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Evening star., 1940-04-14
Work on c. & O. ConoI
To Sturt Tomorrow

Work is to start tomorrow on a
$15,500 reconditioning contract which
viii place the G. e. o. Canal in con-
dition to be filled with water this
summer.
Francis F. Gillen. new acting sup
erintendent of National Capital
Parks, said yesterday that Corson &
Gruman Co.. of Washington, to
whom the contract was awarded,
have been notified to start work.
Mr.. Gillen said that the work
should be completed by July /. At
the same time, he said, work is
nearing completion on a larger con-
tract for $l01,l17 In the vicinity Of
Whitewater between Cropley, Md,
and Great Fails. The Whitewater
contract is also being fulfilled by
Corson d GrumAn Co.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

human refrigeration process in
the treatment OF cancer, who
addressed the Undergraduate
Medical Society of George
Washington University yester-
day afternoon.
Either the temperature of. the
whole body is reduced to so de-
grees or less by being placed in
an ice pack, or some specific area
is reduced to much lower de-
gree.
Popularity described as frozen
sleep'-actually the patient is
neither frozen nor asleep-the
treatment Is now showing some
, marvellous results In the relief
Of pain and improvement in sup
posedly hopeless cancer cases.
No others are accepted. No
cancer cure is claimed, DR.. Fay
stressed, although some cases for
which no possible hope was held
forth have been able to return to
their homes and their jobs.
He Is now demonstrating, he
said, that there can be induced Z
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Pattern Makers Mark
41st Anniversary

Labor problems were discussed last
night by George Q. Lynch, presi-
dent of the Pattern Makers League
of North America, at a dinner dance
last night at the Carlton in cele-
bration of the 41st anniversary Of
the Pattern Makers Association Of
Washington, D. G.
Mr.. Lynch told his audience that
his organization had been success
full in every appeal for jurisdiction
which was filed before the National
Labor Relations Board.
The guests included Rear Admiral
George Pettengill, commandant Of
the washington Navy Yard; Capt.
w. e. Brown, production officer; 1t.
Comdr. A. G. Murdaugh, assistant
production officer. at the local gun
factory; Harold Ware, secretary Of
District No. 8; Stanley Du Halfway,
president Of District No. 3; Joseph
H. Brown, master mechanic, and the
following supervisory officers OF the
patternmakers at the yard, George
J. Lynn, Edwin c. Lynch, John G.
Holman and Archie A. Griest.
Frank q. Bryant was toastmaster.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Group to Gather
In Room Where
Lincoln Died

At 7:22 am. tomorrow Is years
will have passed since President
Lincoln died and small group of
his admirers will be present in the
room in which he passed away to
commemorate the occasion.
The group includes Representa-
tive Dondero, Republican, of Michi-
gan: DR.. Stewart McClelland, presi-
dent of Lincoln Memorial University
in Tennessee: Carl Schaefer of
Cleveland, a close friend of DR.. Nc
Clelland, and Randle B. Truett, chief
of the Memorials Section of the
Of1ce of National Capital Parks,
who is in charge of the Lincoln
Museum and the house in which
Lincoln died.
No particular program is con-
templated by the group. They Just
wanted to be there, one said, in
the hall bedroom of the Peterson
house on Tenth street opposite the
old Ford Theater where the Eman-
cipator was shot.
"At exactly 7:22 am. tomorrow It
will be IS years since the Nation
was shocked by the news that the
President had fallen victim to an
assassin's bullet" Mr.. Truett said
yesterday.
In another commemoration of the
18th anniversary of Lincoln's death
the Lincoln Group Of the District
of Columbia will meet for dinner
at the Hay-Adams House at $50
pm. DR.. McClelland will speak.
Chauncey Reed will preside, and Da-
vid G. Mearns, superintendent Of
the reading room of the Library of
Congress, will deliver q brief talk on
lAncolniana housed In the Library o.
Congress.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

continuous period of complete
freedom from pain and lack Of
memory Of what happens during
the interval without any damage
to the individual Patients come
out of the refrigeration refreshed
and with new hopes in life.
He told especially Of a new
type of operation in which freez-
ing tubes are placed directly in
the brain in cases of inoperable
and hopeless brain cancers. The
brain has demonstrated that 1t
can endure low temperatures
without damage, the abnormal
growths have tended to dis
appear, and the victims have re-
gained some Of the motor f,Inc-
tions lost because Of the tumors.
DR.. Fay stressed the possibility
of using the refrigeration as a
substitute for morphine or other
PAIN killers.
It is quite different from
freezing" he explained. Actual
freezing will stop the growth Of
cancer tissue, but this Is resumed
even more rapidly than ever
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Income Tax Return
M$1,ooo,oooI |,
Forecast for DC.
Assessors Stuff Plans
Busy DeodIine Day
Tomorrow

Belief that collections from the
Districts personal net income levy
would exceed the 81 600 900 revenue
estimate was voiced last night by
Tax Assessor Edward A. Dent after
observing yesterdays increased
flood of returns.
He said he had no way of know
ing yet how well the District would
fare under the Districts per cent
income. levy on corporations and
other business concerns, for which
return Of $4,000, 900 had been esti-
mated before tax returns started
coming in.
However, the assessors staff is
prepared for something approach
ing "land Office" business tomorrow,
when the deadline for filing returns
will be reached at midnight, ex-
cept for some business concerns
which have fiscal years of their own
or for which extensions of time
for filing returns have been granted.
Mr.. Dent made rough guess"
late yesterday that the District had
received as much as $1,700,0OO in
all under the income levies. While
this was far below the estimated
total receipts of $1,000, 900, it was
noted that Tax Collector Chatham
NJ Towers had received a very
heavy amount of payments by
mail, which could not be tabulated
yesterday.
! For the benefit of late corners, the
assessors income staff will remain
on duty until midnight tomorrow.
A large return is expected at the
last minute from corporations, since
1t is anticipated that masy concerns
may wait until the 18th hour so
as to have the use of their tax
payments until then, perhaps saving
interest on such sums.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Community Chest.
To Offer $100 Prize
For Emblem Desiqn
Contest Open to Artists
Of High School Age or
Over; z Other Awards

The Community Chest tomorrow
will set up a 500 prize for the
Washingtonian who can design for
it an emblem symbolizing its vel
fare service in the city.
Coleman Jennings, Chest presi-
dent, invited artists and art stu
dents of all varieties-of senior
high school age or over-to COM
pete in an emblem contest, open
ing tomorrow and closing April 80.
A second prize of $50 and a third
award of $25 will also be granted
for outstanding designs drafted in
the contest, he said. The prizes
will not come from Community
Chest funds but from the purse
of private donor.
Contest Judges.
A distinguished committee of
judges, headed by H. L. Rust. jr.,
Chest representative, will include
the following members:
G. Powell Minnigerode, director
of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
David Finley, director of the Ma
tional Art Gallery.
c. K. Bergman, cartoonist for
The Star. ..
George Lohr, commercial artist.
Mr.. Jennings and Herbert L. Will
lett, jr., director of the Community
Chest.
The winning design will be
adopted by the Chest as an Off
cial and permanent emblem for
use on its stationery and else
where-probably on the buttons
worn by Chest volunteers, on posters
and outdoor displays. All out
standing designs will be exhibited.
The Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor was cited by Chest officials
as embodying the type of imagina-
ton desired for the welfare organi-
zation's new official emblem.
Spirit Of the Chest Sought.
"The emblem should convey the
spirit of the Chest in the same way
that the Statue of Liberty embodies
(see CHEST, Page B-3)
Evening star., 1940-04-14
.12-Story Annex
10 Burlington
Hotel Planned
Petition Will Come
Before D. G. Zonino
Boord April "a

Construction Of history addi-
ton to the Burlington Hotel, at
1122-1124 Vermont avenue NV, is
proposed in an appeal for . vari.
ance from existing zoning rules,
which is to be considered by the
Board Of Zoning Adjustment at a
public hearing April "a at the Dis
trict Building.
This is one of 10 petitions sched-
uled for consideration at the hear
ing, and was filed by the Burline-
ton Apartment House Co.
The board also will hear argu-
ments for permission to establish
five gasoline service stations, three
OF which have been filed by Himmel-
farb Properties, Inc. These call for
flll1ng stations at 814 Bladensburg
road NE. at 500 c street NE. and
at 1900 Wisconsin avenue NV. One
appeal from the Brentwood Village
Stores Corp. was for station at
the southwest corner of Rhode
Island and Montana avenues NE,
The fifth, from the Lafayette Build
ing Corp, was for permission to es-
tabilsh a station on the first floor
and sub-basement of the Lafayette
Building, being erected at Vermont
avenue and I street NV.
Bowling Alley Permit Sought.
Other petitions were as follows.
BY Benjamin Ourisman. to erect
2 three-story addition to the build
ing at 6l0 H street NE.
BY Meyer Siegel, to establish a
bowling alley on the east side of
Alabama avenue north of Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc, within 200 feet
OF a residential district.
BY Henry Oxenburg, to extend a
proposed three-story apartment
house at Thirty-third place and
Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
BY Abe Glickman, to erect a one
story rear addition to the dwelling
at 218 Cedar street NV.
BY Mary Chillemi, to change
non-conforming use from a bakery
to sporting goods shop at 90l Mon
| roe street NE.
BY Katherine v. Hopkins Wylie.
to establish an automobile parking
lot at 1450-1454 N street NV.
BY Axle Anderson, to erect a one
story front porch on the dwelling
at 4l34 Twenty-second street NE.
BY Lavinia M. Engle, to change
non-conforming use from a grocery
store to a delicatessen store at 60l
Massachusetts avenue NE.
Educational Institution Planned.
BY Mrs. William r. Knobloch, to
erect a rear one-story addition to
the dwelling at BAIT Woodley road
NV. *. }tHz'
+ BY Israel Finkelstein, to change a
non-conforming use from 4 grocery
store to a cleaning and dyeine
agency at 500 Twelfth street NE.
BY Frank S. Phillips, to establish
an educational institution on the
north side Of Watson street east of
Conduit road NV. The school
would be operated by Madaline c.
Lilly. who was denied an appeal re-
Gently for establishment of the
school IN the 1900 block of Butternut
street NV.
BY r. N. Manganan. to remove the
front terrace and to construct a
new front wall and to erect a two
story rear addition at 14l0 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV.
BY the Washington Home for In
curables, to extend the permitted
grocery store and parking lot at the
southeast corner of Wisconsin ave-
nue. and Upton street NV. for a
distance of Is feet into the adjoin-
ing residential use district.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Census Bureau Club
To Present Comedy

A variety show and one act COM
edy will be presented by the Census
Bureau Dramatic Club in the Com
merce Department Auditorium the
night of April 10. Participants in
clude Joe Mandelbaum, Justine
Hoskins, Enid T. Herger, Mary T.
Vranesh, George j. Baird, Virgil
Willard, William Stoneberger, Mary
Pence, Betty Clark. Beatrice A.
Prince, Mary Thompson. Lois Kee-
fer, Thomas johnson, Mary Ireland,
Bertha I. Cross, Carl Mueller, Syl-
via Singerman and Colin Kerr
Cameron.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

upon thawing. There is no actual
damage to it. The refrigeration,
in which temperatures are kept
well above freezing, tends to
destroy it, while normal tissues
are left unaffected.
Evening star., 1940-09-29

ing class left the school in June,
and one of its members was Mar
garet, who has entered Leland Jun
ior High School
First of all, Mr.. Grass took pictures
of the new school, one showing his
grandson on the front steps. The
setting of the building in wooded
section told him this scene in a
diorama would be quite attractive.
To me, this was the newest
school," Mr. Grass said, land 1 felt
any exhibit I made should tie it up
with the first free school in the
United States"
Back he went to the scene of his
life's work, the interior Department,
and with the cooperation of col
leagues there he dug into history
books and other records to learn that
the Nations first free school was at
Dedham, Mass. A simple, one-room,
18 by 14-foot frame structure, it was
built by the early settlers themselves
in 1649. The school really was
founded in 1914, the townspeople
Evening star., 1940-09-29

During the 20 years the Powto-
mack Co., was in operation, nearly
18O 900 tons of cargo was trans
ported up and down the river. Flour.
tobacco. whisky, wheat, corn. ship
timbers, rye, flaxseed, ginseng and
pelts were among the cargoes that
came downstream from the Western
frontier. The cargo sent upstream
was confined to manufactured
goods, including sugar, dry goods,
iron castings and notions.
In the late 1905 and early 1905
the c. e. o. Co. revenues reached
their peak as q result Of great
quantities of coal brought by the
canal from Cumberland to George
town.
Fatal competition from the in
creasingly efficient railroads made
this success short-lived, and floods
in 1879 and 1888 just about demol-
ished the canal. The flood of 1924
added the finishing blow to the dy-
ing industry and commercial opera
ton was abandoned.
Landscaping and restoration Of
the entire 22-mile section Of the
canal Is called for in the five-year
program planned by the National
Park Service. The development Of
the remaining 164 miles of water
way has not. yet been onacialy
worked out.
Evening star., 1940-09-29

the company's only redress was to
sue for damages.
Mr. Writ wrote:
Il fear that the whole affair OF
these servants will turn out q bad
speculation for the company .
Lomis, Powell and Gill are now with
me. I expected that you would have
sent funds up today to Lomis as
they are entirely out Of money
Meantime. Powell and Gill say they
came of without a change Of clothes
and must have shirt and pair of
stockings, each, and money has not
been found to pay his OomisD stage
hire and fare. I shall advance SO
for these purposes. which you will
please forward to me"
Completed in 1850.
So the company had its troubles,
large and small, including q ques-
ton on time of raising thousands
Of dollars to continue the project,
and another time Of lacking $40 to
buy shirts and stockings.
But, at last, in 1850. the company
completed the canal to Cumber-
land, Md, just ~ years after the
Powtomack Co. had abandoned its
interest to the c. & o. Co.
The waterway cost $ll,07l,l76 al
together, three times the originally
estimated cost. Stretching 186 miles,
the cost per mile was nearly 960, 900.
Evening star., 1940-09-29

Maryland, Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania at earlier dates.
But even under this new organi-
zation the project Jared little better.
The builders were plagued by money.
labor and land disputes and finally
by competition with the Baltimore
a. Ohio Railroad, which began op-
erations that same year.
President John Quincy Adams
himself took out the first shovelful
of dirt in the project at colorful
ceremonies held at Georgetown on
Independence Day, 1923. But even
this encouraging stamp of national
approval couldn't shake the COM
pany free from its knotty problems.
European Aid.
Money to carry on the extremely
expensive undertaking was the great
need. Finally funds practically were
exhausted. Even the promotion Of
lotteries had failed to raise the
necessary capital
The company then sent Richard
Rush to Europe to negotiate loan.
His difficulties are revealed in the
following extract from the originals
of some of his correspondence with
Gen. G. F. Mercer, then president
of the canal company:
Amsterdam, July IS, 1929.
MY Dear Sir:
II arrived here on the 10th in
stant, and on the following day
commenced the delivery of my let
ters to the capitalists to whom I
brought them. These are the Hopes,
the Crommelius, Labouchere,
Braunsburg. the Insingers and many
others of less note AS yet I have
no results to communicate, the
Dutch. as we have always been told,
taking things quietly, ad referen-
dunn. ct deliberandum ."
But, added to the ordinary diff
culties of securing loan were stum-
bling blocks thrown in his way by
American "ex-patriots" whom he
found advising foreign bankers
against advancing money on the
project in their own country. In
this connection came the following
letter:
London, October 7, 1929.
Dear Mr.. Mercer:
MY efforts to raise a loan here,
may I think be considered as hav-
ing failed, but I have opened cor
respondence with Holland and it is
that which now keeps me -.
RefuSalS.
my efforts in London have been
defeated by Americans. This may
seem strange, but is the fact. Mr.
Barbour, should you fall in with
him, can give you some particulars.
Evening star., 1940-09-29
Federal Designer Makes Interesting Hobby of Ls Work

voting to tax themselves for its
maintenance For five years, the
children had been taught by their
schoolmaster. Ralph Wheelock. in
his own home or in the town meet
ing house.
Made Diorama.
Further research showed Mr.. Grass
that one-fourth of the United
States population today is attend
ing full-time day schools. More
than 27,0O0,000 children are enrolled
il public schools, including 222 ,042
elementary schools, Is ,467 secondary
schools, $50 higher institutions and
295 residential schools for excep-
tional children.
Armed with these facts. he went
to work. His first job was to make
diorama of Westbrook School.
Aluminium, cardboard and paper
mache were used for the building.
Sand and gravel were spread in
front. Twigs became the trunks Of
trees on each side of the school.
Evening star., 1940-09-29
BY GeOrge Haddock.

which seems to have dogged the
canal since it first was begun con-
tinues to provide annoying obstacles
Last week Secretary of the Inte-
rior Ickes said that because of
necessary expenditures for defense
purposes the appropriation by Con-
gresS of maintenance funds for the
canal would have to be withheld
until a more favorable time"
A Public Works allotment of 81
100000 provided funds for the pur-
chase of the canal right of way
from Washington to Cumberland,
Md, two years ago, and Mr.. Ickes
gave an additional $500,000 for re-
storation purposes. Congress with
held approval of an estimated ap-
preparation of S32,91O which would
have provided operating expenses
for the canal.
Final Blow.
The canal was abandoned as a
practical commercial enterprise in
1924, when a damaging flood tore
great gaps in the walls, releasing the
water.
The flood was merely the final
blow in series of disastrous
mishaps and discouraging problems
experienced by the Powtomack Co.
and later the Chesapeake g. Ohio
Co. from 1875 to 1924. The story of
how these men faced these problems
ic 1ntt toy-c
and records acquired by the Govern
ment
In 1854, Washington wrote to
Thomas Lee as follows: 80 You
will readily concur with NE in
judging it (the Potomac River
waterway more convenient least
expensive and I may further say by
much the most expeditions way to
the Country. There is but one
objection that can obviate this car
riage and that is the Scarcity of
water in the best season of the
year for this kind Of conveyance. ="
1t took more than 30 years, how
ever, for Washington to interest
others sufficiently to start his
project on the way TO reality
Finally, in 1885, the Powtomack Co
was organized, with George WASH
ington as its president but it didn t
stay in existence long enough to
finish the work
Other Troubles.
Debts hampered the progress oi
the Powtomack Co., but it carried
on doggedly for 43 years. Finally
in 1923. when further progress with
out outside help was considered i'm
possible, the Powtomack Co. was
absorbed by the Chesapeake & Ohio
Co., which had been organized thai
year. Acts of incorporation for the
new company had been passed by
the Federal Government and by
Evening star., 1940-09-29

Now that his latest creation IS
finished. it will be displayed first
at Westbrook. where it was inspired,
and then elsewhere. The whole job
took more than month of Mr..
Grass time.
Also since his retirement, Mr..
Grass has carried out special pro-
ject for the American Automobile
Association and the District High
way Department. the drawing of a
District map, literally illustrated
with pictures, showing street WIDEN
and other improvements. The map
was published in the February issue
of the A. A. AS American Motorist.
Mr.. Grass energy and appear
ance make it difficult to believe that
he is II years old. He looks years
younger and thinks nothing of put
ting in long hours on his favorite
projects or making long auto
mobile trip.
In 1884. he was assigned to make
exhibits for the San Diego, Calf $.
Exposition. He drove by himself
from Washington to San Francisco.
down to San Diego and back home
through Mexico, a total distance
of II 900 miles. He made many pic
lures on the trip. one of an OK
team in Phoenix, Ariz. In Arkansas,
on the way back, he had his only
puncture of the journey.
Probably his most priced work
is 30-foot model Of the Mount
Vernon estate, home of George
Washington, with a 4-foot reproduc-
ton Of the mansion, made for the
Washington Bicentennial in 1882.
This exhibit presented Washington
as a scientific farmer, with pictures
depicting scenes from his life. With
it was a phonograph that played
the National Anthem. 1t was "on
the road" for two years, being
shown in many parts of the country.
Another of Mr.. Grass creations,
an exhibit Of ground water re-
sources with a miniature artesian
well as its feature, is still being
shown by the Geological Survey.
There is one piece Of work he did
In 1908 that Mr.. Grass sees fire.
quently in drug stores. 1t is the
official certificate for druggists
issued by the District Board Of
Pharmacy. Mr.. Grass drew the II
by 14-inch certificate in Old English
lettering, with a picture of the
Capitol at the top.
The retired Government worker
has no particular formula for stay
ing young. Il keep up my interest
In life in general and always have
something to do. That's half the
battle," hs said.
Evening star., 1940-09-29

Green-painted sponges and imita-
ton leaves completed the woodland
scenery.
Mr.. Grass made special black
case for his exhibit, with the school
model in the center. Above it, he
attached panel showing several
photographs of the building. On
panel below, he framed map Of
the United States. with the national
public school information inscribed
underneath.
The 1897 calendar of a Dedham,
Mass, business house carried
picture of the old free school. Mr..
Grass reproduced this and other
interesting information about the
Dedham institution on one of the
side panels.
On Exhibit.
Inside lights make the school
model stand out clearly, while
another light illuminates the entire
exhibit. The whole thing is easily
folded up and can be carried like
a handbag