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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01

But is there so many names?" He
spoke aloud, to himself, as he often
did. "They must be more'n a hundred
i guess"
The boy was nearly sixteen. Still
the great gilt letters on the sides of
ferry boats were unfathomable to him.
He searched his mind for a meaning
-W-h-e-e-li-n-g. His eyes traced the
similarity of form.
Down in the little cabin of the Ca
Waller, the boy, John Breen, often lay
in his bunk, behind the dresser, list
ening to Mother Breen reading aloud,
or half aloud, her lips moving, Speak
ing out of the paper" Captain Breen,
who held all book learning in con-
tempt, listened on such occasions, and
smoked his pipe, shifting his short legs
about in uneasy fashion, his eyes
peering from under shaggy eyebrows,
Mother kin read!" Johnny Breen al
ways said this to himself whenever he
thought of reading.
Johnny Breen had been around the
city many times, but each succeeding
trip around the Battery found him
gazing in growing fascination toward
the piles of buildings banked upon the
shore. He noted and remembered many
things about the city. The sharp met
allie clang of fire engines, the clatter
of horses, iron-shod hoofs on Belgian
blocks; the. harsh rattle of elevated
trains-how fast they went! Would
he ever ride in one?
Captain Breen was a dogmatic man.
close on sixty, a squat, incapable man:
seeing but a short distance through a
veil of red. Harriet Breen, the woman
who married him, managed him. Six
teen years before, when the barge was
new, he accepted a responsibility. The
ownrs preferred a married man. Har-
riet came on board the Cavalier. She
was an upstate girl. Breen rubbed hi:
eyes, but he was ready to accept any
thing, even a wife, for she demanded
her papers. Four months later Breen
became the father of a son. He &C.
cepted this gift without undue COM
plant. If he drank to excess, Mrs
| Breen was not the one to complain
The detachment, and strangeness Of
the broad river suited Harriet Breen
She sang to her baby boy. A calm in
sensibility possessed her. She was still
a handsome woman, twenty year
younger than the captain, when tn
Cavalier rounded the Battery on tina
misty evening in spring.
The years go fast on the river. Joh1
Breen became a strong and capabl
barge hand, an expert swimmer,
great help and comfort to his moth
er. Suddenly he had grown, grown al
most over night, bursting out of hi
clothing. The fact hat his laugh an
a certain trick Of paving through hi
hair reminded her of another wild i'm
petuous boy caused Harriet Breen t.
flush. Johns father had been only
few years older, when she came t
the Cavalier.
1--WE got to put Johnny to school,
Mrs. Breen remarked to Captain Breen
busy at the small coal stove, turning
a pan of biscuits with the hem of he
apron.
"All right, Mother, we'll send him
when we lay up this year." He bega'
filling his pipe. cts getting might:
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01
THE LONG PRAYER

Umptediddy-The gunman ordered
me to get on my knees and pray be-
fore he killed me.
Pastor-So you were saved by
prayer, my son?
Umptediddy-Yes, Reverend, I said
the long one you make on Sunday
mornings, and he fell asleep.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01
PIGEON Gets Home
Six Months Late

Waterloo, N. Y.-First honors for
last place ought to go to Sally, a rae
ing pigeon, owned by Geo. G.. Hahn.
Sally was released at Warren, Pa, last
October.
1t took her six months to get home.
Hahn suggested that she might have
gone South for the winter.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01
THE EASIER WAY.

THE EASIER WAY = 9}s
Burglar: Lets see how much we
get on that job"
Mate: II want to get back to bed.
Let's wait for the papers,"
Evening star., 1932-12-22
CAPPER POSTPONES
D: c: RENT HEARING
Senate Committee and Sub
committee Meetings Con-
fIict-Date Uncertain.

Because of a conflict with a Senate
District Committee meeting on the trac-
ton merger resolution today's hearing
of the Senate's Rent Inveetigating Sub
committee was postponed by Chairman
Capper.
The date for the next session of the
subcommittee, which is hearing a
lengthy report on rental conditions in
the Capital compiled by Oscar H. Brink
man, its attorney and investigator, had
not been determined at nocn today.
Unless it meets tomorrow morning the
committee probably will postpone hear
ings until after the Christmas holidays.
Estate Beard announced that the United
States Chamber Of Commerce audit
orium had been selected for the mass
meeting next Thursday night of real
estate brokers. agents and landlords,
decided on yesterday with view to dis
cussing possible reductions in rentals
here.
The parley will not be confined to
members of the Washington Real Estate
Board, or their clients, but will include
all owners and agents of renting prop
critics in the District who are interested
I'VE wish to stress the fact that this
is primarily landlords meeting, and
not tenants proposition" spokesmen
for the board said today.
The meeting is being called, however
in the interest of renters, and officials
of the Washington Real Estate Board
| feel that some plan can thus be worked
out looking toward downward revision
in rents. Senator Capper, Republican
Of Kansas; Senator Copeland, Demo-
crat, of New York, and Senator King,
Democrat, of Utah, are expected to
speak at the meeting.
Evening star., 1932-12-22
PUPILS EXTEND YULE
GREETINGS TO CHIEFS
Four Groups Call at Franklin Ad.
ministration Building-Carols
Are Sung.

Washington's public school children
today extended Christmas greetings to
their chiefs at the Franklin School
Administration Building.
Four groups Of students, represent
ing all divisions of the school system.
called at the school Offices during the
morning The first were the commits
stoned officers of the 9th Brigade, High
School Cadets, of the colOred schools,
under their commanding officer. Cadet
Col. Kelsey Pharr of Dunbar High
School.
The next group was party of Junior
high school students, which walked over
the building singing Christmas carols.
These children. whose predecessors in
the junior high schools have visited
the Franklin each year, were accom-
panied by Miss Hannah E. Bonnell OF
the Eliot Junior High School.
While these children still were sing
ing 25 young children from the Morgan
Demonstration School for colored pu-
pills came to sing their greetings. These
third to sixth grade pupils were led by
Miss E. A. Lyons. principal of the Nor
gan School.
The final group was the Mckinley
High School Glee Club. Beginning with
a novel song, How Do You Do, DR..
Ballou?" these students presented a
program that drew prolonged applause.
There were 25 signers, under the stu
dent direction of Weldon Smith and
Preston Newton. The club was trained
and was accompanied to the Franklin
Building by Mrs. Bella Brook Thompson
of the faculty.
Evening star., 1932-12-22

For the last time during her four
years as mistress of the White House,
Mrs. Herbert Hoover will take part in
the Christmas activities of the Central
Union Mission
At II am. tomorrow the First Lady
will call at the mission before her de-
parture to Florida and help Mrs. John
S. Bennett distribute baskets of food
to poor families.
Mrs. Hoover has never failed in four
years to attend the missions Christmas
tree party for children, but owing to her
holiday plans she will be unable to at
tend this season. The children's party
is Saturday morning at the Fox Theater
and in her absence Secretary OF War
Hurley and Mrs. Hurley will greet the
children. They will remain to help give
the Christmas bag& to the several hun
dred boys and gifls whose names are
on the missions lists.
Evening star., 1932-12-22
SNOW REMOVAL FORCE
| REDUCED TO $50 men
Bright December Sun Aids Clear
ing of Streets-Gutters Get
Most Attention.

The District government reduced its
snow removal force to $50 men today
as a bright December sun continued to
melt away what remained of last Sat-
urday's storm.
The men concentrated their atten-
ton on snow-clogged cutters. Some Of
them, however, worked on Highway De-
partment trucks, which are carting snow
out of the business section.
Two hundred and fifty of the men
constitute the remnants of the emer-
gency snow removal brigade recruited
from the ranks of the unemployed. The
others are regular employees of the
Street Cleaning and Refuse Depart
ments.
Engineer Commissioner Gotwals plans
to keep as many of the men as possible
without regular jobs engaged in snow
removal work He believes the public
will receive greater benefit from this
work than other jobs the District might
create for them at this time.
Evening star., 1932-12-22
GRADUATION COST
HIT BY PARENTS
Petworth Citizens Appeal to
School Board for Relief
From Expenses.

The Petworth Citizens Association
today was on record against the high
cost of high school graduation and has
sent a resolution to the District School
Board seeking relief for parents pocket
books.
At a meeting last night members dis
cussed the cost of their children grad
uating and declared it excessive. Ir
the resolution sent to the school bOarc
they sought some uniformity in cloth
ing for the occasion so that the cost
would be nominal.
milk in the District, the association
voted to appoint special committee tC
investigate milk prices here. Member.
pointed out that milk was selling In
many Of the larger cities for and
cents quart, compared with 1914
cents in Washington.
In another resolution the organiza-
ton requested that the Park ano
Planning Commission convert the
grounds ON Upshur, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets, into a play.
ground and recreational center. Tht
extension and completion of New
Hampshire avenue to the District line
was also urged by the association. Mrs
Elizabeth T. Sullivan of the Progress
sive Citizens Association of George.
town, and vice president of the FEEDER
alton of Citizens Associations, discussed
the part women should take in civic
and political activities.
Horace j. Phelps, president, presided
Evening star., 1932-12-22
subcommittee GIVES
RAU REPORT HEARING
Practicability of Government Own
ing Power Plant Before House
Group.

The subcommittee on District appro-
priations, headed by Chairman Cannon
Of Missouri, at its first meeting yester-
day, considered the Rau engineering re-
port on the advisability and practicable
lty of having government power plant
established in Washington.
Secrecy has been maintained regard
ing this subject and the Rau report has
never been made public. 1t is designed
to show just where the Federal and
District Governments stand regarding
light, heat and power as it could be
furnished from a Government -owned
plant in comparison with the service
and cost from a privately-owned plant.
An item for this engineering study
has been carried in the District appro-
priation bill for the last three years.
In the 1881 bill the amount was $25,000.
in 1882 it was $4,000 and in 1888 it
was $4,000. making total of s50,000,
of which about $4,000 has not been
spent.
Evening star., 1932-12-22
Pair Overcome by Smoke in
c Street BIaze-AVenue
Flames Trap Man.
BURNT RAGS IN BASEMENT
LEAD TO INVESTIGATION
Police Aid Marshal Lauber's Quiz.
Drug Trial Delayed by
Killian's Injury.

The Police and Fire Departments
were working together today in an in
vestigation of a blaze in which two
Women-one of whom was i'll in bed
were overcome by smoke before they
could be rescued from three-story
rooming house at 2O5 c street last
night.
The fire, which broke out about
O'Clock, was one of two into which Fire
Marshall Calvin LAUDER ordered in
quirieS. A man was overcome by smoke
and fireman was injured in the other
blaze, which damaged five-story
building at l2c9-ll Pennsylvania ave-
nue. early today
ment and on the first floor of the G
street house aroused the suspicion Of
firemen and policemen, and an inves-
tigation was begun Immediately.
The women affected by smoke were
Mrs. Alice V. Alexandria, As, owner
Of the house. and Miss Peggy Mohan-
non, %, a roomer. Too i'll to make
her way from the smoke-filled house,
Mrs. AleXaQdrea was overcome before
flrenen could reach her. She was car
ried next door and revived by the
rescue squad. Miss Mohannon was
treated at Casualty Hospital.
Man Trapped by Flames.
Neither woman was able to throw
any light on the origin of the blaze,
which broke out in the cellar The
front part Of the first floor also was
damaged.
The victim of the Pennsylvania ave-
nue. fire was S. E. Killian, A, son of
the owner of the George P. Killian Co.
a paper concern, which occupies most
of the building.
Trapped on the fifth floor, where the
fire apparently broke out. Killian was
carried to safety by flremen. He was
revived at Emergency Hospital, where
he said the first he knew of the blaze
was when he was suddenly enveloped
in smoke. Killian. who lives in the
500 block of Twelfth street. added he
had gone into the building for some
Christmas-gift packages.
Discharged from the hospital after
receiving treatment, Killian could not
be located today when his trial on a
drug peddling charge was scheduled to
be resumed in District Supreme Court.
Mistrial Declared.
At the request of Killian's attorney.
Harry T. Whelan, Chief Justice Alfred
A. Wheat withdrew a juror and de-
clared a miStrial. The trial was in
progress when the court adjourned yes
terday.
Assistant United States Attorney
James R. kirkland. who had completed
presentation of testimony against Kill
liam, offered no objection when Whelan
asked that mistrial be declared.
Fireman John R. Mowatt, Engine Co.
No. 6, was cut while breaking window
through which to stretch hose while
fighting the Pennsylvania avenue fire.
| He too, was treated at Emergency.
Although handicapped by the diff
Guilty of stretching hose to the top
/ floor, firemen confined the blaze to that
floor and roof
Evening star., 1932-12-22
u. 5. Interference
WITH MED|COS SEEN
Association Head Urges Re-
turn of Veterans Care
to Private Doctors.
BY the Associated Press.

The contention of the American
Medical Association that acute medical
and surgical cases of former soldiers,
for which the patients are able to pay,
should not be cared for by the Govern
ment was put before Joint Congress
sional Committee today by the president
of the organization, DR.. Edward H. Cary
of Dallas, Tex.
Cary told the Committee on Veterans
Legislation that such cases should be
cared for by physicians in hospitals in
the home area Of the patient.
He urged that the Government dis
continue building veterans hospitals
and suggested that if the Government
lis going to take care Of non-service
connected cases." 1t do so through
private and public hospitals
Cary said the medical profession felt
the Federal disqualification program
was breaking up the standing rela-
tions of a hometown doctor with his
patients.
Cary said the association was not
criticizing the veterans hospitals, but
that its impression was they were
well rum" and that "the Veterans
Bureau, as far as we can see, Is hand
ling a very difficult problem in very
fine way"
Cary was asked by Chairman Nc
Duffie If the association felt that should
the Government and States continue to
build hospitals "the time would come
when there would be no practice for a
physician not on a Government pay
roll?"
Eyes, SIR" replied Cary.
Evening star., 1932-12-22
'GEN. FRIES NAMED
|. AS HEAD Of 5. A. R.
Nominated for Presidency of
District Society," William
son Declines Post.

Mai. Gen. Amos A. Fries last night
was nominated for the presidency of
the District Society Of the Sons of the
American Revolution, at the December
meeting of the group in the Mayfower
Hotel. S. S. Williamson, retiring presi-
dent, also was nominated to the post,
but declined another term.
The election of the new slate of Of
ficers will take place February %.
Others nominated last night included:
For vice president, Maj. John A. Hol-
comb, DR.. R. J. c. Dorsey, Attorney
Charles A. Baker, Maj. c. c. Griggs and
Milo c. Summers; for secretary, Fred E.
Kunkel; for treasurer, Charles Y. Lati-
mer and Maj. Clayton E. Emig; for
registrar, DR.. Clifton P. Clark: for as
sistant registrar, Maj. Lawrence Leonard,
H. G. Robertson and F. M. Hofheims,
and for librarian, Louis Charles Smith.
Mr.. Williamson on his retirement will
become a national trustee of the Ma
tional Society of Sons of the American
Revolution.
Discussion of the various phases OF
Communism marked the session last
night. The principal talk was made by
DR.. Dorsey, who discussed "The History
of Communism.
The history of communism is a
history of failures" DR.. Dorsey told his
audience. Communism is the result OF
dreams. Approximately 5000 years ago
Lycurgus started what has today de-
veloped into Russian communism. The
abdication of the czar in 1917 gave
the communists an opportunity to make
capital out of the political crisis. The
year 1919 witnessed the formation of
the Third Internationale to promote
world revolution.
"The communist teaches abolition OF
those things for which Americans
founded this Government, DR.. Dorsey
continued.
He wants abolition of present gov
ernment. patriotism, private property,
the family, morality, eternal truths and
religion, The communist hates religion
because it teaches morality"
The speaker attacked communist1c
theories as dramatically opposed to
the purposes set forth in the preamble
to the United States Constitution"
The secretary of the society read to
the members a list of names OF presi-
dents of colleges and universities who
have indorsed the recognition Of Soviet
Russia. Other speakers on the program
included w. s. Steele and DR.. c. P.
Clark.
Evening star., 1932-12-22
WOMAN IS FELLED
by PURSE SNATCHER
Robbery Of Miss Mary N.
Schmidt Among Several
Netting $500.

Angered when his companions re-
quest for piece Of change was ignored,
panhandler last night attacked Miss
Mary NJ Schmidt, "a, throwing her to
the sidewalk on K street between Six
teenth and Seventeenth street and seiZ-
ing her pocketbCok.
The theft, which netted the panhan-
dlers only S., was one Of series in
which purse snatchers, hold-up men
and burglars obtained loot with total
value of more than $500.
Miss Schmidt. an employe of the Ma
tional Geographic Society; told police
she was walking along K street when
a young man approached and asked for
aims. Paying no attention to the pam
handler, Miss Schmidt walked on, she
said.
She had gone only a few feet. she
said, when another young man suddenly
grasped her neck and hurlad her to the
sidewalk. Then, she added, he seized
her pocketbook and he and his COM
panion fed.
Treated at Hospital.
Miss Schmidt, who lives at tbs Far
ragut street, was treated at Emergency
Hospital for an injury to her hand.
Other victims of purse-snatchers in
cluded Miss Margaret Carmody. 1712l2
street; Miss Edith B. Lowe, 1922
Woodley place, and Minnie Austin, 1900
block of Thirteenth street.
Miss Carmody, dancing instructor
reported she lost 81 when colored man
seized her pocketbook and fed as she
was about to enter her home.
A colored man seized Miss loves
purse, containing $50 in express COM
pany checks and ST in cash, as she was
parking her automobile in the garage
in the rear of her home.
The other urse-snatching victim was
robbed of SIS while walking near Rhode
Island avenue and @ street.
Two bandits, one of them armed with
a revolver. held up filling station al
Eleventh street and Park road and rob-
bed the manager, James T. Nerhany
326 Fourth street southeast, of $40
Nerhany said he and his assistant, j
E. Delaney, $500 block of New Hamp-
shire avenue, were forced to lie on the
floor while the hold-up men helped
themselves to the money. =.
Cecil Coffman, 600 block of Seventh
street northeast, taxlcab driver, re-
ported he was beaten and robbed o.
S25 by five colored flares" whom he had
driven to Third and c streets south
west.
Colored Girls Robbers.
Robert King, 1900 block Of Twenty.
eighth street. told police he was robbed
of S14 by two colored girls on M street
between Sixth and Seventh streets. The
girls seized the money and fled, he said
Jewelry and clothing valued at $4O4
were stolen by burglars who ransacket
the home of William c. King. 220(
block of Thirty-eighth street. Similar
articles worth 500 were taken from the
home of Aubrey M. Haines, 3700 block
of Thirteenth street.
Burglars who broke into the store ol
Peter Glekas, 1900 block of Park road
escaped with $40 in cash and cigarettes
valued at $40.
Frank Cesino, colored, 1900 block oi
Seventh street, said he was robbed ol
$12 by a colored man who attacked him
with a pool cue in front Of an M
street pool room.
Evening star., 1932-12-22
$500 HOLIDAY GIFTS RECEIVED
FOR POOR FROM TOY MATINEES
Donations Continue to Pour In at 12
Warner Bros. Theaters-Storm Failed
to Stem Generosity of Washingtonians.

The sum total of the "toy matlnees"
is still piling up, spelling huge Merry
Christmas" for the destitute boys ano
girls of Washington.
More than $500 holiday gifts for the
poor have been counted so far. while
additional toys are coming in at the
IL Warner Bros. TheaterS where the
matineeS were held.
1t took more than the heaviest snow
storm in a decade to stem the generous
outpouring of holiday gifts. Children
prevented by the weather from attend
ing last Saturdays benefits arranged
by Warner Bros. in cooperation with
The Star, are still handing in contribu-
tionS.
One 9-year-old patron of the Ambas-
sador Theater, who began saving pen
nies for a Christmas gift when the
matinees were first announced, came
to the theater yesterday and presented
As cents to the manager.
The child explained that her mother
had asked her to remain indoors be-
cause of the snowstorm Saturday, but
that she wished to contribute the money
to insure Christmas gift for some for
gotten girl about her age.
She said she started saving for the
present two weeks ago and as con-
sequence had gone without candy and
moving picture shows. The money
found its way to headquarters OF War
Evening star., 1932-12-22
Deaths Reported.

Margaret ]. Dyer, 81, 1880 Kennedy st.
Cummins C. Helmick, S5, 1885 Cres'
cent pl.
Margaret Carraher, 50, 1920 Upton st.
Annie Q. Mentally. 76, 1874 kalorama rd
John W. Goldsmith. ~, 7O7 I st. Sc:
william H Coddinston, Il, q. s. Soldiers
gate PeTkins. es. Walter Reed Hospital
Helen e. stockbridse, 81. sibley Hospital
Patrick Mcdonnell, 81, U. g. Soldiers
Minnie x. Newton. 50. 2115 H st.
: Eugene Vetter, SO, u. 8. Soldiers Home
Frank H. Jennier. 45, q. 8. Veterans Hos
Mary H. Farr. A, 1927 Park I'd.
James j. RacZmarck, Al, U. 8. Naval Hos
Marion Sampson. %. Emergency Hospital
Infant to Willie and Ethel Walker. Gal
Abraham Champ. 20. q. 8. Soldiers Home
Florence Givings. Sc. 1918 Florida ave.
Jeanette Thomas. 40. 346 V st.
Sammie Richardson, 81. SO Pierce St.
Junie Brown. "a, Gallinger Hospital.
Infant to Jerome Coleman. Chiidren's
infant to Leo Kelson. oalltnger Hospital
infant to George and Lila McDaniels'
inisnt e iossDh and Rachel Johnson
infant to M&fy johnson. oallinser Hos
pital