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Gunman Is Shot
By 13-Year~0ld Son of
Grocer He Slew
Thief Flees Hospital
Later When Dead Man
Is Brought to Ward
tty th* Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—Pasquale
Addante. 13 years old. sat behind the
counter of his father's small gro
cery store last night reading a school
book when a Negro robber entered.!
“Give me your money,” growled
thp robber, pointing a pistol at Pas
quale.
“We haven't much money here.” |
protested the boy. “You wouldn't I
take it, would you?”
The gunman took $10 from the i
cash drawer and turned to go when
thp boy's father, Vito, 42, emerged
from the rpar living quarters with
his wife and two small children.
Push the kids on the floor,”
shouted Mr. Addante to his wife as
he fired a small calibre pistol at the
robber. Simultaneously the gunman
fired. Addante slumped to the floor
mortally wounded with a bullet near
his heart.
Robber Is Wounded.
Pasquale picked up the fallen pis
tol and- fired three shots. Crying |
with pain, the robber staggered
through the doorway, with Pas
quale in pursuit. The boy fired four ;
more shots at the man. who escaped !
after returning two ineffective shots.
A few minutes later the gunnjan
appeared at Provident Hospital. He
had been shot in the side, knee and
arm. Before the nurse could sum
mon a physician there was a com
motion at the receiving room door.
Some one was bringing the already
dead Addante to the same room oc
cupied by his slayer. The robber
leaped from a table and staggered
Into darkness.
First Time He Had Fired Gun.
At. a police station Pasquale. a
seventh grade pupil, gave an un
emotional account of the shooting.
"When I saw dad on the floor, all
T could think of was to kill the man j
who shot him.” said the youngster.
“T crawled on the floor to the gun.
picked it uo. and started firing. It
was the first, time I had ever shot a
gun in my life.”
His father's death came during
his fourth encounter with robbers.
Mrs. Addante said the man who
killed him was the same robber who
held up the store a year ago. Last
.January Addante killed a Negro
during an attempted robbery.
The latter w»as identified as the
man w-ho robbed Addante a month
earlier.
Plan to Abolish Tax |
Appeals Board Opposed
A resolution opposing abolishment
of the District Board of Tax Appeals
as proposed by the Commissioners’ j
“Kitchen Cabinet” as part of re
organization of the local govern- j
ment was passed by the Washington ,
Institute of Public Accountants last
night.
Meeting at the Willard Hotel, the
group heard speakers declare that
to abolish the board would be to
deny the taxpayers an appeal to an
Impartial body on tax matters.
Congress has, by establishment of
the Federal Board of Tax Appeals,
recognized the right of the taxpayer
to appeal against collection of illegal
taxes by administrative authority,
the speakers said.
A committee was named to co-op
erate with the District Bar Asso
ciation and other groups in opposi
tion to the board’s abolishment.
Funds Voted to Expand
Free X-Ray Service
Funds for the expansion of free
X-ray service in the District in co
operation with the Health Depart
ment were voted the Board of Di
rectors of the District of Columbia
Tuberculosis Association at a meet
ing yesterday, it was announced by
Mrs. Ernest R. .Grant, managing
director.
At the same time the directors
also agreed to allocate $1,000 toward
the continuance of medical research
in the cause and treatment of
tuberculosis under the direction of
the Medical Research Committee of
the National Tuberculosis Associa
tion.
Mrs. Grant also announced that
two vacancies in the board mem
bership had been filled by the elec
tion of Dr. Daniel E. Finucane,
superintendent of the Glenn Dale
Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and Dr
A. Barklie Coulter, director of the
Tuberculosis Bureau of the Health
Department.
Dr. Coulter told board members
that the Health Department esti
mates there are well over 5,000
victims of tuberculosis in Washing
ton who are spreading the disease
daily, this fact alone being sufficient
to justify the more intensive re
search for sources of infection.
Britain and France End
Summer Time Tomorrow
Bj the Associated Press.
LONDON. Nov. 18.—Summer time
—equivalent of American daylight
saving time—will end for Great
Britain and Prance when clocks are
set back one hour at 3 a.m. tomor
row.
Returning to Greenwich mean
time, Britain and France will be
five, instead of the present six. hours
ahead of United States Eastern
standard time.
Summer time was extended six
weeks beyond its normal end be
cause of the war.
Drop in Food Cost *
Reported in Week
Bs the Associated Press.
The Labor Department reported
yesterday that retail food costs de
creased 1.3 per cent between Sep
tember 9 and October 17.
Decreases in the prices of meat,
lard and sugar represented the
larger part of the general decrease
Forty-five of the 51 cities reporting
to the department recorded decreases
In average cost.
The general level of costs in Oc
tober was about that of the same
period a year ago, the department
•aid.
A *
Marylanders Report
Earthquake North
Of Baltimore
Mild Disturbance
Last Night Does
No Damage
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 18.—Another
dish-rattling, house-swaying earth
tremor, similar to one which swept
four States Tuesday, gave Mary
landers north of Baltimore a second
taste qf "quakelets’’ last night.
Unlike Tuesday's temblor, rhe
latest was apparently confined to
northern sections of Baltimore and
Harford and Baltimore Counties.
Slight effects also were reported
from Lancaster County, Pa.
No property damage tvas reported
and Fordham University's seismo
graph couldn't dignify the disturb
ance as an earthauake. A "slight
trace of something” was recorded,
the Rev. Joseph J. Lynch said, but
where and how far from New York
he couldn't sav.
Best unofficial timing by scores of
alarmed citizens who telephoned
newspaper offices indicated the
"quakelets"started at 9:35 p.m., last
ed between five and ten seconds,
and seemed centered in or near Bel
Air.
At the Georgetown University
seismographic observatory there was
no quake recorded that might have
occurred in the vicinity of Balti
more. A mild earthquake, appar
ently several thousand miles awr.v,
was registered for about an hour
beginning around 9 p.m.
In Philadelphia two faint record
ings that might be ascribed to earth
tremors were reported last night by
Franklin Institute Seismologists.
The seismograph indicated a dis
turbance just before 3 p.m. (E. S. T.)
and another one of a minute’s dura
tion at 9:33 p.m. The location of
the shocks was not known.
Montana Quake Brief.
HELENA, Mont., Nov. 18 UP).—
A sharp earth tremor was felt here
at 11:38 o’clock last night (1:38 a.m.
Saturday, E. S. T.i.
The quake lasted no more! than 2
seconds. There were no immediate
reports of damage.
Naval Reserve Classes
Have Some Vacancies
The United States Naval Reserve
today announced that there are
some vacancies for winter classes for
student reserve aviation pilots at
the Naval Reserve Aviation Base,
Anacostia, D. C.
The announcement was made
through Lt. Comdr. T. U. Sisson,
commanding officer at the Reserve
base. Applications are to be turned
in to him, it was announced.
A new class forms on the 15th of
each month and a 30-day period
of elimination flight training en
sues. To become eligible for this
training, which leads to advanced
traning at the Navy’s large field at
Pensacola, Fla., and future com
misions as ensigns in the Naval
Reserve, two years or more of col
lege are required. Applicants must
be between the ages of 20 and 27
and must be in good health as they
must pass the flight physical ex
amination.
Police Planning Drive
On Curbstone Bookies
Under orders from Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen, police officials to
day were mapping plans for a “re
lentless" new drive against the
curbstone agents of bookmakers
who have been operating on the
front steps of certain downtown
business establishments.
Commissioner Hazen acted after
he had received renewed complaints
that the curbstone agents again
were plying their trade. Lt. Earl
P. Hartman, head of the special
investigations squad, was called
into conference with the Commis
sioner this morning at the District
Building. He and other police
officials held secret their plan of
attack against the bookie agents.
However, one official said that
most of the bookmakers themselves
apparently are operating from places
outside the District boundaries and
that it appeared the most effective
thing the District police .could do
was to wage a campaign of con
tinual harassment against the curb
stone agents and to prefer charges
in every case in which they can
get necessary evidence.
Northern Ireland will increase its
flax acreage 30,000 acres and that
for barley 47,000 acres next season,
■ f.
Civil Liberties Group
To Open California
Hearings Friday
Activities of Employers'
Associations to Come
Under Inquiry
By iht Associated Press.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Utah announced today that the
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
would begin hearings at Los Angeles
Friday in its investigation into the
activities of employers' associations
in California.
Describing the inquiry as “the big
gest job we have tackled yet,” Sen
ator Thomas said he would con
duct hearings for three days in Los
Angeles and move to San Francisco
on December 4 for a series of hear
ings there. He will conduct the
hearings alone in the absence of
Chairman La Follette, Progressive,
of Wisconsin, and Senator Walsh,
Democrat, of Massachusetts, other
committee members.
Only documents sought by the
committee staff will be subpoenaed
in the first series of hearings, Sena
tor Thomas said, with witnesses to
be called later by the committee
when the staff has completed its
study of these records.
“This has turned out to be the
biggest job that we have tackled, be
cause of its complex nature,” the
Senator told reporters. He said the
committee, given $50,000 by the last
Congress to continue Its work, had
been forced to turn down requests
for Investigations in several other
Western States.
These requests, Senator Thomas
reported, included pleas for in
quiries into the labor relations of
utility companies in Utah, mining
and agriculture in Colorado and
lumbering in Oregon.
The investigation in California,
carried on by a staff of 20 to 30
committee employes during the last
two months, has dealt mostly with
the labor relations of members of
Associated Farmers, he continued.
This group consists largely of em
ployers of agricultural workers.
Stone Marker Found
In Mexico Dated 291 B.C.
Discovery in Mexico of the earliest
known recorded date yet found in
the N»“ v World—a stone monument
bearing the Maya Indian symbols
equivalent to November 4, 291 B.C.—
was described by Matthew W. Stir
ling of the Smithsonian Institution
before the National Geographic
Society last night in Constitution
Hall.
Mr. Stirling, a well known archeol
ogist, told how this important new
key to the ancient past of the Amer
icas was unearthed in a Mexican
bean patch by an expedition which
he led under joint sponsorship of
the Geographic Society and the
Smithsonian Institution.
The date is carved in Maya sym
bols of bars and dots, which scientists
have learned to translate.
Among the relics unearthed by the
expedition was a stone basin, once
used to collect blood during human
sacrifices, and a stone box, in which
the blood was stored. One of the
most spectacular finds was a like
ness 6 feet high of a human head
which had been almost completely
buried by deposits of eroded soil. Its
exact significance is not known, Mr.
Stirling said.
The lecture was the first of the
society’s annual series.
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Stokowski's Collar
Comes Loose During
Philadelphia Concert
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18 —
The calisthenics of orchestra
conducting have finally scored
against sartorially splendid
Leopold Stokowski.
His “gates ajar” collar cane
loose with a pop at a Phi.a
delphia Orchestra concert yes
terday. flapped for 5 minutes
and sent a murmur of con- .
stemation through the sedate
Academy of Music. But the
music flowed on and Mr. Sto
kowski made repairs during In
termission.
Nothing like it had been seen
in the academy since Guest
Conductor Sir Thomas Bee
cham lost a suspender button
at the peak of a crescendo.
Msgr. McAdams Talks
As Hierarchy Marks
Its 150th Year
Poises Good Works of
Archbishop Carroll and
Cardinal Gibbons
The names of great Catholic
leaders in the American hierarchy
from Archbishop John Carroll to
James Cardinal Gibbons were
brought back from the pages of his
tory yesterday as the Right Rev.
Msgr. Edward P. McAdams, pastor
of St, Joseph’s Church, spoke at a
pontifical mass at Catholic Univer
sity commemorating the 150th year
of the hierarchy.
The mass was celebrated by Most
Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop
of Baltimore and Washington, in
the Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception at the university.
Msgr. McAdams declared the
“ground on which we stand close
to the homesite of John Carroll is
not only sainted soil but also the
greatest center of Catholicism in the
Christian era outside of Rome.
Archbishop Carroll was the St.
Ambrose of America, Msgr. Me Ad am
said, pointing also to the founding
of Georgetown University by the
prelate.
"And if Archbishop Carroll may
be considered as the foundation of
the heirarchy of the United States
of America,” said Msgr. McAdams,
“then James Cardinal Gibbons is its
towering pinnacle.”
No citizen has ever understood the
American traditions better than
Cardinal Gibbons, he said, and no
statesman or patriot has ever di
rected his life and his influence
more untiringly in upholding the
Constitution of the United States.
Those attending the special cere
mony included two cardinals—Den
nis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadel
phia and J. M. Rodrique Cardinal
Villeneuve of Quebec. Also present
were 25 archbishops from all parts
of the United States, nearly 100
bishops from as far off as the Philip
pines, as well as hundreds of mon
signors, priests and other religious
leaders.
Philadelphia Ousts Trailers
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18 UP).—
Occupants of 50 trailers parked in
winter camps west of the city have
been told to move on or comply
with residence building require
ments.
The Lower Merion township com
misisoners said the trailers were
not suitable residences for the sea
son.
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First Aircraft Order
Since Repeal Given 1
In U. S. by British
400 to 600 Training
Planes Purchased Under
$20,000,000 Contract
By rhr Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Nov. 18.—A contract j
for 400 to 600 North American Avia- j
tion training planes and extra parts
for an undetermined number of
planes—an order aggregating ap*
proximatelv *20,000,000—was signed
today by representatives of the In
glewood, Crlif., company and the
British Purchasing Commission in
the United States.
The contract was the first aircraft
order made public since repeal of the
arms embargo. Britain previously
had contracted for 400 planes of the
same type and 325 of tnem were de
livered before the arms embargo
went into effect.
The majority of the newly-ordered
ships probably will be sent to Canada
to be used in the "Empire air
scheme" which embodies training of
25,000 men a year for service in the
British Royal Air Force.
No details of delivery plans were
given but it was understood the
planes would be flown to an airport
in Montana adjacent to a Canadian
airport and wheeled across the
border to comply with the new Neu
trality Act.
The United States Army has ac
cepted 174 of the same type of plane,
known as the BC-1. Although called
trainers, they can carry a light load
of fragmentation or demolition
bombs and are built to provide for
installation of one fixed machine gun
flung through the propeller.
They are two-seated, low-winged
monoplanes with metal fuselage and
Fabrin wings, are powered by single
550-horsepower Pratt-Whitney radial
motors and have a top speed of 240
miles an hour.
F. B. I. to Add 5 Offices
For Its Anti-Spy Work
By the Associated Press.
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation will open at least five new
field offices as a part of its arrange
ments to deal with activities of
spies and saboteurs.
Director J. Edgar Hoover said
yesterday the first office would be
at San Diego, Calif., important be
cause of the proximity of the
United States fleet and of airplane
factories. The San Diego office will
divide the work in the Southern
California judicial district with the
Los Angeles office.
Percy Wyly, 2d, now in charge at
Memphis, Tenn., has been ordered
to take charge at San Diego by
December 1. No successor has been
chosen for Memphis. Mr. Hoover
indicated the post would be filled
when special agents are shifted to
take care of new offices at Phoenix,
Ariz.; Grand Rapids. Mich.; Balti
more and Albany, N. Y.
City News in Brief
TODAY.
Banquet, Grand Army of the Re
public, Kennedy-Warren, 7 p.m.
Banquet, Tau Alpha Chi Sorority,
Carlton Hotel, 7 p.m.
Dinner, testimonial for Marion C.
Hargrove, Mayflower Hotel, 7 pm.
Meeting, Film Guild Society, An
napolis Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Dinner dance, Variety Club, Wil
lard Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, Biological Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Delta Delta Sorority,
Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority,
Raleigh Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Kilowatt Club, Wardman
Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Newman Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, Shoreham Hotel, 10 pm.
Meeting, Phi Gamma Delta Na
tional Fraternity officers, Carlton
Hotel, all day.
TOMORROW.
Breakfast, Indiana Alumni Asso
ciation, Lafayette Hotel, 10:30 am.
Breakfast, North Dakota State So
ciety, Wardman Park Hotel, 12:30
pm.
Meeting, Phi Gamma Pi Sorority,
Wardman Park Hotel, 3 p.m.
Tea, Lambda Sigma Delta sor
ority, Carlton Hotel, 4 pm.
Tea, Lambda Phi Omega Sorority,
Carlton Hotel, 4 pm.
Tea, Phi Delta Delta Legal Soror
ity, Carlton Hotel, 4 p.m.
Tea, Kappa Gamma Sorority,
Raleigh Hotel, 4 pm.
Dewey Has to Make
Two Decisions That
May Decide Future
Shall He Be Liberal or
Conservative? and Shall
The Big Push Be in '40?
By the Associated Press.
Thomas E. Dewey has two deci
sions on the fire. At least one of
them ought to be ready to serve
somewhere along the line of his De
cember march into the Middle West.
Each of the decisions has a bear
ing on the other. Put together,
they will come pretty close to de
termining whether he will follow
most other noted prosecuting attor
neys into political oblivion or scale
the political heights.
He has to decide, first, how much
of the New Deal he is willing to
go along with. By this, he will ac
quire'either a liberal or a conserva
tive label. But the trouble with
these labels is that no two persons
can agree on what they mean.
And some time before next July
he has to begin figuring how much
powder he will put behind his shot
at the presidency in 1940. It may
easily work out that 1944 will ap
pear to be a better year for him.
Left or Right?
Some of his New York friends
already have been asking him jocu
larly when he was going to decide
whether he was a liberal or a con
servative. One, reminding him of a
survey which said 60 per cent of the
people thought he was liberal and 49
per cent thought his conservative,
said with a twinkle in his eye:
"You can’t declare yourself now,
Tom. If you go one way, you will
lose the 60 per cent, and if you go
the other, you’ll lose the 40. The
division is too close.”
It Is not entirely Mr. Dewey’s
fault, however, that he has not ex
pounded his views before this. Plans
for an invasion of the Middle West
had been made months ago. but they
were tabled by the outbreak of war
in Euorpe and the semblance of a
political armistice during debate
over repealing the arms embargo.
But even if there had been no
talk of a political truce, Mr. Dewey
would have held back until the em
bargo debate was finished. He had
a feeling there was no point in talk
ing in a boiler factory. The front
pages and the air waves were filled
with words about embargo. It would
have been a waste of energy to try
to crash in.
What He’ll Find.
What Mr. Dewey is likely to find
in the Middle West is that the men
who pay the way for the party have
been /airly well sold on other candi
dates. His own strength seems to
lie among a minority of young Re
publicans in most of the States be
tween the Alleghenies and the
Rockies.
There the tendency is to lay stress
on the need for a Republican can
didate with a background of experi
ence in national affairs. This point
of view was sharpened by the out
break of war and the demand that
the United States stay out of it.
If Mr. Dewey finds that this is
the dominant sentiment, he might
return to New York reconciled to the
abandonment of any thought of at
taining the presidency in 1940.
There would be, of course, no public
statement to this effect. Nor is it
likely there would be any outward
indication of a change in aim.
Two Choices.
But, if the hope of attaining the
1940 nomination were withdrawn
from him, he would be left the
choice between two possible roads
to the 1944 nomination. One would
be to aim for the vice presidential
nomination on the 1940 ticket, the
other to try again for the governor
ship of New York, which he failed
by so narrow a margin to win in
1938.
No Vice President since Martin
Van Buren has risen to the presi
dency by election without first hav
ing been moved into the White
House by death during his vice presi
dential term. Few Vice Presidents
have been heard of save for those
who were lifted out of obscurity by
death. John Nance Garner is the
exception. The vice presidency has
not, during the last 100.years, been
th? natural road to the presidency.
A governorship—and particularly
the New York governorship—is the
modern stepping stone to the presi
dential nomination. And, coinci
dertally, Mr. Dewey’s term as dis
trict attorney expires at the same
time as does that of the New York
Governor. A good showing at the
1940 convention would help along
the publicity build-up for a gover
norship race in 1942.
3-Lb. Infant Given Chance
To Live After Operation
By the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr., Nov. 18.—Marilyn
Sistek, three pounds of 13-day-old
humanity, was given a “fair chance"
td live after an operation last night
which would task the resistance of
many an adult.
A physician who declined to per
mit use of his name performed a
gastrostomy—an operation making
an opening into the stomach
through the abdomen.
Marilyn, twin daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Emil Sistek, had difficulty in
breathing when she was born.
Members of the Omaha Are depart
ment came to the rescue, fitted an
iron lung to the baby’s needs and
restored normal respiration.
Later it was found that she could
not take nourishment because no
opening existed from the esophagus
to the stomach and the operation
was deemed necessary.
Her sister Marie and the mother
are “doing nicely.”
Ex-Convict Seized
For Raising $1
Bills to Fives
By the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 18.—Walter
Sowinskl, 36, of Chicago, was a Fed
eral prisoner today, charged with
using “cut-outs” from his State
prison release in making $5 bills out
of $1 bills.
John Voss, United States Secret
Service agent, said Sowinskl had
confessed to "raising” the bills by
tracing or drawing the numeral "5”
on the back of the prison release,
and then cutting out the numbers
and pasting them on the $1 bills.
Sowinskl, also known as Swain,
completed service of 12 Vi months at
Waupun State Prison for assault
with intent to do great bodily harm.
He was arrested yesterday after
noon at a variety store when Stella
Dombeck, a clerk, decided the *5
bill she received shouldn’t have on
it a portrait of George Washington.
She called a patrolman.
Vos* said two other raised bills,
razor blades, colored pencils, glue
and the prison release with the fig
ures cut out of it were found on
Sowinski's person. He was ar
raigned before United States Com
missioner Floyd R. Jenkins, waived
preliminary examination, and was
bound over to a Federal grand jury
under bond of $1,000.
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Transfusion Gives Boy
'One Chance in Million'
Bj the Associated Press.
ST. CLOUD, Minn., Nov. 18.—Lit
tle Norman Dolinski, 6-year-old suf
ferer from acute lymphatic leukemia,
was given “one chance in a mil
lion” to escape death today as his
physicians awaited developments
after a blood transfusion.
The transfusion was given yes
terday by Lorraine Olive, 19, of Min
neapolis, who three years ago re
covered from an illness that was
diagnosed then sys the same disease
as that from which Norman is suf
fering. As the boy lay near death
yesterday, physicians believed his
only chance was in a transfusion
of blood from a person who had re
covered from the disease, which is
nearly always fatal.
Their doubt about his chances to
day arose from a question whether
Miss Olive had actually had the
acute form of the disease. If she
had, they theorized, it is doubtful
that she would have recovered.
Norman, however, was In high
spirits. “Let’s go home now, I'm
hungry,” he said to his weeping
parents after the transfusion.
James E. Mackley
Dies at Mount Alto
James Edward Mackley, 59, of
3703 North Pershing drive, Arling
ton, Va., died Thursday in Mount
Alto Hospital. A World War veteran,
he had been employed since shortly
after the war in the city banking
section of the Treasury Department.
Mr. Mackley was born in Fred
erick County, Md. In Washington
he was a member of the American
Legion and of Equality-Waiter Reec
Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Surviving are hi§ widow, Mrs
Lucille Mackley; a sister. Mrs. Mary
Griffith of Frederick, Md.; three
brothers, John, Charles and Jacob
Mackley, all of Frederick,
j Funeral services and burial will
be held Monday at 2 p.m. in Arling
ton National Cemetery'.
War Department Pays
$112,500 for Parcel
In Building Site
Proceedings Handled
Through Condemnation
In District Court
In its program of acquiring prop
erty for the new War Department,
the Government has just paid
through District Court the sum of
$112,500 to the owners of several
pieces of land at the corner of New
York avenue and Twenty-second
street N.W., consisting of land and
houses, known as Parcel No. XIII.
Action was taken under a pro
ceeding in court filed under the con
demnation law by which the Gov
ernment plans to acquire as soon
as possible all privately owned land
bounded by Twenty-first. Twenty
second, C and E streets N W, the
site for the first unit of the new
War Department BuildinR. Even
tually the entire site into which the
structure later will expand will com
prise all land bounded by Twenty
first. Twenty-third, C and E streets
N.W.
I In the condemnation suit re
cently filed the Government de
posited the sum of $1,989,006.25
toward payment for the property in
squares 83, 84 and 87. on which the
first unit will rise. Parcel by parcel,
final settlement is being made under
authority of the court and by means
of the condemnation law. This law
was enacted to enable the Govern
ment to speed up land purchases
at the time the Federal Triangle
was under construction in down
l town Washington many years ago.
Plans for the new War Depart
. ment, are being drawn in the office
I of the Public Buildings Adminis
tration of the Federal Works
' Agency.
"Buy your cycle now. Motor cars
: taken in part, exchange," reads a
sign in a shop in Doncaster, Eng
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INGLEWOOD, CALIF.—BUILDING TRAINING PLANES FOR
ALLIES—A general view of the assembly line in the North
American Aviation plant here, showing "war birds’’ for ship
ment abroad in various stages of construction. The plant has
been building 400 training ships for the allies and has just
recently received an order for 400 mor^. _a. P. Photo.
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Girl Stretches to Add Inch
In Height for Air Course
Bv 'he Associated Press. )
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 18.—Kath
leen did if.!
Kathleen Hildebrand is 5 feet 2
inches tall—and that's official. Now !
she can take Uncle Sam's student
training course in aviation.
Less than four weeks ago Kath
leen was a mere 5 feet 1. She had ■
passed every physical requirement J
except that of height for the Civil !
Aeronautics Authority course at
Kansas City Junior College.
But what a difference an inch
can make!
Kathleen appealed to C. A. A au
thorities. "Add another inch," they
advised. i
So the 18-year-old redhead began
the stretch of her life.
She grabbed the tops of doors and
pulled herself up. She stretched and
s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d.
She gained half an inch in three
weeks; another quarter in two days, i
But she had to have that final
quarter inch in three days—today.
She exercised harder. Stretched
oftener. Consulted an osteopath and
learned how to get every last mil
limeter of length out of her spine.
A chiropodist suggested a certain
stance might help.
Kathleen had lots of other sug
gestions, too. but she didn’t have
time to try them. Nearly the whole
country was stretching with her, it*
seemed, after Associated Press news
papers carried her story. She re
ceived so many letters and tele
grams she hardly found time to do
justice to her stretching.
But that's all over.
“Whew.” Kathleen sighed when
she saw the pointer at 5 feet 2 yes
terday. “Now I can relax."
So can her fans from coast to
coast.
Kathleens going to try her wings
next week.
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