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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-18
Christmas Essentially
 the Day of the Child

December the 18th is the Day of the Child.
 It is upon this day of days that countless men and women and lit tic children barely able to speak their language utter the great rejoicing. For unto US a child is born, unto us Son is given.
 Even those who hold creeds in which there is no Christmas feel the splendor O. that cry and those who have no formal creed at all, still known there is one of the 365 portions of the year which is essentially the Day of the Child.
 It is the day when even the most unsentimental adult long since con- gealed and hardened by the years, can hear in his heart, the foot steps of the little ones. Today they are running about as eagerly all over the world pattering to see what good gifts may have been received, ardent with a hope any only young hearts can feel.
 On this day the austere scien- tist who has almost quit believ- ing in the very laws of astronomy which recently seemed as sure and stable, but which now seem dis solving in a mist of relativity- this careful professional skeptic becomes as a child himself, and considers it hard indeed if he cannot believe in Santa Claus, the bearded fairy godfather of the children.
 Almighty God, heavenly Father, who hast blessed us with the joy and care of children. Give us light and strength so to train them that they may love whatsoever things are true and pure and lovely and of good report"
 For on this day of the Child we all remember that the most precious gift we can bestow upon our children is a capacity for feel ing just such tender and generous and helpful emotions as today stir in the breasts of all good men and women -(Seattle Post-Intelligenc- ef)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-18
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There are a lot of men out in the lumber camps in the lumber regions that aren't going to get hcme for Christmas" Margaret Tonpkins told a group of young men and women at the country club early in November. T want to get Christmas bag for every one of them. Who'll promise a Christmas bag?"
 "I'd like to help" said Nick Lor- ring, "only thing is I'm green at that sort of thing Do you sup pose you could get someone to make a bag and fill it if I paid for it?"
 Yes, I've thought of that" said Margaret I've figured out that Q nice bag can be got up for three dollars"
 A little later when Nick Loring found Margaret alone he told her he wanted to be responsible for ten of the bags. "Ill send you the check in the morning"
 Margaret pressed Nick's hand and looked up gratefully into his eyes. You're the most generous man in the world she said.
 Nick yearned to take this op- portunity to tell Margaret just a little of his ever-increasing love for her, but to do it now, 1t seemed, would be to taint with aelf-interest the tenor of his gen. eroSity.
 The afternon before Christmas Margaret telephoned to Nick in his office.
 T want to tell you, Nick" said Margaret, that I filled all the bags and they were so wonderful. Each one cost just three dollars. Now I find that there is just one left over after all the men in the camp have been supplied. AS it is all filled. l can't return the money, but I thought maybe you knew of some poor fellow whc might like one"
 Nick thought a moment as h. held the telephone receiver, q d know a fellow" said he. use to work for us. Then he quit an went to farming over in the neS county Sort of a luckless fel low. Suppose I take that ba over to him"
 So after the office closing a five, Nick called at Margaret's fo the bag. He planned to drive tn fifteen miles to the shack wher Harry Smith lived and back be fore his seven o'clock dinner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-18
Peacock Dinner English
 Custom Many Years Ago


Fashions in Christmas dinners come and go. In olden days at Christmas feast in England, next of importance to the boar's head as a Christmas dish was the pea cock. To prepare the bird for the table was a task entailing no lit tle trouble. The skin was first carefully stripped off with the plumage adhering. The bird was then roasted; when done, and par tally cooled, it was sewed up once again in it's feathers, its beak painted with gilt and so sent to the table. Sometimes the whole body was covered with leaf gold and a piece of cotton saturated with spirits placed in it's beak and lighted, before the carver commenced operations. This food for lovers and meat for lords" was stuffed with spices and sweets pasted with yolks of eggs and served with plenty of gravy.
 The noble bird was not served by common hands; that privilege was reserved for the lady guests most distinguished by birth or beauty. One of them carried 1t ir.to the dining hall to the sounds of music the rest of the ladies fol- lowing in the order. The dish was set down before the master of the house or his most honored guest. The latest instance of peacock eat ing recorded was at dinner given to William ", then Duke of Clar ence, by the Governor of Gren- ada.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-18
Great Yule Feast Given
 By King Richard in 1899

Christmas in England, of course, is an old feast day, though the Santa Claus and Christmas tree traditions come to us from another source. William E. Mead's "The English Medieval Feast" Hough- ton Miflim quotes from Slows Survey of London" an account of the great feast which King Rich ard gave in Westminster Hall in the year 1899, just after rebuild ing the hall of William Rufus.
 "A most royal Christmas with daily joustings and runnings at tilt, whereunto resorted such a number of people that there was every day spent 28 to 36 oxen, and 300 sheep, besides fowl with out number; he caused gown for himself to be made of gold, garnished with pearl and precious stones, to the value of 5000 marks; he was guarded by Chesire men and had about him commonly IS bishops, besides barons, knights, squires and others more than need ed; insomuch that to the house. hold came every day to meet 10,- 900 people, as appearth by the masses told out from the kitchen to 300 servitors.p
 Read the ads as carefully as you
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-18

The cabin seemed deserted. Nick forced a window and walked in. But Harry was not to be found Nick felt in his pocket for a match, but matches he had none. Then he groped around HarTy's room, but was no more successful. So with nearly frozen fingers he un- did the wrappings from the Christ mas bag, opened it and found,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-18
Here's How

Drink toast to Health with California Lime Hickey. California Lime Hickey quenches your thirst and refreshes you, and is the one drink that you will enjoy California Lime Hickey comes only in bottles, and for this reason it can never be adulterated It is a pure fruit drink, and can be purchased at all good soda fountains and all grocers, or direct from us in cases. Our telephone is l. Order case today. We deliver it to your very door.
The Washington times., 1932-12-02
|Kochanski Thrills Crowd;
Mrs. Hoover Attends

Kindler's direction, acquitted it.
self splendidly in presenting this
symphony.
KOchanski Improves
Kochanski next appeared in
the Tschaikowski Concerto. AL
though he was a brilliant artist
the first time he appeared in
Washington, he has in later years
developed a more colorful stage
presence which adds much to his
effectiveness.
The concerto is something of
tour de force for any violinist,
but there are few if any more
capable than Paul KochanSki, as
he demonstrated again yesterday.
The final numbers, DebusSy's
Afternoon of Faun," and
LISTS second Hungarian Rhap-
sody, are familiar orchestral
pieces, but always welcome, par.
ticularly when performed as ably
as the National Symphony did
them yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-12-02
BY RONALD THORNE

Paul Kochanski, a favorite with
Washington audiences for many
years, was violin soloiSt yesterday
with the National Symphony Or
chestra at its concert in Consti-
tuition Hall. He was heard in
Tschaikowski's Concerto in D for
violin and orchestra, work
which gave ample opportunity for
him to display his mastery of his
instrument, and he was accorded
an ovation at its conclusion.
Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. w. N.
Doak were among those who at
tended the concert. 1t was the
first time this season that Mrs.
Hoover has found an opportunity
to hear the National Symphony.
Orchestra in Symphony
The first number was Beetho-
ven's First Symphony, last heard
here, if recollection is correct, at
the time of the Beethoven Festi-
val. It represents the Beethoven
influenced by earlier composers,
but beginning to find and to ex-
press his own musical idiom.
The most CONSPICUOUS innova-
ton is the third movement, the
menuetto, although in the first
and second as well, indications
of his mature genius begin to ap-
pear.
The orchestra, under Hans
The Washington times., 1932-12-02
HOSPITAL GETS
ELECTION COAL

That ton of anthracite coal,
lost in bet by Bascom c. Slemp,
Virginia, secretary to former
President Coolidge, who wagered
with John F. Costello, national
committeeman for D. c., on the
outcome of the presidential cam
paign will be donated late today
to the Children's Hospital.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Slemp tele.
phoned Mr.. Costello that he was
ready to pay off his bet. The
coal was shipped by truck from
Scranton, Pa. to Camden, N. j.,
and thence was brought by air
plane here.
Mr.. Costello called UP the Com.
munity Chest and it was decided
that the anthracite might as we'll
go into the bins of the Children's
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1932-12-02
JUNIOR MUSIC
CLUBS PLANS

The Junior department of the
District of Columbia Federation
of Music Clubs is opening its sea-
son this year with concert on
Saturday evening, December 10,
at 8 o'clock. in the Sears-Roe-
buck Art Galleries, 1106 Connec-
ticut Ave-, under the direction of
Ivalee Newell, junior chairman.
The entire program will be made
up of MacDowell's works. The
public is cordially invited.
The recently organized Student
Nurses Glee Club of st. Eliza
beth's Hospital, Esther Linkins,
director, will make its initial ap-
pearance in a concert in Hitchcock
Hall, at the hospital. Thursday
evening, December 8, at 7:30 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-12-02

Most indigestion" has been found
imaginary! The pains and gas and
all that misery are real, of course.
But nine times in ten they are
symptoms only of SlOW stomach.
Did you know you can regulate
your stomach to empty in six hours,
as it should? That this is as easy as
moving the bowels?
One bor of PGpe'S DiGpepSin wi1l
test your stomach and correct
your digestion time in a couple
of dGyS-at cost of twenty-five
cents.
Each tablet of diapepsin saves
the stomach half an hours labor.
The Washington times., 1932-12-02

If your stomach is an hour slow,
two tablets will remedy the trouble.
Then eat anything. Baked beans
every noon if you like them, and
lobster at midnight suppers. They
will digest like crackers and milk
in a six-hour stomachl
Pape's Diapepsin is good for
you, because it stimulates the
gastric flow. Use it freely until the
stomach is working right without
any help. When it slows down, take
diapepsin again for a day or two.
This helps coffee drinkers and hard
smokers, too.
The Washington times., 1932-12-02
CONCERT BILLS
i OF MANY TYPES
JUST AHEAD

Tomorrow two events of inter
est are in proSpect-the first of
the National Symphony'S concerts
for young people, at the Central
High School Auditorium at II
a. m, and the appearance of
Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist, in
recital at Constitution Hall at
$3.50 p. m.
The National Symphony will
be conducted tomorrow by DR..
Hans Kinder, who will explain
the overture and the suite in con-
nection with the playing of the
"Oberon" overture. two numbers
from the Gluck-Mottl Ballet
Suite and a Suite from Car
men," The "MeisterSinger" Vor-
spiel will be the final number of
the morning. In the later con-
certs of the series DR.. Kinder
will explain the symphony. the
concerto and the symphonic
poem.
Concerts farther in the future
Include the Jascha Heifetz re-
cital in Constitution Hall next
Tuesday at 4:30. the next Sun
day concert of the National Sym
phony there on December II, at
a p& M; Chaliapin's recital on
Monday, December IL. at 4:3O,
and the first appearance this
season of the New York Philhar-
monic, with Essay Dobrowen con-
ducting, on Tuesday, December
as, at 4:30 p. m.
The Washington Choral Society
will appear with the National
symphony at the Sunday concert.
and the works of Bach, Wagner.
Saint-Saens and Bizet will be
represented on the program.
Erna Pielke, contralto, will be the
soloist.
Chaliapin will appear under
Mrs. Wilson-Greene's manage
ment. The New York Philhar-
monic comes under the local
management of the T. Arthur
Smith bureau, and it's program
will include HandeTs Concerto
Crosse in D minor, Stravinsky's
suite, THE Fire Bird" and
Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony.
Two concerts scheduled today
are those of the Friday Morning
Music Club at Barker Hall, Y. w.
c. A. Building, where the program
featured Eveline Monico, pianist;
Dominick Iascone, flutist, and
Helen Donofrio, soprano, and the
first concert this season of the
Washington String Quartet this
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Edwin B. Parker, 2001 Twenty
fourth st. N. w.
The Rubinstein Club will con-
duct its customary monthly re-
hearsal Tuesday night at the Will
lard Hotel at 7:45 o'clock. Those
desiring to sing with the club at
Its first concert in January should
communicate with Mrs. Milton
White before and after rehearsal.
NAME WELFARE HEADS
Mrs. Viola Anderson has been
elected president of the Colmar
Manor Welfare Association. Other
officers are Mrs. Mary White,
vice president: Mrs. Lola CAN'T,
secretary. and Mrs. Edith Dare,
The Washington times., 1932-12-02
NAME WELFARE HEADS

i Mrs. Viola Anderson has been
elected president of the Colmar
Manor Welfare Association. Other
officers are Mrs. Mary White,
vice president; Mrs. Lola CAN'T,
secretary. and Mrs. Edith Dare,
treasurer.
The Washington times., 1932-12-02

The Rubinstein Club will con-
duct its customary monthly re-
hearsal Tuesday night at the Will
lard Hotel at 7:45 o'clock. Those
desiring to sing with the club at
Its first concert in January should
communicate with Mrs. Milton
White before and after rehearsal.
Evening star., 1932-03-27

doomed. Yet the Wray Castle survived
the voyage, and it was not until 16 years
later that she finally met her end on an
island off the coast of Chile. BY that
time she had another load of rats aboard,
and these, apparently knowing nothing
Of her approaching doom, were drowned
with her.
On the first occasion the desertion of
the rats was perfectly natural and quite
understandable. The ship had a cargo Of
coal aboard for port on the west coast
of South America What may rats find
to eat In a cargo of coal? The previous
cargo had been wheat, on which, Of
course, they thrive; when the coal came
aboard they just marched down the
gangplank to look fora better ship some
where else
The Wray Castle lost some lives on the
voyage, but that was nothing strange for
her.
The oid-time sailor used to be very
finicky about ships names, too, and be-
lieved in lucky names and in unlucky
ones. There was once lovely, full
rugged ship named the Antiope, as grace
full and sweet lined vessel as an old salt
might wish to see. Yet when she sought
her first crew it was impossible to find
sailors for her. The old salts, spelling out
her strange name, pronounced it Anti
ope. They would not sail in a ship with
a name like that! Yet the Anti-ope
gave a good account of herself.
Coming to the sea superstition of to-
day, I heard that while the Finnish four
maSted bark Hougomont was on her re-
cent long passage from Australia to
harden her youthful crew, all grew
boards, seeing no reason for shaving.
Then, in the doldrumS, the. captain, fed
up with the eXaSperating calmS, ordered
them all to shave their boards off in
stantly, as they were holding up the
ship! And shave off their whiskers they
did-not that it made the slightest diff
ference.
LERE is another curious story of the
sea. When Ronald Walker was
killed IN the Finnish ship Grace Harwar,
between New Zealand and Cape Horn. on
May Is, 1929, his mother and father and
sister were sitting around the fire in
their Tasmanian home, 1000 miles away.
There was no means of communicating
with the ship; we had no wireless.
But his mother knew about 1t. On the
evening of May Is an old clock upon
which considerable sums had been spent
In an effort to make it 60, suddenly began
to go tick-tock, tick-tock for no appar-
ent reason. They looked up in astonish-
ment.
what is that, mother?" asked the
daughter. .....- .-.-.,s.~....
"Oh, 1t must mean something! Write
the date down, and the time, and we
shall see. ! believe the ship must have
come around Cape Horn" Mrs. Walker
replied.
The date was written down. 1t was the
date that Ronald Walker died-the date
and the hour, allowing for the difference
Evening star., 1932-03-27

searched the cabin thoroughly. There
was nothing there, of course.
II snuffed the light and climbed into
the lurching bunk again, telling myself
not to be goat and to go promptly to
sleep. lay there for while with both
eyes wide open. But there was no doubt
about it. Something was in that bunk
and 1t was something that did not want
me. It did not grasp me; it did not push
me out. But in an inexplicable kind Of
way it made it very plain that was a
usurper, an interloper, who had no right
to be there. got up again and slept
on the settee, with the light burning.
And on that settee I slept throughout
the remainder Of the voyage"
Capt. de Cloux had listened IN silence,
impassively. At the end. What day
was that?" he asked.
February A." she replied.
Curious" he said. II have q letter
from home here telling me that the old
sailmaker of this ship, who had left the
previous voyage, died in Mariehamn that
very day. He was very much attached
to this ship and he used to occupy your
cabin" >.
MISS DAY had never heard of the old
Ni sailmaker and did not know. Of his
death. Had the old mariner returned to
the big white four-maSter, battling of
Cape Horn, when his spirit fed from his
body 10000 miles away in Mariehamn?
I do not know anything about 1t. I only
give the sworn facts as know them.
1t Is curious thing that although in
the Herzogin Cecilie we fiouted two of
the most serious of sea SuperStitionS
nothing untoward happened; while the
following year, in the ship Grace Harwar,
we obeyed them all, and yet had ghast-
ly voyage. In the HerZogin Cecilie the
boys killed albatroSses and made pipe
stems from their wing bones, while the
youthful chief mate was in the habit of
taking pot shots at the albatroSSes fol-
lowing astern on Sunday afternoons. Yet
we suffered no misfortune apart from
the presence of the girl stowaway. We
made good voyage and we won our race.
In the Grace Harwar nobody dreamed
of killing albatrosses; yet in two years
the ship lost three lives, and her last
passage in the grain trade to England
cost life and limb and youth and sanity.
Superstitions may be fiouted and nothing
happen; they may be vigorously attended
to, and everything go wrong. In either
case the sailor still holds to his faith in
them. ..- ... ......- .. 80
There is an old belief that rats will go
ashore from a doomed ship before she
leaves port on her final voyage. Rats
will desert a ship, but this has nothing
to do with any premonition OF disaster
on their part. I recall the case Of the
full-rigged ship Wray Castle, which was
deserted by her rats in 1908 before set
ting out on Cape Horn voyage. All
the rats just walked ashore, and the
sailors saw them go. Some Of the sailors
themselves deserted that night, fearful to
sail in a ship which they believed to be
Evening star., 1932-12-16
WRIT TO Be ASKED
TOFREE MRS. Judd
Flaw in Court Set-up When
New Trial Was Refused
Will Be Claimed.
nv the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
STATE PRISON, FLORENCE, Ariz.,
December 16.-Counse! for Winnie Ruth
Judd, condemned to die in the trunk
murder" case, plan to carry the fight
for her life into Federal Court on
grounds Of a constitutional flaw in the
set-up of the Arizona Supreme Court
when it denied Mrs. Judds appeal for
a new trial.
Information regarding this phase of
the battle to save the 27-year-Old
daughter Of retired Darlington, Ind,
minister from the gallows was disclosed
by 0. V. Willscn, member of her coun-
sci.
Wilson, with DR.. w. C. Judd, Mrs.
Judd's husband; Rev. H. j. McKinnell,
her father, and Edwin H. Karz, also
associated with counsel, conferred with
the condemned woman nearly three
hours yesterday
The attorneys returned to Phoenix,
where Mrs. Judd was convicted last
February On charge of Staying two
woman friends, and said they would
prepare an application for writ of
habeas corpus, to be presented to the
United States District Court.
The Arizona constitution. Wilson
said. provides that in the event of dis
qualification Of justice of the Su-
preme Court. judge of the Superior
Court may be called in to sit with the
higher tribunal.
When the appeal Of Mrs Judd was
considered by the Supreme Court,
Chief Justice A. G. McAlister was pre-
vented by illness from sitting with his
colleagues. The constitution does not
provide Wilson cOntended for SllhSti-
tuition Of lower court judge on the
Supreme Court bench because Of
physical disability of justice
Counsel for Mrs. Judd indicated the
writ Of habeas corpus application
might become the basis for later at
tempt to carry the case to the Supreme
Court Of the United States.