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Evening star., 1940-08-06
Educators Organize
National Committee
To Aid Defense
Preparedness Endorsed
And Support Pledged
At Meeting Here

Education's challenge to totali-
tartan threats was reflected here
today with announcement OF forma-
ton of the National Co-ordinating
Committee on Education and De-
tense following an organization
meeting Of representatives from
more than 40 educational groups at
the Mayfower Hotel yesterday.
Terming itself education's spokes-
man to the Government, the COM
mittee is designed to serve as q link
between schools and colleges of the
United States and the Federal
agencies dealing with national de-
fense.
The first official act of the group
yesterday was to adopt q resolution
indorsing IAN adequate national de-
tense" and pledging its support to
the national defense movement.
DR.. Willard E. Givens, executive
secretary OF the National Education
Association, and DR.. George r. Zook,
president Of the American Council
Of Education, will select an operat-
ing committee of 13 educators, who
will act as board of directors.
The two educators were voted au-
thority to appoint the committee
from a group of 30 nominated yes
terday. Personnel Of the committee
was expected to be completed this
week.
Maj. r. J. McSherry, addressing
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Phi Delta Gamma
Initiation Toniaht

Miss Elizabeth Bannan of Sydney
Australia, who is the guest this week
OF DR.. Beatrice Aitchison. 1929 S
street NV will be initiated tonight
as an honorary member of Alpha
Chapter, Phi Delta Gamma, national
sorority for graduate women. The
meeting will be held at the home of
DR.. Margaret Sebree, retired national
president, 1861 Crescent place NV.
Miss Bannan was an exchange
professor of English at the Univer-
slty OF Oregon last year from the
University of Sydney. Her hostess
Or. Altchison, is an economics pro-
lessor at the University of Oregon.
Still in her 2os, Miss Bannan. who
is both pretty and intellectual, has
made a, number of friends during
her brief visit here. She expects to
leave Washington tomorrow nisht.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
U. 5. Wants More Nurses,
Lowers Heiqht Minimum

The Government will take 5-foot
nurses now.
Announcing an examination today
for junior graduate nurses, the Civil
Service Commission said there was
such a demand for eligibles that
the height limit had been dropped
2 inches.
The nurses are wanted for Public
Health Service, Federal Security
Agency and Veterans Administra-
ton, and while high school study
and completion of a specified train
ing course are required ordinarily,
persons now in their final year of
training may be accepted under
certain conditions.
The pay is $1,620 annually, and
age limit is 35.
Medical officers at rates ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000; pathologists,
veterinarians and ornithologists at
$1,000 also are wanted.
Applications may be obt.ined at
the commission, Seventh and F
streets NV.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Luncheon Is Given
For Miss Ryon

Mr.. and Mrs. N. E. Ryon gave an
attractively arranged surprise lunch
con ut their summer home. Edge
water Beach, near Annapolis, Nd,
Saturday in honor of Mr.. Ryon' s
sister, Miss Edith Ryon, who will
retire from the Government service
September l.
Miss Ryon was appointed clerk in
the Registers office of the Treasury
nearly rs years ago.
Others at the luncheon included
Mrs. Anna v. Crandall of Greennock,
Md; Mrs. Luther Brashears and Mr..
Harold Brashears of Annapolis, Mr..
and Mrs. w. S. Ryon, Miss Jane
Ryon, Mrs. Eleanor Coleman, Mr..
and Mrs. F. H. Buechler, Mrs. Sadye
Elliott and the Misses Alice and Eva
Elliott, Miss Mary E. Ryon, Mr.. Da-
vid Ryon, Mr.. Thomas Ryon, Mr..
Warren Wilson ard Master Harvey
Coleman, all Of Washington.
Miss Ryon will continue to reside
In her home, 4702 Fifteenth street.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Women Will Hold
Benefit Supper

The Business Women's Council,
which meets during the winter at
the Covenant-First PRESBYTERIAN
Church, will wind up a program of
summer sessions with benefit sup
per Saturday at the home of Miss
Ruth Boyer in Chevy Chase, Md.
The supper, an annual event at
Miss Boyer's home, is given for the
Ways and Means Committee of the
council. A large number always at
tend the entertainment, which is
held on the lawn and spacious
porches.
During July the council held repu-
lar Tuesday evening picnic meetings
at the Jessup-Blair Park. These
proved to be popular, with the at
tendance ranging from 80 to As
members each week.
After the benefit, activities of the
organization will be suspended until
the first Tuesday in September.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Catholic u. Group
Will Give Play at
Sylvan Theater

Many prominent men and women
of Washington will be guests tonight
at the National Sylvan Theater on
the Monument Grounds when the
speech and drama department Of
Catholic University presents a play
by William Saroyan, MY Hearts in
the Highlands" as the seventh sum-
mer festival Of the present season.
The play is under the auspices of
the Community Center and Play
grounds Department and the Once
OF National Capital Parks.
A group of girls representing the
speech and drama department, in
Guiding Miss Marion Wolberg, Miss
Mary Agnes Bier, Miss Gloria Regan
and Miss Margaret Riseling, will act
as official hostesses to the guests, who
will include Representative Cald-
well and a party, Msgr. John X.
Cartwright, Msgr. James A. Smyth,
Judge and Mrs. Michael M. Doyle,
Dean and Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. O'Connor,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mccarthy,
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Drake Cecil, DR..
and Mrs. Frank Ashbrook, Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell D. Burchard, Mrs. Al.
fred Brooks, Mrs. Gertrude Brode-
rick, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peoples, Mr..
Charles D. Drayton, Mr.. Robert A.
Maurer, Mr.. Denis A. Connell and
Mr.. James P. McKeom.
The play will be staged at s:15
O'Clock Immediately following the
festival concert by the Washington
Police Boys Club Band, which starts
at 7:30 o'clock. Reservations and
tickets are available at the recrea- :
tion office, 1740 Massachusetts, ave-
nue., and tickets at the Willard Hotel,
American Automobile Association,
the Keystone Automobile Club and
this evening at 7 o'clock at the syl-
van Theater.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

Over 1900. 100000 pennies were
coined in Britain in the last five
years.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Miss Grace Howard
Engaged to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Howard Of
Red Brook Farm, Charlottesville,
Va, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Grace
Dyer Howard, to Mr.. Paul Edward
Halberstadt, also of Charlottes-
vile. Mr.. Halberstadt is the son
of DR.. and Mrs. William Level
Halberstadt of Washington.
The wedding will take place
August II at the First Methodist
Church In Charlottesville.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

tended, and this meant only that
crewmen without through" orders
had to halt for fresh instructions.
Thought Others Escaped.
Mr.. Shafer, who lost an arm and
a leg in the wreck, evidently did not
realize that only three persons
himself, Mr.. Murtaugh and another
railroad employe-survived the fiery
ordeal.
"The one thing thank God for
is that the rest of them escaped" !"
he whispered.
Mr.. Shafer said he and Engine
man Murtaugh had received an
order which he said made it clear
that we were to take a siding at
switch No. l Gin Cuyahoga Falls,
midway between Hudson and Akron)
and let the freight 60 through"
Mr.. Shafer assumed" that Mr..
Murtaugh had the order perfectly
clear.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Conductor Unable
To Explain Lapse Of
Aide in Akron Wreck
Says Guard at Block
Would Have Saved
Lives of 43
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. Gone of the
surviving crewmen of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Doodlebug wreck
declared today the crew had "clear"
orders to sidetrack their gasoline
propelled coach q mile back of the
collision scene.
Writhing with pain, Conductor H.
B. Shafer told his story briefly to
Coroner r. E. Amos He offered no
explanation why Engineman Thomas
L. Murtaugh failed to take the side
track to allow passage of a freight
train with which the Doodlebug
crashed head-on, killing 43.
Mr.. Shafer said the Hudson Akron
shuttle coach probably was going
between SO and IS miles an hour,
"the usual speed" as it neared the
freight train.
Wreck Called Avoidable.
Asked by Coroner Amos whether
the collision could have been avoided
If the railroad had had an attended
block" in the Cuyahoga Falls dis
trict where the crash took place
Wednesday night, Mr.. Shafer re-
sponded:
"Oh, absolutely. There's no ques-
ton about it,"
The railroad said the crew of the
Doodlebug disregarded standing
orders in entering the block without
stopping for further instructions.
A Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men leader had declared previously
that the accident could have been
averted If an operator had been on
duty at the signal block. The rail-
road said the block Cmeasured area
Of operations) was not regularly at
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Pennsylvania 10 Appeal
Voidinq Of lis Alien Law

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Aug. 6.-Gov.
James today notified Attorney Gen.
eral Claude T. Reno that Pennsyl-
vania will press its appeal from a
Federal court decision holding un-
constitutional the States alien reg
istration law.
Mr.. Reno, attending a conference
OF Governors and attorneys general
IN Washington, was directed to pro-
ceed with the appeal to the Supreme
Court.
The attorney general previously
had expressed an opinion that the
appeal might be dropped since the
Federal Government has started a
Nationwide alien registration sys-
tenn Of its own, to be carried out
through the oPst ONCE Department,
starting August u.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Lovenbein Seeks 10 Line Up
Country for Conscription

Samuel Lovenbein, central figure
in . parking lot controversy with
the District government some
months ago, wants the whole coun-
try to get behind Congress to push
through compulsory military train
ing.
Mr.. Lovenbein has been trying
for years, he said today, to get q
bill introduced in Congress for uni
versal training. Two years ago he
organized the Association for Uni
versal Military Education.
He fears now, however, that "if
we don't get busy and do some
thing" Congress will hold up the
conscription bill until after elec-
ton.
So today or tomorrow he will es-
tablish headquarters in the Willard
Hotel to get his campaign under
way.
Part of the local campaign, ac-
cording to Mr.. Lovenbein's plans, is
a parade September 8. Small begin
nings don't discourage Mr.. Loven-
bein. He pointed out that a year
or so after the first World War he
organized q bonus parade in New
York that started from nothing
and ended up with 10000 marchers.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Prince of Wales
Club Organized
At Camp Let's

Getting the idea from the Cater
pillar Club Of aviation, whose mem
bership consists of those who have
been forced to bail out" Camp
Let's, the Y. M. G. A. boys camp on
the Rhode River near Annapolis,
Md, has organized a Prince Of
Wales Club, to which a boy becomes
eligible for membership by falling
from a horse.
Membership to the camp club, 1t
Is pointed out, is entirely involun-
tary.
L. w. Varney. the camp riding
master, has his own ideas about the
club and causes of It's increase In
membership. Principal among these,
he says, is the increase in the num-
ber who want to learn how to ride
and the carelessness Of those who
think they know how.
At present the club has only six
members and these, in line with
tradition, have remounted and rid
den on, unhurt,
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Weddings
Of Interest
In Capital
Continued From Page B-3.)

home after September l at 1905
Tracy drive, Hillwood Manor, Ia
kona Park, Md.
Miss Marjorie Floyd Smith
Married to Mr.. Billiard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lawrence
Billiard, who were married July 26
will make their home at 1906 Wilson
boulevard in Arlington, Va. Mrs.
Billiard is the former Miss Marjorie
Floyd Smith, daughter of Mrs. Dur
ward M. Smith and the late Mr.,
Smith of Arlington. Mr.. Billiard is
the son Of Mrs. Charles l.. Billiard
and the late DR.. Billiard, Washing
ton physician.
st, Georges Episcopal Church in
Arlington was the scene of the we'd
ding, which took place at 8 o'clock
IN the evening, with the Rev. Henry
j. Miller officiating. White gladioli,
fern, palms and lighted candles
decorated the church, where the
bride was given in marriage by her
mother.
The bride wore a white point
d'esprit gown with long train edged
with fiounces, sweetheart neckline
and short puffed sleeves. Her fin
gertip veil was held by orange bios
SONS. and she wore pendant neck
lace and carried roses and lilies of
the valley.
Mrs. Roland P. Cheynay, the
brides sister, was matron of honor,
wearing a peach organdy gown with
full skirt, wide girdle and a square
neckline edged in straight bands of
embroidery. She wore pearl neck
lace and large white leghorn hat,
and carried a nosegay in a lace
holder. tied with matching ribbons.
The bridesmaids were Miss Mere
dlth Smith, another sister of the
bride; Miss Jane Ann Alvey, Miss
Carol Sunderman and Miss Mar
garet Baldwin. The first two wore
orchid-color organdy and the other
two were in green. Their dresses
had full skirts and square neck
lines and their pearl necklaces were
gifts from the bride. They wore
transparent hats with flowers at
the top and carried nosegay bou-
quets.
Mr.. Ralph Rodenberg was best
man and the ushers were Mr..
Robert Hood of Baltimore, Mr..
David Penny and Mr.. Roland P.
Cheynay of Arlington and Mr..
Robert Doyle of Washington.
An informal reception was held
later for relatives and out-of- town
guests. The brides mother wore
a dusty rose marquisette gown with
a large black hat trimmed with
dusty rose, and the mother of the
bridegroom was in blue chiffon with
a lace bodice.
For travelling the bride chose a
navy blue silk print dress with an
Eton jacket trimmed with red and
red accessories.
The bride is a graduate of Gen.
trail High School and attended Marv
washington College, Fredericksburg,
va. The bridegroom studied at New
York University and George Wash
ington University. He is a member
OF leta Psi Fraternity.
Among the out-of- town GUESTS
were Mrs. Ida H. Bill of Staunton.
Va, aunt of the bride, and Mrs
Sam P. Wolfe of Roanoke, Va. a
cousin OF the bride.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

the meeting yesterday, pointed out
that colleges and universities would
lose about per cent Of the total
student body If the conscription bill
as it now stands passes Congress.
Floyd w. Reeves and Will Alexan-
der Of the National Defense Com
mission described the progress of
defense measures to date.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

Nlcotine-free tobacco has made a
hit in Germany and more will be
produced.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-25

A. lest o slip with se1nns
thof ore reoily put together 70
stay Sotins, crepes and fof-
fet.s oil carefully tailored in
simple or loce trimmed styles.
Sizes q 70 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-25

Cuddly soft chenille robes.
wosh perfectly ond require 70
ironing. Generous sweeping
skirt wrop-oround styles IN lus-
cious pcstsi coloFs. Sizes II
70 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-25

s-,o,, fall styies in suede. suede com
binotions. KID and poteris. Newest heels.
h,an or low, open or closed toes s'fes
70 9. widths AAJAA TO 3. A. tins bus
a., price vou1I be onozed OF the quo'''y
ond style Of this ofond group
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-25

For thot extra poir of trousers You'll
find these just the thinsl pieoted
fronts, self belted. navy ond green.
street floor
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-04
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
A. E. GUSTAFSON, County Supt.

Miss Audrey Glimm of Rutledge.
resigned from teaching the upper
room there, where she has been the
past two years, and Merle Swendsen
of Hinckley, has been selected to take
the place. Mr.. Swendsen resigned
from teaching two years ago to sell
electrical equipment in the Hinckley
and Pine City areas. His certificate
is still in force and we are glad to
have his fine teaching experience
and ability in our county schools
again. Mr.. SWendsen formerly taught
the Cloverdale school, district 80.
and later married one of his Teacher
Training department classmates, Miss
Marian Anderson, of Denham
Miss Ellen Johnson, now Mrs. Jar
quis since April, resigned her teach
ing position in district 10 near Rock
Creek, and Miss Glimm of Rutledge,
has been selected by the school board
to finish the school year there. Mrs.
Jarquis will reside in Braham where
Mr.. Jarquis is assistant pharmacist
in the Braham drug store. Our best
wishes go to them always.
Miss Alma Fosvick has returned
to her position in district 81 near
Brook Park She was given a leave
of absence this fall to complete the
remaining credits necessary for her
tWo-year college diploma at ST. Cloud.
Mrs. Kaltenhauser of Hinckley, for
merly Miss Evelyn Petsko, who re-
Gently taught in district 1O2, sub
stituted for Miss Fosvick.
The State School Board conven-
ton has been set for February z, 8
and 9, at the Hotel Nicollet in Min
neapolis. We hope that many of
our rural school boards, as well as
high school boards. will be repre-
sented there and have a voice in
molding sentiments and influences
toward getting more state aids (per-
centage) and lower local taxes for
our 80 rural counties, especially the
II cut-over and exploited counties in
the north half of the state including
Pine.
Next week we expect to publish a
tentative schedule for our sixth annual
rural sectional declam and music con-
tests or programs. We hope that most
of our rural schools will take some
part in this extra curricular activity.
During the past five years, more than
IS percent of our schools took part
each year in these activities An
average of 95 percent of our rural
schools have taken part the past five
years in spelling and play day con-
tests that occur annually in May.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-04
The Old Age Lien

On January l, Minnesota'S Old Age
Pension Lien law passed by the last
session of the legislature and advo-
Gated by Governor Harold E. Stas-
sen. went into effect. In substance
it requires that all people over IS
who are receiving or who apply for
old age assistance must first give a
lien on their property to the state.
1t is said that many old people
are declining to receive pension be-
cause of having to sign away the
rights of their heirs That is just
what the sponsors wanted. They
wanted to relieve the government Of
some of its responsibility to the old
people who have pioneered and built
this country of ours and who made
possibly most of the conveniences
such as improved farms, highways
and fine cities. we enjoy today.
It's sponsors were very accurate in
their estimation of what it would
do for the old people, but they weren't
nearly so accurate in estimating what
it would do for some of their political
careers.
In the first place they have not
shown themselves consistent in their
advocation of pension saving to the
government. Not word was heard
from them in regards to pensions
offered to highly paid judges on their
retirement. A single pension paid
to one of those men who have, dur
ing their term of office, earned enough
to make them independently free
from old age worries, would take
care of the measly pensions we pay
dozens of our old people, who have
not been SO fortunate, but who in
many cases, have contributed as much
to the building of the country. Then
too, there is no lien levied against
the heirs of our retired judges upon
their death. No, the family fortunes
must still remain intact, it seems.
The pension may be in effect, but
may the instigators of it not reap
a great deal of political glory from it
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-04
Farm Income Is
Equal With 1893
Continued from Page u

estimated that the sum of the above
mentioned represent about 80 percent
of the farmers cash outlay for ex-
penses.
Purchasing Power of Farm Products.
Minnesota farm prices are at pres
ent at level about two-thirds as
high as that prevailing in 1924-26.
Although this means that the dollar
values of farm products are third
less than they were in 1924-26, for
tunately for producers this is not the
whole story. The goods and services
purchased by farmers from their dol
lar receipts are at level 80 percent
of that prevailing in 1924-26, or in
other words, these goods and serv-
ices including interest and taxes cost
one-ffth less than in the 1924-26 base
period. Therefore, what is referred
to as the purchasing power of farm
products is now at "a percent of the
base-period level.
In the low-price period centering
in 1882, Minnesota farm prices
dropped to 40 percent of 1924-26
levels, but prices of goods and serv-
ices dropped to 70 percent. AS a
result, the purchasing power of goods
sold dropped to low of 60 percent.
In 1886 and 1887, when Minnesota
farm prices were, respectively, 88
percent and 81 percent of the 1924-26
base-period level, the prices of goods
and services used in living and pro-
duction were 81 percent and IS per-
cent, respectively, of the base period.
The relationship of these price in
deXes was consequently such as to
indicate that for two years commod-
tiles sold by farmers would actually
buy 10 percent more of goods and
services than they did in 1924-26. For
one year (1938) although farm prices,
were only 70 percent of their base
level, this low dollar value of pro-
ducts was again partly offset by the
lower level of prices paid by farm
ers, which was at 80 percent of base,
yielding a purchasing power of farm
erS' products of 81 percent of that
prevailing in the base period. Pre-
liminary figures for this year indicate
that the purchasing power of farm
products will be about IS percent
of base or slightly lower than the
level of 1888.