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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
6Civic Units
Plan to Meet
This Week
North Capitol
To Hear Address
By Stull

This week, the last of the first
month of the new civic season, finds
six citizens associations meeting.
The North Capitol group, meeting
tomorrow evening in the Mckinley
High School, will hear an address by
Harry N. Stull, president of the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
A Red Cross speaker, plans for the
new season and appointment of a
nominating committee for elections
next month headline the meeting of
the Mid-City group tomorrow at the
Thomson School, it was announced
by President A. J. Driscoll.
Fire and police protection will be
subjects of discussion at the first
meeting of the season of the Hamp-
shire Heights Citizens Association,
Harry ]. Miller, president, said.
A new policy" is expected to be
worked into future meetings OF the
Burroughs Citizens Association, &C
cording to its president, DR.. A. Fife
Heath At the meeting Friday night
a program will be given by school
children of the community Cen
eral singing by members also has
been listed on the program. DR..
Heath explained that urgent bust
ness would be given every considera-
ton, but matters of a trivial nature,
which heretofore have tended to
slow up the meetings, will be turned
over to an appropriate committee
for decision, thereby speeding up
the sessions and leaving enough time
later in the evening for any enter
tainment that might be listed.
Following is the complete list, with
time and place, of the six associa-
tons meeting this week:
Tomorrow Mid City. Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets NV,
pm, and North Capitol, Mckinley
High School, Second and T streets
NE, 8 pm.
Tuesday - Hampshire Heights,
Barnard School, Fourth and Decatur
streets NV, 8 pm. and Southeast,
Friendship House, GIG D street Sc,
8 pm.
Friday-Anacostia, Anacostia Jun
ior-Senior High School, Fourteenth
and R streets Sc. 8 pm. and Bur-
roughs, Burroughs School, Eight
zenith and Monroe streets NE, 8
pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22

Out of the Maryland hills flow
many streams. Along the quiet
banks of most of them only grazing
cattle and herds of sheep add life
to what appears always to have
been placid rural scene.
On a slope overlooking Bennett
Creek in Frederick County, how
ever, stands lone reminder of the
period when the streams echoed to
the shouts of workmen and the hum
and clatter of industry.
Where Bennett Greek flows past
the slumbering community of Park
Mills, John Frederick Amelung.
settler from Bremen, Germany,
established a glass factory in 1874.
The only remnant of the once
iourishing community he named
New Bremen is his solid brick home
on the slope facing Sugar Loaf
Mountain.
The sturdily built house is two
and half stories high, and stands
today much as it looked $50 years
ago when it was the focal point of
the activities of New Bremen. A
mixed type of Georgian and Dutcn
architecture, it has 20 rooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
Membership Drive
Contest Planned

The Membership Committee Of
the Board of Trade has started an
other season of activity by announc-
ing plans for a membership contest
among its members.
The competition will be called the
"Silver Wings Air Derby" with con-
testants designated as pilots, CO.
pilots and crew members. In charge
of the program are Committee
Chairman Henry S. Owens and Vice
Chairmen Thornton w. Owen and
Harry L. Merrick
Those named as pilots include
Garrett A. Pendleton, Clarence w.
GoSnell, John F. Hillyard, DR.. Will
liam F. Brooks, Joseph c. Monaghan,
Milton H. Schlosser, Robert w. Davis
and Earl P. Ready.
Co-pilots are Joseph H. Deckman,
S. Dolan Donohoe, A. w. Lee, Ed
mund o. Carl, Harvey L. Jones,
Preston w. Parkinson, De We're R.
Weldon and James H. Rees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
Three Conventions
Listed for Week

Three conventions will be held in
Washington this week, according to
the schedule of the Convention Bu-
reau of the Greater National Capital
Committee. The list follows:
Association of American Cemetery
Superintendent, today through
Thursday at the Mayflower Hotel;
500 delegates.
Henry George Foundation of
America, Wednesday through Friday
at the Washington Hotel; 300 dele
gates.
National Association of Mutual
Insurance Agents. Tuesday through
Thursday at the Wardman Park
Hotel; 500 delegates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
Trade Board Gets
Nine New Members

Nine new members were admitted
to the Board of Trade on recon-
mendation of the Membership Com
mittee at a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the board last week.
They are:
Jesse L. Bray, salesman, 9O1 Sew
enth street S.W.; Boyd S. Connolly,
salesman, 901 Seventh street S.W.;;
Richard D. Fitzgerald, plumbing
contractor, 819 Seventh street NV;
G. P. Oliver, contractor, 2539 Penn
sylvania avenue NV: John w. Pow
ell, railroad executive, Union Trust
Building; W. D. Spicknall, builder,
1923 Hamilton street NV: John w.
Stockett. Jr.. sales representative
Arlington, Va; w. Clark TAYLOR
lawyer, Evans Building. and Key
stone Readers Service, 635 F street
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
Lepers Make Appeal
For Dubious Remedy

Cuba's lepers have appealed to
the government at Havana to recog-
nize officially the Main type of
treatment. They put great faith in
this treatment which was patented
by Dionisa Main, a negress. AL
though conceding that the treat
ment has helped patients at the
San Lazaro lazaretto, where it has
been used experimentally, the doc
tors there express the opinion that
the cure is only temporary. The le-
pers made their appeal in letters 10
President Laredo, President-elect
Batista and Secretary of Health de
Moya. The treatment consists Of q
hahn and a medicine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22

wine, Van Ness, Yuma streets and
Alton place between Forty sixth and
Forty eighth streets.
Before entering the Government,
Mr.. Maxwell was connected with
the Baltimore ana Ohio Railroad.
He started work with the company
at the age of IA as a telegrapher,
and through a series of promotions
became an agent, assistant chief dis
patcher, official in charge of the
telegraph department and a member
of the superintendent staff.
Mr.. Maxwell has attended the
West Virginia Business College and
the National University of Law here,
where he specialized in I. C. G.
law. He resides at 4945 Brandywine
street,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
New Zealand Tablet
Honors Sheep Breed

Sheep have been honored By a
memorial tablet unveiled on the
estate of the late DR.. Webster at
Oamaru, New Zealand. The in
scrlptlon reads: This stone was
erected to commemorate the origin
of the Corriedale breed of sheep,
on this estate, by James Little.
1853" 1t is adjacent to the Cor
riedale homestead. where Little was
manager for DR.. Webster. The es-
tate was named for the estate on
the Scottish English border, where
both men came from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
Far North Melons
Exhibited at Moscow

Melons grown at So degraes north
latitude by M. G.. Yegorov of the
New Life Collective Farm in Yaku-
tia were exhibited recently in Mos
COW, Russia. He says that melons
are cultivated on the collective
farms of the Verkhue- Vilyuisk dis
trict, at "a degrees north.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
New Accident Squad Seen
Making D. c. Streets Safer
Co.ordinated Probe of All Crashes
Will Eliminate Haphazard
Procedure of the Past
BY J. b. ZATMAN.

Establishment Districts Investigation
Bureau which into action today give Washington
opportunity achieve substantial reduction death and
injury toll
Gilman will flying column that will
factors involved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22

The heavy black line on this
map OF the Sugar Loaf Noun
tain area represents the mar
row dirt road which follows
Bennett Creek as it curls
around the base of the hill on
its way to the Monocacy
River.
Map and Photos by The
Star Staff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
A. u. Park Citizens Prepare
For New Seasons Activity
President Maxwell, Newly Reelected,
Discusses Policies and Programs;
Cultural Needs Cited


Of activities after electing president
paraive newcomer to its ranks James E Maxwell
Maxwells in the association unusually
community 1887
its Public Utilities Committee and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
Business GROUPS
Six Associations
Plan Meetings

The following six disbursements
associations are scheduled to hold
meetings this week:
Tuesday, September a.
Columbia Heights - Luncheon,
Sholl's Cafe, 3O27 Fourteenth street
NV, 12:l5 pm.
Wednesday. September Is.
Cleveland Park-Luncheon, Du
Barry's Restaurant. 1909 Connecticut
avenue NV, 1890 pm.
Thursday. September rs.
Northeast - Luncheon, Weber's
Cafe, 402 H street NE, 1915 to 1:15
pm. (no EXCEPTIONS.
Northeast Regular meeting,
American Security & Trust Co.,
Eighth and II streets NE, $3.50 pm.
Central-Luncheon New Colonial
Hotel, Fifteenth and M streets NV,
1915 pm.
Friday, September 81.
Milk Producers-Reguar meeting,
association headquarters. 932 Phila-
delphia avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
Time to be set.
CALENDAR NOTES.
The Electrical Contractors Board
of Governors will meet Tuesday at
8 pm, Pepco General Office Build
ing. Tenth and E streets NV.
At the Central luncheon Thurs
day noon A. j. Driscoll will cite in
cidenceS from his membership on
the Selectire Draft Board of the
World War. Mr.. Driscon will also
show photos taken of the board
members at that time.
The fall busy season is now in
swing for tho small businessmen of
the city. AL associations have had
at least one meeting to reorganize,
or will have had after this week.
Frederick Levy, president of the
Central boGy, states 1904 will
long be remembered in the history
of Central IS the beginning of great
strides toward the betterment of
the small businessman in the city
of Washington"
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scious of a sense of light-headed-
ness.
you're terribly pretty" he said,
land lots of fellers will fall for you.
But I wanted you to know that
well, I'm not the sort that says
things-things like I said that night
to a girl and doesn't mean 'em.
That was the first thing thought of
the other night at home-when
saw you
'Well, a lot of fellers wouldn't
have thought of that. They'd have
thought it was a long time ago;
it's over. Not me. I had to see you.
l told Cert and Mother, you know"
"You told them!" She was star
tied out of a musing dream that
had carried her miles away; she
was thinking that she might get
Joe tie like that for Christmas
81 told them I'd met you last sum-
mer, and I thought you were fine,
and that I'd no idea that things were
so bad with YOU"
He smiled at Sheila, and she
smiled back. She felt Inundated
and cheapened somehow; she
wished herself miles away, but he
must not see it. After all, it was of
no consequence, for in another five
minutes he and she would part, and
they would not see each other again.
$50 that's the way the whole
thing came about!" he said, rising.
How much more he would have
thought of me if I'd paid no atten-
ton to his note, and hadn't come
here today" Sheila thought, stand
ing, too.
Peter reached up, ready to snap
off the light, glanced at his wrist.
"Gosh, it's after five!" he ex-
claimed, shocked into complete nat
uralness for the moment. "And
was to 60 to the tailor for a min
ute between half past four and five,
and I have to meet Gertrude at
church! What do you know about
that-four minutes past five!"
His hand was on the door. Sheila,
following him, saw his expression
change curiously.
why" he calculated simply, ''it's
locked"
''It's stuck"
"Stuck nothing! It's locked"
They investigated. Some fourteen
or fifteen feet below them was a
dirty, cindery roof, just the depth
of one of the stories of the old build
ing in which they were trapped. A
fire-escape's ratings curved up over
one edge of this roof; there was a
tangle of chimneys, tanks, other roof
levels about and below.
"We couldn't drop that?" Peter
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-05-09
CHAPTER Iv-Continued

Toward mid-morning Sheila was
wanted at the telephone. This was
a quite unprecedented occurrence.
Nobody had ever called Sheila be-
fore; it was a custom not encour-
aged in the office. She went to
Miss Nc Cartney's desk with her
heart beating fast. 1t must be Pc
ter
It was not Peter. It was Frank
Nc Cam who had called.
care you doing anything this aft
ernoon, Miss Carscadden?"
Sheila was bewildered. Her wits
deserted her completely.
81 mean-my young lady has an
engagement this afternoon" Frank
said in his easy, self-confdent way.
''The Cahills are giving Cert and
Peter a big blowout, up the coun-
try somewhere, and of course we
have to 60. But have several
hours free, and thought maybe you
and I could 60 to movie"
She felt, a few minutes later, that
she need not have been so brief in
declining. After all, he had meant
it well. After all, he was the Oldest
of the Nc Cams, and the Nc Cams
had suddenly become to Sheila the
most important family in the world.
But-well, it didn't matter. Frank
Nc Cam didn't matter. What did
matter, supremacy, was the eternal
question: was she going to meet
Peter in the library or not?
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IRISH EYES ; :: '.'''.

off," he began again with gusto;
1--WE like each other. We have din
ner together, and we dance togeth-
er, and along about midnight / find
myself telling her that I love her
get me? And it was true, too! !
said to that girl, you and I are
going to be married, Sheila. I'm
coming to see you Tuesday night,
and meet your folks, and just as
soon as we get ready to tell
them"
eyes. know" Sheila interposed,
scarlet-cheeked. "But-"
''Well, / come back to town, I
try to find my girl, it can't be
DONE" Peter summarized it rapid
ly. "For a while I'm all off my
feed; I feel rotten. I get to walking
up and down strange streets looking
for her-no good.
"Well, all the time Gertrude's
right in the picture, see? Just like
one of my sisters-I mean," Peter
interrupted himself, speaking more
naturally, II mean I've always liked
Gertrude. And she's always liked
me. It was Mother who tipped me
off. We were going to Forest Hills
for the tennis, one day. She said,
Now, don't you break Gert's heart
on her, Peter!' Cert got as red as a
beet. 'Ah!' I thought, lis that the
way the land lies?' Well, we fixed
I'D everything that day, and every
one was glad. My father got me a
job, and everything was fine"
No, he had talked himself out of
her heart. It had been done quite
simply, in the kindliest possible way.
She was not losing him, she had
never had him; no one had ever
had the Peter of her memories, be-
cause there never had been such a
Peter.
Looking at him, the actual Peter,
as she decided this, she was con-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-05-09
CHAPTER vi

"Well, it doesn't matter" Peter
said. because when 1 don't show
up my folks will get in touch with
the police"
"But they'll put our names in the
papers!" Sheila answered.
''Not if my father gets on the job.
He has 'em all in his pockets. If
l could only get out of here in time
for that party" Peter went on, rest
lively, 81 could square it with Cert
fast enough. Mother wouldn't care,
anyway. But if they have to call
off the party"
"Call it OFF," she repeated, as
he paused, scowling.
"Yep. You see, it's for Cert and
me, and there's going to be hum
dred people there. That'd be heck
of a MOTEL, he muttered.
"Look here he said suddenly,
after another long interval. "We've
got to drop out of this window, some
how. We3could easily freeze to death
in here before they found us"
ooh, Tdon't!" Sheila whispered,
turning white.
"Well; / tell you we could. We
haven't got anything to eat-it's only
seven o'clock now-they mightn't
find us until Monday morning.
ooh, please!" :,
He was at the window, the girl
beside him. They opened it, and a
rush of cold snowy air swept into
the room, and made them stagger
back, gasping.
Peter shut the window; there was
again an unearthly languor and
closeness in the suddenly quieted
place.
"Listen!" he said, "I'll take this
ladder, and set it in the snow down
there on the roof next door, and
drop onto it,"
"That'll break every bone in your
body!" Sheila predicted.
The ladder was about four feet
high. They looked at it obviously.
eff I could get down." Peter NUT
tered, land telephone Cert"
And without further warning he
was up, at the window again, he
had thrown it open, his head was
out in the storm. Like a person
transixed in a terrible dream Sheila
saw his body silhouetted for an in
slant against the falling fakes of the
snow.
Then the window space was emp
ty, except for the thick soft futter
of the blizzard
RIO BE CONTINUED)
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speculated nervously, beside her at
the window.
WED break our legs"
"Gosh!" he calculated, off for an
other feverish inspection Of the
room. ''My mothers waiting for
me now!'
II know it."
''I'm due at party at sevenl"
the boy muttered.
He had returned to the door. It
was a high door, deep-set and I'M
promising. It had been built in that
long-ago time when sohdity and
permanence were considerations in
architecture. Even to the pressure
of Peters body it yielded not quiv-
er. Peter kicked it; it did not stir.
"Gosh, I'll bet there aren't ten
doors like that in New York;" he
exclaimed bitterly.
ttThe doors in our place-well,
throw silk stocking against them
and they rattle!" Sheila observed.
Peter gave her resentful glance.
''It's all right for you," he said.
''But I'm in a hole"
ooh, we'll get out" she stated.
"An right, we'll get out. But
how?"
"Well-" she hesitated. "But you
can't imagine our not getting out,
she offered.
GIVE got to get out!'
"There doesn't seem to be tele-
phone" Sheila remarked thought
fully.
His glance explored the entire
place.
"D'you suppose they open up the
library nights?"
"They might Saturday night"
"They don't!" he said in despair.
eff we could just bust into that
next room," he began again, after
pause in which Sheila, having
opened the window upon the bleak
winter evening, had hung out of it
at all possible angles, to see if
she could discover any means of
escape.
cts snowing!" the girl an
nounced, breathless, with SCOT on
her cheeks, as she drew in her head
and slammed the window down
again. t'Whew-w-w! It's bitter, out
there"
The first look of personal uneasi-
ness darkened Sheila's dust
streaked face.
''I've got to get OUT" she said.
''My mother'n have cat fits. If I'm
away without letting her know she
gets awfully mad. She'll be fit to
be tied!"
"Well, what Go you think it is for
me?" Peter demanded sulkily.
They flung themselves on the door
for three unavailing minutes that
seemed like half an hour. When
they gave up, both boy and girl were
disheveled, painting, their hands
sore. The solemn bells of Saint
Paul's sounded Angelus, and Shei-
las lips moved automatically on the
exquisite words.
cts showing like mad, it's biz
zarding," she said, at the window.
"Well," Peter said. ''Here we
are. Where do we 60 from here?"
Snow muffled the world; snow
piled itself on the broad window
stills. The room began to get very
cold, and smelled more than ever
of dust and rubber and old bindings.
They're letting the furnace 60
out!' Sheila suddenly observed.
"That's what they've done, all
right"
"Then there's nobody here, Sat
urday and Sundays"
A long pause. They looked at
each other.
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avoid the word as having too many
shades of meaning.
Customer (pretty tired of it all
by this time)-What I mean is how
old is it?
Salesman-The serial number is
678456, and, according to the rec
ords, this makes it a car manufac-
tured in 1888.
Customer-How many miles has
it gone?
Salesman (wincing)-The speed
ometer says 1900 miles. The own
er has given an affidavit swearing
that the speedometer has not been
tempered with. Our office manager
certifies that it has not been
changed or fooled with here. I can
say nothing more. Washington is
very strict on this point.
Customer-Has it
Salesman with an air of finality)
Now, I'll tell you what to do.
Take it out, .. Run it for month or
so. Make your own decision. Then
make us an offer. THEN I'LL PUT
THE WHOLE PROPOSITION BE-
FORE THE PROPER FEDERAL
OFFICIALS AND WE'LL SEE if we
can all conclude the deal with
CLEAR CONSCIENCES!
HO HUM!
When people grow lyric about the
And gush over bluebirds and daft
fodils;
Wrens building nests out of grasses
and string.
Only taxes I see, and overdue bills.
Blue of the jay is the hue of my
mood.
Chirp of robin brings curse on
his head;
Give me a crow, though his man.
nerS are rude;
He is always in black-I am tired
of red.
The estate of John D. Rockefeller
has succeeded in getting Lakewood,
N. j., to accept, free of charge, the
550-acre showplace of the late oil
king down there. Some people have
all the luck.
SPRING
Sniffy colds, forsythia,
Daffodils and men with picks,
Pussywillows, funny hats,
Love, hand organs, baby chicks.
Fishing pamphlets, grass seed ads,
Paint and varnish, spring-lamb
stew,
Robins, fleas and liver pads
Doc, can't shake off this full
The home builders last words:
"Now, then, let's take up the ex-
tras, if any,"
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Kinds of Winds

On the Beaufort wind scale
(named after Sir Francis Beau
fort, Nineteenth-century British
admiral, and used by the United
States weather bureau) a strong
wind is one blowing from Is to 80
miles per hour; a gale is from 80
to Sd m. p. h., and a whole gale,
from SIS to rs m. p. h. Winds above
rs m. p. h. are called hurricanes.
Other Beaufort designations:
calm, below l m. p. h.; light, / to
z; gentle, 8 to IL; moderate, Is
to 10; fresh, 10 to "a m. p. h.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-05-09

OdlGSInan ever
mindful of the
code) - Suppose
we just say one
of the best, and
avoid all chance
of trouble.
Customer (still
elated)-Wha t is
the horse power?
Salesman (hes-
itatinp1v) II I'M
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-05-09
THE STORY THUS FAR

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