Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1936, Page 2

JUNIOR GOLLEGES Would Eliminate “Special- ists,” Freshmen and Soph- omores From Universities. Elimination of “specialists” and ele- mentary students — freshmen and sophomores—from universities, so that these institutions might devote them- selves to higher learning was advocated Ilast night by Robert Maynard Hutch- ins, president of the University of Chicago, before a capacity Town Hall audience at the Shoreham Hotel. Dr. Hutchins, who, during his seven years at Chicago, has introduced and administered new educational policles, eriticized the atress on vocational edu- cation and proposed that university courses be confined to the “funda- mental problems of metaphysics, the social sciences and natural science.” Vocational education, the speaker asserted, teaches students only techni- cal devices, and fails to teach them to think clearly and to adapt themselves to changing situations. Institutions devoted to law, engineering or other yocations do not produce intellectually capable graduates, he said. Urges Junior Colleges. Under Dr. Hutchins' plan, freshman and sophomore years would be spent &t junior colleges and specialists would learn their professions else- where, preferably from the organized professions themselves, or at apecial institutions attached to the universi- ties, but independently administered. Dr. Hutchins also proposed award- ng the bachelor's degree “at the end of the period of general education,” which, he said, should be about the end of the sophomore year. “Many in this country attend col- lege only to achieve a social stand- ing” he said. “The English attend their public achools for the same rea- son, and in England not more than 80 per cent of the graduates of public schools go to universities. Would Guarantee Position “Awarding bachelor degrees to gophomore students would encourage those students who have gone to col- lege merely to establish their social position to withdraw. the American equivalent of the ‘school tie' of English public school gradu- ates, and should guarantee a simlilar social standing.” Dr. Hutchins' proposals brought a barrage of questions from the mem- bers of the panel. The questioners included Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent of schools; Mrs, Henry Grattan Doyle, president of the Board of Education; Canon Albert H. Lucas, headmaster of St. Alban's 8chool for Boys, and Walter E. Myer, editor of the American Observer. How money has influenced educa- tion in the colleges and universities of the United States was discussed by the speaker. He declared the de- sire to get ahead financially has had the effect of eliminating from college courses any subject that doesn't have & direct bearing on money-making. . WATCHMAN FOILS THEFT OF CLOTHING Man Who Tossed Brick Through Window of Store Is Collared After Chase. A colored thief who tossed a brick through the window of a clothing store at 924 I street early today failed to figure Archie L. Finagin in nis | plans. ‘The thief reached through the shat- tered window, snatched two overcoats and two pairs of trousers and started away at top speed. Finagin, a special officer who watches over a number of F street shops during the night, was & few doors away when he heard the crask and saw the robber running up Tenth street. The watchman, who lives at 3218 Eleventh street, didn't lose s mo- ment. After & short chase, he col- lared the man. The first precinct Is holding the man for investigation. Although police said he was alone, the proprietor of the store reported part of the clothing is still missing. A gas station at Thirteenth and L streets was robbed of $75 last night, Sol A. Hemmelfarb, manager, told police. A colored bandit, armed with a | revolver, held up Henry 8. Cooksey, 83, manager of a Sanitary grocery store at 231 R street, shortly after 8 am. today and robbed him of $19.08. Maxwell £={Coutiuund] From Eirst Buge:) N wound on Maxwell's head “perhaps was made with some blunt instru- ment, with four corners,” there was serious doubt as to whether the tillers’ testimony should be admitted because ©f its remoteness to the defendant. ‘The defense, which.placéd three eoroners on the stand Saturday to testify that the wounds on the head ©f the blacksmith-miner did not cause his death, called a fourth physician, Dr. J. B. Hopkins of Pound, today. Dr. Hopkins described the autopsy and said that the entire braln would have shown hemorrhages if the blow on Maxwell's head had been fatal. Btate witnesses last week attributed his death to such a blow. With the defense expected to call 80 more witneases, Miss Maxwell'’s counsel today was still undecided ‘whether to put her on the stand be- fore the Wise County jury. SHOPPING The degree is | Wayside * Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. ANSWER. ICHAEL ROSENDAHL, who is M turning out to be the Way- side’s lunch room and res- taurant operative, bobbed up today with the report on two soil ero- sion engineers. He sat near them the other day while they went into the Intricate vernacular of their profession. It was fun to listen, but more fun when the theory one of them was expounding had to be turned into elaborate mathe- matics. While Mr. Rosendahl sat there fascinated, one of the scientists filled two large dinner napkins with figures and various other symbols, As the last calculation was made, Mr. Rosendahl was convinced he would hear the first word of some startling and new scientific discovery. “Now,” said the figure flend, “you'd have something if the theory meant anything at all. However, I don't | think it does.” . xx o OVERDONE. A dignified appearance, backed up by some undignified words is just what it takes to put some motorists in their gplace, N. §. Clegg says. He knows because he was wit- mness to the incident of an imposing woman turning the vials of her wrath upon a motorist who dlocked her crosswalk on her green light. Ajter calling the man all the mames in a more potent vocabulary than any one would suspect her of possessing, the woman realized she had overdone the thing. “I'm saying all this,” she caught herself, “to get you out of my way. The motorist got. *x x 8 TRAP. KEEPER at the bird house was| practicing up the other day on the duties which will be his when he accompanies Dr. Willlam M. Mann, Zoo director, on a collecting expedi- tion to Sumatra. The keeper thought he would try out a new bird trap which snares its captives with a light | noose about the legs. He set the trap in the woods behind the bird house without mentioning it to his assistants. Soon an assistant came up to him and said: “You know, it's a funny thing. 1| just found a buzzard flapping around in the woods outside with his legs tangled in some rope. So I turned him loose. Now how do you suppose that happened?” ‘The head keeper wasn't angry, be- | cause he would have freed the buzzard himself, but he was a bit disappointed at not being able to see the trap! in operation. * x X % DRAFTED. ELEGATE KENT R. MULLIKIN of Prince Georges, majority floor leader of the Maryland House of Dele- 'gates. has discharged numerous duties on all sorts of committees during his long legislative career, but & task im- posed upon him during the current special session proved most novel of all. Mullikin happened to be in the Sen- ate when President Lansdale G. Sasscer, to the surprise of many mem- bers, called it to order promptly on the hour scheduled. As Jegislative time usually means an heur of or so behind regular time, this move caught all of the desk officers napping. Not one was in the room. | Accordingly, Mullikin, & member of the House, called the roll in the State Senate, *xox % PANTOMIME. PANTOHIMI, when skillfully done, can say more than a dosen words | —and with considerably more em- phasis. For instance, there's the report of the Wayside observer who, with a friend, was riding down a busy high- way out of Washington the other day with one of those drivers raised on the broken-fleld running tactics of the Capital's traffic. In and out between cars the driver soomed, back and forth from one traf- fic lane to the other. The Wayside spy and his friend weren't quite at ease, but the friend lit a cigarette and tried to look nonchalant. Then he spied something on the windshield. He took a long pull at the cigarette, s long look at the driver. Then leaned over and emphatically ripped from the windshield one of those safe- driving pledges, tossed it to the winds. P. 8.—The effect was not lost; the driver of the car immediately adopted safer road tactics. .THE - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO SELF T0 REALM Message Is Read to Parlia- ment—Archbishop Asks New Consecration. By the Associated Press. . LONDON, December 14.—George VI, Britain's néw King, pledged to his Parliament today “my constant endeavor, with God's help and sup- ported by my dear wife, to uphold the honor of the realm and promote the happiness of the people.” His message was read first to the House of Lords. Into the new King's promise he injected the phrase, “At a moment of great personal distress.” It was George VI's 41st birthday, but in the grave aftermath of empire crisis cre- ated by his brother’s love for & twice- married American he waived all anni- versary ceremony. His action was in keeping with a call from the Archbishop of Canter- bury for a nation consecrated anew to Christian sobriety. Lord Halifax read the monarch’s message to the House of Lords. It was transmitted to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin for delivery to the House of Commons, where members continued their individual oaths of al- legiance to the King. On the dais before the peers, sym- bolic of the new regime, were two thrones. Castigates Edward. The country needs a renewal of ts belief in the Christian life, asserted the Archbishop in a castigation of former King Edward as a man who “disappointed hopes 5o high and sban- doned a trust so great.” George VI plunged into his state duties at Buckingham Palace. Today was his 41st birthday, but by royal command there was no official ob- servance beyond the firing of the cus- tomary royal salutes—one round for each year of the monarch’s life—in Hyde Park and at the Tower of Lon- don, Flags flew from public buildings in honor of the occasion. The new King, hard at work at his official headquarters, left his Queen At their home, 145 Piccadilly, mildly ill with an attack of influenza. The Queen was reported “distinctly better” today and able to attend a family luncheon party in honor of the King's birthday. She was, however, still confined to their home. Court officials said her condition Wwas mot serious, but it was advisable for her to remain indoors a few days. She was not confined to bed. “Pity” Says Archbishep. “Oh, the pity of it!” exclaimed the archbishop, head of the state church, in a Sunday broadcast committing the former King to the care of God. “What pathos, nay what tragedy, surrounds the central figure of these swiftly moving scenes * * *,” declared the archbishop reviewing the event- ful days climaxed by the former sov- ereign’s decision to quit his throne because he could not remain ruler and marry the twice-divorced Amer- | ican woman. “How can we forget the high hopes and the promise of his youth * * *," he continued, “I4 ia-the remembrance of these things that wrings from our heart the cry, ‘the pity of it. Oh, the pity of itt’ “To the infinite mercy and pro- now wherever he may be.” It is strange and sad, added the archbishop, “that for such a motive, however strongly it was pressed upon his heart, he (Edward) should have disappointed hopes s0 high and aban- doned a trust so great. Makes Strong Statement. ! “Even more strange and sad it is piness in & manner inconsistent with the Christian principles of marriage, and within & social circle whose standards and ways of life are alien to all the best instincts and traditions of his people.” This reference to Edward’s asso- ciates at home and abroad was the | strongest ever voiced publicly from any English pulpit or platform. know that today they stand rebuked by the judgment of a nation which had loved King Edward,” he added. “I have shrunk from saying these ‘words, but I have felt compelled for the sake of sincerity and truth to say them.” ‘Two weeks hence, the archbishop disclosed, he again will broadcast, trying then, “if God will help me, to make to the nation a somewhat solemn recall to religion.” “‘We still call ourselves a Christian nation,” he declared. “But if title is to be a reality and not a mere our midst of definite and deliberate sllegiance to Christ—to his standards of life, to the principles of his king- ship.” Ooncluding, he said: “80 much for the past. And now for the future. The darkness of an anxious time is over. A new morning has dawned. A new reign has begun. George VI is King.” “A King has gone. him, “A King has come. God bless him, keep him, guide him now and ever.” Edward Held “Loose Liver.” NEW YORK, December 14 (#).— Former King Edward VIII was called “a loose liver” yesterday by Rev. Wil- liam Ward Ayer, who told his Calvary Baptist Church congregation the monatch’s attachment for Mrs. Simp- son was & “semi-illicit Jove affair.” Bishop Manning, at the Cathedral of 8t. John the Divine, joined in pul- pit castigations of the retired ruler, asking: God be with *x %% WAITRESS. Waitresses, it seems, have other troubles than unruly customers, Dorothy Howe reports she ‘was eating lunch at @ downtown hotel the other day, when the waitress started to fll the water glasses on the tadble. The decanter was empty. The pirl grabbed one from the ezt table, found it, too, held no water, “Hah!” she said, spreading dis- gust over an area of 20 square feet. “If this hotel caught on fire the Arst thing to durn would de water bottles!” . “Last Man” Loses Position. “Has any man, king or commoner, the right to seek happiness by run- ning sround with another man’s wife?” He answered his question by declar- ing, “All human experience tells us* that “such defiance of God's law” does not “lead to true happiness.” i TAKES 2 IN GUN FIGHT Patrolman, Met With Shots, Re- turns Fire and Subdues Pair. He atepped inside and was met with four shots ON DEBTS AGAIN Note, However, Said to Hint at Desire to Reopen Negotiations. BY the Associated Press. PARIS, December 14.—The French government replied today to the United Btates call for payment of the semi- annual instaliment of France's de- faulted war debt due December 15. The note focused interest on the question of reopening formal negoti- ations for payment. Agitation has been growing among certain sections of the French govern- ment for payment of the debt and it has been reported from time to time that the answer sent today might sug- gest conferences on the problem. ‘While the text of the note was kept secret, foreign office sources sald it was formulated under practically the same conditions as the default notice last June 15. Indications were the answer would be another formal expression of regret that France was not in position to make & payment. Principal attention, however, cen- tered on whether the note would con- tain what sources close to the foreign office considered a possible “phrase for the future” expressing hope some pay- ment would be possible later after ne- gotiations to scale down the total amount. The note was cabled to Ambassador Andre de Laboulaye in Washington who, it was said, would present it promptly to the State Department. ITALY ALSO DEFAULTS. Language Used in Former Notes Re- peated by Envoy. BY the Associated Press, ‘The Italian government defaulted anew today on its war debt to the United States, informing this govern- ment it is unable to meet the $2,141,- 593 instaliment due December 15, 1In virtual identical language used in | former default notes, the Italian communication, handed to the State Department by Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, said: “My government regrets to be still unable, at the present moment, to submit any proposals.” Ttaly was the second of 13 debtor nations which have served notice of | their intention to default again. Great Britain notified this government last week it would not pay its regular semi- tecting care of God we commit him | that he should have sought his hap- | “Let those who belong to this circle | phrase, there must be a renewal in annual installment, but mentioned the possibility of discussions leading to- ward settlement. Only Finland has notified this government of its inten- tion to pay its instaliment—$231,315. Tanks (Oontinued From First Page.) cannot accept the plans proposed by those countries out of good will” The air ministry reported bombard- ments demolished two insurgent con- centration points, Abrojos and Ama- nares, behind the Madrid lines. GERMANY FOB.ENDING WAR. Ready to Consider Proposal With Other Gevernments. BERLIN, December 14 (#)—The | German government stood ready to- ,day to consider with other govern- | ments any concrete proposal to bring | an end to the Spanish civil war. Germany raised the question, how- ever, in her reply to the Pranco- British international mediation pro- posal, whether conciliation could be achieved between Spanish Fascists | and Socialists. Germany also asked whether it was not too late to stop foreign volunteers from joining both sides in the Span- | ish conflict. (The insurgent junta has been rec- ognized by Germany as the govern- ment of Spain.) The memorandum said Germany last August urged measures against | volunteers and added the Reich “re- gretted very much that other gov- ernments at that time could not ma! up their minds—a fact which doub! less has contributed materially toward aggravating the situation in Spain. “Whether general prohibition of all direct or indirect intervention still can achieve results under the conditions prevailing today must unfortunately appear somewhat doubtful.” TWO MURDERERS DIE | Florida Executes Pair Who Slew Grocer in Hold-up. RAIFORD, Fla., December 14 (#).— ‘The State of Floride executed two col- ored men here today for the hold-up slaying of J. D. Yasmin, 8t. Petersburg grocer. Richard Williams was strapped in the electric chair at 9:38 am. James ‘Walker followed him 10 minutes latér. needy families in Washington, municate with : HARRY R. Public relations chief of the Department of Commerce, in charge of the Federal Employes DISCUSSED HER Preservation Association Stresses Question of Public’s Rights. The question of whether private ownership or control of beaches should | be curtailed or eliminated was raised today at the tenth annual meeting of the American Shore and Beach Preser- | vation Association. Addressing representatives from At- lantic Coast States, banded together in & move to save the beaches from wind and tide, President J. Spencer Smith of New Jersey declared the or- ganization already has achieved many of the aims for which it was founded 10 years ago. Sessions were being held throughout the day at the National Research Council Building. Public Rights Question. Having obtained congressional rec- ognition of the character of beaches a3 national recreation assets, together with Pederal financial aid for their protection, President Smith declared, the association should study the “so- cial questions of the public's right to enjoy the beaches.” ‘The public is asking more and more why fees must be paid for the privie lege of bathing in the ocean, Smith said, and why other people are allowed to hold title to bcean-front property and exclude the public from it. ¥ Some of these questions, he said may be the subject of official study, when the Beach Erosion Board begins to administer the new Federal beach protection law. He pointed out the law piovides Federal aid correspond- ing with the Federal “interest” in dif- ferent beaches, and that the board will be able to devise a “yardstick” to measure that interest only after it has found the means to determine the | relative interests of the citizens of the community, the county, the State and the Nation. Conditional Assistance. Smith also said he expected the board, which is a division of the Army Engineers’ Corps, will study the ques- tion of whether Federal financial as- sistance should be made conditional on beaches being open free to the public. ‘The morning session was opened with an address by Dr. Albert L. Bar- rows, executive secretary of the Na- tional Research Council, which spon- sored the creation of the organization in 1926. Frederic P. Reichey, borough clerk and treasurer of Bradley Beach, N. Y., replied for the association. During the opening session the members stood in silent tribute in memory of two deceased directors, ‘Willlam Grover of New Hampshire, who died in 1935, and Willard A. Speakman, chairman of the Delaware ‘Waterfront Commission, who died Jast June. 250,000 Non-Aryans in Berlin. BERLIN (#).—Despite Dr. Josef Goebbels’ flerce drive to “Aryanize the German tal completely,” about 250,000 Jews and non-Aryans still are i in Berlin. Federal Bureau Chrisfmas HONOR ROLL F 1 Federal employes wishing to co-operate with The Evening Star’s Christmas Campaign sponsoring the Sixth Annual Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Toy Matinees and the Sixteénth Annual Metropoliten Police Party with the aid of the Parent- Teacher Association, to provide toys, food and clothing for are kindly requested to com- DANIEL, ’ drive, at DISTRICT 2200, BRANCH 2421, or with THE EVENING STAR, NATIONAL 5000, < ' (Contin MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1936, The skit, “Katinka,” will be part of the special Yuletide party this evening at the Russian Club Troika, the second of a series of night club nights offered in connection with The Star- Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas campaign so that no one in Washington will be forgotten on the 1936 holiday. Guests are invited to bring new clothing or toys for the bration will be broadcast over N. B. C. Lejt to right are Marusia ‘Save, Lola Lolik and Vanya Orlik, who present this comedy number with the Troika’s regular floor show. | BEACH OWNERSHIP Toys ued spending & great deal of time in the Library of Congress research division. Sasha says that he found every one of the old Slavic folk songs in the music room of the Library, and is astonished to discover that here in ‘Washington is probably the most com- plete collection of them in the world. | Bartnovsky arranged the music pro- | { grams of the A. & P. Gypsy hour on | the radio for three years, and is known 25 a master among entertainers, | The floor show, to be broadcast| from 11 to 11:30 p.m. over Station | | WMAL, will open with “Kolyadka,” from the opera “The Night of Christ- mas,” with & special arrangement by | Bartnovsky. Lee Everett, N. B. C. “Night Watchman,” will announce | from the Troika, A Russian song, “Silent Night” from the opera, “The Christmas Tree' —not the same German one with which most Americans are familiar— and & waltz serenade, both by Viadi- mir Relukov, will follow. Marusia Save, whose stirring contralto voice is known to all of Washington, will sing solo & gypsy folk song. Mischa Markoff, also a part of the regular | Troika w, will sing and Capt. Nick Hope will play the accordion. The finale Vallse,” by the Troika chorus of nine | persons and the orchestra. Artists All Russian Born. All of the Troika artists are Rus- | sian born, and the music, therefore, will be authentic. A miniature burn- ing log, suggesting the huge outdoor | fires that used to burn all over the | empire in celebration of Christ’s birth, will be in the club tonight. Bartnovsky tells of the first time that Russian Yule logs flamed in | Washington about 134 years ago on | Christmas night, when the first Rus- | sian Ambassador ‘was on duty in | Washington, three years after the | Nation's Capital was established here. Catherine the Great was then Em- | | press of Russia, and, according to | historical records, instructed her rep- resentative to spend all the money he wanted, but to be sure to show the American people in their new world pomp and elegance. Outside the old Russian Embassy, still standing on N street in Georgetown, huge logs burned 30 feet high that night, while all the diplomats in Washington watched in brilliant-hued uniforms contrasting with American notables garbed in black. Inside candelabras bearing Russian Christmas tapers were of solid gold. Music offered then will be heard at the Troika tonight. Other Clubs Will Assist. Wednesday night the Heigh-Ho Club and the Club Volga Boatman hold their toy parties, inviting con- tributions. The Heigh-Ho Christmas cheering will be on the air over Sta- |tion WMAL from 11:30 p.m. until midnight, while the Slav Boatmen will broadcast from 11:10 to 11:30 over WRC. Friday night the Shoreham toy ball, where cover charges will be waived if new dresses, sweaters, sleds, dolls or shoes are presented to be dis- tributed in The Star-Warner Bros.- N. B. C. Christmas campaign, will close the night clubs’ contributions to gladden sorrowful hearts. This show, featuring not only Eddie Pea- body, but Santa Claus, will be broad- cast from 10:30 p.m. until the party’s over by WRC. ‘Wednesday night's N. B, C. broad- cast on behalf of the campaign will be & thriller. Leon Errol and his “Hollywood Follies of 1937" will be he: and John J. Payette, general zone manager for Warner Bros., says that the entire cast is enthusiastic about the idea and that Leon is arranging special numbers. Freddie Clark and his Earle Theater orches- tra, who charmed radio listeners with their Yuletide music at last Wednes- day's broadcast, will be on again. ‘This program will last from 10:30 to !11:10 p.m. over WRC. And then, of course, there are the | ‘Warner Bros' toy matinees next Sat- urday, where new toys and clothing for the campaign . will be the ticket price. They are as follows: Metropolitan—Joe E. Brown fin ‘Warner Bros.’ “Earthworm Tractors.” Tivoli—Freddie Bartholomew in United Artists’ “Little Lord Faunt- leroy.” Ambassador—Harold Lloyd in the Paramount picture “The Milky Way.” \ Uptown—Laurel and Hardy in M-G-M’s “Bonnie Scotland.” Penn—Laurel snd Hardy in M-G-M's “Bohemian Girl.” Earle—Jane Withers in the Twen- tieth Century-Fox production “Paddy O'Day.” < Page) , come over Station WMAL from 10:30 | is a Slav waltz, “Starinny ' oor, and the cele- BOVS'CLUBS MAKE YULE PLEA TONIGHT Second Radio Program in Behalf of Police Party Will Start at 10:30, Youth will aid youth tonight when the Metropolitan Police Boys' Clubs stage & half-hour broadcast from the fifth precinct station in behaif of the forgotten child. The program, including melodies by the club's musical organizations, will to 11 p.m. It will be the second to be broadcast from the fifth precinct. The first came over the same station last | Thursday night. | Other radio entertainment in con- | | nection with The Star-Warner Bros.- | N. B. C. Christmas toy campaign, | allied with the police and the Parent- | Teacher Association in a city-wide | drive against unhappiness at Christ- mas, will follow immediately the broadcast arranged by the Boys' Clubs. | ‘The second half-hour of the program | | will come over WMAL from the Rus- | sian Club Troika. Four to Make Brief Pleas. The Boys' Club broadcast will open | with a selection by “Maj. Brown's No. 5 Rangers,” stringed instrument quar- tet of boys in the Fifth Precinct Club. | | Short talks explaining the purpose of | | the police Christmas party and ap-| pealing for donations of money, food | and clothing will be given by Inspec- | | tor L. I. H. Edwards, Capt. Joseph C. | | Morgan, Lieut. Walter H. Thomas, in | charge of the Police Training School, | |and Sergt. John E. Scott, supervisor | of the Police Boys' Club. There will | be other music by the Rangers and | | the “Harmonica Boys.” Gordon Hit tenmark, “Your Timekeeper” of WRC, | will announce from the station house. | Capt. Morgan, chairman of the po- | | lice Christmas drive, promised today | that every needy case brought to po- f lice attention by mail or telephone | would be investigated thoroughly to | | make sure that all such families are | deserving. 2 An article in the current issue of a | widely distributed publication warns | |of fraud by writers of “tear-jerker” | letters, pleading for help, especially at | | Christmas. ¢ | The author, director of charity ; drives for a Chicago newspaper, states | | that many such letters are out-and- | out fakes, and cautions against re- | sponding to such appeals without | careful investigation. Police Know of Needs. ‘The police, familiar with conditions in all neighborhoods, know just who is desperately in need and who is not, and if they lack this knowledge they will investigate, Capt. Morgan de- | clared. Prospective donors to the; | Christmas campaign, therefore, can | | rest assured, he said, that their gifts | will go where they are most needed, and that few, if any, undeserving per- | sons will “put one over” on the con- | tributing public. “I am sorry to have to ask you | again for another basket of food,” wrote & father in one of the letters received by police recently. “But there are five in my family and I am still on W. P. A" The following letter from Capt. Har- vey Q. Callahan, first precinct, shows how such appeals are investigated: “The circumstances of this family were investigated by Pvt. —— of my command, who reports that the facts in this case are substantially as | represented in the attached letter. The father of this family is a man | |of some intelligence and education. They are not in absolutely destitute circumstances in the sense that they are going hungry, but they have noth- ing much beyond the barest necessi- ties of life. They are doing all they can to help themselves.” This family, of course, will receive & Christmas basket. —_— Farm Offered Ex-King. SAN DIEGO, Calif., December 14, (#)—State Senator Ed Fletcher said todsy he has offered Edward, Duke of Windsor, as a gift, a 500-acre country estate 20 miles from San Diego. Race Results, Complete Market, EMPLOYES YULE Federal Workers Continue Nh Final Delivered y arrie Anywhere in the City Full Sports CALENDAR HEAVY to Plan Events Aiding Star Charity Drive. The Federal employes’ Christmas campaign to see that no one in Wash- ington is forgotten during the holiday season began to resemble a social cal endar today as Government organ- izations throughout the city planned a series of Christmas parties to stim- ulate interest in the drive. As Uncle Sam’s workers continued to fall in line with the campaign being conducted by The Star, Warner Bros.' theaters, National Broadcast- « ing Co., Metropolitan Police Departe ment and the Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation, Harry R. Daniel, Federal co- ordinator, announced that numerous groups have reported arrangements for special entertainments designed to increase contributions of toys, food, clothing and cash for distribution among the poor of the city. On December 22 Santa Claus has 2 date to preside over Christmas fes- tivities in room 1210 in the Muni- + tions Building, where some 200 em- ployes of the transportation branch, finance department, United States Army, will entertain in honor of eight youngsters who otherwise might not have had a glimpse of the Christ- mas saint. Four Added to Guest List. ‘This party is especially interesting because it is in line with a five-year custom of the branch to take up a collection each “pay day” to provide gifts for the needy. As a rule, em- ployes make out a list of four to benefit from proceeds, but for this Christmas party a cammittee, headed by J. J. Ganey, has requested the Police Department to add four chil- dren to their list of guests. Plans call for a Christmas tree, ree freshments and an entertainment program. Ganey reported that $60 already has been contributed for the party and that the amount is ex- pected to increase this week. In the Agriculture Department an= nouncements have been sent out for a dance to be held Saturday night in the patio of the Agriculture Building. Admission charges will include con- tributions of toys, clothing and , canned foods. In this instance, the Christmas campaign being conducted by The Star and its affiliated agencies will share benefits with the Christmas toy campaign being conducted br~ the Washington Post. Articles of food and clothing will be turned over to the former, and the Post cam- paign, which also is working gen- erously in the interest of Washing- ton’s needy, will receive the toys Cash procecds will be divided be- tween the two organizations, accord- ing to A. C. Edwards, president of Agriculture’'s Athletic and Recrea- tioral Association, which is sponsors ing the dance. The entire Agriculture Department is organized in The Star campaign, with Edwards and Miss Gertrude Rest designated to receive gifts. Justice Party to Be Large. The largest Christmas party re- ported to date will be held Christmas eve in the Department of Justice, with all seven divisions taking part. Christmas trees soon will be set up in the lobby of each division and employes wiil be invited to place articles of clothing and food staples beneath their branches for distribu- tion to families designated by the Metropolitan Police Department. The immediate wants of 25 families will be provided from these supplies, it is believed. All employes of the department will gather about the trees on Christ- mas eve to prepare baskets and Santa« Claus will be on hand to see that the task is well done. Most Government organizations lined up in the drive expect to receive the bulk of contributions the latter part of this week, but many agencies report gifts already arriving. In the Maritime Commission in the Com- merce Building one basket already has been filled to overflowing. accord- ing to Willlam R. Kavanaugh, who is in charge. Moving companies wishing to co= operate with The Star in collecting contributions from Federal organiza- tions on Friday are requested to com- municate with Mr. Daniel by calling District 2200, extension 2421, Sickness Boosts Business. CHEWELAH, Wash. (#).—Country Editor B. J. Dahl discovered sickness in the family could be a business tonic. His son Gregory contracted scarlet fever. The health officer, out of quarantine signs, sent Editor Dahl an emergency printing order. The doctor, out of prescription blanks, did the same. 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 in Washington. 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