Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1935, Page 3

DEMOCRATS DENY- LEAGUE CHARGES Pressure Not Used to Sell _350 Dinner Tickets, They Declare. By the Associated Press. The Democrats are denying chlrge! of the American Liberty League that “pressure” is being applied to force heavy sale of $50 Jackson day dinner tickets. W. Forbes Morgan, Democratic National Committee official, yesterday declared “nothing could be more absurd.” Jouett Shouse, league president, had | Questioned the propriety of Postmaster General Farley's participation in the ticket sale. He said some tickets were sent by registered mail so the recipients would “be on record.” ! “I believe that | if Andrew Jack- | son were alive to- | day,” Morgan said, “he would most certainly | prefer this demo- cratic means of | W. Forbes Morgan. raising money to selling out the party to special in- terests behind the scenes.” The national committee expects to use $45 from each ticket sale to help pay off the campaign deficit. Presi- dent Roosevelt bought to first one yesterday for the January 8 dinner | here. Morgan said more than 600 already have applied for tickets. The Presi- dent's address will be broadcast to other Jackson day dinners through- out the country. “Nothing could be more absurd” Morgan said, “than the suggestion that any pressure is being brought to induce office holders to contribute. If such was the plan, we would have to build a special dining room to ac- comodate the many thousands of Fed- eral employes here in wgsmngtcn.” GOOD START IN LIFE TRIPLETS’ YULE GIFT XKentucky Hill Couple Will Get! House in Soldier, Ky., Through Small Contributions. By the Associated Press SOLDIER, Ky. December 25—In & three-room log cabin 10 miles from here—a two-hour trip by automobile and horseback—triplets born on Fri- day, December 13, now have the| Christmas gift their young parents | had hoped - they would receive, | promise of a good start in life. Everett Porter, 23-year-old unem- ployed hillman, his 22-year-old wife and their little brood of fve children will be moved to a house in Soldier, Dr. Dan Fortune announced, because of small gifts from people who read about them in the papers. Dr. Fortune has been giving his services freely to the mother and babies. The triples are two girls, | Myrl and Pearl, and a boy, Sterl. Porter’s only means of ‘livelihood' for | the last year has been a weekly relief dole of $2.40. e TAILOR FOUND HANGED TO DEATH AT HOME Ludwig T. Struck Apparently ‘Was Despondent Over Separa- tion From Wife. Apparently despondent over separa- tion from his wife, Ludwig T. Struck, 69, a tailor, was found hanging yester- day in his room at a house in the 1400 block of Sixteenth street. A recent letter from Mrs. Dorothea Struck, his wife, was found close by. It wished Struck a merry Christmas, but informed him that she was leaving the city. The couple had been sepa- rated since August. ‘The body was found by rescue squad firemen, who forced open the door after Struck's roommate, Lloyd Gil- | bert, became suspicious when he found the door had been locked for almost an hour. jon earth and good will to men,” they‘ only a few thrones are still in exist- | THE - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Ethiopians Care for Their Wounded Europe Fears Christmas CONSTANTINE_BROWN. When clergymen say today, “Peace | will all have & lump in their throat. For whatever they may say from the pulpit, they know that today there is little good will among men, and peace on earth will last only a few months more. Christmas is being celebrated in the traditional fashion®in big cities and humble hamlets throughout the world with the knowledge that this may be the last peaceful festivity in many years to come. The ominous sound of arms is being heard over all Europe and Asia where mations are girding themselves—some of them reluc- tantly—jor the final folly of an- other general war. Nobody really wants it, yet every- thing indicates that the world is | marching blindly toward a fatal destiny. European statesmen declared in Au- gust, 1914, when the last World War broke out, that “we shall now witness a cascade of thrones precipitated into ! the abyss.” After the next war, since ence, it will be the present governments | which will be thrown into the discard. Will Eden Measure Up? Premier Baldwin played Santa to Anthony Eden by giving him as a| Christmas present the most coveted post in the British cabinet, his maj- esty's principal secretary for foreign affairs. Whether Eden’s slender shoulders | will be capable of bearing the burden SPECIAL NOTICES. (CE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE | ompany of Washington and Georgetown, | 303 Seventh Street Northwest. Washing- ton. D. C. 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Lord Brougham, his friendly critic, said about him: “His conduct of the war betrayed no extent of views , no commanding notion of policy. “To jorm a coalition after an- other in Germany and subsidize with millions of free gift until all powers in our pay were defeated in succession and most of them either destroyed or converted into allies of the enemy—such were all the resources of his diplomacy.” There is a similarity in the policies of young Pitt and young Eden. Under Eden’s stewardship, Britain will have to subsidize its new allies. Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, the other two Little Entente nations, Spain and Portugal, have might few resources of | The active partners, Turkey and Yugo- slavia, have man power, but are in This Great Britain is going to let them have, nominally on credit, in fact, gratis. Famous or Visionary. Of course, Mussolini is no Napoleon Bonaparte and nobody quite knows tremendous ascendancy over his own people. If Italy collapses because of internal trouble, as most Little Entente observ- ers seem to believe, Eden will come out as the foremost statesman of Great Britain, If, however, the Italian people are as determined to stand by II Duce as they are described to us by the Italian press and the travelers who have come back from Mussoliniland, Eden may go down as a visionary who was fooled by his own visions. There are many Britishers and Americans who are somewhat sur- This Changing World Emphasis on Good Will and Peace Is Temporary Sheep’s Cloth- ing for the Wolf of War. long as his airplanes can be of service to the Empire. Laval is following the warlike poli- cies of the British and their new allies half-heartedly. British and French staff officers are [ preparing plans for a “co-operation™; the French war ships are going out for the Spring maneuvers in January with a full war complement and live ammu- nition in their holds. But Laval still hopes that it “won’t come to that.” He is as apprehensive as the other politi- cians in France over the effects of a general mobilization order. Politically, France must stand by Great Britain and the Little Entente. But whether this political motive will be understood by the rank and file of the Frenchmen who will have to sacri- fice their lives on the battlefields is another matter. And this other mat- ter worries Laval considerably. Crisis in January. Nothing will happen until some time in January, when the League meets again to discuss more drastic sanc- tions, which will include an embargo on raw materials against Italy. Unless Mussolini disappears between now and the time the Council of the League meets, there is every chance that drastic sanctions will be applied in their full strength. Eden has pledged himself to the League powers to do so. S CHINA CLIPPER POISED TO DEPART TOMORROW £ Ship, Forced to Return to U. After 700 Miles Out, Ready for New Attempt. By the Associated Press, ALAMEDA, Calif.,, December 25.— The China Clipper, blocked by heavy winds on her airmail flight to Hono- lulu and Manila Monday, may hop ! tomorrow, Pan-American Airways offi- cials said today. Capt. Edwin C. Musick was to have played Santa Claus today to residents of Wake Island but a violent off-shore storm prompted the veteran skipper to return here. The clipper had gone 700 miles of the 2,408-mile journey to Honolulu. The Philippine clipper reached Hawail yesterday on her eastward flight, speeded by a heavy tailwind. Tentative plans call for the fourth westward airmail flight January 5. THREE DIE IN FIRE Father and Two Children Burned in Gotham. NEW YORK, December 25 (#)— Fire, which took the lives of a father and two of his children, disrupted the Christmas celebration of the Leo family. Philip, the father, was assisting his daughter Fanny, 9, and sons, Vito, 4, and John, 6, to get ready for bed. Fanny saw a sheet of flame spurt in the window. She spread the alarm, then ran to her uncle’s house, where Mrs. Leo and the two older children were waiting. The father and younger boys were trapped by smoke and flames. — T Birth of Holmes. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston's famous physician, author and wit, father of the late justice of the same name, was born August 29, 1809, and, it seems that when born, he was treated as but & mere trifling inci- dent by his own father. For, on the leaf of an old almanac, opposite the date, August 29, his father put an asterisk* and at the foot of the page, “*Son b.” and that is all prised that Great Britain should seek the aid of the “despicable Turk™ Every self-respecting Britisher, includ- ing Lord Cecil, described the Turk during and after the war as a blot to Western civilization and consequently should be chased from Europe. But the world changes. The “despicable Turk” has again become the “gentle- m#WM"M"IIMP,II As the Italians and Ethiopians continue flerce skirmishes on the northern front the wounded trickle over the mountains to Ethiopian headquarters at Dessye. Upper: Stretcher bearers in service of an Austrian Red Cross doctor carry in casualties. Lower: A soldier shot in the arm is treated. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Light snow | tonight, followed by clearing weather tomorrow; much colder beginning early tomorrow, lowest temperature to- night about 14 degrees; moderate southwest, shifting to strong north- west winds. Maryland—Light snow tonight and possibly tomorrow morning; much colder beginning early tomorrow. Virginia—Light snow tonight, end- | ing early tomorrow; much colder to- morrow and in west portion tonight. West Virginia—Snow, much colder in west and south portions tonight; tomorrow snow flurries and colder. Record for Last 22 Hours. Temp. Baro. Report for Last 22 Hours. (From noon yesterday to 10 a.m. today.) &4 BOURGET, FRENCH NOVELIST, EXPIRES Outstanding Literary Figure Knew Henry James and Edith Wharton. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 25.—Paul Bourget, internationally known French nov- elist and aeademician, died today. He | was 83 years old. Bourget, a world figure in literature for the last half century, was well known in the United States, which he visited and concerning which he wrote his widely read impressions, “Outre Mer.” He was a strong Monarchist and Catholic and was well known for his poems and essays, as well as his novels. He was a close friend of many American writers living abroad, in- cluding. the late Henry James and Edith Wharton. Bourget was known as a psycholo- gist novelist and wrote a number of essays on psychology and sociology. At the time of his death, he held the post of curator of the Palace of Chantilly, to which he was appointed in 1922. He had been a member of the French Academy since 1894 and was a commander of the Legion of Honor. Among his many novels and short stories were, “Cosmopolis,” “La Terre Promise,” “La Duchesse Belue" and | “L'au Profonde.” | His essays included “Psycholmie de L’Amour Moderne.” Bourget resolved at the age of 15 to become “as famous as Balzac.” Although he continued to write al- most until his death, he belonged to an earlier generation. Many critics considered that his finest work was in the 1880's, when he was absorbed in the problems of the times. He was only 7 years old when he wrote his first work—"A Treatise on Entomology HUMORIST A.DDS SIX INITIALS TO HIS NAME Now Member of Parliament and Highest, 31, 3:30 p.m. yesterday, Year 880, 44 Lowest, 21, today. | ago 35 Record Temperatures This Year, Highest, 98, on July 20 Lowest,'—2, on January 28. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast Geodetic Survey.) Today 7:31 am. 7:30 am. Year and Tomnrro' The Sun and Moen. Sun, today Sun. tomorrow Moon. today Automobile m one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Capital (current = to date) ,Rf“”!fl,.a | November December Weather in \lrimls Cme&. Stations Abllene. Tex,. Attance. "Ga Atlantic City Baltimore. Md Birmingham Bismarck. N. D. ! oston. Mass Buffaio, N. Y. Charleston. 8. C. Chicago. il Cincinnati _ Cleveland _ Columbia, 'S.” C. 0. Denver. Colo Detroit. Mich El Paso. Tex Galveston. Tex. Helena. Mont.__ i1 Huron. S. D. Indianapoli Jacksonville Kansas City Los Angeles Louisville. Ky. Miami. Fia Minneapolis New Orlean: New York. N. Y. Oklahoma City Omaha. Nebr. Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh,_ Py Portland. Me. Fortland, Ore Raleigh. N Salt Lake City. San Antonio - : San Diego 30 San Franc Baro wh L:uw A \V"«thr 30 Cloudy am.. Greenwich time. today.) Stations perature. Weather. London. England 45 | Paris. France _ Berlin, Germany rest. ' Franc Zurich. Swiizeriand” Gibralfar. Spain - ) or. Greenwich time. today Horta (anal Azores _ 64 rent bservations.) st Georges. Bermuds =62 an Juan, Puerto Rico- a | Colon: {PLANES TO BOMB LAVA PERILING WATER SUPPLY Explosives Will Be Used to Divert Flaming Stream From Wailuku River. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, December 25.—One hundred 600-pound bombs were trans- ferred to Hilo Airport yesterday for use in a projected bombardment to | save Hilo's water supply from Mauna Loa’s flaming lava. Col. Daniel Van Voorhies, chief of staff, said Army officers, following a conference with Thomas A. Jagger, | Government volcano expert, had rec- ommended bombing the liquid rock streams Friday in an effort to divert their flow. Mauna Loa has been in eruption more than a month. Last Thursday the flow of lava from a great rift in the mountain increased, coursed down the slopes- and spread into an area 2 miles square, forming a lake about 10 feet deep. Two streams of lava sprang from this lake, one flowing toward the Wailuku River, source of Hilo's water supply. A.Xahn Jne. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. 43 YEARS ot 935 E STREET b ) | University, Monthly precipitation in inches in the | t ‘WHIMPERIN(; BOYS SAVE | Mother Hears Moans and Finds | By the Associated Press. He Tacks on “Barr.” for Good Measure. OXFORD, England (#)—A. P. Her- bert, English novelist, humorist and newly elected member of Parliament— better known as “A. P. H."—added six initials to his name in a single swoop here. He now is A. P. H, B. A, M. A, M. P, and if that isn't enough, he can tack “Barr.” o nthe string. Herbert took time off the political activities which made him an M. P. to receive two degrees, bachelor of arts and master of arts, from Oxford He qualifies as a “Barr.” or bar- rister, by having been called to the bar in 1914. He never practiced law. FAMILY FROM DEATH Room Filled With Coal Gas Fumes. BALTIMORE, December 25.—The whimpering of three young boys yes- terday saved them and their parents from possible death by asphyxiation | from coal gas fumes. Hearing low moans from her chil- dren, Mrs. Margaret Ryan arose from | her bed and found the children al- | ‘most unconscious. Shaking her hus- band, ill with grippe, she received only | |a slight response. Mrs. Ryan herself | felt giddy. | Mrs. Ryan made her way through | the gas-filled room and down the stairs to the first floor to summon a doctor. | The physician opened all windows to air out the room and reported later | all were out of danger. UNARMED PLANES ADDED TO ETHIOPIAN FORCES Purchased by Selassie to Carry Members of His Staff Over Country_ LONDON (#)—Four single-engined airplanes to . supplement Emperor Haile Selassie's communications sys- tem have been ordered from a British company. The ships will not be fitted with machine guns or bomb racks. They | will be used, say the manufacturers, | cnly for carrying members of the | King's staff to various parts of the country. Their top speed will be 172 miles an l hour and their cruising range 640 | miles, NEW FREIGHTER MAKES BIG CHART PURCHASE CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone (#).—The largest marine chart order ever filled by the marine division of the Panama Canal was delivered recently to the Norwegian tramp freighter Sonnavind. A total of 526 charts of ports the world over and 143 pilot handbooks were furnished the new motor ship at a cost of $434.90. Built in Germany, the Sonnavind is now on her maiden voyage. WEDNESRAY, DECEMBER 25, 1935.. Error' Brings Hysteria Her face a picture of anguish, Mrs. Etta Reisman was near collapse outside of the court room yesterday after the judge said, “Six to 12 years She didn't understand the sentence was suspended and she was freed from a first-degrec manslaughter chargs in connection with the slaying of her husband’s secretary. A court attendant and her lawyer, Sidney Rosenthal (in derby), are shown trying to quiet her as they explain, in prison!” Patricia Maguire Sleeps On As Family Enjoys Christmas BANK CLEARINGS RISE 15 PER CENT 22 Cities Report Heavy Gain * for Five Days Before Christmas. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 25.—Total bank clearings for 22 leading cities of the United States for the five days ended December 24 rose 15 per cent over the same period a year ago, ace cording to the report of Dun & Brad- street issued today. The total for the 22 cities was $4,- 590,050,000, against $3,991,666,000 a year ago. For the preceding week the gain over a year ago was 1.5 per cent. The week’s total showed a decline of $1,661,928,000 from that of the pre- ceding week. At New York City clearings were $2,929,677,000, an increase of 14.9 per cent over the amount reported last year. The aggregate for centers out« side New York City was $1,660,373,000, & gain of 15.2 per cent over last year. Totals for all cities exceeded those of a year ago. Notable gains continued at Boston, Buffalo, New Orleans, Chi- cago, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco and Seattle, |FOUR KILLED IN PERU AS PLANE HITS HOUSE Tri-Motored Ship Falls on Two Dwellings, Crushing Occupants and Flyers. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, December 25.—Four persons died in a crash of a tri-mo- tored airplane of the Pan-American- Garce Airways yesterday. They are Pilot Harold Macmickle, Engineer Russel Petch and a woman and an 8-year-old boy buried beneath two houses demolished by the crashing plane. The boy, Jose Lozano, was killed instantly while at dinner. The woma. Natividad Casimiro, died en route to | = first aid station. —A. P. Photo. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, December 25.—Santa Claus called at the modest Miley home today, but he didn’t leave the . gift most wanted—the awakening of Patricia Maguire, who for nearly four years has| slumbered, a vic- | tim of sleeping sickness. Gay colored lights glowed brightly on the Christmas tree in the homelike liv- | ing room. There were presents in festive wrappings for the household of several fam- ilies and four gen- | erations. There was a big dinner. | And a closed door. Behind that door pretty, dark- | i o/ Patricia Maguire, Officials of the airline said the plane. eyed Pat now 30 years old, lay on|the San Felipe, was undergoing a test the bed she has occupied since she |flight after it had been overhauled was taken ill in February, 1932. Since | and repaired. They attributed the . those early days she has improved, | crash to a dense fog. (but her mind is still in the dim shadows of consciousness. “There has been no recent change,” said Pal's sister, Mrs. Gladys Hansen, who aids her mother, Mrs. Pew'} Miley, in nursing the helpless girl. | “But there’s Christmas here—as | usual.” And for the day at least the spot- light of attention in the family was shifted from Pat to the 82-year-old great-grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Isett, and the youngest member of the household, Retta Jane, 11, Mrs. Han- | sen’- daughter. “This day belongs to the oldest and th: youngest in our home,” ex- plaine Mrs. Hansen. “We figured they would enjoy it most.” Pat’s Christmas dinner was—"as usual, liquids and semi-solids.” CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER $1.75 Served from Noom wniil 10 9. m. FAMOUS RESTAURANT 1107 CONNECTICUT AVE. (RICH TIN LAND TITLE WAITS ON LEGISLATURE Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies Fails to Ratify Boundary Pact of 1925. LA PAZ, Bolivia (#).—Fallure of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies to ratify a Bolivian-Argentine boundary agreement reached in 1925 is delaying development of what is believed to be & rich deposit of tin on the frontier. The situation is believed to have prompted the Argentine Senator San- chez Sorondo to make a recent dec- laration that 17,000 acres of rich Argentine land were “in possession of | a neighboring nation.” The Argentine foreign minister ex- ploded what might have been a sensa- tion by announcing that the territory referred to was along the Bolivian frontier and that the question could be adjusted easily through ratification of the 1925 agreement. The Bolivian Congress and the Argentine Senate have ratified the pact. Informed sources in La Paz say the tin lies in Argentine territory, and that marking the boundary will be simple once the Argentine chamber acts. But the Argentine Legislature ad- journed recently and will not meet again until next May. 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