Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1935, Page 11

COLONISTS FORCE CHANGES N HOMES Matanuska Officials Back Down Before Fight on Growing Plan. BY ARVILLE SCHALEBEN. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. PALMER, Alaska, July 29 (N.AN: A.).—The Matanuska colonists made ®fficials back down on thei: announced progrsm to build all hcuses on the | Browing plan by threatening through ihe Colony Council 1) return to the States unless they got the houses they had selected. Y Under the growing plan, small ‘houses of three rooms in a row would dhave been bullt this year and the | and dropped them on the snake. The Wettlers would have added to them in e future. Orrin Powell and Jack Lund led | Rhe attack on the new-s-yle houses. “Give us the homes {nat we picked | ut or give us transportation,” Powell | 4nsisted at the council meeting. “All But three of the 30 families I repre- ‘gent are ready to quit.” ") Cartailed Plan Abandoned. Lund, a lanky, skilied carpenter, | rgued vociferously that it wouldn't | anp appreciably more time to erect ‘the chosen cottages than the growing | $ype houses. With the whole council | grimly determined to win the demand, ofMcials abandoned the curtailed plan. | > Col. L. P. Hunt, two-fisted, red- faced Marine, now in full charge, said %hat this meant getting the cottages idone in time by a close squeak, but | e believed they would succeed. Previously, when officials were still | ‘Wetermined to change tl.e plans, S. R.| Fuller, sent here by tae administr tion to speed thinzs up. had esti- ‘mated that it would take until orta- Jber 28 to finish all the chosen cot- “tages. When all the new men arrive, Hunt pxpects to have a working force 01\ $00. counting the male colonists. ‘. During the general uprising and | ‘flhconunt that preceded the council | ‘action. even Fuller was forced to ac- 1 Jxept some downright insults and smile. | ;. Some housewives irate. They | Shad ordered furniture for the par-| icular houses selected frcm five of-| exed plans. In pairs and in groups | they stood before the rnew plans and | Mried to figure out how they would | ‘arrange their furniture. Hearts Set on No. 5 Structure. Carl Meier of Duluth and his fam- iy had their minds and hearts ‘et‘ ‘on plan No. 5, a tidy log structure. “I want No. 5 and nothing else.” Meier growled to Fuller. “I ain't Tdone any kicking before. I've worked and taken the bumps, but I'm a stub- i born German. and this time I'm Treally stubborn. We come up hfre‘ and the Government has been letting | us down. First there’s one thing and | then another. Now it wants me m iJive some place I won't live in——" “Just & minute,” cut in Fuller. | *We've got—" : “Hold on, I'm doing the talking.” Meier exploded. “You wouldn't live 4n a house you didn't want, would "0 : i < “I'd want a roof. I'd add to my | house as I needed it,” Fuller coun- ‘tered. “Here we have perhaps 90 days to build. We've got so many men to do it. I considered building all No. 5 houses. We figured it out that If every man did just what was ex- pected of him, if all lumber arrived just asscheduled, if no trucks broke | (down, we could do it by October 28. That's right up against Winter, Margin of Time Needed. “We needed a margin. We couldn't take a chance of not having every family under roof. So we changed | to the new design. It saves us 25| ‘per cent on labor on frame houses .and 33 per cent on logs. That gives | -us a margin. Some little things can _go wrong and still everybody’ll have ‘a house.” -~ “But I don't want that house,” | Meier protested, scowling and shak- “4ng his arm menacingly. “That's been the Hell of it! That's the whole | _project, too much changing. You're going to make some change here and ~you're going to find yourself going out ‘with -lead following you.” | Fuller, with the authority of all “Washington behind him, just sat *there smiling. . Fuller and aH his party except three | “who remain in top positions left for Xhe States after the housing problem »was settled. Hunt inherits Fuller's <authority until America solves the “tempest in its attic. Hdpymm 1035 by the North American | Newspaper Alliance. Ine.) | S 25 LR M RER RN R SR LR, R L B R, B AR Y TS TOOSRRR TSR, IR, P B S VR AT & 515, S el o | fully opened the engine hood, and | Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events an CRAWLING FEAR. AMES B. BROOKS, fleld worker for the Farm Credit Adminis- tration, had a run-in with a the other day and he still gets cold | chills whenever he's around his auto- mobile. Brooks, alighting to open the gate to a farm, spotted the copperhead just in front of his car. He picked up the two largest rocks in sight reptile, unharmed, squirmed from un- der the rocks and, much to Brook's dismay, crawled under the car and entered it via the under side of the engine. The F. C. A. worker entertained thoughts of abandoning the machine to the poisonous pal, but decided he! try to chase it away first. He care- sure enough the snake had coiled against the warm radiator and just below the fan, which was revolving at a slow pace. Brooks poked it was a long stick, ! so it crawled along the car frame to| | a more comfortable resting place on top of the battery. This was getting serious, Brooks thought, so he climbed into the car and after assuring himself that there | was no holes in the floor board drove | | down the highway at a dizzy pace to the nearest service station. Without stopping to speak to an| attendant, he drove onto a hoist and | muttered something about having “a bad rattle in the front of the car.” WHile the attendant hoisted the car and inspected it Brooks stood a safe distance away and searched for his reptile companion. It had left its seat on the battery | and there was no trace of it any other place, so Brooks told the station man he guessed he had been mistaken about the rattle and departed. However, the copperhead still haunts him, and every so often while | in the car he may be seen to sud- denly grab his pants leg and mp‘ | it violently. x ok ok o# TWO OF SAME NAME. Official Washington boasts two members bearing the mame Ben- jamin Cohen, so dom’t confuse them. No. 1 is a New Deal brain truster and ezecutive of the Public Works Administration. No. 2 is counselor of the Chilean embassy. * o ox % RECORD OR NOTHING. ON A diet, Dr. Joseph Elward, the X-ray expert, was asked by a fellow physician if there were symp- { toms of high blood pressure. “You mean have I got high klood | pressure?” Dr. Elward asked. “Yes. You look like you might have high blood pressure.” “I don’t like te -brag,” Dr. Elward replied, *but when I had high blood pressure I held the altitude record.” | * ¥ * % i NO BULL-FIGHTING. | The city fathers have thought it necessary to prohibit by law bull- fighting in the District of Colum- bia. The law prescribes a fine of | not more than $250 or imprison- | ment in jail for a year or both, as | the punishment for any person “who sets on foot, instigates, pro- motes, carries on, or does any act, as assistant, umpire, or principal, \ [ copperhead snaks in Vtrnnlm‘D | of Reading, has occazion to come to | his own car. NG d Things. or atiends or in any way engages in the furtherance” of ‘a bull fight. * % ¥ % RARE COLLECTION. AVID HILL of Shillington, Pa., a suburb of the great textile city ‘Washington once & month on busi- ness. Railroad copgnections between ‘Washington and Reading are not as good as they might be, so Hill drives However, if the boys -continue to greet him at the District line and hurl into his car a lot of literature about certain Washington hotels, he threatens to give some railroad or an airline his business. * ¥ ¥ x MYSTERY. The Civil Service Commission has a mystery, and foul play is sus- pected. The thermometer that long hung at the entrance disap- peared during the recent heat wave. On theory is that a hot and bothered wayfarer who had climbed the high steps from F street took violent exception to a temperature reading moderated by the shade of the portico and acted accordingly. * % x x TO DISPEL A RUMOR. PUNC’I‘UAL as a clock, Secretary Harold L. Ickes arises at 6:15 o'clock every morning. no matter how late he may stay up the night before Known as the early riser and late worker of the administration, Mr. Ickes made a clean breast of his ris- ing hour ai a recent press conference 50 as to put the record straight. Some rumors had him arising by 4:30 a.m. The women elevator operators at the Interior Building must stay on duty until the Secretary leaves for | the day or night. He uses an elevator iust outside his office in the east wing | of the building. They accept their late hours cheerfully, for one of them explained that the Secretary is very nice# about letting them ‘e an extra day or two off occasionally to make up for the late hours he frequently keeps them on the job. SI00 TO ANYONE WHO CAN FIND ANY WATER IN FAIRFAX BUTI.ER FLYNN 609 C St. N.W. Metro. 0151 | gays Dr. Henry J. Gerling, St. Louis | enjoy an overabundant social | they allow their children to begin | formal instruction at too early an | learn to read and write and figure. STAR, WASHINGTON, FLUNKING PUPILS DECLARED COSTLY St. Louis School Head Says Taxpayers of City Pay $500,000 Yearly. ST. LOUIS (#)—Flunking students are an expensive luxury to the public school systems of the United States, superintendent of instruction. Citing this city as an example, he said failing students are costing St. Louis taxpayers $500,000 annually. Parents who rush their children into school at too tender ages, schools that offer courses too advanced for the immature mind, and pupils who life share the blame, Dr. Gerling said. Start School Too Early, “The guilt of the parents is that age,” he explainéd. “As a general rule, the child of 6 is not ready to “It takes all of his attention to hold a beok properly. Most children would do better, and would not suffer a dis- couraging false start, if they were not | sent to the first grade until they were a bit older.” The chief mistake of the schools, he | said, Is the presentation of subject | matter too Involved for mastery by | immature minds. Mathematics is an example, he said, pointing out that 15 per cent of the first-year algebra stu- cents fail. A revamped curriculum is his suggested solution of the prob- lem. Too Much Social Activity. Lack of consistent effort and too | much social activity are the rnulu. students contribute to their own fail- ures, Gerling believes. A few ne- glected lessons and the whole conti- nuity of the course is in'elrievnhly lost. Board of Education figures show it costs the city $65 annually for every child who must repeat in the grades, and about $165 for high-school stu- dents. In St. Louis about 1,000 an- | nually must go through the first grade a gecond time, 1.200 repeat the secord grade and 900 the third. Attacks Long TEXAS BOY SCOUT DEMANDS APOLOGY TO PRESIDENT. DAN MEEHAN, JR., Member of the Boy Scouts of America of Tyler, Tex., who is one of a group planning to attend the National Jamboree in Washington next month. He sent a letter to a Tyler newspaper calling on Boy Scouts not to permit Senator Long of Louisiana to address them unless Long apologizes to President Roosevelt for calling him a “liar.” Young Meehan, the son of & Tyler attorney, said he later learned Long was not on the jam- boree program “and maybe I was —A. P. Photo. RESORTS. OCEAN CIT HASTlNGS HOTE SFECflL The Rural Home Hotel —will during the next 10 days make reservations at the following rates: $3 per day, $14 weekly. “The coolest place on the Chesa- peake.” Best food in Maryland, best bathing, tennis court. No extra charge. Tel. West River 218.F-5 A. W. ANDREWS, Proprietor. 1° D. C, MONDAY, JULY 29; 1935. SELF-REGULATION AIDING HARD COAL Eighty-five Per Cent of In- dustry Co-operating, Says -Huber. By the ‘Assoeinted Press, NEW YORK, July 30.—Charles P. Huber, administrator for the anthra- cite industry, said today the industry’s efforts in self-regulation have hrought quick and beneficial results. “Eighty-five per cent of the an- thracite industry is co-operating in the program to end unfair price dis- eriminstion, secret rebates and un- founded rumors, all of which lead to unsound merchandising,” he said. “There seems to be a new spirit of hopefulness and a renewed desire to ‘play ball’ throughout the major units of the industry. Suspiciog Disappearing. “There is less suspicion as between producer and producer and between producer and dealer and a growing confidence that the new program of filing past prices and terms will be respected by all concerned.” In formulating its program the in- dustry had to reconcile its ends with the anti-trust laws, making it im- I Your Dentist Hurts You Try DR. FIELD Plate Expert o = I Gu-nnue a Perfect Tight Fit in Any Mouth 1 Give Vielet Treatments for Pyerrhea Extraction ’1 and ‘2 Alse Gas Ext. Plates sl‘so Repaired 1Up DR. FIELD 406 7th St. N.W. Plates $15t0$35 Gold Crowns 88 w Met. 9256 years ago the Glen Alden company ' RICHMOND possible to fix prices, allocate terri- tory or.curtail production as & means of price stabilization. The industry, however, found that certain measures could be practiced, such as misrepresenting the grade and origin of coal, and failure to com- ply with standard sizing, could be outlawed. Huber as Spokesman. To effect these efforts toward self- regulation, the industry called on one GRANGE URGES RADIO APPEAL FOR FARMERS Montgomeyy-Howard Resolution Seeks “Farm and Home Hour” Co-operation. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 20.—At & of its best known figures, Huber, who | quarterly meeting of the Montgome resigned as chairman of the board of the Glen Alden Coal Co. Huber is 63 In 1914 he was made president of the company. Eight | purchased the Lehigh and Wilkes- Barre properties, chairman of the board of the pur- chasing company, For years he has been s spokes- man for coal operators. RIS WOMAN VOTERS TO MEET, Specisl Dispatch to The Star. CHERRYDALE, Va., July 20.—The Organized Woman Voters of Arling- ton County will hold a special lunch- Huber was made | ery-Howard County Pomona Grange, held at Highland, a resolution was adopted urging those having charge | of the radio program ef the “Farm and Home FHour” on the fifth Satur- | day of August to arrange to call to the microphone all voices possible of organized agriculture for “an over- whelming appeal to the millions of families on farms and in homes of America for fair play, a square deal, | reasonable prices for products of the | farms and an honest charge to the consumers.” President Roosevelt and Henry Wal- | lace, Secretary of Agriculture, are | among those to whom it was ordered that copies of the resolution be sent. Morning and afternoon sessions eon meeting in the Cherrydale Meth- | odist ‘Church tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock to hear candidates for the County Board. Al lof the candidates have accepted the invitation to appear. were held, with Overseer Haviland presiding. E. G. Jenkins, State Boy Club leader, discussed “The Grange and Older Youth” stressing how they can be of benefit to each other. TRIPS to NORFOLK and VIRGINIA BEACH EAVE almost any time you wish! Similar con- venient schedules for your return trip. Less cost 12 expert drivers, St than driving your own car. Cool, easyriding coaches, opover privileges, extra savings and long return limits on round trip tickets. Daily Trips 1403 New York NEW GREYHOUND TERMINAL Ave. N.W. Phone: Met. 1512 GREYVHOUND PENJASUIA Ldores irees e OWNERS' FIGURES PROVE PLYMOUTH MOST ECONOMICAL FULL-SIZE CAR AMAZING ECONOM Y REPOR TED IN N4 TION WIDE POS TAL S UR VEY FREE PARKING At Eitis Parking Lot S.E. corner 6th St. and Indiana Ave. N Butler-Flynn pat: while C §t. |l undergoing repairs. BUTLER-FLYNN IF YOU HAVE ATHLETE’S FOOT ... READ THESE FACTS! 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