Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1934, Page 14

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT BASKETRY HELPS SUPPORTS FAMILY Virginia Woman, Learning to Read and Write at 30, to Show Work. | A Virginia woman who helps sup- port her two young children by weaving white oak baskets will be among the exhibitors at the Interna- | tional Bazaar of the Americanization | School, where, at the age of 30, she is just beginning to learn to read and | ‘write. | The bazaar will be held tomorrow and Tuesday at the Webster School, Tenth and H streets, and Mrs. Clara | Myers, the basket weaver, and a num- | ber of other talented students of the institution, will demonstrate their | work. | Mrs. Myers, an ambitious little | woman, lives in a loft above an aban- doned stable in an alley between Ninth | and Tenth, H and I streets. With the | aid of her husband, an unemployed electrician, who is on the emergency FRANKLIN WILLIAMS, Student in the Emergency Relief Administration’s adult classes at the Ameri- canization School, who will take part in the interna- tional bazaar to be held Monday and Tuesday by the Americanization School Association. Tapestry, em- broidery, pottery and hun- dreds of other objects will be exhibited and sold dur- ing the bazaar. —Star Staff Photo. BURKE 1S ARDENT NEW DEAL ALY Nebraskan Won Seat Senate Despite Fight Upon His Record. in LINCOLN, Nebr., December 1 (N.A. N.A.).—Representative E. R. Burke, Democrat, won & senatorship in one of the most hotly contested cam- paigns Nebraska has ever witnessed. The campaign was featured by 10 joint debates between Burke and his opponent, former Representative Rob- ert G. Simmons. Burke championed the New Deal and the administration, while his op- ponent pointed out that Burke as a Representative had voted against the |A. A A, had questioned Secretary Wallace's policy in interviews. Burke’s answer was unqualified approval of every feature of the New Deal. Senator-elect Burke was 54 years | of age the day before Thanskgiving. ! | lsroek. whose hand-loomed bedspreads relief rolls, she has transformed the | are included in the exhibition. old loft into a livable six-room apart- | ment. Children in School. Her two children, who she says are 6 and 7, though they look to be only 4 and 5, she entered in the kinder- garten and first grade, so they could get “book learning” early in life. Two or three times a week Mrs.| Myers drives a battered automobile out into Maryland or Virginia to gather the oak for her baskets. She cuts the wood herself and fashions it into strips suitable for basket weav- ing. She sells the finished product wherever she can for whatever she can. ““We must live, you know, until times get better,” she explained with a smile. Mrs. Myers came to Washington three years ago from New Market. | Va. in the Shenandoah Valley. A| little over a year ago she moved into the alley loft. Then it was just one huge room, cold, drafty, unkempt and badly lighted. ! | Heat From Small Stove. All last Winter she and her hus- band and the two babies lived in the | place, with only a pitiful small coal stove to furnish heat, and on which | to do the cooking. “But somehow we managed to et along.” the little mother recalled “You wouldn’'t know the place nov’ My husband and I built the parti- tions out of discarded lumber and old box wood. We made some of the doors and some were given to us. Then w got a couple of stoves, but better than the on year. | When a reporter and the principal | of the Americanization £chool calied | on Mrs. Myers, she and her husband | were busy cleaning the windows in | e had last their “apartment” and pape the walls. Heavy wall board been nailed over the flimsy partitions to keep out the cold blasts of Winter and it was over this that the paper was being spread. Colorful curtains hung at the windows and the place gen- erally was clean and well kept. Work to Be Exhibition. Mrs. Myers is proud of her hasket- weaving and will show visitors how it is done during the two-day exhi- bition. Among others who will ex- hibit are Franklin Williams. artist, who tramped here from California and is staying at the Transient Relief | Bureau, who did the posters for the bazaar, and Mrs. Amelia Pappas, a 'K Check advan Christmas Savings Checks Cashed powerful linen manufacturers will build a plar England. grown on the King’s at Castelberg’s No Money Down Free Home Big Trade-in Offer Small carrying set which brings in all American stations, all police and some aircraft and amateur stations. Automatic volume control and 5 Philco high-efficiency tubes. 1004 FSt. N.W. Opposite Woodward & Lothrop Through the assistance of Frederic A. Delano, a variety of potied plants, cuttings and decorative flowers Lave been obtained for distribution. Fritz Zimmet of the Americanization School Association has organized a group of students who are learning to plant win- dow boxes, care for and devclop them. The plants and boxes then are dis- tributed among poor families where their brightness may help lift some of the sordiness and drabness of life. DUCK HUNTERS SOUGHT IN MARSHES OF BAY Baltimore Professor and Ross Geary, 17, Missing—Empty Boat Found Afioat. By th2 Associated Press. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., December .. —Searching parties searched the marshes of the Chesapcake Bay to- night for H. P. Porter, member of the faculty of the Baltimore Polytech- nich Institute and A. Ross Geary, 17, son of Maj. Enoch Barton Geary, who operates a school for boys near here The two left on a duck hunt early today and therr empty boat was found floating in the Bay near the school. Young Geary is a son of Maj. and Mrs. Geary. Maj Geary is a former president of St. John’s College of An- napolis and opened his school for boys at Oakington, two years ago. Plan to Deseed Flax. Representing Scottish and Irish a new company at Sandringham, for the deseeding of flax estate. WORKS 5228 3AYERSON OIL COLUMBIA these tages Trial charge. He was born in Runningwater, S. Dak.; received his A. B. degree from Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.; and his LL. B. from Harvard in 1911, He married Henrietta Flinn of De Kalb, I, and moved to Omaha to begin the practice of law in 1911. They have two daughters, Burke served the second Nebraska district in the Seventy-second Con- gress. Before that he had served on the Omaha Board of Education, di- recting largely the work of placing that school system on a sound finan- cial basis. During the World War he was & second lieutenant in the Air Service. He has served on the gen- eral council of the American Bar As- soclation and one term as president of the Omaha Bar Association. His home is in Omaha. Burke was supported by Arthur Mullen, former national committee- man, and toward the end of the cam- paign Gov. Bryan made it known that he and his political friends were | supporting the Democratic cardidate for Senator. (Copyright. 1934, by North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) il Christmas Meeting Called. The East Washington fourth ennual Christmas meeting for civic and re- ligious leaders interested in the wel- fare of families in East Washington will meet at the Eastern Presbyterian Church. D. C, DECEMBER 2, 1934—PART ONE. Reaches Senate E. R. BURKE, APPEAL IS CARRIED T0 SUPREME COURT Patterson, Convicted in Scotts- boro Case, Seeks to Avoid Death Penalty. By the Associated Press. Haywood Patterson, colored, yester- day sought Supreme Court assistance in his effort to escape the death pen- sity imposed after he was convicted of “attacking a whnite woman near Scottsboro, Ala. Patterson asked the high court to review his conviction in Alabama. Once before the court ordered a new trial in the widely-known case. Patterson is held in Kilby Prison another colored youth, also facing the death penalty on February 8. Norris already had asked the court to review | his_conviction. Patterson contended he was de- prived of constitutional rights because the grand jury in Jackson County, Ala., which indicted him, and from at Montgomery with Clarence Norris, | colored persons were excluded from | the jury which tried and convicted him in Morgan County, Ala. 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