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G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935, THE EVE Imbibing Santa SHUUSE |MPUGN In Advertisement What’s What Behind News RUUSEV[“ |8 SE[N Hiding Her Grief, Mrs. Schall Plays Santa to Destitute Family COURT TO REVIEW BODY OF SCHALL YIELDING ON BONUS GUFFEY COAL ACT Justices Will Take Up New Deal Measure After Re- cess to January 6. By the Associated Press. The Guffey coal act yesterday be- came the sixth New Deal measure awaiting Supreme Court review as| the -nine justices announced their willingness to pass on its constitu- tionality. i This action was taken at a brief gession in which the court handed down four decisions and then recessed untdl January 6, when it may render opinions on validity of the agricul- | tural adjustment, Tennessee Valley and Bankhead cotton control laws. The other New Deal acts now before the court are the A. A. A. amend- ments and the P. W. A. housing case, | invelving the right to condemn land. Grant “Short Cut.” | In-agreeing to rule on the Guffey | act, intended to stabilize the soft coal | industry through-a code embodying price-fixing and labor standards, the | nine justices granted a request of the Government and coal operators for a “short cut” in judicial procedure. | Two cases were before Circuit Court of Appeal, but both sides asked the Supreme Court to take jurisdiction at once instead of waiting for the Circuit | Court decisions. Solicitor General Stanley Reed. who | has borne the brunt of the adminis- tration’s defense of New Deal laws, will ask the high tribunal January 6 to set a date in late February or early March for arguments. A case involving the right of the Public Works Administration to con- | demn land for slum clearance projects | will be argued before that time. Carter Case Is First. James W. Carter, president of the | Carter Coal Co. of Maryland and West | Virginia. filed the first appeal in the Guffey test, attacking a ruling of the District Supreme Court upholding the | validity of the act except for wage | and hour provisions Carter had sought unsuccessfully for injunctions to prevent his company from complying with *he act on the ground it is unconstitutional, and to prevent the Governmeni from col- | letting & 15 per cent tax the law im- | posed on the value of coal at the mine. | Operators who abide by the code are | grinted a 90 per cent rebate on the tax. | The other appeal was filed by the | R. C. Tway Coal Co. of Leuisville, Ky., | from a Western Kentucky Federal District Court ruling which held the entire act valid. The cases will be argued simultaneously. In the Carter suit, the Government also appealed a ruling which permitted the company to pay only a 11, per cent tax during litigation. Govern- | ment counsel contended this would | encourage all operators to attempt to avoid paying the taxes for non-com- plfance and prevent coliection even in the event the act is found constitu- tional. CHANDLER OUSTS 521 LAFFOON AIDES New Kentucky Governor Uses Drastic Act Passed by His Predecessor. FRANKFORT. Ky., December 24.— Pive-hundred and twenty-one employ- ‘ es last night were ordered dropped | from Kentucky State pay rolls by Gov. Albert B Chandler, effective Decem- | ber 31 1 Using the drastic ouster act passed | under the administration of former Gov. Ruby Laffoon, who opposed Chandler’s nomination and election, Gov. Chandler lopped off official heads of Laffoon partisans as “part of my | | road financing investigation will fure In Capital Inner Clique Is Told Bonus Will Pass, Veto or No Veto. R. GARNER, the only working V. P., has been hobnobbing with President Roosevelt and ringleaders of his congres- plans for the coming edition of the greatest show on earth are yet incom- plete. But they have gone far enough to afford the inner clique a fair line A bonus bill will be enacted in February along the general lines of the Steiwer-Byrnes bill (infla- tionary bills have no chance this about it has not yet been decided and is not important. He probadly will veto it, but, if so, it will pass over his veto. was canvassed by Garner, Speaker Joe Byrns, Senator Joe Robinson, Senator | Jimmy Byrnes and others on their Philippine junket. They all came to be passed, veto or mno veto. This opinion has already been passed along to Mr. Roosevelt. The latest is that Mr. Roosevelt is trality issue across the board in his opening message, or whether to let the issue come up from within the Senate. He probably will play it. Anyway, it BY PAUL MALLON. sional circus for several days. Their on what to expect. Here it is: time). What Mr. Roosevelt will do Note—The whole bonus situation the conclusion that the bonus would undecided whether to play the neu- will be a foremost issue. Senators are drafting a new resolu= tion which is a combination of Senate joint resolutions Nos. 99, 100 and 120. This is not satisfactory to Mr. Roose- velt. They are trying to get together. The chances are they will not, and a fight will develop. The conflict, how- ever, is solely a matter of technicalities. Stronger neutrality legislation is assured. Townsend Plan to Fail. The Townsend plan will not pass. It will, however, be extensively de- bated and investigated. This will ad- vertise its economic futility and prob- | ably offset the sledge-hammer politi- cal campaign which has bumped many members of Congress lately. A tricky way may be found to let members of the House vote for the McGroarty bill, with the understanding that it will not go through the Senate. Mr. Roose- velt would veto it, but Democratic leaders will not let it get that far. The $500,000,000 public works program will be passed, after mem- bers of Congressadd a few more pet projects. Any reasonable request for relief money will be adopted, but only after an entertaining Repub- lican investigation into relief op- erations. The Canadian treaty will be subjected to much fuss, but no action. Revision or repeal of the silver purchase act is a real prob- ability, although it can be accom- ROOSEVELT'SAIMS| rine® Ban Urge Boston Legislator Files Says President ‘Apparently’ | Bill to Prevent Show- Seeking to Arouse Class Hatred. By the Associated Press. In a vigorous attack on President Roosevelt's Atlanta and Chicago speeches, Jouett Shouse, president of the American Liberty League, charged in a radio ad- dress last night that the Presi- dent “apparently” was attempting to arcuse class hatred. “At Atlanta on November 29| last,” Shouse said, “President Roose- velt made the| opening speech of his campaign for renomination and re-election. The | speech will be notable in history, | not because it was a brilliant defense of the administration, not because it refuted the arguments of the Presi- dent’s crtics. “It was notable because it was ap- parently designed to create class prej- udices, to arouse class hatreds, to fan the flame of class antagonisms. In so far as I am aware, no other Presi- | dent of the United States ever re- | sorted to such metheds in the attempt to further his political fortunes.” Quotes Chicago Remarks, Shouse said that 10 days later, the | President, speaking before the Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation at Chi- cago, asserted “he and his associates are the only people who are working toward ‘the destruction of class an- tagonism and malice,’ and, by infer- ence at least, that those who oppose the socialistic policies, the impossible experiments, the gigantic waste, the | huge bureaucracy of his administra- | dion are guilty of arraying class | against class.” | The Liperty League President also said Mr. Roosevelt timed his Chicago speech so as to coincide with the opening of arguments in the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the | agricultural adjustment act and “put | behind this measure all of the power of the presidential office.” Hitting the Jackson day dinner here, at which Mr. Roosevelt will speak, and the price will be $50 a plate, Shouse charged many holders of high office. including Republicans had been invited by registered mail so receipt of the invitations “becomes a | matter of record.” Cites Ban on Solicitations. Shouse cited a section of the law making it unlawful for any Govern- | ment employe to solicit funds from | other Federal employes for political | | purposes, and asked: “Did Postmaster General F\rley" | have anything to do with the sending | out of these campaign fund invita- | | tions, which were sent out by the | committee (Democratic National Com- | mittee) of which he is chairman? If | he did, what about the law? If he did not, what is he going to do about this brazen attempt of his committee to hold up Government employes?” Jouett Shouse. | plished only over the prostrate forms of a couple of silver Sena- tors, who are mearly prostrate now. Permanent establishment of the C. C. C. will undoubtedly be voted over Republican protests. A few amendments to the securities and exchange act will be recommended and probably enacted to correct tech- | nical defects developed from experi- ences with the present law. The rail= nish headlines and some recommen- dations for legislation which will not program of reorganization.” Chandler | be seriously considered before 1937. requested the resignations of all State | A committee to investigate presidential officials last week. campaign expenditures will be author- Among the officials separated from | ized and appointed. The Black 30- the State pay roll by the 37-year-old | hour-week bill will be a major subject Governor, who took office less than | of discussion, but the chances are three weeks ago, were William Robin- | strongly against it being passed. 'WAGNER L | | | TESTIS DUE MONDAY son, head of the sales tax department, and son-in-law of former Gov. Laffoon; James E. Cantrill, secretary to the State Tax Commission; Maurice Gal- | vin, special attorney for the banking department; C. E. Layman, superin- tendent of wardens in the Fish and | Game Commission; Dr. E. H. Maggard, superintendent of the Central State Hospital, Dr. A. M. Lyon, head of the institute for feeble-minded; Dr. | Edward Davenport, superintendent of Enmstern State Hospital; Louis Cox, sécretary of the Public Service Com- | mission, and Vernon D. Rooks, actuary | n the insurame department. DR. PETER J. DUNCAN, DRUGGIST, EXPIRES! | Proprietor of Local Store Hudf Been in Business Here More Than 20 Years. Dr. Peter J. Duncan, 59, druggist and proprietor of a drug store at First and K streets, died today after a ghort illness. Dr. Duncan had been in the drug business here for more than 20 years and a resident of Washington for more | than 40 years. He received a degree | in pharmacy from George Washing- | ton University. | - Funeral services will be held Thurs- | day at 10 a.m. at St. Aloysius Catholic Church after a brief service at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Paul A. | Sullivan, 3250 Tennyson street. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Dr. Duncan is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Sullivan and Miss | Edith Duncan, and a sister, Mrs. H. C. Welton. e CURFEW IS SUSPENDED Michigan New Year Revelers May Be Out All Night. DETROIT, December 24 (#).— The liquor law curfew will not ring in Michigan New Year eve. The State Liquor Control Commis- slon voted yesterday to suspend clos- ing hours so revelers may spend the entire night welcoming 1936 if they desire. Closing hours ordinarily are 2 am. for Detroit and 1 am. for the remainder of the State. Retired British Admiral Dead. ‘WEYMOUTH, England, December 24 (#)—Rear Admiral Peter W. E. Hill, 62, retired, one of the umpires in the *Wimbledon championship ten- nis matches for the last 12 years, died mnhm. He suppressed gun run- in the Persian Gulf from 1911 to 1914, {lumber markets | quota basis, | introduced under official or unofficial May Restrict Relief, Influential Republican members of Congress are planning a heavy fight against Federal relief methods, on the basis of Mr. Hoover’s St. Louis speech. Some restrictions may be enacted, but not the Hoover program. The Canadian treaty trouble is being worked out off-stage in another way. Mr. Roosevelt is secretly sound- ing out Canada for modification of the Ottawa agreement to open British for American pro- ducers, also to stagger Canadian lumber importations on a monthly Senator Wagner has in his sleeve a new low cost housing bill. It will be New Deal auspices, but probably will not pass. The bill is supposed to have originated with certain low cost housing promotion societies in New York and will suggest a six, seven or eight billlon dollar program. Most important subject on the calendar iy confirmation of the new Federal Reserve Board., People out in the country may aot get smoked up about such obscure public person- alities as sit on the F. R. B., but these personalities can ruin or make the country by their courage, or lack of it. Also by their preconceived notions of credit, inflation, etc. There has been so much inside wire-pulling over these jobs that it 18 impossidble to say mow who will be appointed, or even reappointed. But there will be a fundamental ciash in the Senate, no matter who is recommended by the President. It will be evident shortly that the senatorial confirmation of Gov. Eccles himself will not be an easy matter. Note—Senator Glass has not let it out yet, but he has written a sizzling 2Vs-page letter to Gov. Eccles, pro- testing against the appointment of a certain man, whose name has merely been publicly mentioned among possi~ ble appointees. ' FENET Anybody’s Guess. Daily New Deal announcements that the session will be a short one are merely billboard advertisements to promote brevity. No one really has a worth-while idea about it. The unknown factor in the 'situation is what the Supreme Court will do to Saying the A. A. A. embodies the | very basis” of the New Deal philos- | ophy, Shouse asserted that, “under | the guise of benefits to the farmers, | the effort is being made to regiment |and to regulate the whole life of the | American people.” He also questioned the fairness of the recent corn-hog | | referendum. “Fortunately,” he concluded, “each | day, more and more, all of us, of what- | ever class and wherever situated, are realizing that the Constitution is our safeguard and our defense against op- pression.” | ABOR ACT U. S. Circuit Court Will Sit in! Philadelphia Then to Hear Bus Case. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 24.— The United States Circuit Court of Appeals will sit specially Monday to consider a request by the National Labor Relations Board for a speedy determination of the constitutionality of the Wagner-Connery labor act in the case of the Pennsylvania Grey- hound Lines, Inc. Counsel for the board said it will ask the court to hear the issue early next month so it may be expedited to the United States Supreme Court for an early decision. ‘The company has refused to obey the board’s order for compliance with the labor relations provisions of the act. The company was ordered to de- sist in alleged practices of discourag- ing employes from joining a labor union of their own choosing. SHIP TIE-UP CONTINUES AS PEACE EFFORTS FAIL 23 Pacific Coast Freighters Are Kept in Port Another 48 Hours in Strike. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 24.— Postponement of peace efforts until after Christmas assured tie-up of 23 Pacific coast freighters at least an- other 48 hours today. Hearings of two Labor Relations Boards were adjourned until Decem- ber 26. Nineteen coastwise steam schooners lost their crews last week in disputes over length of the work day and over- time pay. The Eureka, in San Pedro, and Horace X. Baxter, in Alameda, were idle because operators refused to grant winch drivers’ demands for a pay increase. In San Prancisco the Maui and Dia- mond Head remained wharfbound on seamen’s refusal to perform tasks they insist should be done#y ship scalers. any, will be necessary (A. A. A, T.V.A, Wagner Labor Board, etc.). This makes guessing the probable adjournment date wholly a matter of personal opinion. If you want a guess on that basis, it is that ad- Jjournment will come a few days be- fore the Republican convention meets at Cleveland June 9, and not Aprit 1, the New Deal in coming decisions, shd what corrective legisiation, if i 4 T or even May 1, as now being ad- B (Copyrisht. 1038.) ing of Such Pictures. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 24.—Liquor advertising depicting Santa Claus drinking whisky today resulted in the filing of a bill designed to halt the use in advertising of pictures showing any person or character drinking liquor. Representative Roland D. Sawyer of Ware filed the bill with the clerk of the Massachusetts House of Repre- sentatives. Explaining his reason, Ware said: “Here we have Santa Claus, the chil- dren's admired friend and idol, per~ haps next to a religious character the most loved character the children know, yet the papers, Statewide, are exploiting a certain brand of whisky as the brand Santa Claus drinks and | show Santa in various poses drinking | the whisky.” EASTMAN PUSHES PLAN FOR C.C. Increase in Membership Be- lieved Aim of Co- ordinator. By the Associated Press. Renewed recommendation is expect- ed to come shortly from Transporta- | tion Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman for broad redrganization of the In- terstate Commerce Commission. The plan is understood to entail an | increase in membership and a sharper division of duties to aid the handling of new transportation problems. ‘The commission was given jurisdic- tion over interstate motor carriers last Summer, and a proposal to give it regulatory powers over water carriers is pending in Congress. Recommendations for reorganiza- | tion of the I. C. C. were advanced by Eastman last year, but were not acted | on. Eastman will not discuss the new recommendations, but authoritative sources disclosed he has re-examined earlier statistics with a view to deter- Byrns “Has Hopes” Bill Ac- ceptable to President Will Develop. By the Associated Press. Speaker Byrns said today he saw a “possibllity” that a compromise bonus bill might be worked out which would be “acceptable to the administration.” He would not go 30 far as to say there was & “probability,” however. “I really have hopes,” he told re- porters, “and possibly it can be done if some of those advocating some of these bills are in a compromising spirit. But if every man holds out for his bill—I don’t know.” Byrns repeated a hope that the bonus would be disposed of early to smooth the path for other legislation | and adjournment in May. Expeets “Routine Matters.” So far as he knows, he said, the President's promise of a “breathing spell” stills holds and no major leg- islation not already in sight will be suggested. “Of course,” Byrns said, “we never know what might be-placed in our laps. But I shall be very much dis- appointed if there is anything else besides routine matters.” The Speaker, who had lunch with President Roosevelt last Saturday, said he did not know whether the President would veto any type of bo- nus bill that might pass Congress. “I think from the attitude of the kind of bill it puts on his desk.” That some effort is being made by leading Democrats to develoo a bill that would be acceptable to the ad- ministration Byrns readily conceded. Meanwhile, Representative Bank- head of Alabama returned to the Cap- itol to take over his job as House Democratic leader, and made two | forecasts to newsmen: 1. The House will vote the cash bonus even over a veto. 2. The Townsend old-age pension plan probably will not come to a vote in the session beginning Janu- ary 3. The Alabaman sald he anticipated the bonus would be brought up in the same manner it was last session. That would mean a vote January 13 on the Patman bill to pay the bonus in new currency. Session to Be Snappy. mining what changes should be made. How extensive these changes may be was not disclosed. | The new recommendations are ex- pected to be made public in Eastman Asked whether the session would be “short and snappy,” Bankhead re- plied: “It's going to be snappy. I don't know about short. It's a presidential President he would be inclined to wait | and see what Congress does—what 'gifts which the family received. BY BILL BELL, JR. As death was about to lay a cold States Senator from Minnesota, his | wife, Margaret, brought warmth to a @estitute young widow and her five | fatherless children. Relaxing her constant vigil at the bedside of her dying husband, Mrs. | Schall drove Saturday toa little yellow | house near the Cabin John, Md., post | office, to help Mrs. Esther Lewis, | whose plight was described in The | Star Friday. | Mrs. Lewis and her five children had | been sleeping in one bed to keep warm Cardboard covered a hole in a window | pane. Mrs. Schall brought money to | replace the glass and blankets for the | beds. | Today the Lewis family is warm. | Mrs. Lewis hadn’t heard yesterday !of the Senator's death. took some of the luster from the hap- s annual report some time next month, | YeAr and our friend, the enemy, is piness Mrs. Schall brought her and The commission itself is understood | 80INg to be on the alert to try to tears tlurred her dark eyes. to be divided on the question of re- organization, with the majority op- | posing the plan, contending that a congressional reorganization would not provide for the commission’s present flexibility of administration. A gradual realignment of duties within the present commission’s | framework is said to be favored by most members over Eastman's pro- posals. BONUS FOR EMPLOYES Lansburgh & Bro. Gives Christmas Present of Day's Pay. Employes of Lansburgh & Bro. re- ceived a Christmas present of one day's pay from the company toda: it was announced by firm officials. The bonus will be given to each of the store's 1,750 employes, and is the same as was given last year, officials said. COMED!ENI;IE ARRIVES Trudi Schoop Makes U. S. Debut Next Friday. NEW YORK, December 24 (#).— Trudi Schoop, somber Swiss com- ediene who has tickled European fun- nybones for the past five years, ar-| rived on the Isle de France yesterday for her first glimpse of America and her debut on this side of the Atlantic next Friday. She never speaks on the stage. It's all done in pantomine. | make inroads. Our side is going to be just as aggressive “I expect every Democrat to be prepared to answer Republicans’ as- saults I think we have the brains and the facts.” “Will you be leading the defense?” a reporter asked. “No,” the leader roared. “Ill be leading the assault. We haven't any- thing to defend " PRISONER S.UFFOCATES Texas Murder Suspect Discovered Under Burning Mattress. FORT WORTH, Tex., December 24 (#)—B. R. Harrell, 36, charged with the slaying of Miss Gladys Rodden August 22, was found suffocated under his burning mattress in a county jail cell today. The shooting for which he faced ing house. Miss Rodden, 24, was fa- tally wounded by a bullet fired from the front porch through a screen door. DRAMATIC EIRITIC DIES Cincinnati Enquirer Worker Had Undergone Operation. CINCINNATI. December 24 (P.— George A. Leighton, 49, for the last four years drama and music eritie for the Cincinnati Enquirer, died today after an operation. Surviving him are his widow and a son. Santa to Receive Keys to City At Welcome Ceremony Tonight Commissioner Hazen Will Officiate] at Official Greeting Arranged by The Star, Warner Melvin C. Hazen, president of the Board of Commissioners, will present the keys of the city to Santa Claus tonight in an official welcome staged by The Star, the Warner Bros.’ the- aters and the National Broadcasting Co. This ceremony, part of an ex- tensive broadcast over Station WRC from 7:30 to 8 o'clock tonight, marks the close of The Star toy campaign. ‘This first and only four-ply welcome ever extended to Santa Claus in the Capital comes as an appreciation from Washingtonians, through their ecity government, The Star, the 11 Warner Bros.’ theaters and the two National Broadcasting Co. stations here, WRC and WMAL. Elaborate Ceremony Planned. An elaborate welcome ceremony has been arranged for Santa. It will start the moment he enters the city—just as the shades of night have fallen over the cribs of little children. The old gentleman is scheduled to arrive in Washington promptly at 7:30. As yet, no one knows his exact point of entry—whether it will be Union Sta- tion, the Washington Airport, a river landing or over one of the automobile routes. © With snow on the ground—the first “white Christmas” in years—the prob- ability is that Santa Claus and his reindeer will come in through the northern gate. Wherever he is at 7:30 the broad- casters will hook him up. All day long expert engineers, under the di- rection of Albert E. Johnson, were busy placing microphones at various points around town. ‘Will Go to Hospital. One of the fifst ports of call for Santa will be Children’s Hospital. There Miss Mattie Gibson, superin- tendent, has everything in readiness for a grand welcome. Some sick-a-bed children are going to be permitted to remain awake just long enough to hear part of the broadcast from their own wards. They will see the light- ing of a Christmas tree—and the placing of the toys. ‘After -all the steekings- have: besn Bros.and N. B.C. hung at Children’s, Santa will visit one of the neighboring houses—four people who wouid not have anything this year were it not for the good folks of Washington. In this humble home, he will distribute gifts. This joyous work will be broadcast over station WRC, so that contributors to The Star toy fund may capture some of the reflected glory of their own giving. It will give them an idea, also, of the happiness they have spread this Christnmas eve. Will Gallop All Over Town. Santa Claus will, naturally, be gal- loping all over the town—as fast as his reindeer can carry him—but the National Broadcasting Co., through Kenneth Berkeley, program manager, has made ample arrangements to catch up with the visitor at many points. Microphones already are sta- tioned at Eighteenth street and Co- lumbia road, at Fourteenth street and Park road, at Fourteenth and F streets and at other points—so that the sleigh bells may be heard over the radio. There also will be a broadcast from the community tree in front of the ‘White House, where carolers are to sing for Santa. Hazen to Give Welcome. According to last-minute arrange- ments made today, Santa Claus will visit his old friend, Commissioner Hazen, to receive the welcome of ‘Washingtoniens officially. Then the keys of the city will be turned over to thevisitor. Though he has been coming here for years, this is the first time Santa will have been given such an honor. ‘Toy Heaven will close its doors just about the time Santa arrives. From 933 G street the final flash will go over the radio at the departure of the last truckload of toys to be distributed to underprivileged boys and girls. All who have had anything to do with The Star's toy campaign will meet tonight in the studios of Sta- tion WRC, in the National Press Building, and join in the festivities. Hundreds Respond. | But it will be smiles instead of tears at that little frame house tomorrow because of Mrs. Schall’s gifts and the gifts of some 500 others, New glass s in the window pane. There are | blankets for all beds. One of the four rooms is filled almost to the ceiling with clothing. Food for more than a | month is in the kitchen—milk and meat and all things good for John, 9: Esther, 8; Noela, 7: Margaret, 3, and | Bruce, 14 months. And for Mrs. Lewis | herself, who will have another child | next month. Her youngest, Bruce, is with the family of a naval officer, temporarily | adopted for Christmas. Esther Lewis was a little sorry to part with him, but she was glad when she saw him in | the back of his foster parents’ car, holding & new toy, in new clothes and i virtually wriggling with delight. “I knew that Navy officer's wife | murder charges, occurred at a room- | Would be good to him and that he'd | have a nicer Christmas there,” she | said. Margaret, 3, has gone to spend | Christmas with an Army officer's fam- ily. She’ll be happy, oo, her mother knows. like her mother, came home Friday where she is a tuberculosis patient. She had to have all the blankets. So Neola Lewis and her brother John surrounded by the clothing and ‘The news | Noela, dark-haired and dark-eyed | from the Mount Wilson Sanitarium, | —Star Stafl Photo. - TOLEAVECAPTA Train Starts on Journey to Native Minnesota at 11 P.M. Tonlght. ‘The body of Senator Thomas David Schall, who died Sunday of injuries received when struck by an automoe bile, will be placed aboard a train here at 11 o'clock tonight for the long journey back to his native Minne- sota. His body will lie in state in the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, from 8 a.m. until noon Thursday. It will then be taken to the chapel in Lakewood Cemetery for services, Burial also will be in Lakewood. Speaker Byrns last night named Representatives Knutson and Chris- tianson, Republicans; Kvale, Farmer- Labor, and Ryan, Democrat, to attend the funeral as representatives of the House, Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Labore ite, of Minnesota and Senator Prae zier, Republican, of North Dakota, will be among the party representing the Senate. The other official rep- resentatives will be named by Vice President Garner before the funeral train starts for St. Paul. Thousands to View Body. With political antagonisms forgot- ten, thousands of the dead Senator's foes and supporters are expected to file past his bier in the rotunda of the State Capitol. The funeral, however, will be private insofar as possible, in accordance with the desires of the family. His wife gave her consent to the ceremony in the Capitol only after | Mrs. Lewis and three of her children had to sleep, clothed, in one bed. But | dow pane. Noela is “on leave” from the hos- pital where she must remain three years. It wouldn't have been very exciting to spend Christmas at home | if Washington hadn't opened its heart | to this family. But Noela is so ex- | cited with the hundreds of toys and | dresses which have been brought to | her and her brothers and sisters that she's suffering from what her con- temporaries describe as “cat’s got her tongue.” Her eyes get wider in pro- portion to the number of boxes and bundles received. Johnny 1is more articulate. It's “Oh, boy!” this and “Oh, boy!" that for each visitor tramping up to the door with a supply of toys. Johnny's father—he died two months ago—used to call him “Pancho,” Pancho Villa He has dark skin and black eyes and hair, like the notorious Mexican. It made Johnny mad, but he wishes his father could see him now, with | three toy pistols slung around his i and cowboy pants. Villa was | never so heavily armed. Embassies Respond. Not myrrh and frankincense, but money, milk, food, clothing, the Lewises' visitors brought. At the Cuban Embassy they read that Mrs, | Lewis was a native of Cuba. A limou- sine went out with a fat bundle. There were gifts from other embas- sies, too. Mrs. Lewis was quite daz- | zled by all the sleek limousines with | “diplomatic” license plates. Two Washington policemen came one night with a basket of food. A man with a broken leg sent clothes and toys. | Arrangements have been made to sup- | | ply milk for the rest of the winter. Good Samaritans, Inc, offered to house the entire family. Twenty young women in the Vet- erans’ Administration Personnel Divi- sion have given a crib and a com- plete layette for the baby Mrs. Lewis is to have next month. They have given toys for all the children and clothes for all—sweaters, a wind jacket for John, & coat and dress for Mrs. Lewis, shoes for the little girls, a complete Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, including a chicken. Is there a Santa Claus? Ask Esther Lewis'and her children, Y2 TOREETE _GUéSTS 'WILLIAM MASON, JR., Dormitory Residents Staying Here Over Christmas Will Eat Home-Style Meal. ‘Too far from their homes to return will partake of an old-fashioned home- style Christmas breakfast tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. audi- torium, Eighteenth and G streets. | The repast is a Christmas presentj to the young men who make the Cen- tral Y. M. C. A. their home while working and studying in Washington. | Ham and eggs, sausage and other tasty items will be on the bill of fare. | There will be a decorated Christmas ‘ tree and carol singing to add to the Yuletids spirit. A surprise feature is | awaiting all the guests, according to | Floyd McTyier, dotrmitory secretary, who is in charge of arrangewents. | Greetings on behalf of the Y. M./ C. A. will be extended by Leonard W. | De Gast, general secretary. Three dormitory men—Lloyd Weidner, Felix Foudray and Richard Krueger—will take part in the entertainment pro- gram. — GEN. W. I. TAYLOR DIES NEW YORK, December 24 (#).— Brig. Gen. Washington Irving Taylor, 71, who was a retired New York Na- tional Guard officer and for more than 45 years a practicing lawyer here, died yesterday of a heart attack | at his home. In 40 years of National Guard serv- ice he rose from private to brigadier general and was retired in 1928. He was a graduate of Columbia Law School. During the World War he was executive officer at Fort Hancock, N. J. Christmas Seals Dr. George C. Ruhland Lauds Symbol of Fight on Tuberculosis, “The tuberculosis Christmas seal is a symbol. It symbolizes the determi- nation of millions of public-spirited persons to wipe out tuberculosis in the Untied States and throughout the | Streptococci world.” (Signed.) DR. GEORGE C. RUHLAND, Health officer of the District of Qolumbis.. IN YULE BREAKFAST‘I WILL WED VIRGINIAN A. B. C. Board Member's Son to Marry Miss Dorothy W. Ran- dolph of Upperville. At a ceremony attended only by liam Beverley Mason, jr. 27. son of Mrs. William B. Mason, member of the Alcohol Beverage Control Board, and Dr. Mason, and Miss Dorothy Willing Randolph, 24, of Upperville, V. j will be married at noon Thurs- day in the Ma; flower Hotel. Miss Randolph is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Archibald Cary Randolph of Up- perville. She was educated at the fashionable Foxcroft School, Middle- burg, Va., and at Miss Spence’s School. New York. Young Mason graduated from Episcopal High School, Alexan- dria, and the University of North Carolina. After a short honeymoon the couple will make their home in Washington. o ILLINOIS NEWSPAPER EXECUTIVE SUCCUMBS Infection Is Fatal for Managing Editor of Ster- ling Daily Gazette. By the Associated Press. STERLING, Iil, December 24— George Grandon, 51, managing editor of the Sterling Daily Gazette and vice president of the Sterling Gazette Co., died at a hospital today of a strepto- cocci infection. Dorothy Randelph. He was the son of D. W. Grandon, | veteran Illinols newspaper man and publisher of the Sterling Daily Gazette, the La Salle, Il1, Post-Tribune and the Carroll-County Free-Press of Milledge- ville, II.. The younger Grandon was a director of the latter two papers. He is survived by his widow, a daugh- ter. Virginia, 15; his parents, & brother, Preston F. Grandon, publisher of the La Salle Post-Tribune, and four sisters, Mrs. C. W. Westerman, Milwaukee; Mrs. W. R. Roberts, Flint, Mich., and Mrs. L. B. Wilcox and Mrs. J. Brad- ley Bull of Sterling. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made, {$) receiving repeated requests from State officials. Gov. Floyd B. Olson has announc | hand on Thomas David Schall, United | that was before Mrs, Schall came with | that after the funeral he will name a | the blankets and money for the win- | member of his own Farme party to succeed Schall. Gov said he would not resign to become eligible for the appointment himself, but declined to indicate the identity iof his probable selection. | Senator Schall died in Casualty Hoc~ | pital after he had been unconsciots | more than 60 hours. Although he ap= | peared to be rallying at times, his con- | dition took a sudden turn for the worse Sunday morning and he died at 11:31, shortly after members of his famiy reached his bedside. His wife, Mrs. Margaret Huntley Schall, had been in almost constant attendance since the accident Thursday night. Besides his wife he is survived by three children, Thomas D., jr., 23; Richard, 21, and Padget Ann, 16. Car Driver Held. Lester G. Humphries, driver of the car that struck Senator Schall as he was crossing the Washington-Balti- more Boulevard at Cottage City, Md., was ordered held on a manslaughter warrant yesterday. The brakes on the car were found to be in good condition, | and Humphries told police the Senator and a companion, O. L. Leen, jumped in front of his machine while trying to avoid another automobile. Leen, who escaped with minor injurics, also was treated at Casualty. Overcoming the handicap of blind~ ness which followed an electric shozk, Schall was elected to the House in 1916, its first blind member. He had served in the Senate since 1924. 21 FALSE ALARMS | | Two Brothers Are Held for Ques- | tioning in Oakland. OAKLAND. Calif. December 24 () —Two brothers named Arson were held incommunicado today while Fire Chief G. W. Lutke questioned them about 21 false alarms which kept 84 pieces of apparatus roaring through the streets. Chief Lutke said the brothers, Joseph, 20, and Melvin Arson, 21, were apprehended after police set traps The prank cost the city $1.050 in responding to the false alarms. CITY TO BE REBUILT ! Quetta Had Been Destroyed by Indian Earthquake. NEW DELHI. India, December 24 (%).—The city of Quetta, destroyed by earthquake last May, will be rebuilt on the same site, the Indian govern- ment has announced The cost is estimated at $30,000.000, “Earthquake-proof” buildings will be for Christmas, 75 residents of the‘ members of the couple’s families and f erected for permanent employes of the dormitories at the Central Y. M. C. A.' & small group of close friends, Wil- | government and the military base wil be re-established '|Irvin S. Cobb Says: California May Put Santa Claus in Palm ‘ Beach Suit. | HOLLYWOOD,Calif., December 24— Back East folks don't have to imagine they're neck deep in snow drifts—they probably are. But in California we get our typical Christmas weather gut of the weather report, which is disappointing, but keeps down coal bills and the snif- § fles. It's sort of hard, though, to work up the real holi- day spirit when you're liable to sunstroke. Some- how I ean't think of Banta wearing a palm beach suit. By the w we'll have & smooth-faced 3 Santa this time (the other name being | Jim PFarley) bringing sugar plums to those who've been good little Demo- crats. Those naughty Republicans | over on Poverty Row deserve nothing, | and that's ,what they’ll get. We'll learn ‘em. I think of other Christmas eves, no- | tably the one when Washington crossed the Delaware. Some say the future | father of his country must have been |full of eggnogg that night or he | wouldn't have crossed a river full of | ice standing up in a rowboat. If he {had to do it over, I'm wondering whether he wouldn't hand the country back to the British and tell 'em to keep it, and he'd be satisfled with the apple- jack concession. I'm wondering, too, whether Gov. | Landon is going to be happy or other< | wise Christmas morning—waking up to find W. R. Hearst u';h:sn n:ockmu. | (copprigpt 1938, by the Nopth Americsn A )