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Evening star., 1941-04-13

Hoexter and Mrs. Ernest Mosler of
New York.
Mrs. Edgar Neuman of New Or
leans is the guest of her brother-in-
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
S. kaufman.
Gerald Grosners Sail
On West Indies Cruise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Grosner
sailed Friday from New York on a
cruise to the West Indies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel S. Kaufman,
with their son, Stephen Kaufman,
have returned from New Orleans,
where they visited Mrs. Kaufman's S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Ran
dolph Saal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Nordlinger
and two children are spending the
Easter week end in Richmond, Va,
visiting Mrs. Nordlinger's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Greentree.
Mrs. Emma Sancier and her SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs
Jack Goldberg, have returned from
Miami Beach.
Mrs. Joseph Dreyfuss has returned
from a vacation at Miami Beach.
Mrs. Cora Spicer, who was the
guest of her brother and sister-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hirsh, in
Atlantic City, has returned.
Mrs. Flora Dannenberg is return
ing to her home in New York today
after visiting her cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Lehman.
Mr.. Robert King, who is stationed
at Fort Bragg, N. c., is spending the
week end with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. LIE Roy King.
Mrs. Alfred j. Goldsmith of Phila-
delphia, with her two young daugh-
ters, will arrive here tomorrow to
spend several weeks with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Kron-
heimer,
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Of Personal Note
Nordlingers and Simons Hosts
At WoOdmOnt Dinner Dance

Howard Nordlinger Mr.. and Mrs David Simon
the outoftown guests Mr. and
Mrs B Nusbaum Norfolk NJ Mrs Hch Baltimore Mr.
Weinberg Mr. and Mrs Rosenstock OF Frederick
andM Irving Texarkana
children left
Atlantic City spend the Easter holiday.
Mr. Abner Godsone have returned
Camden N j.
spending the week in New York
arrived Wednesday from
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Hallett Abend Takes
Alexandra House

Mr.. Hallett Abend has come to
Washington to live after many
years in the Orient, where he rep
resented the New York Times.
Mr.. Abend has joined the for
eign legion" in Alexandria and
has leased the house at 113
Prince street known as captains
row. He will move into the house,
recently restored, Tuesday and
continue his writing, now being
contributor to leading maga-
zines in this country.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
About Well>Known Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Today Is 15Oth Anniversary of First
Easter Service Held in Present
Territory of the District
By ROBERT CRAWFORD.

150th
the District
ST. Paus Church. Rock Creek and today another
celebrated in the historic At that time
that the Federal Capital would be situated the Potomac River
usual in the South tobacco played
OF St. pashoners subscribing As pounds big
cash crop
The John Frazier who 719 rector Broad Church
Broad Creek which empes the Potomac
below Fort Fooe found his parish growing proportions that
chapel September 49, l79 the people the Eastern
Creek hundred called meeting select
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-27
Keep Project
For Criiplp|es,
WPA ImpIored

Appeal to save a WPA project
here which is giving instruction e
300 handicapped. adults and chill
dren were sent today both Il
Washington and Lansing by Of
ficials of the Detroit League o.
the handicapped and by the De.
troit chapter, Michigan Society
for Crippled Children
Announcement Of the cut wa:
made week ago.
kilograms went 10 Howard
Hunter, head of WPA in Washing
ton, ID. C., and 10 Miss Bes:
Garner, state director of specia
education, in which the Detroit
organizations pleaded that the six
month old project which works
with home-bound children ano
adults be salvaged
MADE PROJECT OUR OWN
Said Mrs. Nelson Mccormick
head of the Detroit League Of the
Handicapped;
I'VE have made this project
our own from the first. We pay
the rent for offices in the
krolik building, and furnish
materials and transportation for
the men and women Who can he
brought to headquarters for In
struction.
Few people realize the need
Of these persons who are 40
crippled by illness that they have
never been able to 20 tn school,
and are doomed To lives Of total
belplessness unless we can help
them.
Already i'm the short six
months, the 20 WPA teachers
have put some OF the adults into
part time jobs. They are In
structed I'm leather work, wood
carving, sewing, knitting, flower
making, and modelling.
mot the least Of what the
work IL doing II 10 give these
terribly handicapped people self
confidence.
Part -nEthe- 2Qn-Whn- -hning
taught on WPA can with trans
portation furnished by the two Co
operating Detroit organizations
come 70 headquarters for training.
The Others arc taught in their
homes. They include SpaStic. car
diac, severe infantlle paralysis,
and Spinabiffada cases
one adult. a blind man. has been
taught for the first time tn write
his own name. one OF his fellow
workers carved his name IN wood
relief, so that his fingers might
learn the contours Of the sigma
ttlre
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-27
Scout Camps Open Sunday

A CAPACITY enrolment for hOth
Detroit council-opcrated boy scout
camps is expected Sunday when
Camp Billy Mills, on the Howell
scout reservation, near Brighton
and Camp Brady. near Waterford
open for 500 Detroit scouts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-27
n--EmbIem Lifetime Guarantee

"a PrIees IneIuds az Tlres
Evening star., 1941-05-04

Revolution refurnished the nursery
and the old kitchen. And persons
and organizations in many parts
of the Nation have helped finan-
cially or through gift of mementos
for the shrine.
Among the authentic furnishings
of the birthplace are a four-poster
bed used by President Wilson, a
sugar basin that belonged to his
grandmother, an engraving of
Staunton as it appeared the year
of Wilson's birth, a cradle which
belonged to the Wilson family, the
typewriter and table at which Will
son did his writing, President Will
sons Bible, many of his favorite pic
lures and a portrait of Wilson by
Graham Cootes of New York, ma
tive OF Staunton.
The foundation has expressed the
hope that an endowment fund can
be created to take care Of major
expenses Of upkeep and completion
of the task Of refurnishing the
shrine. Admission fees are to be
kept as low as possible.
Ward Brown Of Alexandria was
the architect for the restoration,
while Mrs. Louis McCarty Little
and Miss Doris Uppercue, both Of
Washington, directed the interior
decoration.
Mrs. Hull, who is a native of
Staunton and an alumna of Mary
Baldwin College, succeeded Admiral
Cary Grayson as president of the
foundation. Other officers are
Senator Carter Glass, first vice
president; Senator Harry F. Byrd,
second vice president; Jesse Jones,
Secretary of Commerce, treasurer;
and Mrs. Herbert McKelden Smith
of Staunton, secretary and assistant
treasurer.
Among the trustees are Norman
H. Davis, r. w. Boiling, Judge
Lawrence D. Groner and Mrs.
Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Washington
and Edward r. Stettinius, tr, Of
New York and Washington.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
F. B. [. Training Qualities
Picked Officers to Teach
Policemen Back Home
Technique Being Spread
Throughout States and
Insular Areas of Nation

steadily as the influence of the
academy is reflected in the estab-
lishment and development of local
training schools over the country.
To foster this work an eminent
group from many fields contributes
services, the roster of the academy
faculty headed by Director Hoover
reading like a who's Who" From
bench, bar, scientific laboratory
even the church-they come to sup
plement the labors of associates
wise to the ways of the criminal
world, whose teaching, of course,
is the basic foundation of the school.
Guide Legal Features.
Guiding the legal education of the
student-policemen are Associate JUS
tive Harold NJ. Stephens of the
United States Court of Appeals, on
court procedure; Prof. Albert Coates,
University of North Carolina, crimi-
nal law Judge Alexander Holtzoff,
special assistant to the Attorney
General. law of arrest, and DR.. Earl
C. Arnold dean of Vanderbilt Uni
versity law school, evidence, confess
sions and circumstantial evidence.
In the field of sociology, DR.. Ed
mund A. Walsh, s. j., vice president
of Georgetown University, lectures
on social changes, and DR.. Arthur
L. Beeley, professor of sociology of
the University of Utah, conducts the
course on behaviorism, crime pre-
vention, juvenile delinquency and
causes of crime.
DR.. Alexander H. Gettler, chief
toxicologist of New York City, in
structs the class on effects of poison
and methods of detecting poison, a
course that ties in with the lectures
on autopsies, by DR.. A. Magruder
Macdonald, District of Columbia
coroner, and on post-mortems, by
DR.. Harrison S. MARYLAND, medical
examiner for Essex County, N. j.
Some of these topics might seem
to have little bearing on the routine
duties of policeman, but they oc-
cupy a very definite place in the
new scheme of things. The legal
training, for example, is designed to
enable the officers to prepare their
cases better for presentation in
court-to make their evidence stick
Post-mortems and autopsies are
Evening star., 1941-05-04

residents In the vicinity OF an open
lot some two blocks from the death
scene recalled hearing a shot. The
lot was carefully searched, and
gun was found. Fingerprints were
on the weapon and when matched
were determined to be those of the
dead man. Reconstructing the cir
cumStanceS of death, officers became
convinced that the man shot him.
self-the wound was in the body
then damned the flow of blood to
prevent the tell-tale drip that
would have barred his self-destruc-
ton at the outset, as he staggered
back home.
Next came a session on traffic,
with Mr.. Marsh in the chair, and
drivers who think of traffic officers
mainly in terms of tickets and how
to beat them could with profit hear
another side of that story. With
out exception, the men who ride
motorcycles and scout cars, or daily
take their lives in their hands at
some busy intersection, insist that
the yearly motor toll will not be
cut until the public can be made
to realize that murder" on the
highways is also serious, and that
the cure is more enforcement, which
in turn means larger budgets for
this purpose.
Unbelievable as it may seem, over
time parkers are the least of their
worries, but a Celt from an East
ern city who had wearied of mo-
torists who were making a career
of nonstop parking reported a
cure which he had found effective.
Hailed Into Court.
Chalk marks were being rubbed
from tires, and tickets ignored, so
he swore out warrants, and when
the offenders were hailed into court
and he was called upon for evidence
of the parking violation, he pulled
it out-peanuts Under each wheel
he explained-of the perennial Of
tenders, he placed one goober.
When, near the end of the day,
he retraced his steps and found the
bait in its original condition, 1t was
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Airline Pilot Is Expert in
Art of Fine Gun Making

critical operation. The drill works
under 500 pounds of oil pressure
and does work few diamond cutters
could be expected to do, Capt. Ham
mer said. Then comes another diff
cult precision job-the cutting Of the
spiral grooves which constitute the
"rifling" and give the weapon its
name.
Fashioning the stock necessitates
the skill of a cabinetmaker. From
a piece Of walnut. maple. or myrtle
wood the balanced, highly polished
stocks are carved and fitted. They
must be worked down to fit the
needs Of the sportsman who Is going
to use them. Differences in con-
formation of the shoulder and the
arm of the man who is to use the
gun require special treatment. Each
of Capt. Hammers rifles is tai
lored" job to fit himself or his
friends.
Capt. Hammer believes that a "a
inch barrel is long enough unless
some special kind of shooting is
called for. His favorite cahber is %
and he feels there is little work to
be done that a superaccurate %
won't do.
Sights Adjusted.
In a shooting gallery adjoining his
basement workshop the finished
rifle is given firing tests and sights
are adjusted to insure perfect aim
another job requiring the utmost
delicacy and precision.
Capt. Hammer has flown more
than 100000 miles in the United
States and Mexico and has hunted
in many of the States through which
he has flown. On the walls of his
home are trophies which attest to
his shooting skill as well as his gun
making hobby.
And, while one or two good rifles
might be lifetime supply for the
average man, this is far from true
for Capt. Hammer.
When you turn out one gun, even
one you're proud Of, you want to
start on another right away" he
said. you are never finished"
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Dedicatory Address by Roosevelt to Be Made
at Manse Parish Home

A third child, Thomas Woodrow
Wilson, was born on December %,
1856. He was named for his moth
er's father and brother, and bap-
tized in his fathers church, now
the chapel of Mary Baldwin Col
lege, across the street from the pres
ent First Presbyterian Church.
Moved to Other States.
The Wilson's lived in Staunton
only two and half years, trans
ferring first to Augusta, Ga, and
later to Columbia, S. c., and Will
mington, N. c.
Tommy" Wilson, as he was called
as boy, returned to Staunton
some years later with his mother,
who visited Miss Mary Julia Bald
win, later to become principal for
the school for girls which was to
bear her name. And he saw "The
Manse," too, on subsequent visits
when his older sisters were stu
dents in Miss Baldwin's school, and,
later still, when he was law stu
dent at the University of Virginia,
not far away.
President Wilson was proud of
his birthplace, asserting at one time
that Sometimes a mans rootage
means more than his LEAKAGE"
After his election and prior to
his Inauguration as President, Will
son went to Staunton for home
coming planned in his honor He
and Mrs. Wilson we're guests at
"The Manse" of DR.. and Mrs. A. M.
Fraser and, in the room in which
he was born, the President-elect
was presented by the city with ivory
miniatures of his father and mother.
Although in 1922 sundial was
erected in the garden by the Co.
lonial Danes of America and later
bronze tablet was put up by the
First Presbyterian Church, it was
not until 1923 that the first con-
certed efforts were made to make
the birthplace national shrine.
One of the leaders of the move
ment to establish q shrine was
DR.. Fraser, who was for years pas
Evening star., 1941-05-04

community whose major problem
once consisted in keeping Main
Street cleared of drunks on Saturday
night, is liable to burst into print on
any morning as the locale of big
time" criminal operations. The
bureau urges only that those men
sent to the school have background
that gives reasonable assurance they
will become competent instructors
as the result of their studies.
Local departments, civic bodies,
and sometimes the men themselves
foot their living expenses here, for
the Government supplies only the
training. This has led to some
pathetic incidents. One ambitious
youngster and his wife were found
taking in washing at the trailer
home to finance themselves. His
superior officers had been unable to
continue his salary while he was
away from his job, but the couple
determined not to let that stand in
Evening star., 1941-05-04

the way of something that might
lead to advancement. Another
trainee put himself on a 35-cent
daily allowance for food during his
IL weeks. These particular sacrifices,
it might be said, were not in vain.
And the training has some un-
expected results. One graduate got
back home to rural Mid-Western
community to find the farmers in
arms because of repeated raids on
their hog pens. 1t happened, how
ever, that the thieves, in their hurry
at one place, left behind truck side
boards which once had borne the
name of the vehicle owner. Wind
and weather long since had all but
obliterated the lettering. but the
N. P. A. alumnus knew all about that
too. He arranged for infra-red
photographs of the boards which
brought out the name clearly and
distinctly-and the rest was Just a
breeze.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
By Joseph S. Edeerton.

The arduous and exacting art of
fine gun making by hand, in which
American master craftsmen once ex-
celled, has been adopted as a hobby
by Capt. Joe Hammer, veteran
American Airlines pilot. He finds
the precise and exacting require
ments of the hobby relief from the
precise and exacting requirements
of flying a modern airliner, strangely
enough.
Capt. Hammer also is a big-game
hunter. Whether this is an out
growth of his gun-making hobby or
whether that grew out of his love
for hunting, however, is not quite
clear to Capt. Hammers friends.
Although Capt Hammers home
and the cellar gunsmith's shop, from
which he turns out rifles that are
acclaimed to be masterpieces. is in
Chicago, he is well known in Wash
ington, often flying regular sched-
01NO AAC4C ONSA Vic w
Chicago or Washington-New York
airways.
He starts his rifles from raw ma
terials and tolerates no inaccuracies.
"a rifle must be right or it is no
good" Capt. Hammer insists. "It
can't almost reach perfection-it
must be there. The barrel must be
balanced, the stock must be bal
anced, and the bore must be perfect.
The rif1ing must be done with utter
exactneSs and the finished product
must have balance, grace and be
easy to swing into action"
He explains that for making blued
barrels he starts with a heavy bar
of annealed steel, larger in diameter
than shotgun barrel From this
solid bar is fashioned the trim barrel
which will provide accuracy without
undue weight and yet withstand the
heavy strain of modern explosives.
Thirty inches is the favored length,
Capt. Hammer said, though some
prefer them shorter.
Critical Operation.
He uses a 36-inch drill to bore the
hole and this is a difficult and
Evening star., 1941-05-04
BvJames Free.

At noon today the house in which
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staun-
ton, Va, will be opened formally
as a national shrine.
Another Democratic President,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, like
Wilson, was destined to head the
United States in time OF inter-
national crisis, was scheduled to
deliver a brief dedicatory address.
And Secretary of State Corden
Hull, congressional leader in the
Wilson administration, and MRS.
Hull, who as president of the Wood
row Wilson Birthplace Foundation,
Inc, made the restoration OF the
birthplace possible, were to be
among the distinguished guests.
A special place of honor on the
speakers platform was reserved for
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who con-
tributed several gifts of historical
value to the shrine. And the Gov
ernor of Virginia, James H. Price,
was to introduce the President.
1t is appropriate that the cere-
monies SIlOulQ Ue SlliplC dllo oAiho
they should be held on the Sabbath.
For the house in which the World
War President was born is an un-
ostentatious, rectangular, two-story
structure of white-painted brick.
And it was built in 1845-by the
First Presbyterian Church of Staun-
ton as the home for its ministers.
Today, as in the days before Wood
row Wilson's father and mother
moved into it in 1855, the house is
known in Staunton as "The Manse." !"
1.-THE Manse," of the Greek re-
vival type of architecture, was con-
sidered one of the finest houses in
town when DR.. Joseph Ruggles Will
son became pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Staunton
and occupied it. During his first
year in the parsonage, DR.. Wilson's
family consisted of his wife, Janet,
and two young girls, Marian and
Ann.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
ByJ. A. For.

The American copper" is going
Nreamlined.
No longer can gangsters pin SAM
pies of their handiwork on him like
the old one about the fellow who
decided not to report the shooting
on his beat because he was unable
to spell the name of the street
where it occurred, for the present.
day law-enforcer is liable to rate
q couple of degrees and carry
Phi Beta Kappa key with his hand
cuffs, and he uses test-tube with
more facility than his strong
armed predecessor welded night
stick. incidentally, the term cop
per" is frowned on in the best
circles.
Uncle Sam is figuring Importantly
tn this metamorphisis through the
medium of the National Police
Academy, a lusty institution now
rounding out its sixth year under
the guidance of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and the director,
]. Edgar Hoover. Launched with
the hope-not too strong perhaps
that it would spur State and local
police forces to take advantage of
the bureaus extensive research in
the field of crime detection and pre-
vention, and adopt practices the
Federal authorities have found val
liable, the academy met instant
favor.
Wins Recognition.
Now it's more than $50 graduates
are spreading the doctrine of mod
ern police methods in the States
and insular possessions of this coun-
try, and the academy has even won
recognition in such noted quarters
as Scotland Yard and the Royal
Northwest Mounted Police, which
are among the half-dozen foreign
organizations that have been per-
mitted to detail men to the course.
Three times a year, in classes of
80, police officers, carefully selected,
undergo the IL weeks of study
shaped to equip them to act as
teachers in their own departments.
AS a result, it is estimated, more
than $4,000 guardians of the law
are having this instruction handed
on to them, and the list grows
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Mrs. Cordell Hull and Mrs. Wilson Among
Those Linked With Event

ginia, which raised a special fund
of $1,000.
Money for restoration of The
Manse" was raised by Mrs. Hull,
while Staunton citizens campaigned
for contributions with which to fur
nish the house Two local chapters
of the Daughters of the American
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Wilson Shrine Snton With

lie in 1881, but it was not until the
summer of 1888 that the Woodrow
Wilson Birthplace Foundation, Inc,
purchased the property from the
college. The State of Virginia ap-
propriated total of SIS 900 for this
purpose and, through the interest
of Mrs. Cordell Hull, the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation of New York
contributed $4,000. Restoration of
the garden had been undertaken
in 1888 by the Garden Club of Vir-
Evening star., 1941-05-04

tor of the First Presbyterian Church
and chairman of the Board of Trus-
tees and for a time president of
Mary Baldwin College. Largely
through his efforts the college
trustees decided THE Manse" to
the college with the understanding
that the property might be conveyed
to "a society for the perpetuation
of the name and fame of Woodrow
Wilson by making his birthplace a
national shrine"
The house was opened to the pub