Evening star. [volume], April 14, 1935, Page A-19, Image 19

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FOURTH OF JULY
PLANS FURTHERED
Citizens’ Committee Making
Arrangements—Two New
Groups to Assist.
Plans for making this year's Fourth
rf July celebration one of the largest
and finest patriotic festivals ever held
in Washington have been started by
the Citizens' Committee appointed by
the District Commissioners to take
charge of the detailed preparations
and ceremonies scheduled for this an
nual event.
C. Melvin Sharpe, executive assistant
of the Potomac Electric Power Co. and
general chairman of the Citizens’ Com
mittee. has announced the appoint
ment of subcommittee chairmen. With
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of
the Community Center Department,
who is secretary of the committee,
Sharpe will meet with the subchair
men in the near future to discuss de
tails for the celebration.
Two new committees have been
named this year, a Committee on
Amplification, headed by G. R. Wil
helm. and a Committee on Tickets
and Seating, headed by Harold L.
Hayden. The amplification facilities
this year will make it possible for
everybody near the Washington Monu
ment Grounds to hear the complete
exercises, which will be ended with s
spectacular display of fireworks on the
north Monument Grounds.
Contests and carnivals throughout
the city during the day will be or
ganized by a special committee headed
by Winfree E. Johnson and Richard
Tennyson; special patriotic exercises
in communities will be arranged by a
group headed by James G. Yaden and
George W. Beasley. Other committees
and their chairmen are: City Decora
tion and illumination. Frank R.
Jelleff: financing, S. Percy Thompson;
fireworks display, Edgar Morris:
grounds. Albert Clyde-Burton: mili
tary, patriotic and veteran co-opera
tion. Col. John W. Oehmann: publicity
Miss Bess Davis Schreiner and Curtis
Hodges, and traffic and public
safety. Maj Ernest W. Brown and
Capt. P. J. Carroll,
Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.
SYMBOL OF THE ENlJ.
TO THE newspaper man the sym
bol "30" means “the e>fd.”
Thousands of reporters have
typed the two figures at the
end of a etory. The symbol
finds Its way Into their conversation,
and the end of a day or the end of a
life in "30."
Many stories of its origin go the
rounds. One of the most generally
accepted Is this. When press associa
tions were formed to put news on the
wire, each office was allowed to send
30 stories. When the last had been
sent It was followed by "30."
And, here in Washington, if you use
the District telephone exchange to
call the morgue, you ask for Branch 30.
* * * *
BEFORE THE HATCHING.
COUNTING of cars, rather than
unhatched eggs, seems o h«v*
sprung up in California.;
Representative John H. Hojppel of
California, insistent booster/of the
Townsend old-age pension pl4n, says
the fondest dream of the old f>>iks who
look forward to its enactment >i to loll
back on the upholstery of a brgnd-new
automobile, while a chauffeur drives
along the boulevard, to the seashore,
up into the mountains—anywhere that
fancy beckons.
Emphasizing this in lobby gossip,
Hoepple says that during a recent Los
Angeles automobile show, more than
3.000 persons actually assured car
salesmen that they are in the market,
and will buy a machine just as soon
as they get their S200 a month under
the Townsend plan.
“And they're mentally budgeting $75
a month for a chauffeur,” Hoeppel
adds.
DOORWAY REPARTEE.
‘‘1~'RE8H" newspaper boy* are noth
Jp tng new, but a housekeeper In a
northeast suburb believes the
one who serves her is the "freshest,"
About the first of the month he
came to collect and rang the doorbell
while she was busy in the kitchen. It
took her a few minutes to get to the
door. When she finally did she was
greeted by the query :
"Where were you, In the bathtub?"
"Do I look like I should have been?”
she countered.
* * * *
BURNINO OP DREAMS.
ONCE every three or four years the
Government Incinerator down
on the Mall is the scene of a
strange Are.
Its flames are battened and fattened
on dead dreams—hundreds of them.
Stolid workmen toss bundle after bun
dle of ideas conceived In good faith,
ultimately intended for the "welfare,
comfort and convenience" of mankind,
into the roaring fire.
Unless the applicant completes hi*
papers and prepares for the examina
tion within six months after filing
for a patent, his Is considered an
abandoned application. Then, says
the law, the commissioner of patents
is authorised to "annually destroy or
otherwise dispose of all the files and
papers belong to all abandoi^fd ap
plications which have been on file for
more than 20 years."
So, as the Patent Office stacks be
come overcrowded with these dead
brain-children of Inventors, they go
to a fiery oblivion. This happens
about once every three of four years.
Some few applicants write in asking
that their papers be returned to them.
Sometimes the heirs write. The
phrase, “otherwise disposed of.”
means that these requests may be
granted.
* * * *
CAT CAPER.
A COMMON variety of garden cat
at least temporarily a resident
of Alexsndris. recently climbed
a tree, jumped to a nearby roof and
crawled into an open water spout
Thus encouched in a coey spot, it
began to howl.
The rltleenry of the immediate
neighborhood began to fret. The
howling continued. They began to
fume. More howling. The fretting
and fuming bloomed Into rebellion.
Several New Deal offlciala. aided
and abetted by aeveral resident news
paper columnists (all smart and
clever In their own way) began to
connive to lure the eat from its nook.
All failed. A detachment of Alex
andria Are Aghters was called in.
They failed, too. By now the howling
had continued off and on, mostly on,
for three days.
Then came a carpenter, wise in
the ways of cats. He pulled up a few
boards, left some red meat conven
iently close and let animal appetite
do the rest, The method was effec
tive.
* * * *
VIGNETTE OF TRAGEDY.
FOUR P M. at Fourteenth and H
streets.
On the corner, a young boy—
perhaps just lately turned a man
before the law. A policeman has his
cuff twisted so tightly the prisoner’s
veins stand out on the back of his
hands.
The policeman phones for the wag
on. Yes. he has caught a thief red
handed, snatching a woman's purse.
The boy tried to pull his hat over
his face. Ha squirms, not to get
away—only to hide. Somewhere—
! anywhere, away from the crowd, away
from eyes that point like Angers as
they try to peer beneath his hat brim.
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Government expenditures for fight
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to be continued until the Insects are
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SYMPHONY GROUP
TO ELECT DIRECTORS
Orchaatra Association to Transact
Other Business at Meeting
Next Thursday.
Five new director* will be elected
at the annual meeting of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra Associa
tion Thursday at 8 p.m. at the United
States Chamber of Commerce Build
ing. Connecticut avenue and K street.
The director* will replace C. A.
Aspinwall, Mrs. Trscy Dows, WaPer
Bruee Howe, Oeorge Hewitt Myers and
H. L. Rust, Jr., whose term* have
expired. The new officers of the board
will serve three years.
Vsrlous other matters will be dis
cussed. Members of the group are
those persons who have contributed
$26 or more to the sustaining fund
of the orchestra.
Leland Hanison. president of the
association, will preside.
DIVORCE IS GRANTED
Mrs. Olga Craven Andarson la
▲warded Reno Deere*.
Mrs. Olga Craven Anderson, daugh
ter of Admiral Thomas T. Craven,
commander of the Navy’s Battleships
Division, has been granted a divorce
in Reno, Nev., from Lionel Olenn
Anderson, local attorney, according to
an Associated Press dispatch.
Anderson lives at Troxell Hall, Mc
Lean, Va.
In a private trial, Mrs. Anderson
was granted the drewe on ground*
of cruelty and non-support The
couple was married August 6, 1933, at
the Craven home, near Annapolis. I
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C. U. STUDENTS FORM
NON-RESIDENT BODY
Washington Club Is Given Offi
cial Approval of Bishop
Jamee H. Ryan.
Formation of a new social unit,
known as the Washington Club, com
posed of non-resident students, was
announced yesterday by Catholic Uni
versity.
The group his the official approval
of Bishop James H. Ryan, rector of
the university, and was admitted to
the Inter-Club Council by tha school’s
four other student organization*.
Henry C. Rexach. 143* Chapin
street, was elected president. Other
officers Include William L. Hechmer,
838 Madison street, vice president;
I"mm^
Joseph D. Llx 4521 Seventh street,
treasurer; Joseph A. Dugan, 508 Crit
tenden street, secretary; Frank D.
Law, 3820 Yuma street, correspond
ing secretary; Charles D, Johnson, 723
K street northeast. Inter-club Coun
cil representative; F. Ira Wheatley,
HyatUville. Md, pledgem&ster, and
Lloyd E. Wyble,tJr., 1705 Taylor street,!
sergeant at arms.
=========
Democrat* to Confer.
CLARENDON. Va.. April 13 •Spe
cial).—The Arlington County Dem
ocratic Club's Advisory Committee
will meet tomorrow afternoon in the
home of County Chairman Charles
R. Fenwick to discuss plans for
Lssuing a special primary edition of
the Northern Virginia Democrat, the
club's official organ.
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