Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1936, Page 2

r Ed A—2 * POLICE GET GIRL'S - PLEAFOR BICYCLE Christmas Party Chairman . Says Some Kind Reader Might Meet Request. This is addressed to Elizabeth Mar- tin of Edmonston, Md., just across the District line. Elizabeth is 14, a little old for dolls -and such. She likes out-of-doors May and her most cherished desire is a bicycle. She realizes, however, that bicycles are rather costly play- things. Young Miss Martin was faced with & dismal sort of Christmas until she exercised her literary talents, which, though subject to the limitations of age and experience, are nevertheless compelling, as the following letter to Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Christ- mas party, will attest: “I would love to have a bicycle, but I know that was to ask too much. My mother is dead. Father works at night. He says we will have very little Christmas. I am 14. I would love a bicycle or a pair of shoes, size 213, but, of course, I'd love to have the bicycle. Thanks.” Must Not Pledge Too Much. You will get the shoes, Elizabeth, but the bike—well, Capt. Morgan tan't make any promises. You see, there are so many girls and boys to feed and clothe and cheer with toys on Christmas day that perhaps an elaborate gift like a bicycle would de- prive another of something that is badly needed. But although you do not live in the District you will get the shoes and probably another gift, and maybe some kind fellow will read this and get that bicycle you'd so love to have. Elizabeth's appeal is one of hun- dreds that are being received by police from children or parents whose little ones must depend for happiness at Christmas on your support of the police party and the Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas Toy Cam- paign: It is not only more blessed to givg than to receive, but it is just as easy, One way to help is to bring a doll to Gordon Hittenmark’s Doll House, on the southwest corner of Fourteenth and F streets. The brightly painted structure is open throughout the day. At night, gift can be deposited | through a small trap door, like those at laundries, in the entrance to the | Doll House. | Collection Center Has Phone. Another is to call Metropolitan 1100 —that'’s the number for the police | party’s gift collection. center in the | District National Guard Armory—the | nearest police precinct station or Capt. | Morgan, at precinct No. 5. Gifts will be called for. Especially needed | are baskets of food (non-perishable) | and garments such as shoes, trousers, evercoats, * The Doll House opened yesterday, $ith Hittenmark, “your timekeeper” | of Station WRC and housekeeper of | ghis unique receptacle for Christmas resents, conducting a sidewalk broad- | ¢ast in which participants included #aj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent { police. and Mrs Brown, donor of he first doll; Capt. Morgan, Louis | Brueninger, donor of the house; George Ford, who decorated it} How- ard Somerville. manager of the Wil- Jard Hotel, which provided the site, | posed health center. ! Traffic convictions. - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, Dec. 6, 1936, PART ONE. 8 Main News Section. & NATIONAL. G. O. P. governorship bid to Lindbergh reported planned. Page A-1 $5,000 Rogers extortion plot jails saflor on Lexington. Page A-6 F. B. I to give “startling” Robles kid- nap solution. Page A-11 Speaker urges extension of merit sys- tem in civil service. Page A-14 Chairman Hamilton expected to get “vote of confidence.” Page A-20 Burke to seek amendment for 6-year presidential term. Page A-23 Security Board extends application deadline to Dec. 12. Page B-2 Senate investigators study campaign fund limitation. Page B-2 Six-year, one-term presidential tenure advocated. Page B-2 Senator Clark sees neutrality policy as Congress issue. Page B-4 Perfume maker's daughter-in-law found dead of car gas. Page B-4 FOREIGN. Mrs. Simpson reaches refuge on French Riviera. Page A-1 Eight-point plan offered by Hull for world peace. Page A-1 King Edward’s decision on abdication is awaited by empire. Page A-1 Treasury employes queried on income tax for five years. Page A-1 Australia hears King to abdicate throne tomorrow. Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY, Cummings warns legal profession to cease “obstruction.” Page A-1 Strike and D. C. march threatened de- spite hint of more relief. Page A-3 Community Chest fund shortage cur- tails activities. Page A-5 Citizens' Committee meets with Joint Fiscal Committee. Page B-1 Justice Dept. W. P. A. workers com- plain of treatment. Page B-1 Conference scheduled on traffic war- rant changes. Page B-1 Despite longing for “bike,” hoy gives 20 he found to police. Page B-1 Senator King sees need for large school appropriation. Page B-1 Federation hits abattoir; approves pro- Page B-1 Supreme Court may rule Monday in five New Deal cases. Page B-8 SPORTS. Maryland loses spirited grid game to Western Maryland. Page B-12 Notre Dame tied by Southern Califor- nia in odd tilt. Page B-12 Reynolds’ scholarship plan is rejected by Western Conference. Page B-13 New York and Boston professional grid teams battle here. Page B-13 Manpower is declared essential to suc- cess in foot ball. Page B-14 Griff wants hurler and catcher and outlook is promising. Page B-15 Two eight-round headliners on -ring card here tomorrow. Pag= B-16 Granville is voted ace of race horses by turf writers, Page B-17 MISCELLANY. Resorts. Washington Wayside. Lost and found. Obituary. Page B-10 Page A-2 Page A-3 Page A-16 Page A-22 Page A-22 Page A-9 Page B- City news in brief. Vital statistics. Educational. PART TWO. Editorial Section. #nd an embarrassed colored messen~ Ler from the Treasury Departmem'l‘ ans and currency division, who stag- Bered up with a huge box of dolls | given by employes of the division. | » For the convenience of prospective fupporters of the police Christmas party here is a list of the police sta- | g:ma with which to communicate: | First precinct, New Jersey avenue be- fween D and E streets, Capt. Harvey G. allahan; second precinct, U street tween Ninth street and Vermont | fvenue, Capt. James Bobo; third, K{ reet between Twentieth and Twenty- | st, Capt. Arthur Miller; fourth, E | Petween Fourth and Sixth streets southwest, Capt. Jeremiah Sullivan; frth, Pifth and E southeast, Capt. organ; sixth, Nicholson between hirteenth and Fourteenth, Capt. | Joseph Pierson; seventh, Volta place, Georgetown, Capt. John Bowers; eighth, Albemarle west of Wisconsin avenue, Capt. Lloyd Kelly; ninth be- tween E and F northwest, Capt. Rich- ard Mansfield; tenth, Park road be- twee Georgia and Sherman avenues, Capt. Ira Sheetz; eleventh, Nichols at Chicago avenue southeast, Capt. Hugh Groves; twelfth, Seventeenth and Rhode Island avenue northeast, Capt. Sidney Marks; Traffic and Detective Bureaus, Headquarters, 462 Indiana avenue; Women's Bureau, Fifth street between M and N, Capt. Rhoda Mil- liken; harbor precinct, Seventh and ‘Water southwest, Lieut. William Car- lin. W. C. M. CONSTABLE DIES Retired New York Store Execu- tive Last of Merchant Family. NEW YORK, December 5 () .— Walter C. M. Constable, retired New York department store executive, died yesterday at the home of a daughter in Pelham Manor after a long ill- ness. He was 84. Constable had been a partner in Arnold Constable & Co. and wss the last surviving male member of the English merchant family that fourd- ed the firm. He was born in Bognor, Sussex, England, and came to New York in Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment, Page D-2 Civic news. Page D-7 Military and veterans' news. ‘Women'’s clubs. Parent-teacher clubs. Winning contract. Secrets of Secret Service. PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Pages E-1-13 ‘Well-known folk. Page E-6 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-13 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. Pages F-1-4 John Clagett Proctor, Page F-2 Dick Mansfield. Page F-2 Radio Programs. Pags F-3 Amusements. Page F-5 Automobiles, Page Aviation. Page Cross-word puzzle. Page Children’s. Page Highlights of history. Page PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Business forges upward. Page Rising living costs seen. Page More dividends ordered. Page Specialty stocks gain (table). Page Corporate bonds narrow (table). Curb edges higher (table). Stamps. Classifiled advertising, Pagas D-3-6 Page D-4 Page D-4 Page D-5 Page D-5 Page G-3 Page G-4 Page G-5 Pages G-5-14 FREIGHTER IN DISTRESS Wireless Reports Norwegian Ship 60 Miles Off Scotland. NEW YORK, December 5 (#).— MacKay Radio said tonight a wireless report had been received from an un- identified ship saying the S. S. Kar- moy, a Norwegian freighter, was in distress about 60 miles off Malin Head, Scotland. The Karmoy is a 295-foot vessel with 1903. Two daughters and a sister survive. & capacity of 2,498 tons. She is owned by John K. Haagland & Co. Ickes to Speak in Forum FUTURE OF HOUSING AND PUBI ‘THE future of housing and public works, and the prob- lems involved, will be dis- cussed by Secretary Harold L. Ickes of the Department of the In- terior and Public Works Adminis- trator, in the National Radio Forum, tomorrow at 10:30 p.m. The National Radio Forum is ar- ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. For more than three years Ickes has been in charge of the public works program of the Government. Projects of all kinds and in every State of the Union have been started under his direction apd many of them have been completed. Public works were undertaken on a huge scale to help the country toward re-employ- ment and recovery. With the coming of recovery, the part which public works is to con- tinue to play is of great interest. There is great need in the country for improved housing, and it is along that line that the Government may be ex- pected to do a great deal. 4 LIC WORKS TO BE DISCUSSED. SECRETARY ICKES. P i Toys | (Continued From First Page.) toys, food and clothing for needy fam- ! ilies here this Christmas. Gifts to be distributed to the poor by the Metropolitan Police and Par- ent-Teacher Association will be col- lected in each Federal bureau. In recognition of the generous spirit which prompted the Federal campaign, The Star will establish an Honor Roll in which the names of groups con- tributing from the various depart- | ments will be published. In addition, | The Star will offer an award to the unit contributing the largest number | the personnel. Many Ask to Assist. | Organization of the Federal em- ployes was effected following numer- | ous calls from Individuaiz in many | departments who expressed the wish to assist in the toy campaign. | _ Arrangements have been made for Federal employes who wish to co-op- erate to obtain further information by communicating with Daniel's of- fice, District 2200, Branch 2421, or with the Evening Star’s Christmas cam- paign headquarters, National 5000, | Branches 260, 418 or 385. | Telephones chimed at headquarters of the campaign yesterday with a tempo reminiscent of jingle bells as every one joined hands to see that no one in Washington is forgotten Christ- | mas day. A lady telephoned to get the name of a needy family, for whom she will | | provide not only a doll house and toys ;lnd clothing. but a dinner she will prepare herself and deliver Christmas | day. She was referred to Mrs. Ada M. | Minnix, Metropolitan 1100, who is working on distribution for the police A check for $100 arrived signed Joseph Cherner. Mr. Cherner, of the Cherner Motor Co., wants half of this to go to the Warner Bros. theaters for the purchase of toys and the other half to the police for their sixteenth annual party. Boxes in Hotel Lobbies. Eight large hotels and apartment houses announced that containers will | be placed in their lobbies where offer- ings may be deposited for distribu- tion by the police, mothers and teach- ers. Anything from flour to shoes wiil be acceptable and all guests will be invited to contribute. These lobby col- lection baskets will be placed in the Carlton Hotel, Wardman Park Hotel, Cathedral Mansions, Davenport Ter- race, the Boulevard Apartments, the Chastleton and the apartment build- ings at 2700 Connecticut avenue and 1001 Vermont avenue. Jack O'Connell of the Police De- partment came in to say that the po- lice hoped for enough food for 5,000 Christmas baskets. The Baxter Weld- ing Co. telephoned that they would weld any broken bicycles, sleds or toys free if they were scheduled for pre- sentation for the police Christmas party. Police are inviting gifts of food, new and old clothing in good condition, and toys, while the toy matinees of the Warner Bros. theaters Saturday, December 19, will receive THE SIXTH ANNUAL STAR-WARNER BROS.- N. 8. C. 1 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 mew clothing for needy children and poor families this Christmas. New toys and new clothing will be received ‘at all Warner Bros.’ theaters and wi'l be taken as the price of admission at 11 theaters om Saturday wmorning, December 19. Non-perishable food or any other gifts will be received at any police precinct in Washington. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PHONE NATIONAL 5000 Branches 260, 293 end 413 e Another important plan in an unprecedented campaign to make this the happiest Christmas % D. C, DECEMBER 6, 1936—PART ONE. in the history of Washington became a reality yesterday as the doll house at the Willard, corner of Fourteenth and F streets, sponsored by Gordon Hittenmark, N. B. C.’s “timekeeper” in behalf of The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. toy matinees, and the sixteenth annual Metropolitan Police party, aided by the Parent-Teacher Association, opened its doors. Traffic stopped as the fleet of nearly 100 cabs, loaned to the cause by the Union Tazxicab Association, arrived laden with the first offerings. Throngs gathered, bearing more dolls, and it was a grand opening, as the above scenes testify. No. 1—Mrs. F. W. Benduhn as she arrived with an armjul of happiness for some lucky little girl. in the first doll to Hittenmark, all smiles beside the “mike.” No. 2—Mrs. Ernest E. Brown, wife of the superintendent of police, who handed No. 3—More dolls in the arms of Mildred Mackin, Janet Rock and Marion Anders, sorority sisters of Alpha Zeta Beta.. No. 4—All races and all creeds are joining whole-heartedly in this city-wide campaign, and these two little colored children, Lorraine Scott and her brother Emmelt joined the ranks of doll-bearers for those less fortunate than themselves. new toys and clothing in exchange for s great many Washington chimneys mount production. “Desert Gold.” the usual pasteboard. | Gordon Hittenmark, “Your Time- | keeper” of WRC, called up in high good humor to say that his doll house opened Safurday morning at the Wil- 11| of gifts in proportion to the size of lard Hotel corner, Fourteenth and ¥ streets, and that it would be open all day from now until Christmas, | There's even a slot for late stayers- out to deposit gifts. With the assisi- ance of Alpha Zeta Beta Sorority Members Virginia Lewis, Mildred Mackin, Marion Anders, Janet Rock. Mary Belle McIntyre, Dot Miller and | Kathryn Cunningham of the Willard staff, Gordon is operating the doll center. Debutantes went shopping in the Saturday rush to buy = gift for tie toy party at the pall mall room of the Raleigh Hotel next Wednesday night, where contributions to the poor will be the only cover charge. At the same time headliners from the Earle Theater rehearsed for this event, to be broadcast over WRC at 10:30 pm. The Raleigh party, they sar, comes under the heading of a major social event. Santa Claus called up and said he was looking forward to mixing with diplomats and Federal and District Government dignitaries at the Shor ham toy ball December 18, when tie entertainment of the evening will be broadcast from 10:30 p.m. on, and the cover charge is & contribution to | charity. He will be pleased, he de- | clares, to ride up Connecticut avenve with a police escort. It's a change from reindeer. He knows, he says, These tiny folk will go on the air Wednesday night at 11 o’clock in a National Broadcasting Co. program that is a part of The Star-Warner Bros.-N. lanned to prevent there being any forgotten child in Wash- gl.gton this Christmas. They are Olive and George Brasno, 39 Living Dolls to Perform and steam radiators and he hopes this vear to get acquainted with some he’s been forced to miss other years. ‘Those full socks on Christmas morn- | ing will be made possible, too, by the Russian Club Troika, the Heigh-Ho and the Club Volga Boatman, where Christmas parties will be held, Decem- ber 14 at the Troika and December 16 at the Heigh-Ho and Volga Boat- man. Guests are invited to bring something for the Star-Warner Bros.- N. B. C. campaign. John J. Payette, general zone man- | ager for Warner Bros, called up to say that he was glad he happened to | bave two charming small folk—living dolis—on his program for this week. He urges attendance at the toy mati- nees. The schedule for them is as | follows: | Earle—Jane Withers in the Twen- | tieth Century-Fox production, “Paddy O'Day.” Metropolitan—Joe E. Brown in | Warner Bros.’ “Earthworm Tractors.” Tivoli—Freddie Bartholomew in | United Artists’ “Little Lord Fauntle- ! roy.” | Ambassador—Harold Lloyd in the | Paramount picture, “The Milky Wa Uptown—Laurel and Hardy in M-G-M’s “Bonnie Scotland.” | Penn—Laurel and Hardy in M-G- | M’s “Bohemian Girl.” | Apollo—Eleanor Whitney in the | Paramount picture, “Timothy’s Quest.” | Home—Joe E. Brown in Warner Bros.’ “Sons o' Guns.” York—Buster Crabbe in the Para- | B. C. Christmas toy campaign and 40 inches tall, respectively, who are a part of the Earle “Theater stage show this week P Colony—Jane Withers in the Twen- tieth Century-Fox picture, “Little Miss “Yellow Dust.” Judge’s Policy Cuts Sentences Of All Women Their Punishment to Be Only Two-Thirds " of Men’s. B3 the Associatea Press. PITTSBURGH. December 5.—Judge M. A. Musmanno said today he had | adopted a policy of giving women ‘de- | fendants sentences only two-thirds as | heavy as those given men for similar | offenses. The presiding judge of Allegheny County courts announced his new plan | will apply in every case—"barring ex- | | traordinary and especially aggravating | circumstances.” “Woman,” he explained, “is made |of & finer and more delicate fabric than man, and thus reacts more sensi- tively to hardship and distress.” He inaugurated the policy by cutting 10 days from 30-day sentencesde gave each of two women for driving auto- mobiles while under the influence of liquor. He ordered Margaret Ruse, so- cially prominent painter, and Marie Davis released tomorrow from the county jail, where he sent them last month. ‘The bushy-haired jurist, leader of a campaign in the county against drunken motorists, said part of his court philosophy is this: mary purpose of incarceration or any penalty imposed by law is not punish- ment but deterrence.” And it takes more discipline to deter & man from wrong-doing than it does & woman, he concluded. “The pri- | Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations | of Interesting Events and Things. HOLE. SINC!: the publication, in Washe ington Wayside Tales, of an item anent a hole punched in a third-floor window by former Judge Ralph Given more than 30 years ago and still there, another hole has mysteriously appeared on the same foor and on the other end of the sec- ond floor court room. This one, it seems, is for the use of assistant cor- poration counsel on that floor, who want to look down and see what is happening in the court. Judge Given broke the glass so he + could look down from his office and see what was going on. * % % % WATCH SPELLING. The Government Printing Ofice, despite its perfection, still has a Jew flaws to iron out. Two batches of information papers in criminal cases recently were de- livered to the office of Karl Kin- dleberger, assistant district attor- ney in Police Court. Both were for Jalse pretenses, but on one the word was spelled “pretences” and the other was “pretenses,” and they oc- curred numerous times in both. * x ox x PICTURE. ON! of the caulifiower-ear boys, who has agonized here for many years at one of the city'’s wrestling em- poriums, raises and trains dogs on the side as a.- hobby. His canines are a very pedigreed breed of pure white English bulldog, | and he enjoys teaching them all the tricks in the trade of professional wrestling. The dogs put on & show every now and then, and they go | through their antics quite realistically, | even to entering the ring and going | to their respective corners, rushing at | each other with a great deal of com- motion, parting when their owner HARRY R. DANIEL, Public relations chief of the Department of Commerce, who_ will direct the Federal employes’ Christmas cam- paign, being held in co-opera- tion with The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C., Metropolitan Police and Parent - Teacher Association gift drive for the needy. (ILLUSTRATOR ‘KLIZ’ DIES | George H. H. Clisbee, 41, Chicago Native and Veteran. NEW YORK, December 5 (#).— George Howard Henry Clisbee, 41, illustrator and author, died today of & hemorrhage following a slight op- eration. Clisbee was born in Chicago, spent his boyhood in Missouri, studied art in Paris, and served with both the ®rench and American forces .n the World War. After the war he served the Cleve- land Daily News eight vears ss art editor, signing his art work “Kliz" His widow, Mrs. Florence Clisbee, and & sister, Mrs. Harry H. Frazee, sur- vive. Federal Bureau Christmas HONOR ROLL F 3 Numerous requests have come to The Evenin from groups of Federal employes who wish to len Star their aid to The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Toy Matinees being held in co-operation with the Sixteenth Annual Metro- politan Police Party and the Parent-Teachers’ Association, and to these generous Government workers the following suggestion is made: Designate one person, or a grou| Federal bureau to collect toys, f of persons, in each and clothing, to be kept on hand until called for by the agencies working with The Star for delivery to needy families in Washington. An Honor Roll Call will be kept and the bureau col- lecting the largest number of such gifts will receive The Star’s award. JOIN THIS WORTHY CAUSE. HELP THE POOR AND THE NEEDY IN YOUR ADOPTED CITY. MAKE THIS A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL WASHINGTON. Direct All Inquiries to NATIONAL 5000, " BRANCHES 260, 418 AND 385, Christmas Campaign Headquarters, THE EVENING STAR. | | | taps one or the other, and rubbin: | noses pleasantly after the battle is over | Their owner recently sent a picture | to a doctor friend, also & dog lover. which consisted of his own head and | the head of one of his pets. | The doctor admits he had to look at the picture twice to make sure which was which. LI B SLEEP. A YOUNG man named Bill Owens, who stays out until all hours, makes sure he'll get up in the morning ! by leaving a call at the desk of the apartment hotel where he lives and en setting the alarm to go off 10 minutes before the call is due. | The system usually works. The ! other morning, though, he shut off the alarm at 9:20 and sleepily crawled back in the hay. The expected hap- pened; sleep came back in & hurry. Then the phone rang. “Did you leave a call for 9:30?" | asked the voice from the desk. | “Yes” was the sleepy repiy. “Well.” said the voice, “you'd better | get up then, because it's after 10." * * % % CHAMELEON. The chorus girl is in again. Not the same one who has brightened these columns before, maybe, but one just like her. This lass turned up at the cabaret the other might a decided brunette ajfter having left the place at noon just as decided a blond. “Say, you look swell,” said a sis- ter choryphee. “Is that the shade it used to be before you had it bleached?” “Gee, kid,” said the dyed lass, “T can’t remember what the natural shade was.” * x % ¥ MAIL. WOMEN, it seems, get a great kick out of dropping letters down those nice mail-shoots in tall build- ings and watching them disappear. This fact was evidenced a few days ago in a downtown office building when one secretary told another as she got in the elevator with a hand- ful of letters, “I just love to drop letters in on the top floor and watch them go down.” This reminded our eavesdropper of the story of what happened in a New York skyscraper. | It seems that just such a system for disposing of mail was installed | in one of those 60 or 70 story struc | tures, and when the first mail was | taken out by the postman, what he found, to his surprise, was little more than & pile of ashes. This tragedy opened up & new field of research, and | shoot systems now have loop-the-loops and other gadgets along the down- ward path to slow up the progress of the epistles so that friction will | not burn or scorch them. * x ¥ % FANS. \OWN in Fredericksburg, Va., there are some things the good burgh- ers take seriously and foot ball is close to tops. Recently a group of Washington reporters descended upon the town to “cover” a murder story. Instead of the undercurrent of excitement there should have been in a place like Fred- ericksburg during a murder investi- gation, the local news boys found amazing peace and quiet. The town was not quite as deserted as a de- funct Western mining village, but almost. ‘The reporters hunted up some of the authorities on the case—but found them not. They went to interview the various witnesses—but found not a witness. Then they discovered the reason. [Everybody in town—"Every one but the prisoner and the corpus delecti,” one reported said—was at the foot ball game. Shortage of Iron. Japan is short of iron and steel scrap and is trying to find sources of supply other than those in the United States. A . .