Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1931, Page 17

The ITH SUNDAY MOBNING EDITION Foening Star | Comics and Classified WASHINGTON, D. (., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25 1931, PAGE B—1 MOTHER OF 3, HURT N CAR'S DROP OFF IFF, NEAR DEATH Hushand and Two Children| Seriously Injured in Rock Creck Crash. MACHINE DROPS 30 FEET AFTER SKID ON WET ROAD Third Youngster Escapes Wxth' Bruises—Four Other Persons Traffic Accident Victims. toph, 34 2917 near death this from injuries received yester the automobile with her } band and tt ildren plunged over & 30-foot cliff in Roc! Park near 'wo of the of At Garficld was said b fered a fracty unconscious ) her 3-year-old also was thou but an aid to be consider her’s ighter. pital icians Mrs. Ch to have She was H h ghter, ve & Ma Joan 1 tured covery ter tr A Katherine, 6, is Her skull may The third c . escaped with minor bruises. Husband Badly Hurt. sband, Fred A. Christoph in_the foreign commerc> division of the United States Chamber of Commerce. received a fractured pel- vis. He was admitted to Garfield. accident occurred about as the car, driven by Mr. Ch as proceeding east on Park road. | 200 yards west of the Park Ro; Christoph applied his brakes r skidded on the wet road- ed through heavy guard ged over the cli Chase, 3432 Thil passing motori: red from the wrec 1. Chi igh and the c way -fourth Upr G. Porttlebaugh and Pvt of the United States Park ated the accident Four Others Injured. her persons were injured in accidents late yesterday and last among th Samuel Brown, 65, Penr nia avenue, d in a critical condition at v Hospital for several hours was_knocked down by an au- at Twelfth and Water streets Police nigh of 2501 who lay unider t 1 was struck by a machine )y Edwin C. Woden. 40, of 1000 s hile racing hit by a ing from ked him taken to Emergency condition and suffer- ctured collar bone. Members of Brown's family v his failure to arrive home last night, d were sent to the His identity was quickly es- hed. Brown's condition was said to be greatly improved today nes Lowney of 1315 Twelfth was taken to Emergency Hospital a fractured shoulder and several broken ribs after he was struck at Sixth cet and Pennsylvania avenue by an ile operated by Raymond Crier, 26, of 505 Four-and-a-half street southwest Woman Hurt Hospital Mrs. Sallie Hughes southeast. for shoulder injurie re- ceived when an automobile driv her husband, Claude Hughes, 6 in Crash. physicians treated 54. of 218 A street east, Hugh at First and D stree s nor Lurk was hurt ed down by an automobile as tepped from a taxicab ir i block of Seventh street northe: Katherine Reed, 18, of 918 Seventh strect northeast, escaped with bruises of the forehead and left knee. Patrick Murg h street northeast, driver of the car, took her to Casualty Hospital for tr GEM LOST IN SAUCE Finds Lost Cranberries, a ty Wom Diamond in ‘That diamond ftself lost from which annually gets some housewife's ring in the turkey dressing today and put in its with a pang la ng was missi She searched tchen over for n vain. This owever, when the cranberry sauce was set oul to cool, a dim gleam was discovered in its crimson depths. It was the lost diamond. MRS. JACOBS’ RITES SET Funeral for Widow to Be Held To- morrow at 2 P.M. Mrs. Hannah S ce G. Jacobs, for t here, will be nels Church t v Funcral services fo acobs, widow of Ho many years promine in Calvary Baptist afternoon at 2 o'clock in Homeopa husban many architect of and later was gene! ward & Lothrop's D=partm nt Store. RANDALL J. .CONDON DIES| Widely Known Educator Expires Visit. Randall J. Condon. 69, widely known | | educator and former president of the | Department of Superintendents of the National Education Association, died | last night in Greenville, Tenn., Where | he was visiting ! Mr. Condon had played a prominent | role as a member of the Illiteracy Com- mission of the Department of the In-| terior. His home was in Friendship, Me. ' FOOTPAD EEATS WOMAN DENVER, Cclo., December 25 (A).— Battling a footpad. who rought to take | a purse containing her pilot’s license. Mrs. Vera Dawn Walke", woman fyer, was severely beaten and left in a Denver street last night Mrs. Walker has a possible fractured skull and cuts and_bruises, surgeons at Denver General Hospital said. Her purse was stolen. in Greenville, Tenn., | ) | | same insti- ild. Carolyn | h | bishops of the Church of England and R | WORK WITH BRITAIN Christmas Sermon From Bethiehem Chapel Put on i International Chain. i = 2 | A call to the people of America and | Britain to give heed to s 1 rather | than material was sounded to- | da nes E. Freema Episcc ashington, in an intern g broad- j cast thedral at { 11:3 Speaking lehem chapel Bishop Freo d his vast | dience of the forthcoming arms cor | ference and, recalling the ties between { this countrv and England, bespoke a Ty ction to “make such contri- ! bu he world's peace and h: piness as it has never before known.” i Broadcast on Chain. Bishop Frceman's sermon and a por- { tion of the festival service of holy com- munion was broadcast_throughout the | United States by the Columbia Broad- | casting was expected to | reach icularly England— British Broadcasting Cor- The wreck 1 toppled over on Pa yesterday cliff Park W three children were hu; Below, Mrs. W. B. Upright, who hel " extricate the family from the machine | —Star Staff Phot BLOODHOUNDS HUNT | WOMAN’S ASSAILANT Victim's Condition Not Sericus, Say Docters. ? an attended nfercnce in England a v last Stmmer he broade e from London to Am ¢ of the English-speaking Advance notice of his interna- age today was sent to mem- National Cathedral Assc- living in England and to the intc the Associated Pr N Seaich for a Negro al auited Mrs. Lillie Je cked her 15-year-old son attempted to defend his mother, was sified yesterday as officers with | loodhounds _continued to search the woods near_here, The search was started in the morning after the woman told town and county police the story of the attick a mile from here on a highway. Physicia who examined Jenkins said she had suffcred 1 except from shock. The son Lee, received numerous bruises 1 ions about the head. A traveling man brought Mrs. Jenkins ere, where she told police the Negro sprang upon them from a ditch, beat Major Lee with a stick, assaulted her | and escaped in the darkness. | The posse’s eflorts had proved fruit- | less late last night. Welfare agenci°s here co-overated in sending Mrs. Jenkins and her sons to heir oid home near Pink Hill late yes- terday. | December 25— the | deans of cathedrals in the principal | English dioceses | “Presently we of America and Eng- land will be called to join with siste i nations in a fresh appraisal of we have builded of armament to s r peace.” the b said today. have built without reference to that which we profess to believe is the world's surest guarantee against dis- {order, namely. the impregnability of | Christian character. While we guard jour outposts we tragically neglect our finest resources as constituted by our homes and firesides. While we arm our | men and fortify our frontiers, we per- | mit the moral standards of our do- | mestic and social habit to be weakened | by usages that enervate and destroy ! moral character. While we press with tircless zea] our trade at home and | abread, we indulge in ways and prac | tices that must uitimately undermine our efficiency and impair our institu- s. We are bunglers at best, and | while we proclaim our skill and herald our enterprise and genius to the world, to make sure our footings or to | build our estate to withstand the storms {that at times threaten its ruin and | j destruction. | “Our reckoning is all wrong. We | at Mrs. injury Major and YOUTH BADLY INJURED IN PLUNGE FROM TREE | Henry G. Wallace, 14, Falls 75| Feet From Platform as Board Gives Way Under Him. AN <l 1700 sem | phones, ! have toiled long and tirelessly and | v 0! ‘Wallace, 14, so | hat _have we gained? A disordered | goc L ,GCOTEe e e 1 s. H. G. Wallace of 2029 | [ herfect mechanisms, accelerated speed, | jired yesterday when he fell 75 feet from TE R B e e e "lam’é"(‘; b”'[lfm’\'é Aree nearaiing o) w and tenements for the many. paid | 'oq9, 2nd Cour! S : The youth, who is an honor pupil at | the blood of our sons & prodigal | western High School and a member of | a devastating and fruitless : the s-hool cal . was taken to d the mailons with debt | nount Alto Hospital suffering from a d such dislocation of in-|fractured skull, fractured wrists and the world has never known | ghock. Physicians reported his condition d what have we gotten in ex- | a5 critical. change? Nothing: net even the bene- | ““Tpe Dlaiform in the tree had been i fits that accrue to hard carned experi- | pyjlt by a group of children, including cnce. Our course is wrong, wickedly | the Wallace boy. The youth fell when | wrong. It must be corrected, and that |ypne of the boards in the platform gave | without delay.” way. Branches of the tree broke the force of the fall and probably averted | | instant death, police say. {in | | Old Woman in Shoe Wants More Help For Capital’s Poor The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe and gives away 1,500 pairs of them every week, has iea for more old iribut> ngton. Gifts n sufficion dirg, 1514 H strec Joscph P. Tumully, formerly sec- ent Wilson, will liver a redio speech on behalf of the Old Woman Christmas day at 6 pm. The plea will be broadcast over WRC. | = el {SANTA CLAUS BRINGS PATIENT NEW “VOICE” Artificial Provided Man So He Could Say “Merry Christmas!” Christmas looked dark indeed | Willam Murphy of Plattsburg, N. at Walter Rezd Hospital. An opcraii er of his vocal | s and Mr. Murphy knew he never |again would be able to say “Merry | Christmas.” | Santa Claus and the United States Veterans' Bureau got in touch with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., and an order was rushed through for | an artificial larynx. 8o everything was arranged for Mr. Murphy to go home for the holidays Christmases.” Larynx for for X with a voice to say “Merry FEDERAL MOVING Firemen Give to City’s Needy BASKETS J0B WILL EMPLOY ARMY OF WORKERS Department of COmmerce; Transfer Will Be Tackled | on New Year Day. OFFICE BUiLDING RANKED‘ AMONG WORLD’S BIGGEST | 3311 15 En- trances and Occupies Land Area of Nearly Eight Acres. Contains Rooms, Uncle Sam New Year day moving job. Toiling 24 hours a day during the hoiiday weck end, armies of wor are to transfer the bulk of the scat- tered effects of the Department of Commerce into a new home The home, standing in the shadow the W 1 will roll up his s to tackle a first-clas; of house department Standar Compa; 7 street southeast le of business, for w wed $17.500.000. it ran floor space as one of the world's gr et office buildings and the largest Washington Through its in at- in into Year s lia 15 entrances and its 3311 rooms will g» a New parade of typewriters waste baskets and other parapherr from numerous buildings in the city. Floor Area Is 1,605,066 Feet. Under one roof will be centralized the Secretary's office and force Aeronautics Branch, Bureau of C Bureau of Foreign and Domestic merce, Bureau of Fisheries, Bure louses, Coast Geodetic Sur- cy. Bureau of ) Steamboat 1spectionService and Bureau of Min The Com: stories hi; carl CITY OF PEDDLERS Twelve Taken in Round-up Rids District of Type, Anslinger Says. ation 99 1.050 ot 1 Hoove | design of t of Comm 10, 1929 vashington Secrets ng during the mmisgioner These men were in: > it narcotic 'm orders who con- ut-of-town ructed to traffickers Washington Secreta 1 office has a vaulted ceiling and American walnut 1 wall located in the surrounded by the solicitor the G estigations en a short tim oo the persons, a 2400 at a b> used ding 1.000 nodate The north section from top to bot- tom will house the Patent Office. with 7 ate cubicles on one floor th police. squads 1. assistant nar- e Washington S t. Rob ed the used in construction. from base marble to 10.000.000 common bricks, were obtained from nearly every State in the Union. The building rests on 80 miles piling and the laces is 3 feet thick pressure of Tiber Creek, under the structure. Struc steel used totaled 16.400 tons and 45 draftsmen worked nine ‘ths in preparing shop drawings fabricating_the steel 00 windows which may ancous ts for tel Is and lights. nd to be better according to Commis e of the scarcity country by reason of in breaking up onal and interstate e last year of over three tons of illicit narcotic drugs. CARNEGIE INS.TITU'I:E AIDS formerly, in the which flows elevator commodate 800 000 peo or 25 (). — Samu of the f lo announced yes- the Carncgie Institute of had and has P WOMAN’S BODY RAISED that n expe 2 with c her discovered by an of the university srmone extracted from the cortex of the andreal gland of cattle, and is used for the treatment of Addison’s e. Its discovery was first by Dr. Hartman in 1927 to the discovery Addi- sons disease had been considered hope- les Buffalo hospitals have responded favor- |ably to cortin treatments and equally successful results have been obtained through cortin treatments in other I cities,” the university authorities claim Miss Annabelle Campbell Found | *'Gonin i Dead in Auto in River. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Decem- ber 25 (P).—The body of Miss Annabelle Campbell, 35, was recovered yesterday from her automobile which was raised from St. Marys River Miss Campbell, a nurse. disappeared Monday night after visiting a friend, Mrs. Paul Clair. Friends said she was despondent since the death of her father several months ago. Saks & Co. Again Plays Santa NEEDY BOYS GET OVERCOATS FOR CHRISTMAS. N even hundred boys were outfitted with new warm overcoats at Saks & Co. this morning as a Christmas gift from the firm. With unemploy- ment adding to the distress in many homes this season many of the most_deserving boys were given other articles besides the clothing, and in several cases some needed money was put into the overcoat pockets to help spread Christmas cheer. For 44 years officials and employes of the firm have made it their Christmas duty to leave their homes for a few hours in the morning to see that each youngster, selected from those between 3 and 14 years, has an overcoat especially fitted for him. In the photo, Isaac Gans, manager, shown shaking hapds with one of the boys. Here are some of the well filled baskets they DOPE RAID CLEARS RARE DISEASE RESEARCH' and incurable, but several cases in | OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED AMONG POOR FOR TODAY DUCK HAWK TERRORIZES POST OFFICE FLOCK. | their forces during November as work | The duck hawk which last vear wrought havoc among the flocks of pigeons that inhabit the Post Office Department tower has returned and terror again reigns among the feath- ered denizens of that lofty roost. Daily one or more pigeons fall prey to the marauder and evidences of his repasts have been found about the roof of the building and once even on the sidewalk of Pennsylvania zvenue. The bird appears to be the identical | hawk which fed on the pigeons for | three weeks about this time last year. | According to Assistant Chief Clerk | Charles Warren, who learned of the| presence of the bird today, the hawk | last year was light brown in color and was “definitely identified as belonging to_the duck hawk species. It was so bold. he said, it even would swoop down on a hapless pigeon sitting on a window ledge of an occupied office and carry 1t cff Finally the hawk disappeared and the pigeons led peaceful lives until sev- eral days ago. when he reappeared and again commenced his depredations About 15 years ago. Mr. Warren re- lated, there was another hawk which preyed on the Post Office pigeons. So many pigeons were killed that a guard armed with a gun was stationed to wait for the bird. The hawk finally was shot and his stuffed hide now graces a pedestal in the National | Museum. 'ENGLAND MAY GET | STOCK SALE SUSPECT John Factor, Accused in $7- 000,000 Deal, Charged With False U. S. Entry. By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, December 25 —Murray W. Garsson, alien investigator for the | | Secretary of Labor, said today that| John Factor, accused of making $7.000,- | | 000 fake stock sales in Great Britain, | | may have to return to England to face | | the charges whether he wishes or not. | | Garsson made his report after ques- tioning Factor several hours as to how he_entered the country. | Factor, the officer said, entered the United States from Mexico December 3. 1930, on a form “A” visa, which en- | ables the husband of a citizen to enter | | as an immigrant. Mrs. Factor is a| | citizen. In answering the questionnaire, pre- | said he had never been arrested. a sig- | | nificant point in the quiz, Garsson said. Records held by the Government show that Factor has been indicted by the { Government and has been arrested by the police in the United States, Garsson said Garsson said that Factor faces charges of “falsely having entered” the United States. which makes him sub- ject to deportation. Great Britain has sought to obtain Factor's custody since May 12. Since | that time his status has been argued before Federal authorities. SHAW, IN CAUSTIC MOOD, SAILS FOR CAPETOWN | By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Decem- ber 25—In caustic mood, Bernard Shaw sailed yesterday with Mrs. Shaw | for Capetown, searching for the sun which has not been seen much in Eng- land in the past few weeks. “I need a rest.” he said. “I'm nearly dead. As a matter of fact, I'm a very old | man and may never come back. Al trip like this might easily be my last.” Shaw was 75 last July. He insisted on playing the role of Scrooge until the liner sailed. When somebody asked his signature for a book to be sold for charity, Shaw growled, “I'll be damned if I will, Why should I sell my autograph to re lieve the country of its responsi- bilities?” The Shaws, expect o return in April, paratory to being admitted, Factor |* DINNER. ANY Weshington families are enjoying Christmas dinners today because of the generosity of the “boys” of Truck | JoPPed of $1,000 distributed from their headquarters, on Eighth | Shown with the gifts are Chief George S. Watson and (on the right) Capt. J. L. Werheim. | —Star Staff Photo. | i e | [UOVEIERMS GET EMPLOYMENT Employment Service Report Says Industrial Situation Has Little Change. The United States Employment Service, through its supervising di- rector, John R. Alpine, said today it had obtained employment for 10.000 service-connected disabled war veterans in various sections of the country. Ap- proximately 60,000 other veterans were reported to be seeking work. At the same time the service issued a bulletin that automobile factories and plants producing automobile accessories stepped up production and increased was started on new models. From statistics gathered in principal cities in the 48 States, the service re- ported that little change in the indus- trial employment situation was noted during the past month. Besides the automobile industry. the Christmas trade was responsible for keeping em- ployment almost at the same level as that reported in October. While the major manufacturing establishments were in operation during the month, the report said a large per- centage of the workers were employed on part-time schedule. Conditions in the iron and steel industry generally remained unsatisfactory, the report said. Influx of both men and women into Washington from other sections of the country, the report pointed out, caused the surplus of skilled and unskilled labor to increase here. Because of the large Government building program. however, there was a demand for sheet metal workers, lathers, plumbers and painters Employment for disabled war vet- erans was obtained by the service through the co-operation with the three veterans' organizations. CRASH SOUNDS LIKE But Its Only Auto Hitting Pole in Executive Avenue and Not Kris Kringle. It was 5 oclock this morning, and the Hoover grandchildren—Peggy Ann and Herbert, 3d—were still on the look- out for Santa Claus. Their ears, like those of millions of other children, had been alert for the slightest sound throughout the night, but they had heard nothing to indicate Kris Kringle had paid his annual visit to the White House. Suddenly there was a crash. It was 50 loud that it could have been heard for at least a block. The youngsters must have decided St. Nicholas had come at last. But the crash was—well. just a crash An automobile had struck the granite posts in the middle of West Executive avenue at the corner of Pennsylvania Although the car was demolished, its four occuparts were so little hurt that they were eble to climb from the wreck- age and walk away. Pair Celebrate COUPLE MARRIED 50 YEARS AGO ON CHRISTMAS. ‘With & reunion of five of their chil- ren and two grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marion Smithson of 1320 Longfellow street are celebrating today the fiftieth anniversary of their mar- riage in the Luther Place Memorial Church. The couple were married by Rev. J. G. Butler Christmas day, 1881, when the bridegroom was 18 years old and the bride was only 16. Mr. Smithson has been employed in the Washington Navy Yard for 51 years and he now is working under his sec- ond extension of time prior to retire- ment. Mrs. Smithson was Miss Olivia Joachim. Both are natives of the Capital. The children attending the reunion with them today are G. Leon Smithson, Laura O. Smithson. Mrs. Madolin 8. Hodgson,. Charles Earle Smithson and Mrs. m Hipsley, ROBBERS GET 1.0 IN HOLD-UPS HERE ON CHRISTMAS EVE Joseph Witt, Grocer, Loses $1,000 in Cash to Three Men Near Home. SAME TRIO SUSPECTED AS TAXICAB BANDITS Clothing and $324 in Money Taken From Connecticut Man at 18th and E Streets Police today were | series of robb-ries perpe bandits last night which n bers more than $1,500 1 valuables | Returning from his place of & at a late hour, Joseph Witt was held up by three inv in colored m: the alley in t | of his ho Joseph treet, rep olered bandits as he was crossing a First and M streets last night. The three mer tain to a tree, he said, bef fled. at Visitor Robbed by Two, | up at pistol jeenth and E streets last n | Celone, Darby, Conn PO | robbed of $324 in cash and containing clothing valued at two white men He gave police a des | bandits. | _John Adams. colored, a cab d 136 Q street. was the vi olored bandits who hired I and-a-half and G st hortly after 8 o'clock { $4 in cash whe a point on Fran Police believe the | men who robbed F A colored pur | kandbag of Florida | Oregon ~ aven | shopping trip streets, the wol purse contained she said Held point ne hree were tt Home Ransacked. Mrs. Sarah Wilson lace, told police burglars ome )esterday Entrance w breaking a pane of glss ndow, she stated h sacked ‘and robbed at $106 An automobile Farrell. 3512 Ga 1on a lot near Seve | streets, was robbed of w valued at $105 yesterday loot. be! |p h {NEW AIR FIELD OPENED ON ROUTE TO NEW YORK Fully Equipped Emergency Port Near Bowie Completed by Commerce Department. A new intermediate land: compiete with airways beacon. code beacon, boundary light stacle and approach | Christmas gift of the Comme: | partment to airmail pil £ th: Landi | “The £ | in the recon York Airw: the worla night mail planes last night were loaded to capacity with be- lated Christmas mail and the pilots re- ported a gala night. with magnificent weather all up and down the coa | a full moon, which made flying as easy }as by full daylight. PARTY FUNDS ARE SPENT | FOR 35 NEEDY FAMILIES |Employes of Capital Garage Fore- go Celebration to Aid City's Poor. Seventy-five employes of the Garage yesterday _distributed needy families of Washington of Christmas food and toys, they purchased with funds usually spent for a Christmas party for mem- bers of their organization Recently a group of the employes proposed that instead of spending a donation from the owners of the prop- erty for the usual Christmas party, they take this sum and. with funds which they wished to contribute. fill Christmas ‘baskets for some of Wash- ington's less fortunate families A committee of the garage men was formed and the plan was carried out through co-operation of the ownership corporation and the Associated Chari- ties, which provided a list of names of families to receive the packages. Capital to | ’ | DROPS DEAD DANCING Christmas Celebration by Philadel- phia Ex-Actor Fatal. PHILADELPHIA, December 25 () — ' Forty years ago William H. Pell was | one of the best jig dancers the stage knew. Just to celebrate Christmas eve he jigged last night around the family | Christmas tree, recalling some of the | old steps. His' heart falled and he | dropped dead. CHICKEN BURIED 102 DAYS ORANGEVILLE, Ontario, December 25 (#).—Errett Dickson, farmer, found a chicken, emaciated but alive, that had been buried under a straw stack last September 13, during threshing season The fowl, he said, had apparently found enough nourishment in the straw to keep it alive 102 days. Radio Fan Fights Disturber. WINCHESTER, Va.,"December 25 (/) —Ira Haines went out and fought with Philip Rainsberger because the latter made so much noise he couldn't hear Amos ‘and Andy on the radio, Haines said in answering an attack charge in Magistrate’s Court here yesterday. Judge Weems dismissed the case, re- marking he, 100, was & radio fany