Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1935, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. MOXDAY, JUNE 10, 1935. Lansburghs DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR 7TH, STH AND E Store Closed till 12 noon for the Parade TEXTBOOK REPAIR ACTION DELAYED WAVES GOOD-BY ON WAY | Star Sails | TO VISIT FRANCE, I NOBLES Take Home a Gift They'll expect something from Washington! Just zoom in Lansburgh’s and select quickly, confi- dently. You're sure to find exactly what you want, for what you want to pay. Board Not Expected to De- \ ; cide on It as Work- | ' | Relief Project. 4 | The Board of Education’s action on the proposal to set up a work relief project, in the District schools for re- pair and storage systematization of the thousands of publicly owned text b books, including the sorting out for 3 4 c N —— nse in rural adult education of out- 3 ‘ ° worn volumes. will be delayed past | ‘Wednesday's meeting, it was learned today 3 Suggested by Robert S. Roberts, who 3 § o | s a relief worker has reorganized the & 1 McKinley High School supply of % 3 c—_ books, the plan has been held in abey- ....a Lansburgh Specialty! snce since May 1. although the Com- mittee on Buildings. Grounds and Eaquipment approved it June 1 and then apparently reconsidered its ap- proval in favor of further study At last Wednesday's meeting the Eoquipment, Committee reported it stiil had the matter under consideration. Roberts, who was present. manifested considerable surprise that the com- mittee’s approval had been withdrawn ¥ S | :::en:.:d:xpxanmmn of the withdrawal “ : 5 ) 3 : T"ese7ll Be Your Need for Work Emphasized. Run this big fan 8 hours for only Tt is proposed to have the Board of Fducation recommend the plan as an official work relief project. suitabie particularly for giving emplovment to women and the physically handi- capped. £ 8 g8 : Pk = Need for the work is emphasized in Sl n 5 € a report made by Roberts on condi- MIRIAM JORDAN, | . 750 FRF - : T | 1 "/l Dresses , ICRR AT 10-inch Electric Fan In one of the newest. largest and 1 A 6 ; Here's breeze control for vou-—-a dependahle, sturdy fan finest high schools in America, we that costs less to run than mailing a letter! Treat vour family to one for the dining room, ane for each hed room, 5 . . for the porch, for the living room. Solid comfort! Rright embroidery will take your RAEETh . found a $30.000 stock of publicly- owned text baoks stored in about 250 voung fashionable’s eye! The sheer e e . = e ‘oile will keep her cool. Hems are OTHER ELECTRIC FANS, 81 TO $£25 1 bi without anv co-ordination e AP largs bins winont sy coordinabon| Jaynish Festival deep. Sizes range from 3 to 6 in this N j pi LANSBURGH'S—SIXTH FLOOR—HOUSEWARES. picturesque group. LANSBURGH LO HOUSEWARE Daughter’s Pets! Popular star of the films, is shown | aboard the S. S. Normandie as she | waved good-by to New York. sail- ing for France —A. P. Photo, specific volumes that might be 5 e e e vl Is oo Much for gotten inte such shape that a cor- reet, inventory was not possible until “'"" llz Y('ars (,,d it was co-ordinated “This was due in this specific school BSERRE to the fact that the appropriating . . authorities had reiected the reavest Rich Meat and Strong for sufficient funds to employ compe- ; 5 Wine of Shebuoth Send tent caretakers. Him to Hospital. Allotment Is Inadequate. | “Imagine allorting only $450 A/l week. and only part of the weeks of £50.000 worth of propertv. Included | NEW YORK. June 10 —All fuckered in this were also many thousands of dollars worth of still usable books that were no longer used in this &chool and should have been trans- ferred to some other school “'While, as before stated. we do not believe that this can be blamed upon any individua! officials, we then and now make the emphanic statement that no one can be proud of the facts, We also firmly believe that like con- ditions are common.” Assistant Superintendent of Schools Stephen E. Kramer, who was desig- nated to investigate the proposal. re- ported that “Mr. Roberts has done at the McKinlev High School a very good piece of work in organizing the free text bocks in that school. T be- lieve he is capable of accomplishing a very satisfactorv piece of work in onr other schoo's, but it will be neces- sarv for the Board of Education io formally ask for tne approval of this as a work project.” Rural Districts Need Rooks. Need for text books such as might be disearded in the Washingion schools i acute in the rural districts where the adult education work of the Fed- eral Emergency Relief Administration ix being carried on, according to L. B. Alderman. chief of that work AL present outworn text books in the Washington schools are submitted to the District Government for con- demnation and then sold for waste paper. Under the proposed work-relief project they would be rehabilitated and either continued in use here or sent to rural communities where any text book, no matter what its condi- tion. it at & premium Dr. Kramer reported that Roberts’ plan ealled for making minor repairs in each school and the major repairs in a central work shop Bible for Cruel Tribe. The New Testament is to be printed in Sonhrai. spoken by a tribe of 400.- 000 near Timbucton. Africa, long no- torious for their barbaric cruelty. out from the celebration of Shebuoth —the orthodox Jewish Thanksgiving Abraham Wishkowsky, who modest- ly claims he is onlv 112 vears old. al- though his passport and family Bible entries show him to be 115, was in| Bellevue Hospital today An ambulance was called to & syna- gogue on the lower East Side after the holiday repast of rich meat and strong wine proved too much for Wishkow- skv's ancient bady Very confused and mixed up in his mind_and still quite feeble.” was the way Bellevue physicians described the patriarch’s condition Wishkowsky has outlived six wives, the last of whom died last October at 102 PLAYWRIGHT DIES Phiflp Klein Is Vietim of Pneu- monia in Hollywood. HOLLYWOOD. June 10 «#) —Philip Klein, 46, pioneer movie scenarist, playwright and producer, died at a hospital here vesterday of pneumonia. Born in New York City, Klein was the son of a playwright, Charles Klein, who lost his life on the Lusitania. 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