Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1928, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9 1928. 5, 3 HUNGARY FASGT [EADERS ARRESTED 21 Followers of Rival Groups Charged With Attempted Revolution. By the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 25. —Charged with planning to overthrow the government, 21 members of rival Hungarian Fascist organizations, led by Ludwig Dan and Joseph Schreyer, were arrested yesterday. The police said that the two leaders had been arrested before for subversive activities. They accused them of having created what 1s known as the “Blood League,” the members of which were pledged by a gruesome oath to die if necessary in carrying out the objects of the organization. Soon after the two were released from their former imprisonment, three months ago, Dan formed an organization which he called “the Black Shirt Group of Scythes.” The police were told that this group was fully armed and was preparing a revolution. It was said that they planned to raise funds by everrunning the estates of wealthy land- ed proprietors and blackmailing them. When arraigned today Dan and his followers tried to incriminate Schreyer and the latter's supporters. They said that the rival Facists’ scheme was to seize all members of the cabinet and create a government after the Italian model. CAB DRIVER FEARS GANG'S REPRISAL Man Who Caused Arrest of Al- leged Bandit Goes Into Hiding. By the Associsted Press. MEMPHIS, December 25.—The taxi- cab driver who turned over to police a man known as Tom Underwood, want- ed in a number of cities for various crimes, has gone into hiding because of fears for his safety, W. T. Griffin, inspector of detectives, was informed today. v The cab that J. E. Jeffcoate drove has been stopped several times within the last few days while unidentified men scrutinized the substitute driver. The cab was called again yesterday to Grand Central Station, where a man stepped from the pavement, looked at the driver and then shouted to some one that “He's not the man!” Jeffcoate became suspicious of Un- derwood when the latter was riding in his cab and spending money lavishly. He took him, in a drunken condition, to his company’s office and police were called. The taxi driver may share in 2 $2,000 reward offered for the man's arrest in connection with a postal rob- bery at Hibbing, Minn., two years ago. Underwood is held under $150,000 bonds pending hearing. AR T Long on Foresight. WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (#).—John J. McDevitt has made arrangements to contribute approximately $35,061,658,~ 636,436,051,336,563,640 to pay off the world’s debt in the year 3928, if the world has any debt then. He sent a 85 deposit to a bank here, with instruc- tions that it be placed in trust for 2,000 ears, the proceeds from accumulated terest to go to pay off the universal | Around the Corner.” GIVES PARENTS Succeeds in Finding Christ- mas Tree in Deten- tion House. Boy, 4, Discovers Own Home_ Was on Saint Nick’s List, After All. i for Santa Claus Land had last night caused a city-wide police search for | him, 4-year-old Albert Noyes is today enjoying a happy Christmas with a brand-new automobile. & horn and | other toys that good St. Nicholas left in his stocking. Alfred, br “Sonny” as he calls him- self, lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Noycs, at 735 Sixth street, both of whom are employed. His father goes to work at 3 o'clock in the after: noon and his mother returns from work about 6. During the intervening three hours Sonny plays with the children | of other residents of the hou Yesterday afternoon “Sonny. of waiting for Santa, climbed up/on a chair, got his hat off a rack and slip- ped out to see what was delaying the good saint. “Sonny” knew that Sant. lived around the corner, because from the upstairs window of his home he could see the big Christmas irees that he would trim. But the trees were farther away than they looked, and when “Sonny” got there no Santa was in sight. It grew dark, no Santa appeared and “Sonny” couldn’t find the way home. By that time his mother had be- come alarmed because she couldn't find him anywhere in the neighborhocd. |And about that time a strange lady asked the child what his name was and where he lived. When the only answer she got was “Sonny,” the lady called a policeman, with the result that Safe at home after an exciting search || “SONNY."” IN SEARCH OF SANTA, 4-HOUR SCARE “SONNY” NOYES. the boy was given an automobile ride to the House of Detention. There was a Christmas tree fully trimmed and “Sonny” was having a grand time while his mother conveyed the news of his disappearance to his father and the two intensified their search. Finally they notified police, and by 10 o'clock “Sonny” was hanging up his stocking under the expert direction of his parents. Couple Marry in New York After Being Denied License in Philadelphia. Groom Leaped From Liner in July “to Test Efficiency” of Crew. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 25.—Morton B. Hoyt of Washington and Jeanne Bankhead, his former wife, were mar- ried yesterday at the Churcn of the Transfiguration, “The Little Church They were divorced eight months ago at Reno, Nev. At the marriage license bureau yesterday they said they left Washington Sunday, intending to be married in Philadelphia, but because they did not have a written record of their divorce and previous marriage they said the clerk there refused them a license. After an explanation they indebtedness. — Flowers for Schoolrooms. PARIS (#).—The munieipal council has demanded flowers in schoolrooms and schoolyards the existenrce of children at school. . NOTICES. F STOCKHOBDERS INNU, eeting—Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of stockholders of Kaplan T b R 2 IR b 5§ Sobm Bidg. MORI CA GLV‘E“?K“;“ = __Secretary. AL BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE mnth Street Savings Bank has declared the “regular semi-annual dividend of 6% and an exira dividend of 1%, both payable December 31. 1928, to stockholders of rec- ord at the close of business December OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCI SomEn ot aptien, s2d Ceoreionn uisiana aven: 3 West, The stockholders of the - Firemen’s n day. 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Hoyt, United States solicitor general in the administration of President Taft, leaped into the Atlantic from the steamer e MORTON B. HOYT AND EX-WIFE, DIVORCED 8 MONTHS, REWED MORTON B. IIIOY’I'. Rochambeau off the Grand Banks last July. Afterward he said he had jumped to prove the efficiency of modern steam- ers and their lifeboat crews, but Miss Elsie Eckengren of Washington said he made the leap on a dare from her. Mrs. Hoyt is a daughter of the late Senator Bankhead of Alabama. CELEBRATION Eight Lose Lives in By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 25.— Celebration of Christmas day was not without a tinge of sadness in the South today, as Yuletide tragedies caused the death of 16 persons, eight of whom lost their lives and four others were se- verely burned in flames originated by the apparently inhocent explosion of fireworks. Another suffered probable loss of sight from explosion of a dyna- mite cap fired in celebration of the season. Out of the wholesale Christmas eve tragedies, the death of four persons near Hazard, Ky., and a corresponding at Cartersville, Ga., were caused by settting off fireworks. Can of Powder Explodes. A youngster, playing with several other children at the home of Cornelius Stacy, at Troublesome Creek, near Hazard, struck a match to a firecracker and tossed it into the air. It landed in a can of powder used by Stacy for “shooting coal” in the mines and caused a terrific_explosion which fired the dwelling. Taylor, 3; Sallie, 5; Richmond, 7, and Polly, 14, all mem- bers of the Stacy family, died in the flames. Frankie Stacy, 17, saved the life of an infant by passing it out the window, but today lay critically burned. Mrs. Stacy suffered similar burns in an! effort to save the lives of her childien. ! An unidentifidd Christmas celebrant, reported intoxicated, entered the Dodd Firewcrks Store at Cartersville, Ga., | yesterday, and fired a large Roman candle, which quickly ignited the sup- ply of fireworks, causing the fatal in- jury of three girls and a boy, all shop employes. The dead included William Shaw, 12; Frances Shaw, 15; Mary Bell Dodd, 16, and Mary Kennedy. A virtual panic occurred following the explosion. The resultant flare of burn- Miss Dodd with frenzy. J. R. Shelhorse, { but was carried from the building by fire- men, fatally burned. Paul Padgett and his son, Hugh, age 11, were severely burned. The person responsible for the tragedy disappeared during the con- fusion and his indentity has not been established. Youth Faces Loss of Eye. At Texarkana, Ark, Edward Craw- ford, 9, a deaf mute, exploded a dyna- mite cap, used instead of Christmas fireworks, and today was said to be in danger of loss of sight. Last week the lad suffered an injury to one of his eyes which necessitated its removal and the other was badly injured in yester- day’s explosion. Eight others who died Christmas eve included four from the burning of a dwelling, one from stab wounds at a dance last night, another from a self- ing explosives is sald to have stricken | jr., rushed into the flames to save her, | she resisted his efforts. Later sho | 16 DEATHS MARK CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHLAND Flames Caused by Explosion of Fireworks: Four Killed Near Hazard, Ky. Carter’s dance with Mrs. Mundy. The brothers and Mr. and Mrs. Mundy were taken by police for questioning. While struggling with J. J. Renning- ton, a town marshal, in an England, Ark., restaurant, last night, U. A. Stover, believed to have resided in Muskogee, shot and killed himself. An early morning fire which destroyed the home of Mrs. Lee Hembree, near Kinards, S. C., caused the death of Mrs. Membree and a son, William, 20, and two other persons. Miss Sarah Reed, 45, wes killed when run down by an automobile in New Orleans, and Virgil Wells was killed early last night in a similar accident at Paris, Ky. For Christmas Mass Welchman Declares Melo- dies Came to Him While Sweeping in Streets. By the Associated Press. TON-Y-PANDY, Wales, December 24—A humble street cleaner who caught a majestic melody in praise of the Babe of gSethehem from the cease- less rumble of traffic along the roads of this little mining town is the Christ- | mas hero of the Rhondda coalfields. Christmas lives again in the solemn sic which he has ‘woven into his atin Mass In A" sung here Bethania Church today by the famous Mid-Rhondda choral society because of the enthusiastic ncclaim of its 200 members and their conductor, William Hughes, noted Welsh musician. Edwin Gardhfer, 65 year old raker,” who has created a thing of beauty from the drabness of his sur- iroundings, is somewhat bewildered by his sudden rise to fame. A cheery ifaced man whose innate dignity sug- |gests the wielding of a staff of office rather than street brooms, he sits be- fore the fire of his little home with brushes stacked in one corner, and pulls nervously at an ancient pipe while friends and neighbors pour in to add { their congratulations to those officially the | D. voted by his proud employers, Rhondda Urban district council. Gardner never had a music lesson. He knows nothing of the technicalities of composition. His sole previous ef- forts made 15 years ago_ resulted in only three austere hymns. He has sung in the famous national Eisteddfod, however, and taught himself to play on a wheezy second-hand organ which is the principal article of furniture in his_home. When friends gave him the words inflicted pistol wound in a struggle with an officer, and two others killed in auto- mobile accidents. Raymond Carter, 22, received 40 stab wounds at a Christmas eve dance in Memphis, Tenn., and died later in the evening, after accusing two brothers, Albert and W. S. Beavers, him when J. B. Mundy hat interrupted of the mass recently and urged him to set them to music, Gardner insisted that the task was beyond him unless he received divine inspiration. “Whilz I was sweeping in the streets,” he explained simply, “the melodies in my mass came to me and when I got orgam" ‘Muckraker’ Hailed|r As Master Composer &' OPPORTUNITY FUND 1S SHORT §7.32 Associated Charities Hope Tomorrow’s Mail Will Swell Donations. Has Washington forgotten its most needy children through preoccupation | with the joy that today fills the vast ! majority of the homes of the District? This question arose this morning ir ‘ the minds of workers of the Associated Charities raising a fund of $14,976 needed to provide for 14 local families when a final check of contributions to the opportunities showed that a little more than half the total--$7,654.88— had been received. There is a bright ray of hope in the situation, however, for the volunteer workers are expecting that when Jet- ters posted yesterday or today are de- livered tomorrow, with resumption of | post office service, that many additional gifts will be received. $7,322 Still Needed. A total of $7,322 still is needed to complete the quota required to take care of the needs of the families which are themselves unable to provide neces- sary housing, food, clothing, and, in some cases. drastically needed medical attention. There. are 65 children in these 14 families who are facing life hapdicap- ped through no fault of their own, officials of the soclety point out. As- sociated Charities workers hope that each of the opportunities will have been seized and the amount fully subscribed when the mail is opened tomorrow morning. Additional contributions are coming in. One happy father, who received as a Christmas present a little daughter, give happiness to some needy children. It was presented to Opporiunity 3, where there is a baby girl and four other children under the age of 10. Packages Delivered. Contributions may be sent to the treasurer of the fund, John B. Larner, at 1022 Eleventh street, or to the office of The Star. The 14 opportunities are by no means all the Christmas, work conducted by the Associated Charities. Yesterday workers of the society and volunteers were busy all day tying up packages for children in families known to them. They were delivered by volunteers and served to make today brighter for many of the underprivileged. Members of the Miner Normal School dressed dolls and sent other toys to needy children and one donor gave $100 things and the Southwest Citizens’ As- sociation appropriated $25 for needy families in its district. Opportunity No. 1. When her husband died of pneumonia five years ago, this widow started to work to support her two little girls and frail mother, herself a widow. She has never been very strong and the strain of overwork and poor food made her and the two children easy victims for tuberculosis. All are now under the care of tuberculosis specialists. Rest, good food and peace of mind is the prescription of these doctors. She can follow it only if her income be assured. ‘Twenty-five dollars a week or $1,300 for the next year is needed. Amount asked for ......: ..$1,300.00 Previously acknowledged $776.40 a. D. GVI eee 100 » Q EwPm i g op>,n>g,mu:u=m s: ez g B oS mmnr w 883338238 3323882 BQ BR Drafting Survey, Dej ture . Section, ~Sofl pt. Agricul- wag;sflpg b 4 z;gr [a"H IR oo 857.40 Still needed ............. $542.60 Opportunity No. 2. Six happy little girls ranging in age from 5 to 14 should have the careful supervision of their loving mother. Big brother has just turned 16, but his earnings will be far too small to provide protection for his sisters. Mother has tried to teach them to be self-respecting, promising young women of tomorrow in spite of a father who has cruelly sidestepped his responsibility and whos2 whereabouts are unknown. The resulting tragedy of removing the mother from the home and putting her to work is obvious. At least $25 a week or $1,300 will be necessary if the mother is to remain at home. Amount asked for ............ $1,300.00 Previously acknowledged 5592,53 sovoowoooogoozoy 3838338832 651.05 Still needed . $648.95 Opportunity No. Father away from his family because of an incurable disease; an 18-year- old son doing his valiant best, but handicapped by ill health; another son also weakened by an attack of pneu- monia; mother praying for the future. And not the least important, the spe- cial pet, 3-year-old Hal, who needs the guidance of a strong father’s love and understanding. This father is totally unable to contribute to the support of the family and supplement the eldest son's earnings, which are so pitifully inadequate for his mother and five brothers and sisters. They need $26 a week, or $1,352 a year. Amount asked for Previously acknowledged 3. ...$1,352.00 $538.40 5.00 . K. K. Anonymous . Miss C. L. H.. 710.40 Still needed $642.60 Opportunity No. 4. edy has reared its head high in at least one home. Even after a drunk- en husband left his family in compara- | tive peace, his deeds remained behind him. Now the mother is faced with the problem of supporung her six chil- dren—one is only 4 years old—with only the help of the two oldest sons, f attacking {home nights I worked them out on my one of whom works after school. To lighten her burdén and keep her | sent in a check for $100 to be used to | worth of toys and $150 to buy useful |y ISANTA'S SPECIAL MESSENGER | FAILS TO FOOL NAVY CHILDREN “That's Mr. Scott.“ Cries One as Parachute Drops From Plane, but Kris Kringle Lands in Person Soon After. Santa Claus, preeeded by one of his | special messengers, who descended in | a parachute, visited the children of the Naval Air Station at Anacostia by air- plane today. The children of enlisted men at the post were warned by telephone that ,Santa Claus would visit them between 11 and 12 o'clock this morning and | they were all gathered together out by | the edge of the fiying field. Soon after 11 o'clock a big silver tri- | motored airplane appeared over the field and a black speck dropped from it. Above the speck a white disk opened and Santa’s messenger dropped down to the field. “That's not Santa Claus,” one of the children is reported to have said. “That’s Mr. Scott, right here on ihe station, who makes all the parachute Sumps.” At any rate, Santa’s messenger, or Chief Petty Officer Scott, as you please, waddled up to the excited children in his heavy fur flying togs, decorated with Christmas bells, and after wish- ing them a Merry Christmas, told them he had been sent down to tell them Santa Claus was flying overhead and would be right down with a bag of toys | for them. The big plane circled the field, and, although the plane bore in big letter: on its sides the wording “U. S. Navy, and although, very patently, it was th Naval Air Station’s own transport plan the children were very happy to see red-and-white clothed jovial San‘ Claus step out with a big sack over h shoulder. And although they may hav. had their own private idea about the identity of Santa, who in other garb had been seen quite often around the station, they received their gifts with just as much satisfaction as if it were the bona fide Santa himself. The Naval Air Station party and re- ception for Santa Claus was arranged by the enlisted men of the post, in co- operation with the post Red Cross chapter. from being forced to leave the younger children to care for themselves as best they may while she is forced to do menial labor to put even bread into their mouths, $10 weekly, or $520 for the year, is needed. Fully subscribed with $521.75. Closed. Opportunity No. 5. A poor, bewildered foreign mother finds herself in a land where even the | customs and language are st:ange, and ishe is alone with her responsibilities. | In her trouble she cannot even turn to | ber former source of cheer and com- | fort—her husband, long a victim of | tubercuiosis. mon to all lands. Motherhood is mn every gesture of this slim, dark-haired little woman, ms with the aid of the 15-year-old daughter she watches fen- derly over her two little boys that they may grow up to become loyal young Americans. Should sne find work, her income would be far too small to sup- port her family. Unless some one steps in and fur- nishes the minimum amount of $23 a week (or $1.196 for the year), the alternative is separation from her chil- dren. Amount asked for $1,196.00 Previously acknowledged ts:lig.gg Still needed ............. $77L10 Opportunity No. 6. More hurtbre-.ktn¥ by far than the man who is physically unable to sup- port his family is the man who, witl the skill and ability to command a com- fortable living wage, leaves his family to bear the brunt of the suffering caused by his moral weakness. What will they do, these six fatherless little children, ranging in age from 1 to 12 years, with only a frail mother between them and want while the father is paying the penalty for his neglect? Are they to be another broken family who v 1 bear through life the scars of un- happiness caused by separatica, or will they get the aid that means happiness? ‘Twenty-six dollars a week, or $1,352 for a year, will bring this happiness. Amount asked for. Previously acknowles Mrs. E. S. Saturday Evening Pleas- ure Club 2 memory”. . Still needed .. $771.09 Opportunity No. 7. Fate has played a queer trick with l4-year-old Johnnie’s frail body. But he is blessed with a mother who under- Edward, his twin, is always considerate and is forever planning something for Johnnie’s amusement with the few cents he nicks up in helping his friends on paper routes. Then there are the two little girls, Grace, the 11-year-old, and 8-year-old Mildred. Johnnie has a pleasant home, for mother has a way of making things look bright and cheer- ful. But father has treated them all shamefully and left mother to puzzle over the problem of keeping her family together. They need $23 a week, or $1,196 a year. Amount asked for. Previously acknowledged $364.45 MER. ...... ... 500 ‘Washington, D, C., High School Bank $1,300.00 T oToTaIor 52 8388388883 °'8'ooo'eo -—— 409.65 Stiil needed $786.35 | Opportunity No. 8. { For many months lively little Clara | showed the grit of a soldier through | interminable hours of suffering. One | day she asked mother why daddy never | came to see her. Mother answered softly that perhaps he would some day. | But he never did. Now Clara is well ; again and goes off to school each day. Sometimes she wonders what is to be- come of them now that daddy does not help them any more sop > one must make money so that she an” her three sisters will be able to go on to school. She is so afraid that mother will have to go out to work, and then what will they do? With a regular amount of $25 a_weel may be kept together. Amount asked for $1,300.00 Previously acknowledged $437.40 T. C. . 5.00 555.40 Still needed ......... $744.60 Opportunity No. 9. Not many, no matter how unfor- tunate, are, like little Martha, under the double handicap of a probably in- curable physical disability and extreme poverty. Her mother, as only breagwinner for her family of five chil- dren, works while all but Martha are at school and devotes her spare time to giving to Martha the care which such a child should have. But, after all, in a mother’s scheme of things, food and But mother love is com- | W. L. |stands how to make a chap happy. |F. She knows that |y, K, | or $1,300 for the year, this little family : mean carrying out special plans for Martha and make this home happy. Amount asked for $832. Sl needed . $143.60 Opportunity No. 1 Six motherless children is usually synonymous with a broken home—that is, .if we reckon without the unsung quality of a father’s devotion. With re- markable preservance and loyalty, this young colored widower has gone for- ward, carrying his heavy burden. If now that he has so nearly reached his goal, help is refused him, the only solu- ; tion m sight is an orphanage for the | children. Just $12 weekly or $624 for the year will enable him to carry on. Amount asked for Mrs. M. W. Men's CUff ficial Association, Inc. A friend..... 35157 . Still needed....... ..$262.43 Opportunity No. 11. At night after the rour little boys and girls are abed, a young colored mother sits before her cheerful fire and while keeping her hands busy with the mend- ing for which the kindly neighbors pay her, thinks back over the e a few months before when she lived her days in terror and went to bed each night praying for protection against a hus- band half crazed by drink. She remem- bers the suffering of the thinly clad. shivering little children through those days of cold, hunger and privation spent in a lonely little shanty and blesses those who have aided her so wonder- fully, who have given her hope and the courage to seek and find part-time work through their sympathy and under- standing. Then she reflects happily on the daily progress of the children at school and is' glad because they take so with their Sunday school. Can we after salvaging another home from disaster, thrust a grateful mother and her four children back into their old, sordid existence, when $11 a week or $572 for the year will continue the good already accomplished? Amount asked for ...... Previously acknowledged $151 Mr. and Mrs. C. O. L... 7 A friend..... 1.00 .50 .00 Armstrong High School. Mrs. L. H. M.. cerese Metropolitan Baptist B. Y. P U .- 1.00 18.54 2.00 3.00 Still needed ........ Opportunity No. 12. Left by her bigamist husbana face to face with the problem presented by her eight small children, a colored mother has not allowed herself to become em- bittered. ~Although home-making is of necessity her sole profession, she has made a great success of it. Each morn- mlf George; John, Billy, Jane and Annie all go off to school eagerly, faces shining and their clothing spotlessly clean. Teddy, Joe and Margaret, the little ones, play contentedly among them- selves all day. The mother trusts that those who have made this possible will not deny her help when the children’s whole future depends upon the continu- ation of their happy home life. The $26 which is needed weekly (or $1,352 for the year) will prove a sound investment. . Amount asked for $1,352.00 | Previously acknowledged $388.20 ‘Thursday Evening Circle 5.00 M. B . 3.00 Mr. and Mrs. C. O. L Mr. and Mrs. W. G. W.. Miss E. MacC. . A Frien P B.. Armst, Mrs. L H. M Metropolitan h Al RE 466.78 Still needed $885.22 | Opportunity No. 13. Mending a home now broken. Amount asked for Previously acknowl L C B BATTERIES SOLD sEl“/""E j clothing for her children mwust come first. They need aid. / | Sixteen dollars weekly or $832 will Robbed by Bandits GAS STATION RAID NETS BANDITS §24 Armed Colored Men Search Manager’s Pockets and Loot Cash Register. ‘The Hartford Battery & Service Station at 201 K street was held up |at the point of a pistol and robbed of 1$24 about 6:30 o'clock last night, just 12 hours after another gasoline station at Fourth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast was entered by a non- ' chalant young man in overalls with | drawn pistol, who got away with be- | tween $400 and $500. The robbery last night was commit- ted by two colored men, both attired in gray overcoats. The only descrip- tion the police have of them is that one is tall and the other short. Joseph P. Compton, 21 years old, of 401 I street, the manager of the sta- tion, said that he had just returned from the bank, where he had deposited more than $100, and was preparing for his nights work when the bandits entered. One drew a gun and commanded him to hold up his hands. Although Compton complied without a word, the man jabbed the muzzle of the re- volver against his ribs and backed him into a corner of the room. The other went through his pockets, taking $8 and the keys to the station, then opened the cash register and rifled it of its contents, which amounted to only $16. The robbers cautioned him not to follow and Compton assured them he wouldn't, and they ran from the sta- tion, one up New Jersey avenue and | the ‘other down K street. A lookout for the bapdits was sent | to all police precincts. JOSEPH F. COMPTON. —Star Staff Photo. Will Rogers Says: NEW YORK,CITY.—Merry Christ- mas to you, President and Mrs. Coolidge! Only two more months and then break- fast without a senatorial com- mittee. There ought to be time off for good be- havior for a Pres- ident. Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. Hoover, * Herbert! You are away out on the ocean on a bat- tleship, out of reach of Christ- mas post cards. ‘That ain’t Christ- mas; that’s Heaven. 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