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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06
Justice Murphy Takes
Seat On u. S. Bench

WASHINGTON, Feb. s. Up -
President Roosevelt's %appointee to
the supreme court-Frank Murphy
of Michigan-began service on the
tribunal today after taking an oath
to administer Justice impartially.
Justices appointed by Mr.. Roose-
welt thus constitute a majority of
the nine-man tribunal.
The oath was given in open court
by Charles Eln1ore Cropley, the
clerk, after Murphy had marched
into the chamber with his col
leagues. Justice Black was absent
because of illness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

heart ailment which laid him low
January Fl.
For more than 80 years Callahan
had been active in advocating re-
ligious tolerance, prohibition and
profit.sharing by employees and
through a private news letter he
originated to discuss leading ques'
lions Of the day he became a friend
of many religious, business and po'
litical leaders.
While a member of the Chicago
White Sox before the turn OF the
century, Callahan once recalled, a
team-mate, Billy Sunday, persuaded
! MIN to seek a career in other fields.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

is to shave part Of the fur off a
white mouse and paint him.
What really keeps the laboratory
experts busy, though, is a clause
in the law providing that no new
drug may be put into interstate
commerce unless it can be proved
that the drug will be harmless if
used as prescribed. The manufac-
turer must submit his formula,
plus clinical tests showing that it
is harmless. ,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06
ADVERTISEMENT
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06
by worry.
Snubbed By Kids
He HeIped Along


About the only thing that sad
dens him is the instability Of a pro-
fession in which he has endured so
firmly. Cliff has watched hundreds
Of great names rise spectacularly
and decline ingloriously. He has
loaned lunch money to people who
only a few years before were I'M
aware of his presence in the casts
of their pictures. He has offered
earnest advice to youngsters and
has seen them smile with patroniz-
ing tolerance of this old trouper
who really amounted any
thing. "And Lord, the benefits I've
played"! he said. 1T seems like no
body in show business can think be-
yond tomorrow"
He showed me some pictures of
his house, an establishment in the
foothills which for size and per-
manence and ingenuity of design is
the superior of almost any of the
Observation-Disclosures mansions" in
Beverly Hills. Saum built nearly
every cubic inch of it with his own
hands. And he has put quite a lot
of money in the 3ank.
Time doesn't mean much to Cliff
Saum. He has worked steadily for
the Brothers Warner for rs years,
first in New York during their
shoestring days, now IN Hollywood
where they're leaders in the indus
try. He made his movie debut 80
years ago in the Reinstatement Mil
lion-Dollar Mystery" and for 20
years before that from the age of
7, he had been on the stage.
That was before the Gerry So
ciety, and travelling troupes were
glad to have bright kids who'd
work tirelessly and practically for
nothing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

staff Of the food
and drug admin
%istration. Its Job
is to see that
new products are
safe when they
|go on the mar
|ket, and that they
stay that way.
Since June, 1888,
when most of
the provisions of
1.-THE new pure
food, drug and
c o S m etics law
went into effect,
T. h g administra.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

prospective candidate can. If Tom
could divide himself into one hun
bred pieces and speak in every
county on the eve Of the primary,
he'd probably win in a walk; but
he can't do that, and SO his chances
are altogether problematical. Some
laugh at his entry, others fear MIN
no end. Come the last Saturday in
May and we'll know who il right.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06
In Hollywood
By PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5.-Clifford
Perry Saum is IN actor you nay
never have heard of, yet he has ap-
peared in more pictures than any
other player, living or dead. He
never has had a top-notch role or
a four-figure pay check, yet he's
envied by many a star.
When todaY's flicker celebrities
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06
Behind The Scenes
In Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. Silk
floors and a basement in one wing
OF the huge department Of agricul.
ture building is home" to a. small
army of skilled laboratory techni-
clans ceaselessly busy doing things
like testing eyelash dye and paint
ing shaven mice in rainbow hues.
This is the acknowledgements
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Chorus Girls
Read His Lessons

Saum says he never had a day of
read by chorus girls and wardrobe
matrons. Professionally he develop
ed into a song-and-dance man and
played with Weber and Fields, Anna
other great name of that time.
He left the Ziegfield Follies to
join Warner Brothers, and never
has regretted it for a minute de-
spite an undistinguiahed career in
which he played mostly cops and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

In Great Britain apricot stones
are manufactured into face pow
der; in Germany they are made in
to high explosives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

are fading has
beens, measuring
their past glories
in stacks of vel
lowed clippings,
chances are that
Cliff Saum still
will be busy and
secure in the job
he loves. He looks
that durable, any
way and an actor
can last a long
time when t h c
lines in his face
are caused by
laughter and not
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

Sunday later became the famous
evangelist.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

British government experts have
surveyed enough coal to last the ma.
ton, at it's present rate of consump-
ton, until the year 2080.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-06

Observation-Disclosures Governor
w. P. Horton, a candidate for gov
ernor will make five speeches this
week. His itinerary: Monday, Ro-
tary club at siler City; Wednesday,
Ruritan club at Jackson; Thursday,
Lions club at Dunn; Friday, Veterans
of Foreign Wars at Lumberton; Sat-
urday, D. A. r. at Farmville.
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Evening star., 1940-01-21
By Joseph S. Edqerf0n.

y
One of the most important pos
eible developments of the coming
decade in the growth of Washing
ton may be the improvement of
the long-neglected area east of the
Capitol as a part of a long-range
program to restore balance to a
city which has grown in a lopsided
manner to the west and northwest.
Months of study by city-planning
officials have established firmly a
belief that Washington will gain
many lasting benefits from res
toration and development of the
area immediately east of the Cap
itol
From the standpoint of the Fed
eral Government, the District gov
ernment, the people of Washington
and the people of the Nation, it is of
great and increasing Importance
that a comprehensive, far-reaching
effort to restore East Washington
to its rightful status should be
made, in the opinion of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission. 1t was pointed out
that the Capitol Building faces to
the east and that the original plan
for development of Washington
contemplated that the heart of the
Capital City would be to the east,
not to the west of the structure.
Prolonged efforts to inaugurate
this long deferred trend of de-
velopment toward the east appar-
emily are destined to meet with sue
cess early In the 1940-1950 decade.
Funds already are available for
Evening star., 1940-01-21

however, the location of the Zero
Milestone south of the White
House has blocked the establish
ment of such a marker in Lincoln
Square.
There are, however, alternate
plans for a magnificent treatment
OF Lincoln Square which would
raise it to the dignity of a focal
point in the area between the Cap
itol and the Anacostia River. It
has been proposed to redesignate the
square as independence Square"
since there now is confusion be-
tween Lincoln Square and the Lin
coin Memorial in the minds of many
visitors to Washington, particularly
as both are on the Mall axis. Un-
der this proposal sites would be
provided around the square for
Federal or State buildings, of which
the proposed $8,550,000 office struc-
ture would be the first.
Avenue of the States.
It has been proposed that East
NdplCOl SClccG Uc ScJ do4OC do OIL
Avenue of the States" and that
sites be provided for buildings to
be constructed there by the various
States. Such a plan would not be In
conflict with the proposed treatment
of Lincoln Square or other portions
of the East Capitol street area, II
was pointed out, but rather would be
supplementary in character.
With the development Of the Ana
costa Parkway as a link in the pro-
posed parkway system, particularly
in the proposed Washington -Balti-
more motor parkway, East Capitol
street, in time, would become a ma
jor entrance to Washington-an en-
trance worthy Of world renown, it /,
believed.
The Anacostia River Valley, it 1.
pointed out by planning officials
presents an unusual opportunity fol
Evening star., 1940-01-21

water sports. The waters are calm,
without the rapids and rocks which
make the Potomac River dangerous.
Fortunately, the Anacostia River
valley stretches toward Baltimore
and provides a splendid natural ap-
proach for parkway into WASH
ington from the northeast. Extend
ing south and southwest. the valley
also provides connection in the
natural direction of the traffic flow
to the recreational and historical
areas along the Potomac River and
toward the new bridge now being
constructed across the Potomac be-
tween Ludlows Ferry, Nd, and
Dahlgren, Va.
The total distance between the
city lines of Washington and Bal
timore by way of the projected
parkway is 81 miles. OF this dis
tance about one-third now is pub
licly owned. The Park and Plan
ming Commission has had in mind
a dual road development for the
parkway, the two halves of the road
being separated by center land
scaped strip of varying widths, de.
pending upon the natural terrain,
with q minimum number of inter-
sections.
Certainty that Washington ulti-
mately will be approached by park
ways from every direction has been
expressed by Gilmore D. Clarke,
chairman of the Fine Arts Commis-
sion. These are necessary, he
pointed out, to take the place of
the ugly and sordid trafac arteries
entering the city from Maryland
and Virginia" Mr.. Clarke pointed
out that there is hardly q more In
decent approach to great capital
in all the world than the approach
to Washington from Baltimore over
United States Route l."
Nothing can be done to improve
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Bureau Tests
.GiveCOnnfOrt
For Citizens
Standards Science
Made Valuable in
Ease of Living
Bv James Nevin Miller.

Most Washingtonians have at
least heard of the National Bureau
of Standards, on upper Connecticut
avenue. But few realize that this
is America's-and probably the
world testing laboratory.
The best way to realize the i'm
portance of this unique institution
is to chat with it's director, DR..
Lyman j. Briggs.
Suppose, he suggests. you consider
a typical days routine and see how
the bureaus painstaking research
has increased your comfort and
safety. In short, how better STAN
dards in industry, as developed in
large part by the bureau, have
enabled you to get more out OF
life.
When you tumble out of bed In
the morning and find beautiful frost
patterns all over the windows, you
ought to remember that the pleas
ant warmth of the house owes sonle-
thing to the bureaus research on
thermal insulating materials, which
have made the walls more resistant
to cold. And the heating plant in
the cellar is being helped by the
commercial standard for fuel oil, or
perhaps by another commercial
standard for domestic mechanical
stokers for coal.
The attractive fixtures In the
bathroom owe something to the
bureaus research on chromium
plating and to commercial standards
for plumbing fixtures.
If your breakfast is cooked on a
gas range, you can be thankful your
bills are as low as they are, because
Of research on the best designs for
gas burners.
When you step into your auto
Evening star., 1940-01-21

mobile, unless the ride Is to be a
long one, you will hardly have time
to 60 over all the ways in which
the bureau has helped you. 1t has
co-operated with the petroleum re-
fineries and the automobile manu-
facturers for over a dozen years in
developing the best gasolines and
the best basic design Of engine to
utilize these fuels under all driving
conditions.
Chances of a blowout are very
slight today because tires have been
improved almost unbelievably in the
last 10 years, and at least some of
this improvement is due to the bu-
reaus investigations of durability
and development of standard test
methods.
If some careless driver turns out
suddenly from line of parked cars,
you are thankful you can stop in
time; but probably you do not know
that brakes are what they are today
partly because of the bureaus funda-
mental research (the first ever
made) on the properties of Innings
by which, in little over a year,
the durability of the average lining
was increased over fourfold.
The air-conditioning plant which
next summer will make your Office
as comfortable as it is right now
has been designed on the basis of
fundamental data growing out of
years of research on refrigerants
Work on ammonia alone occupied
group of the bureaus experts for
eight years and is said to be the
most complete research of its kind
ever undertaken.
Even the lowly typewriter rib
bon, carbon paper and the ink in
your fountain pen are better and
more uniform today because of the
thousands of tests which the bu-
reau makes on Office equipment in
connection with Government pur-
chase.
When your days work is over, you,
In the role Of a tired business.
man." deserve to take in a show.
As you glance at the fire-resistant
curtain you probably will be sur.
prised to learn that it has been
built In accordance with the bu.
reau's recommendations and has
made repetition of great theater
fires almost an impossibility. The
excellent acoustical qualities Of the
building are very directly traceable
to the bureaus basic research on
ound-absorbing Materials new
industry which has grown up within
the past five or six years.
Examples of this sort might be
multiplied almost inoe1lnlleIy. pur
probably the ones furnished here
will give some idea of the variety
and Importance to you, personally,
of the work of this unique bureau,
which in no way competes with in
dustry's own laboratories, but lays
the foundations of fundamental re-
search on which their own tests are
based. 1t serves industries as .
whole, solving the broad problems
of interest to the group rather than
the individual manufacturer, and
in writing @. E. D." after the an
swers 1t also serves very effectively
the individual citizen.
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development of a parkway Of the
character and on the scale Of the
world famous Westchester County
Parkway near New York. Purchase
of land in the Anacostia Valley and
the valleys of Its tributaries in
nearby Maryland has gone forward
during the past year under terms
of the Capper-Cramton Act, assur-
ing protection for the necessary
right of way in the most congested
sections through which the proposed
parkway must pass. All the neces-
sary land in the valley within the
District Of Columbia has been &C
quired by the Park and Planning
Commission and is being developed
by the Army engineers as funds are
made available by Congress.
At the east end of East Capitol
street, on the bank Of the Anacostia,
the Government owns, in Anacostia
Park, an area of about 125 acres
suitable for an unusually extensive
public recreational center. It Is
planned to develop this area to take
care of all kinds of sports, parades
and national celebrations, including
water carnivals and sports. The
combination of water and land areas
provides possibilities which prob
ably cannot be duplicated at any
other point in the District or its
vicinity.
At the end of East Capitol stree,
there already exists a natural am
phitheater, which is being improved
! by grading operations. It can very
easily be made to provide seating
accommodations for $4,000 to 40,00(
spectators. This amphitheater com.
mands a view over level, ope1
grounds adequate for sports events
celebrations and spectacles on a ire
mendous scale. Just beyond is King
man Lake, which provides unusua
opportunities for scenic effects anc
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on the heights east of the Anacostia

OQ GIlc uclSIlIo ce1oG VI II1C AAAdSOocAa
River.
Third of the projects is the de-
velopment of recreational facilities
on more adequate scale in the East
Washington area, because of the rel
atively low cost of land, than is pos
sible in the older, more congested
sections of the city. An important
step in this direction now is being
taken with the preliminary filling
and grading of great proposed
sports arena in Anacostia Park, and
only few days ago Representative
Randolph of West Virginia, chair
man of the House District Commit
tee, introduced bill authorizing the
construction of a stadium, with a
playing field, swimming pools and
other recreational facilities in Sec
| ton F. of the park, at the foot OF
East Capitol street. The measure,
prepared by the Park and Planning
Commission, would permit expendl-
ture Of funds already available for
the Anacostia Park development, or
funds which might be allocated for
public works in the preparation Of
the site under the direction of the
National Park Service. No limit Of
cost was fixed, but the commission's IS
plans call for a stadium capable
of accommodating such important
events, as the Olympic games and
the Army-Navy football games.
The Presidents budget recon-
mendations are seen as shrewd
recognition of the possibilities ano
Importance of the proposed East
Capitol street development. Car.
ried into effect, they would serve
to anchor and establish the whole
project, since they would involve
construction at three key points
the armory at the east end, the OF.
flee structure near the center anc
the museum and library at the west
end.
Selection of Sites.
The Park and Planning Commis'
sion has pointed out that its studies
of East Capitol street show severa
sites for satisfactory groups OF Fed
eral or quasi-Federal buildings. I
was pointed out that it Is no
planned to undertake such a mass
. ing of buildings as is to be found IL
the Mall Triangle but rather II
| develop well-balanced groups O
, buildings in areas of two or thre
squares each at various points, will
, residences and shops between.
+ The selection Of. sites indicates
j in the budget message is a definit
recognition of this intention an
would serve to establish concretel
! at least three such building areas.
r Lincoln Square, in the opinion Q
q the Park and Planning Commis
: sion, should be enlarged, since it Il
d with the exception of the Capito
the most important intersection 9
avenues In Washington. Ma
" Pierre Charles LEnfant, who lai
. out the Federal City, original)
planned to emphasize this Lincol
: Square focal point by constructin
4 there monumental "itinerar
i marker" from which highway dis
e ta,,ces throughout the Nation wer
s to be measured. With the unez
3 pected trend Of the city to the wea
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ton, which also will be left in its
present condition as paradise for
birds, fish and nature lovers. It is
to be cut off from the Anacostia
and will be accessible ultimately
only by canoe and rowboat. Power
boats will be restricted to the river
and the larger Kingman Lake,
across the main stream.
Kingman Lake, unlike the east
lake, Is being finished formally,
with retaining walls around its
shores and islands. It is being de-
veloped for all manner Of water
sports. There is one straightaway
of a half mile for boat races and
similar events. Lake Kingman is
being closed at both ends by auto
matte gates and its waters will be
kept at a constant level, about 2
feet above mean low water in the
river. providing an average lake
depth of 6 feet. This will prevent
unsightly, slime-covered areas at
low water and will make possible
construction of a shoreline wall
only q foot above water, providing
boat landing areas along the entire
shoreline of the lake and its islands.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of the Anacostia Parkway
is the former Shaw lily pond and
aquatic garden area purchased two
years ago by the Federal Govern
ment. These gardens and ponds,
long an internationally famous
showplace, are to be preserved for
ever as what is believed to be the
worlds finest aquatic gardens.
Large PARK Area.
The Anacostia Parkway, within the
District, comprises a total of 1872
acres, of which 1909 is land and
503 water. Some 877 acres of the
total park area lie above the Ana
costa Bridge. The parkway con-
tains more acreage than either Rock
Creek or Potomac Park.
Fort Dupont Park, a close rival of
Rock Greek Park in size, also is
being converted into a recreational
area which is expected to go far
toward enhancing the prestige OF
East Washington. It has been
linked by a motor parkway ap-
proach with Anacostia Parkway
and also will be linked with other
parkways by the proposed Fort
Drive. A golf course connecting
Fort Dupont and Anacostia Parks
has been laid out, and other sports
and recreational facilities are being
provided.
Connected, these two great parks
provide continuous park area Of
more than 1900 acres to serve the
| entire Eastern portion Of the city
| and particularly the one-third o1
the whole area of the District which
lies east of the Anacostia River.
Park and Planning officials con.
slider that completion Of these parh
improvements will hasten the ne.
elected development of the whole
Of East Washington during the new
decade. They anticipate a materia
improvement In land values as resi-
dents are attracted to the heights
above the Anacostia by an attrac.
tive environment, as happened ir
the Northwest section following the
development Of Rock Creek Park.
Evening star., 1940-01-21

this route, he said, and the only
remedy left Is the construction OF a
parkway on an entirely new and
wide right of way, utilizing, insofar
as possible, the public properties in
the region. These would include not
only the Anacostia parkway in the
District and Prince Georges County,
but the Beltsville research center
Of the Agriculture Department and
Fort Meade.
Unique Park Area.
Within the District this parkway
would pass through q park unique
among American natural recrea-
tional areas. The Anacostia park
way between Benning road and the
District line combines features not
to be found in any other park in
the United States. This, Washing
tons largest, least known and most
interesting parkway, now is enter
ing its final phases of construction
and its completion should be one
Of the assured facts of the new
decade.
The Anacostia Parkway will open
to the public an area exceedingly
rich in variety of terrain, ranging
from wild rice marshes similar to
those of Louisiana, and channel
threaded islands resembling the sa-
vannahs of Georgia, to the wooded
heights of the National Arboretum
1t will provide an equally wide va
riety of conditions for water sports
and recreation.
The wild rice marsh Is to be left
in its natural state as a bird refuge
An almost bewildering variety OF
wildfowl is to be found in this area
even during the milder winter
months. Behind the marsh lies q
large lake containing IA small is
lands all covered with rank VeReta.