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IL DUCE ERECTING
HUMAN FORTRESS
Balzano Industrial Zone In
augurated for Tyrol
r*I Italianization.
By tB# Associated Press.
BOLZANO. Italy. December 21.—
Mussolini's light to erect a human
fortress along the Austrian frontier
and to Italianize the Tyrol region
taken from Austria following the
World War was given concrete ex
prassion here yesterday by the cere
monious inauguration of the indus
trial rone of Bolzano.
Cabinet ministers and government
officials attended, together with tens
of thousands of the public.
The industrial zone is composed of |
new and expensive factories erected
at, a cost of tens of millions of lire.
They are designed to attract the
Italian workman to this region, so as
to balance the population of Austrian
origin. They are surrounded by gov
erfiment-built workmen's houses, new
and comfortable.
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Fourteen years of fascism have ap
preciably impressed the Tyrol-Alto
Aijige region with the Italian im
print, and the Italian population
there has considerably increased—but
th$ Italian is still greatly inferior to
the resident of Austrian-origin in
nUhiber.
, ! "5.000 Italians in Section.
The problem of the Austrian fron
, tier province was outlined recently
[ in an exhaustive work by the frontier
expert. Signor Paolo Drigo.
$ignor Drigo said there are now
75,000 Italians in the Tyrol-Alto Adigo
( eeetton, compared with 55,000 Italians
Jet jhe end of the World War, so that
I from 1918 on, the increase has been
\ 10,000.
However, this is only 30 per cent
of -the total population, which means
I that more than two-thirds of the
people here are of Austrian origin.
The economic rank of the Italians
has improved, but it is still not suffi
cient to give the Italian element
| enough weight in the community, said
' Eigftor Drigo.
Of the whole Italian population in
the Tyrol region, however. Signor
Drigo asserted, only 30 per cent is a
I stable population. Of the number
■that entered the district after the
war, he added, only 8 to 10 per cent
ere stable.
“And of our stable population,” he
sdded, “only a very small part, per
haps a sixth, fulfills functions of a
higher class In the social order.”
Minority Lacks Influence.
“We are therefore faced with the
incontrovertible fact that our minority
cannot make itself felt in proportion
(to its numbers, because two-thirds
of It does not possess stability and
because of the third that is stable
only a small part occupies an elevated,
or at least independent, place in the
social order."
Eignor Drigo avowed the ratio be
tween the Italian and the Austrian
orjgln populations must be changed.
It; is now 1:2.5. During the second
decade of fascism he would have it
brought to 1:2, and in the third to 1:1.
Only when the Italian population
is brought to between 130.000 and
140,000, he concluded, “can the real
transformation of the frontier prov
ing* be effected and the bulwark j
reglly restored.”
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BUTLER ASSAILS
5 “IMPROPER” TAXES
4
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Columbia President Holds Be
quests to “Public Service’’ In
stitutions Should Be Exempt.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 21.—A
warning against any improper use
of: the Government's power of taxa- j
tian was sounded last night by I
President Murray Butler of Columbia
University, who 6aid:
"The most subtle type of revolution
which confronts American democracy
today is that which is easily and
silently possible through taxation.”
Dr. Butler, in his annual report to
the trustees, declared all money given
or bequeathed to institutions of public
service should be exempt from taxa
tion Such institutions, he said, are
established and maintained by the
benefactions of individual citizens.
"If, therefore, Government under
takes, in the exercise of its duly
granted powers, to adopt and enforce
a seheme of taxation w'hich makes
these benefactions for the public
service in the field of liberty impos
sible, then Government is attacking
the public interest and the public
service at their very foundation.
"Neither communism nor facism
could do more.”
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HIT-RUN CAR KILLS MAN,
HURTS HIS WIFE AND SON
Driver Fails to Return After
Telling Women He Is Going
for Aid.
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. December 21.—A mo-'
torlst who struck and fatally injured
Emmett Lee Purcell. 53-year-old Rich
mond printer, stopped to tell Mr*.
PurceU Be was going to get aid, she
told pblice last night, and then sped
away without returning.
Mrs. Purcell and Willie Taylor, their
8-year-old grandson, were also hurt
by the car, which knocked them into
a ditch as they were walking along
Hanover road near Fair Oaks, she told
State Policeman Bill Groth and
Henrico Officer Frank Bowis.
The driver, a young man, stopped
and tried to lift Purcell into the ma
chine, the widow said, but found the
unconscious form too heavy. He said
he was going to a nearby filling station
to get a helper. When he did not re
turn, Mrs. Purcell said, she made her j
way to a house for assistance.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SANTA.
SOME of the town's children, who
should be grown up, but aren’t,
don't care a hoot for Santa
Claus, it seems.
Bill Ewing, who played Santa at a
recent party to get toys for the city’s
unfortunate children, found it out the
other night. After the party Bill and
a newspaper man decided to stop in
at another night club before calling
it a night. Bill wanted to change
back to his mufti, but the newspaper
friend said “no." He'd go with Santa
Claus, but he would not be seen at
this spot with Bill Ewing.
So they had a great time. Mr. Ewing
being introduced as Mr. S. Claus, being
royally entertained and asking every
one in the place what he wanted for
Christmas. "Anything but a mink
coat,” wis St. Nick’s reminder,
though. It was all fun until one lad,
who had said “I’ll have another” too
often, began to wonder if Santa's
whiskers would burn.
He took out a match. The news
paper man, who claimed he was St.
Nick’s manager and personal repre
sentative, picked up a seltser siphon.
The lad put the matches away. Pretty
soon the idea got the better of him
again and he pulled 'out another
match. The siphon was aimed again.
Finally Santa Ewing decided maybe
his “manager’s" aim wouldn’t be so
good, so the pair moved to a safer
sone. On the way out Bill mused, “I
took it for granted those whiskers
were fireproof; I wonder if they really
are.”
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REWARDS.
A young boy named Richard
W arren Shenk of 3225 Adams Mill
road recently did a tap dance for
the entertainment of a lot of chil
dren of a local store's employes,
who were having a Christmas
soiree. The parents didn't feel
payinjj a little boy was proper, so
they decided to chip in and give
him a movie camera and some film
for it. For the other children they
purchased a lot of toy watches as
favors. Young Master Shenk did his
dance, was presented with his
package and told what was in it.
He went home and began opening
bundles. In one, sure enough, he
found the camera. The other one
contained 27 watches,
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ERROR.
O-MEN admire, and are admired by,
Attorney General Cummings, but
, they have dug up information show
, mg him to have made at least one
I error in his career. The error was
made on a base ball diamond, though,
j not in court.
In their publication, “The Investi
gator," the Federal agents reprint
this month an excerpt from the
Stamford (Conn.) Advocate of Au
gust 9, 1909. The item describes a
base ball game between a group of
lawyers and doctors.
"The bright, particular star,” the
article says, in part, "was Mayor
Cummings. His honor hit the ball
savagely. Square and hard he
smashed it every time at bat, gath
ering in one three-base hit, three two
baggers, two singles and a fly out.
"Six of the lawyers' runs were
scored by Mayor Cummings, and his
fielding was of a high order, too. Only
one error was chalked up against
him.”
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RUN.
When the husband of Mamie
Diggs goes on the rampage, he ain’t
fooling, Mamie told Warrant Clerk
R. E. Gott at Police Court. Mamie
said he had "drawn knives, a gun
and an ice pick” with which to do
her bodily harm.
"Did you find out you could
run?" Gott asked.
" 'Deed I did," Mamie replied, *7
been running like that for seven
years. Sometimes, mister, I think
my feet hurt, but when things git
hot, I forget I got feet."
Gott issued the warrant.
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SION.
While all these investigations are
going on, will somebody please find
out what gruesome spirit painted that
sign on the highway over in Vir
ginia beyond the end of Memorial
Bridge?
'
It reaas, "To Left Turn and Ceme
tery," and scared the life out of an
operator when he drove up on it sud
denly one afternoon.
MAY ATTEND DINNER
Br tl»e Associated Press.
Officials in the office of Postmaster
General Farley said today he has
“tentatively" accepted an invitation
to attend the annual Christmas dinner
for midshipmen at the United States
Naval Academy.
They Indicated Parley probably
would attend unless something “un
forseen” should develop.
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Police Aid Evicted Family
Nancy Stempihar, the young mother shown here with two of
her three children, was threatened with eviction and had to
move to her mother’s home in Georgetown. Betty, 1, and Joseph,
2, might have been overlooked by Santa Claus had not Policeman
H. A. Reed, seventh precinct, learned of their plight and prom
ised to try to get them something from the donations to the
Metropolitan Police Christmas party, —Star Staff Photo.
Bethesda Organizations Will
Name Steering Commit
tee Tomorrow.
8y a Stiff Correspondent ot The Stir.
BETHESDA. Md„ December 21.—
William Buckley, president of the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, has
called a meeting for tomorrow night
to form a steering committee to han
dle details of the campaign to widen
and resurface the Old Georgetown
road.
Since two motorists were killed In
a collision with a bus on the narro w I
highway December 6. public senti- |
ment in favor of improving the road
has resulted in a mass meeting at
which a resolution was voted to take
immediate steps toward having the
road converted into a thor' lghfare
capable of handling the hcs y traffic
It is called on to bear and eUninating
i the hazards which have made it one '
! of the danger spots in this section.
Appointment of a steering commit- ,
tee to carry out the mandate of tne
meeting Is in accordance with the
procedure followed in securing im- I
provement of the Wisconsin avenue 1
extension, Buckley explained, and is
expected to be successful in obtain
ing results in the case of the Old
j Georgetown road. He said:
Sentiment Crystalised.
"Sentiment in this section is cryg
talized in favor of having the road
improved, but getting the co-opera
tion of the State Roads Commission
and having the necessary appropria
tions made is another question.
"From past experience, we know It
will take many trips to Baltimore and
Annapolis to discuss details of the
project and It Is difficult to get together
a large delegation on short notice,
as is frequently a necessity In efforts
of this kind.
“A small committee, representing the
various interested groups in this part
of Montgomery County, will be able to
accomplish more than a large com
mittee. Needless to say. the various
groups which the steering committee
represent will be consulted in every
case before any action is taken and
their advice and support will be sought
In all steps proposed.”
Will Outline Program.
Tomorrow night'* meeting will be
held in the county building and repre
sentatives of the Old Georgetown Road
Citizens' Association, the Bethesda
Fire Board, the Bethesday Elementary
School Parent-Teacher Association
and the Chamber of Commerce will be
asked to attend.
The steering committee will outline
a definite program of procedure to
be followed and enlist the aid of all
interested in the project.
Among those whose assistance will
be asked, Buckley said, will be Miss
Ruth Shoemaker and Joseph A. Can
trel, members of the county delega
tion in the Maryland Legislature;
County Commissioner Robert D.
Hagner, the American Automobile
Association and the Keystone Motor
Club.
The Keystone Club already has con
ducted a preliminary survey of the
Old Georgetown road, showing it total
ly Inadequate to handle the heavy
traffic which travels the road dally.
Truck Traffic Adds to Old Georgetown Road Congestion
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■ Delivery trucks and transfer vans plying Old Georgetown road Increase the hanards along the dangerous thoroughfare
which Montgomery County eitisens are endeavoring to hose widened and resurfaced to correct conditions which have led to
oooOral motorist* deaths and numerous seflui mlshavs. A | -
FEDERAL INCOME
GAIN IS REPORTED
Treasury Announces $164,
000,000 Increase as Ex
perts Complete Budget.
B> the Associated Press.
As administration experts put finish
ing touches on next year’s budget, the 1
Treasury recorded today a *64,000.000
gain on the Income side of its ledger
since July 1.
For the first five months of this
fiscal year, its receipts totaled *1 385.
767.000, compared witn 81.221.786.000
in the corresponding period last year.
Gains were shown in 55 of the 73
categories of taxation. Leading the
upswing were Income taxes, which
totajed *413.863.000 between July 1
and November 30, an increase of $86,
535 000,
Of the income tax receipts. $238,918,
000 came from corporations and *174,- j
944.000 from Individuals.
The next largest gair was in liquor ,
tax revenues, which, at *268,606,000
were *47.417,OOf above the same period
last year.
Others included:
Tobacco taxes. $235,128,000. gain of
(24.020.000; gasoline, 890,019.000. gain
of 84,701,000; automobiles, $21,551,000,
gain of 87.546.000; tires and inner
tubes. $16,984,000. gain of 83.732,000;
telephone and other communications,
$9,921,000. gain of 81.093,000.
Officials said receipts for the five
months supported their estimates that
revenues for this fiscal year would
aggregate $5,642,760,000. This total
would compare with *4.115.956.000 last
year and $3,790,045,000 in 1934-35.
Estate tax receipts fell 813.119.000
to 167.004.000. Declines also were
listed for levies on domestic wines,
matches, and crude petroleum pro
cessed.
Only President Roosevelt's budget
message and certain technical details
remain to be completed before the
Government's fiscal plans for 1937-38
are sent to Congress.
It is expected the new budget will
count in part on further Increases in
tax revenues next year to narrow the
gap between revenue and expendi
tures.
INQUIRY IS PRESSED
INTO BRUNO ESCAPE
Pennsylvania Attorney General
Leaves Pottsville to Tour Coal
Area With Earle.
B» the Associated Press.
POTTSVILLE, Pa., December 21.—
Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti
left Pottsville temporarily today with
the word that his office was not slack
ening efforts to solve the walkaway
escape of Joseph J. Bruno while serv
ing a life term for murder In the
Schuylkill County Jail.
The attorney general was Invited
to Join Gov. George H. Earle In a
tour of thf anthracite region, look
ing Into the unauthorised mining of
coal by unhired miners.
IN POUCE_ DRIVE
Christmas Party Turns to
Serious Side With
Many Appeals.
The tumult and the shouting for
Christmas toys for needy children
died down today, but the cry for food
and clothing grew louder.
Of toys there will be plenty, thanks
to the response to The Star-Warner
Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas toy cam
paign, climaxed Saturday. But a toy
is of only passing benefit to a hungry
child, to children with shoes so thin
and clothes so ragged that they can*
not go to school.
The emphasis of the Christmas ap
peal shifts, therefore, from toys and
dolls to food and clothing. The first
slogan of this campaign, "Remember
the Forgotten Child,” now la replaced
by the resolve, "no hungry person in
Washington on Christmas."
Those who would stock shelves that
are empty and clothe backs that are
bare should cdmmunlcate immediately
with police or make out a check to the
Metropolitan Police Christmas Party
and mall it to Capt. Joseph C. Morgan,
chairman, fifth precinct.
City of Prosperity.
Many there are wno ask where are
the poor for which this appeal speaks
There can be no refutation of the tru
ism. "the poor are always with us,”
in Washington as well as elsewhere.
The fact that the Capital is a rela
tively prosperous city, with a major
ity of the population enjoying fairly
comfortable incomes, does nothing to
erase the tragic fact that about 5.000
families receive direct relief, while
some 18,000 families—some 75.000 or
80,000 men. women and children—
are supported solely by W. P. A. earn
ings of around 815 to* $18 a week. In
addition, there are hundreds who
have no support whatsoever except
the occasional charity of others.
The police know where these poor
are. They are in every neighborhood.
In some neighborhoods they are in
every block. This reporter knows
where they are. He has been into
their homes, seen four and five sleep
ing in one bed, on floors, even. Daily
the weather grows colder and daily
the fuel supply in some of these
homes dwindles—if there was sny fuel
supply. A grandmother in George
town told this reporter the other dsy
that the only fuel in the hou.'e was
a little wood given her by a tree
trimmer.
Donation* Reduce Want.
Until this campaign got under way
there were many children, many
adults, to whom Christmas was an
•mpty dream. Contributions from
hundreds of sources reduced this num
ber. but the Job 1s not yet done, ac
cording to officials of the police drive.
Capt. Morgan was to confer today
with representatives of wholesalers
and chain stores. He has prepared a
list of needs for food in large lots and
will order from the lowest bidder. The
esptain said the total cost of the po
lice campaign will be leas than tlOO,
an almost negligible overhead when it
is considered that cash donations of
more than $1,000 have been received
for the police fund.
Today, it was hoped, will bring a
halt to the flood of requests for
Christmas baskets. The police ex
pect to devote time during the in
terval until Christmas eve investi
gating applications already turned in.
Packing of food baskets will take
pltce this afternoon in the Dis
trict National Guard Armory. The
baskets will be placed on an “as
sembly line.” volunteer workers Ail
ing them as they go from hand to
hand. Baskets will be given to po
licemen to be taken to their respec
tive precincts, where they will be
collected Christmas eve and Christ
mas day by holders of tickets given
to needy families after investigation.
Police officers will take baskets to
shut-ins and others for whom it is
physically Impossible to call at the
station house.
Capt. Morgan said, distribution of
clothing will not be undertaken until
after Christmas, except in emergen
cies, such as one reported recently
where a 6-year-old girl could not go
to school because she haq but one
ragged dress. All who are in serious
need of clothes should communicate
with the Fifth Precinct after Friday,
he aaid.
Many prospective donors, the party
chairman said, want to be taken to
the home of a particular family in
need so that they may see where
their gifts go. Capt. Morgan said
it obviously was impossible to assign
policemen to take such persons on
“personal tours.” The contributor,
he added, may rest assured that every
case is investigated carefully and that
his gift will go where it will do the
most good.
Fourteen Wind Tunnels Used.
Fourteen wind tunnels are main
tained by the British government for
testing various types of aircraft.
W. P. A. Joins Toy Campaign
fl
Exhibit material from W. P. A. women's and professional
projects was turned over today to The Star Christmas cam
paign for distribution among Washington’s needy. Photo shows
a few of the 750 articles donated.
SOVIET AIMS BLOW
AT REBELS’ SKIPS
May Ask Non-Intervention
Body to Classify Them
as Pirates.
Ur the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 21.—A Rus
sian Embassy spokesman said today
| the Soviet Union is considering de
manding of the International Spanish
Neutrality Committee that Spanish
Fascist ships be declared pirate*,
which can be sunk on sight,
j This tentative plan, the spokesman
said, grew out of the sinking of the
Russian motor ship Komsomol, which
the Soviet government charged was
done by Spanish Fascist insurgents.
"The incident Is considered very
serious." the embassy representative
said, "and deliberations now are going
on in Moscow to determine what is
i to be done."
(Moscow dispatches said Russia
would lodge a strong protest with
the International non-intervention
group.)
I Moiseyevitch Kagan, councillor of
j the Russian Embassy here, called at
1 the foreign office last week to ask for
j information on the fate of the crew
; of the Komsomol, which was said to
I have been attacked near British-owned
Gibraltar.
He made no protest, however, the
embassy spokesman said, adding 4 In
fact, no protests have been made of
any kind since Russia does not recog
nize the Fascist regime.4’
As Great Britain also has not recog
nized the insurgents as belligerents.
Informed sources said, interference
with British ships would be considered
piracy.
The British government attempted
to avoid this complication, however,
by passing a new law to forbid British
vessels from carrying arms to Spain.
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS
TO HOLD VICTORY BALL
The California Democratic Club of
Washington will stage a victory ban
i quet and ball at the Mayflower Hotel
j cm January 20. it was announced today
by Mrs. Florence D. Shreve. president.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
been Invited to attend, and Senator and
Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo and Sena
tor and Mrs. Hiram Johnson have been
asked to head the State s delegation. A
large attendance is expected.
Keith Carlin is in charge of arrange
ments, assisted by Controller of the
Currency J. F. T. O'Connor, Justus
Warden. Miss Marian Harron, R.
Robert Carroll and Philip Dodson. W.
O. R. Manning Is chairman of the
Committee on Fnance.
Automotive Industry Feels
Effect of Glass and Parts
■ Idleness.
Bt the Associated Press.
Union and employer spokesmen
sighted a possible break in the 53-day
old Pacific Coast maritime strike to
day in the form of a tentative agree
ment submitted to members of the
Sailors' Union.
On another strike front the auto
mobile industry began feeling the
pinch of a walk-out by 36.000 glass,
auto and auto parts workers, with
little headway apparent in efforts to
reach accord.
At Pittsburgh steel workers launched
an attempt to supplant company
unions with the form of industrial
organisation advocated by John L.
Lewis. Claiming to represent 290.000
men in 42 Eastern mills. 244 delegates
organised the Committee for Indus
trial Organisation's Representatives
Council to carry on the campaign.
Terms to Be Submitted.
Hurry Lundeberg. chief of the
Sailors' Union of the Pacific, said set
tlement terms would be submitted to
members perhaps tonight. The Sail
ors' Union Is one of seven involved In
the walk-out.
“The sailors want to show the other
unions the way home," said Lunde
berg.
An unsuccessful conference Satur
day night left unshaken a strike of
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. workers,
but Glen W. McCabe, president of
i their union, said the workers and
management of the Libbey-Owens
Ford Co., tied up by a ‘'sympathy"
walk-out. were “not far apart." A
total of more than 14,000 glass work
ers was out.
The automobile industry, affected by
the glass strike, was further hampered
by idleness of more than 12.000
craftsmen of bodies, wheels and other
car parts.
Members Reported Out.
The United Automobile Workers of
America claimed 2.400 members were
on strike at the Fisher Body Corp.
and Chevrolet Motor Co. in Kansas
City. 1,500 in plants of the same two
companies at Atlanta. 1.600 in the J. I.
Case Co. at Racine, Wis.; 1,600 In the
Hercules Motor Co., Canton. Ohio;
5.000 at the Kelsey-Hayes Co. in De
troit. and 140 in the affiliated Kelsey
Wheel Co. at Windsor. Ontario.
Union leaders at Detroit, accusing
the Kelsey-Hayes management of re
fusing to deal with them, said in a
statement: "We were willing and still
are willing to negotiate.”
BALTIMORE TUGS TIED UP.
Partial Dissolution of Strike Marred
by New Strife.
BALTIMORE, December 21 (4*K—
Baltimore's strike fronts, involving
marine workers and a third of the
city's cab drivers, partially dissolved
today, only to be supplanted by a
sudden tie-up of the port's tugboats.
Approximately 2.500 stevedores
eased the waterfront situation with
an overnight decision to go back to
work after a week end walkout. The
move meant the stevedores refused to
form a united front with about 2,500
other marine workers, who have been
on strike for some time.
The cab drivers, responding to a
plea from Oov. Harry W. Nice, agreed
with their employers, the Diamond
Cab Co., to call a truce in their
strike until January 2.
Meanwhile, however, members of
the remaining striking marine work
ers' unions threw picket lines around
the city’s tug docks. Although the
tug workers themselves were not in
the picket lines and have not voted
an official strike, they refused tq go
through the picket lines.
CONFERENCE REQUESTED.
Ante Worker*’ President Wire* Gen
eral Motors Official.
DETROIT, December 21 <£").—Ho
mer Martin, president of the United
Automobile Workers of America, tele
graphed to William S. Knudsen, ex
ecutive vice president of General Mo
tors Corp., a request for a conference
today “In view of the present extreme
ly troubled situation in the automobile
Industry and particularly in reference
to General Motors.’’
The request was sent a short time
after John Brophy. a director of John
L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial
Organisation, arrived In Detroit to
meet with Martin and other U. A. W.
officials, who have eaid they would
ask Oeneral Motors to Institute sol
bargaining with employes.
W. P. A. PRODUCTS
DONATOR ME
Prized Collection of 750 Ar
ticles Contributed to
Capital Drive.
Prized samples of the handwork of
men and women on W. P. A. women's
and professional projects in every
State of the Union—a collection of
750 articles ranging from leather
Jackets to wooden toys, hooked rugs
to scrap books—today was added to
the contributions of Federal depart
ments and bureaus co-operating with
The Star, Warner Bros, theaters, Na
tional Broadcasting Co., Metropolitan
Police Department and Parent-Teach
ers’ Association to see that no one
in Washington is forgotten this
Christmas.
This donation, made up of articles
sent to Washington for exhibit pur
poses from projects throughtout the
country, was made possible by the in
terest of Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward,
director of women's and professional
projects, according to announcement
by Harry R. Daniel, chief co-ordinator
of Federal workers. It Is representa
tive of the best work done during the
past year on W. P. A. projects under
Mrs. Woodward's direction.
Toy* Small Proportion.
Toys comprise only a small propor
tion of the W. P. A. contribution to
the Christmas campaign. The list of
gifts includes clothing of all types,
quilts, pottery, sandals and even a
few volumes of Braille. In spit* of
the finished workmanship, officials ex
plained that many of the articles were
made from scraps of materials left
over from previous work. For instance,
scraps were utilized in the production
of bed room slippers, mittens, belts,
helmets and baby shoes and pieces of
leather left over from making coats
of solid color were used to make "crazy
quilt sport jackets.”
W. P. A.’s contribution—which whs
additional to gifts W. P. A. employes
contributed to the Federal workers’
Christmas campaign—was the largest
donation reported today from Govern
ment organizations, Daniel stated.
More Gifts Promised.
As the campaign was continued,
however, Daniel received the promise
of gifts to continue up until •hrist
mas eve.
Meanwhile Gordon Hittenmark. in
charge of the N. B. C. Doll House, at .
Fourteenth and F streets, announced
that Federal employes from more
than a dozen organizations have con
tributed to the doll house and nu
merous small office parties are being
planned for its benefit.
All contributions made from now
on, either to the doll house or directly
to the Federal employes' campaign,
will be turned over to the sixteenth
annual Metropolitan Police Christmas
party.
YULE LENIENCY
FOR PRISONERS
Many Throughout Nation Will
Beceive Pardons or Paroles
as Gifts.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. December 21.—Some 70n
of "the numbers" will not answer
Christmas day roll call in tha Na
tion's prisons.
They’ll be gone, released because
they’ve been given the finest Christ
mas presents within the power of a
dozen States—pardons or paroles.
However, in at ieast 20 other Statas
the prisoners will eat the prison
chicken or roast beef as usual because
these commonw’ealths frown on the
holiday parole custom.
The most spectacular instance of
Christmas leniency disclosed by an
Associated Press survey was in Ala
bama. Gov. Bibb Graves on De
cember 17 released 494 convicts, in
cluding 23 women, for two weeks on
their “man-to-man” agreement to re
turn January 1. It’s an annual prac
tice.
Ohio's Governor usually pardons
one prisoner the day before Christmas.
The lucky one's identity is undisclosed
until then.
Forty inmates of the Illinois Pen
itentiary. due to be freed in January,
were given pre-Christmas release with
a prison-made suit and $10 each.
CO-EDS PREFER WORK
PITTSBURGH. December 21 l/F —
At the University of Pittsburgh fresh
man girls think about work, not wed
dings. after graduation.
A survey of records in the office of
the dean of women, where occupa
tional aims of 250 first-year students
were listed, disclosed yesterday just
one had marriage in mind.
Of the 250 women students. 100 said
they wanted to become teachers.
Eighteen listed newspaper work as
their idea of a career.'
Missing Pilot’s Wife,
Unaware of Crash,
Plans for Christmas
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. December 21.—Mrs.
Arthur A. Haid. home from the
hospital, planned Christmas to
day for her 10-day-old baby and
her husband, unaware that Pilot
Haid has been missing since Fri
da v in an airliner.
When she asked about him ahe
was told that bad weather had
disrupted his flying schedule.
Haid and a co-pilot are being
sought in North Idaho wilderness
country.
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