Evening star. [volume], October 17, 1939, Page A-20, Image 20

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KNEE-HI PHONES POLICE—The Star’s terrier demonstrates
how to report the license number of a hit-run driver, if you hap
pen to see one. Anxious to promote traffic safety, Boy Patrolman
Bernard Booth of Phillips-Wormley School is all ears.
—Star Staff Photo.
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Knee-Hi Gives 690th
Lesson in Campaign
To Save Lives
Phillips-Wormley
Pupils Delighted by
Safety Demonstration
Knee-Hi, the cunning canine whose
object lessons in safety have served
as an example to so many Wash
ington school children, romped
through her routine yesterday at
Twenty-eighth and M streets N.W.
before an audibly delighted throng
of colored pupils of the Phillips
Wormley School.
The little fox terrier conformed
to traffic signals, played dead when
“struck” by an automobile and
chased the boys acting as safety
violators off the streets, while the
onlooking youngsters laughed in de
light. It was Knee-Hi's 690th per
formance in her two and a half
years of campaigning to save lives.
If the little terrier is as wise to
the dangers of vehicular traffic as
she appears something ought to be
done about motorcycles, because she
has a positively ingrained hatred
for them. About a dozen motor
cycles chugged onto Knee-Hi’s
“stage” yesterday, and it appeared
that only her years of training kept
her from flying at the machines
and biting out a piston rod or chunk
of tire.
A woman who declined to identify
herself but who said she was re
tired after many years of superin
tending schools, told Dr. George E.
Brunson, Knee-Hi’s master, she had
attended 11 of Knee-Hi’s perform
ances and was truly amazed and
delighted by the effect of the pup’s
lessons in safety.
After yesterday’s appearance
Knee-Hi trotted to a police call
box and "rang in” to tell the seventh
precinct commander the license
number of a hit-and-run motorist
she had seen. She was showing the
children how a policeman could
catch the guilty motorist if they
were able to tell him the license
number of the striking automobile.
Hague Intimates
He Favors Third Term
By the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY. N. J., Oct. 17.—
Mayor Frank Hague, State Demo
cratic leader, indorsed by inference
last night a third term for Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Following a speech by Representa
tive Mary T. Norton, Democrat, of
New Jersey, in which the Jersey
City Congresswoman said she hoped
Mr. Roosevelt would run again,
newspapermen asked Mr. Hague if
be were for a third term for the
President.
“Mary Norton and I are of one
mind,” replied Mr. Hague. Several
weeks ago he was reported by
sources close to him to be behind
Roosevelt in 1940.
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-—modernizing the old • fashioned
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Interfederation Defers
Action on Hatch Law
Discussicm of the Hatch law,
which prohibits Government em
ployes from participating in politics
on penalty of losing their jobs,
featured the initial meeting of the
season last night of the Interfedera
tion Conference in the United States
Chamber of Commerce. Action was
withheld, however, until constituent
bodies hold their respective meet
lngs and report back to the con
ference.
The bill was considered to be good
In “principle," but certain sections,
applying to small communities such
as exist in nearby Maryland and
Virginia, were branded as unjust.
It was felt by some of the delegates
that a person participating tn com
munity politics should be liiuded
rather than discouraged and faced
with the loss of his or her joo.
The secretary was Instructed to
write a letter of sympathy to the
family of Walter U. Varney, a for
mer delegate to the conference from
Arlington County, who died several
weeks ago. *
Further business was confined to
reports of delegates consisting of
Judge Alfred D. Bailey, Prince
Georges County; L A. Carruthers,
president of the Federation of Citi
zens’ Associations, District of Col
umbia; Walter Venskle, Arlington
County, and H. 8. Yohe, presiding
chairman, Montgomery County.
Salmon and salmon trout cat
ches off the northern coast of Japan
this year were twice as large as in
previous seasons.
Three Armed Convicts
Recaptured in Texas •
Bj tho Auoclatad Prow.
PORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 17.
Three armed convicts who escaped
from the State prison farm at
Sugarland were captured last night
at Grandview without a shot being
fired.
The convicts, Aubrey Scalley, Leo
White and Joe Marv n Burleson,
had been credited with six kid
napings and an automobile theft
since the break from the farm Sat
urday, but all persona abducted had
been released unharmed.
Sergt. Herman Reissig and Patrol
min B. C. Wilmuth of the State
police, captured the long-term pris
oners.
Film Divorce Ban Asked
LYNN, Mass., Oct. 17 OP).—Motion
picture theaters here have been re
quested to discontinue showing pic
tures in which actors or actresses
who have been divorced are fea
tured
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