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Evening star., 1940-06-17

for the best building-up job in the
majors-but is he glad he didn't
trade to 10 10 Moore! Brooklyn
fans had an idea a catastrophe
was ahead when a nag named
Dodger finished among the ALSO
rams at Suffolk Downs Saturday.
The Sunday afternoon Sports
Quiz program will be shifted to a
Friday night spot. Don't tell us
it's found sponsor.
Observation ward - His press
agents say Ell Galento is working
IL rounds a day for Max Baer.
All who believe that will please
stand on their heads. No takers?
We thought so.
Witt? Nit!
Poor Oscar Witt has got a fit
His players have the jitters-
The way he works severely irks
The pitchers and the hitters.
They want to give old Oss the
the gate
The usual Cleveland pilots
1AtA.
Evening star., 1940-06-17
BY EDDIE BRETT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, June 17.-Week's
wash: If Fordham and Minnesota
aren't cooking up a football
series, why did Jack Coffey, Ford
ham athletic director, travel all
the way to Minneapolis to huddle
with Gopher big wigs? Your old
pal. Dizzy Dean, received one
vote for the Texas League all
star team. Joe Medwick is paying
the penalty for being famous. He
hadn't been in town "a hours
until the redoubtable Christy
Walsh had him lecturing the kids
at the Worlds Fair. If the Cubs
want to find out what ails Deans
f1ipper, why don't they call in the
medico who put the zing back
into Carl Hubbell's left arm?
(Advt). Figure all you want to
on Poughkeepsie tomorrow. 1t
all adds up-Cornell.
Oft-forgotten dads-Yesterday
Nas Fathers Day and tho New
Evening star., 1940-06-17
Uncertain Spots Cove Giants Dubious Outlook


in which 1t might crack at the first application
Carl Hubben
OFT didn't
looked pretty bad
for the Giants
But Hubbe Moore and OFT rushing
exceeded the expectations of those
best catcher in the league Babe Young held
Burgess Whitehead has his old
right there fighting the
chance of going all the through
The Reds battling steadily hold ago.
have been and out of first Bucky
Walters Paul Derrnger and Gene Thompson
Bill Weber continues the Red nhed
lacked before he went to Cincinnati Mike
well but he strengthened
pennant last and then blowing
nothing from the spirit.
Evening star., 1940-06-17
Comeo's Squirt Tells

A 4-run rally in the fifth inning
gave Cameo a 7-to-3 win over
Times-Herald in one of yesterdays S
feature games in the Army Navy
Softball League. David's won over
Allied Roofing, 9-4: Judd Printers
defeated Teehan's, 9-3. and Posner S
downed District Paper Mill, 6-1, in
other games.
Evening star., 1940-06-17
Vienna CIings to Leod
In Old Dominion LOOP

Vlennas undefeated team still
holds first place in the Old Dominion
League by the slim margin of half
game. 1t stayed in front by de-
feating the Gibson Grays, 80, yes
terday, while Forestville, the second
place club, won over Lacey, 1915.
In other games, Fairfax shut out
Falls Church, 100, and Herndon
defeated Colvin Run, 1876.
Evening star., 1940-06-17
Airmen and Docs Divide

Boiling Field and Army Medicos
each claimed victory over the
other today after splitting a Militia
League double-header yesterday.
Boiling Field won the first game,
6 to 4, and the Medicos took the
nightcap, 7 to 4.
Evening star., 1940-06-17
Loss Of Douha by All Three New York Teams Establishes Record
Win, Lose or Draw
Preseason Dope in National Leooue RiddIed
By GRANTEAND RICE.
un the temporary absence Of Francis E. stan)

Eight weeks OF campaigning the National rddled
tne preseason dope based what
n showing ey made at their training
10 De tWob racea tossup between Cardinals
e eos hghng back from Octobes Cardinals
renewing e surge that almost carried them
IN the closing weeks of the 1899 struggle
NOV" as the teams past June
and 1t looks though the finish The Cardinals
are nowhere ana nave
out tne Dodgers and the Giants have closed
Inc Doogers are supr-or
Ihey finished third last the
third or theabou this but the quite
beyond them.
The Giants startling. They
oned 10 sag even this Only
Of being movaed
to finish in the first division
Evening star., 1940-06-17
|cemen Beut Photoos

Uline Ice had another Capital
City League game to its credit today
after beating Maimans Photos yes
terday, 7 to 6.
Evening star., 1940-06-17

Runs hatted in--Bonura (o), Case. Lewis
t2l. Travis. Walker. Higgins. Gehrinser
tc), Campbell, Greenbere (2). McCosky
t2l. Two-base hjts-Bonura Gehringer
90, GreenberR: Lewis, Colbert. Home
runs-Hissins, Greenberg. Stolen bases
Double plays-Hudin to Meyer. Travis to
Bonura Boz Bartell to York. Tebbetts to Bar
on nbases-Washington. 3; Detroit. 3. First
base on balls-Of Hudlin. l. OF Bridges,
z. Struck out-.By Hudlin. .; by Bridges.
Chase, 4 in ! inning: Of BRIDGES in
rs innings: OF McKain. . in / y innings
Hit by pitched ball-By Hudlin York..
Chase. Umpire@Ormsby. MCGOWAN. Kolls
Evening star., 1940-03-06
Women's Legal Status
Topic of Lotviun Envoy

DR.. Alfred Bilmanis, Minister from
Latvia to the United States, will be
guest of honor and speak at
meeting under auspices of Omicron
Chapter, Kappa Beta Pi Interna-
tional Legal Sorority, at 9 pm. to-
morrow in the D. A. r. clubhouse,
1892 Massachusetts, avenue NV. His
subject will be THE Legal Status of
Women in Latvia"
An address on 1.-THE Legal Status
of Women in the United States"
will be delivered at the meeting by
Mrs. Burnita Sheldon Matthews, who
has been active in connection with
legislation favorable to women in
the District. Mrs. Matthews is q
member of Kappa Beta Pi.
The lectures will be in line with
the national program adopted by
the sorority at its national conven-
ton in 1899, to study the legal status
of women ir the United States with
view to obtaining uniformity in
certain laws for the protection of
property and personal rights Of
women, it is announced.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
Mall Greenhouses Razed j,
Plants Now al beItsvjIIe

Long familiar structures on the
Mall, the Agriculture Departments
greenhouses on Constitution avenue
between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets NV, were headed for
oblivion today.
w. P. A. laborers were busy demol-
ishing the 81 greenhouses erected in
1902. The 10000 plants once housed
there had been moved to larger,
more modern greenhouses at the
departments horticulture station at
Beltsville, Md.
When the new greenhouses at
Beltsville and surrounding landscap-
ing have been completed, it was said,
the amaryllis and chrysanthemum
shows that have been held at the
Mall location annually will be re-
sumed at Beltsville.
Wives Of all Presidents since The
odore Roosevelt have attended the
exhibition previews of these shows.
j. H. Beattie, senior horticulturist
at Beltsville, and j. w. Byrnes, as
sociate f1oriculturist in charge of the
experimental greenhouses, are proud
of the fact that the transfer of the
10000 plants was accomplished with
out single loss.
A new Government building event.
ually will be constructed on the Con-
stitution avenue site.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
Fairfax Welfare Worker
Receives Promotion
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, March 6.-Miss
Winona D. Rorbie of Falls Church,
who has served as a case worker
with the local welfare department
since September l, 1899, today was
appointed county superintendent of
public welfare. She will succeed w.
Travis Wilson, who has submitted
his resignation effective April IS.
Miss Rorbie's appointment, made
by the County Board of Public We'll
fare, will be subject to approval by
the State Welfare Department.
Mr.. Wilson has accepted the posi-
ton of director of County and State
Relations Health Security Admin
istration in Washington. He has
served as county welfare superin-
tendent March /, 1898.
After her graduation from the
University Of Nebraska, Miss Rorbie
took graduate work at Washington
Universitys school of social work in
st. Louis. Before coming to Fair
fax she served nine years as direc-
tor of the Georgetown Childrens
Home of which she was an organizer.
Miss Rorbie also served as director
Of recreation Of the Lincoln House
Association in Boston.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
Police Hunt Long
For Scraps of
Money Order

Two Montgomery County (Md)
policemen spent an hour yesterday
afternoon looking for money order
which had been torn into small
pieces and strewn along Old George
town road between Bethesda and
Alta Vista.
Notified by officials at the
Bethesda post Office that a 19-year-
old colored boy had attempted to
cash a money order for 1855 made
out to Mrs. Verna Pickett, of Alta
Vista, which was not indorsed,
Sergt. j. s. McAuliffe and Police
man Harry Wheeler picked up the
colored boy, formerly employed at
the Pickett home. Questioning re-
vealed that the money order had
been torn in small bits and strewn
along the road.
Intent on getting all evidence pos
slple in the case, the two officers
secured the roadside picking up bits
Of blue paper for more than an hour
and finally managed to find enough
to piece the money order together.
The boy, who gave his name AZ
Harry Doye, 10, Of Alta Vista, was
charged with theft. Washington
Postal authorities were notified.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
New Doctors Ho9ita|
Officially Opened
AT Noon Today
81 ,600, 900 Institution
Inspected by Guests
At Informal Reception

The new Doctors Hospital, at 1915
I street NV, officially opened its
doors at noon today, when oficials
of the 81 ,600, 900 institution greeted
a distinguished group of invited
guests at an informal reception.
The hospital, containing all the
latest equipment, has been made
ready for patients, who will be ad-
mitted beginning at 7:30 am. to-
morrow.
DR.. William j. Mallory, professor
of medicine at George Washington
University, who is chairman of the
Committee on Medicine of Doctors
Hospital, headed the Reception
Committee. With him were other
members of his committee, and DR..
Charles Stanley White, president
Of Doctors Hospital, and the officers
and directors of the hospital.
Reception Committee.
Members of the Reception Com
mittee included, besides DR.. NAL
lory, the following: DR.. John H.
Lyons, president of the Medical So
ciety of the District of Columbia; |;
Theodore Wiprud, secretary of the
Medical Society; DR.. w. Marion
Falls, president of the Dental So
ciety of the District; DR.. j. WAL
ter Bernhard, secretary of the Den
tai Society; DR.. r. K. Thompson,
who represents the dental profess
sion on the hospital board; Charles
E. Vadakin, administrator of the
hospital, and Miss Frances L. Lof-
tus, director of nurses.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
President May Get Report
On Civil Service Soon

President Roosevelt's special COM
mittee headed by Supreme Court
Justice Reed, which for 13 months
has been shaping a program to
bring higher grade positions in the
executive agencies under civil serv-
ice, may be able to report to the
President late this month, it was
made known today.
The committee, which has had
before it a tentative draft of the
report for several months, has
arranged to hold a three-day
meeting March 20, 81 and % to thrash
out whatever differences of opinion
still may exist among its members.
The committee was named Febru-
ary l, 1889. when difficulties were
encountered in setting up ma
chinery for bringing lawyers and
some other technical and special
classes under civil service in line
with President Roosevelt's plan to
give civil service status to all DO
sitions not specifically exempt by
statute. It Is understood that one
OF the principal obstacles the COM
mittee has encountered up to this
time has been in deciding on a
plan for making legal posts subject
to competition.
Evening star., 1940-03-06

A great gathering of Arizona
ranchmen is expected to storm the
stage door of Constitution Hall to-
night. The wiser among them will
bring photographs of their prize
mounts.
For Miss Marjorie Lawrence, Met
ropolitan Opera star who is singing
there with the National Symphony
Orchestra, has made a proposition
that will ring in the ears of Arizona
ranchmen like the call of "Boo45 and
Saddles"
Miss Lawrence, who is 26, has
offered to sing for her keep on an
Arizona ranch during the month of
June. Just any spare bunk will do,
but she does demand a good saddle
horse. She made the offer here yes
terday after rehearsal with the
orchestra.
She'll be right at home on ranch,
too, having been born on one in
Australia and having ridden horse
since her blond hair was done up in
pigtails.
A general description of Miss Law
renee for those interested in her
proposition is contained in the
critics opinion of her as the dancing
Evening star., 1940-03-06
New Study Begun
On Merit Rating in
JobIess Compensation
Three Named to Report
To Board on Two
Plans for D. c. Employers ;

The merit system of grading en-
ployers, proposed for incorporation
into the District of Columbia Unem-
ployment Compensation Insurance
Act, today was being studied by
three officials, who will meet Friday
to consider the matter.
Appointed yesterday by the I'm
employment Compensation Board,
District Commissioner David Nc
Coach, jr., Daniel j. Callahan and
John A. Locher, will study two pro-
posals considered by the board
yesterday. They plan to confer
Friday with Corporation Counsel
Elwood H. Seal and John Marshall,
director of the board.
The two submitted plans, one by
the Board of Trade and the other, a
plan in operation in Connecticut,
are based on the theory that the
employer with low personnel turn
over should pay a lower tax than
the employer with a high personnel
turnover. Complex formulae are
provided for calculating the opera
ton of the sliding scale tax.
The special committee will make
report to the entire board as soon as
they reach a conclusion. When
decision is reached by the board a
set of proposed amendments to the
present law on unemployment COM
pensation will be forwarded by the
District Commissioners to the Bu-
reau of the Budget. There was no
forecast today as to when this report
will be ready.
Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen
declined to discuss details of the
proposed merit system. Generally,
however" he said, II believe the
merit plan is good thing"
Evening star., 1940-03-06
ReuI Estate Official
Protests Bus Chance
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March &c. w.
Riggs, vice president of Indian
Spring Village, Inc, protested to
the Public Service Commission yes
terday any change of the Capital
Transit Co. bus service on the
old Bladensburg road between the
Colesville pike and Franklin ave-
nue., at -Four Corners, Md.
The bus company has filed pro-
posals for discontinuing certain
services in four areas Of SUBJ
urban Washington.
Mr.. Biggs said his company had
purchased about 100 acres of land
for development in modest cost
houses" fronting on the old Bla-
densburg road.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
Band Concert

BY the United States Marine Band
Symphony Orchestra tonight at s:15
O'Clock in the Marine Barracks audi
torium. Capt. Taylor Branson,
leader; William r. Santemann,
second leader.
Program.
Fantasie on the motives of the
opera Boris Godounow,"
Moussorgsky
"Siegfried's Rhine Journey"
from dusk Of the Gods Wagner
Suite for orchestra, -Four Ways"
Coates
(a) Northwards, (b) Southwards,
Co Eastwards, I'd Westwards.
Two humoresques (a) Polka"
from the suite Golden Age"
Schostakowitsch
Co Cat and Mice"
'Fantasie" for flute and orchestra,
Georges-Hue
Soloist, Musician Clayton Lindsay.
'Rhapsodie Roumaine In A Major,
Op. II, No. 1"------- Enesco
Dance Of the Hours" from la
Gioconda" ---------P PonchieJli
Overture, "1Sl2"- Tschaikowsky
"The Marines Hymn"
'The Star spansled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-03-06

Committee Approves
Larger Police Force
For White House
Increase Would Aid War
On Crime, Secret Service
Chief Tells Hearing
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Congressional authorization Of an
enlarged White House police force
would improve the Metropolitan
police's ability to cope with the
Washington crime wave, Frank j.
Wilson, chief of the United States
Secret Service, said today at a House
hearing before the Committee on
Public Grounds. He spoke in favor
OF the White House police bill, pro-
viding one new lieutenant, one new
sergeant and II new privates.
Chief Wilson said the pressure of
work on the White House force in
the last year has been so increased
that in order to function effectively,
the White House borrowed 20 men,
"the best young men"-from the
Metropolitan police. Approval of
the bill under discussion would make
it possible for the city police to put
another 20 back to work.
Under the chairmanship of Rep
resentative Lanham, Democrat, of
Texas, the committee quickly ap-
proved the bill.
100000 Visitors in Year.
During the past year the White
House had 100000 visitors, Chief
Wilson said, and on one day $4,000
persons were on the grounds Of the
Executive Mansion-au of whom
had to be directed by the White
House police. He listed four activi-
ties of ths force:
l. Perform the usual duties of any
police force IN handling traf1c and
crowds.
2. Keep careful watch on the fire
hazards at the White House.
1T is a very old building" Mr..
Wilson said, "and we must do every
thing in our power to protect it and
Its valuable furnishings from fire"
3. Assist the Secret Service in the
protection of the President and the
members of his family.
4. Handle the occasionally un-
friendly crowds at the White House
efficiently and courteously.
No Complaints From Citizens.
Col. Edmund Startling, head of the
White House protective force, said
that in q years at the Executive
Mansion there had never been a
complaint about the treatment &C.
corded citizen by the White House
police.
The new bin authorizes a White
House force consisting of one cap
tain, two lieutenants, four sergeants
and 73 privates. The force works in
three shifts-at present "a men dur
ing the day. 10 from 4:30 pm. to
midnight and II from midnight to
7 am.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
Blue Plains DIET
Check Is Made
By yD'A|esandro
Aged Now Get Egg
A Day, but Food
Costs Are Up

Representative D'Alesandro, DEM
ocrat, of Maryland, stopped by the
Home for the Aged and Infirm to-
day after paying a visit to the In
dustrial Home School for Colored
Boys, which is also at Blue Plains.
His main purpose was to find OUT
If the aged inmates were getting the
egg q day that was promised. The
superintendent, Frank Haskell, told
him that the eggs had arrived, but.
he added, II don't know how long
we can keep this up. It's costing us
$40 more for food a month"
Mr.. D'Alesandro, member of the
House District Subcommittee inves-
tigating institutions, who has cam
paigned for an egg-a-day policy
since he first visited the institution
more than a month ago, and he
hoped funds would be available to
continue the improved feeding.
Mr.. D'Alesandro pronounced the
Industrial Home School for Colored
Boys one of the best-run institu-
tions he had visited. He was par
ticularly impressed by the cottage
system, where the boys live in sepa-
rate units, rather than in dormi.
tory, and said he thought the Indus
trial Home School for White Chill
dren should have similar setup.
Mr.. D'Alesandro was surprised to
learn that there was no intermediate
institution, like the Industrial Home
School, for colored girls. He said he
thought it was a shame" that the
less serious offenders among the
colored girls have to be sent to the
National Training School for Girls.
Having visited the training school,
however. Mr.. D'Alesandro was quick
to point out that there was no parole
officer at the training school. He
said he thought the colored girls
should have the same opportunity
in milder institution as the COL
ored boys and white children.
The greatest need at the Indus
trial Home School, he said, was for
an assembly hall to replace the in
adequate basement auditorium in
the school building. Also he favored
the employment of more teachers
when he found that one teacher
was instructing four grades in one
room. He praised the superintend-
ent, Wendall p Tucker, for his ad-
ministration Of the school.
Evening star., 1940-03-06

girl, Salome, in Richard Strauss
opera of the same name. She is
hailed as one of the finest ever to
play the role and, incidentally Sa-
lone is one of the fetchingest dane
ers ever to peer over a veil. She is
going to sing a number from this
opera tonight.
Once she even carried her love of
horseback riding right to the stage
with her. She is the only opera
star ever actually to ride the horse
in the closing scene of Wagner's
"Gotterdammerung." In San Fran
cisco later this year she's going to
ride one in Girl of the Golden
West"
This is her fifth season with
Metropolitan, having come to this
country after three years of study
in Paris. She made her debut at
the Monte Carlo Opera, singing
Elizabeth in "Tannhauser."
She has been in Washington twice
before, singing at the White House
last year and with the orchestra.
Soon she'll be leaving on tour with
the Metropolitan and then-Arizona
in June. That is, if she can find
some one interested in her offer.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
Nine D. {. Bills
Reported Back
By Committee
Three Authorize
Arrangements for
Inauguration

Nine bills, including three to au-
thorize arrangements for the presi.
Dental Inauguration next January,
were reported favorably by the
Senate District Committee today.
The committee also named subcom-
mitteeS to inquire into a variety Of
other measures.
The three joint resolutions relat-
ing to the inaugural ceremonies are:
To provide for the quartering Of
troops ordered here for the parade,
authorizing the Commissioners to
spend s25,000 for public order, and
to provide for the issuance of nec-
essary permits to the Inaugural
Committee for the erection Of
stands and other facilities.
Other bills approved by the COM
mittee were:
A measure already passed by the
House exempting newsboys from the
Unemployment Insurance Act.
Memorial Fountain Bill.
Authorizing the Commissioners to
accept and maintain a memorial
fountain to be erected by Police
Department in the municipal center
area. The memorial is being pro-
vlded by private subscription.
Amending the code to make
garage repair bills a prior lien on
automobiles being purchased on the
installment plan.
Broadening the power of the
Health Department to prohibit the
use of outdoor toilets on streets
where sewer facilities are available.
Changing the name of Twenty
fourth street, for a distance of one
block, near Porter street, to Will
liamsburg lane, after the Commits
sioners had explained this block is
permanently separated from the
remainder Of Twenty-fourth street
NV.
To clarity the District life insur-
ance code of 1884 in one minor
detail.
Senators Overton of Louisiana,
McCarran of Nevada and Austin of
Vermont were named as members of
subcommittee on the Capper bill
to amend the local credit union law.
Insurance Code Referred.
The proposed new fire and casu-
atty insurance code was referred to
subcommittee consisting of Sena-
tors McCarran, Slattery of Illinois
and Holman of Oregon.
Chairman King also announced he
would appoint other subcommittee
soon to study these bills: To permit
minors to appear professionally in
theatrical productions; to regulate
the practice of dentistry and to au-
thorize the granting of a pension to
former Policeman Amos B. Cole.
Senator MsCarran tried without
success to obtain consideration of the
fair trade practice bill, already ap-
proved by the House. Chairman
King renewed his opposition, but
promised Senator McCarran to call
another meeting Tuesday to consider
it. The bill would enable manufac-
turers of trade marked articles to
make contracts with distributors to
fix the resale price of their COM
modities.
Evening star., 1940-03-06
w. P. A. Nurse Found
Dead of Cos Fumes

Miss Nellie E. Leacock, 35-year-
old w. p. A. nurse, was found dead
In the gas-fllled kitchen of her
apartment at 705 Eighteenth street
NV. shortly after am. today.
She left a note, according to Pvt.
]. SobOlewsh of No. 3 Precinct
Station, who investiged, but con-
tents of the message were not made
public.
The body was discovered by Mrs.
Rosa Hankey, resident manager Of
the apartment house, who was called
when q hall boy smelled gas es-
Gaping from Miss Leacock's apart
ment.