Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1931, Page 24

B—8 “FUR GAME” PLIED WITH PROFIT HERE Police Warn Public of Racket in Which Cheap Article Is Bait. —_— School Children Taught to Drive Cars in Los Angeles By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 19. -—The safety education depart- ment of the Los Angeles public schools has enrolled hundreds of boys and girls in special courses in_motor car driving Ralph D. Wadsworth, principal of the Beverly Hills High School, explained the plan “Many of the students are not yet 16 years old and therefore cannot apply for licenses to drive,” he said, “but when they do they will know how to operate an automobile safely.” “fur ame" Washington. inced yesterday they have | s complaints recently ung to have been|anyway, if it happens to occur to you peddlers of - nearly- | 1o have the fur appraised, you'll find it to be worth not more than $5 or so. Operate Within Law. h And, according to the police. there's O Jnscribed, o | no law against it. At least, that's what and points to| they said in response to all the recent se plates as proof. | complaints. The same fur salesmen Wl of Beliig. Hard g come here nearly every year, they Then, if you give him half a chance, | péinted out, and although they've been he goes on to say he has some valuable | arrested in nearly every city in the which, for this of tha feason | country. they've never been prosectited because he happens to be "hatd | s, the only thing the police can do to sacrifice for only i warn residents of the city that when they patronize curbstone oOr running- board fur peddlers, they do 5o &t their The old comeback in is staging a| police were told, is this ached by a man in an u with some such Blan| The man from New York THE LABOR EMPLOYES ORGANIZE CHORUS Male Voices Being Enrolled by Group—Doak Reported in Training With Pipe. SUNDAY The Labor Department is going in for singing on a wholesale scale, ac- | cording to an | vesterday All employes have been requested to help organize what is to be known as the Labor Department's Male Choru | for the purpose of fostering good fe | lowship. ~ The plan has the approval of Secretary Doek, who, in a letter to | Robert € Starr, the department’s ap- | pointment clerk, said that besides good | fellowship, the plan affords an oppor- tunity for musical training. Employes have been furnished cards to be filled out as to whether they are tenors, bassos or baritones. Contraltos and sopranos are barred, inasmuch as women clerks have not been invited to join the organization. | Doak Reported in Training. STAR. announcement made | Secretary Doak yesterday announced he had given up cigarettes for a pipe, which today gives added \xnml}:l m:; i i report he would attempt to make goc London Publisher Dies. | 5" the bass section of tne chorus. 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