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Evening star., 1945-03-21
HONE IMP. COMPANIES 4cout.,

FLOOR SERVICE, nothins put the pest;
laying. sanding. finishing, cleaning; par
qSet SSa gSHn ginstsIlstions; Bruce nishssa TLooR
aRsfRAL siR fHs No eoNTRascroR-oe. NHaas repairing
and remodeling done now before spring
DRIvEWAYs built. surfaced or repaired:
races; bulidozer grading. top soil. DEIN.
CEMENT as fsfF' WORK. ston. walls, .nasston.
fnS Route aonsfs s'sss
HoME hoSaf'nf; k;EMMaoDNrNe. repairing: general
FGE s5'Ths ff no eSss
equipped to, handle any size repair or re.
mSdslinS rs,d. Iiln lob Cal us for estimates DAY
MoDEkSizE YOUR HoME-Porehe, in.
eSsed rooms built attiss nm
and plumbing. roofing. siding and storm
ssnsed sssa Get SSE fEss s%osss 5ns
MoDEHRaNizE YouR HONE ii' and add addi-
s made Into
asbestos siding and roofing and senersii
s%a mePths ae eur re HOME
RENoVATING Co. 1920 irving st. NV,
SAlNTING AND DECORATING. 40 year. q,
making homes BRIGHTER: unexcelled work
At reasonable rates. For free estimates
Call RIA. $3.50 or GE. 1868 after $40 pm
LUCAS. LUCAS LUCAS. s23 Emerson
PAINTING. rAPERINa, rLAsTERINe and
general repairs. Electrical work Materials
available. Free estimates. White mechanics
Prompt service. Terms arranged HOUGH
BROS. CO.. DI. 400: after pm. FIR.
$500
ROOFING, roof painting, siding of all
kinds; free estimates. Call 1886. A.
ST CLAIR. 21'
terms, LIS years. SECURITY HOME
IMPROVEMENT CO.. Georgia 1l08-1113
Member JIM Home Improvement Guild
Johns Manville.
ton. storm sash; to 3 Years to pay
GATES CONTRACTING CO: OIL; 22o0,
IN yIRGINIA-Call PATTERSON-GAR-
DINER CORP. Chestnut 1922; Johns-Msn-
vile roofing, siding, insulation; storm win
IN WASMINGT0N - Cali PATTERSON.
vile .oofing. siding, insulation: storm win
dows, screens. heating. remodeling. Terms
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INSTRUCTIONS COURSES.

VIOLIN INSTRUCTION, beginners and ad-
vanced. For appointment, AT. 1899. 20"
STENOGRAPHIC and secretarial classes
now forming. Beginners and refresher
courses in shorthand, typing. bookkeeping.
comptometer, all secretarial subjects Est.
81 yrs; accredited. Inquire now, MA.
Capitol Theater).
ACCOUNTING under 8 CPA's, quickly and
economically; CPA coaching; recognized
Free booklet. ME. 4l71.
GERMAN, converse tional, technical, ad-
ministrative, beginners and advanced, by
rates DR.. JULIUS WILDSTOSSER, Mt
Olivet rd. ne, FIR. 5512. II desired will
give lessons at students home.
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EMPLOYMENT SERVICES.
BUSINESS.

TEACHERS! Register for a fall position
AGCY., Colorado Bldg. 14th g. G SITS. NV
STENOGRAPHER. S45 wk.; aviation. in
teresting work. Stem. teletype cper., news
Stem. defense work, $45 wk Typists (3),
exper, $50. Bookkeeper, some typing
S150. Plenty Of good Jobs. Visit. RE.
cor 14th and N Y ave.
BOOKKEEPER, $50 wk.; s.w. section; good
car service; future; permanent Bookpr
5-day wk, $40 wk. Clerk-typist, 5hz-day
wk, 81 .920 Sales, jewelry; future. -S35-
$40. P. B, x.-Typist-receptionist, $3.50
Typist, commit swork, $166. Bookpr. N
c. R. Opr., $40 wk Cashier-Bookpr. &c
hrs, S35. Hundreds of excellent open
ings. Peace-time future, Come in tNA
6059). PERSONNEL SERVICE. Miss Reed
1911 G, next Epiphany Church
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RooMING HOUSE BARGAINs.Is roo,

ROOMING HOUSE BARGAINS-12 rooms
2 baths; rent SS1; income, S261 Ali
apts. A dandy side investment. $1,000
cash, no balance.
IA rooms. 2 baths: rent. 500: income,
1850. Good furniture clean. $1,000
handles
quoted $500; very good furniture. $500
down.
rooms. ] bath. extra shower. oil
heat; rent, $50; income quoted S225
fair furniture; Southeast; 81 BOO, "a down
YOUNG g. PASTOR, 1929 Vermont NV.
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REPAIRS AND SERVICES lcens.)

small Jobs especially. call HO. 1878. DAVID
JAMES, Lie Clifton st. NV.
YOUR TREES CUT DOWN and carried
Glebe SI22 mh28s
WE REPAIR washing machines. vacuums.
toasters lamps. irons, fans quick service;
DO THAT CARPENTER JOB NOw-Re-
pairs, remodelins, cabinetwork: displays:
low prices. o07 e st. NV. Sligo 64SS. ~
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AVIATION.

WANTED-Club membership or share in
| light plane. Boz 436-H, Star
LEARN TO FLY. Call oliver 1888. CON-
FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR at new airneld
near Washington. Full or part time. Give
| full details. Box 81 X. Star. 23s
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HONE IMPROVEMENT coMpANIEs

ASPHALT surfacing Of driveways, parking
lots walks or terraces; estimates free.
Dial OK. 1888. "a
WATERPROoFING-Havs your basement
nxed before sprlng rsins OR. S244 after
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-13
i. 5. Will Build
Radios for Ldtins

WASHINGTON, March u
HNS)--Government officials have
disclosed plans 10 put radios INTO
Latin-American homes after the
war 10 help famlharizc people
south of the border with the
american way ut lite.
The new postwar aim 10 foster
greater spread of American broad
casts IN this hemisphere grew. y
was said. from agreements reached
az the Mexico City conference
Large scale radio equipment
factories will be set up IN Latin
America by the United States to-
ward that end, these sources SAID.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-13
nd you'll be proud of the answers you

DIGHT here the Home Front, the Red Cross is
N doing tremendously important job in relieving
the pressure of civilians. This pressure is
especially heavy servicemens families Their fears
and worries and grefs deserve and get special aten
ton from the Red Cross
But in this war; all are affected And the Red Cross
reaches to aid aH-in many and varied ways.
Below few typical scenes show the Red Cross in
action on the Home 'FRONT.'
Evening star., 1945-12-09
Ry Harry Lever

Chicken and rice dinners prepared by
Dona Sinforosa Sanchez on her little
farm Just over the District line appear
to be one of the most important local
factors in fostering inter-American
understanding.
% Members of Washington's Spanish
speaking colony who have heard of her
culinary genius and are lucky enough
to receive an invitation to dine, HE
quickly to the Sanchez abode at 26
Sixty-seventh street, Capitol Heights,
Nd, for Dona Sinforosa's fame has
spread from the District to practically
every other American republic.
1T is not an uncommon thing for her
telephone to ring, and a voice say:
"Sinforosa, am just in from Lima, and
somebody told me to give you call.
They said could get good Latin meal
at your place"
The house of this black-haired, dark
eyed poultry raising pan-Americanist
has become an international meeting
place for scores of diplomats, writers
and scholars, scientists and other visi-
tors from all over the Western Hemi-
sphere. District traffic or the vicissi-
tudes of suburban bus travel do not
seem to daunt the hungry pilgrims.
A typical dinner for 'just you and
maybe one or two others" might be COM
posed of several platters of chicken and
rice or other exotic Latin dishes, plenty
Of good dinner wine, cakes and coffee.
Hardly ration-point is used Most of
the ingredients come from Sinforosa's
own back yard where she raises all kinds
Of vegetables and semitropical fruits,
and rabbits, pigeons, goats, chickens,
ducks and turkeys.
Like some benevolently despotic deity,
she presides over the gatherings Should
an unemptied plate 60 back to the
kitchen, her good-natured wrath de-
Evening star., 1945-12-09

kowski jumped into it and tried to start
1t, but the detectives car crossed it at an
angle and came to screaming stop.
Skiskowsh jumped out and ran. The
detectives piled out and fired at him.
Skiskowsh fired back twice. All the
shots missed. The detectives, both fat
men over so, ran around the corner in
time to see Skiskowski Chamber through
standing freight train, in one side of
an empty box car and out the other
Money Found in Auto
They returned to the abandoned auto
mobile. They found on the floor in the
rear, wrapped in paper, lead pipe 2l2
feet long, its end bent in loop like
sword handle. And on the front seat
they found rectangular brown paper
package. They brought the package to
the property clerk Of the Newark Police
Department. He opened it. 1t was
packed with sheaves of money. He
counted out $4,7OO. There were two
sheaves of new 81 bills bound with
Treasury tape. The numbers were i,
sequence. The next day they started
to check the numbers against report
of new money stolen. By Wednesda
they had identified the 81 bills as pal
of the Washington bank loot.
Bronco Skiskowski, a dark, rough
looking fellow, had spent many of h
43 years behind the bars at the stat
prisons at Easton, Pa, and Trenton, NJ
He rated no more than the most con
temptuous term of underworld He wa
a punk. His convictions were for house
breaking and receiving stolen goods
The National Bank of Washington jot
planned and carried out with absolute
precision, was far beyond his mental
capacity. The FBI agents were not long
in arriving at whose job it was. Skis
kowski had been acting as lobbygow or
errand boy, for gangster named Joseph
Mccain. He had been living with Nc
Cam for about six months in Phila-
delphia rooming house where convicts
played high-stake poker with the genia
landlady.
The National Bank of Washington
robbery looked like a McCann job. He
had pulled similar one in Washington
in 1881, when he was a member of the
Tri-State gang headed by Robert MaiS
and Walter Legenza, and he had robbed
railway mail clerk in Union Station.
So the FBI inaugurated an elaborate
Evening star., 1945-12-09
Pan>American Amity Thrives on Farm

eat and argue, they CLEAN an under
standing of one another's problems,
viewpoints and ideals.
The onward march of inter American
understanding in her domain is not even
halted by difference in language. All
of her guests speak English or Spanish
on arrival Those who do not, become
painlessly bilingual soon after the din
ner starts. A battling compound of
English and Spanish which serves Doha
Sinforosa in her dealings with the
butcher and baker never fails to bridge
the gap when linguistic impasse arises.
. Bucolic repose and pleasant reverie
constitute the next phase of day on
her farm, but not for long. The former
Washington boarding house keeper, a
resident of this area for 27 years, insists
there shall not be a dull moment.
Festivity then begins, with the phono-
graph blaring lively Spanish music. The
hostess herself leads the dancing in the
authentic styles of her native Torrela-
vega, in the Province of Santander,
Spain.
Several years ago, Dofa Sinforosa
opened boarding house in the 1900
block Of Sixteenth street NV, but
after two years sold it and took another
place in the $500 block Of Ontario road
NV. When, four years later, she ac-
quired another house in the 1000 block
of Columbia road NV, her boarders
demonstrated their fealty and love of
her cooking by moving en- masse with
her.
The portly, tempestuous middle-aged
Dofa is retired now and spends all her
time tending the farm or chatting with
her guests. Occasionally she interrupts
her conversation to hurl q strident,
hlood-curdling Spanish imprecation at
some stray chicken wandering among
her tomatoes.
Evening star., 1945-12-09
BY John F. Murphy, Jr.

In his quest for a sound education,
the District serviceman has discovered
a high school to which he may return
and be with men of his own age. Many
veterans are already back at school in
pursuit of the high school diplomas
needed for entrance to colleges and uni
versities, or for certain types of en-
ployment.
Central High School has introduced
an accelerated course solely for return
ing servicemen. The purpose of the
Veterans High School Is to give the
former servicemen an opportunity to
study high school subjects, so that he
may receive his diploma and satisfy
other educational needs.
The courses are laid out in units so
that the veteran may complete the work
as fast as he Is able. Classrooms are
set apart for the veterans. The courses
consist of assignments, directions, work
sheets, reading, tests and various other
classroom activities.
The teachers, who are giving all their
time to this program, have volunteered
for this work and are doing an excellent
job.
A particularly advantageous feature
of the school is that an ex-serviceman
may enter at any time and continue
from the point at which he left high
school. Glasses are held from $50 am.
to $50 pm, similar to those of regular
high schools.
In charge of the program at Central
is DR.. Robert G. Vanderlip, co-ordfnator
Of education. DR.. Vanderlip is particu-
larly qualified for his position, since he
is veteran himself, having served 20
months in the Army Air Forces as a
lieutenant.
He holds a bachelor of arts degree
from the University Of Michigan, a
masters degree from Columbia Univer-
sity and doctor Of philosophy degree
in education from George Washington
University. As student adviser, DR..
Vanderlp helps returning veterans to
overcome many dinculties in entering
Evening star., 1945-12-09

scends upon the unfortunate one who
has dared to imply he has had enough.
Many an awesome envoy who has sat
back prematurely, loosening belt and
collar-button, has meekly polished off
another portion in the face of Sim
forosas righteous indignation.
After the meal is finished, her guests
generally argue amiably while the table
is being cleared. 1t is impossible to visit
at the Dona's house and emerge as any,
thing but good neighbor. AS her
guests-English-sp speaking Americans as
well as Spanish speaking Americans
Evening star., 1945-12-09

a waitress who was out for good time"
and, as he was running out of money,
he had sent her back to her husband
and children. He had s1,050 on him.
Pauline Robbins had more than $1,000
in cash in her purse
Confession Is Obtained
Skiskowski was concerned about the
fate of Pauline Robbins and asked FBI
men if she would be charged with har-
boring him-a felony. They brought
him to the United States Attorney in
Brooklyn
Il am no good,' Skiskowski told the
prosecutor, but there is a little good
in me. That girl had nothing to do with
any crime I'll come clean If youu take
care of her"
The prosecutor replied, in the guarded
way that is necessary to make con-
fession admissible In court, that if
Evening star., 1945-12-09

Charles J. "Bronco" Ski
SkoWski, 10h0se negligence
provided the first clue to the
bandits.
Skiskowski would tell the FBI men
the truth, he would consider Skiskow-
skis assurances Of the woman's inno-
cence in deciding whether to charge
her. Skiskowsk confessed. His confess
sion tailed with Boley's that the third
man was Quinn
Philadelphia police were after Quinn
for a $500 holdup there. A Philadel-
phia detective was watching Quinn's
contact there, minor gangster who
used to get telephone calls from girls
informing him that Mary could be
reached here or there. Mary" was
Quinn in his peregrinations from one
New York hotel to another. Through
this contact, Philadelphia police in
formed New York police that Quinn
could be contacted at the Big -Four
Bar and Grill in upper Broadway. He
was arrested there May 81. He was
staying at a quiet residential hotel near
Grants Tomb favored by professors Of
nearby Columbia University.
Skiskowski and Quinn stood trial.
Both were found guilty. Joe Boley
pleaded guilty to receiving stolen money.
Quinn escaped from District Jail on
November "a with four others. Skis
kowski, who was in another wing Of
the Jail, was not one of them.
Evening star., 1945-12-09
Special School for Veterans
Is Set Up at Central High

the school and getting diploma. He
has been teaching In Washington
schools since 1881.
Congress, in preparing the CT Bill OF
Rights, realized that some men would
have a desire to return to school, and
accordingly made provision for them.
Under the GI Bill of Rights, any person
who was in the service is eligible to
receive compensation while attending
school. A single man is allowed $50
monthly, while a married man Is allowed
SITS. A similar law was passed for dis
abled veterans who are allowed $92 for
single men and $103 for married men.
A dependent child brings the veteran an
additional S575, and he is allowed $l150
for each dependent parent.
A school would not be school without
it's extra-curricular activities, and the
Veterans High School is no excep-
ton. Already the student body is pre-
pairing to edit newspaper. There is
student government with president, vice
president and councilmen elected from
each class. The purpose of the student
government is to improve the school and
to foster ideas which might be beneficial
to both school and students. Students
also have access to the school library.
The boys are displaying keen interest
in sports. They are organizing basket
ball and rifle teams. They are consider
ing the possibility of organizing base
ball club in the coming spring. Senator
Chandler Of Kentucky, the baseball COM
missioner, has set aside $150,000 for
baseball equipment for returning vet
erans, and the veterans at Central will
probably look into this matter thor
oughly.
Although the Veterans High School
started very quietly on September II,
with only 10 men, it has grown rapidly.
There are now well over 100 men at
tending classes, and enrollments are ex-
pected to continue. Most of the veterans
are rapidly adjusting themselves back
to the postwar world, and DR.. Wander.
lip believes that the school is definitely
success.
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was at work on an addition at the
David Taylor Model Basin on March
30, the day of the crime. But he had
a criminal record and he was obviously
scared to death.
Joe Boley's real name was Joe di Leo.
He had been bantamweight boxer in
his youth-boxing as Dutch Delaney
before World War I and as Yankee
Delaney after. He was one of Mickey
Walkers stable of fighters. In 1928
payroll messenger was killed in New
Jersey in $25, 900 robbery. When the
prize fighter was one of them. The
electric chair was staring him in the
face. He turned states evidence and
testified against his two companions
They got life sentences. He got 10
years. He was out in six
Joe said he could hear bullets
whistling around his head. He came
to Washington where things were quiet
and worked on building the National
Art Gallery. For 10 years he stayed
ou o1S1lt. 11lS OlllS di1Cot was 1Ol d
traffic accident, and he was given a
suspended sentence for that. But, like
every eX-convict, he had left hostages
to fortune behind him. His sister mar
ried Joe McCann, who had served some
time at Trenton with him. His brother
was running the Armory, roadhouse
in Newark frequented by mobsters
One day, according to Joe Boleys sub
sequent confession, a member of the
gang did come to town. He was Mike
Quinn.
Quinn Visits Joe Boiey
Mike Quinn's arrival was as porten-
tous as that of Black Dog at the Admiral
Benbow in the first chapter of Treasure
Island. Not that Mike had patch over
his eye. A slender, red-haired youthful
looking man of 38 with sensitive chin
and rimless glasses, he could pass for
a school teacher. Joe didn't know Mike
too well although both had served time
at Trenton together. But Mike had a
password that opened Joe Boley's room
at Oil New York avenue to him as a
hideout. 1t was: "Joe McCann sent me- p"
Mike was in trouble in Philadelphia
1t seems his red hair had identified him
as one of the mobsters who held up the
Casablanca roadhouse across the river
from Camden, N. j., February with
Evening star., 1945-12-09

'SIo f~NoS S""S'ee e%H SSsS'S 'es'e'
search for McCann and Skiskowski,
watching every known contact. The FBI
was as convinced as the police that a
Washington man had tipped off the
bank robbers FBI agents searched
McCann's record for Washington con-
facts. Finally in the Easton Peniten-
tiary's record of prisoners correspond
ence they found that Mccain, two years
back, had been writing to a willie
Mccain" in the 1900 block of K street,
Washington.
FBI agents went to the K street
rooming house. They knew Joe McCann
had brother, and they knew he had
not been living in Washington. The
rooming house keeper remembered that
man did receive mail there addressed
to willie McCann." The mans name,
she told them, was Joe Boley.
In few hours the agents had Joe
Boley in for questioning. He was a
little man of 49,, carpenters helper,
and check on the records of the
Turner Construction Co. showed that he
had told the truth when he said he
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13
Adolph Meniou Let's
R-k-O Place False
Mustache Over Real
HOLLYWOOD, May II.

HOLL1 WOOD, May IL.
A DOLPHE MENJOU finally
weakened. He let the RKO-
Radio makeup experts put a
false mustache over his real,
homegrown lip adornment.
First time I've let that hap
pen and I've been In pictures
since 1915" he said. "Yes, sir,
I'm a rugged indiyidualist.
when 1 first came into pic
tures from the stage, only viii
Iains wore Hu~tache-.
told me to shave mine off and
they'd give me leading parts.
I told them no."
Three times. producer friends
OF Menjou told him he was "all
washed up in pictures unless
he cut off his little Maxed
mustache. lie kept his mus
tAehe.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13
His Pride Soothed

Well" said Hawks, 1--WE have
n fellow who il just off the New
York stage. Name of Pat
O'Brien. He's playing Hildy
johnson, the part he did in the
play. He can help you N you
have any trouble"
I'm sure, with what he can
teach me about acting, I'll get
by" snarled Menjou.
But when he met O'Brien, a
scared young Irishman who
humbly asked Menjou TO tip
him off on camera tricks, Men
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

iou's nettled pride was soothed.
And II was mended when
O'Brien said:
Look, Mr.. MeniOu-there's
been q terrible mistake. On the
stage L played the managing
editor, and here they seemed to
think i played the reporter. I'm
afraid 10 tell them and think
i can play Hildy. SO II can
give you any hints about the
managing editor part, I'll be
glad to-audience reactions and
the like"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

Now, for the first time In 10
years, Menjou and OBrien are
together again. Their picture
is R-K-O's comedy, The Amor
Gus Ghost" co-starring Ellen
Drew and Rudy Vailee.
Menjou masquerades as an
Irishman named Finnegan in
one scene-that's where he lets
them paste a soup-Strainer over
his trim, waxed mustache.
'-Wouldn't do it for anybody
but O'Brien," he said :Were
buddies,~
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13
Silent Stars Dimmed

One OF those times Was when
talkies came in. Everybody who
had been in pictures was ten
tatively discarded while the
movies imported stage actors.
They forgot that fellows like
Menjou had once been on the
stage, too. Just because they
knew something about movie
acting. most OF them were ruled
out.
Nfenjou didn't work for nine
months. But he had his first
S3, and also his first million,
so he didn't worry. He just
waited.
Then the Front Page" came
along. Producers hired two
actors 10 play the managing
editor and the reporter, but
Howard Hawks happened TO re-
call that Menjou had once played
on the stage.
Think you can do the man
aging editor part?" Hawks
asked.
II can try" Men jou answered.
"Of course, I'm not fresh off
the New York stage, but"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

Marion Is the
petite and charming
aerialist who
thrills audiences
with her death
defying acrobatic
feats high above
the floor at Olympia
where she's appear
ing with the
Barnes Bros.
Circus.