Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1936, Page 23

Washington News Zoning D. C.RELIEF SET-UP T0 REMAIN SAME; FUNDS RELEASED 125 Employes of Public As- sistance Unit Terminate Services. $625,500 IS AUTHORIZED FOR PRESENT MONTH Further Allotments to Be De- termined by Number of Projects Under Way. With the release by the Treasury of pew Federal funds for the District | Works Progress Administration, Wil- liam C. Cleary, deputy administrator, announced today that little or no| change will be made in the present | relief set-up in the District At the same time. some 125 em- ployes of the Public Assistance Divi- sion of the Board of Public Weifare terminated their services bhecause no further allotment was made for direct | relief. | Cleary, who left early today for Philadelphia for a regional conference of W. P. A. directors, said the Na- tional office had authorized the expen- diture of $625,500 for this month. This, of course, is not a proportion- ate allotment for one month, but Cleary explained that further allot- ments are expected and that the sums | will be determined by the number and nature of projects under way. 125 Projects Under Way. At present some 125 projects are | under way and 10.512 persons, certified | by the Public Assistance Division, are | employed. The total allotment made is $1,032.500. ployed will can be returned to p: ment. Projects un tuberculosis camp in Southeast Washington: sewing rooms for women, whose ucts go to other families on W. P. A. work; construction of sewers, -highways, parks, playgrounds; and special teach- ers used in Americanization and adult | education schools. Meanwhile, with the dismissal of 125 | workers by the Board of Public Wel- | fare, Paul Kirby, acting director in the absence of Elwood Street, has asked for Civil Service classification for the 160 persons 1 employed. To Administer Security Act. They wiil be permanently charged s r way include Bald Faf with administration of part of the Na- | tional Social Security act, notably old age pensions, family relief for indi- gent children, and aid to the blind. Kirby still was confronted with®be- tween 900 and 1,000 cases, classed as “border line” between direct relief and administration of the law requiring payments to families with indigent children. Unless an allotment is made for this purpose, the Public Assistance Divi- sion will be forced today to drop all these cases. ON DUTY TODAY Public Relations Squad to Absorb Missing and Prevention Bureaus. A new police detail, whose duties range from tracking missing persons to censoring movies, came into being today with a reorganization of the| department involving creation of an- other inspectorship and about 35 other personnel changes The unit is to be known as the Public | Relations Squad and absorbs functions of the Missing Persons and Crime Pre- vention Bureaus. It will operate under | the office of the chief of detectives, | Inspector B. W. Thompson, with Lieut. | Horace W. Lineburg, now attached to FIREWORKS' FLARE No hope was held for fur- | he Fpening Stap WASHINGTON, D. C, Girl Outswims Men for Job Miss Doroghy French Captures Airport Pool Life Guard Place. Lifeguard Dorothy French o PRETTY brunette—the only| girl life guard stationed at | public swimming places for men and women of the Dis- will protect the lives of swim- s at the Airport Pool this Sum- m She is Miss Dorothy French, | 19-year-old American Unive! dent, who yesterday outswam four men competing for the life guard post. Born in Washington, Miss French | learned to swim in the Potomac River soon after she was old enough to kick, she said. Since then she has been training for her new job by workouts in pools about town. Two years ago she passed the Red | Cross life-saving examination and became eligible for the post she won yesterday. n the job. derwood & Underwood. Active in all sports, Miss French was a star basket ball player at West- ern High School, where she was awarded three athletic letters before graduating three years ago. She also played on the Georgetown Playground team. This morning she perched atop the life guard stand and talked enthusi- astically about her plans for the Summer. “It's my first real job,” she said, “and I'm going to make it good.” She explained she isn't certain she’ll have a chance to pull any drowning swim- mer from the water. but she intends to keep a careful lookout to prevent narrow escapes and possible drown- ings. 10 CLIMAX RITES |Seats Will Be Provided for | 11,000 at Celebration Saturday Night. The rocket’s red glare which has thrilled Americans for 160 vears will light the sky above Washington Mon- ument Saturday night in celebration | of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, | Fireworks worth $850 will begin to | WOL WAVE CHANGE OPPOSED INF. C. C. Additional Power Denial Also Recemmended by Examiner. Examiner Melvin H. Dalberg of the Federal Communications Commission teday recommended denial of the ap- plication of Station WOL to change its wave length and increase its power. Dalberg advised the commission that MRS. DOYLE AGAIN ELECTED HEAD OF EDUCATION BOARD 10-minute speech by Senator Rad- |efficient signal from the station, there pop and sizzle at 8:35 o'clock, after a | although a need exists for a more | cliffe of Maryland and a reading of | the Declaration by Col. Edwin Alex- | ander Halsey, secretary of the Senate. Seats for 11,000 at 25 cents apiece for this July 4 spectacle will go on | sale today at hotels, newspaper of- | fices, department stores and 1700 I| street, but there will be ground room | for 100,000 watchers by the Sylvan | Theater, at the foot of the Monument. | For the pleasure of this vast throng | ©. Melvin Sharpe, chairman of the Celcbration Committee, has arranged a monster parade of all Washington patriotic organizations, who are to march by waving countless flags. Police, meanwhile, were preparing the Crime Prevention Bureau, as active ft0 insist on safety in celebrations head and the following as his staff: | throughout the District. Inspector L. Pvis. John Apostilides, A. E. Fradette, | I. H. Edwards announced he has in- O. S. Hunt, J. O. Patton and S. D, |Structed his men to see that fireworks Scott. A policewoman and a clerk are | fegulations are strictly enforced. Only to be named later. | fireworks of the non-explosive type will Inspector Thompson said the new be permitted in Washington, he said, #quad would handle all cases of missing | persons, following them through to ultimate solution: unidentified dead, | including drowning victims whose bodies are unclaimed; inspection of | second-hand dealers’ licenses, and movie and play censorship. The reorganization of the depart- ment initiated yesterday with appoint- ment of Capt. Maurice Collins, seventh precinct commander, as inspector as- signed as night supervisor, was carried on today with 15 transfers and the assignment of 19 rookies from police | &chool to regular positions on the force. Pay_Checks Cut 20 Pct. in Traffic Deficit Make-Up Employes of the Traffic Department of the District who received their June 30 pay checks yesterday found them 20 per cent below the usual figure, in order to make up a deficit ©f $633 found at the end of the year. ‘There were 39 persons affected, in- tluding William A. Van Duzer, director. Van Duzer explained that he had appealed to Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, some time ago to take care of the shortage in the last deficiency bill, but the appropriation ‘Was not made. | Maj. Donovan declined to discuss the matter, but at his office the blame was placed on the traffic director “for exceeding his appropriation.” Van Duzer explained that he had ‘ot laid off the employes in advance ©of the shortage because they pre- -ferred to work and had expected to have the deficiency made up. ) and offenders are liable to a fine of from $1 to $300. Full patrol duty will be maintained in all precincts Saturday, and extra men will be detailed to the parades in the morning. Sixty officers have been assigned to the Monument Grounds for the evening celebration, The ceremonies at the Monument Grounds, which are to climax a holi- day program beginning at 10 a.m., will open at 7:15 p.m, it was decided yes- terday at a meeting of the Executive Committee, with a concert by the Marine Band. Earlier, playground athletes will compete for 300 gold, silver and bronze medals in contests beginning at 10 am. at Banneker, Taft, Wesley Heights and Takoma Park recreation centers, at the National Training School for Boys and at Fort Bayard Park, where the American University Park Association will hold an outing. At the same time there will be a series of swimming meets in Banneker, McKinley and Prancis recreation centers. A new feature of this year's pro- gram will be a tour of the parks of the National Capital and a visit to the many historic spots in and around the city, uhder the direction of Donald McHenry, park naturalist. The tour will start at 9 am. Satur- day and cover 38 miles in cars and busses, ‘Workers to Hear Lecture. Agriculture Department Lodge, No. 31, American Federation of Govern- ment Employes, will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow in room 2050 of the South was no showing at the hearing, held in | May, “that radiating efficiency of the present antenna was equal to that specified” in rule 131, so far as ver- tical height is concerned. The examiner's report revealed that WOL has made arrangements to in- crease its studio facilities by leasing the fifth floor of a new building being erected at 1620 K street. The applicant had requested au- thorization to change its wave length from 1310 kilocycles to 1,230 kilo- cycles and to increase its power from 100 to 1,000 watts. Spokesmen had testified that WOL has been carrying some programs of the Mutual Broad- casting System and declared adver- tisers “are averse to accepting the use of a 100-watt station * * * with two other stations on the network, one with 50,000 watts and one with 500 watts,” the report said. “While the evidence clearly shows that by the granting of this aplication the signal of WOL would be increased throughout the area of the City of Washington, the usefulness of that signal at night would be severely cur- tailed by the operation of other sta- tions on the same frequency,” the ex- aminer said. “It is, therefore, be- lieved that the granting of this appli- cation will not serve public interest, convenience and necessity.” The examiner said such an alloca- tion as that requested does not ap- pear “to be in accordance with good engineering practice” and that the granting of this aplication would cause objectionable interference to Station WFBR at Baltimore in the daytime. Four stations now cender primary service in the District—WOL, WJSV, WMAL and WRC. The latter two have applications pending for in- creased power on their presently as- signed frequencies, the report set out. WOL's license dates back to De- cember, 1924. It has a unit installed in the Detective Bureau of Metro- politan Police, which is utilized daily for broadcasts concerning missing persons, wanted criminals and other police matters. The examiner's re- port pointed out that the station has given considerable time without com- pensation to the use of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Central Union Mission, the Children’s Emergency Home and the Mission Farm at Brookeville, Md. o= Leesburg Editor Returns. LEESBURG, Va., July 1 (Special). —Rpbert T. Corbell returned this week to his z}ixfles as editor of the Loudoun Times-Mirror, newspaper published ol Building, Agriculture Department, for | here, after an absence of three months an address by Gilbert E. Hyatt, legisla- | due to illness. Mr. Corbell spent & tive representative of the National | month recuperating at his old home Federation of Post Office Clerks. In Gloucester Counts. E 3 X Gilligan Re-elected Vice | President and All Com- mittees Reappointed. HIGH SCHOOL WEEKLY “NOT COMMUNISTIC” | Transfers of Mrs. Merritt to Taft | Junior and Baker to Langley | Approved. Mrs. Marion Wade Dojle today was re-elected unanimously to a second | term as president of the Board of Education. Henry Gilligan was re- elected vice president and all com. mittees were reappointed, pending ap- proval by members within 10 days. The board, at its final meeting until next Fall, approved a report by a special committee finding the national high school weekly, Scholastic. to be | not commuuistic in nature. The mag- azine will not be admitted to the board’s approved list, however, untii further action pending a statement by Maurice R. Robinson, the editor, with | regard to editorial policy. On recommendation of Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou, the board approved the transfers of Mrs. M.! R. Merritt, principal of Langley Junior High School, to the principal- | ship of Taft Junior High School, and of Harry Baker, jr., principal of Taft, to the post relinquished by Mrs. Mer. ritt, who was assigned to Langley only last week, after Miss Bertis Backus took Mrs. Merritt's position at th-" Alice Deal Junior High School. Miss Backus was assistant superintendent | of schools in charge of the character education experiment. | Dr. Ballou submitted a report in- corporating a plan which would make 1t possible for vocational school teach- ers to qualify as junior high school teachers. He proposed standards necessary to the promotion, the basic qualification’ being a high school edu- cation. Vocational schools are now Classified as junior high schools un- der a law passed at the last session |of Congress. The board referred the superintendent’s report to its com. mittee on vocational education and directed that copies be dictributed to members with a view toward a special | meeting this Summer to consider it. The board postponed action on a report by Dr. Ballou on the “mno | home work” experiment at the Ana- | costia Junior-Senior High School. | | Robert A. Maurer, board member, | | complained the designation “no home | work” was misleading and gave par- ents and pupils a false idea. Official reference to it henceforth will be to the “supervised study” experiment, it was agreed. Dr. Ballou's recommendation for es- tablishment of a food trades or cafe- terla course at the Abbot Vocational School at the beginning of the next school term was approved. The board gave its sanction to a long list of school consolidations and regroupings. effective September 1. The Brown and Lafayette Schools | will become the Brown-Lafayette School, with one principal. The Car- | bery and Ludlow Schools will be con- | solidated, as will the Madison and | Taylor Schools, the Hilton and Pea- body Schools, Emery and Eckington and Gage and Henry. MAN HURT BY DYNAMITE | IS SLIGHTLY IMPROVED Charles Barton, 34-year-old laborer, of Germantown, Md., whose face was shattered by an explosion when he struck a dynamite cap with a pickax on a pipe-laying project at Seeks Cor- ner, Md., Monda; was reported “slightly improved” at Providence Hospital today. The injured man, whose condition is still considered critical, was work- | ing in a ditch on the Works Progress Administration project of laying a| water main from Burnt Mills to Ber- wyn when the buried cap exploded. | WEDNESDAY, | linotypes have been based. JULY 1, 1936. *¥ Linotype Celebrates 50th Birthday Star Machinist, Who Aided Mergenthaler in Perfecting Machine, Recalls Early Days of Invention. BY BLAIR BOLLES. \HIS 15 birthday anniversary week for the modern news- paper, and Washington can lead the national celebration. Fifty years ago the first linotype spewed forth its epochal little bars of lead in a newspaper composing room, and in Washington there was Jjoy For Ottmar Mergenthaler, the Ger- man watchmaker who invented the linotype. got his start in Washington. And James Clephane, who kept Mergenthaler's spirits from flagging during the long, discouraging experi- mentation, was & Washington lawyer. And Philip T. Dodge, the first presi- dent of Mergenthaler Linotype Co., was another Washington lawyer. Fifty years ago newspapers were little more than poorly printed literary sheets with short items of information. Today they are fat chroniclers of all the world’s events—thanks to the | linotype. Gordon Aided Inventor. And if the newspapers can thank the linotype, the linotype can thank | Alexander Gordon, a Scotland-born machinist Gordon was familiar with the first linotype, the Blower, as it was called, which Whitelaw Reid bought his New York Tribune July 3, 1886. That was 50 vears ago, and today Gordon as chief machinist of The Star composing room has spanned the whole history of the linotype and the latter-day revolution in printing. The machines the Tribune used were workable, but they lacked the perfection which might induce other publishers to risk installing them. Gordon saw the blowers and noted these imperfections when he was go- ing from paper to paper in New York for the Hoe Printing Co., Brooklyn He had learned machinery in a sugar refinery in British Guiana Worked in Navy Yard. At the turn of the '80's he moved to Washington and became a navy vard machinist. But he liked type and moved to a job printing plant here and began to think about the linotype. “I went to Mergenthaler to talk with him,” he recalls. The inventor lived in Baltimore, where he had moved from Washington in 1876 with August Hahl, for whom he had gone to work upon his arrival from Ger- many in 1872 Gordon went to work for Mergen- haler and helped him build “linotype Jodel 1,” upon which all successive In 1892 the two men worked side by side on an | order for 100 linos, 18 of which were going to The Star “I came to The Star to talk about installing them, and Frank B. Noyes hired me as chief machinist of the composing room. I didn't think I had charted my whole life when I put in those machines, but I had, and I'm glad of it,” Gordon says. The model 1s on which Gordon worked with Mergenthaler were equip- ped with an all-important double |space band perfected by a Chicagoan named Schucker. “That band made the machines suc- cessful,” Gordon said. “The first ma- chines made scarcely a dent in hand- setting until the model 1's came along. Then the change was almost miracu- lous.” Since that distant day the lino has put the dissemination of knowl- edge and literature on a mass-pro- duction scale. Only Guttenberg's invention of movable type, the basis all printing, is ranked by authori- ties ahead of Mergenthaler's f for | “Old 86”"—a Blower linotype chanical brain” as a contributor to the modern spread of information. In The Star composing room 43 linos are using 8 tons of metal every day, just to cast the type that makes up the | newspaper. Each machine is in use |about 14 hours a day. To feed these | insatiable lead-eaters. 60 tons of metal are always at hand. And each machine can do five times the work possible for the old hand-set expert When Gordon agreed to go to work for the Star in 1892 Mergenthaler was distraught, Mergenthaler looked upon me as a son,” Gordon said. “He begged me to stay with him. I was fond of him, but | I had said I would go with The Star. | I went, but T worked at intervals with Mergenthaler and soon came the great day when we put in our linotypes. “It was an exciting time. Mr. | Noves was anxious. It was he who | had fought for the purchase of the | machines. ‘Everything's got to go all | right,” he kept telling me. I had the confidence of youth. ‘It will be great I assured him. We stayed up | | all night the day before we were first { | to print the paper with the machines. | | There was no slip-up. It went off | 50 easy that even he was surprised.” | day paper with one edition. Under | | the spur of the linotype, Gordon re- called, it was stepped up to 24 pages and then 30. “The ads began to |grow. We didn't have enough print- ers to take care of the composition. | are still m like the machine the New York Tribune put to work July 3, 1886. A blast of air blew the type slug into the type metal to cast the line, Hence the name blower. about such a revo! in the printing business that there han ry than there were in although their proportion almost infinitesimal to the number | of men now employed on machines.” Today, in 86 countries, are 75.000 | descendants to the clickety old origi- | nal blower which Whitelaw Reid | dared to buy. The Mergenthaler Co., d setters of type | We had to work double shifts.” When | which gave the inventor $350.000 for the Spanish War came it put out ex- | his patent (the biggest price on rec- tras with ease. In 1907 came the | ord to that day). and ultimately paid Sunday paper, and when the World | him and his estate £2.000,000, ma. War arrived the number of editions | machines which will print in 70 speedily increased. | languages. They are so perfect that The great objection to the first | they operate faster than anv printer | linotype was the fear that it would | can finger the keys, displace throngs of printers. “It is | time they ¢ | amusing now to look back on the dire | cast another | predictions that were made concern- | third line. ing the linotype machine’s threat to Linotypes are in rogular employment among type setters.” Jo- | aboard 38 stear ships, amon; seph T. Mackay, executive vice presi- | the new Queen Mary. and 16 U dent of the Mergenthaler Co., writes | States batt eships. They have been | in the company's newspaper, the |carried across deserts by camel line and compose servi “me- | | Linotype News.” “Actually, the linotype brought through jungles on elephants, across | tropical rivers in native canoes, Dog Tax Is Due, Belated Notice of Collector Warns Dog lovers were given & belated notice today that their tax for the year is due. C. M. Towers, District tax col- lector, with apologies, explained that for every dog in the commu- nity he must have $2. Until a year ago the dog tax was only $1 for males and $2 for females, but now the law makes no discrimination between the sexes. Young Washington These Blow School students were preparing a puppet show when the photographer appeared. Billy Deck looks on from the minature stage, while Rose Marie which she had painted for the s Vajda displays the background how. Rose Marie is the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Vajda, 651 Sizteenth street morth- east, and Billy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deck, 1635 Benning road northeast. Tomorr: ter of ow. Barbara Ann Joyce, daugh- 7. and Mrs. Stephen Joyce, of the Petworth School. £ 24000 IN DISTRICT GASHBONUS BONDS National Reports Show Half of Securities in U. S. Surrendered. Approximately 24,000 Washington veterans have certified for payment or | cashed some $i0,264,000 | in bonus | bonds, according to latest figures avail- | able today. A Meanwhile, the Post office reported the latest total from the country at | | | | BYRD ASKS DATA ONU. 3. EXPENGES Questionnaire Is Sent to All Departments by Senate Committee. BY J. A. O'LEARY. | ‘The long-awaited questionnaire to | all Government departments and agencies, seeking detailed informa- | tion on the scope of their functions and the cost involved, was made pub- lic last night by Senator Byrd, Dem- Society and General PAGE B—1 Commission Tightens Rules in First Commercial District “CONSENT” ABUSES WILL BE CURBED BY AMENDMENTS | Garages and Filling Sta- tions Chiefly Affected by New Order. {CHANGES ARE RESULT OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Bakeries, Blacksmiths, Contract- ing Plants and Other Busi- nesses Are Banned. Striking at abuses under the “con- sent” provisions in the Dis t 2 regulations, the Zoning Con | today approved a series of ame restricting the kinds of b | may be conducted in t | mercial district The principal change | the establishment of a shops, public | gasoline or oil service The changes are the | public hearings held by tr on February 27 and A general objection was raised to a ing frontage consents in property for commercial uses. Bans Are Placed. The order placed a ban on the fol- lowing uses of property in the commercial zone Bakeries en | persons: black sinesses tha first com- ected bile repat garages ani d a service more t plants 5 tons capact nore than five businesses; academies bailing of storage of public stai stone yards; scrap. paper. abandoned m materials, other than I Filling The provisior tions require: “That hereafter no automobile re- pair shop, public service gara gasoline or oy service stat | established or enlarged i commercial district of any any street frontage of the b g 0! premises so to be used shall be opposite a residential district mea. ed at right angles to the intervening street or if or premises 25 feet of a residential du the locati of the same is not ap- proved by ioners of the District of Columbia. Before such lo- cation shall be approved the Commis- sioners shall find (1) that ous or otherwise ob, conditions may uch a location proximity to a school pital as to adversely convenience, interest or “Before making st | Commissioners shall | cation to the N iand Planning Com the Director of Traffic for a report. Be- :!ore a permit to establish or enlarge any such use is issued, the applicant | shall certify that he has given wr { notice of his application to all owners of property within 200 feet of the prop- | erty proposed to be used and permit | shall not be issued until 10 days af: | the date of said required certificate.” | Concessions Are Made. | Limited use was permitted for pub- | lic storage garages: temporary parkinz tor automobiles, if no gasoline, cil or grease is sold; private garages, housi not more than four vehicles. and con- tinued use of alley lots for second commercial purposes that have already been recorded with the survevor of the District for second commercial purposes. The order was given the unanimous approval of all members of the com- appli- Capital Park ion large showed 243 postmasters have | ocrat, of Virginia, chairman of the paid out some $880,000,000, or more than half the face value of all the bonus bonds issued. This figure was | for the two weeks ending June 27. Up to the close of the business day yesterday, the City Post Office and its agents had issued $8,246,650 in bonus checks to 19,616 local veterans. The latest total from the District Bankers’ Association showed the banks had certified $2,017,915 for 4.431 vet= erans up to June 24, according to Karl W. Corby, president of the asso- ciation. The peak day for the local postal department was $3,475,300 on June 17. Issuance of checks declined until only $129800 was paid to 416 ex- service men yesterday. The average bonus being cashed here is around $550, postal officials estimated. TAX RETURN PERIOD IN DISTRICT BEGUN Blanks on Personal Levies Must Reach Assessor Before July 381. Fred D. Allen, District tax assessor, today issued & reminder that the period for filing personal tax returns began today and will continue until July 31. The returns must be in his hands during that time if the property owner is to avoid payment of a pen- alty. More than 55,000 return blanks have been mailed out in the past two weeks, he said, but failure to receive one will not exempt any person residing here for the past three months. Last year the personal taxes levied totaled $5,080,953.25, and a larger levy is anticipated for the 1937 tax year. € special Senate Committee on Reorgan- ization of Federal Activities. Accompanying it was a statement | from the Virginian summarizing the committee’s intention to present to | the next Congress “the best possible plan for co-ordination and simplifi- cation of e various activities of the Government and to reduce the pres- ent excessive cost.” To Reduce Departments. “With 40 new agencies of the Gov- ernment established in the last three years, one of our main objectives will be to consolidate and reduce these emergency departments,” Senator Byrd's statement eontinued. “I_will guarantee that at least the Congress will have full informa- | tion as to all duplicated efforts and expenditures. I am hopeful that pub- lic sentiment in 1937 will compel a drastic reduction of public spending.” Previously the Senator had set forth his desire to push the work of the committee as rapidly as possible, with the co-operation of the Brookings In- stitution as a fact-finding agency. Thanks McCarl for Offer. The Senator also took occasion to express his gratification “at the wil- lingness of Controller General Mc- Carl to assist us. No man in public life is better qualified to aid in this important work.” McCarl’s term as controller general expired last night. Under the law an incumbent cannot be reappointed. The questionnaire asks the nature of all work carried on, the number of employes and the amount of admin- istrative costs. Venezuela Has Resettlement. ‘Venezuela is trying to transfer 20,- 000 men, now on public employment, o farms, mission, including Col. Dan I. Sulta: chairman; Melvin C. Hazen. Ge: | E. Allen, David Lynn and Arno B. Cammerer. 'NEW MEXICO CRASH KILLS DISTRICT MAN William H. Stribling, Cousin of Prize Fighter, Left on Trip # After Receiving Bonus. William H. Stribling, 49. of 1918 Calvert street, was killed last night | when the automobile he was driving left the transcontinental highway near Las Vegas, N. Mex., according to an Associated Press dispatch. Mrs. Stribling, who was slightly in- jured, said her husband was a first cousin of William L. (Young) Strib- ling, heavyweight boxer, who met death at the peak of his career in a highway accident. Persons at the Calvert street ad- dress said they understood Stribling, a war veteran, recently was employed as a cab driver. They said he gave up his job and left on a trip West when he received his bonus. $78,000 FOR CHARITIES VATICAN CITY, July 1 (#).—Pope Pius received a check today for more than 1,000,000 lire ($78,000) collected to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Osservatore Romano, Vatican daily newspaper. The money, to be used for the Pope’s private charities, was handed to the holy father by Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, director of the newspaper.