Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 4

vg I " | the baby dies, the oldest boy cutonl an injury resulting in the loss of & leg, and all of thé children are in poor physical condition. But it's a long lane that has no turning. The Associated Charities has reunited the family, and it begins to look as if this mother's troubles are about over. They are at present living on the outskirts of the city, where they get plenty of fresh air, sunshine and good food. The children are improying in t iealth, but will this continue? Sixty OPPORTUNITY 3" __THE EVENING{STAR, WASHINGTON, 2250000 SEALS SOLD IN CAPITAL K., 45 H. H., $1. Total to dite, §524. Still needed, 3$360. Neo. 11—influenza’s Affermath. Since the death of the husband five years ago, under the influenza epidemlc, this mother (colored) has struggled early and late to the ‘imit | of her strength, doing char worlg, 1n an effort to keep her four children with her’ Hard work and under nourishment are beginning to exact their toll and unless e one helps— “Twilight and Eventide”~As-! sured Happy Christmas, But Thirteen Remain. One opportunity is now closed. No. 5, “Twillght and Eventide,” is the fortunate one. I¢ 18 fitting that age should be served before youth, Two £ifts of $400 cach were received yes- terday evening at the Social Service House for the benefit of the three old folks in No. 5. Permlssion was siven %o apply to any other equally nieedy family any balance not needed to close fhis opportunity. So these elderly folks are now assured a happy Christmas and, what is even of more account to them, one anoth- cr’g companionship for a whole year. The Mu-So-Lit Club of 1327 R street northwest sends $70 to be equally divided among the fourteen oppor- tunities. As No, b is now closed, its share is given to one of the other ihirteen stil open. J. C. Burllls, sec- rotary-treasurer of the club, states that his organization purposes to in- clude the fourteen opportunities in its annual charity budget and hopes that the amount may be gradually in- creased. “The women of the section of sta- tistics, Treasury Department,” send in a gift of $10 for No. 7. Three men in the division have joined with the women in this contribution. This is | an {llustration of what groups ‘vfl government employes and others are { doing for these familles. By club- | their contributions they are | together goodly sums for the | of these Christmas opportuni- A report to the group will be fur- shed as is th individual giver: | Called Blexsed Cause, i A _contributor who signs herself * Christian _for Many Years,” writes “Please find my dollar for the Chris- jan_ work you are d g, for number 4. My heart goes out in prayers for them. If I had more I would give, oh. &0 much more for this most blessed cause.” Tomorrow will not be too late church organizatic man and man_Bible class r groups the part of good Samarituns and city missionaries by appropriat- ing at their Sunda a share of their weekly o ings for® the benefit of these fifty hildren and their mothers whose nce are so real and pressing. “Thirty-Three Weeks" Lacking. It the total gifts to the opportunity | fund received up to date were to b 1 divided in proportion to the dgets of these fourteen opportuni- ties th would he found sufficient 1o take care of these sixty-seven p sons for the next nineteen weeks, or a little less than two-fifths of the year, but there will be thirty-three other wesks when the need will Just as great vear is leap and there is extra day to ‘I ken care of Jne were to count he nur meals actually ain 1 e sixty-seven crwise they would 6 of them for wo- 2 pportunities must food clothing and fuel and there may be emer- from unexpected ill- ident. But these details est only a statistical mind = that these are real folk human appetites and ill_make themselves ay in the vear. The sum 50 will provide a week's care for the group. Who will adopt these es for an hour: a day, a week, v a month? two days to Ch hort and there eks to be taken time is rty-three nt to John { 11th street of The Star, promptly acknowledged. | No. 1—Father 1ll—Mother, ! Six Children, 4 husband in the hospitall of his return, this aking a brave atrug- suitable home for her The oldest child Is tak- ing a cou in vocational training better cquip herself us a wage ner. This strains the family purse, t the thirteen-year-old boy s ging in little’ money by work- | g after school. Al the children are in school or kindergarten except the | baby, only twp vears of age, who is 1he pet of the houschold. H latives are doing everything they v to help, but this happy, normal home would have to be broken up lf' the Associated Charities should stop Lelping vith food to satisfy the hearty appetites, and clothing to keep the family warn. Surely those who love their own homes will not Jet this mother lose hers. $15 a week is the minimum required to save this home, or 3780 for the vear. Amount asked for, $780. Previously acknowledged, $322.05. E. C. A, $1; J, | K C, $2; C. H O, $10; in memory of | little Freddie, $1 Register’s Welfare, | Club, Treasu Miss E. H. J. ¥ H. and Mi habitant With her and no prospec Tittle mother is rle to keep a six childr | ITotal to date, { Still needed, $315.44 i No. 2—Overwork, Undernourishment, | When “father” was living this mother and her three children had « nico home and everything went well. | The same sad story—death of the father, and the long, hard struggle | 'n the part of the mother to make a living for her children. She tried desperately, but could not make ~nough to give them the proper food, ind the result is that the older two boys are at present undernourished. There is absolutely no income in the family at present, other than that received from the A a $1,300 for the hoys a chance and eventuall care of the family you what this Chri mean to this mothe: Amount asked for, $1,300. Previously acknowledged, $198. Register's Wel- tare Club, Treasury Ojdest Inhab- M. L, . 8. i Mu-So-Lit Ciub, $5; M. A B. $1; B C. W, $2:1 Mrs. F. L. D. preas division, Library | of Congress, $4.25; H. H. $I. Need we t mas present will | ! | 0. 3—Two Rooms Spell Home. | Come and see our nice, brand- new home,” said a little tot of seven. ‘The mother in this family was left to | rfight her alone, but she |'ouldi not make a go of it, owing to.bad health. “Home” is only two' Hght licusekeeping rooms. but “lean, large, airy and just chock- rull of sunsline and happiness, and | his is so much better than they had | R st year. The family's church helps| ith the support of this.widow and jier two little girls. but this amount must be supplemented. ~ Fourteen dollars a week, or a total of $728, -Is needed If they. are to keep their brand new home" next years Wil they be able? Amount asked for. $728. Previously cknowledged, $42 Mrs. S. W. A, 5 st Inhabitants' $1: ;AL 141 No. 4—Back to the Country. iR Left a widow with a baby of five weeks old and flve other children custom followed with | {have |of rent. During the past year they | | étudies at night to prepare himself {cannot make enough to provide en= | tirely for his mother and five:voung- {er brothers 1{doNars & week and in that propor- they are (RN under ten years of age was the plight of this mother. Without help there was nothing eise for her to do but t6 “put her children away,” which she did. Resuit: The children are unhappy. and pine for their mother, 01 and quickly—this family will collapse. Fourteen dollars = week or a total of $728 for. the year will give them at least a fighting chance for health and happiness. Amount asked for, $728. Previously doliars a month, or a total of $730, will make this possible. Amount asked for, $760. Previously acknowledged, $171.80. F. C. A., § Oldest Inhabitants' Ass'n., colored, $ Mrs. J. M. 5., $3.33; Mrs. A. L. Z., § Mu-So-Lit Club, $5; M. A. B.. §1; G. E. | acknowledged, $136. Mrs. A. S. H, $2: M., $10; M. H. G. $10; A. C. L., $5: | Tussday Evening Club of Soclal Work a Christlan for many, many years, $1:|ers, $3: Oldest Inhabitants' Ass'n., col- H. H, $1: W. F. L. H, $6; W., §2.50. | ored, $2; Mrs. J. M. 8. $3.33; Mra. A. Total ‘to date, $320.32. L. Z., §1; Mu-So-Lit Club, $10; C. 8. M., Stil] needed, $499.67 H, $1. Total to date, $143.33. No. 5—Twilight and Eventide, titindeded, J5 44 67, In a little house with a garden and| No. 12—Shall They Stay “Put’t chickens to care for, live these three{ “Ge¢, mamma, are we goln' to stay quaint old people—a married couple Ut \n such 'k:":: P:::"l This. was / he question asked by the oldest of three :::rl::o::';:a:::m;-::l,‘,::p;:?,‘":f little children. “Mamma’ has had & brought increased feebleness to the | gy e e old ladles and this calls for addi- | \ace; e e s e far, she tional loving care on the part of the old | tiae 1% & Panlc for fear they would be gontleman, for now, in additlon to| t2ken away, for {ll health prevented her his household duties, he is forced to |from working. One of these little chil- act as doctor and murse for the old | dren has a positive case of tuberculosts, ladles. He makes a good Job of it, | Thera is absolutely no Income In the too! Withal he 1s happy as he pot:|family other than that Teceived from ters about, and If 3ou were to meet | the Associated Chasitles, Twenty-fous him @ cheery greeting and. & brieht | dollars a week, or $1,348 for the yea smils” wonld® o yorte For o rniore | will bring this family Rappiness aed tel | than a quarter of a century this aged | Proved health for the year. trio have lived together, wishing for | Amount asked for, $1,243. nothing in the world as much as the | acknowledged, $178.50. M. A. ., $10 joy of each other's company. $17.50 |Dr. S. H. and Mre. J. C. N., $2: Oldest @ week, or a total of $910 for the year, | Inhubitants' Assn., calored Mrs, is asked for ATz 31 Previously (H., $1. Last Rush of Christmas Sea- son Finds Demand Still Strong. - With the last hurried rush of the Christmas giving and greeting here, the market for Christmas seals still holds steady, the mail returns this 1A, momning and two more school divi- sion returns car- rying the total up to about 2,250,- 000 seals. Miss Flora Hendley, supervis- ing principal for the sixth division of the public schools, reported today a total of 4 1t tle over 66,200 seals sold by the sixteen schools of that division, as follows: Ben- ning. Blair-Hays, Biow, Kenilworth, Ludlow, Madison, Taylor, Plerce, Webb, Wheatley, Bdmonds, Maury, Kings. man. Peabody, Hilton, Carberry. Miss Anna Beers, supervising prin- cipal of the elghth division, reported a total sale of 50,852 seals in the schools of that division as follows: Arthur, Bradley, Fairbrother, Grant, reenleaf, Toner, Jefferson-Amidon, mallwood-Bowen, Webster. Miss Anita Turner made the first eturn from the Minor Normal, with 00 reals sold, but the sale is still progress and a final report yet to bo_received. Tho Mount Vernon Seminary, well known private school for girls, re- ported a sale of 13,000 seals The working force at the head- ciation, 1022 1ith street northwest, is going at high pressure to keep pace with the closing days of the sale, showing the city-wide interest In the health work and purposes of the association. It would be most lielpful if all who have received seals by malls, it was stated, would Amount asked for, $810. Previously | Y.. § acknowledged, $240.50. Mrs. A. 8. H., fare Club, Treasury, $5: Dr. S, H. and 13—Even Chickens Try to Hel Mrs. T, Cui:\u ’\”,-,“,.’";’;“’h“;‘g..,";‘:‘? Nearly blind from a cataract this M) otar gore *7' | widow (colored), whose husband died {of tuberculosis, is making a hard fight No. &—Three Generations Together. ::.k::f hrr‘n;:lndren with h;-‘r. D|ur- Four children from six to sixteen (Lhe past year mer eyes have fm- all active but not all strong and ro- |Pi0USE Somewhat and she i now ab bust. and a frail, cged mother are the | {6V § lttle The oldest girl in the family this widow Is caring for. The | GTY 1 taking vocational training grandmother does neediework when-, 4iy*"when “she ‘win® e meare (o0 pihe sver Ber health permits. A scholarship {take care of her youngeribrothers an1 n a business school has been sccured { o The mother and the olde: for the oldest girl, who hobes 5000 101 hoy are very proud of their ehickoms Ee fuars o “'fll;’""“{’?: and If you could visit them wonid younger chiidren have been very doil- | Soit. ol BOW much the ShEs [hely cate and requiro all the watchiul care | olutaly no. income. 1n thi shonity ot the mother can give. the¥ | present and if his famlily is to be The mother s eheery 'l“(fl’,la#!a'ether $19 a week or a total not only makes a wonderful hor O Jor the'yeariis naeded. - her r)‘hndx-vn_h mu’ is a .:m;‘d neighbor ack:gfli?‘;’:'dkf;'l‘fs‘?r- B&;‘*Sr& lx;mx\;nux’ y to those who live | er street. cdged, . " Mrs. 5. H.. Tkity Hve aolmcs i k. or $1,300, | Tuesday Evening Club of Sccial Work- next vear will help this happy family s a2 c‘;w‘_f?dhxgld'g;u X g e Ciub, 15 ‘.fgqi‘ Bl $10; H. #.. $1. Total acknowledged, $207 Stlll needed, $790. TInliabitants’ Ass 14—Good Cheer and Wheel Chair. ;\!. ‘;[‘_‘A;‘ :\"“S’A(. S 810 Sorely crippled and confined to a HONSTADNA ($5s R AL ¥R wheel chalr. this mother Is bright Total to date, $343, nd happy and makes the best of the BUI needed. 3657, situation. Why fot? After all, one } nde an do a lot of things even in a No. 7—Dolng Her Full Part. wheel chair. 'This mother Tnds sha Hor husband a drug addict, this|can cook a little, dry fiahes. srsone little mother (colored) was léft (o the door, sew and many other things shift = for herself and worked des-{she did not think she would aver pe perately to keep her three babies|able to do again. In this happs tam- with her. And she paid the Drice,[{ly every one does some” it for her health broke down. A major | Bright and early in the morning, the surgical operation became_necessary | enildren sro ap : In order to save her life. She 18 bet- | rha‘boy opiits aoc ter, but constant cautlon is required i ot 0% $RUE Wood.for the to keep her from PIunging back Into | Ter naips with the cosRime wia st or “m?""'m e early In the morning|DOusehold duties. Then to school the ‘childrs sre: np: washed, dreue5|“"“ back again in the afternoon to and the housework ' quickly ’done by f il mother all Noonl ihes aniey and the mother, after which she s able | 3¢ on LT & weok or 0 get In a few hours of paying work. She earns about $10 a week at home. | Of happiness to this crippled mother t If she Is to keep her babies with | #nd ber two children. r another §10 a week. or a total of Amount asked for, $780. 20 for the vear, is needed. ackrowledged, $271. E. C. R, $15; H. Amount asked for, § & c. B, Registers . Welfare acknowledged. $90.50. Treasury, 3 ning Club of Social Workers, $3 habitants’ ers” Club, 15th Street Presbyteri M8, 3324 $69, pledge :” Oldes $3: H. H, $1; D. . Lz Still needed, $454.65 Summury. Total amount asked for 2; Miss M. F. M., §$10: Register's Wel- $780 for the vear will bring 385 days Previously habitants to date, $325.34 Total amount reccived to date, p Lit Club, $5; no name, nymous, $1: section of statistics, ury Department, $10; H. H. $1. o date, 31 8till needed, $3- No. 5—The Eternal Triang! Enticed away by an unprincipled woman, the father of this family left his wife and three small children sev- eral years ago, and has not been heard of since. The mother's whole initerest is centered in her children and her home, but she has not the means to take care of them unless ssistance is given her from the out- side. Her relatives are poor, but they are giving the little they can te help. Fifteen dollars a week is what this 2 home requires to keep It intact, or|Mrs, N. V. R. and Mrs. T. Jacobson, $750 for the vear. No. 5. 84 Minnfe M. James. No. 5. Dr.|% 3 & S. H. and Mrs. 1. C. Gidest In- | €. Clark. No.' 6, $10; A. C. B.. Nos. 1. habitants' Ass'n., colored, $: Mrs. A.|2 5 6 and 8. 32 cach, £10; Abraham 1o Z. '$1: Mu-So-Lit Club, $5: M. A, | Lincoln public school, Nos. 7, 11 and B, 81 B. L. $6; D. S. W., $10: M. fourteen plate 13, $3.25 each, 39 S oe 5 printers, any. $14; . Nos. 14 C. $57 anonymous, §1; H. H.'$1. Total T o R 295.50. and 12, $10 each, $20 Still needed, $454.50. $1; Mrs. A. T.. any, 3 3, € 3. any No. S—Ambitions to Take Dadds’s Gach Yo any thres, §3: Gotal $71i.c0 | each to any three, “I will soon be old enough to teach school.” nidhLucHle :‘T:m;u(s- CONVICT, WHO ESCAPED ly, “and then mother can have lots | HUNTING FUG|T|.VE, TAKEN of nice things.” Thrifty, cheerful Brad Harold, Who Had Charge of and ambitious describes this family of a widow and her three children. | Bloodhounds, Disappeared While Trailing Assailant. When they first came to the notice of the Associated Charities they had Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., December 22— no money, the mother was not physi- cally able to work, and they were about to be evicted for non-payment Brad Harold, who escaped from | Goochland county last spring, is under arrest in West Franklin, Il Still needed .......... $8,187.34 Contributions for Christmag oppor- tunities recelved by cashler of The Star December 1923: Acknowl- edged, $408; Mrs. Wright, $1 each for fourteen, $14; Mrs. B. No. 5, €C. T, Noi 8, Nos. . $25 each, $100; L. § H., No. 5, $5; J.'W. Van Arsaall, any, $2; bureau of engraving, United States forest service, any, $40; in memory Eliza E. Parkhurst, any, $25; 75 have moved Into a two-story house and the mother rents the top floor, | nd the family is now om the road to happiness and independence. The mother feels sure that Lucille will 5 and 1 X . E | | promptly send in their purchases or return anv seals not taken, using the stamped and addressed envelope sent with the allotments. = NEW YORK EVENING POST BOUGHT BY C. H. K. CURTIS Philadelphia Publisher Acquires Daily Established in 1801. Price Not Announced. NEW TORK. December 22— Cyrus H. K. Curtls, Philadelphiz publisher, yesterday purchased the New York Eve- ning Post, one of the oldest afternoon papers In New York. The announce- ment was made after a meeting of stockholders of the paper. dwin . Gay, president of the Eve- ning Fost . Corporation, announced that Mr. Curtls would take over the raper immediatel The purchase yrice was not disclosed. The paper was founded in 1801 TO PRESERVE TRADITIONS. Curtis Announces Policy of Newly- Acquired Paper. PHILADELPHIA, December 2 In confirming the report of his pur- chase of the New York Evening Post, Cyrus H. K. Curtis revealed the fol lowing statement regarding the fu- appeared in the Post today: By arrangement just completed with the present owners, I wlill as sume the sole ownership and dircc- tion of the New York Evening Post on and after January 1, 1824, 1 know and respect the great Ir: ditions of the Post, reaching back nearly a century and a quarter. and I wish to preserve and, if possible, strengthen them. I believe that tiere is room In this community for an evening newspaper which wiil de- vote itself exclusively to the business Quarters of the Tuberculosis Asso-| ture policy of the newspaper which | 99 oz, 1923, D. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER President Sends |GERMAN DEEDS LINGER Cigars to Father | ' MAETERLINCK'S MIND 7 |Beceiving Plea for Starving In- Of Jame’ J. Davw tellectuals, Belgian Leader Shys He Cannot Forget Crimes. By the Assoclated Press. BRUSSELS; December 22—Maurice Maeterlinck, Teceiving a request from the Berliner Tageblatt for a mes- sage for its Christmas number, which is to be printed in the interests of the starving intellectuals of Germany, sent the following reply, a copy of which he gave to the newspaper Le Soir: “You do not seem to realize that T am a Belgian and that it [ impos- sible for me to forget. How could fail to remember, among other crimes, the odious manifesto of those intellectuals for whom you today ask my support? When Germany shall have repaired a part of the evil she has wrought I might. “But I do not forgive, for there are some things bevond forgiveness. I at least try to throw a veil, which will always be transparent, over memories which will only fade out with my life. Somewhere between Washington and Pittsburgh this afternoon . special messenger is bearing a box of cigars to David J. Davis of Sharon, Pa, from President Coolldge. David J. Davis is an elderly Welshman, who came to this country nearly fifty years ago and has since worked in the steel mills in and near Pittsburgh. The special messenger bearing him the box of cigars from the President of the United States is his son, James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor in the President's cabinet, |I once an lmmigrant Welsh boy. FIFTY IN POLICE NET FOR SHOPLIFTING Prisoners Mostly Women, White and Colored, and of Differ- ing Ages. More than fifty lifters alleged were arrested in crowded stores the past two weeks by mem- bers of a picked squad of policemen and policewomen, working under De- tective Edward Kelly, who was picked by Inspector Grant because of his wide experience In such work. Persons arrested were of different ages. white and colored, and prac- tically all women. In most instances the property taken was of small value and collaterals ranging from 25 to $100 were demanded, those who were unable to deposit collgteral being tuken to court. Oniy one instance of work thought to have been done by professional shoplifters has been reported, the theft involving the taking of two expensive coats from a department storc. Last years arrests by the squad totaled twenty-eight. Included {n the list of persons ar- rested this season was one child eoleven years old and a woman of seventy years. Many of the youth- ful pilferers were warned and turned over to their parents. i | | ! ! | ! shop- HELD BY BANDIT 7 HOURS Left in Auto at Curb, Made Captive and Driven About City in i Stolen Car. Bpecisl Dispateh to The Stas PHILADELPHIA, December For seven hours last night a blue- eyed, smiling, dimpled. three-year- jola baby giri rode about the city with & motor car bandit in a stolen automobile. At 4:30 o'clock this morning the child, Virginla Leonard, was found by the police in the abandoned ma- chine. She was sleeping in the rear Reat as peacefully as though she were at home in her own crib and wholly unmindful that a heavy rain was falling. Mrs. Kathryne Leonard, the child's mother, spent the night in hysterics over the disappearance of Virginla. After dinner last evening Harry Hoffman called on Mrs. Leonard, a widow, to whom he is engaged, and took her and her daughter for an automoblle ride. Shortly before 10 o'clock they stopped at the home of Patrolman A. Mostyn. Hoffman and Mrs. Leonard went in the house to see Mostyn and his wife for a few minutes and left Virginia in the au- tomobile at the curb. All Virgi could say after her rescue was: mamma, bad man made me gave me candy and a penn FURNITURE PLANT BURNS. . C., December ]fThe n y's plant at Mebane, was practically de- stroyed by fire yesterday with a loss | estimated by officers of the company at_approximately ,000, with about $200.000 insurance. President Takes Party on Cruise On River Today The Mayflower was ordered to her dock today to take President and Mrs. Coolidge and several guests on another Saturday after- noon and evening cruise down the Potomae. The guests invited included sev- eral members of Congress, as on last Saturday, when the Chief Ex- ecutive and Mre. Coolldge took a trip on the Mayflower as far as Quantico, Va., and return, with din- ner or. board. According to an officlal White House announcement, the guests on this journey will be Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Wallace, Senator and Mrs. Watson of In- diana, Senator and Mrs. Fesy of Ohlo,” former Gov. Clements of Vermont, Mr. and_Mrs. Horace Brown, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Hard and Frank W. Stearns of Eoston, C. A. Aspinwall, President. COLORED WOMAN SHOT. Bullet Said to Have Been Fired by Her Husband. Alberta Patten, colored, thirty-twn years old, was treated at Freedmen's Hospital last night for a buller wound in her right side. Police re- ported that the was shot with a small rifle during a fight with Frank Pat- ten, her husband. Frank was not arrested. Peter Young, colored. twenty-two 344 18t street southwest at Providence Hospital ast night for a scalp wound, having been cut with a penknife during a fight in Union court, southw sald he would not prosec who cut him Pearl Thomas, colored, twenty-twn years old, participated in a row wi a colored man at her home, § Hop. avenue southeast, about 1 o'clock this morning and recefved a knife wound across her right hand hospital treatment, bu would procure a warrant f leged assaflant _— Facilities at the port of Liver are being enlarged. Established 1890 as the Storage Department, American Security and Trust Co. 1140 Fifteenth Street (between L and M) A safe depository for furs, clothing, rugs, tapestries, curtains, in the Cold Storage Department; for silverware and valuables in the Safe Deposit Vaults; for paintings, pianos, art objects in the heated Art Roems; for motor cars (dead storage) in the Vehicle Department; for luggage and for furniture and house- hold effects in Private Rooms or Space Storage. Packing and shipping by freight, express, motor van, parcel post, “Pool” cars (to Pacific Coast at reduced rates) and “Lift" vans (abroad). Marine and transit insurance. 4 Blocks North of the White House Postscript: Next California Car Scheduled for Dec. 29th No. | of telling the daily news promptly, accurately, intelligently and readabiy without prejudice and without fear the truth. “To_accomplish this purpose the FPost will have the ablest obtainable local, domestic and foreign news and | editorial staffs, with staff cable and | wireless correspondents in all the | principal news centers of the world. (Signed) “CYRUS H. K. CURTI “New York, December 1923. The fire, which at one time threat- ened the entire town, burned for four as placed under control almost consumed. Distribution of dividends to em- who work under a plan of ! soclal democracy, will not be affected by the fire, W. E. White, the presi- dent, announced. About $11,000 will Dbe distributed among the 300 or more | employes today as scheduled. —_— CLEMENCEAU RECOVERS. | = for Christmas Stitches Removed From Tiger's| WESTINGHOUSE Wounds Inflicted in Crash. || | ; Warming Pads, large. PARIS, December 22.—Former Pre- | Warming Pads, small. mier Clemenceau has completely re- A +Welcome Addition to the covered from the effects of the recent Medicine Chest ! automobile accident, in which he suf- Open to 11 pm. until Christmas. | fered cuts about the head. His doctors removed the stitches | Jolnl J. Odenwald | | | from the wounds today as well as the ‘ bandages and expressed much satis- | | 1209 H N.W. | Phone Frankl/ l Give Electrical Presents faction over the aged statesman's con- dition. He will be permitted to go outdoors on the first pleasant day. make good and so do we! Twenty- five doliars a week, or $1,300 for the year, will indeed bring family a “Merry Christmas.” . Amount ssked for, $1,300. Previously acknowledged, $230. O. L. W., §1; est Inhabitants’ Ass'n. colored. Mrs. A. L. Z., $1: Mu-So-Lit Club, $5 J.H. M, § onymous, $1; H. H., $1: cash, $2. Total to date, $246. A 1 Still needed, $1,054. 1 No. 10—Playing a Man's Part. This mother's love, willing to sac- rifice everything else to keep her children with hey following her hus- band's deatn, 1s about to conquer! Edward, still in his teens, is the man of the family. He works by day and Harold, who is a convict, was kept at the state farm and had charge of the bioodhounds of that institu tion. He was sent to Cumberland county when a man named Chandler was shot, which was the beginning of the strife that led up to the kill ing of Rev. E. S. Plerce by the Ga. rett brothers. Harold took the hounds to the county to trace the men who had shot Chandler, and while in that work he went into the woods with the dogs under lcash and then tied hem to a trce and departed. He was not heard from for a long time, but the officers kept a hunt for him. The governor has sent a requisition to the Governor of Iflinois and an officer has gone to Feturn Harold to Virginla. GENERAL TYPEWRITER CO. All Makes TYPEWRITERS Sold, Rented, Repaired 2 STORES 1423 F St. N.W. 6 ‘this for a better job. But with it all he nd sisters. Seventeen tion, $884 for the vean is estimated as the minimum sum needed to sup- plement Edward's earnings. Amount asked for, $854. Prevjously acknowledged, $503. 'Register's Welfare Club, Treasury, § L. est Inhabitants’ Ass’ An Attractive Method of Saving— JOIN OUR CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB . . $25 7 B o R 79 e weeee s 5100 Bt - $250 i $5.00 a week, for 50 weeks. 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