Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1932, Page 2

O F INAUGURATES PRESIDENT TODA $714,000,000 U. S. Capital| * at Stake in New Policies | of Alessandri. ? | (Continued From Roosevelt Polls 22,813,786 and Hoover 15,759,266. Thomas Receives 881,951 as Complete November Election Returns Are Compiled. THE EVENING Final Presidential Vote (Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press.) The complete vote in the by State cfficials and compiled Total popular sote, 30,134,351, Major Parties. sidential election of November 8, as certifled | y the Associated Press, follows: ' Pluralities. STAR. WASHINGTON, FOUR RECORDS SET INNOVEMBER VOTE | Total Ballots Cast Largest in History—Hoover Polled Most for Loser. . 1932. by the Associated Press) The largest vote in the Nation's his- (Copsright. D. C. SATURDAY, D National ECEMBER 24, 1932. Christmas Tree Set Up WHITE HOUSE T0UCH OF GAYETY President and First Lady Ab- sent, but Gifts and Deco- rations Abound. ‘With President and Mrs. Hoover State. ROOSEVELT. HOOVER. ROOV'LT. HOOVER. |tory was cast in_the November presi- spending the holidays cruising aoom overthrown by & S . De;socgrlloz. Repupligan. o AT Slection 30 T34 30T Alabama ¢ ¢ | With this record were established Georgia and Florida, the r SEilm - | three cthers. Pranklin D. Roosevelt re- was virtually deserted today, &exaj t é“‘:‘““-' | ceived the highest popular and elec'orafl means devoid of Chr: dent of Ck C',r“;“ -~ | votes ever given a winning candidate | The presidential btk ;| and President Hoover polled the largest tractively decorated Delaware ” popular vote ever cast for a loser. bt would be strong antt Outepoken Toward t‘vy exor “f glants ruled pute the U Alessandri leader for labor Te 3021 "137 5,731 Here's the way the votes were dis- tributed: Roosevelt, 22,813.786; Hoover, | 59.266; others, 1,161.299. | Final returns as certified by State | officials and compiled by the Associated Press today showed the total vote, when | compared with the previous record of | ¥ of 7,338,513 poled by Calvin cmudge over John W. Davis in 1924. Rooseve total was more than the votes for all candidates ccmbined in any ion preceding 1920. The pre- vious high for a winning candidate was Hoover's 21,429,109 four yea's ago Hoover's 1932 total of 266, com- | pared with Smith's 15,016,443 in 1928, which was the previous record for tage of the total ’s, 396, and minor | h in 1928 polled 41.2 otal vote. | 59, the latter coming Connecticut, Delaware, Maine Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Ver- mont. F ears ago Hoover had 444 and Smith 87. Minor Party Vote Grows. Roosevelt polled more than a million es each in six States—California. New York, Ohio and on mark # W York, Ohio vote more than Norman Thomas. CAPITAL PREPARES [ FOR SANTA'S VISIT: | RAIN TO GREET HIM ued From First Page) his home, in Grosse 1 Vice President Curtis were his grandchildren, Ann and Curtis George, and their parents, Col. and Mrs. Charles R. George: Mrs. Gann and her hus- band. Ecward Everett Gann. The Speaker of the House and Mrs. Garner planned to spend a day of rest at thetr otel home. Other Family Gatherings. (Cont; _Prom First Page.) : "It will be no light benefit that the world should not hear or speak of conflicts, lack of confidence, armaments, disarmament, camages, reparations, | debts payments, moratoriums, insolve: | cies, economic and financial interests sor | | of individual miseries,” he said. “Let the world no longer hear only | those notes, but instead those of high | spirituality and strong appeal to life and the interests of the souls,” Pupe adced. ~Of all this our days have partic need in the midst of s0 many trib tions, 50 much forgetfulness of eternity, enism which pervades life, uit of pleasure by the world- of maney which is so much abused,” he said The Pope invited to the observance the tr rue rebirth of the worl | Christian civilization of which we are enjoying the mature fruits.” |~ 'Tne ! Ttalian. Pope after spoke a Pope, knelt and kissed his hand. “ABSURD WAR” AVERTED |Peru Paper Says Colombians En Route to Leticia Turned Back. | LIMA. Peru, December 24 (#.—The| the newspaper El Comercio said yesterday ular | afternoon it had learned from reliable ula- | Sources that Colombian forces en route | to Leticia by way of the Amazon turned | back when they received an order to g0 $' | to_the west coast by way of Panama. 1d and the 20 minutes in 10-minute talk by the mission will serve Christmas din- ner to 750 persons. Mrs HMV.‘!! began the distribution of food ard clothing to the needy vester- day morning when she presentad the | Army’s Christmas party at 606 E street, and assisted in the distribution of baskets there | Tree at Union Station. At Union Station tonight the Wash- ington Travelers’ Aid Society will hold | |its annual Christmas tree celebration. This affair was inaugurated six years ago to bring cheer to those stranded in the Capital at Christmas time. Secre- tary Hurley will be the guest of honor. Most_of the Catholic Churches and! many Protestant houses of worship will hold midnight services tonight. Special | plans have been made for elaborate | The newspaper said it welcomed the | services at the Washington Cathedral | I news, because the arrival of the Co-| | lombian expedition at Leticia would and on the steps of the National City| Christian Church. | ‘There a man San'e by a committee headed by The tree will be ligh ed late md;; all kinds of Christmas trees in Washington, but here's the cne naticnal community tree, set up in Sher- Senator Capper of Kansas and (k-e Corrmsz y Center Department for Proaient ome of the committee members are shown gath ront of the tree, lighting of which has B e nt. Left to right: Mr er Depart _Gertrude L oo Fae ee in charge of carol ing Boy_Scouts . K. Peeples. Exe record { Committee crn:rmafl senawr Capper M—< L m-dv Ccmm..m:v Center Departmer . Col. L S. Gra 99 for Eugene director of c buildings and pub! and §loert Clyde-Burton, Office of Public Bulldings and Public Parks by Vice President Curtis. —Star Staff Photo T0Y STAFF SENDIN -~ BU0YULEGIFTS Headquaflers Will Work at! Top Speed Tonight and Christmas Day. 1 its staff working at top speed ing cheer to thousands of child- | the Capital who otherwise ould not share the joy of the Christ- mas season, “Toy Headquarters” in the Investment Building continued fts o, througt- | I work of distributing playthings out today. The workers planned to toil late into the evening, curtailing their own Christmas eve celebrations han have any children deprived ous holiday. tomorrow —Christmas day—the are intended. It was estimated today | the total toys which the agency will have handled by the day after Christ- mas will be well over 25.000—more than | 6000 of which were collected at the came from the G. C. Murphy Co. store on P and G_streets, where workers' from the headquarters picked up two large boxes of new toys, took them | | back to the distributing center and set | measure could be broug! about the work of sending them where | they will create the most yuletide hap- piness. The ditribution is being carrled out systematically, each of the many co- | operating agencies preparing a list of those whom it plans to care for and sending it to the center of distribution. where it is checked against the other lists to avoid duplication. Doll Hospital Maintained. ‘The toy headquarters, maintained by | the Counci! of Sccial Agencies, the Girl 'BEER DISTRIBUTION PLANNED IN TANKS LINED WITH GLASS Arrangements Made to thp Brew Chilled and at Reduced Costs if Law f i ' Is Passed. | By the Associated Press During_the CHICAGO, December 24 —Beer may Wiscor | travel in glass bottles as large as box cars rhrr and {f it is legalized elegance such as the knew has been are rucv to carty to buyers all over the Ty at temperatures, under pressure, and much cheaper than in the kegs and cases of former years, the tank car makers say. ‘The bulk contents of each car would become 48000 pints when bottled at beer from brewers dent of the corporal completed a six-! th brewing ry's shipping needs event of legal beer, does not expect an immediate wide demand for bulk beer cars ! costs to 4.7 cents a gallon between St. | Louis and Jersey City, as compared with the present rate of 7.44 cents & | gallon for kegs of beverages and 16.81 | cents in cases ACTION NEXT WEEK | ___(Continued From First Page.) specific measure without f ‘hairman Blaine said t if he were unsble to get a favorable report from radius of beer shipments. jof attaches and wor House and executive offi The President Christmas reme: 185858 :136.798,669 in 1928, to have increased Shtas 230.565 2,935,682, or 7.9 per cent. contatr ______ The 1932 total was only 186,094 less | the Prealdent 130.130 than the Associated Press estimate of | of the Pirst Lad; 63.189 the vote based on registration figures | etk 131806 { prior to the election. i i:na!lyég:@ e et | Roosevelt Plurality, 7,054,520, erry Christmas 450493 | Rooseveit's plurality was President in Rose Garden. 49208 This exceeds Hoover's plurality of 6.- | The photogr 157,905 423612 over Alfred E Smith four yesrs P e g v 16.082 ago. but fell short of the record p! garden on his w | House to the exec | Hoover’s photograp! ouse employes of tze Presi- vork, because, it was j stin; ts which will t “Within ' lizati notiss: .. 881951 102785 77,528 34,034 all orders now on hand fe o000 B 0 A e st | of e o e i e o < vrg o pl Cl‘gnséxbemflileodn.‘ istélu;c('ys This by naticnal for the indust: Pierce said. * 1 Old Yea: 5 g e es, was never eight years of t time there wi Home." - there will be a great many on hand le hi re, 1 d by - only half a do: br i b lah,” 1 740, possible heretofore, is expected by pro- only half a do ewers cnn-peAns c,flm I om cc:z;_c opera, “The Ooclah, For James Ford, CAmrmnu!—-Ca"!crr »ns = 31 0ins Foix Theater by tomorrow morning. to be sent out ponents of the idea to be one of the for national distribution. After that Lecoq For Jacksonian party—Texas, 104 e Christ. | 0 the homes where poverty and unem- | industry’s greatest opj es 10 re- We probably will need many more cars. Fox trot, “Have Your Forgotten®’ . For “Populist Tick."—South Carolina, "g by ¢ ; DAomelmkulg made the Yuletide out- | jeve unemployment. | Shipping Cost Cut See | » Suesse e ofagasta. Scattering—California. 127: Louisiana. 533; West Virginia. 7. Total. 667. p Eee H e e e e 3 ™ |'Waltz sulte, “Lure of the Nightn he represe in the Senate. . v helped Mr. and Mrs. John 25,000 Toys Handled. C‘m';’ :{ _u‘fm‘;"‘;g_;' Sl = oulm il compitel Wikt New e e R s mrouge e st P R E WORLD !tn!a‘ the Christmas truce he ob- S who conduct the mission. in Last night's check-up showed approx- | - ;| York brewers for the New York mar- e Spoliansky $so american n- POPE URGES folat an Boia an Pasegiry, Pl Sinia Claus This afiemoon | imately 21000 tors Bad been sent out 5 ket. Miwaukee brewers will ship| .rpe star Spangled Banne o e et ennet 1l t: t e various social agencies co-op- | & TO BANISH CARES | wi"cnnlys Goalh (s sl bass to Biue Plains. D' C. and gve | omiicg n ihe "oy neaduariens” o SENATE FAVORABLE i b by et P t! e .24 istribu )y them to tI e X red. IN HOLIDAY "JUBILEE" From these wonderful deeds be€ah (n."Aged and Ipfirm there. Tomorrow |and in the institutions for which tnes| 10 SPEED ON BEER | trade’Tank cars will reduce shipping | Monstrous Graveya piove) LENINGRAD (#) .—Zoologists {rom the Soviet Academy of Science have explored the Arctic graveyard of a herd of gigantic prehistoric mammals along the shores of Ob Bay. They have as ersal financial and economic | Cardinal Pignatelli di Belmonte. 81- Z8% TOrF . = t Pier tank onst: oL precedent In Ristory. oe, TR0 dean of the sacred college, | {S) AUt KR AL, Y ST | N0Y Tor and Warher Broa” tnentacs.” | &d not want to commit B ! cars "Would ‘bring ‘saditional ioneage | whaies peliceed To Bave lived th . 8 year, pe The cardinals singly approac! the terday ~she attended t Salvation| One of today's larger contributions . to the railroads by increasing the of years ago. They plan another in- | vestigation. the subcommittee, he would ask for action without recommen to the Senate. No on hearings, he said. N | The check of the full committee | showed that in addition to Borah, Sen- | | ators Robinson, Republican of Indiana; Hastings, Republican of Delaware, an King, Democrat of Utah, probably will oppose the beer bill though both Hast- | ings and King said they were “inclined” || n:her than definitely determined to such opposition. | Chairman Norris and Senators Schall, | || Republican of Minnesota: Austin, Re- publican of Vermont; Ashurst, Demo- | MIN MYSTERIES By H. A. Ripley UTE President Hoover and Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans’ ll- | fairs, " sent Christmas | have made a clash unavoidable on the | | Reserves of the Y. W. C. A. and Parent- eastern boundary, provoking “an absurd ) “from this moment all those redeemed | Teacher Associations. is an outgrowth yAlab al cliga: the blood of Jesus Christ. blood | ! ssandri, g-ra“dson cf which the Catholic Church, she alone, | grant, was radic t | preserves uncorruptible, and uncor- | Tupted.” | YOUNG WINGO BETTER Amo'xg the consolations of the last| year the Pope called “to the admiration | |of all examples of heroic faith and | ‘g‘msmnc‘ often true martyrdom, of | ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS B views with t& experiment of (). —The condition of Otis T. Wingo, countries _before ‘These BRIDGEPORT, Conn., December 24 shops, priests and the religious laity | jr. critically injured in an automobile mentioned | accident last Sunday, was reported as TURKEY FROM ALABAMA s 40-Pounder Supplied by Trimble, House Clerk, Who Gave Wilson Similar Birds. By the Associated Press. t-Elect Roosevelt’s Christ- | ey comes from the same strain | aced the table of the last Demo- ent—Woodrow Wilson. | A 40- -pounder, it was raised on & o plantation, near Selma, Ala. mble, clerk of the ring Wilson's it was his custom | ite House turkey administration, to provide the each Christmas. “The Governor's fine fat bird was ship- | ed w0 him after Trimble had received a letter acrepting the offer. Mr. Roose- wyelt said: “Of course, we will be delighted if u care to send us a turkey. We shall z‘e’ at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, with my mother for Christmas, and I know she uould appreciate your thoughtfulness Kidnaper Given Ten Years. LOS ANGELES, December 24 (#).— Ray Wagner, fifth member of the Shel- | don gang conv icted of kidnaping E. L. *Zeke’ Caress, wealthy betting com- missioner, was sentenced yesterday to serve 10 years in Folsom State Prison. Others sentenced before him were Elph !b:fiim. Louls h\nk. Bill Bail-| Russia and Mexico). are spl of Christ is inserting among the most glorious and edifying of history.” The Pope then added to the “con- néid pages which the Church | greatly improved at Bridgeport H His mother, Repre- pital sentative | has remained at his bedside. night. fiegene Wingo of Arkansas, ‘Wingo is a Princeton student. Baby Injured by Snowball BOYS DISREGARD MOTHER'S PLEA TO STOP SNOW FIGHT. From Yesterdar's 5:30 Edition. ITTLE FAVIS SCHEER mrrowly} escaped loss of his eyesight and disfigurement for life late to- day when a hard snow ball. thrown by a boy in the street, crashed through a front window of his home at 843 Upshur street, splintering glass all over the child’s face. The 13-month-old child was stand- ing directly behind the window watch- ing his mother, Mrs. Samuel M. Scheer, cautioning boys against throwing snow balls. Disregarding the mother's en- treaties, one of the boys threw & smow ball which crashed through the win- dow. The baby screamed. When the mother rushed in, the child’s face was covered with blood. She took the child to Children's Hospital in a taxicab, where he was given emergency treatment. ‘The glass did not injure the baby's eyesight, although some pieces pierced | the left cheek and eyelid. Policeman L. P. Sager obtained from @ boy in the street s confession thet e bad thrown the snow belh Young | . greetings to disabled veterans. Mindful of the Christmas needs of | ex-service men, Gold Star Mothers, t.hel American Legion Auxiliary, Veterans of | Foreign Wars and other service organ- izations distributed gifts today to vet- erans in service hospitals numbering more than 1,600. The hospitals visited by the committees were Walter Reed, | Mount Alto, St. Elizabeth’s, Gallinger and Freedmen's St. Elizabeth's Hospital is pre; a special dinner for all patients which will include generous portions of turkey and trimmings. This dinner is not only served to veterans in the hospital, but to patients of the District, the Coast Guard, Public Health Service, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. C-mlul to Tour City. Groups of gayly dressed carolers will g0 thmugh the city tanight contribut- ing their “Christmas gift of song” to the Yuletide celebration. Visiting hos- will bring the joyous spirit of the sea- | | son to those unable to get out and take | | part in the festivities. They also will visit most of the downtown hotels for the benefit of strangers in the city un- able to return home for Christmas. ‘The Valunteers of America today dis- tributed more than 400 Christmas bas- t keuwneedydmx. ‘Tomorrow they plan to serve to about 1,500 men. The District it of the Am¢ Legion held its annual ley Y. W. 5 y. ington , No. 15, B. P. O. day distributed approximately 400 bas- kets of food to the poor. ‘The officers and crew nf the xubm- | of & similar project sponsored in former | | years by the Girl Reserves alone. This| year that group, in addition to its other activities, maintained a doll hospital, ‘where all dolls handled by the toy head- quarters were conditioned before being sent out. Other toys were repaired and condi- tioned for their new owners at several of the stations, at schoots aed | | deyend entirely upon what the commit- | tee determines as tuting an in- | toxicating content. | Senator Bingham made his motion for consideration of the beer bill yes-| terday shortly after the Senate con- vene the Democrats of the Senate in party caucus decided not to sup- | elsewhere. ham motion, although sev- MASS IS SUSPENDED | Havana Authorities Fear Disorders " in Christmas Celebration. HAVANA, December 24 (P).—By order of military luzhomus. the tra- ditional “Misa Del the mid- night mass at e which Catholics whered in Christmas day, has been suspended this year in Havana Province. The authorities took action over pm- tests from religious organizations. The expressed fears that® disorders migh How Good Are The vote on the motion was taken after a debate between Bingham and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader. The latter objected to the motion. FACES LARCENY CHARGE Match your Sister of Julia Arthur, Actress, En- ters Not Guilty Plea. The World’s Shortest Detective Tales a Detective You? atc wits with both the criminals and Prof. Fordney in solv- ing these authentic crimes taken from the Professor’s case book. They Start Sundayy Dec. 25, in The Sunday Star They Take but One Minute to Read