Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1935, Page 4

GITIZENS INDORSE - D.C. VOTING PLAN Allen’s Prbposal for City Referenda Approved by Burroughs Group. Commissioner George E. Allen’s ref- erendum proposal was approved last night in a resolution adopted by the Burroughs Citizens’ Association, meet- ing in the John Burroughs School. Wilbur S. Finch, who introduced the resolution, declared the proposed ref- erenda “would be the nearest thing to suffrage yet attained in the Dis- trict.” Kenneth P. Armstrong, finan- cial secretary, and David A. Babp, president, spoke in favor of the pro- Permits Advisory Voting. Under the referendum plan, it was explained, precincts would be set up in varlous sections of the city to receive ballots on projects to be put before Congress. Thus, it was pointed out, citizens would be permitted to express their views on measures proposed. Recommendation was made to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, in another resolution, that the Burroughs section be consid- ered for some of the memorials tc be erected in the future. Universal Transfers Urged. Another resolution recommended that the Budget Bureau be relieved of consideration of the District budget. A resolution, previously approved by the association’s Public Utilities Com- mittee, requesting universal transfers on busses and street cars in the Dis- trict, also was adopted. E. J. Kelly of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, gave an fllustrated lecture on ‘“National Capital Parks,” showing the develop- ment of the projected Fort Drive. The Fire Department Band entertained. SERMON ON ADVENT FEATURES SERVICE “People and Preacher” Topic of | Talk Tomorrow by Rev. | G. E. Lenski. Services at Grace Lutheran Church, of which Rev. G. E. Lenski is the| pastor, tomorrow will honor the Ad- vent season as a period of prepara- tion for the coming of Christmas. He will preach on “People and Preacher.” The young people will hold a devo- tional meeting at 6 pm. The topic will be presented by Paul Ziemer and will be “What of Other Races?” This discussion will be led by Margaret Crow. Lawrence Stutz, president, will conduct the meeting. Supper will be served at 7 p.m. The Women’s Guild will meet Mon- day at 8 pm. for election of officers. The Fidelity Club will meet Thurs- day at the home of Mrs. William Dove, 5142 Klingle street. The senior confirmation group will meet tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the home of G. 1. Anderson, 4612 Highland ave- nue, Bethesda, Md. The junior group meeets Sundays at 9:45 a.m. and Wed- nesdays at 4 pm. METHODISTS TO HEAR THIRD OF SERMONS Rev. Walter M. Michael’s Topic Tomorrow Morning, “Joint and Equal Heirs.” At Eldbrooke M. E. Church to- morrow morning Rev. Walter M. Michael will preach on “Joint and Equal Heirs.” This is the third ser- mon in a series on “Things Right With Our Religion.” At the evening service he will preach on “Using Our God-Given Treasure.” The Young People’s Society meets #t 7 p.m. with devotions in charge of Miss Virginia Wakeman. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Societies will meet Mon- day evening at the home of Mrs. H. E. Riley, 5020 Wisconsin avenue. On Wednesday a meeting of the Official Board will be held. A meet- ing and social of the Young People’s Bociety will be held on Wednesday evening at the home of Marjorie Bmith, 32 Drummond avenue. Dawson Circle will hold a beef and oyster dinner Friday from 5 to 7:30 in the social hall. Woinwm & Lo op The Christmas Store Formal Garments require special care in cleaning The gowns, wraps, tuxedos and “tails” a brilliant social season demands, require spe- cial knowledge and particular att ention. We specialize in this exacting work—at prices as moderate as this thorough cleaning and meticulous hand- ling allow. Prices for cleaning: Evening Gowns, Children under care of the Division of Child will have no empty stockings on Christmas morning. Toy Matinee [y ) P T) PRESS (Continued From First Page.) dren on a day like Christmas the world would rise up against them. In their own hearts these parents would feel like criminals. Now, there are thousands upon thousands of little boys and girls in Washington who have no parents. The orphanages are filled with these poor little tots. Christmas morning still means Christmas morning to them—even with their parents gone. Yet they are dependent upon out- siders to help make Christmas merry. We are the outsiders, and our chil- dren are not in orphanages. If they were we would want some good souls to extend the hand of fellowship on Christmas morning—some one to send our children gifts. Think of it now. There are the orphanages. There are the children in poor homes. There are the sons and daughters of other men and women like ourselves, boys and girls who need that helping hand. And we have the helping hand to give. In the course of the next few days Washingtonians will go shopping for themselves. Washingtonians will go to the stores to buy toys and articles of clothing for the boys and girls who live in sheltered homes. How about stopping, in the course of the pur- chases, and giving a thought to the poor unfortunates who might other- wise be neglected. That is the order of the day. That is the thought be- hind The Star campaign. That is what each any every man and woman who goes shopping these days is asked to do—buy an extra toy or a piece of clothing for some poor boy or girl. Fill an empty stocking. And do it now. Triviality of Cost. ‘What will it cost? Probably a mo- ment in time or a dime or a dollar. And what of either? They are both fleeting, anyway—dollars and dimes and minutes and hours. All the agencies in the town are ibanding together to help m#ke this a merry Christmas for the poor boys and girls. So tha’ any one who wants to take time out and spend a small or a large sum of money can do so, with the assurance that some heart will be made happy on Christmas morning. As you go shopping today, think of this—and the joy that will come your way through a magnanimous act. If you buy an extra toy for some poor boy and girl you can have the extra added pleasure of going to one of the Warner Bros. Theaters—any one of | ings. the 11—and mingling with the chil- dren on Saturday morning, December 14, in the great outpouring of gifts for the needy. Special shows are scheduled for the Ambassador, Tivoli, Savoy, Avalon, Colony, York, Avenue Grand, Apollo, Home, Earle and the Metropolitan— and all designed to meet a number of tastes. The cost of admission is a new toy. And that might be the toy to prevent an empty stocking on Christ- mas morning. Think it over and buy a toy. That is Santa Claus’ special appeal at this time, WobbpwWARD T he Christ R FOR FORECLOSURES |Sterner Policy Forecast. Acquisition of 200,000 Properties Seen. By the Assoclated Press. An authoritative prediction that the Home Owners' Loan Corp. will adopt a sterner attitude toward de- linquent borrowers was coupled yes- terday with the possibility that it may eventually acquire 200,000 properties. The hint of “a more severe policy” toward delinquents and a consequent increase in the volume of H. O. L. C. foreclosures came in an article for | ers. the forthcoming December Federal Home Loan Bank Review. The Review is the official publication of the Fed- eral Home Loan Bank Board, and the board members are directors of the H. O. L. C, largest- holder of urban mortgages in the world. Sees Emergency Passing. Saying the corporation believed “it was the intent of Congress” that it should “aid the worthy during the emergency,” the article added that thus far foreclosures have been almed only at “wilful defaulters,” persons who abandoned mortgaged and those “who seek to profit from the use of the property as long as possible without maintaining it or attempting to pay their debt.” “As the emergency passes,” it con- tinued, “the corporation’s responsibility for the taxpayers’ money will require the adoption of a more severe policy. “Consequently, the volume of fore- closures must eventually increase.” Indication of the possible level to which H. O. L. C. holdings may rise was disclosed in statistics of private building and loan associations. Realty Taken Over. Latest available records showed the 10,920 institutions in the United States Building-and Loan League had $1,033,- 000,000 of their assets, or 23.2 per cent, in real estate. These holdings were said to have resulted almost entirely rtrom foreclosures or voluntary trans- ers, On the same percentage basis, the H. 0. L. C., with approximately 1,000,- 000 loans totaling $3,000,000,000, might eventually convert about 2 fifth of its outstanding loans into property hold- This would make it the owner of ap- proximately 200,000 homes, on which $600,000,000 of loans had been ad- vanced. payments due the corporation are 90 days or more overdue. 3-Story Fall Breaks Finger. GASTONIA, N. C. (#)—Maybe it's because he formerly was & wrestler. Anyway, Johnnie Dill fell from a third-story window. Injuries? Only & fractured finger. & Lot ¥ oP 'mas Store - ‘This is how Wood- ward & Lothrop experts blow Rock Wool into the ceil- ings and walls of your home — seal- ing the heat-steal- ing eracks and crevices. No spot is too inaccessible to be insulated this way. Does the Comfort of Your Home Still Depe nd on the Weather Man Are your rooms hard to heat in Winter—cold, drafty and uncomfortable no matter how much you drive your furnace? Do you feel you are paying more than you should for fuel? In Summer, do you find the upper floors of your home, unbearably hot—hotter than the outdoor air? Are your bedrooms too uncomfortable for sleep at night? Let Woodward & Lothrop At present, about 20 per cent of total | Welfare writing letters to S8anta Claus in the hope that they Labor (Continued From First Page.) record of years of support of your personal and official fortunes. It is bruited about, however, that your private sympathies and individual ine clinations lie with the group espous- ing the industrial type of organiza- tion, while your official actions and public utterances will be in support of their adversaries. “Such a policy is vulnerable to criticism and will hardly suffice to protect you against attacks that may ensue from advocates of the craft philosophy. They may feel rightfully that more is due them than perfunc- tory support.” Only yesterday a group of craft unionists, speaking through the Labor editorial, admon- ished Lewis that his tactics “delight the National Association of Manufac- tarers and other enemies of the work- “If Mr. Lewis has any surplus am- munition, he should use it on the foes of labor, not on its friends” they said Labor is & newspaper whose editorial board includes A. O. ‘Wharton, president of the machinists, and D. W. Tracy, president of the electricians, both stanch craft union- ists. Craft Union Statement. The editorial was the first craft union statement on the row over whether workers should be organized by craft or by industry since Lewis resigned as a federation vice president two weeks ago. “Surely if industrial unionism is 8 panacea for the ills that beset Amer- ican workers, then Mr. Lewis’ union will furnish a shining example,” the editorial said. “But less than three years ago the United Mine Workers were practically ‘on the rocks’ It was saved by the labor provisions of the N. R. A., and those labor provisions were adopted by Congress at the suggestion of the American Federation of Labor and the railroad brotherhoods. “In other words, after it had been buffeted by the depression for three years Mr. Lewis’ industriel union was saved by the craft unions which had succeeded in holding their ranks dur- ing the most trying period in our country’s history,” GIRL, 4, SMOKES PIPE DALZELL, I, December 7 (#).— Gloria Mae Orlandi, 4 years old, bobbed up yesterday as claimant %o the title of “the world's youngest pipe smoker.” “No cigars, no cigarettes,” was Gloria’s rule, lald down by her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Dom Orlandl. “But she smokes her pipe every day,” sl ‘WobDWARD P X Pleats are but one virtue of this —The Christmas Store - Green Announces Plan jf Manufacturers Use Creed Politically. By the Associated Press. Organized labor will throw its full support behind President Roosevelt in the coming national election if the National Association of Manufacturers makes political use of its anti-New Deal creed, President Green of the American Federation of Labor an- nounced today. ‘Thursday in New York and including demands for maintenance of consti- tutional guarantees, preservation of freedom of enterprise, security through economic progress and maintenance of sound tax and financial policies. “This will serve to drive labor and the association’s program. The man- ufacturers hinted they would back the Repubiican candidate for the presi- dency. George L. Berry, Mr. Roosevelt's co-ordinator for industrial co-opera- tion, yesterday told reporters that in- dustry must absorb the unemployed before it could hope for lighter Fed- eral taxation. “At the industrial conference which I.have called for Monday I look to industrial statesmanship to find the solution,” Berry said. “It is apparent to any one who chooses to look at the situation that recent improvement in business is out of balance with employment. This is an unsound economic situation. “PURE RELIGION” TOPIC OF REV. R. W. WHITE Rev. Raymond W. White, pastor of the Rhode Island Avenue M. P. Church, will preach at the 11 am. service on “Pure Religion.” The eve- ning service will be observed as “men’s night.” The Men's Bible Class will worship in a group and the pastor will speak on “Indirect Aims of Men.” “Co-operation in Religious Work” will be the subject of the lesson in the Men'’s Bible Class at 9:30 a.m. The Washington-Virginia area of the Young People’s Union of the Methodist Protestant denomination met at the church last evening. Dr. Lawrence Little, director of religious education; Dr. R. L. Shipley, Dr. E. A. | Sexsmith, president of the Maryland | Conference; Dr. R. Y. Nicholson, for- mer pastor of the church, and Rew Mr. White had important parts in the program. At 3:30 p.m. the meeting was addressed by Dr. Shipley, editor | of the Methodist Protestant-Recorder, followed by discussion groups. A sup- per was served, following which there was a mass meeting addressed by Dr. Nicholson and other outstanding members of the church. _— Biggest Girl ‘Weighing 322 /péunds, 15-year-old Stanka Anghelova of Sophronia, Bul- garia, claims to be the biggest girl in the world. FUEL OIL and SERVICE WILLIAMS JLoM TIC OlL BURNERS Moore Coal Co. St Pot. 0970 COLONIAL £ (b, 0rt Ralph 1401 N. C & Lot FROCK for shorter woman 429.75 The auxiliary schooner Therese White, bound for Florida, photo- graphed from the deck of the Sebago just before she sank 5% miles south of Cape Henry. Her crew of four, who had been working at the pumps day and night for six days, were saved, although two of them were injured as they were taken aboard the Sebago. —Wide World Photo. ab % DWARD & LLoTH CITY HEADS DEFER PENAL HEAD CHOICE Civie Groups Present Pleas for Appointment of Col. W. L. Peak to Post. Pleas for appointment of Col William L. Peak to the post of gene eral superintendent of penal institue tions were placed before the Commise sioners yesterdasy by a group repre- senting a number of Southeast and other civic groups. Once again the Commissioners con- sidered the matter, but took no action. The Commissioners have had be- fore them for weeks a recommenda= tion from the Board of Public Welfare for the retirement of Capt. M. M. Barnard, veteran penal institution head, and the appointment of Harold E. Donnell of Baltimore, now Mary- land State superintendent of prisons. The Commissioners also have heard suggestions for the selection of Capt. Thomas M. Rives, District jailor. Those urging the cause of Col. Peak yesterday were A. J Driscoll of the Mid City Association, E. J. Newcomb of the Congress Heights Association, William A. Malo, president of the Southeast Citizens' Association and the Southeast Council of Citizens’ As- sociations; Vernis Absher and Joseph L. Gammell, the latter from Lincoln Park. He oedd Sunday School Records. CONWAY, 8. C. (A).—The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wood- ward have set a record for attending Sunday school at the Conway First | Presbyterian Church. Millie Lou, age 9, has not missed a Sunday in five | years: Burroughs, 11, has a straight record for seven years, and Edward, 15, | has not been absent in 11 years. oP wThe Christmas Store et .um Uncle Sam Says: “Buy Now—Mail Early” Gifts of Monogrammed GLASSWARE A Thoroughly Useful . . .Sparkling Beautiful . . . Smartly Individual (made so by our own glass engraver A. Nicely Shaped Jam Jar, engraved with $| 25 one old English initial, each — . B. Optic Crystal Ice Tub, engraved with one old English initial, each_ $1.25 C. This is an example of the specialized type of ens graving that we can do for you. Optic crystal glass- ware with special engraving from $40 to $100 a dozen. This is a footed goblet with a family crest D. Fine Optic Crystal Stemware, gracefully shaped. With one old English initial, dozen, §9; with three-letter diamond monogram, dozen $12 E. Ash Trays in a variety of styles, each F. Cigarette Box by Fostoria, attractive styles with three-letter monogram on top, G. Tweleve-ounce Beverage Glass with idea of a design emblematic of your favorite sport or hobby, dozen.. % RN w— $175 your own $24 experts insulate your home with time-tested Johns-Mansville ioek Wool Insulation. Your home will be more com- fortable the year *round and the savings in fuel :osts will pay for the expense in a remarkably ew years. 2 Telephone District 5300 for an estimate or further information Convenient terms‘may -be arranged Houz Turroveuzwr Drviston &h-. Ssvewrn Foon. o $1.50 up Evening Wraps, $1.25 up Tuxedos or Full Dress Suits, $1.25 and $1.50 Dry CLEANING RECEIVING Desk, 1iTR AND G STREETS Cornzr, Fmst FLOOR. H. Old Fashioned Beverage Glass, en- graved with one old English initial, dozen 1. 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