Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1936, Page 2

EMPLOYES MASS CHRISTMAS TOYS Gifts for City's Needy Are Assembled for Delivery Tomorrow to Earle, ‘Many hundreds of toys and articles of food and clothing are being as- sembled today by employes of the Federal Government for delivery to- morrow to the Earle Theater in behalf of the Christmas campaign being con- ducted by The Star in co-operation with the Warner Bros’ theaters, National Broadcasting Co., Metropol- itan Police Department and Parent- Teacher Association. As Government workers who have Joined in the drive to see that no one in the Nation's Capital is for- gotten this Christmas prepared for a mass attack against the threat of such a tragedy, Harry R. Daniel, chief co-ordinator of the Federal workers, said today that all signs point to an overwhelming response | from Federal departments and bu- | reaus throughout the city. A fleet of trucks is ready to collect | donations from offices co-operating in the campaign, Daniel stated, and will start on tne rounds in the morning. The driver of each truck will be pro- vided with a letter of identification | personally signed by Daniel, he said, and persons in charge are requested to ask for the letter before turning over donations intended for the cam- paign. To Report Gifts Direct. Daniel also requested that persons | in charge of collection from nch} group participating check the number | of gifts contributed before turning | them over to the trucks and then re- | port the number to his office for the | records The Earle Theater, where all Fed- eral collections will be taken, asks that | they be sent in containers, hampers, | or large boxes. i 1 Contributions of cash should be sent directly to his office in the Commerce Building. Daniel stated. If convenient, | persons or groups making cash dona- | tions are asked to use a check written | in favor of The Washington Star Toy Fund. | Through the courtesy of three busi- ness concerns here, four trucks have been made available for collections | tomorrow. Jack Cisenfeld of the | General Amusement Co., has promised | two trucks. and James P. Rogers of Calvert & Rogers, and Arthur Claren- don Smith of the Smith Transfer & Storage Co., each have promised one truck. Special Parties Planned. | As the Christmas campaign neared it climax, Federal workers continued | to plan special parties to increase in- terest in the drive. Employes of the quartermaster general's office in the War Department reported to Daniel that they will hold an office party during the lunch period on Tuesday In room 2216, Munitions Building. The latest Federal group to join in the campaign is the Federal De- | posit Insurance Corp. Daniel has | been notified that Mrs. A. C. Murphey, | room 403, National Press Building, # in charge of contributions from F. D. 1. C. employes. The National Archives has joined 8lso0 in the drive, with Allen F. Jones, ehief of the Divislon of Personnel Pay Roll, in charge, To advertise the cam- paign among Archives workers, a poster has been especially designed and widely distributed throughout the personnel. At the Earle Theater, where the gifts of Federal employes will be added | tomorrow to contributions from other sources, donations will be turned over to the Parent-Teacher Association for distribution in co-operation with the Metropolitan Police Department. Further campaign information may | be received from Daniel's office, Dis- | trict 2200, Branch 2421. DECREASE IN ASTOR TRUST IS DISCLOSED Trustees Report Decline of About ! $50,000 in Fund Set Aside for Grandchildren. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 17.—A | trustee's report filed with the Surro- | gates Court yesterday revealed that a | trust fund set up by William Astor, | father of John Jacob Astor, decreased | from $610,544 on July 31, 1928, to $568.210 on September 1 last. The trust yielded $313,845 in income dur- ing the eight-year period. Income from the trust goes to Wil- liam Astor Drayton of British Colum- bia, Henry Coleman of Newport, R. I., and Caroline Astor Drayton Phillips of the American Embassy, Rome, all grandchildren of William Astor, who died in 1892, Plead Guilty to Go to Prison and Hide From Liquor. DENVER, Dccember 17 (£).—Two prisoners, blaming their downfall on | liquor, voted yesterday to “take the | cure” at the State penitentiary. | Roy O’'Hara and Rudolph Goglin, each 30, pleaded guilty to robbing a store. “I think if I get in the penitentiary I can get away from the liquor habit,” said O'Hara. “T'll take the same,” sald Goglin. Judge George F. Dunklee obliged with 1-to-10-year sentences. Rail Racket Sifted. Japan’s ministry of justice is wres- tling with the railway scandal that was first exposed a year ago. More than 70 railway officlals are held in Ichigaya Ptison. Shinya Uchida, for- mer railway minister, accused of ac- cepting bribes, has been questioned a number of times at the district pro- curator’s office in Tokio. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market will start at once. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. FAVORITISM. R. TEUNIS COLLIER, who charges favoritism by police in regard to gashing tickets for traffic violations, might ponder the case of the battered amall sedan used by police for work in con- nection with their annual Christmas party. Said sedan, although displ ing paper window stickers proclaim- ing in 50-point caps, its relation to the police and their party, was impounded for a parking offense. The outraged driver, Officer R. L. Eubank, was told he would have to pay $5 to get it “out of hock.” All right, said he, go tell Ma). Brown about 1t and maybe he'd pay the five. Well maybe he'd better see the Cap- tain first. Eubank saw the captain. The Captain saw Eubank's point. The car got back in service—free, * % ALARM. The portly, benevolent-appear= ing night manager of a downe town telegraph office became only pleasantly excited early Friday morning when a burglar alarm sounded ominousiy. It indicated that knavish doings were appar- antly going on in a branch office just around the corner. The messengers, on the other hand, had begun to be quite ap- prehensive. But their elderly manager, a stickler jor the con- ventions, quickly walked back to his locker, inserted his key and carefully dommed his hat before hastening over to investigate—to find some one accidentally stand- ing on a contact button. * oK % COMEDY. MALCOLM MAJOR, mighty man with both pen and gun, (he's | an artist who likes hunting) went | a-fowling the other day. He did not | get & duck, but that was Al right for | he got the laugh of & laugh-filled life. | The ducks, it seems, staged such & great show that Major had neither the heart nor the strength to kill them. They came down in great flocks on the ice-covered lake, making | the worst and most ludicrous landing | in duck history. Instead of stopping as they obviously intended, the ducks would strike the ice and go into the | wildest kind of slithering, siiding skids. | And Major would go into great gales | of laughter, forgetting in his amuse- ment that duck hunters are supposed | to shoot their quarry, not laugh at it. | * x x % 1 SINBAD. | 7] IM ELKINS, Associated Press photographer, along other lines Tuesday and finds himself $1 richer because of the fact. Coming back on the presidential train from Charleston, 8. C., where he had been sent to get & picture of Mr. Roosevelt on his arrival from South America, he laughingly re- marked to a group of newsmen that the traveler ought to be called Sinbad | the Sailor. “I bet you $1 that you won't call him that.” one of the scribes declared. “It's & bet,” replied Tim. | ‘Tim then entered the car in which | Mr. Roosevelt was seated and said. “Welcome home, Sinbad the Sailor.” The President chuckled heartily, and Tim became $1 richer. * x x % JOYOUS SEASON. 'HE Georgetown street car going | up Pennsylvania avenue was crowded with the dally ruah-hour\ jam. | “Move forward, please; move for- ward,” the conductor had urged again and again in attempting to make ! room for & few more passengers. 1 There was a dead silence as the | passengers tried in vain to make | room for even one more passenger. Suddenly a man standing on the| rear platform caught the spirit of the occasion and shouted: “Move forward, please; move for- ward. Here comes a man with & trunk!” * ox ok o= MISTAKE. The patrol wagon of the Mary- land House of Correction drove up to the Rockville court house early Tuesday morning with the wrong man for the trial of -Donald Par- ker, colored, on charge of murder, There was a prisoner in the wagon. But he was not Parker. He let officers take him from the prison and all the way to Rock- ville, without saying a word. At the court house, he smiled and told them he was not Parker. He got a ride back to prison and then Parker was rushed over to Rock- ville for trial. * x %% ALLEYS. AN EXECUTIVE in the office of the director of the Alley Dwelling Authority, the agency responsible for the herculean task of closing grad- ually as places of residence all alleys or interior courts, and the liquida- tion of the assets derived by sale or 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 proved his daring’! THE EVENI The Government co- operating with The Star- Warner-N. B. C. Christinas drive so that no one will be forgotten in Washington this Yuletide time. Upper left is Mary Ruth Stidard of A. A. A. showing the collection center in the old Post Office Building. The train is A. A. A’s symbol for steaming ahead in the drive for happiness. Upper right is the first of seven Christmas trees placed in the lobby of the Depart- ment of Justice for collections, with Miss Bertha Lonergan, stenographer in the tar di- vision, making a contribution. Below Mrs. Elizabeth Wiley and William R. Kavanaugh of the Maritime Commission are answering a cardboard Santa’s plea in the Department of Commerce Building. DOGS ARE DROWNED Reported in Chicago Brings Protests. CHICAGO (#)—Owners of aged or diseased dogs have thrown their pets into the Chicago River with such fre- quency lately that the local anti- cruelty society has issued a plea for & more humane disposal method. Calls to rescue dogs from the river are being received “far too often,"” says Dr. W. A. Young, general manager of 18 Practice | the society, and unless a truck with a | rescue pole or some kind-hearted pe- | destrian or bridge tender saves the struggling animal it rarely escapes death. The doctor urged that such animals be sent to humane societies for care or disposal. l NG_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY REMEMBED THE | HORGOTTINCHID. Foptan 1 8 conversion of the property to commer- | cial or industrial use, has been in- trigued by the nomenclature of these thoroughtares, which likewise will soon be ancient history. | Note the number of the earlier Presidents of the Republic whose names now adorn lamp posts in our allevs: Washington, Madison, Pierce, Jackson, Johnson, Grant and Hayes, and favored likewise are heroes of the Civil War period and later: Grant and Lee, Logan, Riggs, Sumner, Meigs | and Gould. What could show & more robust patriotism than the names: Union, Government, Capitol, Congress Court, Mount Vernon, Navy and Merrimac. Trees and flowers also are remembered as names of alleys: Locust, Linden,| Peach, Cedar, Cherry, Chestnut, Crabtree, Willowtree. Floral, Glen | and Jongquil. Mrs. Woodrow * Wilson, the first wife of the President, used her time and influence successfully in having the insanitary dwellings in Willow- tree alley condemned, and a mod- ern concrete stadium was erected in an interior court, with seats on all sides for spectators, providing mod- | ern facilities for many athletic sports | for the youth of the neighborhood. | As an anti-climax there are alleys | named: Cow, Dove, Goat, Pig and Bacon. Picked at random appar- | ently were the following alley names: | Bank, Brewer, Bell, Brook, Cook, Ex- | press, Factory, Ferry, Hunter, Marble, | Page, Park, Show, Pleasant and Tem- | perance, | Last, but by no means least, and | names of alleys which would seem that | life there was interesting and exciting to its mischievously inclined resi- | dents: Sheriff, Fighting alley, Chain | House, Liberty. ) Toy Drive | (Continued From First Page.) | be present at the Shoreham tomor- | row night. | Eddie Peabody. master of the banjo, will be master of ceremonies. Barnee will be host to guests and artists alike. District Commissioner Melvin C. Harzen will present the kevs of the Federal City to Santa Claus himself, | who is landing at the airport at about | headliners announced for 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 de taken s 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. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PHONE NATIONAL 5000 Branches 260, 293 end 418 Federal Bureau Christmas HONOR ROLL : 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 Sixteenth Annual Metropolitan Police Party with the aid of the Parent- Teacher Association, to provide toys, food and clothing for needy families in ‘Washington, municate with HARRY R. Public relations chief of the Department of Commerce, in charge of the Federal Employes’ drive, at DISTRICT 2200, BRANCH 2421, or with THE EVENING STAR, NATIONAL 5000, Branches 260, JOIN THIS WORTHY CAUSE. HELP THE POOR AND THE NEEDY IN YOUR ADOPTED CITY. MAKE THIS A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL WASHINGTON, are kindly requested to com- DANIEL, 418 and 385 10:30 pm. after a non-stop dash from the polar regions in an Ameri- can Airlines airplane, to be escorted to the Toy Ball by Maj. Ernest W Brown, superintendent of police, and motorcycle police. Stars of the Earle Theater stage show opening Friday will appear for the Shoreham floor show, as well as the hotel's own entertainers, the whole evening, from Santa Claus’ | three-point landing, minus his usual reindeer equipage, to Barnee's last swing tune, to be broadcast over Station WRC. Don Zelaya, the “philo- sophical pianist.” is one of the early the Toy Bail. Other Night Spots Aid. Last night those enlisted in The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B, C. campaign | were victorious in a triple attack made | to defend the poor against grief and | hunger. Two night clubs, the Heigh- | Ho and Club Volga Boatman, termi- | nated gay and successful toy parties llut night, with Christmas programs arranged by Pete Macias at the Heigh- Ho and Matt Windsor at the Volga Boatman, on the air over N. B. C. Both report a stack of donations left with their doormen. Every employe, from manager to | dishwasher, at the Heigh-Ho had con- tributed to & fund. following an an- nual custom, and the gifts purchased with it by Pete Macias personally were atiractively displayed when the first guests of the evening arrived. Those, with others left during the Police Kindness Cheers Christmas came early to because police discovered fts hardship. Capt. Harve; @ basket of food and a toy, donated Frankijg, Robert, jr., Everett and t DECEMBER 17, 1836. " night, will be distributed in the cam- paign Leon Errol and members of his “Holywood Follies of 1937" cast, now playing at the Earle, halted every radio dial twirler last night at 10:30 p.m., when they gave an aerial Christ- mas program on behalf of the drive for N. B. C. Freddy Clark and his Earle Theater Orchestra were on the same program, appealing with Yuleiide music for contributions to the poor. Answering a radio appeal in behailf of The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C Christmas campaign, & gentleman in Sacramento, Calif.. sent a Christmas | presert to the Earle Theater yester- di John J. Payette, general zone manager, announced today. That Payette remarked. is really coverage. The Californian had heard of Gordon Hittenmark’s morning broadcasts over N. B. C. from the Doll House, allied with the campeign. Also “plugging” the campaign is , Bill Strickland and his Capitolians at Lotus Restaurant. He mentions the drive at each floor show, three times daily, and on each of his broadcasts, the next to be Saturday night over N. B. C. at 10:30 pm. with the tune “Jingle Bells” and special lyrics com- | posed for the campaign featured. In | the Lotus lobby is a collection center | where every one is invited to deposit gifts—not forgetting the boys and children older than 12 years of age (There is a tendency for donors to favor the girls and very young chil- dren, collecting agencies universally report.) | Checks Go to Buy Clothes. | More about clothing—a letter came from Warner Bros. today. mentioning | the receipt of checks sent by Joseph | Cherner of the Cherner Motor Co. and an anonymous donor forwarded from campaign headquarters at The Star. “The checks .went to buy the fol- lowing articles for the toy matinees: 2 dozen boys’ shirts, 25 boys’ neckties, 12 Mickey Mouse sweaters, 24 wool caps, 12 girls' sweaters, 24 pairs of | gloves, 24 girls’ dresses, and 30 palirs ! of socks. | “In view of the fact that almost all | donations so far have been toys, we thought it advisable to buy clothing. | These articles can be seen in the lobby of the Metropolitan Theater.” High hopes are entertained by War- ner Bros. officials that every seat at their matinees Saturday morning will be filled. A new toy or new article of wearing apparel will be the only price of admission and will be the largest single source of contributions for the | campaign on behalf of the forgotten child. List of Bereen Attractions. Screen attractions booked will be | presented through the courtesy of the local exchanges of the film companies | listed. They are as follows: Earle—Jane Withers in the Twen- this family living in 0 the Metri oYl father. e STRICKEN FAMILY AIDED BY POLICE Receipts of Drive Will Be Used to Continue Work During Holidays. Things have gone badly for Robert Fadley and wife more years than they care to remember. The first heart-sickening blow came 10 years ago, when Everett, their first born, was stricken with infantile paraly: From the waist down he became virtually helpless and now, at 12, can walk only with crutches. Robert Fadiey and family lived down in Virginia. He farmed, worked in a stone quarry, did odd jobs. But there came a time when he could find no more employment. He and his wife and their five children moved to Washington. ‘The Fadleys live today in a single basement room in the 600 block of Sixth street. Mrs. Fadley, Robert, jr., 5, and Franklin, 3. sleep in one rickety iron bed: Fadley, Everett, and the girl, Helen, 10, in another. “Lots of times I sleep on the floor,” Fadley says Man Too Il to Work. A stomach ailment prevents Fadley from working His wife used to get $3.50 & week as a cleaning woman, but she had to stop when Helen came down with the measles. Helen was taken to her grandmother's Rent for the Fadley's one basement room is $5 a week. That includes tieth Century-Fox production, “Paddy O'Day.” Metropolitan — Joe E. Brown in Warner Bros.' “Earthworm Tractors.” Tivoli — Freddie Bartholomew in United Artists, “Little Lord Fontleroy.” Ambassador—Harold Llovd in the 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.” Appolo—Eleanore 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- tieth Century-Fox picture, “Little Miss Nobody.” Savoy—Richard Dix Yellow Dust.” Literally hundreds of local mothers and teachers are engaged in listing recipients of gifts received from many sources. Mrs. C. D. Lowe, chairman for the Parent-Teachers' associations activities in connection with the campaign. Trucks will remove contributions from the Warner Bros. theaters Sat- urday morning, delivering them five school houses. Then the ladies will get to work sorting and wrapping a task they expect to complete Mon- dav night. Donated private automo- in R-K-O% biles will deliver gifts to the proper addresses December 22 and 23. six fathers, Mrs. Lowe reports, assist with wrapping. DANCE IS PLANNED 'Navy Yard Reteriment Commit- tee to Meet Tonight. Looking to its annual entertainment and dance, to be held at the May- flower Hotel January 29, the Navy Yard Retirement Committee will hold a meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Southeast Library to perfect com- mittee assignments. Even will The General Committee comprises | Jack O'Connell as chairman, Charles C. Gillikin, James D Sibbett, Edward J. Dion, Thomas J. Hughes. Thomas D. Stuart and Harry H. McCall. WAITERS DINE SUNDAY Banquet for Benefit of Home for Ailing Hotel Workers. Waiters of the city will hold their | | annual dinner Sunday night for the | benefit of the Home for Ailing Hotel | Workers. The home is maintained in Colorado by the Geneva Associa- tion of Hotel-Restaurant-Club Em- ployes, The affair will be held at the May- | flower Hotel. Basement Family a single basement room on Sirth street G. Gallahan, first precinct, is shown giving tan Police Christmas party, to the Fadleys, (: —Star Staff Photo. coal for a fireplace which no Santa | Claus could enter. The rent is paid | by Fadley's sister. Where do they | get money for food? | “Oh, people just bring food in to us every now and then,” Fadley said Did they receive relief?” No, they have lived here only eight months and 1 the relief people said you must have lived in Washington a year to get such assistance. The contents of the Fadley's “home” is three broken chairs, two tables, a bench with a seat that can't be sat upon. a small gas range. twn | beds and a broken dresser. Parts of the floor have fallen in. Police Rush Assistance. This family’s hardship was discov- ered yvesterday by investigators for the sixteenth annual Metropolitan Police Christmas party. Help couid | not wait until Christmas. Capt. Har- vey G. Callahan, first precinct Pvt. R. L. Eubank went immediatel with a basket of food and & toy. a wagon with red wheels drawn by a completely harnessed toy horse As they walked down the ateps to the basement room, small faces, smudged with coal d appeared at a window, noses flattened against the glass. Crippled Everett sat on a bed, unable to rise because he has no crutches. Mrs. Fadley was out caring for Helen. Robert, jr. and Franklin grasped eagerly for the new toy wagon. It takes a visit into the *“homes” of needy people such as the Fadley's— not perhaps as destitute—to impress on those who enjoy the ordinary com- forts of life what poverty really ean be. Since it would be impossible to arrange such visits by all who would furnish Christmas cheer for others you'll have to take our word for it, meanwhile resolving to give some- thing to the police party or to the Star-Warner Bros-N. B. C. Christ- mas toy campaign. FORD ASKED TO BLOCK SALE OF GERMAN BOOK Head of Anti-Nazi League, Hits Volume Titled “The International Jew.” | BS the Associated Press NEW YORK. December 17.—The Non-sectarian Anti-Nazi League last night dispatched a telegram to Henry | Pord, urging the Detroit manuface | turer to prevent further publication | and sale of a book called “The Inter- | national Jew.” Samuel Untermyer, president of the league, said the book was printed in Germany and was offered for sale here. He telegraphed Ford that the auto magnate'’s name was carried as | author of the book because it was largely a reproduction of articles once carried in Ford's Dearborn Inde- pendent, The Dearborn Independent articles were halted on the settlement of & livel suit, after Ford repudiated those articles. The league also telegraphed Repre- sentative John McCormick, head of & | House committee on un-American activities, asking him to halt the book’s importation. Untermyer, | Match Is Held at Mount Pleasant Library. Mary Helen Green of Sacred Heart School won the spelling match for | elghth-grade pupils conducted last night at Mount Pleasant Library by the Capital City Spelling Club. The winner of the adult match for persons not members of the club was Miss Edna Heffner of the Agriculture Department. Three members tied for first place in the match for club members. They were Miss Sara Waterman, Willard B. Smith and Ora Haines. Asked to Bring Toys. ‘The Washington Boroptimist Club requests its members to bring toys for the District'’s needy to a Christmas party December 23 at 1 p.m. at the Willard Hotel. Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries addressed a club meeting yesters day on “Americanism.” SHOPPING DAYS LEFY