Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1935, Page 14

A—14 LETTER FAD GROWS T0°SENDSID LEVEL Postal Inspectors Find Orig- | , inator Was on Denver Relief Rolls. B the Associated Press. , DENVER, April 27.—The “send-a- dime” chain letter fad rocketed to a “send $10” level today, as the Post | Office Department at Washington branded the entire scheme illegal. Nevertheless, nearly 100,000 letters | flooded the mails here today, perplex- ing post office officials who had plead- | ed that the practice be stopped. Re- | ports came that the chain idea was | Appearing at Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and Omaha, Nebr. A weary postal inspector mobilized sufficient evidence to “make an ex-| ample” of the first arrest in the $10 enterprise. But when an intended | prisoner was revealed as the head of @ family, on relief, with a crippled daughter, authorities accepted his pledge to quit the game and released him. Would Have Collected $10. Roy E. Nelson. the inspector, dis- | closed that the man questioned K was | the originator of a “send $10” letter | which contained the names of mem- bers of his family scattered over the country. He acknowledged a plan. authorities said, under which he and his relatives would have collected $10 bills without sending any. Solicitor Karl Crowley of the Post Office Department rendered an opin- | ion, which also was forwarded to Iowa postmasters, to the effect that “the scheme is in conflict with both the postal lottery and fraud statutes.” Enforcement of the opinion was a thorny problem, because of the neces- sity of obtaining a search warrant to open suspected pieces of mail—a task rendered virtually impossible by the postal volume. United States Attorney Thomas J. Morrissey. his assistants and the in- spector, after a conference, said “We wil! be guided by the legal principle of de minimis non curat lex, which means that the law does not take notice of trifles.” “Send-a-Pint” Letter Found. This decision pointed the full force of the Federal investigation at the 810 letters, with the idea that their stoppage automatically would curb the dime chain. Another new chain, called “send-a- pint,” was reported circulating in Den- ver. It was similar to the dime. $1 and $10 letters, except the receiver “was asked to send a pint of liquor to the person whose name was at the top of the list of five names contained in the letter. Thus. by the time the letter was carried through its fifth turnover, the person at the top of the list would receive, theoretically, 15,625 pints of whisk; ALECTURE TO BE GIVEN © " ON “PASSION PLAY” ,Page McKendree Etchison - of ¢+ Y.M. C. A Here to Be Heard | ¢ by Woodlawn Women. ‘\ | &pecial Dispatch to The Star. WOODLAWN, Va., April 27.—The ‘Woodlawn Circle of King’s Daughters | is_sponsoring an illustrated lecture, *The Passion Play of Oberammergau,” | to be given by Page McKendree Etchi- son, religious work director of the Washington Y. M. C. A, at the com- | munity house Thursday, May 2, at !' o'clock. | The proceeds from the affair are to | be applied to the fund which members | of the Washington-Alexandria-Fairfax -Circles of King’s Daughters are raising in order to establish a memorial room at the Alexandria Hospital in honor of the late district president, Mrs. Mary Ballenger of Alexandria. | “FIREPROOF CORRIDORS IN NEW SCHOOL ASKED | “Allender Will Serve as Secretary | — and Treasurer of West- . minster Board. | 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. | WESTMINSTER, Md., April 27— | After awarding E. E. Stuller, Taney- town builder, the contract for the Mount Airy Consolidated School,} whose bid of $49,720, subject to a de- duction of $1,200 for the debris at| the site, was low, the Board of Edu- | cation at she April meeting instructed Architect B. E. Starr to obtain from | the successful bidder a price on the incorporation of fireproof corridors | “in the contract. Awarding of the | ‘contract for the heating and plumb- | #ing was deferred until the May board “meeting. | #+ A resolution empowering J. Herman | «Allender to act as secretary and | streasurer of the education group until | . successor to the late Dr. Unger is “appointed, was adopted at the April meeting of the board. SCHOOLS IN LOUDOUN SPONSORING MUSICALE | “Event for Benefit of Library Will | '} Be Held at Leesburg on J May 10. MEpecial Dispatch to The Star. | « LEESBURG, Va. April 27.—The #chools of Loudoun County are spon- | ~soring a musicale to be given in the #chool auditorium here May 10 at 8 | o'clock for the benefit of the county | Achool library and musical fund. | . Every school in the county will be represented in the presentation in some form, either mass chorus or spe- cial numbers. There will be rhythm bands, folk dancing, interpretive danc- ing and minuets. Miss Nancy Lewis, ‘chairman of the Music Committee, has “announced that 100 children will take | “part in the mass chorus. 'BLIND ASTRONOMER | < PATIENT IN HOSPITAL | i 4 +Dr. Edwin Brant Frost Suffers : From Gall Stone Colic # in Chicago. “By the Associated Press. ' CHICAGO, April 27—Dr, Edwin| JBrant Frost, the blind astronomer of ‘ 4C¥iw.go University's Yerkes Observa- | .tg'y, Kv‘v’ho “sees” more of the solar ystem than most men with two good yes, is a patient at Billings Memorial ospital. | Prost, retired from the observatory | t Willlams Bay, Wis, is suffering rom a gall stone colic, but physcians elieve that rest will bring about his drecovery without the necessity of an fpermon. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Bridge Set Five sturdy metal pieces—including table and four chairs with padded seat and back. The finish is green, 59.95 brown or red and black The Best Type of Glide Ornamental in its appearance as well as supremely com- fortable. 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