Evening star. [volume], June 30, 1940, Page A-7, Image 7

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New Derby Course
Will Open Tuesday
For Test Runs
Soap Box Race Entrants
Will Be Given Chance to
See Whot Cars Will Do
Boys who want to try out their
1940 Soap Box Derby racers on the
site of this year's coaster race will
have their chance Tuesday after
noon, Derby Director Zeb T. Ham
ilton said today.
Authorized test and safety runs
will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, under police supervision.
A detail of police will be assigned
by Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin
tendent of Metropolitan Police and
a member of the Derby General
Committee, to supervise the "trial
runs. All traffic will be routed
around the racing course.
The trial runs will be held at
the site of the 1940 Derby—on Penn
sylvania avenue S.E. between Ala
bama and Branch avenues. Boys
whose cars are completed or nearly
completed may find out how their
speedsters are going to act under
sctual racing conditions. Those who
want to take advantage of the trial
run period will have to get their
racers to the course themselves.
Broadcast This Afternoon.
In a special Derby radio program
this afternoon over Station WMAL,
Mr. Hamilton will broadcast infor
mation and important instructions
about the test runs. The nine-min
ute broadcast will be heard from
2:06 to 2:15 p.m. Listen in at that
time for trial run instruction.
The 1940 Derby will be held in
two weeks—on Saturday. July 13—
and is expected to bring out the
fastest, field of miniature racing
ears ever to compete. This year's
roster of Derby entrants is filled
with veterans of the 1938 and 1939
races, and the old-timers-are cer
tain to be well informed on what
!t takes to build fast cars.
The first letter of instructions has
been sent out to each of the 287
boys entered in the race and a
second letter is to be mailed some
time this week. Mr. Hamilton urged
that, the post cards, sent out last
week, be returned immediately in
order that preparatory work for the
big race may be completed.
Carl Cederstrand. jr.. Washing
ton's 1939 champion Derby racer,
took his speedy white car down the
Pennsylvania avenue course last
week and pronounced it "swell.”
Carl's racer whizzed down the newly
paved concrete street in fast time
and without any trouble.
"Bov, I wish I could be in the
race this year,” Carl said. The 1939
winner cannot compete because of
the rule prohibiting city champions
to run again in regularly sponsored
Derby races. Carl said the new
course was much better than the
Massachusetts avenue course last
gear.
Carl's test run was made under
the supervision of Mr. Hamilton,
W. A. Van Duzer, director of the
Bureau of Vehicles and Traffic; In
spector W. E. Holmes of the Metro
politan Police and Capt. Hugh H.
Groves of the 11th precinct.
C. C. C. Boys Will Help.
The officials pronounced it a “very
satisfactory course” and expressed
their determination not to miss the
races on July 13.
Meanwhile, work in preparation
for the coaster event went forward,
as Mr. Hamilton announced that a
large group of C. C. C. boys from
Benning Camp had volunteered
their services for Soap Box Derby
work. Fifty of the boys will erect
lengths of snow fence on private
lawns paralleling the race course
and another group of 20 will work
on Derby Day at the track.
Linn C. Drake. District Scout
executive, said a detail of 25 Boy
Scouts from the Southeast area
would be assigned as runners at the
Course on July 13.
The names of two more boys have
been added to the Derby rolls. They
are William Robert Bobick, 13. 203
Parkway, Cheverly, Md., and Rus
eell Bowser, jr., 14, 140 Thomas street
N.W.
(Watch The Star (or Derby News.)
Holy Name Group
Flans River Sail
The second annual moonlight
cruise to be sponsored by the Holy
Name Society of Sacred Heart
Church will be held Tuesday on the
new Potomac River steamer S. S.
Mount Vernon. The boat will leave
the Wilson Line wharf at 8:30 p.rn.
Committees in charge have pro
vided an orchestra for dancing,
amusement features and five gang
plank prizes. Decks are protected
in case of rain.
N. E. A. Convention
Opens in Milwaukee
Plans for expansion of Citizenship
Recognition day in the American
schools to increased interest and
participation of youth in American
Government will be considered at
the National Education Association's
annual convention opening today
in Milwaukee.
About 10,000 members, including a
delegation from the District, are
expected to attend the session which
will continue through July 4.
Included in the District delegation
are Miss A. Grace Lind, supervising
principal of the fifth division and
State director for the N. E. A. for
the District; Mrs. Mary Sherman
Resh, president of the Education
Association of the District; Mrs.
Luveme Crabtree Walker, delegate
of the association; Mrs. Frances
Knight. Miss Anna Halberg of Wil
son Teachers College, Miss Henry
ette Drumm of Wilson and Daniel
B. Lloyd of Roosevelt High School.
Mrs. Resh also will represent the
District branch of the National As
sociation of School Secretaries at a
meeting with the convention July 2.
A testimonial will be given at that
time to Miss Louise Henderson, re
tiring president after six years of
service.
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DERBY CHAMP TRIES NEW COURSE—Carl Cederstrand, jr.,
Soap Box Derby winner In 1939, tells Derby officials all about
the 1940 course on Pennsylvania avenue S.E. after a trial run.
In the huddle are Inspector W. E. Holmes of the Metropolitan
Police, William A. Van Duzer, director of the Bureau of Vehicles
and Traffic, and (right) Derby Director Zeb T. Hamilton. Carl
pronounced the 1940 course ‘•swell,” and said it was smoother
and easier ta drive on that last year's. —Star sfaff Photo.
Virginia Rites for Wife
And Son of Col. Hopkins
By the Associated Press.
ELMIRA, N. Y„ June 29 —Double
funeral services will be held Monday
in Warsaw, Va., for Archie T. Hop
kins, 17. and his mother, Mrs. Sam
uel R. Hopkins, 48, victims of an
automobile accident near here last
Wednesday.
Hopkins’ father. Col. Samuel R.
Hopkins, who flew here from Fort
Benning, Ga„ was at the youth's
bedside when he died yesterday. The
mother was killed outright.
Col. Hopkins will accompany his
son's body to Warsaw, home of Mrs.
Hopkins’ parents, tonight, and re
turn to Fort Benning after the fu
neral.
Salvation Army Notes
75th Anniversary of
First Open-Air Rally
Two Tuesday Meetings
Will Commemorate
Important Milestone
Salvation Army forces here will
join Tuesday in a world-wide com
memoration of the first open-air
meeting of the organization held
75 years ago in the East End of
London by the late Gen William
Booth, founder of the army.
Two anniversary meetings will be
held by the local Salvation Army
on Tuesday. The meetings will be
held at 6:30 p.m. in Lincoln Park
and at 7:30 p.m. in Judiciary Square.
The Rev. George H. Bennett of
the Wilson Memorial Church will
bring a message from the Wash
ington Federation of Churches to
the Lincoln Park meeting. Maj.
Charles Walker, in charge of the
army's Evangeline residence for
women, will address the second
meeting. Short addresses will also
be made by Maj. H. M. Gesner,
Maj. G. Strandbert and Adjt. Wil
liam Powell. Maj. Charles H. Dodd,
director of the Salvation Army here,
will preside.
The Salvationist Band will play
the tunes that are familiar at ail
outdoor meetings of the army the
world over.
Commissioner J. Russell Young, in
a statement to the Salvation Army
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congratulating it on its 75th anni
versary, declared:
•'The Salvation Army has been of
great service under many trying cir
cumstances and the good it has per
formed has been most far-reaching.
It is our hope and that of the citizens
of Washington that the Salvation
Army will continue to render its
far-spread humanitarian work.”
D. C. Juvenile Court
Open House July 8
The Juvenile Court will hold open
house in its new building, Fourth
and E streets N.W., Monday after
noon, July 8, it was announced last
night by Judge Fay Bentley.
Invitations have been sent to many
friends of the court and its staff,
but the general public as well is
welcomed, Judge Bentley said. The
hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m.
No formal program has been ar
ranged. The building will be open
throughout for inspection. Judge
Bentley and her staff will greet their
friends at an informal reception.
The court will begin moving Tues
day, it was explained, and expects
to be completely installed in the
new quarters by the end of this
week.
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Sylvan Theater to Present
Gas Band, Gypsy Chorus
The Washington Gas Light Co.
Band and the Washington Gypsy
Chorus will be presented Tuesday
evening at the Sylvan Theater in
the Summer Festival series under
auspices of the Community Center,
the Playgrounds Department and
the Office of National Capital Parks,
The band concert is to begin at
7:30 p.m., to be followed by the
Gypsy Chorus at 8:15. The chorus,
directed by Robert Frederick
Freund, will be accompanied by
piano, violin and accordian. Mem
bers of the chorus will be in gypsy
attire.
The other festivals in July will be
at the Sylvan Theater on succeeding
Tuesdays, with the exception of the
23d. That week the festival will be
given on Thursday, the 25th, be
cause of a Water Gate concert fall
ing on the former date.
Scheduled to appear in other fes
tival programs are the W. P. A.
Symphonic Orchestra and the F. B.
I. Recreation Association Theater
Group, July 9; W. P. A. Dance Or
chestra and Tempo Choral Club,
July 16; Roosevelt-Eckington Play
ers and the Chevy Chase Dairy
Band, July 25. and .Troupers of East
Washington Community Center and
the Washington Elks Boys Band,
July 30.
"Panama Is Oligarchy/
Dr. Alfaro Declares
Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro, who re
turned to- Washington yesterday
from Panama, where he was the
defeated presidential candidate of
the Popular Front parties in the
election of June 2, issued a state
ment in which he declared that
"Democratic government has ceased
to exist in Panama.”
Declaring that “only the govern
ment party went to the polls,” Dr
Alfaro charged that the regime there
"is an outright oligarchy in which
the President appoints and imposes
its own successor.”
“There has been no campaign be
tween two parties,” he said. Dr.
Alfaro formerly was President of
Panama, and for many years Min
ister to the United States.
Men's Club Program
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Church, Third and F streets S.W.,
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program” at 3 o'clock this afternoon
featuring civic, fraternal and mili
tary organizations. A parade will
be held at 2 o’clock, it was an
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