Evening star., 1942-09-28
Capitol Dome Forms
Background for
Huge Junk Depot
Southwest Wordens Get
fAlorm' to Turn Out
For SoIvoee Warning

'AIorm' to Turn Out
For SoIvoee Warning
Strange sights met the eye as
the rainswept western half of the
District went in for mass production
of scrap metal yesterday. but none
was more impressive than the emer-
gency depot at South Capitol and
I streets.
The depot. lone dumping spot for
southwest area accumulations, con-
stituted the foreground OF a pic
ture symbolizing the spirit of the
scrap drive so powerfully that casual
pedestrians, struck by the scene,
stopped =. and pondered its mean
ing. ..
In that foreground was Junk . =.
tons of it.
In the background was the
Capitol. mute and elegant against
a murky sky.
The Southwest area junkpile was
managed with the efficiency that
has marked Jimmy Lockhead of
494 G. street S.W.. area salvage
chairman and deputy afraid
warden, as one of the leading volun-
teer collectors in the District.
Sends Out Alarm"
Mr.. Lockhead sold his business
to devote his time to civilian
defense and scrap collection.
Yesterday he sent out a salvage
alarm" by telephone in the morn
ing, advising the AFRAID wardens
to get on the job, to remind resi-
dents of the 8 am. collection, to
check up to see that the scrap was
removed from the sidewalks.
A tireless worker who has hauled
more than a half million pounds of
various types Of scrap since January
4, Mr.. Lockhead worked IL hours
yesterday as volunteer.
In another section of town,
George E. Conover, 2l26 H street
NV, carted a 500-pound scrap
metal collection to the curb at 8 am.
He worked three hours Saturday with
his daughter, Mary Anne, 6, to COL
lect the junk from the family home.
Mary Anne was i'll yesterday. But
she had done her job well.
Steps on Brass Horn.
At 910 Twenty second street NV,
James Perry, colored, dropped his
brass baritone horn to the sidewalk,
stepped on 1t and threw it into
scrap heap.
'It's not a bad horn" said Mr..
Perry, but today it's just scrap. I
want to be sure it won't produce
tune again and tempt some musician
In need Of an instrument"
One of the most unusual assort-
ments of scrap was piled on the side
walk in front of the Volta Bureau
and the American Association to Pro-
mote the Teaching of Speech to the
Deaf, 1887 Thirty-f1fth street NV.
The collection included an ad-
dressing machine, a printing ma
chine, typewriter and heater.
At 474 H street SW., Mr.. and Mrs.
Elias Wright tore apart a complete
bedstead and dumped the pieces in
q neat pile on the sidewalk.
Wen sleep on wooden beds,' said
Mr.. Wright. "The iron beds can hit
the Japs."
At the Fillmore School, Thirty
fifth and S streets NV, collectors
found huge mound of scrap, ap-
proximately l ton in weight, includ-
ing two desks supported by cast iron
legs.
800 Pounds on Curb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Boyer, TOT c
street S.W., dumped 800 pounds of
scrap at the curb. The collection
included wrought iron coal oil
heater, which Mr.. Boyer hopes will
prove to be too hot for the Nazis
to handle.
Collectors stopping at 2133 Wis
consin aveune NV. found, among
other things. three bags of golf
clubs. .'
They were the property of Mrs.
Benjamin w. Woodruff, widow of
the first president of the new Co.
lumbia Country Club.
Mrs. Woodruff, playground direc-
tor at Montrose Park, gave up the
clubs in the hope that the United
States will shatter par in the fight
against the Axis.
Sue 6, and Joan Goldstein. 8.
daughters of 1t. and Mrs. julius
Goldsteln, U. S. A.. $500 Massachu-
setts avenue NV, got in the scrap"
with a baby carriage jammed with
assorted items, including toy air
plane.
1t. Goldstein is stationed in Mi
ami, Fla. His daughters thought
he might be, able to use few extra
bullets when he runs up against
the enemy.
Bottle-Cap Table.
Collections yesterday were no
more or no less diversified than the
week before. when residents of the
eastern half of the city threw in
everything except Uncle Henry's
false teeth.
But one item did stand out above
the entire collection in the western
sections: A homemade table con-
structed entirely of bottle-caps and
twisted out of shape to show that it's
utility had long since passed.
The object looked like a snake
which had died a horrible death bv
self-strangulation.
The item won't have to be shot
at a Nazi to serve its purpose.
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