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Evening star., 1931-12-16
TOY PARADE STARTS
AT MOVIE BENEFIT
SHOWS SATURDAY
Continued From First Page

points-the Metropolitan and Tivoli
TheaterS. where benefit performances
will be presented by Warner Bros. and
The Evening Star. toy will be the
only price of admission. but make it a
bright, new toy-a personal gift to
some child who still believes in Santa
Claus.
The screen feature at either theater,
going on at 9 at the Metropolitan
and IL O'Clock at the Tivoli, will be
OF especial interest to children.
Details OF management made it nee
eSSary to start the show 80 minutes
earlier than the previously announced
hour of $50.
At the Metropolitan Booth Tarking-
tons narrative of the trials and tribula-
tionS of Penrod, "Penrod and Sam"
will be given special pre-view showing.
Patrons at the Tivoli will see a re-
Vival OF "Skippy." sincere and mov-
ing Interpretation Of Percy Crosby
famous juvenile character by Jackie
Cooper one OF fllmdom's most popular
boy actors.
In lobby box offices" at the theaters
will be huge Santa Claus sacks, ready
and open TO receive all volunteers for
the toy parade.
The toys will be distributed by well
fare agencies in contact with the need
lest families throughout the city. Every
one will 60 to some boy or girl who
might otherwise be overlooked.
Short Films on Program.
The program at the Metropolitan, in
addition to First Nationals Penrod and
Sam. will include two Vitaphone shorts.
Rudy WeidofT in Darn Tootin." and
Week End Mystery" of the Van Dine
series, supplemented by current news
reel
At the Tivoli the bill will be rounded
out by Vitaphone cartoon, "Bosco' s
ShipWreck." and a news reel. "Skippy''
is paramount picture, and box-ofice
hit
Screen trailers and lobby displays
will advertise the benefit performance
at all Warner Bros. Theaters, while
the popular mistress of ceremonies at
the Earle. Maxine Doyle, will describe
the progress of the toy parade" at all
performances.
Buy a toy, go to show and make
your contribution to the big parade
the happiness parade! Christmas will
seem all the merrier for it!
Evening star., 1931-12-16
LIEUT.. IVES HONORED

For experimental work on the lung"
the submarine escape device, with u S.
S. S-4, Lieut.. Norman S. Ives, U. S. N,
officer in charge of the diving school at
the Washington Navy Yard, this after
noon received from Secretary Adams the
award of a Navy Cross.
The Secretary congratulated the Of
ficer for his outstanding work in max
ing submarines safer and the brief cere-
mony was witnessed by group of high
ranking naval officials. Lieut.. Ives lives
in HyattSville, Md.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
MAY REDUCE BATTLESHIPs.

PARIS, December 16 P.-A drive
probably will be made at the World
Disarmament Conference at Geneva in
February to secure reduction in the
size OF battleships according to reports
current in international circles here
today.
Great Britain and France were said
to advocate cutting battleship displace-
ment from $4,000 tons to 10000 or less.
the cuts to become effective when the
time arrives for replacing existing craft.
The greatest interest was shown in
whether the United States delegation
VIII support such measure, which its
EackerS emphasized, would effect econo-
mics by reducing the cost of battle
ships.
There also was rumor that an ef-
Tort VIII be made to reduce the total
battleship tonnage of the five great
naval powers, the United States, Great
Britain, France, Italy and, Japan
League circles here predicted the
Geneva conference will result at least
IN decision to limit ornaments to
tnelr present level. This, it was stated,
should be considered a gratifying result
Ior the first general conference.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
HOOVER N0MINATES
TWO D. C. JUDGES
Names of F. Dickinson Let's and
Daniel W. 0'Donoghue Are
Sent to Senate.

(From the $50 Edition of Yesterdays starr
President Hoover sent to the Senate
today the nominations of F. Dickinson
Let's and Daniel w. O'Donoghue to be
associate justices of the District Su-
preme Court
Both now are serving on the District
bench, having received recess appoint
mentS. The former succeeded Justice
Stafford, who resigned. and the latter
filled the vacancy caused by the death
of Justice Siddons.
At the same time the President sent
the nomination, of John Paul of Vir-
glnia to be United States district judge
for the Western District of Virginia, and
Morris A. Soper of Maryland to the
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Evening star., 1931-12-16

lournment. the conference will convene
1t is said, as scheduled.
A part OF the japanese delegation is
reported to have already sailed for
Geneva.
The arguments of those favoring post
ponement are as follows:
The Franco-Italian naval disDute is
still unsClved. No prospect of a Franco
German agreement is in sight. The Jana
neSe occupation of Manuchuria creates
a tension affecting the Soviet Union
and hence also RuSsia's neiphbors
Poland and Rumania, and hence, in
turn, the rest of Europe and possibly
even the United States.
The Leagues immediate failure in the
Manchurian crisis has unfortunately
tended to prove the French thesis that
existing pacts give no real security. thus
putting France temporarily in what
some others regard as an unfairly strong
moral position.
Present Good as Any Time.
The government conference on war
debts and reparationS will be going
on simultaneously with the disarma-
ment conference.
France and the United States will
be handicapped by the imminence of
national elections.
All these factors make the real sue
cess OF the conference dubious, yet its
failure would in all respects be ex-
tremely grave.
Those opposing postponement mini
mize the foregoing assertions and add
first, that there will also be plenty of
arguments for not holding the con-
ference and, second. that the present
Is probably as good a time as any
because the economic depression will
appear to the peoples everywhere as
an overwhelmingly convincing argu-
ment for arms reduction.
(COpyripht 1o9iN
Evening star., 1931-12-16
EX-SENAT0R'S WIFE
DESCRIBES FIGHT.
Says She Saw Norman Hit
Dlggs Day Before Fatal
Shooting.

Mrs. Robert L. Owen. wife of former
Senator Owen Of Oklahoma. appeared
as defense witness today at the Dis
trict Supreme Court trial of Joseph H
Diggs, colored doorman, charged with
Staying William F. Norman, prominent
attorney, at the Wardman Park Hotel
last August
The Government rested its case short
ly after noon.
Mrs. Owen. the first witness for the
oe1ense testified she saw Norman strike
Diggs IN the face with his fist in the
ioooy OF the hotel the day before the
lawyer was shot to death. She said Nor
man muttered something in an angry
Tone as ne hit Diggs, but she did not
Understand what he said. Mrs. Owen
aooeo Dlggs' hat was knocked off, that
ne picked 1t up and walked away with
out defending himself.
Diggs to Take Stand.
Frank Kelly and Russell Kelly defense
aIIoIneys. announced DiggS would be
or tomorrow.
Mrs. Owens testimony was IN lin,
with the defense contention that Mo-
man goaded Diggs into shooting him
aIter series of arguments between
the Two over whether Norman should
ne permitted to have his car parked
hotel. '''e
sergt. James sprangman, chief of
IEe homicide squad, one OF the last
government witnesses, testified that
DiegS gave several accounts to police
OF the purchase of the weapon with
which Norman was shot. He said
Dlggs nrst declared he had owned the
revoiver year or more. Springman
SAID Dlggs second story was that he
oought 1t four or five days before the
Snooting from young man who ac-
costed him while he was walking along
the south side of U street near Four
teenth The detective said Diggs later
confessed that he had a young colored
friend buy the pistol the day before
the fatal fight.
Pistol Is Identified.
Morris Singer, q secondhand dealer,
OF l840 Seventh street, said he sold the
weapon to a colored youth, who gave
the name Of James Edwards the day
before Norman was killed The pur-
chase price was IS. The secondhand
dealer identified the weapon used in
the Staying as the same pistol he sold
to Edwards.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Marine Band
this evening at the auditorium, Marine
Barracks, at o'clock. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader: Arthur s. Witcomb,
second leader.
Grand march. Queen of Sheba, ," Gounod
Overture, THE Force of Destiny" Verdi
Selections from The Student Prince"
Romberg
"Praeludium" ............... Jarnefelt
March of the Dwarfs" ......... Grieg
"Andante Cantabile," from the String
Quartette, Opus 11"... Tschaikowsky
"Polonaise, from Scenes de Ballet
Opus So, No. ......... .Glazounow
Grand scenes from Andrea Chenier,"
Giordano
Marines hymn
"T11e Halls Of Montezuma."
'"The Star SpAngled Banner"
Evening star., 1931-12-16
SOLUTION OF FILIPINO
LABOR PROBLEM SEEN
Dwight F. Davis Says Island Legis-
lature May Restrict Emigration
of Natives.
BY the Associated Press.
CT TT T. JIyo

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, December 16:-
Dwight F. Davis, Governor General Of
the Philippines, believes the Philippine
Legislature will solve the question of
Filipino labor in the United States by
restricting emigration from the islands.
Davis is on his way from Manila to
Washington. He was accompanied by a
daughter, Cynthia. He said the problem
of race feeling in the islands over recent
labor trouble on the Pacific Coast "is
in fair way of solving ITSELF"
The sentiment for restriction of emf
grafton by their own legislative body"
he said, lis large and growing one
brought about largely by the desire to
develop the rich natural resources of
the islands"
Davis said that because of the poor
health of his wife, who is in Paris, he
may not return to the islands next year.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
REUNITED China
APPEARS LIKELY
Coalition Rule Seen After
Shake-up-Japanese FIau
Flies Over Manchuria.
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
OF Soviet Russia, forming the emblem
OF the Chinese Eastern Railway.
"A new Manchurian federated state,
under japanese supervision, with Cen
Tsang Shih-yi, former civil governor of
Llaonlng province and until last Mon
DAY virtual japanese prisoner here. as
lts probable head, has emerged out of
these changes.
Tsang Quietly Installed.
There were reports Monday Gen
isang mao consented to assume the
soVernorsnlp and yesterday he was
quietly installed as head of the Mukden
provincial government in place of Yuan
Chn-kai, who went out of Office, under
Japanese auspices, shortly after the oc-
cupatlon of Mukden.
HOW far a new Manchurian state
unoer Isang. knitting several provinces
Cosetner, Will command the LOYALTY of
tne $4,000 600 Chinese people was con-
Sloered today still matter for future
events to decide.
CnlneSe leaders who hitherto have
heaoed autonomous governments have
Salo tney acted under Japanese duress
ana the japanese themselves have
scarcely taken the trouble to deny il.
asserting the reluctance of Chinese lead
eIs 10 participate in an autonomous
movement was largely due to fear Mar
shall Chang Hsueh-Liang might return
them. opoAi
IhlS reluctance, they believe, will now
ne overcome when the danger of Mar
SnaI Changs return is lesSened.
Inc promise Of peace and quiet. an
troerIy government, lower taxes and a
stable currency are being held out as
inducements by the sponsors Of the
new Manchuria" They have also ase
Sured relief from what thev called
Cnangs largest arsenal in the world "
MS army of 250,o0O men and his vast
war machine" '"''
Military Expenditure Cut.
A new budget in Fengtien province
tialkY IY stated to be the work of the
1apaneSe u ADVISERS of Yuan Chin-Kai,
s'6.oOO,oO0 to $4,000 600.
Inc next step in the program of
follows -e p1"0e' do
Gen. TSang will invite Hsi Hsia and
Cnang Ching Hui. new Governors ~
hFln and Heilungkiang provinces, TO
come to Mukden and amalgamate
thelr governments with his.
Inc status proposed under these ar
ralleements, 1t was ! ned. would be
autonomy, not independence. a situa-
IIon @ Ike that which prevailed under
Chang Tso-Lln's reign and which the
Chinese called by name which means
keep the frontier inviolated and give
the people peace"
CHANG WITHDRAWAL SEEN.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
SoONG CONTINUES DUTIES

SHANGHAI. December l6 tP.-T.
V. Soong. finance minister of the
Marking government, was at his Office
here today carrying on his duties as
usual
He declined to comment on reports
he had resigned, but number of his
assistants and advisors said th2v
thought his resignation was not vet
rendered but that he was likely to hand
it in, feeling it would be impossible
for him to cooperate with the Canton
group in any coalition government
which might follow the resignation Of
President Chang Kai-Shek
Reports that DR.. Wellington Koo,
foreign minister, resigned brought the
comment from officials at Marking that
DR.. Koos resignation, submitted De-
cember S, still is pending
Evening star., 1931-12-16
BANDITS ESCAPE vIGILANTES
Trio Gets $1,000 In Bank Hold up and
Get Away Through Shotgun Fire.

HIGHLAND, Ind, December 16 (P)-
Vigilantes, shotgun slugs and an auto
mobile chase were of no avail yesterday
and three robbers escaped with $4,000
in cash and bonds from the Highland
State Bank, between Chicago and Gary.
The robbers lined up four officers.
scooped up the currency and bonds
and headed for the doorway outside,
a group of vigilantes fired shotguns as
tie bandits scrambled into their auto
mobile and headed West into Illinois.
An early alarm had been sounded and
the pursuit was augmented by officers
from Hammond, nearby. At Lansing,
ILL.,, the chase was abandoned, all trace
of the bandits being lost.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Labor to Oppose Lower Tariff.

EAST LIVERPOOL. Ohio, December
16 lPD.-Joseph NJ. Wells, chairman Of
the United States Potters' Association
Labor Committee, said yesterday the
association will oppose any attempt by
Congress to reduce the present tariff
on earthenware and china. "A reduc-
ton from the present schedules would
prove disastrous to the ceramic indus
try" he declared
Evening star., 1931-12-16
FRANCE HELD SEEKING
INDEPENDENT ARMENIA
Turkish and Syrian Governments
Alarmed Over Con centrations
Along Frontiers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
1STANBUL, Turkey. December 10
The semi-offlcial Turkish newspaper
Djemouriet published today dis
patch from Beirut in which it said
france is attempting to form an inde-
pendent Armenia near the Turkish
frontier.
France" the dispatch said, "is
gradually realizing its aim to use mi
norities to prevent the formation of a.
national Syrian union to pave the way
Tor the creation of independent Arme-
nian and Kurdish states along the
Iurco-Syrian and Turco-I -Irakian from
tiers. These developments are greatly
alarming Syrian nationalists."
Turkish alarm over the report was
indicated by the large headlines under
which the dispatch was published. The
Turkish government recently protested
to France against concentrations in Ar
menia and Syria near the Turkish
frontie1
PARIS, December 16 [P).-The for
e:gn of11ce denied today that France had
made any move with the object Of
creating an independent Armenia, as
was charged in Turkish newspapers at
1stanbul.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

THERE is only one Santa
Claus, of course, as every
body knows, but here is
i secret about him:
Every one may bring
smile to the face OF tr.e dear old
saint.
Almost any one can put twinkle
in his eye.
The way to 60 this is to give to
those who have not
And this Christmas. an unusual
one. in the long line of holidays,
Evening star., 1931-12-16

Santa &C ! a u S
has thought up
q bright new
plan for she'd
ding his radi-
ance.
Every m a n.
woman or child
can be a smile.
or a gleam, or
a twinkle, re-
spectively. by
taking a bright
new toy to the
Warner Bros
Metropolitan or
Evening star., 1931-12-16
EX-Cashier Is Indicted.

LUMBERTON, S. c., December 16
A);-C: E. Cole, former assistant cashier
OF tne Bank OF Pembroke at Pembroke,
was indicted yesterday on u counts in
connection with reported shortage Of
$4,000 in the banks funds discovered
BY an audit more than two years AGO.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Jane Adams Doing Well"

BALTIMORE. December Is CP.-
Jane Addams, Chicago social settlement
worker, was reported doing very we'll"
today at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where
she underwent an abdominal operation
last Saturday.
DR. Thomas S. Cullen, who performed
the operation, issued bulletin to this
effect.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Canadian Banker Dies.

MONTREAL, December 16 (P.-C
e. Neill, vice president and managing
director Of the Royal Bank Of Canada,
died early today. He had been Ill
for two months following an operataon,
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Queen Opens Refuge in Slums.

LONDON, December l6 UP Queen
Mary went into the slums Of White
chapel today and opened the Salvation
Army refuge for homeless women,
Evening star., 1931-12-16
FIVE SENTENCED TO DIE
Seven Others Transported for Part
in Burma Rebellion.

THAYETMYO, Burma, India, Deem
ber 16 tP).-Five persons were sentenced
to death today and seven others to
transportation for life by a special tri-
offenses in connection with the recent
Burma rebellion.
The five condemned belonged to .
group known as the "Pankuga" gang.
Evening star., 1931-12-16

Tivoli Theater Saturday morning.
A new toy is the price of admiS-
sion" for a fine movie show.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
HEALTH AGENDA O.K.'D
Pan-American Committee Agrees
to Broaden Scope.

BUENOS AIRES, December 1s R.-
The Organization Committee Of the
Ninth Pan-American Health Confer
ence, which will be held at Buenos
Aires in 1882, today approved the
agenda suggested by the last meeting
at Washington and decided to include
other subjects such as yellow fever,
smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
ARMS CONFERENCE
TO MEET FEB. 2 AS
PLANNED AT START

Continued From First Paee)
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way, met the young couple and found that
they had left slave territory that they might
live in a State where slavery did not exist
There began friendSh between my father
and this tall young man that lasted, warm
and close, until Lincoln removed from
mortal life by the assassin's bullet.
Our home was Lincoln's home when he
came to Marrowbone (now the town of Beth
any, and he came often in those two decades
before his election to the presidency. Although
I knew him when I was younger child and
welcomed his visits, my first definite memories
of Lincoln go back to about 1854, when I was
10 years old. About that tine, for some rea-
son, the 6-foot-4-inch-tau visitor from San
CANON County took up with me and we be-
came vertable companions.
There were seven of us children, and we all
enjoyed this jovial mans visits, but was his
favorite. Many times he swung me with his
long, strong arms up into the wagon as he
started a speechmaking trip somewhere
near Marrowbone. Several times in the cam
paignS, particularly in 1856 and 1885, I drove
him in our wagon from one point to another
in the neighborhood. I took part in the pa
rade at Sullivan the day before his debate
with Judge Douglas at Charlestown. At
home on nights when he was there, was his
sleeping partner. He went with me out to the
barn lot to help with feeding and other chores
in the mornings and evenings.
I distinctly recall that time Mr.. Lincoln was
discussing with my father, in rather animated
fashion, some phase of the slavery question. He
paused for a moment, his face assumed that
strangely serious look which it took on more
and more as his responsibilities and honorS in
creased, and he said:
"Mr. Mitchell, feel in my heart that am
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Il Boy I'm His Teens When He DroUe FtHonest
Abe "Fr0m One Political Meeting to
Another in Illinois, George c. Mitchell
Here Tells Intimate Stories AbOut the
Life, Lo0es, Triumphs and SOrro70s of
the Great Emancipator.

EDITORS NOTE: Fc7V smvive TO-
day oho knee abraham Lincoln init
mGtely. One of them is George c.
Mitchell, an aged vcterdn of the Cf1I
War, lifelong resident Of Illinois and
former commander of the G. Il. r. Post
IN Bethany formerly MarrO7ebone), III.
Mitchell qcas boy of 10 qcten Lincoln
first came to aiSit at the one-rOom log
cabin home of the MitcheHs. Many
times the youth accompanied "Abc" as he
toured the countryside making speeches
against Slavery. Here is the narrdtoy'S
story as told the first time for bnblicd-
tion. 1t is unlikely, say friends, there
IS another person ising goih so many
frSt-hand memories of Lincoln.
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to have big part in the final settlement Of
this great question. think it is my mission in
life. I shall have big part in settling this
matter of slavery, once and for ALL"
The hospitality of that day! Where can you
find such, now? We were poor, but that made
no difference in our welcome. So were our
neighbors poor. So was Mr.. Lincoln, for that
matter, even though he had served in the
Legislature and term in Congress and was an
important man. We were crowded, for we had
only two rooms, but one felt in those days that
if his guest was willing to put up with the best
the household offered, that was good enough.
We offered Mr.. Lincoln place before the fire.
place on cool evenings, place at our table,
where he could eat plain but nourishing food,
and bed to sleep in. True he had to double
up" with me in the sleeping arrangements, and
our bed was in the kitchen, along with another
bed, but it was comfortable as beds went in
those days, and as far as know our guest slept
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and the other children of our house.
hold. It was the friendly whole
hearted good nature of this tall lawyer
and politician from Springfield that impressed
itself upon when a boy and drew
strongly to him. looked forward to his visits
as one FOSTERING healthy boy would await
other boy to go for an afternoons swimming
or fishing
This part of Mr.. Lincoln's nature is not
well known Most of his pictures show him
a solemn man, and in his eyes there seems to
be the sadness of the ages. These pictures
were made late in his life He was serving
as President at a time when responsibilities
strenuous and burdens were crushing.
RUT in those years of his visits to our COM
munity and home Mr.. Lincoln came with
abundant laughter and high good humor. He
was witty in a wholesome way that made you
laugh at his stories in spite of yourself. I can
see his plain jocalar face now, crinkling into
a hundred fine lines as he chuckled merriy
over some impromptu repartee with members
of the family.
Mr.. Lincoln came many times to our home
stead place at Marrowbone, ILL.,, along in the
late forties and fifties when was growing up.
It seems that shortly after my father and
mother settled their claim of land in the
pioneer forest and prairie of that middle Sec
ton of Illinois, in 1882, Lincoln came that
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BY GEORGE C. MITCHELL.
As Told to
OrLGnd Kay Armstrong.

REMEMBER Mr.. Lincoln as a jolly,
laughing man, ready to romp with me
and the other children of our house.
hold. It was the friendly, whole