Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1935, Page 5

“YOUTH WINS $5 FOR HAT DRESSING Food Show Prize Will Go to | Mother, Declares Ed- ward Negosta. Edward Negosta, 20, of 3638 Elev- enth street, won the hat-dressing contest at the District Grocery Stores food show last night and plans to buy his mother a birthday present with his $5 prize. Alice Weisbord, 18, of 609 I street northeast, senior and honor student at Eastern High School, was his model in the contest. The audience decided Negosta did the best job of any of the competing men, or at any rate that his handiwork looked best when | placed atop Alice’s blond curls. ‘With a carrot, a daisy, a blue flower and a bright red plume, young Ne- | gosta worked over the plain little soft | red hat given him as a base, and his | finished product was really creditable. Each contestant was given a differ- ent type of hat and the trimmings ranged from a veil to an artificial poinsettia. Their efforts kept the ca- pacity crowd amused. The winner was graduated from Roosevelt High School last year and is looking for a job. The grand prize of the evening, an Presented electric refrigerator, was won by Mrs. E. R. Cleaveland, 35 Williams lane, | Chevy Chase, Md. A complete elec- | tric toasting service was drawn by | Mrs. Raymond L. Cruger, 1280 Raum street northeast, yesterday afternoon. | An inner-spring mattress will be | given away at the matinee today and | an electric sewing machine tonight. . The prize tomorrow afternoon will be an electric sewing machine, and an automobile will be given away to- | morrow night when the show closes. All varieties of amateur imitators | are eligible to take part in the con- | test which will be staged at the show tonight. The competitors may give take-offs on anything from a rooster to Greta Garbo. Both men and ‘women may enter. The acclaim of the sudience will select the winner. A boy and a girl tied for first honors in the baby contest yesterday after- noon. The audience could not decide | between James D. Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Adams, 228 Third street northeast, and Joan Culbreth, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Culbreth, live at 1614 Seventeenth street. Both babies, who competed with half a hundred others, were awarded prizes. Other baby contests will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock and tomorrow at the same time. A Santa Claus will distribute gifts to all children under 6 immediately afterward. MISSISSIPPI LAND PROBE IS ORDERED, House Questions Issuance of Pat- ents to Tax-Forfeited Acreage. of Eleventh and M streets. PNEUMONIAFATAL TOW. L. CROUNGE 2z Former Newspaper Man and Trade Association Representative Was 74. William Livingston Crounse, 74, veteran newspaper man, at one time head of the old New York World Bureau here and in recent years prominent as Br the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss, November 22—/ The Mississippi House of Representa- 1 tives late yesterday adopted a resolu- tion ordering an investigation of the‘ office of State Land Commissioner R. | D. Moore. | The investigation, under provisions | of the resolution, will center around the issuance of ‘“several hundred” patents to State tax-forfeited lands last Saturday while Gov. Sennett Con- ner was attending a foot ball game in | Louisiana. | The patents were attested, as re- quired by law, by Lieut. Gov. Dennis Murphree. Without a record vote the House adopted the resolution calling for an immediate “investigation.” The resolution charged that the patents were signed by the Lieutédnant Governor and that they were issued | at the instance of Cecil Inman, Murphree'’s brother-in-law, and E. O. Spencer, his business partner. BRITAIN ADDS AGAIN 70 ROYAL AIR FORCE| Plans to Bring Strength o 2,200 Planes by May of 1937. Br the Assosiated Press. LONDON, November 22.—A project for additional aircraft construction io bring the strength of the Royal Air | Force to a total of about 2,2v0 air-| planes by May, 1937, was disclosed yesterday by authoritative sources. A spokesman for informed quarters said orders for about 250 more planes than had previously been announced | were already placed in factories work- ing overtime. ‘When the present program has been completed, authorities said, the home | defense first line of planes will total 1,500, and the fleet, aviation and| overseas units about 700. The previous total had been set for about 1,950. The further increase was said to be designed chiefly to meet requirements overseas. The personnel needed to handle the increased equipment, it was estimated, | would be between 2,500 and 3,000 offi- cers and men. PLANE FAILS MOTHER Then Railroad Speeder Breaks. Babe Is Born Dead. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, November 22 (#)—Through a sleetstorm Pilot Don Hedge and Dr. A. S. Walkowski flew 90 miles to a maternity case emergency. Mrs. Gle Dahl was put aboard for movement to an anchorage hospital. | ‘The plane broke down in the take-off | attempt. A gasoline-powered rail speeder went to the rescue.. It broke down a few miles out. Another one took up | the battle. It required all night to make the round trip. The baby arrived, stillborn. Mrs. Dahl was resting in the hospital to- Y. ' FUND FOR GIRL PLANNED KNOXVILLE, Tenn. November 22 #).—A defense fund to help Edith Maxwell, Wise, Va., girl, carry on a fight against a 25-year prison sen- tence for the slaying of her father was urged here yesterday by Mr, and Mrs. L. C. Stalr, s Stair is an official of a milling tompany. He and his wife offered to start the fund with a $10 contribu- tion and to join in helping the girl ‘Lw way possible, representative of trade associations, | died last midnight at his home, 2419 ‘Wyoming avenue. He had been ailing since 1934 | when he fell and broke his hip| while at his Sum- mer home at Chester, Nova Scotia. was immediately attributable to pneumonia. Mr. Crounse was one of the founders of the National | Press Club. He began his newspaper work in the 80s after attending Har- | vard University and became widely | known as a writer during the Cleve- land administration. He was head of the World Bureau here for a period extending through the Spanish-Amer- | ican War. Represented Druggists. Subsequently, he became correspond- | ent for a number of technical papers and journals. After this he was the Washington representative for many trade organizations, one of which was | the National Wholesale Druggists’ As- | sociation. As representative of trade bodws he appeared frequently before con- gressional and other committees re- garding legislation regulating control of industrial alcohol and products in which it is used. He had continued | active- with trade groups until about a year ago when forced by illness to | give up the work. At one time he had ;epresented large tobacco interests | ere. William L. Crounse. Widow Survives. Mr. Crounse was a member of a prominent family of Gilderland, N.| Y. His father, the late Lorenzo Liv- | ingston Crounse, was a distinguished | newspaper man and founder of the zew York Times Bureau in Washing- n In 1911 he was married to Josephine | Funk Fraley, He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Crounse has been prom- inent in Washington social circles for many years. , Funeral services will be held at the residence Monday, the hour to be an- | nounced later. Burial will be in Gil- derllnd, N. Y., his ancestral home. SUGAR BEET CONTRACTS ARE TO BE EXTENDED Present Production Adjustment Co-operation to Include 1936 Crop Year. By the Associated Press. _ Present sugar beet production ad- justment contracts will be extended to include ‘the 1936 crop year. The 1935 contracts provided such an extension could be made by Secre- tary Wallace. By the contracts, the A. A. A. said today, acreage sufficient to produce on the average 155(,000 tons of sugar has been allotted to po-operating pro- ducers on the basis of their past pro- dyction. Benefit payments will be computed on the same basis as in 1934 and 1935, SURGEON EXPIRES Dr. Warren L. Duffield Aided Lindbe\rgh Expedition. NEW YORK, November 22 (#).—Dr. ‘Warren L. Duffield, 60, of Brooklyn, died unexpectedly yesterday of a heart attack at St. John’s Hospital, where he had been senior surgeon for four years. 1923 he was the medical officer of the Pan-American Airways- Lindbefgh expedition to Labrador, THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, to Chest ‘The two properties pictured above have been given to the Community Chest by a friend who prefers to remain anonymous. graph shows the building at the northwest corner of Eleventh and Mrstreets, known as the Elizabeth Somers Annex, and used as headquarters of the Community Chest and the Council of Social Agencies graph is of the Elizabeth Somers Home Building, at the southwest corner The upper photo- ‘The lower photo- ~Star Staff. Photos. 5 Chest ‘Con mued Prom First Page percentage of quota already obtained. This will enable some of the various teams and sections to get a larger percentage of quota in the final re- port. Willett's statement was amplified in a letter written by Dr. McClellan to the 5,500 members of his "army,” which reads as follows: “Officially the campaign is closed, | and I want to express to every worker my personal appreciation of the time and energy and enthusiasm that you have put into it. I only wish that I could say it to you personally. “Actually the campaign is finished only for those who can conscientiously say that every possible source of con- | tribution has been tapped. To my mind, the solicitor who is satisfied that he has done all that is humanly possible, has completed his work whatever per cent of quota he may have reached. But the solicitor who | has one or many more potential con- tributors who have not been urged to give, has not completed his work, al- though he may have 150 per cent of his quota. “So with my deepest thanks to all who have done a complete job goes an urgent request that all others carry on until you also reach the perfect core. It is not a matter of dollar quota, but of job quota, to get the most possible for human welfare. “Campaign headquarters at the Wile lard will be closed. But the unit chair- men and secretaries will be on the job at the Chest office, 1101 M street, Metropolitan 2284, ready to help you achieve the gilorious completion of the work that I know is possible for practically every worker, “You are a great army and I am alncerely grateful for your fine help.” 69% More Heat This Winter if you install a Everybody’s Goin® ODERN ! beautiful y be. its bril- Il! Ie II--H I~ DESIO OFFERS Something New MODERNIZE YOUR DIAMOND RINGS 1936 Streamline MOUNTINGS From .}7.50 Up hers in ma b Tilled All work do: “ own designi: facturing ' Quality Jewelers For Over Saloatoce Dewo 926 F ST. N.W. Greenland and Iceland. K TRAI]E GROUP AID Traffic Committee Fully Be- hind Plea for $100,000 More for Signals. Thl Trafic Committee of the Board of Trade has Lhzown its full weight behind efforts of Traffic Director Willlam A. We do this once a year and i D. C., FRIDAY, Duzer to persusde the Commissioners and the budget director to include an additional $100,000 in the 1936 budget for improvement and extension of Washington’s traffic-light system. Unanimously passing a resolution introduced by Maj. Sanford D, Ash- ford, chairman of the Subcommittee on Trafic Signals, Signs and Mark- ers, the committee yesterday praised the traffic director for his progress in improving traffic conditions here. Guests wno attended the luncheon meeting at the Harrington Hote! in- cluded Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, Trafic Director Van Duzer, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police; Capt. Milton D. Smith of the Trafic Buréau and L. M. Traiser of the Chicago surface lin NOVEMBER 22, A motion | " 1985, picture of rush-hour trafic on Mich- igan Boulevard in Chicago was shown by Traiser, The $100,000, if the request is al- lowed, will be used to install addi- tional lights at busy intersections, co- ordinate the present system and to install control lights for pedestrians in the downtown area, it was revealed by the traffic director. While opposing the installation of special traffic lights for pedestrians, Director Van Duser pointed out that “walk” signals would greaily facilitate the movement of trafic and cut down the accident rate. The “walk™ light 1s one which tells the pedestrian when it is safe to cross streets, it was ex- plained. ‘Washington now has 317 intersec: 's always a sell-out. tions controlled by trafic lights and under the proposed extension of the system 150 more intersections would be controlled. The motion pictures shown by ‘Traiser brought several questions from the sudience as to whether the condi- tions on Michigan Boulevard could be compared with traffic conditions here. It was said that traffic on this busy thoroughfare cannot compare with the rush-hour traffic on Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues. Another factor which drew com- ments from the spectators was the fact that Michigan Boulevard does not have a pedestrian proble msuch as is encountered on Washington streets. Scotland has & farm probe. z One look at these corking values will tell you why // Z/ MK, 1/ Husky, Rochester-tailored Rayal Meltons, Worsted Curls and Burlmgame Polos D CLOTHES 1335 F N.W. A-S" STREET CONTRACT LET Massachusetts Avenue Award Goes to Corson & Gruman. A contract for improvement of Massachusetts avenue, between Wis- consin and Nebraska avenues, was | awarded today by the Commissioners to Corson & Gruman Co., on a bid of $55877. Work will start in about 10 days. 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