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Evening star., 1939-01-08
A. F. 6. (. MEETING

Afiiliation with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor by Government en-
ployes will be discussed at pm.
tomorrow at the Hotel Hamilton by
Frank Morrison. secretary-treasurer
Of the A. F. of L., at meeting
of the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees. Michael D
Schaefer, a charter member of the
A. F. G. E., will discuss organiza-
tion activities.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Montgomery Red Cross
To Resume Glasses

The Montgomery County Chapter
of the American Red Cross will re-
sumo its f1rst-aid training classes
this month with tentative plans
calling for two-week course, Mrs.
Margaret Fleharty, executive secre-
tary, announced yesterday.
Registrations are being received
at the chapter Office in Rockville.
Instruction will be given by first-aid
graduates from the national Red
Cross headquarters. There will be
no charge except for the textbook.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Businessmen to Meet

The first meeting Of the year Of
the Northern Seventh Street Busi-
ness Mems Association, Inc, will be
held ut $50 pm. Tuesday In the
Immaculate Conception Hall, when
omcers for the year viii be elected,
1t was announced today.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

May Is has been designated as
peace day" for the 1889 California
World Fair.
Evening star., 1939-04-15
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

A mixing valve is not news to
those of us who are house conscious.
BY that We mean anybody who is
interested in keeping up with the
various improvements which have
been made IN the building and
equipping of modern homes knows
that the thermostatic valve which
mixes hot and cold water for show
ering and bathing is protection
and convenience for any bathroom.
Therefore we needn't say very
much about the value of thermo-
statically controlled valve for pre-
venting scalding or chilling. But we
do want to tell you about one we
have just seen whose cover plate is
SO attractively designed that it adds
to the good looks of your shower. 1t
is made Of chromium plated brass
with a rectangular slab attached on
top of the round plate; a rectangu-
lar handle on round base is affixed
to the center of the slab The let
tering cold" and hot" are done in
modern looking type. and the whole
thing well deserves its name mod
ern face plate"
OF course. the face plate is merely
the thing you see when you look
at the shower Behind it lies the
mixing valve itself, a thermostatic
device which delivers the water from
the shower and or tub at the tenn
perature you want it; you Just set
the control where it suits you.
Then, when water passes through
the oriflce in the valve at tenn
perature which is at variance with
what you've set as your correct
temperature, the element auto
matically moves to reproportion the
supply of the hot and cold water,
to bring the temperature of the
water up or down to what it should
be.
But all these things could happen
behind less ornamental face plate,
and we hail the attention given by
the makers of this particular valve
to the outside appearance.
The valve comes in both con-
cealed and exposed types, with check
valves and strainers built right into
Evening star., 1939-04-15
WASHINGTON, G., SATURDAY, 1885,

for the drying out of garbage, how
ever, and therefore requires, as
rule, the use of auxiliary fuel such
as gas or oil.
The model we have in mind is a
f1ue-fed, non-fuel fired incinerator,
with a combustion chamber big
enough to handle a three-day ac-
cumulation. You dump the gar
bage and trash in through a hopper
door on the first floor of your house.
AS you open the hopper door the
aperture into the f1ue closes auto
matlcally, so no odors or smoke
enter the kitchen. BY closing the
door you make the refuse slide down
a sloping steel runner to the CRATES.
Downstairs, in the cellar, the ash
pit door of the incinerator is left
open so air may be drawn through
the refuse and up the flue, taking
moisture with it. This dries out the
garbage to such an extent that after
three days of suction it is dry
enough to burn without auxiliary
fuel. Then the ash-pit door is
closed, and the refuse is lighted
through what is known as the fire.
door. Both doors are kept closed
during the burning, to induce
slow fire, which gives better incin-
Grafton.
Normally the incinerators burn
out IN from three to five hours. If
bottles and cans have been thrown
down the f1ue they can be raked out
Evening star., 1939-04-15
$4,000 Homes Started
With Aid Of F. H. A.
During Year
Evidence Of Uptrend in
Home Construction
Seen by Mcdonald

More than $4,000 new homes val
ued at approximately 5000, 900,
financed by F. H. A.-insured mort
cages and built under F. H. A. in
spection, have been started since
the first of the year throughout the
United States and Territories, Fed
eral Housing Administrator Stewart
Mcdonald announced today. In
March alone the number was 1000.
These figures. Mr. Mcdonald ex-
planned, taken from F. H. A. opera
tions records for the first quarter
of 1899, are evidence of the general
uptrend in new residential construc-
ton over the Nation. With a con-
tinuance of the present volume,
1889 will probably show a new high
in F. H. A. insuring operations in
the new construction field.
These totals include only those
homes on which construction has
been started since the first of the
year" Mr.. Mcdonald said. Our
new homes figure, which includes
homes constructed from plans after
acceptance for insurance by F.. H. A.
as we'll as those begun within one
year prior to the insurance of the
mortgages, runs considerably higher.
The percentage of new home to
existing home mortgage insurance
is becoming increasingly large in vir-
tually every State" he continued.
In the District of Columbia, for
example, during March 80 per cent
of all applications for insurance re-
ceived by the District of Columbia
insuring Office were for homes to be
constructed. Increases are general
In all parts of the country.
Definite acceleration to the
financing and construction of new
residential properties has come out
of the practice, now becoming more
and more widespread among build
ers, of presenting plans and specifi-
cations for new homes to the Federal
Housing Administration prior to the
beginning of construction. In the
case of mortgages representing 81
to 80 per cent of valuation, this sub
initial to the F.. H. A. prior to con-
struction is obligatory but numerous
operative builders financing devel-
opments on the basis of 80 per cent
valuations are also obtaining F. H.
A. approval before ground is turned.
This practice has been found to
be good business among builders, as
public demand for F.. H. A. standards
and approval is becoming annually
more emphatic F. H. A. approval
on home assures degree of dur
ability and soundness in construc-
tion practice which the home buying
public has learned to appreciate.
This, in turn, has developed
new confidence and an increased de-
sire for home ownership which is
reflected in the large number of
new homes started under F.. H. A. in
spection and insured financing since
January l"
Evening star., 1939-04-15

sissippi. If you don't want the gas
burner, deduct IS. About $40 worth
Of masonry materials is required,
making a total of $120 or $125 for
all the materials.
The cost of labor in installing the
incinerator, which takes about four
days, varies with the locality you
live in. On the average, it's $50,
bringing the total cost of the in
cinerator to about 5000. But re-
member, once you have it, it Is a
fixed permanent part OF your home
and will last as long as a fireplace,
with less attention. And what a
convenience to the housewife
especially in the country, where
garbage collection is a problem.
Danish the bane of slamming
doors in your house! How? Why
by getting friction roller type of
door holder which will hold a door
in any position you want and abso-
Evening star., 1939-04-15

the fire door. The ashes, of course,
sift through to the ash pit and be-
cause they are clean ashes they may
be collected for use on your snowy
paths in winter or in your garden
in summer. The CRATES should be
cleaned off after every burning
(every three days., but the ash pit
doesn't need to be cleaned more
than every 10 days or two weeks.
A gas burner is furnished without
extra charge with this MODEL, if you
want to use the incinerator daily.
Its purpose is not to help combus-
ton, but to hasten dehydration when
it isn't practical to allow three days
time for natural evaporation.
The company which has designed
this home incinerator furnishes all
incinerator parts and plans that
show the brickmason how to build
the flue, etc. The parts and plans
cost $50 to SIS, depending on wheth-
er you are east or west of the Mis-
Evening star., 1939-04-15
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the mixing apparatus. The con-
cealed type costs $42; the exposed
about $45. The kind used for con-
cealed plumbing is furnished in a
rough bronze body with chromium
or nickel-plated face plate, while
that for exposed plumbing is fur
nished in full chromium or nickel
plate. Special finishes, such as
satin sheen, may be had at ad-
ditional cost.
In case you don't share our en-
thusiasm for the modern-s face
plate, there are others available; a
round face plate, larger than tine
disc behind the rectangle of The
modern-face one, and an octagonal
face plate, very trim, though more
usual in design.
So you're thinking of installing an
incinerator in your homer A good
idea! Especially now that models
are available in small sizes for about
the cost of other household utilities,
such as refrigerators and ranges.
One which has been designed es-
pecially for small houses, and takes
up less than square feet in your
basement, has capacity sufficient
for two to eight persons. (Will burn
7 to II bushels of refuse a day.
In estimating the size incinera-
tor you need, you always con-
slider how many people live in the
house, not how many rooms there
are, you know. The rough average
Evening star., 1939-04-15

lutely prevent it froIl slamming
closed. Easily applied, easily oper-
ated, and grand for the nerves.
The door holder is made of
steel axle and rubber roller which
is held in close, non-varying con-
tact with the floor by something
called a spring plunger." The axle
and roller are attached to the bot
tom Of your door with a surface
plate Of polished bronze or brass. in
any standard finish, which Is neat
and inconspicuous.
Two types are made--the mortise,
intended for new doors, which sets
practically flush with the door and
has an apron to conceal the roller
which fits under the door; and the
surface type, for doors which have
been used, which is attached with
four screws to the surface of the
door. They cost $425 to $535, the
more expensive ones being chro-
MUM plated.
Evening star., 1939-04-15
Add Beauty to Home

Brass and bronze lighting fixtures
enhance the beauty of the home.
Made in beautiful designs for all
types of homes, they require nei-
ther repairing nor repainting.
Evening star., 1939-04-15

is half a bushel a person a day, If
the incinerator is used every day.
Daily incineration allows no time
Evening star., 1939-04-15

Observation-Disclosures
Evening star., 1939-02-26

your name and address plainly in the
coupon at the right. Then mail in
the coupon, together with all of the
thin foil seal thatyou find beneath the
lid of a can of Ovaltine. And then, the
postman will bring you your very own
"Mystic-Eye" Detective Ring, ,uitl-
out pennys extra cost.
This beautiful 'tMystic-Eye" De-
tective Ring is made of genuine Vic
tory metal with simulated GOLD
FINISH by one of the largest manu-
featuring jewelers. in the country.
FRS ANY FINGER AUTOMATICALLY!
Remember, you don't need to send
penny-the ring is mailed to you
FREE. But the special offer is strictly
limited-and can probably never be
repeated.
So don't delay until it's too late.
Fill out the coupon no,o! Mail it in for
your FREE "Mystic-Eye" Detective
Ring today! You'll be glad you did.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
WHAT MAKES
1T WORK

NOT Radio NOT Electricity
::.NOT Magnetism! Works on
the same principle as the perl
scopes ueed on submarines dur.
Ing the War. All you do is hold
II up to your eye, squint into
the "Mystic-Eye" "openina-and
fresto! You can see what's 90
ing on behind your back with.
out turning your head!
Evening star., 1939-02-26
SeMsuzzouu//New/
A Beautiful, Simulated Gold finish Rinq with
"Mystic-E Eye'' Concealed Inside!

HERE'S the most astonishing ring
L L you probably ever saw-beauti-
full, thrilling, mysterious! And best of
all, it's being sent FREE without a
penny's extra cost-to boys and girls
who drink Oualtine.
At first glance, it looks like one of
those heavy gold seal rings you see in
jewelry stores-with a beautiful mil
itary spread-eagle design embossed
on the "face" of it, like an official
coat of arms.
But the surprising thing about this
wonderful ring is the fact that it has
a "Mystic-Eye" concealed in little
secret chamber just below the coat of
arms! A "Mystic-Eye" that enables
you to see what's going on behind
your back pithout turning your head.
It's like Having eyes in the back of
your head"-more fun than barrel
of monkeys!
TO GET YOUR R1NG:- Just print
Evening star., 1939-03-04
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, March ASA
Bushnell. commissioner of Eastern
intercollegiate athletics, puts on his
four-star double-header tonight at
Madison Square Garden-the 18th
annual intercollegiate A. A. A. A
indoor track championships. and
a special 2-mile race pitting Don
Lash, the indoor record-holder
against Glenn Cunningham, the
worlds best at l mile
Besides giving track fans chance
to see just how we'll Cunningham
can go at twice his natural distance
Bushnell appears to have made a
smart move in another direction.
Ordinarily the I. c. 4-A meet does
no better than a 10000 attendance.
But Bushnell figures the extra lure
of the Cunningham-Lash duel will
rope in a few thousand added Gus
toners, who will keep coming back
for the excitement supplied by close
competition and that old college try.
Manhattan Team Favored.
Though only four men are run
ming in the 2-mile and some 300 are
competing in the college champion
ships, it's safe to make a prediction
about the latter. 1t is that Colum-
bia won't be able to retain the team
title it has won the last two years,
but that another local college, prob
ably Manhattan. will win
Though the customers probably
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Cunninghom-Losh 2-Mi|e Duel
To Spice Intercollegiate
Track Show 7oniqht

will be surprised If either Cunning
ham or Lash doesn't turn up the
winner at 2 miles, in time close to
the Hoosier's record of 1858, there's
no guarantee of that happening
Also in the race are Greg Rice of
Notre Dame and Tommy Deckard of
Bloomington, Ind, the only men to
beat Lash at his speciality this
winter.
Cunningham. who has run every
thing from 440 yards to mile and
half in record or near-record
time, has had only a week to pre-
pare for this race, his first in major
competition at the distance. Lash
has announced he is more interested
in the try he'll make for a new
world mark on the fast Dartmouth
track March Is
New York Squads Strong.
Going back to the intercollegiate,
Manhattan's position as team fa-
vorite rests on its marvellous dis
tribution of power at 600 and 1000
yards and one mile and two miles,
its crack two-mile relay team. and
Artie Byrnes, likely five-pointer in
the high jump.
Chief rivals for the Jaspers should
be New York u, which got 10 points
for third place in the National A. A.
u meet; Fordham, which has the
600 and 1000 favorites in Wes Wal
lace and Frank Slater; Harvard,
Princeton and Cornell, of the "Ivy
League" and Pittsburgh and Penn
State.
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Birdie Lands Verdict
For Snead in Iona
ST. PETE P|ayoff
4-Footer Drops to Beot
Picard on Seventh
Overtime Hole
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, March 4.
"A 4foot putt for birdie on the
25th hole gave Slammin' Sammy
Snead of White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, frst-place money in the
$4,000 St. Petersburg open golf tour
nament.
Snead and Henry Picard of Her.
shey, Pa, with Cos we're all square
at the end Of the first 18 holes of
their playoff and seven additional
holes were required for a decision.
They had finished the regulation
81 holes trial at 207, 9 under par.
1t marked the fourth time in as
many years extra play has been
necessary to determine the winner
of the tournament
The victory was worth s700 to
Snead Although Picard received
only $3.50 for second place, it boost
ed his winnings for the last two
weeks to $3.50. Top prize in the
$4,000 Crescent City open at New
Orleans brought him $4,000 and last
week at Thomasville his first
brought $780,
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Mann Wins Another
In Ring Comeback;
Comiskey Slips
Matte Outpoints Knox;
Potrick Is Held to
Draw by Bonin
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 4.-If Matte
Mann can land his right little
oftener and more accurately, that
comeback he's trying may mean
something.
The husky New Haven, Conn,
better who has been trying to regain
the prominence he had before Joe
Louis knocked him out In three
rounds about year ago-Tony Ga
lento did it in two heats a few
months later-did pretty good job
against Buddy Knox of Dayton,
Ohio, at Madison Square Garden
last night.
Mann's timing was off at times
but he began finally to connect with
his right and won the last five
rounds to earn the decision in a
tough 10-round scrap. A couple of
rights in the seventh and ninth hurt
Buddy. Mann weighed 1924 and
Knox a pound less.
The smallest crowd of the season
at the Garden, 5,142, turned out for
the bout. Mann's fifth straight vic
tory. The gate was $l1,007.67.
Patrick Edward Comiskey, the
young clouter from Paterson, N. j.,
also had bit of a comedoWn. After
winning II four-rounders, 10 by
knockouts, Comiskey was held to
six-round draw by Gene Bonin of
New Haven. Comiskey floored
Bonin for count of three in the
third round, but he didn't seem to
know just what to do when Gene
got up and began to connect with
looping right, Pats own favorite
weapon.
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Triumph for Wakiva
Seen as 10 Vessels
Sail in Classic
BIitzen Is Rated Edge
In st. Pete-Huvunu
SIoop Division
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, March
"A fleet of 10 schooners, yawls
and cutters made ready for the
start at noon of the annual St.
Petersburg-Havan sailing race.
Favored to cross the finish line
first at Moro Castle, guarding the
entrance to Havana Harbor, was
the yawl Wakiva, one of the largest
vessels in the winter classic. 1t won
the recent Miami Nassau race. and
is owned and skippered by Harkness
Edwards of New York City.
The Bitten from Sea Island, Ga,
owned and piloted by R. j. Reynold.
jr., held the edge in the sloop and
cutter division.
Others expected to share in the
honors were the Starlight, owned
and skippered by Albert Fay of
Houston, Tex, and the Babe, entry
of Francis Bidwell of Pass-a- Grille,
Fla.
Entered also were Harry Bureaus
Haligohian, veteran of five races;
the Abenaki. a schooner owned by
Harlow N. Davok of Detroit; the
cutter Polux II from the Habana
Yacht. Club; the Admate, owned and
skippered by Theodore Leonard, Jr.,
of Columbus Ohio; the Shellback,
owned and piloted by Ronald E. Lee
of Houston, Tex, and the Colo
camm, a 72-fDt schooner and larg-
est boat in the race, owned by AL
fonso Gomez Mena of the Habana
Yacht Club.
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Pacho Apt 10 Garry
Armstrong Full
Route Tonight
Welter Champ Favored ,
But Havana Opponent
Is Tough Customer
Py the Associated Press.

PJ the Associated Press.
HAVANA, March 4.-Hurricane
Henry Armstrong Of Los Angeles is
putting his world welterweight
crown, the less valuable of the two
he holds, on the block against an
other Los Angeles citizen, Bobby
Pacho. here tonight. The bout is
scheduled for Is rounds and local
fight experts figure it is likely to go
the limit although Armstrong is
an overwhelming favorite.
Pacho is pretty tough customer.
He's been beaten often enough, but
he's hard to floor and he hasn't
been knocked out since Ceferino
Garcia did it several years ago.
Armstrong Outweighed.
He has looked very good in train
ing here, while the recent heat wave
cost Armstrong good many pounds
and made him slow his pace. Henry
weighed only 1876 yesterday to
Pacho's 148.
Cuba's biggest fight crowd is ex-
pected to pack Tropical Stadium to
its $4,000 capacity and. pay about
$4,000 for the privilege. There
have been turnouts of better than
5000 at the training sessions.
The former heavyweight cham
pion. Jimmy Braddock, was the
choice of Cuban boxing officials for
referee and both managers agreed.
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto

handed a three-game drubbing by
clicking C. & r. team at Lucky
Strike last night, but maintained a
five-game lead over Tool Shop No.
in the Navy Vary League as the
latter dropped tilt to Supply. Nc
Donald's 1896 led the C. e. r.
sweep.
The big guns of the night were
Joe FitzWater, who tied for third high
game of the season in leading F. e.
A. No. to a shutout over Planning
George Grimes garnered top set of
$50, but watched his Gun Shop team
lose a 81 decision when Sight No.
l posted a game of 600 to top his
own teams high count of 593. Andy
Prices last string of l54 was a high
light as Torpedo Tube No. ran up
top score of 1,713 to swamp Sight
No. 3.
An idling Manor No l team had
its lead cut to liz games in the
Country Club League as the third
place Beaver Dam No. l swept
Argyle No. 2. Charley Barnard's
354 led the victors, who posted top
team set of 1858. A 582 count gave
Indian Spring No. a 81 win from
Manor No. 3 as Bermon totaled BAT.
Freddie Moores 1873 with Kenwood
No. l was tops.
Dickinson Hits Record.
Fop Dickinson sports season re-
cord game for the Silver Spring In
dependent League by virtue of 10
rolled last night. His whopper de-
cided Godfrey's Service Station 81
from Phi Lambda.
Jim Walker rolled 157-4O8 to star
in the Real Estate League at Chevy
Chase. District Titles GIT and l,783
were tops.
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Outcome Big Field Goes Santa Anita Golden Gallon
From the
Press Box
DountIess Handicapped
Risks Life on Limb
By JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star

NEW YORK. March 4-This is
winters big racing day, and Jacola
or War Minstrel should win the
race for 100000 at Santa Anita,
while Stagehand seems a living,
pulsating cinch for Joseph E. Wild
ener's so grand at Hialeah.
say this as one who has not
picked the winner Of horse race
since the time that Man O. War
trained the mile. alone, in 1865.
I was pretty sure Man O. War had
the edge in that one, but, up to the
last furlong, it was touch and 60
whether the big fellow would get
wind of the fact I was picking him
and stop and sit on the fence till
the sprinkling wagon came by,
hauled by the winner.
In the Kentucky Derby last year
I had Dauber. Dauber knew it,
and he stalled at the post for several
minutes after the other animals
started, pretending he was waiting
for the light to change. When he
thought the race was safe for de-
mocracy, he jumped away at light
gallop, passed the other beetles as
though they were standing still,
which they were, and came upon
IaWrin in the stretch.