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IN the acceptable performance OF
their duties. We should feel q debt
Of gratitude to every one Of these
boys and girls because they are aid
ing in q very concrete way in the
prevention Of trafic accidents and
the preservation of life.
In addition to the job they are
doing for their school-mates they
are receiving invaluable training in
citizenship - responsibility toward
their fellows, and an inculcated SAT-
ETY. awareness which will undoubt-
edly follow them all their lives. To
this end, the safety program is fol-
lowing satisfactory procedure, for
it IL beginning with the kindergar-
ten children and rebuilding con-
stantly on the foundation there laid.
Because Of such foresight on the
part Of those responsible for the
program, it should naturally follow
that there should be an increasing
public interest in accident preven-
ton and traf1ic safety.
And now, just q word Of criticism
mot Of the patrol boys and girls or
Of the thousands Of other school
children in the United States but
Of their elders. It Is quite noticeable
that adults are rs q rule far worse
offenders in pedestrians trafnc vio-
lations than the youngsters. II we
as the adult citizenry would accept
our personal responsibility in this
matter, Is well Is do the school
children, I am sure that the trafic
accident record for our country
would be one Of which We could be
exceedingly proud instead Of heart
ily ashamed.
1ho Beard e& Aauaeors Vill moet
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Parade Emphasizes Role
Of School Patrols
PIT. A. President Urges Adults
AS Well as Children to
Abide by Safety Rules
BY MRS. C. D. LOWE,
President D. c. consress Of Parents and Teac

AS the thousands Of patrol
musical organzatonsswung Constitution yesterday
that those who witnessed the parade impressed with
showing And program
taught
could this demonstration without thrill
the realization brought home that the
participating angaged during the school protecting
of their school mates
Daily throughout the these whebeted girls
hepherdng children busy intersections when permits their
rain preventive the performance Of their
difference being yellow
white rain outfits identify them.
thing patrol considers
membership q
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CoyIe to BE Speaker

The Adult Education Association
81 the District will hear David Cush-
man Coyle, author and economist,
discuss Adult Education in War
stime" at the National Education
Association, 1901 Sixteenth street
NV, at 8 pm. Friday.
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How They Stand

warder street and Newton place
NV. 8 pm.
Piney Branch-Roosevelt High
School, Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV, 8 pm.
West End-(Dinner) Fairfax Ho-
tel, Twenty-first street and Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, $50 pm.
Tuesday, May IA.
Logan Thomas Circle-1120 Rhode
Island avenue NV, 8 pm.
Stanton Park-Peabody School,
Fifth and c streets NE, 8 pm.
Summit Park-East washington
Heights Baptist Church, Alabama
and Branch avenues Sc, 8 pm.
Wednesday, May Is.
Chevy Chase-E. v. Brown School,
Connecticut avenue and Mckinley
street NV, 8 pm.
Dahlgrep Terrace - Crosby S.
Noyes School, Tenth and Franklin
streets NE, pm.
Sixteenth Street Highlands
Brightwood School, Thirteenth and
Nicholson streets NV, 8 pm.
Southwest-Jefferson Junior High
School, Sixth and D streets S.W.,
8 pm.
Friday, May II.
Glover Park-Industrial Home
School, 2453 Wisconsin Avenue NV,
pm.
Takoma Park ID. C.-Md)-Ta-
koma Park Branch Public Library,
Fifth and Cedar streets NV, 8 pm.
Saturday, May 1S.
Federation-Boardroom, District
Building, 8 pm.
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CALENDAR NOTES.

Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superfin-
tendent Of police; Stephen T. Por-
ter, chief fire engineer Of the Dis
trict, and Judge Nathan Cayton
of the Municipal Court are expected
to attend the annual dinner Of the
West End Citizens Association to-
morrow at $50 pm. in the Fairfax
Hotel. Walter F. Wasson, president,
said q short program Of speeches
would be held, followed by enter
tainment and dancing.
Paul Edwards, director Of w. p. A.
In the District, will be principal
speaker before the Southwest Citi-
zens' Association Wednesday eve
ming. Harry Wender, president,
announced that plans for the asso-
cations outing, to be held June 3
at Marshall Hall (Md.) would be
made. The program is being ar
ranged by the Rev. Harry v. Porter,
chairman Of the Outing Committee.
Election Of officers, with installa-
ton ut the June meeting, will be
held by the National Gateway Citi-
zens' Association tomorrow night,
william P. Thomas, president, an
nounced.
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CALENDAR NOTES.


The New Center Market Board OF
Directors will meet Thursday at 2
pm, New Center Market, Fifth and
K streets NV.
The 1910 membership drive of the
Central group ends December 8, 1t
has been announced by Louis I.
Oberg, secretary. Awards will be
given the members bringing in the
most new members during the year.
They are: Cd An $S4 16-week course
in the Dale Carnegie Institute OF
Effective Speaking and ca a trip
to New York and return via the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The
trip is valued at $2595. Other
awards are to be announced later.
The president and secretary of the
group are not eligible to win. The
Membership Board Committee con-
sists of Hugh v. Keiser, chairman;
Frank A. Patterson, vice chairman;
Bert Amos, Joseph Luria, Leon G.
Morris, Stanley Hayman and George
Bobinger.
Opposition to any full-time park
ing ban on Fourteenth street be-
tween Harvard street and Park road
NV. will be voted on by the Colum-
bia Heights group at its meeting
Tuesday. Any such regulations
would cripple practically all busi-
ness IN this area, William T. Gary,
president Of the association, said.
The group will also recommend that
the car stop at Fourteenth and Har-
ward streets NV. be continued and
not Jumped, as Is the proposal.
Plans and complete description Of
q new post ONCE for the Cleveland
Park section will be shown the
Cleveland Park group tomorrow
Berneard Elman, secretary, an
nounced yesterday. The association
will sponsor the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars encampment next month.
Every one In the group Is working
to make It the most elaborate affair
ever held In the city, according to
Mr.. ElmAn. Know Your Money, >
. picture promoted by the United
States Secret Service, win be shown.
The Southeast group win offer \
resolution for the erection Of . new
Hine Junior High School on the
site Of the present building and ask
that the elementary school be
moved to another location because
Of the lack OF space ct It's present
site with the junior high. A new
building viii be asked for the
elementary school also. The an
nual outing Of the association win
be held July % to Marshall Hall.
In protesting the no-parking ban
on both sides Of Georgia avenue
from Otis place to Princeton street
NV. on one side, and from Otis
place to.Newton place on the other,
the Park View body win offer Z
resolution that this ban be lfted.
The annual outing Of the Con-
necticut Avenue group will be held
Monday. May -, with . moonlight
cruise down thu Potomac 70 Mar.
stail Han.
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Junior Hudussuh Dance

The Washington Chapter Of Jul
nior Hadassah will hold It's annual
installation dinner dance June 23 At
Maryland Club Gardens. Arrange
ments are Ia charge Of Miss Ruth
Aorgenstein.
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Tuesday at 10 am, in the N. Z. A.
building.

Mrs. Gene Starr, general chair
man for the annual convention Of
the D. G. Congress of Parents and
Teachers, has completed arrange
ments for the three sessions, to be
held In the Departmental Auditori-
um, May 81 and ~. There will be
two sessions on Tuesday. with the
concluding session on Wednesday
occupying the period between 10
am, and 100 PIN. The theme Of
Youth IN Today's World" win be
developed by several speakers, and
there viii be music by several Of the
local school organizations.
Poweu Junior.
Preceding the meeting on May u,
. "get-together" supper will be held
In the cafeteria from $50 to Z pm,
with the executive committee In
general charge. Assisting on the
various committees are Mrs. B. p.
Donnelly, Mrs. Leo Raywid. Mrs. Leo
Madigan, Mrs. L. A. Craven, Mrs.
Edmund Wallis, Mrs. Pauline Cissel,
Mrs. A. s. Mangene, Mrs. Ayden
Dibble, and Mrs. Riley Elgen.
At the business meeting 1t 8
o'clock, officers will be installed.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent Of the Board of Education,
will be an honored guest.
Central High.
The annual dinner given by the
association to the cadets Will take
place Tuesday at s o'clock In the
cafeteria. Mrs. Harold Evans u
(eee PIT. A, Page C.100
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Mr.. Sperry Travelled Far
Before Taking Over Desk
Utility Head
Is Red Cross,
Chest Worker

Nineteenth in q series OF
sketches OF officers and directors
OF the Board OF Trade.
Evening star., 1940-05-12
Bills Approved.

The Senate District Committee
Thursday ordered favorable reports
on six bills. They follow.
S. 1868 authorizing the Commits
sioners to establish public parking
lot in the municipal center area.
H. r. 70S4 amending the adoption
law to protect adoptees Of children
born outside the District.
H. r. 9210 bringing the inde-
terminate sentence and parole law
into closer conformity with the Fed
eral parole law.
S. 1860 placing former Policeman
Amos B. Cole on the retired list.
S. 2013 providing for chartering
and regulation of consumer CO.
operative organizations.
s. 1888 creating a commission for
the recodification Of existing laws.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee Thursday approved H. r. 9109,
as revised by its District Subcom-
mittee, making appropriations for
the District in the flcal year be-
ginning July l.
Evening star., 1940-05-12
On Capitol Hill
A Weekly Report on
D. 6. LEGISLATION

Nine bills are scheduled to be
called up in the House tomorrow
when it considers District legislation
on its calendar. They are:
H. r. 1925 providing for reorgani-
zation Of the municipal government.
H. r. 9293 amending the child
labor law to permit children over
IA years of age to participate in
professional concerts and theatrical
productions for pay.
H. r. 9114 authorizing the Com
missioners to borrow 100000 Of
P. w. A, funds to erect a new build
ing to house the ONCE Of the
recorder Of deeds.
Retirement Bill.
H. R. Ss46 providing for the volun-
tary retirement Of police and fire.
men at half pay after IS years
service.
H. r. 8793 tightening the regu-
lation Of fire, casualty and marine
insurance companies.
H. r. 7949 giving the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board power to
control liquor prices in order to
stop price cutting"
H. r. 9633 increasing the au-
thority of the Board of Education
over degree-issuing institutions, In
cluding junior colleges.
H. r. 9299 amending the life in
surance law to provide for group
insurance to protect bank loans.
H. r. 9576 permitting residents Of
the Virgin Islands adjudged insane
to be admitted to st. Elizabeth's 4
Hospital.
Evening star., 1940-05-12
Business Groups
II Associations
Meet This Week

The following businessmen's asso-
Citations are scheduled to hold meet
ings this week:
Monday, May 13.
Cleveland Park-Regular meeting,
Connecticut avenue branch Of the
City Bank, 3401 Connecticut avenue
NV, $50 pm.
Park View - Regular meeting,
Georgia avenue branch Of the City
Bank, 3608 Georgia avenue NV,
$50 pm.
Southeast-Regular meeting, Dono-
hoes real estate ONCE, 314 Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc, 8:15 pm.
Tuesday, May II.
Columbia Heights-Regular meet
ing and luncheon, Sholl's Cafe, 3027
Fourteenth street NV, 1915 pm.
Connecticut Avenue - Regular
meeting, Mayflower Eotel, Connec-
ticut avenue and De Sales street
NV, $50 pm.
Georgetown - Regular meeting,
Birch Sons funeral home, 3O34 M
street NV, Sis pm.
Northeast-Luncheon, Continental
Hotel, North Capitol, between D and
E streets, 12:15 pm. ~
Northern Seventh Street-Regular
meeting, Immaculate Conception
Hall, I'll N street NV, . pm.
Wednesday, May Is.
New Center Market-Regular
meeting. New Center Market, Fifth
and K streets NV, 2p.m.
Thursday, May 16.
observation-disclosures meeting, Con-
tinental Hotel. North Capitol, be-
tween D and E streets, $50 pm.
Central-Regular meeting and
luncheon, Hamilton Hotel, Four
teenth and K streets NV, 1918 pm,
Hardware-Regular meeting, May
flower Hotel, Connecticut avenue
and De Sales street NV, $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1940-05-12

The following businessmen's asso-
Citations are scheduled to hold meet
ings this week:
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The Board ef Managers VIII inset
Evening star., 1940-05-12


Senate Proposes Important Surveys
Senator making provision
for the public schools buildings
and grounds and systematic building program
building would not be confined
would include other needed municipal
proposed to discover q
ton for the program.
Another contemplated provided
appropriation bill approved by the committee the
feasibility and advabiy of establishing municipality
operated automobile parking stations
This will probably the whole question parking Of
automobiles the District streets This
problems which much akin to the old
about the everybody talks about but
does anything about It, Any the Senate idea prevails the
problem will have analytical study and solution.
Rapid Transit by Steam Railroads
The idea of utilizing the Baltimore Ohio Railroad rapid
transit from the suburbs to downtown Washington revived
of the citizens associations during the last The plan
suggested Is not elaborate others time
The suggestion that trains through the
tunnel and down to the Bureau Engraving Printing
The other plan which offered about ago suggested
tunnel connection probably under Constitution avenue
the Georgetown branch Of the & O Railroad This
Of belt line to rapid transportation
to all Of the northern suburbs.
Of these suggestions
ter than being mentioned in the the Public Utilities
Commission has made study Of the problem
praccaby Of the suggestions there avail
able Many suburbantes employed In the neborhood Of
Union Station the B. & o. regularly and ind
convenience and time There increasing number Of
the civic who interested In having this question
thoroughly studied and authoritative report made
Evening star., 1940-06-09

been the cause Of the disaster. Three
floors had collapsed with about 40
men on each. The outside walls were
still standing.
Il ran across the street to look
through one of the large windows
and 1t was not long before a whole
city block Of people were behind me-
All Of = sudden a man with a stem
torian voice yelled, Look out! The
walls are falling!'
The crowd stampeded. For the
lack of air was losing my breath,
so jumped as high as I could to
get above the heads of the wild
crowd. I was wedged in so tightly
by this milling crowd that my feet
did not touch the ground until the
cross street was reached. Many were
hurt In this mob. To this dav
crowds frighten me.
After this I ran to the back of the
Evening star., 1940-06-09

old Ford's Theater, going through
the same alley Booth used to escape
after assassinating President Lin
coin. helped in removing the dead
and injured. There was so much
dust from the falling plaster it was
hard to see or breathe. At this time
the Fire Department arrived and
started to throw water into the
building. A Government official told
the fire chief to stop. saying that
many valuable Cove rnment papers
were In that building. The chief
said, To h--l with those papers
Men were suffocating in there. It
was all too horrible to relate.
"One man jumped out of the win
dow and fell on his head. There were
% dead, So injured.
Helped Doctor Sew Wound.
II was assisting a doctor attending
a man with face wound The doc
Evening star., 1940-06-09

tor said, Kid, you finish sewing this
wound. Here's how you do it. Other
men need me more than this man..
II saw this man years after, and he
said I had made q good job of 1t
for kid.
THE hero of this disaster was a
colored man who went up a tele-
graph pole which was close to the
building and made a human bridge
of himself from the pole to a win
dow. Men who were clinging to a
small portion of the floor which re-
mained passed over him. They went
over him so fast his back was in
jured. I understood the Govern
ment pensioned this brave man.
you may ask. Doctor, did you
ever collect the bill from the clerk
you went into the building to see?'
mo, that poor fellows bill was no
longer a debt. He was killed.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Youth United Against
War, Civil Liberties
Conference Is Told
Motives of Some U. 5.
Leaders Are Questioned,
Frances Williams Says

Young Americans are united on
one note-they do not want to 60
to war" Frances Williams. admin
1strative secretary of the American
Youth Congress, tod delegates to
the National Conference on Civil
Liberties yesterday during session
in the National Press Club Audi
torium.
Miss Williams said American
youth was harboring feeling Of
''restlessness and apprehension,
born of the thought that some of
the Nations leaders who speak pub
licly for peace might be working
''in private to get us into war"
This does not mean that young
people in America are afraid to
fight" she emphasized, but that
not being asked to defend "the
illusion or the ghost of democracy"
Works for Rights of Labor.
The Youth Congress official said
organized youth was determined at
this time to work actively in be-
half of the rights of labor and
minorities and for civil liberties,
''even at the risk of being called
fifth columnist; even at the risk
OF spending ,lot of time knitting
and reading in some Jail some
place"
In a statement read by Fredric
Myers, an organizer, Joseph Curran,
president of the National Maritime
Union, asserted:
American workers are patriotic.
They are against war and against
exploitation. They will defend their
country and its institutions against
attack from any source. foreign or
domestic. They will also defend
their organizations from attack,
whether those attacks come cloaked
IN the mantle of patriotism or in
some more honest guise."
Caribbean Union Official Speaks.
The inhabitants of West Indian
islands demand to be consulted If
plans for transfer of control over
British and French possessions in
the Caribbean to the United States
are given serious consideration, Hope
Stevens, secretary of the Caribbean
Union, told the meeting.
Representative Fries, Democrat,
of Illinois said domestic economic
problems demand at this time con-
sideration equal to that being given
military expansion in the United
States.
A Southern Bourbon" bloc of ma
tional legislators is seizing upon cur
rent critical times as their oppor-
tunity to attack the Bill of Rights
and progressive, economic and social
legislation, Alfred K. Stern, chair
man of the National Emergency
Conference for Democratic Rights,
declared
Guild Official Presides.
Morris Watson, vice president
of the American Newspaper Guild,
presided at the afternoon session
yesterday.
Edwin S. Smith, member of the
National Labor Relations Board, will
discuss Civil Rights and National
Defense" today at a luncheon at
12:45 O'Clock in the auditorium.
Committees on rights Of citizen
ship, rights Of labor, rights of mi
nority groups and rights of the alien
and foreign born will meet this
morning and formulate recommen-
dations to be received at a general
session to begin at 2:30 pm.
The three-day conference will
close with adoption of resolutions
and formation Of q program of
action"
Evening star., 1940-06-09

There is always a humorous side
to all disasters. I have heard that
a Chinaman has no curiosity. Well,
1t was demonstrated at Ford's The.
ater. A Chinaman had a small laun-
dry next door. He ran out of his
laundry to see what all the noise was
about when the building fell. In a
few minutes, after calmly viewing
the situation, he decided it would be
safe for him to 60 back and start
working, which he did. leaving every
thing to the wild mob"
Evening star., 1940-06-09
U. S. Freight Car Plant
To Make Shells for Allies
Nv the AsSoriataJ praer

BY the Associated Press.
BUTLER, Pa, June 8.-Wallace
Barker, vice president for operations
of the Pullman Standard Car Corp
plant here, announced today the
company had accepted a $4,000 900
order for shells from the Allied Pur-
chasing Commission.
Retooling of the Butler plant,
which produced munitions during
the World War, will begin imme-
diately and probably will be COM
pleted by October. Production of
shells, finished except for powder
and caps, will begin then on a a.
hour-a-day basis, Mr.. Barker said.
The plant normally is engaged
mainly in construction of freight
cars
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Doctor Recalls Ford Theoter
Disaster 47 Years Ago Today
Eyewitness Account Of Deoth Of n
Sent to Cousin Here by California Man

Forty-seven years ago today the
old Ford's Theater Building, 5ll-15
Tehth street NV, in which Abra-
ham Lincoln was shot, collapsed,
killing 70 Government clerks and
injuring SO. At the time the struc-
ture was being used for Offices, fol-
lowing a period during which it
served as an Army medical museum.
The walls remained standing in
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1lilnols avenue NV. who brought
1t to the attention Of The Star.
II Years Old 1T the Time.
DR.. Schafhirt's recollections fol-
low:
Il was II years old and had been
sent to the third floor of the old
Ford Theater to collect a bill from
one of Uncle Sans clerks. After
contracting him I walked down the
stairs and crossed the street to the
front Of the house in which Presi-
dent Lincoln died. Suddenly heard
q terrific noise and screams. I turned,
and through the windows of the
building I had Just left saw men
falling with the collapse of the third
floor through the second and the
f1rst floors into the basement Of the
building, where men were exca-
waiting, which proved later to have
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the disaster and the interior was
restored.
The historic building now houses a
collection Of Lincolniana.
DR.. Jesse B. Schafhirt, now of
Pacific. Calf, recently set down his
eyewitness account Of the 1893
tragedy and sent it to his cousin,
Mrs. Charles E. Morgenston of AIT
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Marital Stote Unknown

ROANOKE, Va, June 8 (R.-Ap-
parently some persons here are not
sure about their marital state.
Two persons answering 4 question:
aire said normal" and others
wrote Virginia"
Evening star., 1940-06-09

The furniture and the bedding, too? Yes thots right
ana he such os might soee the sondest home
Lovely sleigh bed dresser with we|ed" front and pin roy
chest with speeio shirt compartment Futed posts deIieote
eutout effects and oval hordwore ore perfect fos for the
eossc lines Handsome mohoeony veneers on
eumwood Not ordnov bedding, either, but SIMMONS
innersprins mattress and coil spring.
The Poas Royal. F~"it&,s Fosyh Floor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-06-19

Franklin d. Roosevelt,
President of the United States
Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy
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