Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1936, Page 5

WATERWAY PACT | Senate Likely to Get Pro- posal for New Treaty With Canada. By the Associated Press. Indications are that a revised St. Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada will be submitted to the forthcoming session of the Senate by President Roosevelt. Officials willing to talk about the sit- uation refused, however, to say what changes would be contained in the new proposal. The original pact, providing for a half billion dollar ocean navigation seaway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence River, ‘was rejected by the Senate two years Negotiations for a new treaty have been proceeding between the United States and Canada several months. Some officials said various points arising from the proposed construction of power plants at the International Rapids section on the northern boun- dary of New York State had been about settled. ‘They aiso said changes had been amade which they believed would lessen or eliminate opposition from those who contended diversion of water for power purposes would interfere with plans of the Chicago sanitary district. Latest developments were discussed at a White House conference vesterday by the President and Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York Power Authority. EX-ACTRESS DENIES NARCOTICS CHARGE Juanita Hansen, Once Queen of Movie Serials, Is Released From Jail. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 25.—Re- leased frem jail oh Christmas eve, Juanita Hansen, queen of movie serials 20 years ago, protested today her arrest on suspicion of violating the State narcotic act. Friends in the Federal theater project, where the blond actress has earned $94 a month, supplied her $1,000 bail. Detective Lieut. F. H. Duede said | a narcotic administration kit was found in her possession yesterday. Indignantly the actress insisted she | had no narcotics, but was on the way to see a sick friend with a hypodermic syringe and needle with which to ad- | minister a coal tar product her phy- | sician had recommended. “I haven't taken narcotics for three | years,” she said. | From 1914 to 1922 the Nordic beauty is estimated to have earned more than $1,000,000 in movie serials and fea- ture-length pictures. Seven yvears ago she turned on a shower in a New York hotel room and was severely burned by scaling water and steam. She sued for $250,000 and eventually won & Judgment of $108,000. “THE OTHER WISE MAN” TO BEGIN NEW SERIES Christmas Drama to Be Presented Four Times at Luther Place Church, The Christmas drama. “The Other Wise Man,” will be presented for the | twelfth time in a series of four shows beginning tomorrow at 5 p.m. and mn- | ning through Tuesday at Luther Place | Memorial Church, Fourteenth and Vermont avenue. Week day perform- ances will be at 8:30 p.m Denis E. Connell will play the lead- ing role of Artaban, the fourth wise man, in Henry Van Dyke's legend, and will be assisted by Katherine Riggs, narrator and harpist; Thomas Cahill, James M. Rawls, J. Edmond Veitch, ‘Wade Robinson and Yerby Pannill. FORMER LAKE BOTTOM GIVES HIGH CORN YIELD €600-Acre Tract Left Dry After Water Recedes Through an ' Opening in Bed. GOLCONDA, IIl. (). —A 600-acre tract of land which until three years ago was completely covered with water today yields from 50 to 75 bushels of corn per acre. The site was known for years as “the big sink,” the largest of numerous natural lakes dotting the hilly section of Hardin County. R. F. Austin, farmer, says that late in 1933 he noticed its waters rapidly receding, apparently through an opening in the bottom of the lake. The lake was entirely empty in a few days. ‘The State game department rushed trucks to rescue tons of fish left flop- ping in the mud. The land then became available for cultivation. 60 Families Use Lampsin Fight On Power Rate To Ban Electricity Until Cost Is Cut, d 25— than 60 families here went back Werosene lamp era today in against rural electricity rates. 3 Henry, leader in the has “family-doctored” families, said “we're going without electricity until for-fair service.” subscribers along 48 miles of power line. . Peak of Marshalltown, ormed the company, which in 1931, refused “even discuss rate reduction, although the got us to sign up for service a reduction in five said the company 1 Efut 585 ’s hard to get along without elec- tric lights and radios,” said Dr. Henry, it before and we'll it again until the company treats fairly.” declined to oomment. B Myrs. Roosevelt’s m BE DISBUSSED Many Visits to Christmas Gatherings Prevent Her From Eating Lunch. Mrs. Roosevelt at one of the Inset: velt wherever she went. Christmas eve party in Navy place. many Christmas parties for the needy which she attended yesterday. She is shown giving Mrs. Annie Wagner a basket at the Salvation Army party. —A. P. Photo. A microphone seemed to be waiting for Mrs. Roose- She is shown as she talked at the —Star Staff Photo. USY as you may have been yes- terday, there's still the conso- lation that at least you had lunch. Mrs. Roosevelt didn't. From the time she left the White House to attend a Christmas party given by the Central Union Mission in the Capitol Theater at 9:30 am., the wife of the President set a pace from one event to another that left reporters 20 minutes and 30 blocks in her wake. Fourteen hundred children yelled a “merry Christmas” when Mrs. Roose- velt entered the theater yesterday morning. The greeting was echoed at 7 o'clock last night when she said good night to a gathering of colored inhabitants in Hopkins place, a group of slum-clearance dwellings in the southeast section of the city. Sometime in the middle of the day Mrs. Roosevelt found time to change from a tan tweed suit, brown hat and | low-heeled shoes to a plum-colored | tunic dress, black hat and shoes and | short gray squirrel coat. i Luncheon, however, suffered by the\ time taken to change clothes. More | poignant than a mere admission that she had missed a midday meal was the longing look cast at a pan of hot bis- cuits just taken from the oven in one of the slum-clearance homes visited late in the day. “Mmm, tasty smell- ing, aren't they?” she mused. Pauses at White House. Whisked from the theater in the| tan-wheeled black sedan bearing the | President’s seal, Mrs. Roosevelt ducked in at the White House long enough to distribute gifts to the office force of her Pennsylvania avenue home, then stepped hurriedly back into the car to arrive on time at a Christmas party for children given by the Volunteers of America in Thomson School. A half hour later she was on the ros- trum at the Salvation Army headquar- | ters, 606 E street, where she spoke for | six minutes over the radio, and accom- | panied by Mrs. Roper, wife of the Sec- | retary of Commerce; Mrs. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, and Bishop James E. Freeman personally handed out the first baskets of food to needy families and toys to the chil- dren. Back at the White House Mrs. Roosevelt, with the President, formed a two-person receiving line and issued gifts and the season's greetings as servants, guards and other White House attendants filed past. Accompanied by the President and the immediate family, Mrs. Roosevelt drove to Lafayette Square, where the Chief Executive lighted the com- munity Christmas tree. Hears Colored Singers. It was a half hour later, though, in the heart of Washington's slum section, that the President's wife seemed to enjoy herself more thoroughly than at any other time during the day. In Navy place, an alley dwelling section occupied chiefly by colored persons, the First Lady stood in the hushed dark- ness around a Christmas tree listening to the colored throng about her raise voices first in moving spirituals, then 4n Christmas hymns. There was a silence when they finiched. “Please sing ‘Silent Night.! I'd love that.” There was a brief pause before the many throats caught up the atrains of the classic Christmas song, in answer GRANDS UPRIGHTS = AAND ~- MIDGET PIANOS FOR RENT T HUGO WORCH 10 G.estiem @ 4 | child’s mother corrected. | repeated faithfully. to Mrs. Roosevelt’s request. None clapped when the song was finished. Mrs, Roosevelt herself broke the still- ness by stepping quickly to the edge of the crowd to ask a tiny colored child, “Is Santa coming to your house?” “Yes, ma'am,” the child lisped brightly. “Yes, ma'am, Mrs. Roosevelt,” the The child Followed by Photographers. Previously the President’s wife had said to photographers who had fol- lowed her all day, “Ycu all still here? What a job you have!” “The same to you, Mrs. Roosevelt,” a cameraman smiled tack. In Hopkins place, a recently com- pleted slum reclamation project, Mrs. Roosevelt greeted another group of colored listeners and inspected several of their homes. She loft there for the ‘White House about 7 o'clock. Most of this morning, she said, would be spent with the family, unwrapping Christmas presents and romping with | her grandchildren. ,7-Year-Ol.d Takes ‘Stay Awake’ Pills And Greets Santa Doctor Co-operates With New York Lad to Ward Off Sleep. BY the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., December 25.— Seven-year-old Donald Feiden of sub- urban Latham, used 6 of 11 pills his doctor gave him to keep him awake Christmas eve, but today was confi- dent he had seen the “real McCoy” Santa. Hadn't he said “Hello” to him, Donald asked, and wasn't he playing today with a toy typewriter, a sled and & pair of skiis that he saw Santa Claus pull out of a heavily loaded pack right before his eyes? As witness, he had Dr. Nathan Flater, the physician to whom he wrote for “some pills that I can take so that I won’t fall asleep Christmas eve.” Also present, but in disguise, was a neighboring garage man, Ellwood Gallup. Donald said he was “awful sleepy” at bedtime, but he followed his doctor’s orders and had taken six of the pills at half-hour intervals when Santa ar- rived. Speechless at first, Donald managed to say “Thank you” and got in that “good look at Santa Ciaus” he had asked for just to prove to myself that may have made it possible for you to dance away many happy holi- day hours this joyous Christmas Pro;:ession, Carols, Turkey and Gifts at Many Capital Institutions. Candlelight processions, carol sing- ing, turkey dinners and gifts fea- tured Yuletide celebrations at Wash- ington’s hospitals this morning and during the last few days. Children’s Hospital carrying lighted candles—not only to commemorate the birth of Christ, but also “the lady with the lamp,” Florence Night- ingale. The nurses lighted a tree in each ward and stood about sing- ing carols while little sick children worked with the knotted strings of brightly ribboned packages. Presents from many organizations and individuals went to fill “Santa’s bag” at Children's. The ordnance office of the War Department alone contributed more than 200 toys. The White House sent up 30 poinsettia plants from its greenhouse to brighten the whiteness of the rooms. Colored theaters sent each small colored girl a pickaninny doll. The Red Cross, schools, church clubs, the Gridiron Club and the Soroptimists Club all did their part in cheering the chil- dren. The Washington Police Post Division of the American Legion gave a play and party yesterday after- noon. Three Christmas Babies. Columbia Hospital celebrated “the first Noel” with three Christmas babies, besides trees, gifts and & party to its clinic children. As early as 2 am. carolers were singing outside the buildings of Freedman's Hospital and others later entered the wards to give concerts. Tuberculosis Hospital made an especial effort to make this Christmas a good one for patients as they are moving out to Glenn Dale, Md., before the next Yuletide comes around. Thirty-two taxicabs, loaded with toys from Gordon Hittenmark's doll house at Fourteenth and F streets, sped through the streets behind a police escort to the party at the Tuberculosis Hospital. The cab service was given free by officials of the Union Taxi- cab Co. Parties by Red Cross. ‘Walter Reed and the Naval Hospital have enjoyed parties given by the Red Cross, where cigarettes and Christmas baskets were presented to soldiers and sailors. All hospitals reported they were preparing Christmas dinners with all the trimmings for patients today. Tur- key will be the “piece de resistance,” but ice cream, cake, plum pudding and cranberry sauce will enhance the roast holiday fowl. Candlelight processions are a rule with most of the institutions on Christ- mas morning.” Likewise carols have been sung in all hospitals by various groups, many of them representing the Federation of Churches which sent out groups of young workers to 20 dif- ferent institutions this morning to sing and present 6,000 stockings filled with candy. In Catholic institutions, Christmas high mass featured the celebrations. Famed Yule Poem Proved Annoyance To Cleric Author| BY the Associated Press. TROY,'N. Y., December 25—The beloved poem, “The Night Before Christmas,” heard in many an Ameri- can home last night, brought only chagrin to its author when it was first published 113 years ago in a Troy newspaper. Dr. Clement C. Moore, a New York theological professor, wrote the verses in 1822 as a Christmas present for his children, but it was not until a year later on December 23, 1823, that it first appeawd in public print in the Troy Sentinel. A daughter of Rev. David Butler, Episcopal rector, heard Dr. Moore read the poem while visiting the Moore home and hastily copied the words in her album. Delighted over the merrv account of the “Little old driver, so lively and quick,” she sent it to the editor of the Troy paper, who published it under the heading, “Account of a Visit From St. Nicholas or Santa Claus.” Its publication brought an imme- diate response of delight, but not from Dr. Moore. He deemed it beneath the dignity of a professor of divinity. Later he acknowledged authorship| and included it in a volume of his poems published in 1844. Before he died in 1863, his account of the house in which “not & creature was stirring, not even a mouse” had been translated into many foreign languages and an autographed copy had been requestéd by the New York Historical Society. Union Station was jammed yesterday evening with temporary Capital residents on their way to the States to spend Christmas at home. The crowd shown here was on the way to board one of the Southbound trains during the afternoon. —Star Staff Photo. CROP INSURANGE {200 Children Board Warships AGTION EXPECTED Friends of Bill Hope Con- gress Will Give imme- diate Consideration. By the Assoclated Press. Friends of crop insurance drew hope from favorable comment in some Sen- ate quarters today that the plan would be brought before Congress quickly. Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, said a bill embodying suggestions handed to President Roosevelt by a special committee studying an all-risk crop insurance plan for wheat would be introduced “shortly after the session opened.” Departmental experts estimated that as much as $100,000,000 might be needed to start the plan. On Capitol Hill several Western Sen- ators announced support for some form of crop insurance, although one, Sen- ator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, said he was uncertain as to the feasi- bility of such a program. Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, thought crop insurance was “the only adequate approach” to the farm problem: Senator McGill, Demo- crat. of Kansas, asserted it had been favored in his section “for some time,” and Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas, looked “with great sympathy on the crop insurance movement.” Declared Unsolved. ‘Thomas, after saying he was unde- cided. added that “the agricultural problem is by no means solved” and that he intended to devote his energies to working out an agreement on the “proper solution.” Pope, who introduced a erop insur- ance bill last session, said he had con- ferred with Secretary Wallace and in- surance experts of the Agriculture De- partment. Pope's original plan con- templated a Government-controlled corporation for operating the insur- ance problem and Wallace said ves- terday that a corporation plan prob- ably would be used. “Reserve” Estimated. Experts working on details of the plan said recent drought years indi- cated that a “reserve” of between $50,000,000 and $70,000,000 would be required to start the plan. Unless adequate reserves are estab- lished at the start, the experts said two or three poor wheat seasons might cause the entire plan to collapse. Under the proposed plan the Gov- ernment would pay administrative costs and storage charges. Officials estimated these costs “might run as high as $25,000,000" for starting the plan. Yule Captures Page One. 'WOONSOCKET, R. I, December 25 ().—The Woonsocket Evening Call for the fifth consecutive year printed nothing but Christmas news on its front page yesterday. Crime stories or anything not of & Christmas nature were relegated to inside pages. —_— Leningrad was founded -as St. Pe- tersburg in 1703. —————— e RNERNEN SN SN AN LR RN RN We Wish to Our Many FriendsandCustomers “A '_lflt'rg Merry Christmas” UNIVERSITY SHoP 715 14th to Extend g 2 3 St.'N.W. For Appointment With Santa By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., December 25— Aboard two big gray battleships, the U. 8. 8. Wyoming and the U. 8. 8. Arkansas, today went a group of Nor- folk children for that very necessary appointment with Santa Claus. It had been explained that he could not make it down their chimneys, with such a bulging sack, but Uncle Sam's seafaring men swore with all the deli- cacy commanded by Navy regulations that there was plenty of room between decks for him. Christmas feasts there wers, too. The main mess hall of the naval training station resounded with the happy clatter of 200 underprivileged youngsters, invited to eat everything from turkey to cake. Portsmouth’s children—the ones Santa Claus could not otherwise re- member—treked into the Marine bar- racks at the navy yard for their | Christmas dinner. From thoughts of war and tactics and such the officers and enlisted men at the whole naval operating base this week turned wholeheartedly to making K Lt s royal Christmes for the young ere. ‘There was a party for 200 children of men attached to various units here, another one for those at the air sta- tion and still another yesterday for underprivileged lads and lassies. MANUFACTURER DEAD | e Services Today for Prominent .Rocky Mount Citizen. ROCKY MOUNT, Va., December 25 (®).—Friends and business associates ‘ntbmfl here today for the funeral | of Nathaniel P. Angle, 75, prominent manufacturer and business man of Franklin County. Services were planned for 11 am. which the body was to lie in state at | the Rocky Mount Methodist Church. Surviving is one sister, Mrs. J. H. Hurt of Ferrum. following a one-hour period during |7} Mr. Angle was president of the Angle 8ilk Hills, Inc., which he assisted in | establishing in 1930. 2 POLICEMAN KILLS SELF AFTER CRASH Commits Suicide With Own Revolver After Car Hits Parked Automobile, Policeman Raymond H. Denbroeder, 42, of the traffic division shot himself to death last night after his autoe mobile crashed into & parked car T2 and the owner threatened to call police. B In the back of the officer’s car were found Christ- mas presents, wreaths and mis- tletoe he was tak- ing home to his *J wife, Mrs. Edith M. Denbroeder. Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, Dis- trict coroner, said he would issue ¢ - T Denbroeder. certificate of suicide, apd attributed Denbroeder's act to melancholia and fear of the consequences of the acci= dent. The tragedy occurred sbout 10 p.m. in front of 6820 Piney Branch road, the home of James A. Smith, whose car was damaged in the collision. The scene was on Denbroeder’s route to his home at 426 Longfellow street. Hearing the crash, Smith ran from his house, saw what had occurred, and instructed Denbroeder to wait until he telephoned police. The officer was in uniform. When Smith and police returned to the car Denbroeder was slumped un- conscious in the front seat. There was a wound in his temple and his service revolver was in his hand. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Walter Reed Hospital. - ACTRESS DIVORCED Wife of Manny Prager, Musician, Wins Decree. RENO, Nev, December 25 (#).— Melba Jones Prager, pretty 22-year- old film actress, won a divorce at Carson City, Nev., Wednesday from Emanuel (Manny) Prager of New York, saxophonist in Ben Bernie's orchestra, it was learned here yester- day. She charged eruelty. They were married in New York City in 1932, MERRY CHRISTMAS To Friends and Patrons ERNEST BURK Tpert Watchmaker E: Jewelry of every description; rms SUITS. OVERCOATS. 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