, just enough
to get him home from the station.
She knows there's no chance of
getting the railroad to give him an
other ticket, although his checked
suitcase is evidence enough that he
had one. His only hope is Philadel-
phia and his mother A wire goes to
the Travellers Aid in Philadelphia
His mother is called and agrees to
deposit with Travellers Aid there the
fare for his trip.
Relieved and Grateful.
The boy. relieved now and CRATE
full, goes off to make his train after
the worker has taken him back to
the ticket office to give the agent
enough information to insure a re-
fund if his ticket is turned in.
The worker eases into her coat
and starts for the train shed to meet
her "no-English" passenger. She
can't talk Greek, she can't even pro-
nounce the passengers last name.
Her only description is that he is II.
His ship has locked that morning in
New York. Travellers Aid in New
York wants him met and put on the
train to Knoxville, Tenn.
She mods to the gateman. She
knows everybody in the station.
The wind is bitter in the train shed
and she PAGES up and down, wait
ing.
Before the train stops she thinks
she has spotted him, but she turns
first to the brakeman. Have you
a Greek passenger that can't talk
English?" Sometimes they know,
but not this time.
Trails Along Uncertainty.
She hurries back down the track
and sees the youth she has noticed
on the train. His suitcase is old
fashioned and stamped with a for
eign label. He trails along uncer-
tainly behind two elderly women.
"George?" she says.
He brightens and mods. Someone
knows him in this strange place.
George" he agrees.
One of the women turns, sees he
has been befriended and says, well,
good luck" Then she turns to her
companion. HE doesn't know what
that means, but I just thought I'd
say it,"
The worker doesn't try to talk to
him, but she smiles encouragingly
and he smiles back. They get along
beautifully that way while she leads
him through the concourse and
down the steps to the south bound
train.
Knoxville" he says expert
mentally.
She mods and smiles,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
The Story Of Quiet Evening in Union Station

1910 am-"Have you got a
schedule of southern trains going
out?"
12:46 am.-"Where's that ticket
office?"
1880 ami want to send a tele-
grant"
Sends Them on Way.
From all directions, people come
to the desk and the worker sends
them on their way. A porter dressed
to 60 home drops morning news
paper at the booth. Cleanup men
slosh long mops across the floor as
she tackles her reports.
She puts in call for the ninth
precinct, The policeman the Travel
ers' Aid must reach works the late
shift.
Remember that man you sent to
us last week. the one who lost the
address of his friends house? Have
you seen him again?" she asks.
She gets mo" from the officer
and signs. That complexities mat
tiers. The man came here from
Southern Virginia looking for work.
He went to his friends house and
then thought he'd take a stroll
around the town. Unfortunately,
he'd left his friends address, as well
as all the money he possessed, in
the suitcase he'd dropped at the
friends house The friend was a
recent arrival with no listing in the
city directory or telephone book.
Wife Sends Money.
The police station where he finally
landed sent him to Travellers Aid
and they wired his wife asking for
return fare First his wife refused
to send the money, but now, several
days later, there was a letter from
her asking for his address. He was
supposed to return to the Travellers
Aid but he hadn't come back and
now there was the problem of locat-
ing him.
100 am.-"For a big woman, I'm
little scared"
The worker looked up at a woman
with pince-nez glasses and tan cot
tOIl elOVeS.
I'm here for a week to look up
the geneology of my mothers peo-
pie" she explains. Il want to use the
D. A. R. Library and the Congress
sional Library. Can you find some
place for to stay at this hour, some
place not very expensive"
She glances around the dismal
station and shrugs her shoulders un-
comfortably. The worker consults
lists and private homes and hotels
while the woman, having found
some one to talk to, chats about cabs,
about the other passengers on the
train, about Washington, anything
to ward off the desolate feeling of
the hour. The worker calls a hotel
and the woman is sent off. To-
morrow she will return for the ad-
dress of private home. It's too late
to go to one tonight.
Boy Wandering Around.
For the last hour, the worker has
been glancing across at the souvenir
shop where small boy, no more
than 10 years old, has been Wander
Ing around. At first she thought he
was with his parents, but he's almost
alone there now.
Hes a nicely dressed youngster
with new suede jacket and sturdy,
Well-polished shoes. He has Just
purchased toy gun with a holster
which ne has proudly buckled
around his waist.
The worker leaves her booth and
strolls over to him She admires the
gun, talks about the souvenir and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
Tell With Europe
Club Revived

An organization of American news
papermen and their close associates.
known as the Tell With Europe
Club, was revived yesterday at an
informal gathering at the Carlton
Hotel.
Samuel G. Blythe, veteran CORE
spondent and author, who aided in
the clubs founding 20 years ago in
a Paris hotel, was present for the
organizations revival. He is in
Washington for visit before he re-
turns to his home in Pebble Beach,
Calf.
He explained that the title of the
club is all inclusive The organiza-
ton was formed, Mr.. Blythe said,
after president Wilson saw every
thing but his nethermost garments
taken during the 1919 Peace Con-
ference, and we began to see just
what America was going to get out
OF the war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
Georgetown, A. U.
10
Open Tomorrow
Grid Games Saturday
Will HiehIieht Two-Doy
Programs

Georgetown and American Uni
versities will celebrate their 1889
homecomings tomorrow and Satur-
day. The program of both schools
will be high lighted by outstanding
football games Saturday afternoon
Because Saturday is a legal holi-
day. the student body and R. o. T.
c. at the Hilltop will conduct an inn
pressive program at 1875 am. to-
morrow in memory of the 81
Georgetown men who lost their lives
in the World War. Herman Hyland,
president of The Yard, as the
student council is known, will be
chairman at the exercises. Dr. Ed
mund A. Walsh, S. j., regent of the
foreign service school, will make
an address.
Several hundred alumni are ex-
pected to return to the American
University campus for the annual
celebration. Last year, the home
coming crowd broke all records and
still larger attendance is expected
this year.
Activities will begin tomorrow
night with a huge bonfire on the
A u field. Amid cheers and songs
the university will present its first
campus sweetheart. She is pretty
Helen Snyder, 10, who will preside
at the football game with Blue Ridge
College, the alumni banquet and
the dance.
Saturdays Events.
Events scheduled for Saturday
afternoon include an alumni lunch
con at 1890, the football game at
2:30 pm. and the annual recep-
ton of the Junior Woman's Guild, ia
be held in the Women's Residence
Hall Immediately after the game
In the evening the alumni will spon-
sor banquet at the Broadmoor Ho-
tel, followed by dance at the COL
lege Gymnasium.
An alumni smoker at the May
flower Hotel sponsored by the
Georgetown Law School Alumni
Club of the District in which all de-
partments of the university are CO.
operating, will be the main home
coming event tomorrow evening
The Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. J..
president; Coach Jack Hagerty and
the Maryland University coaching
staff will be the guests.
The collegians will hold dance
at the Washington Hotel tomorrow
evening, hoping it will be in the
nature of football victory ball.
1t is sponsored by the staff of the
Hoya, student publication, with
John H. Dwyer as master of cere-
monies.
Requiem Mass.
Saturday morning alumni will at
tend a requiem mass in Dahlgren
Chapel for the late Rev. Vincent S.
McDonough, S. j., former faculty
moderator Of athletics. A reception
for visiting alumni will be given by
the president of the university at II
am. preceding the annual Mary
land-Georgetown game in Crit
fifth Stadium that afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09

At the coach she stops and holds
out her hand.
Ticket" she says.
Further Work to Be Done.
That stops him for a moment and
she's about to resort to sign Ian
guage when his hand dips into his
vest pocket.
Ticket" he returns proudly, and
hands it to her
She sees him aboard the train,
tells the conductor to watch out for
him and goes back to her desk. That
one was easy. Sometimes she's had
to meet five families on one train.
There was a night when she met AZ
trains, all of them with more than
one passenger.
Back in the booth she types out
wire to the Travellers Aid in
Knoxville. They will know Just
when he's arriving and where he's
to go. At the same time she sends
a post card to New York, notifying
the Travellers Aid that George has
been met and is on his way.
II George had had to wait several
hours in the station, she would have
put him where she could keep an eye
on him or hunted up taxi driver
who could talk Greek.
Time now for her midnight iaunt
around the station. She gets the
feel of the waiting room that way.
An hour from midnight, or two
hours, she will go around again.
She will have spotted the ones Just
waiting for trains and the others,
the ones that might need her help.
The young couple sitting together
on the bench might be hitch mixers
or. then again, they might have
planned to run away together and
changed their minds at the last mo-
ment, with no place to spend the
night except on a bench in the sta
ton.
She chats moment with Re-
becca in the womens room. The
maid may need her help later. One
night Rebecca came running across
the station to get an ambulance. A
woman was about to have a. baby in
the waiting room.
In her booth again, a man in
workmans clothes comes over. Be-
hind him is a timid little woman
whose brown hat is crushed over her
forehead and whose black cotton
stockings give at least hint of the
foreigner.
This lady here can't speak Eng
lish," he tells the worker. "She
came from Germany three months
ago to visit and we want her to stay
but she won't. She won't even let
me drive her up to New York. She's
stubborn one"
Can't Speak English.
The woman, the worker learns, is
nurse. Her boat sails for Germany
Thursday. There are friends to be
reached in New York but she doesn't
know how to use a telephone. Her
train will get into New York before
dawn and she can't speak a word of
English to help herself.
Off goes day letter to the
Travellers Aid in New York with full
details, even to the telephone num-
Der of the friends. VERY indie
pendent but needs help" the worker
telegraphs. The man, the travellers
brother in-law, pays for the message
and signs with relief.
The next few minutes:
1890 am.-The man at the in
formation booth across the way calls
goodnight" and closes up for the
evening.
1885 am.-"Where can I get a
cup of coffee?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
Thorke|son Files
100000 Libel Suit

A 100000 libel suit was on file
today in District Court by Repre-
sentative Jacob Thorkelson, Repub-
lican, of Montana, living at the
Westminster Apartments, against
Kenneth G. Crawford, Washington
correspondent, and Julian Messner
Inc, publisher, 1346 F. street NV.
The Representative, who asks the
court to award 5000 900 as COM
pensatory damages, plus $4,000 as
punishment, contends that his pro-
fessional reputation as a doctor has
been damaged by publication of a
book called 1.-The Pressure Boys" of
which Mr.. Crawford is reputedly the
author and the Messner firm alleged
ly the publisher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09
Pine Sponsors Two
Before Appeals Court

United States Attorney David A.
Pine today moved the admission of
Assistant Attorneys General Samuel
O. Clark, jr., and Francis M. Shea
of the Department of Justice to
membership in the bar of the United
States Court of Appeals.
Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner
welcomed the Federal officials and
granted the motion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-09

Mrs. Boaddus and John arrived
here yesterday and are staying with
Mrs. Broaddus' mother, Mrs. B. E.
Farwell, proprietor of Taft House
Inn. John won't see his father again
until the ice goes out in the spring.
Mrs. Farwell said today Johns
health apparently had improved, al
though he will be under a physicians
care for some time.