Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 4

"~ THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C.. FRIDAY, LA PLATA R FONDTOTALSS1.21 Money to Be Distributed Jointly by Citizens’ Group and Red Cross. | The $1.200 mark was passed :t! Moon today in The Star's fund for re- | Mef of sufferers in the La Plata tornado. . The fund will be distributed jointly by the Charles County citizens' relief rommittee and the American Red '703s to those in need as a result of the disaster. Donations received locally will be transmitted to the American Red Cross with instructions for use in relief work in the stricken area. | It was announced today that the gular routine of the American Red 8 relief work would be followed in | o distribution of the rellef funds. Tils means that expenses for workers in the rellef area and administration expenses are drawn from a contingent fund provided for such a purpose by the American Red Cross, so that every dollar contributed will be definitely utilized in this particular rellef work, without a single cent being subtracted 10 care for any administration or over- head expense. Today’s list of contributors and con- tributions is as follows: Previously acknowledged . $767.00 Jullus I. Peyser . . 20.01 E. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E, Davis Southern Railway, Office of Auditor, Passenger Ac- Margaret Hull Mitchell John Mitchell an STOUT HEARTS OF CHILD GALE VICTIMS KEEPING DEATH AWAY| Cheery Laughs and Patter Replace Gasps and Sobs of Few Hours Before in Washington Hospitals. Death is retreating in wild disorder from Providence Hospital today be- fore an onslaught of the stoutest lit- tle hearts that ever beat. While rac- ing and weakened pulses are beating more slowly and strongly, cheery laughs and childish patter ring in the sunny rooms where 30 hours “efore, death gasps and sobs wracked tiny breasts and mother hearts. The little fighters are ths injured children of the La Plata schoolhouse disaster and now. with their recover'es in sight and their nightmare behind them. the youngsters are takinz an in- teres: in what it's all about. Their hearts are set upon the com- ing Christmas holiday: Not one of the youngsters but who belleves he will be home to recelve Santa Claus next month—and, happily, their faith in the curative powers of their doctors H. E. Mitchell .. 2.00 Missionary Circle, Memorial Baptist Church 16.00 A friend ........ 1.00 R, W. Bovousernnnn Maurice D. Rosenberg. W. Wrenn W, Simpson C. Mary M. Ward Miss Laura A. Burlingham Cash . Mu{ 1. Clark. H. M. Goldberg. Evelyn M. Ford. A. Centralight. Henry M. Glassie Mrs. Loule Carl Pimper. Mrs. Claude Owen Frank R. Clark. Mrs. A. Carr.. Charles E. Gross. A. Virginla Hamlin children. Mrs. P. Horn. S. W. P John A. Annie W. Smith. Mrs. Mary Waltres. Holy Name Gulld. Columbia Post, No. 833, W. of U. ceseae Dr. John Crayke Simpson. Total ....... cerenss..$1,211.92 jand kind nurses is strengthened by those hospital officlals in daily attend. ance upon them. Boy Calls for Song. Rudolph Garner, 7, started some- thing this morning when he asked |somebody to sing for him. His pals think the same as he does about it and now every one who enters their ward—and there are five boys 1here— is asked to “sing us a little song.” Of course there are times when no visi- tors are admitted—Miss Katherine Winand, Miss Agnes MeNally and Miss Kathleen Folan must have some time to administer uninterrupted serv- ices to their little patients—and then the hoys try it themseives. One young singer among them 18 Vernon Padgett, 7, but he says he'll sing only if it insisted upon,” and as yet his friends have not resorted to that—such broken little bodies have only so much energy, it 'at all, and “insisting” is an effort. And so they amuse themselves with boy-dolls that were taken to them yesterday by Nathan C. (Dinty) Moore, a kind and tirelessly laboring man from stricken La Plata, who is spending all his time in the service of grieving families, his little town, and its children in Wash- ington and La Plata hospitals. The officlal announcement from Providence Hospital this morning gave encouraging reports of the con- dition of the most grievously injured. Marla Murphy, from whose brain Providence surgeons extracted a plece of stone two inches long, and a nall, is gaining strength after a very good night and her chances for recovery are excellent. 5 Others Improve, Too. Benjamin Miles, 8, too, is even better than he was yesterday, as well as Albert Hyde, 11. Louis Swann, 11, is in about the same condition he was last night. While there i{s no appre- clable improvement, he has lost no ground, nurses say, and his resistance, it is thought, will make his battle easfer. Over at Children's Hospital, Samuel Berry, 10, who was very ill yesterday following the amputation of his right arm below the elbow, was sald to be improved this morning. Samuel also has a fractured skull. Raymond Maddox, 6, at Emergency, is as happy as he can be this morning and, like the children at Providence, he is playing with Dinty's doll and basking in the sunlight which floods his white bed. Katherine Watts, 6-year-old colored girl, also is nearing her convalescent period at Emergency, CY GROSNER’S 1325 F STREET It’s the Raglan Shoulders that . make this a distinctive-looking OVERCOAT Without RAGLAN SHOUL- DERS, it would just be a good- looking garment—uwith the new sleeves, the appearance is decided- ly changed from the usual “set- in” sleeve coat. It's a good-look- sng change. K u 40 dollars penheimer Long Blue “Tube” Overcoats, $45 ros H@Pg 1325 F STREET Business Men Like the Special Kuppenheimer Suits at $40 | not expected that when the gefinite | figures were at hand they would be found not to be far from these gen- eral estimates. The needs of one family stand | out. The Della homestead, which was in line with the schoolhouse and which was leveled before the | schoolhouse was reduced to a mass | of splinters by the tornado, fur- nishes the most pathetic case. Lil- lian Della, the 8-year-old daughter of the family, was buried this morn- ing. Gwyn Della, 22-year-old son, is in a serfous condition in the hos- pital. The family lost everything they had--furniture, fixtures and wearing apparel. _Everything went. | The family of Rufus Watts, col- | ored janitor of the school, is desti- tute. The main support of that family is gone; the home is in ruins, almost beyond any possibility of restoration. [STRICKEN LA PLATA, WITH DEAD BURIED, FACES RELIEF TASK ___(Continued from t Page.) llef committee found a pile of mail on his desk this morning to swell the total contributed there to more than $3,500. Together these con- tributions. total more than $4,500— from Washington and La Plata citi- zens—and this amount will be the nucleus for the reconstruction fund of §20,000 for La Plata. A conference between Mr. Mitchell and his five committee members and J. B. Gwyn, representing National Red Cross headquarters, yesterday paved the way for co-operative work between the Red Cross and citizens' groups in the relief measures. Theae relief measures are divided into two distinct phases. First comes emergency work—providing clothes for those In need and provisions for others: caring for funeral expenses in still other cases; paying hospital bills and similar immediate needs. Next will be the reconstruction work. This embraces not only the provisicns for financing rebullding of homes which were razed—as in the case of the Pad- gett. Della, Myles and Watts families | Instances furnished the most com. -but also provisions in other cases: pletely tragic epilogue of the tornado’s with means for meeting the losses of | destruction. movables on farmsand home sites; for | repair work In many other instances and similar non-emergency measures, A considerable amount of the $3,500 now {n the hands of the La Plata com- mittee has already been utllized for Lives and Property Taken. The Myles family, with Benjamin seriously injured, Thomas R. hurt, and little Lucilla dead, faces a dark- | ened future. The tornado took both lives and property from this family. | These instances are outstanding, rather than typlcal. In other cases, | the relief workers find that serious toll was exacted from families in lives, health and property, but these three La Plata looks at the relief work in a frank and honest way. Mr. Mitchell, l as committee chairman, openly and emphatically stated that the town does not desire contributions to be made by persons belleving that the | emergency measures, but it was made clear that the $20,000 blanket estimate covered not only the reconstruction work, but also the emergency relief. Check-up to Be Made. The estimates given here today were compiled by the local citizens® committee from the general knowl- edge which its members have of the conditions in each case. Mr. Gwyn, at Red Cross headquarters, that a careful check-up wo completed by Red Cross sometime tomorrow, but that it was need for them has been overempha- | sized | © are facing a serlous work,” he | said today. “We realize this. But | the last thing in the world that we | want is for good and honest peopls to | make contributions which might pinch | them, in the belief that greater need | exists than really does. 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