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Crude Rubber Supply
In U. S. Will Last
Only 10 Weeks
Shortage Not Expected,
But War Adds New
Shipping Hazards
The supply of crude rubber in the
United States will last only 10 weeks
at the present rate of consump
tion, the United States Tariff Com
mission reported today.
The stocks of crude rubber, which
becomes a vital material in war
time, total less than half of the
material on hand at the same time
last year, the report stated. Rub
ber on hand on October 31, 1938,
was approximately 259.000 tons,
while only 133,000 tons were listed
for October 31. 1939.
More than 100,000 tons of rubber
were afloat and en route to the
United States October 31, however,
and the release of 623,000 tons in
the next five or six months will be
permitted by the International Rub
ber Regulation Committee.
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Much depends, however, upon the
maintenance of normal ship move
ments between crude rubber sources
in British Malaya, the Netherlands
Indies, Ceylon and other areas and
the Pacific Coast of the United
Stjates. The commission's report
stressed the dependence of the
Ignited States upon these countries
the Middle East, which are in the
area where Japan has become a
dominating factor.
" Certain countries, notably Ger
many, the report continues, probably
Will import less rubber than
formerly, due to the war in Europe.
Itiis is expected to make larger
quantities of crude rubber available
to the United States.
Possibilities that South America
might provide an adequate supply of
crude rubber appear unlikely, the
report stated, since only a small
quantity is produced there at pres
ent. The few American companies
With plantations in the Middle East,
Liberia, Brazil. Panama, Costa Rica
and Mexico supply only 6 per cent
OC this country's requirements.
Could Expand Production.
A serious shortage of crude rubber
hi the United States would result in
greater use of quantities of re
claimed rubber, the report declared,
and the production of substitutes.
In this event, it was noted, the
production of substitutes for im
ported rubber, which amount to less
than 6.000 tons a year, could be ex
panded, but probably from one to
four years would be required before
industry would be able to produce
even the minimum needs.
The normal yearly consumption
of reclaimed rubber amounts to
about 140,000 tons a year, but re
claiming plants could step this up
to about 250.000 tons a year—
equivalent approximately to 125.000
tons of crude rubber—the report
■tated.
Lf. Thomas McGrath,
Retired Policeman, Dies
Lt. Thomas McGrath, 72. retired
policeman, died today after a long
Illness, at his home, 839 Fourth
■treet N.E.
Bom in County Clare, Ireland,
Lt. McGrath came to this country
in 1891, enlisting in the Army the
same year. He retired in 1896 with
the rank of corporal and became a
policeman in Washington.
For 25 years Lt. McGrath was sta
tioned at administrative headquar
ters in charge of records and prop
erty. He retired because of age July
10. 1931.
He was a charter member of
Spaulding Council of Knights of
Columbus and was a member of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, as well
as other Irish orders.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Ellen McGrath; a daughter. Miss
Mary McGrath; three sons, Thomas
J., Brian A. and Francis P. Mc
Grath, all of this city.
Committee to Seek
Labor Peace Urged
By the Associated Press.
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C„ Dec.
11. —A resolution asking President
Roosevelt to have an “impartial
committee” inquire into the “basic
differences” between the A. F. of L.
and the C. I. O., was adopted by the
Southern Policy Association at its
annual meeting here yesterday.
The committee, which a year ago
drew up a five-point "working eco
nomic plan” for the South, met
here for two days and discussed
Southern economic and social prob
lems. The committee is made up of
leaders in many lines of endeavor.
The resolution said “the members
of the Southern Policy Committee
believe that the conflict between the
American Federation of Labor and
the Congress of Industrial Organi
sations is among the most disturbing
situations in our national life.”
Grocery Store De Luxe
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 11 (£>>.—
Clarence Saunders, who has made
two fortunes in chain groceries and
Who hopes his newest try will take
him to the top again, introduced a
Oew note In his latest store here.
It Is a “rose room.” for nose-pow
dering customers.
The store has murals by two
Memphis artists, and the "rose
room” has a uniformed colored maid
to charge.
WAR MAP
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significance of future war de
velopments.
Europe's War—Day by Day
League Facing One of Worst Storms of Its
Existence Over Russia and Finland
By DEWITT MACKENZIE,
Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer.
The Russo - Finnish war has
routed the League of Nations out
of hibernation to face what may
prove to be the worst storm of Its
existence—dangerous both interna
tionally and to the life of the
already battered League.
The Assembly is meeting to con
sider Finland's appeal against Rus
sia and expects to be confronted
with a demand by Argentina that
the Soviet Union be expelled from
the peace organization.
The declaration this morning by
Karl Hambro, newly elected presi
dent of the Assembly, that “we face
a very grave moment,” was indeed
mild as compared with what he
might have said.
In short, so delicate is the posi
tion that expulsion of the Muscovites
might even bring them into the Hit
lerian war.
Expulsion Vote Takes Courage*.
There are indications that some
members, irrespective of their sym
pathies, wish the question hadn’t
been raised, it is so explosive. It
will take a deal of courage to vote
on the matter of expelling the
League s biggest member, especially
at a time when great Russian ar
mies are churning up the mud of
Eastern Europe. And Moscow has
let it be known in definite terms
that it is mad.
The last time the League went up
against anything even approaching
the seriousness of the present case
was in the fall of 1935, when partial
sanctions were imposed on Signor
Mussolini because of his invasion of
Ethiopia. Result:
11 Duce annexed Ethiopia and
the sanctions were lifted in July,
1936. Two years later the League
Council threw up its hands and
passed a resolution that member na
tions were free to recognize the an
nexation.
There was much less risk in
League action then than now, for
while Mussolini’s anger was hot
there never was any great proba
bility that he would vent it by
force on any of the major powers.
Three small neighbors, however,—
Austria. Hungary and Albania—
declined to participate in the sanc
tions. They perhaps were pretty
smart in gauging the perils of the
little fellows, because Austria was
swallowed up by Germany a
couple of years later and Albania
followed Ethiopia into Mussolini's
game bag early this year.
May Bring Soviet Into War.
These days it’s a ticklish thing to
go about Europe expressing opinions
about people, what with two wars
already under way and all the rest
of the old world under arms. True,
many members of the League have
expressed sympathy with Finland,
and a lot of them, including the
Anglo-French allies, have con
demned Russia's action. It puts a
fine point on it. though, when ex
pulsion is voted, and such action
calls for consideration.
France and England might bring
Moscow into the war on Hitler’s
side by branding Russia an outlaw.
Indications are that the allies, hav
ing been careful thus far not to
drag Russia into the conflict, might
have been happier if the League
hadn't been compelled to act just
now.
China, the Near East and neutrals
of Europe, especially those living
close to the mighty Soviet Union,
naturally are uneasy at having to
vote. They find small cheer in what
has happened to Eastern Poland, the
three little Baltic states and Fin
land.
Swiss Made Uncomfortable.
Incidentally, for quite another
reason Switzerland undoubtedly
would give much if the present
League session were not being
held within Swiss borders. Na
tions like Germany, on the outs
with the League, have been making
it decidedly uncomfortable for
Switzerland by charging that she
is haboring a mischevious organi
zation which has been used by
England and France for political
purposes. It is generally understood
that the Swiss government would
feel much easier if the League pulled
up stakes and moved.
During the 15 years that Stalin
has been the big chief of Russia he
has kept his country out of war up
to his recent operations. Between
1934 and 1933 he ordered a number
of non-aggression pacts signed with
foreign countries, including one with
Finland.
In 1933 the United States recog
nized Russia. The next year the
Soviet Union entered the League of
1 Nations.
J. B. Wright's Body
Brought Back for
Burial Today
Rites for Envoy to Cuba
Conducted at Cathedral
By Two Bishops
The body of J. Butler Wright,
United States Ambassador to Cuba,
was brought back to his homeland
aboard the U. S. S. Omaha today.
The flag-draped casket was re
ceived with naval honors. High
Government officials had come to
pay tribute to the veteran career
diplomat.
The public funeral service fol
lowed at the Washington Cathedral,
with two Episcopal bishops, James E.
Freeman of Washington and Hugo
Blankingship of Cuba, who arrived
on the cruiser, officiating. Burial
was in the Cathedral Cemetery.
The brief, impressive service at
the Cathedral was attended by a
crowd that filled the main audi
torium, including many persons
prominent in the official life of
Washington. The White House was
represented by Capt. Dan Callaghan,
naval aide to the President: the
Cuban government by Luis Rudolfo
Miranda, undersecretary oi state,
who, with Ralph Miller, second sec
retary of the American Embassy in
Havana, came up on the cruiser.
The Cuban Ambassador, Dr. Pedro
Martinez Fraga, was among those
who went to the Navy Yard and
attended the funeral.
When the Omaha moored at the
Navy Yard, high naval officers were
drawn up in dress uniforms. The
Navy Band, directed by Lt. Charles
Bender, headed an escort of sailors
and marines. Secretary of State
Hull was the first to board the vessel.
Acmmnnriprl hv nthpr offirisls nf
the State Department, Mr. Hull pre
sented his condolences to Ambassa
dor Wright’s widow and his two
daughters, Mary and Edith Wright.
Flags at Half Mast.
As the casket was lowered to the
wharf, the band played “Lead Kind
ly Light,” and the detail of blue
jackets and marines presented arms
while the large delegation of naval
officers stood at salute.
The band led the funeral cortege
out of the Navy Yard to the strains
of Chopin’s “Funeral March,” while
the 19-gun salute to the Ambassador
boomed from Navy guns.
The cruiser’s flags were at half
mast and activities in the Navy
Yard were shut down as the pro
cession passed.
Omaha Sent for Body.
Mr. Wright, who served in diplo
matic capacities in many parts of
the world, died last Tuesday at his
Havana post, after a brief Illness.
The Omaha was sent to Cuba to
bring back his body.
The honorary pallbearers included
Sumner Welles, Undersecretary of
State; George S. Messersmith, As
sistant Secretary of State; Hugh
Wilson, special assistant to the
Secretary of State and former Am
bassador to Germany; William R.
Castle, former Undersecretary of
State; Robert Woods Bliss, former
Ambassador to Argentina; Wilbur J.
Carr, former Minister to Checho
slovakia and former Assistant Sec
retary of State; Jay Pierrpont Mof
fat, chief of the Division of European
Affairs in the State Department,
and Philip W. Bonsai of the Division
of American Republics, State De
partment.
Abandoned Infant
Found in Alley
A colored infant boy was found
abandoned early yesterday by a po
liceman patroling his beat. The
baby, which appeared to be between
2 and 3 months old, was in Gallin
ger Hospital today.
Pvt. H. C. Huffman of the third
precinct found the baby in an alley
in the rear of the 1100 block of
Twenty-fourth street N.W About 5
a.m. yesterday. The Infant was
wrapped in a blanket and had been
placed on the ground next to a
building.
L.
Monopoly Probers
To Call 29 Leaders
In Banking Inquiry
Control of Investment
Financing to Be Studied
Starting Tomorrow
By the Associated Press.
The Securities Commission an
nounced yesterday that 20 leaders
in financing would be called to
testify during the Monopoly Com
mittee’s hearing on the concentra
tion of control in the investment
banking industry, which opens to
morrow.
Peter R. Nehemkis, jr., of the
S. E. C. staff, will examine the wit
nesses on these phases of invest
ment banking:
The extent to which concentration
of control exists.
The efforts of leading investment
□arising nrms to coniorm to pro
visions of the banking act of 1933.
The manner in which business is
negotiated between issuers of se
curities and leading underwriters,
and among such underwriters.
Some discussion of these points
developed last week during an S.
E. C. hearing on an application by
Consumers Power Co. of Jackson,
Mich., a unit in the Commonwealth
<fc Southern Utility System, to is
sue $28,594,000 of bonds.
Normally a routine proceeding,
the hearing became a battleground
for New York and Middle West in
vestment bankers when Otis St Co.
of Cleveland led a fight by several
other houses in Michigan and Illi
nois to intervene in the proceed
ing and obtain a share of the
underwriting. Their efforts brought
a revision of the contract to permit
participation by six Michigan firms
for a total of $1,000,000.
The commission announced the
probable witnesses to appear at
the hearing would include:
Charles E. Mitchell, George Leib,
Joseph R. Swan, W. Averell Harri
man, J. P. Ripley, George Whitney,
Arthur Anderson. Russell Lefflng
well, Harold Stanley, Benjamin
Buttenweiser, Elisha Walker, George
Boveniser, Stanley Russell, Earl
Bailie, S. W. Duhig, Walter Sachs,
Robert Lehman, B. A. Tompkins,
Henry 8. Sturgis, John 3\ Fennelly,
Charles Glore, Edward M. Jesup,
H. L. Stuart, Albert H. Gordon,
J. A. W. Iglehart, J. Chapin and
Joseph H. Briggs, all of New York,
and George D. Woods of Boston.
Chinese Relief
Fund Drama
Is Success
The China relief fund*of the Chi
nese National Salvation Association
of Washington is nearly $4,000
richer today, association officials re
poriea, manas to rwo iour-nour
performances of “Mook Lan,” drama
about the Chinese Joan of Arc, here
yesterday by amateur performers
from New York City.
Audiences of about 400 persons,
mostly Chinese, attended presenta
tions of the 24-act play at 1 p.m.
and at 8 p.m. at the Pythian Tem
ple.
While Mook Lan's story unfolded
informally on the stage, members
of the orchestra talked with the
performers and members of the
audience chatted among themselves.
When the out-front talk threat
ened to drown out the drama, the
drununer restored order by drown
ing h talk—offstage and onstage.
Every*one seemed to have an en
joyable time.
Mook Lan, it was observed, dis
guised as a man, went to war in
the place of her father, a Chinese
war lord. In the end she met defeat,
but she was not burned at the stake
as was Jon of Arc. Mook Lan was
compelled to marry a generalissimo.
This she did with Oriental resigna
tion and fortitude.
A
Monopoly Campaign
Turns to Probe *
Of Glass Industry
Patent Investigation
And Equity Suit Will
Be Weapons Used
The anti-monopoly campaign of
the Department of Justice was
pushed into two new fields today as
plans were announced for an inves
tigation of misuse of patent rights
by a New York grand jury, and
immediate inauguration of an equity
suit in Federal Court in Toledo,
Ohio, against 12 corporations and
103 individuals engaged in the'
business of producing glassware
machinery and glass containers,
who are accused of restraints of
trade. The suit, involving many of
the leaders in the glass industry, will
bring before the court some of the
practices hit at in the patent probe,
a statement said.
The grand j^ry inquiry, soon to
get under way. Will cover “the use of
patents, patent pooling arrange
ments and patent licensing agree
ments by which certain industries
in the United States are controled
and dominated by one or several
large companies,” the department
said, and as a result, "it is expected
that a series of proceedings against
companies and persons in different
industries will be commenced in
which there will be raised every
type of practice under the patent
law that the department considers
contrary to the policy of the anti
trust laws ana in violation oi suer,
laws.”
Says Fields Are Divided.
“The facts now in the possession
of the department indicate that
patent rights have been used to
divide fields into non-competi
tive spheres, establish price-fixing
schemes, divide markets into exclu
sive geographical areas, limit pro
duction and quality, restrict the use
of products, require that outsiders
purchase non-patented materials
and service, enforce tying-in provi
sions, prevent the investment of new
capital in industry and in general
to restrain trade and eliminate com
petition," the department statement
continued.
“In addition, it also appears that
certain owners of patents, by
threatening customers of alleged in
fringers and by concerted action in
patent suits, have destroyed the
markets of competitors. In some
instances, notwithstanding expira
tion of basic patents, control and
domination of an industry has con
tinued through alleged patent im
provements.
“By reason of these practices,
arbitrary and artifically high and
rigid prices have been and are cur
rently being maintained in certain
industries. Such non-competitive
prices frequently7 relate to articles
that are Widely distributed to, and
in daily use by, the purchasing pub
lic.”
Other Inquiry Cited.
The statement said that the
present Inquiry into the building in
dustry has shown that patent re
strictions restrain the free flow of
commerce in building materials, and
that “this has aided in focusing the
attention of the department to the
necessity of obtaining an early
determination of the use of patent
rights inconsistent with the policy
of the anti-trust laws.”
In connection with the glass in
dustry suit, it was explained that
civil rather than criminal action was
being taken because the facts in
the case were first made public at
hearings before the Temporary’
National Economic Committee when
some of those now named as de
fendants testified. It is being filed
today, with the following named as
corporate defendants:
Hartford-Empire Co., a patent
holding company of Connecticut;
Corning Glass Works of New York,
one of the largest manufacturers of
various types of glassware; Empire
Machine Co., a patent holding com
pany affiliated with Corning Glass
Works; Houghton Associates, Inc.,
of New York, a holding company for
the Houghton family of Corning,
N. Y., who are' the principal stock -
hplders in Corning Glass Works
and Empire Machine Co., and,
through the latter company, in
Hartford-Empire Co.; Owens-Illi
nois Glass Co., of Ohio, the largest
manufacturer in the United States
of various types of glass containers;
Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. of West Vir
ginia, the second largest manufac
turer of glass containers; Anchor
Hocking Glass Corp. of Ohio, the
third largest manufacturer of glass
containers; Thatcher Manufacturing
Co. of New York, the largest manu
facturer of glass milk bottles; Ball
Brothers of Indiana, the largest
manufacturer of glass fruit jars;
Lynch Corp. of Indiana, the princi
pal manufacturer of formers, a
certain type of machinery for the
production of glassware; Liberty
Glass Co. of Oklahoma, a substantial
producer of glass milk bottles; Glass
Container Association of America,
Inc., of New York, a trade associa
tion for the glass container indus
try; and Stevenson Corp., which
manages the affairs of the Glass
Container Association of America,
Inc.
U. g. Chamber Issues Protest.
Coincidentally, a protest against
‘limitations upon the rights of
patentees” came from the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States,
which contended that the patent
system should be maintained “with
out impairment."
A committee of the chamber is
sued also a protest against “mass”
Investigations and indictments of in
dustrial groups, as being “very much
after the fashion of police who stage
simultaneous raids upon all known
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‘‘Such methods can be character
ized only as oppressive,” the com
mittee declared.
Much of the protest was directed
at the temporary National Eco
nomic Committee (the Monopoly
Committee) some of its proposals
for changing the anti-trust laws, the
committee said, can only be in
tended ‘‘to terrify all who engage
in business.”
Two Army Flyers Killed
In West Coast Crash
By the Associated Pres*.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—Lt. Col..
Kenneth Decker and Lt. Theodore
J. Steiner, Army Air Corps Reserve
officers, were killed in the crash of
their combat plane yesterday.
The plane fell in suburban La
Okeacenta, damaging a bungalow.
Children of Envoys
Will Broadcast Yule
Messages Home
More Than 30 Countries
To Be Represented in 4
Dec. 20 Program
“Peace on earth. Good will to
men."
A Christmas message from the
lips of innocents will go. around the
world from Washington this year,
no less sincere because of a certain
tragic irony.
In spite of troubled times, more
children of foreign diplomats than
ever before will go to the micro
phone, December 20, to broadcast
holiday greetings of 1939 to their
playmates in many lands.
More than 30 countries are ex
pected to be represented in the
eighth annual international chil
dren’s broadcast arranged by^the
National Broadcasting Co. over a
coast-to-coast network and via short
wave, between 5 and 5:45 pm. local
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The young sons and daughters of
foreign envoys in Washington will
greet the children of their home
countries in their native tongues,
and then extend good wishes of the
season to the children of the United
States. Many will be dressed in na
tional costumes.
The event, arranged in co-opera
tion with the Greater National Cap
ital Committee, Washington Board
of Trade, has become one of the fea
ture broadcasts of the year, and will
be held this season in the Hall of
Nations ballroom at the Washington
Hotel. As usual the Marine Band,
directed by Capt. Taylor Branson,
and dressed in colorful red uni
forms, will play the national an
thems of those present.
Interest in the international
broadcast has increased each year.
Only seven countries were repre
sented in the first one. Up to 30
invitations already have been ac
cepted by the Embassies and Lega
tions for the 1939 event and more
are expected before the list of
young participants is complete.
The occasion has taken on many
aspects of a major social affair, I
N. B. C. officials said, with more
proud parents of the diplomatic
corps turning out each year to
hear their children perform to a
world audience. A children's party j
is held after the broadcast. Chil- I
dren whose acceptances had been !
received up to the latter part of'
the week were:
Willie, son. Minister from Switz- ]
erland, Charles Bruggmann.
Gilliann. daughter. Attache Union j
1 of South Africa, Willem Christiaan
Naude.
Charles, son. First Secretary of
[ Legation of Czechoslovakia, Dr.
Karel Cerenka.
Freddy, son. and Leandra, daugh
ter. Commercial Secretary. British
Embassy, Leander McCormlc Good
hart.
Shivuko, daughter, Counselor,
Japanese Embassy, Morito Mori
shima.
Charles, son. Military Attache.
French Embassy, Col. Emmanuel
lombard.
Carlos, son. Counselor of Mexican
Embassy, Senor Dr. Don Rafael
Fuentes.
Nora and Anna Marie, daughters.
Ambassador. Brazilian Embassy,
Carlos Martins.
Isabelle, daughter, Minister of
Guatemala, Senor Dr. Don Adrian
Reclnos.
Pola, daughter. Minister of Yugo
slavia. Constantine Fotitch.
I J-iiana, aaugnter, Minister of
| Nicaragua, Senor Dr. Don Leon De
Bayle.
Robert Patrick, son, Minister of
Ireland, Robert Brennan,
i Jacquiline. daughter. First Secre
tary of Netherland Legation, A. F.
H. Van Troostenburg de Bruyn.
Fernando, son. Military Attache,
Cuban Embassy. Maj. Felipe Munilla.
Cesar Augusto. son, First Secre
tary, Legation of Honduras, Senor
Dr. Don Julian R. Caceres.
Jacinto, son, and Julieto, daughter,
Counselor, Legation of Venezuela,
Senor Dr. Don Jacinto Fombona
Pachano.
Garviz, son, and Parvin, daughter.
Secretary, Iran Legation, Mr. H.
Hadjeb-Davallou.
Tilda, daughter, Minister of Den
mark, Henrik de Kauffmann.
Klaus, son, and Sinikka, daughter,
First Secretary, Finnish Legation,
Risto Solanko.
Wenceslaw, son. First Secretary,
Dominican Legation, Senor Don
Julio Vega BatUle.
Carmencita, daughter, Counselor,
Peruvian Embassy, Senor Dr. Don
Eduardo Garland.
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A SENATOR CHIPS IN—Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri
gave a miniature coal truck today to the collection of toys
gathered by employes in the Senate Office Building. The truck,
complete In every detail, will Join other toys gathered in The
Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Toy Matinees on Saturday, finding its
way to a needy child. The Senator said he couldn’t recall his
own boyhood days In Independence, Mo., without feeling that
every boy needs a plaything. At right, receiving the gift, Is
William R. Kavanaugh, assistant Senate postmaster, in charge
of the employe campaign. —Star Staff Photo.
Is Yours a Christmas Heart?
If it gives you a warm feeling at the Yuletide to know that some
needy child has a woolly sweater because of you, or a new toy or what
that child needs most—then you've got a Christmas heart.
Every beat of the Christmas heart is a dollar, or five dollars, or even
a few pennies sent to The Star Christmas Heart Fund, which in turn :
will pass the money on to the Council of Social Agencies to distribute
through trained workers to Washington families whose Christmas, without
yuui gut, wuuiu vtt: uicoa mur^u.
Following is a list of contributions
received today:
Previously acknowledged —$323.50
Anonymous _ 5.00
Anonymous _ 1.00
Mrs. Thomas E. Holmes.. 3.00
Bernadette Turnbloom_ 5.00
Anonymous .. 2.00
Anonymous _ 1.00
Hazel J. Heilman_ 5.00
Jimmie Little .... 1.00
Elizabeth Spates.. 1.00
Alton Glenn Morgan, jr_ 50
William T. Carrick. 100
Julian Terrett.. 250
Anonymous .. 15.00
Elizabeth and Alicia. ... 5.00
Anonymous .... 20.00
Santa
‘ Continued From First Page.)
home, at school, everywhere—and
not to bite her nails,” he said.
"Then, if no gift arrives, a child
is sure to remember something
naughty she's done,” he said. Look- j
ing at it that way, Santa believes
the youngster can take it.
Another Washington Santa takes
from the rush as much time as he
can—longer than for other chil
dren—and explains complexities of
the North Pole-to-stocking economic
system. He says:
"Sonny, I’ll do the best I can. You
know how it is: I have young ones
all over the District and all over
the world to see to on Christmas
night. Sometimes toys run out, and
I have to disappoint some girls and
boys. I really will do my best.”
Despite all his efforts, however,
the store Santa Clause notices
things that make him ponder.
May Lase Faith.
For Instance, he observes that
poor children stop coming to see
Santa Claus about three years
sooner than ordinary ones, on the
average. Santas wonder whether
kids lose faith after a few empty
Yuletides, or parents can’t stand it
anad speak some hard truth.
Most needy children whisk in
without parents. When father and
mother do come, they stand an
aisle distant, not pushing up like '
“normal” folks, Santa reported.
“This business makes me wish I
was a billionaire.” he muttered.
There are two morals to this story.
First moral: Not even Santa
Claus is completely happy.
Second moral: You, the reader of
these words, can give Santa a hand.
You can help him solve his problem
and provide a merry Christmas for
children who have no toys—by join
ing in the Star-Warner Bros.-N. B.
C. Christmas campaign.
This coming Saturday you can
attend the ninth annual Toy Mati
nee in one of 11 theaters. Admission
to any will be one new toy, and all
toys collected will find their way
into the hands of a needy boy or
girl for Christmas morning.
And today you can mail a cash
All U. S. Employes Here
May Join G. H. A.
Group Health Association today
threw open its membership to all
Federal employes in Washington,
with the exception of enlisted per
sonnel of the Army and Navy.
C. G. Garman, president of G.
H. A., said the change will open
membership to many including em
Plopes of the Congressional Library,
General Accounting Office, Govern
ment Printing Office, Congress and
the Supreme Court of the United
States.
Previously, Mr. Garman explained.
membership in G. H. A. had been
confined to employes in the execu
tive branches of the Government.
This important change in the
association's by-laws was made In
response to numerous requests from
groups of employes in the agencies
which previously were not eligible
for membership, President Garman
explained.
G. H. A. now has 2.350 members
in 45 Government agencies. These
employes and their dependents make
a group of 5,500 persons now receiv
ing medical and hospital services
through G. H. A.
Dr. Garman explained that per
sons in the new agencies now
opened to membership, who desire
information about membership pri
vileges communicate with G. H. A,
business office at 1422 K street N.W.
Gift From Tax Office
KANSAS CITY OP).—Sixteen years
ago a house was built on a lot ad
joining that of Ben Strauss. Assessors
listed It under Mr. Strauss’ name.
The error was discovered by an
agent who had been asked to dispose
of the property.
The city found it could not collect
the difference from the house owner,
who had been taxed only for a lot.
So Mr. Strouss, now a resident of
Cleveland, will get a $291.10 Christ
mas present.
A
Mary P. Gedding „. 5.00
P. D. 100
Anonymous _ 1.00
Florence S. Heilman_ 5.00
A. C.. 500
M. A. L.... 10.00
Anonymous _ 25
L.S.W. (In memory of A. C.
Warthen) _ 10.00
Anonymous . 1.00
Anonymous _ 2.00
K. S. M__„.. 5.00
Aleah Gedding_ 5.00
Anonymous .. 1.00
Isabella D. Frear_ 6.00
Uncle Charley. 1.00
Total ...$451.75
contribution—large or small—to the
Christmas Heart Fund, in care of
The Evening Star. Your gift will
be distributed through the Council
of Social Agencies to a needy fam- |
ily with children, for use as parents
find best.
List of Features.
All Toy Matinees except the Earle
show, which will be at 9 am., will
begin at 10 am. Saturday.
Following is a list of the feature
pictures to be shown at the theaters,
together with short subjects making
up full-length performances:
Ambassador—Deanna Durbin in
“Three Smart Girls Grow Up,”
courtesy Universal Pictures. I
Earle—The Jones Family in ‘Too
Busy to Work.” courtesy of Twen
tieth Century-Fox.
Tivoli—Mickey Rooney in "Adven
tures of Huckleberry Finn,” courtesy
of M-G-M.
Penn—George Brent and Olivia de
Havilland in “Wings of the Navy,”
courtesy of Warner Bros.
Sheridan—Shirley Temple in “Lit
tle Princess.’’ courtesy of Twentieth
Century-Fox.
Uptown—Bing Crosby and Baby
Sandy in “East Side of Heaven,”
courtesy of Universal Pictures.
Silver—Cecil B. De Mille’s “Union
Pacific,” witU Joel McCrea and Bar
bara Stanwyck, courtesy of Para
mount.
Beverly—W. C. Fields and Charlie
McCarthy in “You Can't Cheat an
Honest Man,” courtesy of Universal
Pictures.
Avalon -my Singleton and Ar
thur La “Blonde Meets the
Boss,” < ’ of Columbia Pic
tures.
Colony- .key Rooney in “Out
West With the Hardys,” courtesy of
M-G-M.
Takoma—Dick Foran in "Heart of
the North,” a technicolor produc
tion, courtesy of Warner Bros.
Roosevelt Approves
3 W. P. A. Projects
In Cleveland Area
$1,248,991 Work to
Provide Jobs for
14,bOO Persons
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today ap
proved expenditure of $1,248,991 for
three W. P. A. projects In the Cleve
land area.
John Carmody, Federal Works
administrator, advised the President
that these projects, with those
previously authorized, would provide
employment for six months for more
than 14,000 persons in the Cleveland
region and should relieve “the acute
situation that has developed.
The projects will provide Jobs for
employable, needy individuals, the
White House said. They are in line
with the administration’s policy, re
affirmed by the President last week,
of caring for employables and dele
gating to the States the responsi
bility for providing relief for needy
people who are unable to work.
At a press conference Friday the
President said Ohio had not lived
up to its obligations to take cars
of needy unemployable workers. His
remarks started a controversy with
Gov. Bricker of Ohio, who said
the President had made a political
attack on a Republican administra*
tion.
L leveland Plans to Restore
Full Relief for 65JOOO
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 11.—Mayor
Harold H. Burton announced today
the city plans to restore full relief
to 65.000 needy persons If City Coun
cil authorizes tonight issuance of
$1,000,000 in tax delinquency bonds.
“If we get approval we will restore
full relief,” said Mayor Burton. “We
will run a deficit, but it’s a deficit I
believe we will be able to handle.”
Informed that President Roose
velt approved today expenditure of
$1,248,991 for three W. P. A. projects
in the Cleveland area, Mayor Bur
ton said, “I am glad to hear that.
Of course it doesn't take care of the
unemployables, but I think we can
take care of them.”
Between 12,000 and 16.000 child
less employables have been refused
city grocery orders since November
22. and the remaining persons on
relief have been on what Mayor
Burton called two-thirds rations.
Six Shot as Feudists
Wage 10-Minute Battle
By the Associated Press.
PINEVILLE, Kv„ Dec. 11.—A
long-standing grudge between two
families, brought to a head by the
killing of a hog, flared up in •
10-minute gun battle yesterday that
left, six men wounded.
With pistols and shotguns. Sheriff
Martin Green said, two groups of
men fired more than 25 shots at
each other around the railroad
depot at nearby Dorton Branch,
a Southeastern Kentucky coal
mining town.
The sheriff said he jailed without
charges three of the wounded,
Charles Helton, 26; Arthur Wil
liams, 26, and the latter's cousin,
Luther Williams, 24. Mitchell Hel
ton, 30, brother of Charles, was
taken to a Pineville hospital with
serious wounds in the side and
arm, but was expected to recover.
Carl Williams, 45, brother of Ar
thur, and Ault Bradley, 24. whom
Sheriff Green described as by
standers who sought to end the
shooting, were wounded slightly.
The grudge between the Williams
and Helton families. Mr. Green said,
arose from a lawsuit over a house.
Mark Andrews, Organist
And Composer, Dies
By the Associated Press.
MONTCLAIR, N. J„ Dec. 11
Mark Andrews, 64, organist and
composer, died of a heart attack
yesterday at his home.
Among his compositions for the
organ were “John Peel.” "The Wild
Ride,” “By the Sea." and Alfred
Noyes’ “The Highwayman.”
Weather Report
(Burnished by the United States Weanther Bureau.)
District of Columbia—Pair and colder tonight with minimum tem
perature about 28 degrees; tomorrow fair; moderate north and north
west winds.
Maryland and Virginia—Partly cloudy and colder tonight; tomorrow
fair.
West Vii^inia—-Pair, slightly colder tonight; tomorrow increasing
cloudiness followed by ram and warmer in northwest portion.
tt'utk,, t ■»« n_ A_____
"wwirr iwiirafiis un Hoars.
The disturbance that was over Lake
Michigan Sunday morning has advanced
East-Southeastward to the New England
toast. Nantucket. Mass, Pfls.fi millibars
(-0.49 inches). with a secondary center
iboat -00 miles east of the Virginia Capes
with lowest pressure about 1000.0 milli
bars (29.53 inches). Another disturbance
is moving Eastward over the Northern
Rocky Mountain region and the Northern
Plains 8tates. Williston, N Dak . 99.3.9
mill!tars (29.35 inches). A high-pressure
area is moving Eastward over the upper
re*10?.’,L s,ul1 Sainte Marie. Mich.,
1023.0 millibars (30.21 Inches), with a
wedne extending south-southwestward to
8t'l£*i;5«' Pressure is relatively high over
(he Gulf of Mexico. Port Eads. La.. 1018.3
millibars 130,01 inches), and pressure is
high and rising over the Pacific States.
Eureka. Calif., 1022.7 millibars (30.20
inches). During the last 24 hours rains
have occurred in the Pacific States, the
th* kke region, the
Upper Ohio Valley, and in the Atlantic
Skates from Maine to North Carolina.
Temperatures have fallen in the lake re
gion. the Onio and the Middle and Upper
Mississippi Valleys, the Northern Plateau,
and In the Interior of the North Atlantic
5*»Vj|h »bll*L they have risen in the
Northern Rocky Mountain region aind the
Northern Plains States.
Report ter Last 48 Haun.
_ . . Temperature. Barometer.
Saturday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p.m. - 60 29.70
- 42 29.73
Midnight - 49 29.73
Sunday—
4 a m. - 47 29.71
8 a m. - 46 29.70
Noon -a 6<> 29.82
2 p.m. -* 67 29.54
4 p.m. - 63 29.51
8 P.m - 67 29.54
12 midnight_ 54 29.54
Today—
4 am._ 62 29.60
8 a.6. _ 48 29.77
Noon _ 45 29.87
Reeerl hr Last *4 Hoars.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
High eat, 67. at t p.m. yesterday. Tear
ago. 43.
Lowest. 46 at noon today. Tear
ago. 35.
Record Temperature This |nr.
Highest 100. on September 8.
Lowest 17. on February 23.
Humidity ter Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 87 per oept. at 1 a m
Lowest. 39 per cent, at 2:30 p.m.
■User Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at
Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Great
Palls today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
Sigh _ 8 02 am. 6:46 a.m.
Uow _2:36 a.m. 3:22 a.m.
High___8:25 p.m. 9:05 p.m.
Low-8:60 p.m. 8:34 p.m.
The Sun and Meen.
c,,„ Rises. Sets.
oun. today _7:]6 4 4H
Sun. tomorrow _ _ ~ 7 17 4 46
Moon, today I 7:30 am. .VMIp.m.
„„^'d'0,710,?,Up ]i?h,s must be turned oa
one-half hour after sunset.
.. ... Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to dale):
» Month. 1930. Average. Record
January _.3.41 3 7 83 -37
February-571 327 h!R4 ’84
March - £.89 3.75 8.84 ’91
April - 3.78 3.27 9.13 ’8P
May - .41 3 70 10.69 ’8P
June -.— _ 4 45 4.13 10.94 ’OO
July -201 4.71 1063 '80
August -3.72 4.01 14 41 ’28
September _6!m 3.24 17 45 ’34
October _ 4 06 2 84 8 81 -37
November _ 1.40 2.37 8 69 89
December _ .59 3.32 7:58 ’01
Weather In Various Cities.
Temp'ture. Raln
„ Barom. High. Low. fall. Weather
Abilene — 29 94 S3 48 __ Clear
Albany .. 29.77 40 21 0.17 Cloudy
Atlanta _ 29 44 69 49 __ Cloudy
At], City. 29.62 61 49 Rain
Baltimore. 29.71 07 47 0 04 Cloudy
Blrm'ham 30.63 66 4 9 _ Cloudy
Bismarck. 29 50 39 34 ~ Cloudy
Boston ._ 29.59 51 34 0.31 Rain
Buffalo 30 00 45 26 0.20 Cloudy
Charleston 29 80 70 5R _ Clear
Chicago 30 15 54 30 _ Cloud,
Cincinnati. 30.12 63 37 Cloud,
Cleveland. 30.06 51 34 p 27 Cloud,
Columbia. 29 83 72 53 /_ Clear
Denver ._ 29.77 67 40 Cloud,
Detroit 30.12 62 30 OOP Cloud,
El Paso _ 30.03 69 36 Clear
Galveston 29.97 70 63 Clear
Huron 29.68 47 32 "" Cloudy
Indlan'polia 30 12 59 33 * Cloudy
Jacks nvllle 29 91 74 60 I" c SSdJ
Kans. City 30.00 65 3R Clear
V A11**1** 3003 71 33 0.07 Cloud,
UtuisTille. 30.12 65 36 Cloudy
Miami 30.00 75 59 0 02 Clear
MPls^St.P. 30 03 40 26 Cloud,
N. Orleans 30.00 79 63 0.02 Cloudy
New York 29 59 69 44 0.12 Cloudy
Norfolk 29 0R 08 52 ... Cloud,
Okl* City 2B.97 71 46 ... Clear
°P»h» ... 30 00 44 33 Clear
Philad phla 29.68 63 40 0.04 Cloud,
Phoenix 29.91 78 47 Clear
Pittsburgh 29.07 54 34 0.06 Cloud,
g.JJnd, Me. 29.08 87 24 0.26 Snow
P tl nd. Ore. 30 09 52 42 0.39 Rain
Raleigh _ 29.77 69 47 0.10 Clear
Bt. Loul* 30.15 66 30 ... clear
S. Lake C. 29.74 66 54 ... Cloud,
S. Antonio 29.97 83 51 ._ Clear'
San Diego 30 03 74 64 . Cloud,
S. Fr'cisco 30 15 64 50 0.19 Clear
Seattle . 30.03 55 44 0.44 Cloud,
Spokane.. 29,86 61 38 0.13 Cloudy
Tamp* 3000 75 63 Clear
WA6H..D.C. 20.75 67 49 0.08 Cloud,
Farcin Station*
(Moon. Greenwich time, today.f
Temperature. Weather.
Horta (Fayal). Aaores 65 Cloud,
(Current observation*.)
San Juan. Puerto Rico 76 Cloudy
Havana. Cuba _ S3 Cloady
Colon. Canal Zone_ 80 Cloudy