Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1937, Page 1

Washington News CHOOL BOUNDARY HANGES ARESEE N KENP RULINC any D. C. Pupils May Be Forced to Transfer for Non-Residents. ARDSHIPS ON PARENTS FEARED BY DR. HOLMES Fystem Will Not Be Changed Until Fall Enrollments Are In, He Says. i | | Realicnment, of school boundaries, | aking it necessary for many District | upils to transfer from their present | hool to another, appeared likely to- | ay as a result of the ruling of the| ourt of Appeals yesterday that chil- ren of non-residents employed in the District are entitled to admittance to he District school system. Whether such realignment will be | ecessary cannot be determined, how- | ver, until the number of non-resident | ppplicants is known in the Fall, Dr.| dentist and Hobart Hensen as Center: Chester Sipkin ( Horace Reese takes a ndp. necessary Lieut. Col. Julian S. OIliff, executive officer under Col. John W. Oehmann, participated in the drill. “The whole idea,” said Col. OIiff, {“is to drive. the enemy away and to 'keep their planes from getting close {enough to do us any damage. We aren’t trying to run from aerial ma- chine gun attack—we fight back. To |use the old and overworked term, the | best defense is a good offense.” The anti-aircraft drill followed yes- |terday’'s command post exercise of the | Engineers, under which the lines of defense were drawn against the enemy —the “Red” forces—who had landed hester W. Holmes, acting superin- ndent of schools, pointed out today. atchful waiting, as there is no way for us to know whether we will need AT PSS o make the changes until we Know | ow many non-resident pupils must be taken care of,” he said, | Dr. Holmes added that if such U, U, pboundary changes were necessary, they ould probably work a hardship on “ ” District parents, as the school to which R DERS ight be far from the pupil's home. “But we can't have classes of 50 in | one school and classes of 38 in an- | i other.” ne pointed out. “The parents| 121st Engineers Put Sound Ihere will probably be angry if such a | 3 ehange is made and I don't blame| Detectors to Work Agamst them but what can we do?” The complete non-resident picture BY ROBERT H. ERWIN, in the District school system during 8tafl Correspondent o1 The Star the past year was presented to Dr | CAMP ALBERT C. RITCHIE, Cas- Holmes today in a report compiled| cade, Md, August 10.—Sound de- by the school finance office. Not| tectors, the ears of the army, were pounting those discharged at one time | trned skyward today as the 121st E: or another during the school vear| gincers, District National Guard, d education and could not meet the fee. 1 planes” fiying over the camp. he total non-resident enrollment in| ° wwhije the speaker-shaped units were ay, night and vacation schools Was| prought into play to locate air raiders, 2495, Of these, 2,30} were rumfln‘land forces spread over the camp pa- ree and 2,089 were in the day schools. | rage grounc in a special anti-aircraft According to R. W. Holt of the deployment. he day pupils were in the senior high | lets toward the “enemy,” spreading out chools, with McKinley having the over the terrain and taking cover, the Imost of any individual instituticn. | District guardsmen carried out their In the junior high schools Gordon |Program of “worrying the enemy’— land Deal have been caring for the driving t.hem off rather than allowing students from nearby Virginia, and | themselves to match their rifle fire di- Langley the students from nearby |Tectly against the “enemy” machine . e heratng e Hundreds Take Part. e ity o PETRUNE 2% pour nundred enlisted men and 25 o !officers, commanded on the field by According to Mrs. Henry Grattan [Doyle, president of the Board of Ed- lucation, appropriation of more money by Congress is absolutely Inow that admittance must be the pol- (handed down a little earlier, she said, llowance for it might have been made in the 1939 school budget recently sub- mitted to the Commissioners. Budget Needs Grow. “Of course, we always try to include in our budget recommendations some (with our five-year building plan,” she eaid. “However, we have no Way of |troops at Baltimore, Wilmington and telling what non-resident provision | Annapolis and were marching toward will be necessary until September and |the Americans — the “Blues” — en- therefore would have little on Which to | camped at Camp Ritchie and in the base a recommendation for an exact |surrounding area, sum, but there probably would have In this operation each unit was is- It was pointed out in the finance | sued regular orders and carried them office that the present non-resident out in general effect. The District enrollment, however, is only about 50 |guardsmen were figuratively establish- per cent of what it was before the de- |ing division headquarters and prepar- pression, when the figure sometimes | ing their attack and defense for an reached 5,000. | 18-mile area mapped out between New the non-resident issue upheld the| The officers of the Engineer regi- mandamus granted in District Court |ment, headed by Col. Oehmann, played last October to John S. Kemp, W. P. A. host last night to a social gnlertam- administrator, living in Clarendon, |ment for officers of the special troops, YVa.. against Supt. of Schools Prank W, | the 104th Medical Regiment and the Ballou, The suit compelled the super- | 104th Quartermaster Regiment, in reg- 11-year-old Lois Kemp, to Gordon | Junior High. Through the corpora- | tion counsel's office, the schools ap- | pealed the decision, which was upheld by Appeals Justice Harold M. Stephens yesterday. New Measures Designed to Pro- vide Relief for Wage Earners. By the Associated Press. Legislation designed to provide debt- ridden wage earners relief from bill collectors, threats of suit and garnish- today. Under the Chandler bankruptcy bill, which sponsors hope to get through Congress before adjournment, such wage earners could go into Federal courts and obtain assistance in settle- ment of their obligations. gether and work out a plan whereby the tebtor could settle out of his future earnings cver a two-year period. The bill slashes costs which now render bankruptcy laws unworkable for wage earners. It also would permit the debtor to pay those costs on the The legislation also carries provi- sions designed to eliminate ‘“grave abuses” which the Securities and Ex- change Commission reported in recent Investigations of corporate reorganiza- tion proceedings in bankruptcy courts. Those investigations showed, the ventures the “inside few,” usually in- vestment bankers and the corporation management, benefited by sacrificing the interests of scattered, unorganized investors. The bill would give the courts ad- ministrative and expert assistance in “We will have to adopt a policy of B pupil might have to be transferred | Non-Resident Enrollment. “Enemy Planes.” because they were not entitled to {ree | rected a harassing gunfire at “enemy finance office, the greatest number of | Alternately leveling a barrage of bul- Maryland. Of these schools, only |8Uns. icy. - Had the court decision been lurgent building needs in accordance been some change in the estimates.” Prepare for Attack. The decision yesterday which settled OXford, Pa., and Westminster, Md. Intendent to admit Kemp's daughter, | PUSHED IN HOUSE ment processes came before the House The court would call creditors to- Installment plan. commission said, that in reorganization de’ll.ing with reorganization cases. imental headquarters mess hall. Col. Oehmann was master of ceremonies and chief host. A lecture on the battle of Gettys- burg will be delivered at 8 p.m. tomor- row, illustrated with lantern slides, showing the positions of the Confed- erate and Union armies at the battle and the Confederate retreat to the Rappahannock, and positions they oc- cupled before the battle started. Trips to the battlefield, with lectures on the field, will be made Friday and Monday. Castle Added to Park. Belfast Castle, with 200 acres of land, has been added to the park sys- tem of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The gift of ‘Lord Shaftesbury, a former lord mayor of the city, the new park completes a trio of open spaces—Hazel- wood, Bellevue and the castle estate— which provides Belfast with a park system unequaled for admirable sit- uation by any city in Great Britain or Ireland. Patiently waiting for death to ring down the curtain on her century of gloricus memories, a veteran trouper— ©Old Babe, the elephant—rested wearily on a thick bed of hay in darkened seclusion at the Zoo today and listened { with deep understanding to the prat- tle of children in the sunshine out- side. Old Babe saems to realize, her sor- rowing attendants said, that no longer will the doors of the elephant house be opened to admit the hordes of her young friends bearing tributes of peanuts and sweets. She made her last appearance two days ago when she stumbled and found she could not rise again. “Death may come to Old Babe in a few days or it may leave her alone with memories for as long as a year,” ~Amng Zoo Director Ernest P. Walker Old Babe, Zoo Elephant, Waits Alone on Soft Bed for Death he Fp WASHINGTON, D. C, G A case of toothache eliminated at the camp of the District National Guard at Cascade, Md., with Capt. D. A. White as the the victim. left) writes a letter home, while e MESSAGE 10 GIV RIGHTS OF WORKER President Plans to Define‘ Unionization Rights of | Federal Jobholder. | President Roosevelt is expected to | define directly to Federal employes the | attitude of the Government toward their unionization activities in a mes- | sage to be sent to the three white- | | collar organizations—National Federa- | tion of Federal Employes, United Fed- | | eral Workers of America, and American | Federation of Government Employes. | | This developed today after a confer- | | ence at the White House, where Luther | | C. Steward, presiden: of the N. F. F. | | E, and Jacob Baker, U. F. W. head, called in response to an invitation | | from Mr. Roosevelt. Baker was ac- | | companied by Henry Rhine, an or- ganizer for the C. I. O. group. There was no representative of the A. F. G. E, the A. F. of L. affiliate, | present at the meeting, which was ar- ranged after the President had sent his regrets in response to an invita- tion to attend the N. F. F. E. Conven- tion, opening in Illinois on September 6. The President will, instead, send | a8 message to the convention, and | copies, it was said, will go to the other two groups. Recently, at a press conference, President Roosevelt said the Federal workers were free to join any union they saw fit, but that strikes and col- lective bargaining, in the ordinary sense of the term, were proscribed. | This morning’s conference, bringing | together the heads of two of the three rival employe groups, lasted about 20 minutes. The participants said it | covered matters of general interest to Government workers. Government employe matters also had another place on the President's | calendar when members of the Civil | | Service Commission were called to the | White House. HEARINGS ON U. S. STEEL | OPENED BY COAL BOARD Seven Subsidiaries Apply for Ex- emption From Guffey Act Provisions. | By the Associated Press. The Bituminous Coal Commission started hearings today on the appli- cation of seven United States Steel Corp. subsidiaries for exemption from provisions of the Guffey coal control act. After James W. Hamilton, secretary of the Carnegie Ilinois Steel Corp. had described the relationship between his company and other subsidiaries, the hearing was recessed to allow Hamilton to obtain aditional informa- tion requested by the commission. PLANS D. C. SUFFRAGE Citizens’ Committee Meets To- night to Chart Course. Plans for obtaining suffrage for Dis- trict residents will be considered to- night at a “conference meeting” to be held by the Citizens' Committee for Progressive Action at Wesley Hall, 1703 K street. Discussion at the open meeting will concern topics brought up at a mass meeting on the subject of suffrage for Washington, held two weeks ago at the Sylvan Theater. Karl Gerber will pre- side at tonight's meeting. said. “But when death comes, it will come naturally, Walker said, pointing out that there is no thought of de- «come naturally,” Walker said, pointing “She is too much like one of the family for that,” Walker declared. “She is just old and tired and doesn't seem to be in any pain. We will make her as comfortable as we can and won't try to make her stand up. We all hope she lives until Dr. Mann (William M. Mann, zoo director) gets back from Sumatra. They had quite an affection for one another.” Believed to be the oldest elephant in captivity, Old Babe is between 90 and 100 years old. She came to the 200 several years ago, when she was retired from circus life after a half- century of leading grand parades, ten- derly accepting peanuts from timid youngsters and beating discipline into unruly young elephants. A WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Guard band strikes up a tune, Left to right: Frank Moran, Eddie Forest, james Ireland, Gene Barnes and Frank Govan. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, Z ening Sfar 1937. With the District National Guard at Camp Ritchie L L L { PAGE B—1 IRKED RESIDENTS URGE VAN DUZER 10 BAN PARKING Those in 2900 Block of 28th Street Place Responsibil- ity on Him. CITE DEATH OF CHILD IN SIGNED PETITION “Are Innocent Lives of Our Pre- cious Little Ones to Be Sac- rificed 7" They Ask. Aroused by the failure of Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer to re~ strict parking in their block as a safe- ty measure, residents of the 2900 block of Twenty-eighth street—scens of a fatal accident a week ago—today § | warned the traffic head “full respon- The shortest and tallest at camp try out new shoes. C. B. Bradshaw is 5 feet 5 inches tall and John G. Anderson is 6 feet 8 inches. STRICT BANK LAW PROVIED I BIL tPalmisano Measure for D. C. s Modeled on Those of Several States. ‘Tightening of the District’s banking | laws and removal of certain restric- tions on the banking business are provided in a bill introduced today by Chairman, Palmisano of the House District Committee Palmisano said the legislation was requested by the District -Bankers Association F. G. Addison, chairman of the com- | mittee on Law and Legislation of that organization, told Palmisano the bill is modeled aftep banking laws in a number of the States. Adison said action on the measure —Star Staff Photos. |is not expected at the current session D. C. Traffic Deaths Rise to 67 As Auto Kills Driver Released on Bond—Mrs. Thorne Ruled Car Victim. The District's 1937 traffic fatality toll rose to 67 yesterday—an increase of 16 over traffic deaths in the same period last year—when Albert M. Tully, 6, of 5341 Forty-second street, was crushed under an automobile in | the 410C block of Military road. Spencer Lee, 19, of Cabin John, | Md., told police the child darted from | a parked car into the path of h)si machine. Lee was released in $1,000 bond pending action of the coroner. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Tully, died in Georgetown Hospital with a crushed chest and a fractured leg. His father is employed in the Claims Division of the Social | Security Board. After seven months of investigation, | Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald yes- terday formally listed the death of Mrs. Adie W. Thorne, 73, of 1126 Fifteenth street, as a traffic fatality. She died in Emergency Hospital on January 8. Last September Mrs. Thorne limped into the third precinct and reported she had been knocked down at Six- teenth and H streets by an automo- bile bearing the diplomatic seal of a foreign embassy. She returned home and collapsed a few weeks later. At Emergency Hospital it was discovered that her hip had been fractured. Embassy attaches, police said, de- nied the car bearing the license num- ber reported by Mrs. Thorne had been in the vicinity of Sixteenth and H streets when she was struck. Coroner 6-Year -0ld Boy ALBERT N. TULLY. MacDonald issued a certificate of ac- | cidental death. 9-month-old infant, Marie Ma- cina of Capitol Heights, Md., was slightly injured when the car driven b, Thomas N. Lanquest, 36, of Capi- tol Heights crashed into a telephone pole in the 200 block of Sixty-third street northeast. She was treated at Casualty Hospital. “Peck” Henry, 15, of 136 E street southeast was slightly injured in a freak accident yesterday. She was bruised by a large tree which was knocked over by a truck driven, police said, by Fred Lewis, 24, of Medford, N. J. After treatment at Providence Hospital she returned home. TREASURY AGENTS TRY FOR SHOOTING PRIZES Becond Annual Revolver and Pis- tol Match Gets Under Way Today. Forty-eight picked men from the eight law-enforcement agencies of the Treasury were to start firing today” in their second annual revolver and pis- tol matth at Camp Simms, District Heights, Md. Gathered from all parts of the coun- try and Puerto Rico, the agents are competing for prizes in the match, for which Capt. Harry Dengler, Internal Revenue, is executive officer, and Gun- ner Charles N. Hubbard, Coast Guard, chief range officer. The competition will continue through Wednesday. The marksmen are ace shots from the Secret Service, White House Police, Alcohol Tax Unit, Narcotics Bureau, Customs Bureau, Mijnt Bureau, Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing and the Treasury Building guards. FEDERATION IS FORMED Missouri Federal Employes’ Unions Organize State Group. Organization of the Missourl State Federat/is of Federal Employes’ Unions, the twentieth State federa- tion affiliated with the National Fed- eration of Federal Employes, was announced today by Gertrude M. Mc- Nally, secretary-treasurer of the na- tional group. 8he also announced formation of the Legislative Council of Texas Feds eral Bmpicyes mmvl | Evidence INQUEST TO BE HELD IN ELEVATOR FATALITY in Death of Colored ‘Worker at Palace Laun'dry to Be Presented. An inquest was to be held at the -District Morgue today into the death of James Steadman, 21, colored, who was killed August 3 in an elevator ac- cident at the Palace Laundry, Ninth and H streets. Steadman, one of several laundry employes who operated the combina- tion passenger and freight elevator, was crushed to death when trapped between the elevator and the shaft. Reports of faulty safety devices led to the inquest. Union representatives and District elevator inspectors were expected to be among the witnesses. BAND CONCERTS By the Navy Band at the District War Memorial in West Potomac Park at 8 o'clock tonight. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant. By the Marine Band at the Tubercu- losis Hospital, Thirteenth and Upshur streets, at 6:30 o’'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santlemann, assistant. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the bandstand at 7 o'clock tonight. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. By the Army Band in the garden at Walter Reed Hospital at 6:30 o’clock tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, lead- er; Karl Hubner, assistant. | announced today that the mast of the | duction at this time would give the various interests affected ample time to consider the bill and make known their position at the next session. The various sections of the bill would: 1. Make “stop payments” on checks good for only six months unless re- Renewals could be made in- newed. definitely. 2. Make checks good for one year only—the so-called “stale check law” adopted by 18 States. It also would authorize banks to pay checks in which customers fail to note the change of & new year, as happens frequently about January 1. 3. Require protests of checks to be DESPITE PLAINTS Albemarle to Shift Scene of | Operations at End of Month. Memorial and Highway Bridges will | continue to lift their spans for the | legally made. tug Albemarle until the end of Augus'.| ¢4 Require customers to inform | banks within six months of cases when The United States Engineer OMCe | cpoois haye been forged, altered, or raised, if the bank is to be held legally craft would not be hinged as planned. | liable for payments. The reason given was that danger | would' result to both the Memorial | Bridge and the Albemarle, even if the height were eliminated, since the boat has a tall smoke stack that likely would strike the low curve of the cen- tral arch of Memorial Bridge. Complaints against the tug were made after approximately 3,000 auto- mobiles, trucks and other vehicles were held up daily by the opening of the spans to allow the vessel to pass up. Refusal to hinge the mast came from | navigators of the Norfolk Dredging | Co.. owners, on the ground that their | licenses charge them to maintain con- ditions of safety. The Department of Commerce would refuse to extend their licenses if damage resulted from an attempt to slip the Albemarle under the low span, they said. The United States Engineer Office fully concurs in the decision, according to E. J. Merrick, civil engineer attached %o the office. He emphasized that the tug keeps the bridge open only four or five min- utes on each of its trips hauling barges from a dredging project above Me- morial Bridge down to Gravelly Point. Countering motorists’ objections, he said he had made a survey which showed that congestion was relieved immediately after reclosing the spans on Highway and Memorial Bridges, be- cause of the wide traffic lanes and ap- proaches, Since no boats are allowed to inter- fere with traffic between the hours of 8:20 am. and 9 am. and 4:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., rush-hour traffic is not held up, Merrick pointed out. After the end of August it is ex- pected the tug's sphere of action will be transferred to the Anacostia River and the Anacostia Bridge will be sub- ject to the same- interruptions of traffic flow. GIRL BOND JUMPER, 19, IS TAKEN TO ARLINGTON Raising no protest at an extradition hearing, Ryth Mosley, 19, colored, who was caught trying to escape Saturday while under bond, was taken back to Arlington County, Va., to face house- breaking charges yesterday after being arraigned before Police Court Judge John P. McMahon. The girl was returned to Washing- ton from Philadelphia PFriday night after she had jumped bond. Locked in a private detective’s room two doors from Police Court, she made it appear she had escaped by dangling a rope of sheets from the front window and hid- ing in a garret. ‘While she was being sought, the girl tried to descend another rope from & rear window but was seen by Judge Edward Curran frony, his office, 5. Allow banks to pay at their dis- cretion money held in trust to bene- ficiaries in the absence of other direc- tions as to legal disposition. 6. Allow bank notaries to take | acknowledgments even though they ‘1 own stock in the institution, providing ‘(he motaries are not personally or | officially a party to the.acknowledg- | ment. 7. Remove a bank from all but “actual damage” in event of suit re- sulting from refusal to cash a cus- tomer’s check.. | 8 Relieve banks forwarding items from legal responsibility for loss oc- casioned by negligence at the bank where the item is payable. MEETING TO PICK WAGE CONFEREES | Retail Trade Employes Select Nine Nominees Tomorrow. Representatives of retail trade em- ployes of the District are to be nomi- nated tomorrow night at the Depart- mental Auditorium for conferences with the Minimum Wage Board on the wage standards to be fixed for this | fleld of employment. | The board has announced it will | select three of the nine nominees as | the conference committee for the re- | tail workers. The minimum wage conference for these employes is ex- pected to be held about September 15. Arthur L. Schoenthal, labor repre- sentative on the board, today urged all woman employes of District retail | establishments to attend the meeting, | which will be opened at 8 p.m. | He emphasized that at the meeting | the retail workers will have an appor- | tunity to designate representatives to deal with the board in discussion of the minimum wages to be set for women and minors in retail trade Spokesmen for the employers also will be selected before the board be- gins its conferences. < | The initial meeting of the retail trade workers was devoted to instruc- | tions as to the meaning of the mini- mum wage law, which was revived by | a decision of the United States Su- | preme Court early this year, holding | its provisions eonstitutional. The old | law had been inoperative 14 years, due to an earlier decision of court. Will SR i e Watch Windshield Wiper. The windshield wiper is a simple little gadget that nobody pays much attention to except when it is raining. And all too often, when the rain starts, the careless driver finds the pesky little thing is out of order. Make it a point to check your wind- shield wiper regulasly, rain or shine. Bee that it 8.4n rrm order. sibility” for future accidents would rest with him if he continues to dis= regard their plea The warning was contained in a pe= tition, signed by all residents the block, which demands immediate ac- tion to limit parking in the block to one side of the street only. | “Failure in this regard.” the petition | stated, “will result in placing squarely | upon your shoulders full responsibility | and accountability for consequent | traffic accidents caused thereby.” Child Killed Last Week. The petition pointed out that, in addition to the fatality which in volved ear-old Richard Levy, 2929 Twenty-eighth street, who was killed last Tuesday while crossing the nar- row one-way street in front of his home, another serious mishap was | narrowly averted within the last two months. The second accident, the petition stated, resulted in injuries to Richard Powell, 2925 Twenty-eighth street, who was knocked down by & truck in front of his home Both accidents occurred after resie dents of the block had petitioned Van Duzer about a vear ago to have park- irg in the block restricted to one side of the street “According to newspaper accoun following the Levy child’s traffic k ing.” the second petition read, “the statement was attributed to you that this block cannot be limited to parke ing on one side of the street on the ground of ‘public convenience’ and be= cause ‘parking is at a premium.’ “For whose convenience and whom? We cannot help but consider this statement to be in the interest of the residents of the large nearby aparte ment houses, such as Cathedral Man- sions, Woodley Park Towers and the | Kennedy-Warren. is | “Are Lives to Be Sacrificed?” | “Are the innocent lives of our pre- cious little ones to be sacrificed in- discriminately in order to provide a public garage dumping ground | for the cars of those who have abso- | lutely no other interest in this block | than to clutter it up with their silent | engines of destruction and, perhaps | unwittingly enough, to endanger our little ones’ lives? “This is more aggravated when the fact is considered that there are avail- able to these apartment dwellers the large garages operated by the aparte | ments for their private convenience. | These garages can accommodate hun- | dreds of cars, but for some unknown reason or reasons these apartment | dwellers do not or just will not use those garages. Perhaps there are even | other parking facilities open to them | that they will not use.” An unusually large number of small | children live in the Twenty-eighth | street block. the petition added. On the east side there are 17 children un- | der 10 years of age and on the west | side eight. There also are at least six other children between the ages of 10 and 14. There being no playground in the immediate vicinity, the children |are forced to play on the sidewalks, | the petition said. Van Duzer was out of the city today and could not be reached to comment on the petition. 'RESERVE EMPLOYES IN NEW BUILDING | More Than 300 Settled in Consti- tution Avenue Structure After Week End Moving. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board and its more than 300 officials and employes were settled in their new home on Con- stitution avenue today after the week- end move from two other buildings. The board, which formerly had been | housed in the Treasury Department Building, had been occupying space recently in the Shoreham and Wash- ington Buildings The new marble structure between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets occupies a prominent part in the architectural group on Constitution avenue from Seventeenth street to the Potomac River. Grass See;l Sowed, Local Man Reaps Harvest of Corn Great oaks from little acorns grow— but did you know you could get corn on the cob from just plain grass seed? That's what happened in the horti- cultural career of J. L. Lee, 503 Sec~ ond street ‘northeast. A little tired seeing naught but cinders in his back yard, Lee decided to plant some grass. When the grass began to grow h3 found a huge stalk of corn sprouting from the former cinder bed. It grew and it grew, and finally Mr. and Mrs. Lee gathered fresh corn from their back yard, while their neighbors journeyed to market for theirs. “Down Winchester way, in the Shenandoah Valley, where I was raised,” Lee said, “we have some likely looking corn—and I grew a lot of it. But none compares with this 12-food stalk in my hlc‘k yard.”