Evening star. [volume], October 15, 1939, Page A-20, Image 20

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13fh Street Widening
One of Citizens' Major
Topics This Week
Number of Associations
Choosing Officers
Under New Practice
Proposed widening of Thirteenth
itreet N.W., between Monroe street
and Spring road, a narrow stretch
of two long blocks that creates a
traffic hazard during the morning
and evening rush hours, will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Citizens’
Forum of Columbia Heights Tuesday
at 8 p. m. in the Powell Junior High
School.
One-way traffic south on Thir
teenth street during the morning
rush hours and one-way north in
the evening tends to make a con
gestion of the two blocks, retard
ing rather than expediting traffic,
it was disclosed. Further, it was
stated, when traffic is moving north
in the evening rush hours, the one
way enforcement ends at Spring
road, thereby causing a “bottle
neck” condition.
Sparrel A. Wood, president of the
group, said that nominations would
be held at this meeting, with elec
tions in November.
Lewis R. Barrett, director of rec
reation for the District, will ad
dress the Southwest Citizens' Asso
ciation at its meeting in the Jeffer
son Junior High School.
Meetings to Be on Wednesdays.
The meeting this week and for the
remainder of the association's sea
son will be held on Wednesday,
Harry Wender. president, an
nounced. as it is the only night the
school is available in the evening.
Elections and reports of accomplish- |
ments of the association during the
past year will be the order of busi
ness.
Orrm Davy, recently elected cnair- '
man of the Southeast Council, has ,
been invited to address a meeting j
of the Lincoln Park Citizens' Asso- :
ciation when the group meets to- j
morrow at 8 p. m. in the Bryan
School. Mr. Davy, who is regarded j
as being exceptionally well-informed
on the needs in Southeast Wash
ington. will discuss the proposals
for civic improvement in that sec
tion as outlined by the Council, with
which Lincoln Park is affiliated, and
as presented to the Commissioners
at the hearings on the 1941 Dis
trict budget.
Alfred D. Calvert, president of'
the Lincoln Park group, announced !
that a "skit" would be presented by
the Red Cross as part of its cam- j
paign drive.
Election of officers will be held <
by several of the groups meeting ;
this week, it has been learned. They
Include Petworth. Sixteenth Street
Highlands and Dahlgren Terrace,
although the latter organization will
elect only a president to succeed the
incumbent. John Cahill, other offi
cers having been chosen last spring.
Glover Park will hold elections for
delegates to represent the associa
tion at the Federation of Citizens'
Associations.
Bench Policy Urged.
Last week action by the groups
centered chiefly on the insistence j
that fulfillment of the vacancy on j
the bench of District Court be made
from local barristers. The outstand
ing candidate named for this im
portant position is David A. Pine,
present United States attorney for
the District.
Another local item of importance
is the backing being given the Dis
trict National Guard in its drive for
increased membership.
In conforming with the change
made in the Constitution of the
Federation of Citizens’ Associations,
calling for election of officers in the
fall rather than in the spring or at
the end of the season, a number
of associations are choosing new of
ficers.
Further business conducted by the
group last week, other than that
mentioned previously, consisted
principally of resolutions or motions
pertaining to the areas of the in
dividual associations.
12 Associations' Schedule.
Following is the complete schedule
©f the 12 associations meeting this
week:
Monday—Interfederation Confer
ence. United States Chamber of
Commerce, 8 p. m., Lincoln Park,
Bryan School. 8 p. m. and Sixteenth
Street Heights, A. R. Shepherd
School. 8 p. m.
Tuesday — Benning, Benning
ST. LOUIS.—ACCUSED—Isa
belle Messmer, 22, a fugitive
from a New Jersey reforma
tory, was taken into custody
here by Ector County (Tex.)
officers yesterday. She faces
a murder indictment in the
slaying of Buford Armstrong,
a baseball player.
The Messmer girl was ar
rested in Washington once for
masquerading in boy’s cloth
ing; another time a revolver
was found in her room, and
she also served a sentence
from Police Court on a bad
check charge.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
School. 8 p. m.: Citizens’ Forum of
Columbia Heights. Powell Junior
High School. 8 p. m. and Petworth.
Petworth branch public library,
8 p. m.
Wednesday—Chevy Chase, E. V.
Brown School. 8 p. m.; Dahlgren
Terrace. Crosby S. Noyes School, j
8 p. m. Sixteenth Street Highlands.:
Brightwood School, 8 p. m. and!
Southwest, Jefferson Junior High
School, 8 p. m.
Friday—Glover Park, Industrial
Home School. 8 p. m. and Takoma
Park (D.C.-Md.). Takoma Park
branch public library, 8 p. m.
Sunday School Convention
Will Open Tomorrow
The 46th annual convention of the
District Sunday School Association
will be held tomorrow and Tuesday
at the Petworth Methodist Church.
At 7:45 p. m. tomorrow the open
ing session will be addressed bv the
Right Rev. James E. Freeman. Bishop
of Washington, with Charles E. Res
ser. president, presiding.
Dr. Frank Steelman, pastor of the
church, trill welcome the group and
a business session will precede
Bishop Freeman's address.
Tomorrow, beginning at the same
time, there will be an address by
the Rev. Ross Stover, pastor of Mes
siah Lutheran Church in Philadel
phia. Dr. Resser will also present
his annual report at that time.
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Harvard's Telescope Borrowers
Make 53,000 Observations '
By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 14.—
Harvard’s international "telescope
loaners” checked up today on re
turns of last year's business in the
variable star line—and found it had
been close to a record.
Reporting on 53,000 observations
made in various parts of the world
by members of the American Asso
ciation of Variable Star Observers,
Leon Campbell, Harvard astrono
mer, said that among the observers
reporting the largest numbers of
sightings were “serious amateurs”
to whom the university had
“loaned" telescopes.
Mr. Campbell, who said the num
ber was one of the largest reported
for a year's time, made his report
at the twenty-eighth meeting of the
association, which numbers among
its amateur members a Boston
wholesale grocer, a master plumber
from Pittsburgh, a Baltimore toy
manufacturer and several house
wives.
Mr. Campbell declared in an in
terview that Harvard has loaned
about 30 telescopes of varying sizes
to observers throughout the world,
including a customs officer in India,
a librarian in Italy and a house
wife in Australia.
Harvard's ‘‘eyes’’ in what Camp
bell termed “one of the most im
portant branches of astronomical
science” range in age from a high
school student In Manchester, N.
H., to an 83-year-old clergyman In
Florida.
The association, whose scientific
membership numbers such men as
Harvard’s Dr. Harlow Shapley, to
day joined the university In cele
brating the 100th anniversary of the
purchase of Dana House, the. first
home of the Harvard Observatory.
As the association met, Dr. Annie
J. Cannon of Harvard, the most re
nowned woman astronomer in the
world, urged the people of the earth
to “look to the stars” for relief
from the troubles of “this uncom
fortable planet.”
Police Woman's Bureau
To Mark 21st Year
The Woman's Bureau of the
Metropolitan Police Department
will celebrate its coming of age at
a dinner marking its 21st anniversary
at 7 p. m. Tuesday at the Dodge
Hotel. Louis Brownlow, who was
District Commissioner when the
bureau was established, will be
guest of honor.
Other speakers will Include Dr.
Mary B. Harris, author of “I Knew
Them in Prison” and superintendent
of the Federal Industrial Reforma
tory for Women at Alderson, W. Va.
More than 75 persons are expected
to attend, according to Capt. Rhoda
J. Milliken, head of the Woman's
Bureau.
Among those expected to be pres
ent are Commissioner Melvin C.
Hazen. Maj. and Mrs. Ernest W.
Brown, Miss Catherine Lenroot,
head of the Children’s Bureau of the
Department of Labor; Capt. Hazel
Witt of the Cleveland (Ohio) Wom
an's Bureau, and Dr. Valeria Parker
of the Marriage Advisory Bureau of
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