Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1931, Page 16

2 L THE EVENING U.S. CHLD WORK | HELD INADEQUATE Bureau Head Reveals Lack of Facilities to Meet Pressing Needs. Pointing out that demands on the Tnited States Children’s Bureau have Breatly increased in recent years, Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the bureau, in her annual report urged greatly ex- panded resources be made available to meet the need. Pictures Serious Loss. ' “Children suffer the most serious per- | manent losses in perlods of depression,” | she said. “and should be the first to be | considered in planning remedial meas- ures “The development of adequate local and State resources for the relief of distress and the ptevention of depend- and delinquency are urgent.” | Honored {MT. RAINIER APPOINTS s | ACTING POLICE CHIEF COLLEGE GIRL PICKED AS “MISS ARKANSAS TRAVELER.” Roy Schnoppl Named Head of Force During Illness of Eugene Plumer. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md, December 14—Town Policeman Roy Schnopps | has been appointed acting chief of the | town force pending the recovery of | Chief Eugene Plumer, who was seriously I injured several weeks ago. | Chief Plumer was hurt when a| motor cycle he was riding collided with an automobile while chasing a sus- | pected traffic violator on Rhode Island | avenue, and the Town Council has | to pay his hospital bills and al compensation from the town po- | nds. Mr. Plumer is recovering |in_Sibley Hospital. ‘The council has awarded a contract for the installation of electromatic traf- fic control lights at Thirty-fourth street | | and Rhode Island avenue to the Central | Armature Works of Washington for | | $1,790, the work to be finished within four weeks. MISS BURNELLE BOYCE y | y marked last i Miss Abbott | €ler” at the University of Arkansas an imulative effect | Will Dreside over the all-jourr of the bureau’s nearly 20 yvears of sery- | banquet. She was elected by mem ice, the depression and the White |Of House conference on child health and, 80es yearly to the leading wom protection. ‘Juumalm at the universi . A Christm | is also president of the Womer ague, | by Washington orted, owing to t Letters Mark Growth. demand e es rendered by | aid to be the incr composed of all co-eds. Her home is | evening at A partial measure of the increased|in Little Rock. ™ Girl Scouts Take Clothing for Poor | the Men's Press Club. The honor to Meeting Thursday. —A. P. Photo. enth and Ha | Gits of clothing for the poor will be 'brought to this meeting by troops e, which ~has grown | Children’s Bureau to P r but! Other Christmas ceremonies in which in 1926 to approxi- | which it must refuse because nadequate stafl available for local con- | the community Christmas tree in Sher- eq! s- | sultation and® assistance in planning or | man Circle Christmas eve, at the White sistance which local public and private | reorganizing local child welfare serv- agencles have a T to expect the ic mately 169.000 letters la: of these letters were of an | Girl Scouts will participate are those at the same night and at the White WARD & Lo STAR, WASHINGTO TAG ISSUE TO START Arlington to Begin Distributing Car Licenses Tomorrow. By a 8taff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., December 14.—Distribution of the 1932 Virginia automobile tags in this section will start tomorrow morning in the office of Sheriff Howard B. Fields. According to J. V, Turner, through Whom the tags are distributed, they may be used at once and must be attached to the car for which they are*purchased by January 1. 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