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A—2 *» THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTO 9 _D._C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936. 917 FARMTENANTS GET 76,325 ACRES Progress of U. S. Drive Told. Government Leases Land for Five Years. BY BLAIR BOLLES. The Federal campaign to rid the country of the farm tenancy system has already provided 917 former share croppers with 76,925 acres to cultivate as their own, Dr. Will W. Alexander, deputy administrator of the Resettlement Administration and the man thought most likely to re- place Administrator Rexford G. Tug- well, told the press today. ‘These farm tenant security projects, set up as models of what can be done for study by the commission which will recommend farm tenancy legis- lation to President Roosevelt, are located in North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ok- lahoma and Texas. R. A. estimates that 2,865,155, or 42.1 per cent, of the Nation's 6,812,350 farms are op- erated by tenants. About 50 per cent of these farms were already occupied by the ten- ants selected for the project. The other 50 per cent are to be occupied by tenant farmers who will move from other farms, probably in the same county or in a nearby county. Land Leased for Five Years. The land is bought by the Gov- ernment through the Resettlement Administration and leased to the ten- ants for a five-year period. At the end of this period the tenant, if he has satisfactorily managed his farm, has the privilege of renewing his Jease or of entering into a purchase agreement with R. A. The principal requirement for the tenant entering into a purchasing agreement is a payment amounting to 15 per cent of the farm unit cost. The remaining. 85 per cent of the farm unit cost will be paid under a 40-year amortization plan at 3 per cent interest. Among the last hopes expressed by Dr. Tugwell before he announced his resignation as chief of R. A. was that the United States would undertake a 10-year, $500,000,000 program to elimi- Bpate the share-cropper problem. Alexander, who has won college de- gress and an array of honors for his studies of the tenancy and racial prob- lems n the South, declined to state whether he agreed with Tugwell. “I don't think my ideas will be very important,” he said. “What is presented to the White House will be 8 composite plan based on many ideas.” Alexander is a member of the Presi- dent’s Committee on Farm Tenancy, sppointed two weeks ago to study the problem and offer suggestions for remedial legisiation. Middle West to Be Aided Also, A national program would, of eourse, aim at making self-sufficient the Middle Western as well as the Southern tenant farmer, even though the former is able usually to finance | himself and owns some capital. The Southern tenant, in most instances, depends for financing each year on banks and stores. “But the basic problem is the same fn each instance,” Alexander said. “The cultivation practices of both groups deplete the soil, and the ten- ant’s practice of moving on from place to place from year to year makes it difficult to build up communities.” Alexander admitted that a certain percentage of tenants were incapable of rehabilitation as self-sufficient landowners, but he hesitated to guess what percentage fell into this group. “I think the hopelessness of these people is greatly exaggerated,” he commented. o Crow Feast Plan For Legislators To Revive “Fad” Oklahoma Official Says Meat Is as Good as Chicken. By the Assoclated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 2.— Jess Pullen, assistant attorney general, 1s lobbying in the Oklahoma Legisla- ture for crow meat. He set out recently to persuade the solons to attend a big crow banquet. ‘Those too squeamish to try it were hoping he had forgotten about it, but today he had his plans complete. Pullen urges 100 per cent attend- ance of the unofficial State House Crow Meat Lovers’ Association—head- ed by Gov. E. W. Marland, who says the meat tastes “as good as chicken.” A wave of enthusiasm for crow swept Oklahoma last year and resulted in it being served in restaurants. Then the fad died out. The way Pullen puts it, attendance &t ‘the banquet is a kind of patriotic duty. The State game and fish de- pattment urges crow shooting as a part of its conservation program in protecting chickens, quail and crops. The department will furnish the banquet crows. A bombing crew has found three big roosts, one near El Reno, one near Oklahoma City and a third close to Blanchard. They will blast out a few thousand crows when- ever Pullen sets the date for the ban- quet. About 500 pounds of shot will be ubed. Every crow within a hundred rods will be in danger when more than 100 handmade dynamite bombs are #et ‘off at night. SHOPPING DAYS LEFY Washington Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LADY who occupies an apart- ment overlooking a church on Sixteenth street was deeply impressed, one Sunday morn- the faces of the choir boys, who filed from the church in a solemn proces- sional. “John,” she called to her husband, “come and see these sweet choir boys!” John was a bit slow about laying aside the sport section in favor of But he jumped to attention & mo- ment later when his wife cried in dismay: “Oh, John, two of those sweet little And so they were, despite the handi- cap of their long robes. John en- joyed his ringside seat, but his wife was in tears before the battlers were Wayside PAX— ing recently, by the spiritual peace on who was reading the Sunday paper, some “sweet choir boys.” boys are fighting!” !separnte.d. * ok ok x COSTUMES. Miss Mary Cootes, linguist, who does special translation work for the Department of State mow and then to swell the waning travel expense budget, has solved a very difficult problem in her own novel way. “The only trouble with give ing a fancy dress party,” says she, “is that people are forever pester= ing you as to what they should or shouldn’t wear.” Clever Mary who is giving just such @ party in the very near future for brother Merritt, who has just returned from a three- year diplomatic sojourn in Hong- kong, issued her invitations by phone, concluding with the fol- lowing specification—"“you can come as something lovely or as something awful, but if you come as yourself you'll be thrown out.” * k% % NO STOP. \ A YOUNG American diplomat, who has just returned from a three- in Hongkong, complains | bitterly of the pace of life at home as compared to the slower way in | which the Orientals seem to accom- plish the same purposes in the course of a day without dashing wildly about. Saturday morning the disgruntied getleman was arrested on his way to catch one of those Army-Navy “spe- cials” for running through one of those Washington stop signs placed s0 year stay conveniently at intersections. He showed his rather frightening foreign driver’s license, his State Department credentials, and explained poélitely to | the officer that he didn't think any- | thing really meant “stop” any more in this mad Anglé Saxon existence. He just did manage to get to the station in time to embark for Phila- delphia. ACCOUNTING. PRETTY GIRL, bundled from head to toe in a luxurious coat ’o! gray fur, was feeding peanuts to | the squirrels in Lafayette Square the ;other afternoon, not entirely unaware | of the fact that she made a fetching picture. The picture might have been cap- | tioned “Lovely Lady Distributes Largess to Her Little Friends in the Park.” The passers-by were properly im- pressed. One remarked that the pretty girl certainly seemed fond of squirrels. “Yes, she certainly is,” agreed an- other, “—I think she must be wearing about 600 squirrel skins!” * k¥ % CUSTOMS. Mmm of a suburban country club were more than a little surprised last Wednesday night when two ladies—dripping mink and silver fox, as 'twere—stalked in, each carry- ing a small tin dinner pail. They walked over to a table in the dining room, where they joined a party who also each seemed to have a little package, picnic box, or con- tainer. It seems that for some years it has been an old family custom to meet for dinner the eve before Thanksgiving, and each member of the clan bring his or her own little “snack”—it seems, however, that they had never assembled at the club be- fore for the occasion. * ok ox % READER. OME of his colleagues believe that Joseph E. Edgerton, the aviation writer, deserves a salute of appreciation. It happens that he resides in Montague street northwest end comes to work via street car. Also, it happens that he likes to read while traveling. And the Harvard Classics, 50 volumes of great writ- ings chosen by the late Dr. Charles W. Eliot to constitute an ideal fve-foot shelf of literature for American homes, was available. Day by day, month after month, Mr. Edgerton, incredible as it may seem, studied the entire collection, actually perused every word of text in the whole set of books, on the trolley! The cars might be crowded to suffocation, he might have to hang on a strap, but he was faith- ful to his self-imposed duty until it had been completely discharged. LOSES ANOTHER JOB LOS ANGELES, December 2 (#).— Roberta Semple, at odds with her mother, Evangelist Aimee Semple Mc- was removed from the board of the temple’s holding corporation. r GARNER ASSAILED BY HOUSE GROUP Attempts to Aid Rayburn Are Denounced as “In- terference.” BY WILL P. KENNEDY, Adding his voice to those of House members who have censured Vice President Garner because of his ad- mission that he returned to Washing- ton early to influence the election of » House floor leader, Representative Kennedy of New York today de- nounced the Vice President for his| interference with the rights of the House to organize itself. Garner admittedly is seeking to aid his close personal and political friend, Representative Rayburn of Texas in his campaign for the House leader- ship. There was immediate protest from House members. Late yesterday Rep- resentative Nichols of Oklahoma and Dingell of Michigan, both Democrats, denounced the Vice President in for- mal statements. Dingell is a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. The tenor of the protests is that the executive or senatorial influence in Executive or senatorial influence in the organization of the lower branch of Congress on the ground that the Constitution intended the House to represent the people—as the people’s special branch of the legislature, its House of Commons—not to be dom- inated or coerced by any authority ex- cept the sovereign voters. Members here declare the attempt by the Vice President goes further than ever before, because he is elected on the ticket with the President and 50 bound to the executive branch of the Government, as well as being pre- siding officer in the Senate. They point out that Presidents have been extremely careful not to appear to try | to sway a House election. Feeling Runs High. The feeling among members of the House is now running higher than in many years on the eve of an election. The Vice President has “stepped on their pet corns.” Supporters of Chair- man O'Connor of the Rules Commit- tee, acting leader, promptly charac- terized the Garner interview as a “gratuitous intrusion into the affairs” of the House. “The dignity of the House of Rep- resentatives and its right to organize itself cannot be trampled on, even by such a distinguished man as the Vice President of the United States.” said Representative Nichols. “It is my opinion that the Vice President, at- tempting to interfere with the organi- zation of the House, has definitely as- sured the election of John O'Connor as the next Democratic floor leader. “As one of those who have been actively interested in the election of John O’Connor to the Democratic floor leadership, I feel confident that Mr. Garner's statement, wherein he at- tempts at least to take part in, if not dictate, the organization of the House of Representatives, will be resented by every member of the House, and while I am sure that he made his statement in an effort to be of assist- ance to his friend, Sam Rayburn of Texas, I am confident that it will have | exactly the opposite effect. “The House of Representatives, which has in the past been accused of being ‘rubber stamps’ for the Presi- dent of the United States, will not now surely admit that they are the ‘rubber stamps’ of the Vice President of the United States. Therefore, the O’Connor camp feels that the state- ment of the distinguished Vice Presi- dent has clinched victory for them in a fight they were confident they had already won.” Sees Texas Domination. Representative Dingell protested vigorously against the effort to make members of the House “rubber stamps” for the Vice President, “so that the Lone Star State may run | both ends of the Capitol, to the ex- clusion of any participation by any of the other 47 States.” His state- ment follows: “There has just been brought to my attention the statement issued by Vice President Garner today at a press conference, in which he announced . he has come to Washingtan to further ‘in every way possible’ the candidacy of his closest friend, Congressman Sam Rayburn of Texas, for the posi- tion of majority leader of the next “That gratuitous intrusion into the affairs of another body of Congress, with which the Vice President has nothing to do, will be resented by the members of the House, I am con- fident. The distinguished Vice Presi- dent has a big enough job on his hands as presiding officer of the Sen- ate without interfering with the or- ganization of the House, with which | he has no connection whatsoever. If such an intrustion had been suggested while he was a member of the House, I can imagine his very emphatic and cryptic rebuff to those who dared to attempt to interfere.” While O'Connor would comment only that he was “not the least bit surprised,” Rayburn welcomed Gar- ner’s backing. Tells of Friendship. Asked about accusations that the Vice President was intruding in House affairs, he replied that, in the first place, Garner was his personal friend and, “in the next place, he is the Vige President.” To a question as to whether Gar- ner’s stand could be interpreted as the administration’s taking a hand in the leadership battle, the Texan said he did not speak either for the Presi- dent or Vice President. Other candidates in the rapidly- developing leadership contest are Rep= Tesentative Rankin of Mississippi and ‘Representative Mead of New York, neither of whom commented on the Vice President’s action. CHRISTMAS CHARITY WORK PLANNED HERE Firemen to Repair Toys for Gifts as Part of Holiday Program. Arrangements for Christmas charity work by welfare and civic groups were discussed yesterday at a conference called by the Council of Social Agen- cies in the office of Commissioner .Melvin C. Hazen. Mrs. W. A. Rob- erts of the, council outlined a program. . Miss Sibyl Baker, supervisor of the District Playground Department, an- nounced a Christmas work shop would be established at 1524 L street. In spare moments firemen will re- toys for gifts, Fire Chief Charles "Christmas trees will be placed in [ of the hospitals, group was told. Yule Cards Taken With Movie Film From Parked Auto ‘The prowler who broke into & parked car at Tenth and N streets last night will be able to send his friends—perhaps even his friends’ friends—several Christmas cards apiece. The car belonged to Ashley F. Braugh, 415 Butternut street. The suitcase in the rear seat, which the thief probably thought contained clothing, really con- tained 12 boxes of sample Christ- mas cards, Braugh told police. ‘The cards and moving picture film, which the thief took also, were valued at $28, he reported. HOLD-UP VIGTIMS 10 SEE SUSPECTS in Thefts and Abduction. ‘Three youths under indictment for robbery and said by police to have signed statements admitting participa- tion in two other hold-ups and the abduction of a Fort Myer sentry will be faced tonight by victims of the crimes at a special line-up at police headquarters. The three—William N. Beck, 21; Jack Joseph Kurz, 19, and Paul Leon Berger, 19—were being questioned to- day in connection with a series of une solved robberies. Victims in these cases also may appear at the line-up. Kurz and Berger were brought here late yesterday from Winston-Salem, N. C., where they had been held for Washington police since Saturday. They were arrested at Kernesville, N. C., following what police described as & street brawl. Beck has been in custody since Sat- urday, when he was arrested at his home in the 900 block of C street southwest after he returned from a trip out of the city. Detective Chief Bernard W. Thomp- | son said all three youths had con- fessed in writing to taking part in the $352 robbery of the New Hampshire Market and later to carrying off Frank Ayers, a Fort Myer private, whose automatic, ammunition and spurs were stolen, and robbing three couples in parked cars. No charges have been placed against the prisoners yet. JEWISH COMPOSER DIES NEW YORK, December 2 (P).— Jacob Schaefer, composer and leader | of the Jewish Musical Workers® Al- liance of America, died yesterday of a heart ailment at his Bronx home. He was 48. Schaefer, director of the Preiheit Singing Society and the Freiheit Man- dolin Orchestra, received his first mu- sical training in his native Polish ‘Wolyn. Recently Schaefer had turned to| Jewish operettas. “Bunt Nit a Statcbke” (Strike and the Revolt) | played before 56,000 persons. Trio Prayer (Continued From First Page.) changeably, spparently with equal! Justification and with equal correct- ness s0 far as grammar is concerned. It is a matter of preference. “Them that,” he finds, seems to have a slight preference so far as the| sanction of scholarship and culture is concerned in both England and the United States. When first spoken, he admits, it may sound harsh and vulgar, yet it is the form used by the | | most scholarly compilers of prayer books and catechisms. On the other hand “those who" is preferred by several American Cath- | olic catechism compilers and seems to hold the preference in Angelican pray- er books. At least two approved catechisms, he finds, use the expression “them who.” Some time ago the Catholic hierarchy of Ireland officially approved the text of a catechism in which the expression is “them who,” but a sub- sequent approved Irish catechism used “those that.” | The popular opinion seems to be, he | says, that “them that” is a bit vul- gar, even if grammatically correct. “It is not vulgar,” he says. It is virile. In the Lord’s prayer it seems to give added emphasis, merely in its sound, to the strong warning and implication of the fifth petition.” | But this is merely a beginning, l:.sn. Henry finds, and an even | stronger argument might come up over the first lnrtqo( the same pelmgn The commonest Catholic form is: “Forgive us our trespasses.” In many Protestant churches the form now used is “Forgive us our debts.” Neither, Msgr. Henry finds, has any special sanction and both fail to ex- first, he says: “Ordinary folk will be apt to associate the word with the sign ‘No Trespassing’'—a sign which many good people will wholly disregard it there be no danger of discovery. Bet- ter educated people may be aware of the polite formula, ‘May I trespass on your patience ‘or your leisure, or your kindness),’ w...ch ordinarily suits the action of the word without waiting for & granted permission. Perhaps very few will think of ‘trespassing’ as a sin, whether in legal or in polite circles.” Curiously enough, from the associations, he points out, Catholics might say “Forgive us our debts” and Protestants “Forgive us our trespasses.” The Rheims version of the Catholic Bible translates the Lord’s prayer in the Gospel of St. Mathew literally with the terms “debts” and “debtors.” The term “trespasses” was first introduced | in the early Protestant version by Tyn- dale, from whence it passed over into the standard King James d ltd‘p;wmurmthemflmuc Bible at all. Just how it got- into the Catholic prayer, Msgr. Henry says, some better Biblical scholar than he may be able to explain. But, he thinks, there fan't much preference between “debts” and “tres- passes,” and both are misleading. “Debts,” he explains, has & legalistic tone which does not necessarily imply sinfulness in & moral sense—and ob- viously it is moral, not a legal, sin for which the petitioner asks for forgive- ness. b One trouble, Msgr. Henry points Police Report Confessions of | House | men familiar with domestic situations press the idea intended. As for the | out, is that the text of the Lord’s Prayer is taken from the Gospel of 8t. Matthew, whereas it would be quite different if- i had; been taken from St. Luke. Catholic and Protestant in the trans- Iation: ive -sins. ) POLICE ESTABLISH - CENTER FOR GIFTS Food, Clothing and Toys to Be Distributed From Armory. Headquarters for collection of Christmas gifts for Washington's needy, young and old, were estab- lished by the Metropolitan Police De- partment today in the National Guard Armory, Old National Hotel, Pennsyl- vania avenue and Sixth street. The food, clothing and toys which pour into this center, made available through the courtesy of Col. John W. Oehmann, commanding the District National Guard, will be distributed through the sixteenth annual Metro- politan Police Christmas Party, oldest charitable organization of its kind in thecity. The police campaign is allied with The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. sixth annual Christmas Toy Cam- paign and Gordon' Hittenmark’s Doll In charge of the police gift center is Mrs. Ada M. Minnix, who has given her services voluntarily for 10 years and is equipped to list every bundle or individual item that is received, to see that each gift goes where it is most needed and to record requests from the needy, or friends of the needy, who want to make sure that no one is overlooked. . Food First Necessity. The primary necessity, according to Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, fifth pre- cinct, chairman of the Christmas party, is food. He points out that Christmas can lose its meaning en- tirely when stomachs go empty and the threat of hunger looms. - Prepare & basket of non-perishable food and call Metropolitan 1100. A policeman will call at your door to collect your gift. As ready a re- sponse will be given if you call your neighborhood police precinct or Capt. Morgan at No. 5. Another pressing need is for cloth- ing for both children and adults. Many youngsters, according to police- on their beats, must miss days oli‘ school because they have no shoes or overcoats. Underwear for children likewise is badly needed. Capt. Morgan says that while new articles of clothing are preferred, the | gift center will accept used garments. | ‘The police can arrange to have the | latter laundered and mended if they | are not in too bad a state of repair. Advice to Donors. If donors would rather give per- ishable foods, such as chickens or | turkeys, they are asked to withhold their baskets until the last collection day, December 24. They are urged, however, to make up baskets containe- ing such things as cereals, canned vegetables and soups, potatoes, onions, bread and pancake flour, sirup and durable meats, such as ham and smoked or salted meats. Cash donations also are acceptable. These may be brought or sent to the | headquarters in the National Guard | Armory or mailed to Capt. Morgan. | Checks should be made payable Io | the Metropolitan Police Christmas | Party. More than $1,500 was donated | last year, exclusive of about 2,000 ' garments. INJUNCTION GRANTED ON ‘WINDFALL TAXES’ | But U. 8. Court Fails to Rule on Constitutionality in Two Virginia Cases. BY the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va. December 2.— Judge Robert N. Pollard granted a temporary injunction to two firms in the U. 8. District Court here yesterday restraining N. B. Early, Virginia ccl- lector of internal revenue, from col- | lecting “windfall taxes.” i The firms were the Rapidan Milling Co. and the Mine Run Roller Mills. | Attorneys for the plaintiffs con- tended the tax. levied under the rev- enue act of 1936 to reach 80 per cent of the processing taxes lost upon the death of the A. A. A, was unconsti- tutional. Sterling Hutcheson, U. 8. district attorney, and Mills Kitchin, special assistant attorney general, argued that the court did not have jurisdiction in the injunction pro- ceedings. Judge Pollard required a $500 bond of the collector of internal revenue, and Government attorneys noted an appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. ! The court. however, did not rule on the constitutionalicy of the tax. more easily understood word ‘offenses,’ | or the still more easily understood word ‘sins’ in the Our Father. It is on sins and not of trespasses or debts | that our good people ought to think when reciting the Our Father.” Another point which he raises is to the justification of the word “hale lowed,” in the sense of “holy” in the Lord’s Prayer. It is, he points out, almost archaic and probably many who repeat it do not know exactly what it means. Apparently the only clear-cut dif- ference between the Catholic and | Protestant prayers, Msgr. Henry says, is that the latter adds at the end the words. For Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Objections to Action. But, granting all the variations in | the common use of the most familiar words in the language, and the fact that there is no absolute standard to go by, what is to be done about it? It would be possible for a group of eminent scholars to get together and decide upon the best version and then, possibly, have the result of their labors given the authority of the Vati- can, 50 far as Catholics are concerned. This, however, would be open to cer- tain grave objections. First, it would require the discarding of an enormous amount of religious literature in which contrary texts appear, at great ex- pense and inconvenience. Second, it probably wouldn’t do any good, any- way. The present generation learned the prayer at the knees of ifs moth- ers. The words are used on all sorts of occasions and frequently are heard over the radio. Any approved new form could insensibly be changed by means of such contacts of eyes and ears with the prevailing “common™ form and with the best of intentions people probably would keep on say- ing: “Forgive us our trespasses.” And after all it is the spirit behind the prayer, rather than exactitudes of ex- pression, which counts. Santa Claus Anzious young faces look on while Kenneth H. Berkeley, Washington manager for National Broadcasting Co., communi- cates with Santa Claus by short wave. It is such children that N. B. C., through special radio programs this month in co- ogeratum with The Star and Warner Bros., will help make happy this Christmas. The first of N. B. C.’s big toy campaign broad- casts goes on the air tonight from 10:30 to 11:30 on WRC, featur- ing stars of the stage, screen and air. Toys (Continued Prom First Page.) e days and now & noted guitarist, and | Eddie Garr, whose imitations at enfer- tainments are not imitations of en- tertainment. The Harmonica Band of the Police Boys' Club, whose amateur standing is endangered by their reputations as performers, will be on the air. Dancing at home will be made pos- sible by the Lotus Club Orchestra, playing popular dance tunes for the broadcast. | Both next Wednesday and the Wednesday night before Christmas other programs will be broadcast, fea- | turing other stars as a part of The | Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. campaign. | Next week a large portion of enter- | tainment will come from the new | Pall Mall room of the Raleigh Hotel, | where an “English Christmas” pro- | gram is being presented. On that night, too, & new toy or new clothing for meedy children will pay the cover charge. In fact, all of Washington seems in- tent on brightening Christmas for the | needy this year. | Hittenmark Opens Drive. Gordon Hittenmark, “Your Time- | keeper” of WRC, officially opens his | part of the Christmas drive for foys | Saturday morning by dedicating the | Doll House, a central collection center | for dolls at the corner of Fourteenth and F streets northwest. All 67 local organizations of the Parent-Teachers’ Association are en- gaged in preparing for the big task THE SIXTH ANNUAL STAR-WARNER BROS.- N. B. C. TOY MATINEES and THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL METROPOLITAN POLICE PARTY in co-operation with THE PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION have joined forces to provide food. new toys and new clothing for needy children and poor families this Christmas. | New toys and new clothing will be received at all Warner Bros. theaters and will be taken as the price of admission at 11 theaters on Saturday morning, December 19. Non-perishable food or any || other gifts will be received at any police precinct fn Washington. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PHONE NATIONAL 5000 Branches 260, 293 and 418 lected will be sent to Warner Bros'. | theaters. The morning must not be forgotten either. Attend one of the following Warner Bros.’ matinees December 19 (or, if you can't come, send your gift). Metropolitan—Joe E. Brown in| Warner Bros.' “Earthworm Tractors.” Earle—Jane Withers in the Twen- tieth Century-Fox production, “Paddy | O'Day.” Tivoli — Freddie Bartholomew in ! United Artists’ “Little Lord Faunt- leroy.” | DOLL COLLECTIONS START SATURDAY Hittenmark Again Will Ap- peal for Police Christ- mas Party Aid. Gordon Hittenmark, “Your Time- keeper” of station WRC, will open his Doll House, collection center at Four teenth and F streets for dolls for the sixteenth annual Metropolitan Police Christmas party, Saturday at 9 am. Broadcasting directly from the Doll House, Hittenmark will appeal for dolls to gladden the hearts of thou- sands of small girls from families in straitened circumstances who cannot afford such gifts. The doll drive is being held this year in connection with The Star- Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas Toy Campaign. Doll donors will be ad- mitted to membership in the Good Fellows’ Club, an organization formed for the campaign. As a doll is pre- sented at the campaign headquarters, the contributor is to be given a club membership card. Hittenmark's Doll House was do- nated by Louis Brueninger and equipped and decorated by George Ford, president of the Capitol Heights Business Men's Association. Each morning from 6:30 to 9 o'clock the Timekeeper will broadcast from the Doll House and, as he said today: “I am going to be on the street floor this year to save folks the trouble of going up the 12 floors to the studio (N. B. C., in the National Press Build- ing). They can drive right up to the curb, jump out and deposit their dolls | any time of the day until 6 at night.” Members of the Alpha Beta Zeta Sorority, directed by Elsie Ramby, chairman of the Doll Committee, will assist Hittenmark by being on duty at the Doll House each day and by help- ing with the wrapping. The dolls will be turned over im- mediately to the police for their annual Christmas party. Hittenmark hopes to surpass last year's record of more than 3,000 dolls. A free taxi cab ride was offered to- day to help the doll drive. If you want to give a doll on the Doll House's opening day, Saturday, and have no | way to get downtown, call the Union Taxi Cab Association, Metropolitan 0400, and a cab will call for you and take you there. This service will be available only to the first 100 persons who telephone. Needless to say, they must have dolls. Assembling at a down- town point, the fleet of cabs will drive to Fourteenth and F streets, stopping long enough to let each passenger de- { liver dolls. houses to splinters, killed between 30 and 100 men, women and children in a swift and terrible air raid today. The emergency Red Cross station said the known dead totaled 30 and that the list might go as high as 100. Many of the victims were women and children. Bombs that fell in Ferraz street de- of distributing the toys and clothing Fodd dor—Haroid Lioyd in the | stroyed three houses; in Valle Hermosa In the Episcopal Church, it was pointed out at the Washington Ca- thedral, there are two authorised vere sions—one of which closss on the concluding phrase, “For Thine is the kingdom,” ete. ! B received at the toy matinees, ac-| cording to Mrs. C. D. Lowe, chair- man of the committee in charge. card catalog of the children who will receive their Christmas gifts from kindly citizens because their parents cannot manage it this year is being made with the assistance of school teachers, to be cleared through the Council of Social Agencies. Have you any Yuletide Chirstmas wrappings, ribbon or string? The P.-T. A. needs lots of it. They want to distribute their presents—at five school houses a few days after the toy matinees—wrapped as if St. Nicholas himself had delivered them, and no funds are available. Those who have discovered that they always have spare wrappings on hand after the last package is decorated may avoid that by leaving those probable leftovers now at the association headquarters at 1201 Sixteenth street northwest. Food, Clothing Headquarters. Headquarters for assembling, col- Jecting and distributing food clothing for both children and adults —and cash and toys, of course, too— will be open Thursday at the National Guard Armory at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue, it was an- nounced today by Mrs. Ada M. Min- nix, in charge of headquarters clerical work for the Police Christmas party. Mrs. Minnix is not an employe of the department, but has been volun- teering her services for 10 years, says Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, chairman of the Christmas party. With the assistance of girls from the Lennox School, 5,000 letters are being prepared now for mailing to a list of altruistic local folk. Last year the largest cash contribution was $300, while several others zent $100. Smaller contributions, as low as a| N | Paramount picture “The Milky Way.” Uptown—Laurel and Hardy in M- G-M's “Bonnie Scotland.” Penn—Laurel and Hardy in M-G- | M’s “Bohemian Girl.” | Apollo—Eleanere Whitney in the Paramount picture, “Timothy's Quest.” Home—Joe E. Brown in Warner Bros.’ “Sons of Guns.” | York—Buster Crabbe in the Para- mount production, “Desert Gold.” | Colony—Jane Withers in the Twen- 1 tieth Century-Fox picture “Little Miss | Nobody.” | Savoy—Richard Dix in R-K-O's “Yellow Dust.” 1 Spain _(Continued From First Page.) in the nearly month-long siege of the capital. Insurgent air raiders, however, again visited the heart of the beleaguered | city, dropping at least 20 bombs into | the central section near the Puerto | del Sol. | Delayed reports from the Fascists, lmoreover, declared the front line had Iu‘l\mneed 500 yards from Casa del Campo Park toward Madrid proper. Insurgent commanders said Moorish troops attacked the Toledo Bridge south of the city and captured a gov- | ernment trench. | Soclalist commanders reported a Pascist vanguard had been driven from | University City in ferocious hand-to- hand fighting after Asturian miners had dynamited the Medical Clinic Building, routing the insurgents from northwest section. Government advices reported other | street, three others were ruined. Others | exploded in the section around Mon- tana Barracks. Hospitals coped with what authori- | ties called “the first gas cases” of the | siege. In all, close to 50 heavy bombs were | dropped by the 16 roaring Capronis, mostly in the University, Rosales and | Cuatro Caminos workers' sectors. Britons Escape Death. One bomb wrecked the whole of one side of the Calle Jordan, in Cuatro | Caminos. Two visiting British mem- bers of Parliament narrowly escaped fiying shrapnel. One of them, W. H. Green, said they jumped into automobiles at the first explosion and rushed to the stricken district. There, entering | wrecked houses, “we saw scores of | injured women and children—four women and two children were thrown in one pile.” “Another woman's mangled body | was hanging over a tottering bannis- ter, where the force of the explosion had thrown her,” Green added. The M. Ps. said the defense junta | had made no secret of the fact their ‘preunce in the capital had kept Ma- rid from being “bombed to atoms.” | They explained this morning’s raid, |the first daylight attack since they | came to the capital, as spurred by an announcement from the insurgent Se- ville radio that they had left Madrid yesterday. | The junta promised to conduct the | visitors on a tour of hospitals, where, | authorities said, University City For- | eign Legionnaires were suffering the | their improvised fortress in Madrid's | effects of a gas attack launched yes- terday. i Gas Report Questioned. victories in the northwest suburbs of | Although the defense officials in- quarter, were received all during the |\ o5 poguelo de Alcaron and Hu- | sisted gas had been used by the in- pre-Christmas period. Cash contributions are greatly needed, Mrs. Minnix says, because when baskets are assembled the day before Christmas it is often found that food contributions must be supple- mented by last-minute purchases to give the basket variety. Although the | toy matinees are asking only for new | toys or new clothing, the police will welcome, in addition, worn clothing in good condition, Mrs. Minnix says, as well as woolen blankets. Persons who know of destitute families who may not apply directly for aid may notify the police at their own precinct, she says. Shoreham Toy Ball. In the meantime the Shoreham Ho- tel is inviting the town to its Christ- mas toy ball sponsored by The Star, Warner Bros. and N. B. C. on the night of December 18, where Santa Claus will be the guest of honor, and where & toy will take the place of the cover charge. Santa Claus will go night- clubbing for the first time that night, attending a party so that others may do likewise. Toy parties, as a matter of fact, seem to be in vogue, with one sched- uled for the Russian Club Trolka De- cember 14 and others on the night of December 16 at the Heigh-Ho Club and Club Volga Boatman. Toys col- front, in the Oviedo sector, and in the drives to capture Vitoria and Burgos. Great Britain sought to prevent foreign volunteers from fighting on either side in the Spanish civil war. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, in London, instructed Lord Plymouth, chairman of the Interna- tional Neutrality Committee, to ask: Are reports of a mass movement of foreign volunteers into Spain true? Does such action endanger European peace? Will countries participating in the non-interventon agreement prohibit | enlistment of foreign soldiers in either Socialist or Fascist forces? Tension, meanwhile, was eased by an announcement from the German Embassy in London that the Reich had no intention of denouncing the neutrality agreement or of sending troops to Spain. The Russian Embassy in Rome was reported, in advices from Odessa, to have protested the alleged search of four Soviet vessels in Italian ports. Official circles in Rome said they had no knowledge of such a protest. BOMBS CREATE HAVOC. MADRID, December 2 (F).—Sixteen Fascist bombers, smashing Madrid | will start at once. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City Full Sperts Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day. Latest News Flashes from Around the World. Whatever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service ! mera; on the Talavera de la Reina surgents, some military sources felt the normal fumes of the violent, close- range barrage might have induced symptoms of gas poisoning. Nevertheless, the newspapers quoted three deserters to government lines in the Cordoba sector as alleging the in- surgent officers had repeatedly de- clared: “We'll use gas.” Each of the deserters, the press reports said, was equipped with Italian-type gas masks. Militiamen and foreign volunteers | at the edge of Madrid held their ground despite the spectacular bomb- ing. The silvery Capronis, escorted by many fighting squadrons, flew so h /" they were barely visible. Heedless of anti-aircraft fire, the, sailed over the city to dump their deadly cargoes. Government defense planes had difficulty maneuvering in the heavy haze. | Food Shortage Threatened. Meanwhile, an “acute” shortage of food for Madrid's 1,300,000 people was described to visiting members of the | British Parliament in tragic detail by Pablo Yague, commissar of food sup- plies. “Large-scale importation of foo¢ from abroad has become an urgen necéssity,” the 329-year-old ex-bake) told the British delegation in his of- fice at the war department. “The shortage of beans, potatoe: and other foods for cooking has be- come acute.” All Madrid, the commissar said, has been forced on a vegetarian diet, witk not even a little ham bone in the wa) of meat seen for nearly a month. “Actual starvation is not yet facing us,” the plump, unshaven Yague as- sured his visitors, “but we are all going short.” “Little Lioness” Slain. In Madrid the militia was stirred to greater efforts by the death of “Leontina” (Little Lioness), a flery peasant woman who commanded one of the women's brigades in the “Maxin Gorki” batallion. She was riddled by machine gus fire as she led her women troops over » hill dominating Grado. 4