Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1931, Page 3

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Palmer Co., Inc, Tejephone West 0190 But whichever side ! of | i | HOOVER CHILDREN HOSTS AT PARTY Bring Toys to Be Distrib- uted to Poor. President Goes Shopping. It is evident that President Hoover relishes the grandfather role in which he has so happily found himself with the arrival of the children yesterday. Yielding to this spirit, Mr. Hoover temporarily put aside everything re- sembling business and went Christmas shopping ~ yesterday afternoon. He wanted to select personally some toys for Peggy Ann and Herbert, 3d. who is effectionately called Peter. They had some ideas of his own in this connec- tion. Forewarning no one outside of the White House, the President entered | upon this expedition immediately after | luncheon. His first intention was to go alone, at least with only his Secret Service guard, but on second thought he suggested that some of the family accompany him in case he forgot some- | thing. Consequently he had the as- | sistance of Herbert. jr., and Allan, his two sons, and Peggy. Herbert, jr.’s wife. When the shopping party ~returned to the White House, more than an hour afterward. the President had enjoyed all the thrills that go with eleventh- hour buying during a rush period: rub- bing shoulders with holiday shopping crowds; fingering all sorts of children’s toys and games, and finally in lugging home a quantity of bundles. Toys Were First Purchase. | _On this expedition the President jos- tled through the crowds of four stores, | including & 5-and-10-cent store. As might be expected, the President abroad in this democratic fashion created con- siderable excitement among the clerks and those shoppers who recognized him. For the most part, though, he was un- recognized. More than one excited and intent bundle-laden shopper rubbed against him without being aware of who he was. At the first stop the President led the little group directly to the toy de- partment. It probably will be a long time before Miss Rose Newton, extra clerk, who had the honor of waiting on the President there, recovers from the experience. She said afterward Mr. Hoover acted just like any other male shopper and made her feel perfectly at ease, but just the same she couldn't help feeling nervous. The President bought two pairs of roller skates and a toy air- plane from her. While strolling about the toy de- partment, the President encountered Herman Brandtz, who plays the role of Santa Claus at the department, store, and who has been making the children of Washington happy for gen- erations. The President shook hands | with the man, who informed him that | he remembered Abraham Lincoln. Allan Acts as Banker. ‘The presidential party then went to three other stores, including the five- and-ten. His purchases at these stores included a miniature electric stove, a cooking set, a child’s kitchen cleaning set, several dolls, half a dozen games. | paints and crayons, a musical top, half a dozen figures of reindeer, dogs and other animals, picture books and a min- iature war tank. Allan Hoover served as the bank on this expedition and it was he who paid for the articles as they were selected. BEER BARONS GET STAY Judge Wilkerson to Sentence Lake | and Druggan January 4. ‘ CHICAGO, December 23 (#).—Sen- tencing of Frankie Lake and Terry | Druggan, beer boys of the hey-dey of racketeering, was delayed again Mon- day by Federal Judge James H. Wil- kerson. Upon motion of defense counsel, dis- position of the guilty pleas of the two hoodlums was postponed until Jan-| uary 4. Defense Attorney William Waugh'’s illness from a nervous attack was the grounds, this time, for the con- tinuance. “I will dispose of day the case on that * the court said. | Alimony Prisoners | To Go Free If They Promise to Be Good By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, December 23. — There's going to be a Santa Claus for 38 members of the Alimony Club of the County Jail if they promise to be good in. the fu- ture and support their. former wWives. Judge Joseph Sabath said he would release the 24 men he sont to jail if they show sincerity in their promises, and Judge Harry Miller expected to do the same for 14 other members imprisoned by_his orders. There are 155 more members | | of the club jailed by Judge Dan- | | iel Trude, who in past years his never played Santa Claus for his Pprisoners. Two Hundred Guests Will confided in him lots of things they want | Santa Claus to bring them, and he had | EVENING | SITAT WASHI DI The President Goes Christmas Shopping | Peggy Ann and Herbert Hoover, 3d, | | the President’s grandehildren, whose ar- rival here for the holidays has so en- livened the White House, will act as hosts this afternoon at a Christmas par- ty to be attended by more than 200 small children, It is the biggest social task in the carears of the two children, whose com- bined years total nine. These happy youngsters can hardly wait for 3 o'clock, the time set for the beginning of their party. Their excite- ment, however, did not prevent ihem from ‘being on’hand o breakfast with their grandfather, after which they ac- companicd him on his walk from the ‘Whit> House to the cxecutive offices. The children’s party will b: held n | the cast room, but it is expected that before it is all over the youngsters will have taken n virtually all of the White | House. All sorts of games and ener- | (ainment have been planned, and ihere i1s to be a Santa Claus who will receive [ the presents the young guests have been |asked to bring with them. Thes: will | be lugged away by Santa to be distribut- ed among the needy. RESIDENT HOOVER left behind him the cares and worries of his office yesterday to go tg Christmas gifts for the grandchildren who will spend Christmas at the White House wit ident is here shown picking out a are: Herbert Hoover, jr.; Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr.; dent o doll for Peggy Ann, DIXIE READY FOR CHRISMUS | WITH FEASTS AND HOMECOMINGS. Men Are Little Boys Angels as Fires A 5-year-old daughter of Herbert Hoover, jr President Hoover and Allen Hoover, second son of the Presi- HODVER iR REVIVES MEMORIES MR. HOOVER GETS GIFTS IN STORES FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN. lowntown stores and buy im this year. The Pres- In the picture -—Associated Press Photo. ISTMAS Again—and Boys Are re Rekindled and Good Cheer Fills the Land. By the Associated Press | ATLANTA, December 23 —There are six-layer cakes in the pantry. nuts in the cellar and fresh pork in the smoke house, for its Chris'mus time down South. And men who left their plows as boys and moved to town are ready to Ro back home for an open-fireplace Christmas and to celebrate in that all- Southern way with feasts, fasts, re- unions and gifts. The South may change its mode of living. beat its plowshares into spindles and sell its farmlands for factory sites, but it will never change its Christmas customs. It is the visiting time. when parents take the children to grandma's, and when men are little boys again and little boys are angels. Holly and Firecrackers. The first sign of the season in cities is holly, fresh from the forests. Then come the fire cracker vendors. The red glare of rockets, explosion of cannon crackers, guns and anything that will make noise is a_method of celebration peculiar to the South. Community trees for the poor will be general this year, and relief organiza- tions are prepared to see that none suffers for food and clothing. Like Thanksgiving, Christmas is a day of big hunts. Even while ihe cities’ church bells are ringing in the day. men and. dogs will be tramping over corn and clover fields to celcbrate with, powder and excitement Christmas feasting begins with the week. There are those rich old hams cured with smoke from hickory chips. tubs of butter and earthen jars of pre- serves. Quail, wild turkey and even venison will grace many tables back in the regions where distances are measured by a “whoop and a hollow" and where neighbors live “over ihe ridge” or “down the pike,” but never around the corner. Pork and Biscuits. Freshly killed pork and stacks of hot biscuits loaded on a plate like cord wood and topped off with pies and boiled custard make a favorite meal The city folk will have their bought turkey 2nd ambrosia The Negroes expect a lot from their white friends and get it. In the cot- ton country, where they lay by crops early and get ready for Christmas, the Negroes visit “their white fo'ks come sunup.” ‘Their greeting always is the same—"Christmas gif, white fo'ks"— and it is an unwritten law that a gift must be ready. CLERGYMEN AI COMMUNITY FETE Lights of Columbia Heights Christmas Tree to Be Turned on Tonight. Clergymen from a number of churches are to take part in a program incident | to turning on the lights to a Christmas | tree at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets | tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The occasion also will be marked by the singing of Christmas_carols | The tree, it is announced. is a gift from the business men on upper Four- | teenth street to the churches of Co- | lumbia Heights and the affair is spon- | sored by the Columbia Heights Business Men’s Association. Tonight's program Invocation by Rev. Dr. George Fiske Dudley, rector of St. Stephen's Epis- copal Church; a Christmas story by Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, pastor of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church; prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, | pastor of Al Souls' Unitarian Church: | a talk by Rev. J. J. Rives, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church; benediction by Dr. Gove G. Johnson, pastor of the National Baptist Memorial. and carol singing by a massed chorus made up of singers from the various church choirs under direction of Norton M. Little, chorister of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church. | Other churches to be represented by thelr pastors or choir members are the Fourth Presbyterian, Central Presby- terian, Gunton Temple Memorial, First Reformed, Shrine of the Sacred Heart, | Calvary M. E. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, and Friends Church. The talks and singing will be amplified to reach all in attendance. Arrangements have been made by a committee of pastors headed by Dr. Harvey Baker Smith, pastor of the Co- lumbia Heights Christian Church. includes: COURTS HAVE ‘ARMISTICE'| MILWAUKEE, Wis., December 23 (), on litigation af- fecting families and their homes arc being observed in Milwaukee County courts during the holiday season Circuit Judge August Braun, presiding in Calendar Court, has announced « January 1. All eviction suits garnishments have likewise been post- poned in the civil courts. Only Handful of “Living Church” Followers Offer Any Pretense of Observing the Nativity This Year. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, December 23.—There is| 0 Santa Claus in Soviet Russia and Christmas will be just like any other day. Outside of the foreign colony, the only pretense of observing the na- tivity is made by a handful of persons who are followers of the “living church,” an offshoot of the old Greek Orthodox religion. They attend services in the few churches left functioning. The same is true of tho Russian Orthodox Christmas, which falls cn January 7 under the old Greek cclen- dar. There will be a total absencc of the customary Christmas, “spirit” as - | RUSSIA WITHOUT SANTA CLAUS AND CHRISTMAS ORDINARY DAY it is known abroad. Formerly, there | were Christmas trees, toys for the children,, exchanges of gifts between | grown-ups and a general air of holiday. The present generation of children has never heard of Christmas. Under the Communist code, observance of the day is frowned upon and even actively opposed by the anti-religfious elements comprising most of the pop- ulation, * Concessions are made to foreigners by the three larger hotels in Mos- | cow. Extra choice viands are made' Dr. Sizoo will have for his subject | cvailable to them at high prices and rnte;halnment and dancing are pro- vide Will Rogers PEIPING found what Vice President Marshall America needed. I can tell you what the Orient n'cds Don’'t bring a_lot of clothes. You can get anything here, toilet arti- cles, cigarettes, shoes, Scotch and all of Amer- ican standard equipment. but for mercy sakes bring a pillow, one with feathers in it. these out here are stuffed with rice, which wouldn't be so bad if they had cooked it first. THREEVMARIN.E BRANCHES GIVE CHRISTMAS PARTIES Adjutant, Quartermaster and Pay- it master Departments Stage A Celebrations, Christmas celebrations by three branches of Marine headquarters at the Navy Department were held today. A party was staged by the Adjutant and Inspector’s Department in the large room in the third wing of the Navy De- partment Building. Brig. Gen. Rufus H. Lane, head of the section. presided, and Staff Sergt. E. J. McCabe took the part of Santa Claus. The Quartermaster's Department held its second annual Christmas luncheon at the Garden-T-Shoppe. Lieut. Col. Charles R. Sanderson was toastmaster and Brig. Gen. Hugh Matthews, Quar- termaster. delievered a brief address. The Christmas luncheon of the Pay- master’s Department was held at the Lee House, with Col. H. C. Reisinger as toastmaster and Brig. Gen. George Richards, paymaster, as principal speaker. . Fish Profits Provide Music. KETCHIKAN, Alaska () —There will be Christmas music in the little Indian village of Metlakatla, thanks to the fish. Profits from the fish can- nery enabled the citizens to equip the 60-piece town band with new instru- |ban on foreclosure suits until after |ments and finish paying for the new and |town hall, which, by the way, is the | largest in Alaska. A In the post-war revolutions, despo- tisms gave way to democracies, and in the subsequent reactions, democracies gave way to dictatorships. CHURCH A PRESBYTERIA “ NEW YORK AVE. CHURCH 13th & H & N. Y. Ave. Ministers Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, D. D. Rev. Andrew M. Brodie, S. T. D. || MIDNIGHT SERVICE CHRISTMAS EVE 11 O’Clock “The Fea%t of Lights” {Holiday Traditions Date Back | | to First Occupants of | White House. By the Associated Press | isions <f many a children’s Christ- the White House will glow again s e log _embers redden the cheeks of a happy Hoover family | The Hoovers, assembling at the hearthside with their children and grandchildren. carry on the tradition that has marked well the White House | since it was a “palace” looming near a swamp and ccnnected by a mere foot path with the Capitol It is a tradition that dates to the first occupant of the presidential man- sion, John Adams, ‘whose orphaned granddaughter Suzanna was the Christ- mas sprite in 1800 The story goes that nearest to Su- zanna’s heart among her gifts was a tea set. One day it was swept to the floor and broken by a cousin when the two were at play. Suzanna, in reprisal, seized the ccusin’s wax doll and bit chunks from its face. Daniel Webster Punch. When the presidential “palace” was burned by the British in 1814 the Madi- s moved to the Octagon House, which still stands. X Yule logs crackled and blazed after John Quincy Adams followed Monroe into the repuilt White House. Christ- mas carols, hewly revived, were sung in the muddy streets and Daniel Webster punch was much in vogue, To the regime of “Old Hickory"” Jackson, however, belong the memories of a real children's holiday. Grand- | nicces and grandnephews conspired to make Christmas bright for the veteran, who had been saddened by the death of his wife. | Together the President and the chil- dren made the rounds on Christmas eve, leaving a hand mirror at the guar- ters of Martin Van Buren, a package of snuff for Mrs. Madison and pen | knives for oMicials and clerks. | “Mr. Uncle General.” | | Back in the White House the children | hung stockings on the mantel and, pre- vailing on the hero of New Orleans to | hang up a heavy woolen sock, raced | for their beds with the cry | W let's see what Santa will bring . Mr. Uncle General Old Hickory President of these United | Santa brought him a corncob pipe, | | a_package of tobacco and a pair of | slippers. ~ The Christmas table was | | decorated with a mound of “snow balls” | surrounded by a massive gilt rooster. | When the meal was finished “Old | Hickory” revealed that the “snow balls" | were made of cotton and covered with arch and the entire group repaired to | he east room for a hard-fought battle | with the mistiles | Late that night. when the children | were asleep, a secretary found Jackson | wandering among the toys, weeping. | Reprieved Tad’s Turkey. | War-saddened years in Lincoln’s ad- | ministration were enlivened particular- ly by “Tad” for whom the President ! would pull on high boots, top hat. and fasten a shawl around his gaunt should- iers with a huge safety pin to sally forth to a toy shop. One day a cabinet meeting was tem- | porarily adjourned while Lincoln wrote !a reprieve for Jack, the Christmas tur- key. The bird had been sent for Thanksgiving dinner, but Tad made friends with it on arrival and the bird followed at the heels of the youngster. He named it Jack and the friendship he bore for the bird led first to a stay of execution at Thanksgiving and later |to the out-and-out reprieve at Christ- mas. The last Christmas of the Cleveland administration was a gay one, with three little stockings hung from a man- tel. There were happy parties and a hole xoom soon filled with gifts and oys. | Roosevelt Christmases also were rich | with deeds of youngsters, but it was not again until the Hoover administra- | tion that tiny folks held such sway. | Last year, after carolers had ser- enaded in the White House, little Her- bert Hoover III, showed the spirit of childhood that has echoed so long in the mansion’s halls by shouting as loud I IR N RN ! the corner. 301 CONGRESS PLEASED OVERTDAYS' WORK Begins Christmas Vacation Today—Faces Hard Grind on Return, I \ i By the Associated Press. Fifteen days the new Congress has labored and the leaders are well pleased with the progress their forces | | have made. Today the members hegan a 12-day vacation, a lull preceding the really serious grind on important legislation which will occupy them until next Junc They have successfully negotiated the first hurdle, that intergovernment mora- torium whose opposition was mostly vocal. They face now the long road of do- mestic economy's 1egislation, staked clearly with & list of markers erected by President Hoover. Mary of the | legislators have displayed a great will- ingness to cpeed the progiam; many, in fact, are foregoing vacations at home | to stay here and prepare the bills | against the reassembling of Congress on | | January 4. | Senate Post Undedided. Except for the unsolved struggle over electing the President pro tempore of the | Senate, both houses have successfully | negotiated organization work. Despite the overturn which brought Democrats | into House control, and th= accompan | ing interparty troubles, all the commi tees are formed. They ere clicking | | smoothly on_their way. | " "Not that trouble is not ahead. There | will be a good bit of opposition in the | path of the Hoover domestic program, | some of it important. The big question mark of increased taxation finds the Democratic forces still shrinking from a decision on making a program of | their own in place of the stiff boosts | which the administration recommended | even in the face of a presidential elec- | tion next November. Prohibition, farm relief, Muscle | Shoals, veterans' cash and pension de- | mands, cash outlays for unemployed, | and all the other everlasting sources of | struggle and friction, are just around Sought Vacation Cut. The full-length Christmas vacation was not approved without difficulty. The | President wanted it cut short to speed the reconstruction cerporation bill Senator Reed and Senator Borah, Re- publicans, insisted upon getting back to work December 28, and “young guard” Republicans, Western inde- pendents and a few Democrats joined in. But the leaders held out, knowing | of old that members cannot be rushed back from distant homes in sufficient | numbers to do business. The decision on adjournment did not come until the last thing last night. A handful of | House members maintained the form of & session until the Senate was ready to_quit. This is what Congress has accom- plished to date Ratified the moratorium Passed a $200.000,000 appropriation for the Veterans' Administration and some additional items for employment services. Pushed consideration of the $500,000, 000 Reconstruction Corporation in com- mitiee to the point that it can be | brought out for action soon after re- convening. The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to make $100.000,000 avail- able for farm and land bank loans. | The Senate confirmed numerous nom- inations and initiated several new in- quiries. The feeling of the leadership was voiced by Speaker Garner ! “If you go back and study history you will find that there has not been a new Congress in decades that has done as much before Christmas—I mean as far as_the House is concerned.” The Senators did not consider them- | selves much behind. POOR TO GET BASKETS Salvation Army to Distribute Food to Needy Tomorrow. Six hundred needy Washington fam- ilies will receive baskets of food tomor- row afternoon at the annual Salvation | Army Christmas Eve party, to be held | at 2:30 o'clock at 606 E street. Mrs. Herbert Hoover is expected to attend | the celebration. Bishop James E. Freeman, Maj. and Mrs. James Asher, Newbold Noyes, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Street, Gen. Anton Stephan and others will also be honor | guests of the occasion. WILL DISTRIBUTE FOOD Full Gospel Tabernacle to Give 75 to 100 Baskets Away. The Full Gospel Tabernacle, North Capitol and K streets, will distribute between 75 and 100 baskets of food to the poor on Christmas day this year. The Relief Committee in charge of arrangements for the distribution is composed of Mrs. M. T. Kernan, Mrs, E. Hewson, Miss A. Chambers and L. P. Stafford. Order Today Christmas x: s /4 R T C R TR I R S A S0 &gg I Cut Flowers of All Kinds Promptly Delivered Potted Plants Poinsettia ~ Cyclamen T5cup $2.00 wp Living Christmas Trees in Wooden Tubs 3 to 5 ft. high, $1 to $3 Christmas Baskets at Speelal Prices. Geo. A. Comley T Phone West 0149 as he ever could: “Me'y Tissmus!” FLORIST R NRRTNRNR 3209 M St. N.W. Have you some wor whom you intend mal than a ton or two of warmth of good cheer We will deliver such tide season anywhere ular prices. il 811 E St. N.W. | = — — - gift? Could there be a more acceptable one cost to you of $1.00 per ton less than our reg- Dependable Coal Service Since 1388 Marlow Coal Co. thy family in mind to king a real, practical coal to give them the ? gifts during the Yule- in Washingon at a NAtional 0311 CANADIAN UNIONS - OPPOSE RAIL PAY CUT Senator Murdock Says Brother- hoods to Resist Move After Conference. Reporter as Santa Collects 28 Cents And Pain in Back By the Associated Bress CHICAGO, December 23.— Christmas may be just a pain in the back to Santa Claus. A newspaper reporter, assigned by his employers to go out on a street corner and play Santa Claus for a charitable organiza- tion, came to this conclusion after 5 hours of bell ringing on a street corner. The net result of his work was 28 cents in cash—and a case of lumbago. BUCKLEY OFFERS BILL TO LEGALIZE 2.75 BEER | ™1a"%" statement fonowing the con- | ference, Senator Murdock said the rail- | ways had proposed to restore the 11 | per cent wage reduction for the last half of November. “The proposal as made by the rafl- roads was unacceptable o this Con- | ference Committee of general chairmen for the reason the instruction in the hends of the general chairmen for some days have been very substantially opposed to accepting anv wage redu tions,” the statement read Falls Down Fire Escape. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario (4 Helen Bohner, who is 6, was anxidus to know if the Bohner chimney was large enough to admit a rotund Santa Claus. She went up the fire escape to investigate, tumbled three floors and landed on the pavement. The bruises should be about all gone by Christmas morning. ' By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, December 23 —The | railway brotherhoods will not accept the 10 per cent wage cut imposed by the rallways upon the running trades, Senator James Murdock said yester- | day after a conference of union heads, whom he led, and railway officials, Conversations between the unions ar the railways on the subject have been adjourned ‘till the middle of January, Proposes State Supervision of Man- ufacture and Sale—Referred to Committee. By the Assoclated Press. A bill calling for 2.75 per cent beer was introduced last night by Senator Bulkley, Democrat, Ohio, and referred to_the Judiciary Committee. It would amend the natfonal prohibi- tion act so its conditions would not be extended over “a brewed beverage commonly known as beer, containing not more than 2.75 per cent alcohol by weight.” Each State would be authorized by its own legislative machinery to permit manufacture, possession and sale. Solid automobile tires are being used extensively in Calcutta, India. 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