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Evening star., 1932-01-21


this work has made a deep impression
on police officials and put her in line
for promotion. In fact, neither Mai.
Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, Police Com
missioner, nor ranking officers of the
Police Department, have given thought
to any one else, should it become neces-
sary to appoint successor to Lieut..
Van Wrinkle.
The case Of Lieut.. Van Wrinkle, who
has been i'll since last Summer, is under
consideration this afternoon by the
Police Retiring and Relief Board In
d1cations are she will be put on the re-
tired list and her long and successful
career brought to an abrupt close.
Small But Industrious.
Though diminitive in size, Sergt.
Millken has a reputation in official
police circles as being exceptionally
industrious, capable and efficient
qualifications which put her second In
command of the Woman's Bureau less
than two years after her appointment.
In this position she has remained, re-
heving Lieut.. Van Wrinkle when ILL
ness or her activities as president of
the International Association of Police
women called her away from the Wom-
ans Bureau.
Fresh from Barnard College, Miss
M1ll1ken came to Washington during
the World War and enrolled in the
Navy as a yeowoman, fist class. Just
ABOUT that time Mrs. Van Wrinkle or
gained the Woman's Bureau, and Miss
Milliken thought she would like to be
a policewoman.
She went to Supt of Police Pullman
and told him of her ambitions. One
LOOK at her convinced him she was not
the type for such work. why you're
much too small and too young" he
told her.
Given Opportunity.
Instead of being discouraged Miss
Milliken persisted in her efforts to ioin
the WomanS Bureau, and finally, Mai,
Pullman permitted her to work at the
bureau at night after she finished twp
Ing Official communications during the
DAY at the Navy Department. 1t did not
take Miss M1lliken long, however. to
demonstrate her ability and her value.
and on January 81. 1919, she was ap-
pointed police private,
A year later she was advanced a grade
a promotion that comes to all police
men who make good" in the proba-
uonary period-but only nine months
afterWard she was elevated to the rank
OF sergeant. This rank she has held
ever since, only because she could not
go any higher while Lieut.. Van Wrinkle
remained IN command of the bureau.
AS a policewoman, Sergt. Milliken's
fame is Nationwide. And in February
last year she went to Fort Worth, Tex.
and assisted in the organization of the
Woman'S Bureau of that city's police
department
Sergt. Milliken is the daughter of the
late Judge Alfred Milliken and Mrs.
Milliken of Tennessee. Not only does
she hold degree from Barnard College,
but she is member of Phi Beta Kappa
OF Columbia University, and speaks
huently several foreign Languages.
Evening star., 1932-01-21

Robert Dick Douglas, Georgetown
University student, photographed lions
in African iunsles and he camped
in the crater of Aniakchak few days
after that famous ~ Alaskan 1;add1,n vQleanG 4canG
biu5seif if faced by huge lion in the
he had taken rel refuge the bs.d young "ngsr exe
pio ppionLet and hoped for the best.
Furthermore, Douglas had the courage
to tell that story on stt1,. himself at soth, the
Forum last night
Douglas and two other boys were on
an African expedition with Mr.; ana ana
Mrs Martin 1,nSf J4fn,iU,t nbntopraphs @ of Of feed
ins iI,eoI lions and had returned to their
cage bodied motor truck. They felt
the car shake and on lnvestigaton
Douglas found himself staring into
the laws Of lion which had climbed
into the truck to investigate.
Evening star., 1932-01-21
BIDS ON WRECKING TWO
RESERVATIONS OPENED
Virginia Concern Offers to Pay
Government $5,251 for Con-
tract,

The Treasury Department late yester-
day opened bids for wrecking two large
reservations" between Third and Sixth
streets, Pennsylvania and Missouri
avenues. Rhine g. Co. of Alexandria,
Va, was low bidder with an offer to
pay the Government $5,251 for the job
The second low bidder was Harry r
Whitehead of Alexandria, who offered
to pay. the Government $4,000. There
were nine bidders, most of whom asked
the Government to pay them.
No buildings will be erected on these
two large reservations. The area imme-
diately east of Sixth street will be used
for the extension of Constitution avenue
through into Pennsylvania avenue,
while the rest of the area will be made
into Q public park.
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THEATERS TO GIVE
SEAT INFORMATION
Voluntary Action Planned to
Let Public Know How
Full Houses Are.

Carrying out the offer they made to
Senate subcommittee yesterday aft
ernoon to cooperate in seeing that
moviegoers are fully advised when
seats are not available, the theater
owners met later in the day and adopt
ed resolutions urging all houses to give
such information, by signs as well as
orally.
The Carey bill, on which the Senate
hearing was held, would make it an
offense for any theater employe to give
a prospective patron misinformation
concerning the availability of seats, and
a second section would prohibit a
theater from selling more tickets for
any performance than there are seats
available.
Oppose Ticket Limitation.
Theater owners who testified at the
Senate hearing told Senator Carey Of
Wyoming, sponsor Of the bill, they were
in hearty accord with him in the desire
to give the public full and accurate in
formation when seats are not available,
and expressed confidence that the de-
sired result could be accomplished by
voluntary cooperation without pas
sage of legislation.
AS to the second part of the bill, pro-
hibiting the sale of more tickets than
there are seats inside, the theater own
ers urged the subcommittee not to en-
act such provision, pointing out that
1t is more convenient to the public to
wait in the lobbies and rear of the
theaters than outside, when the per-
formanceS are continuous.
Nav Rewrite Rilf
Following the hearing the subcom-
mittee conferred briefly with Corpora
ton Counsel Bride. Senator Carey said
later it was felt there should be some
regulation on the subject OF informing
patrons regarding the availability OF
seats, but that the bill probably will be
rewritten before it is reported to the
Senate District Committee. 1t was in
dicated it might be changed to exempt
from penalty theaters that display signs
for the information of the public.
The views of the theater owners were
presented by A. Julian BrylaWsh. Sew
eraI other theater representatives. in
cluding Harry Crull and Sidney Lust,
also spoke. D. L. Ormes of the Motion
Picture Operators Union and A. c.
Hayden of the Musicians Union sup
ported the views outlined by Mr.. Bry-
lawski.
T. r. Shearer, 4S17 Thirty-sixth
street, testified in support of the bill, ex-
pressing the belief some steps should
be taken to regulate the subject. Sen
ator Carey placed on file number Of
letters that have come to him since he
introduced the bill.
Evening star., 1932-01-21
MRS. VAN WNKLE'S
AIDE MAY GETP POST
AS BUREAU CHIEF
Miss MiIiken Once Declared
by Pullman Too Small
for Police Work.
RETIREMENT QUESTION
BEFORE BOARD TODAY
Head of Woman's Branch, Ill Since
Last Summer, to Learn if Serv-
ice Is to End.

Lieut.. Nina Van Wrinkle, in charge
OF the Women'S Bureau of the Po-
lice Department, is totally disabled,
according to evidence offered before
the Police Retiring Board by DR..
John A. Reed of the Board of Po-
lice Surgeons this afternoon.
He said that she was suffering
from spinal arthritis and hydro
nephroSis, and recommended her re-
tlrement on account of physical dis
ability totally incapacitating her for
further work in the department.
Lieut. Van Wrinkle did not appear
at the hearing. The retiring board
took the case under advisement.
Rhoda j. Milliken, the woman who
The late Raymond Pullman, when super
ntendent of police, said was too small
and too young" to be a policewoman
lie
Evening star., 1932-01-21
INVADERS OF CHARITY
OFFICES ARRAlGNED
Case of Two Leaders of Group of
IS Is Continued for Fur
ther Investigation.

William Phillips and Alice Wilson,
arrested yesterday when they led a
group of Is persons into the Offices OF
the Associated Charities to demand aid,
were arraigned before Police Court
Judge John P. Mcmahon today on
charges of disorderly conduct
Sergt. Joseph D. Harrington and Pvt.
w. E. Atkinson, who made the arrests
said they were not boisterous and the
disorder consisted of disrupting the
work of the charities Office by leading
the group there.
The case, which brings on the ques-
ton Of whether the Office is a public
or private place was continued for a
week for further investigation.
Evening star., 1932-01-21
WATCHMAN Is HELD UP
Says Two Armed Men Took 81 in
Robbery of Bakery.

Herbert Johnson, colored, night
watchman at the Sunrise Bakery. rear
OF 1929 Morse street northeast. re-
ported to police that two colored bandits
held him up shortly before 6 am. to-
day and took about 81 Of his employers
money.
johnson said he was alone in the
bakery when the robbers, both of whom
were armed, entered. He added they
forced him to show them where the
money was kept
Evening star., 1932-01-21

ously considered, it
was learned today,
to head the Wom-
ans Bureau of the
Metropolitan Police
D c par t ment in
event of the re-
tirement of Lieut..
M / n a G. v a n
Wrinkle.
N ow a full
1edged police ser
geant, Miss Milli-
ken has directed
the activities of
the Woman'S Bu-
reau during the
long illn e S S of
Lieut.. Van Wrinkle,
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Corner Stone to Be Placed.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, January 81 (Spe-
ciaD The corner stone of the new
Annapolis High School Building will
be laid this afternoon at O'Clock,
Evening star., 1932-12-21
and telephones Fully eouip-

typewriters and telephones. Fully equip
ped Offices and stores Of appropriate
dimensions were shown. Safes with
combination locks were obvious and
necessary additions to these establish
ments. Toy money was not overlooked; +;
neither were toy checkbooks missing.
Toy railroad trains, steamships and
airplanes, once built Of wood or tin, now
are constructed Of more durable ma
terials and in larger sizes. Electric ele-
vators, excavating machinery. farm
machinery, building devices Of every
conceivable kind have been perfected.
Even a greenhouse of iron and glass
has been devised.
Dolls have become all but human
They now are made Of composition or
of rubber, modelled to life, scaled to nor
NAL proportions and weight and equip
ped with compilations and hair suitable
to be washed. Their wardrobes are de-
signed as carefully as a debutante's
Everything must be "just So"
The toymakers try out their produc-
tions at fashionable private kinder
gartens and in slum settlement houses.
They find that it is the more drastically
realistic toys that are most enduringly
popular.
The question Is: Do the children of
today have any better fun with the toys
manufactured to order for their enter
tainment than less conspicuously for
tunate children generations ago had
with the simpler toys Of their time?
No one can answer with assurance,
Evening star., 1932-12-21
A Tribute to the Late
Mrs. Ida Gilbert Myers
To tho Editor ~ TIL. Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
As graduate of the Washington Nor
NAL School, wish to express through
your columns my appreciation and the
appreciation of hosts of teachers who
were trained for the teaching profess
sion in your schools for the educational
genius of Ida Gilbert Myers, whose
death took place in your city on Sum-
day night
During the 10 years in which Mrs.
Myers was at the head Of teacher train
ing in the city Of Washington she ex-
srted an influence upon progressive edu-
cation that to me, as I look back upon
it, was nothing short Of marvellous. To
us who had the rare good fortune to
observe her model lessons, the techniques
of this remarkable teacher will always
remain an example Of the ideal In
class room procedure.
It Is now IS years since first worked
with Mrs. Myers professionally, and yet
I can remember distinctly many Of the
brilliant demonstration lessons that !
saw her give before our class-such was
the vividness of her personality and the
concreteness of her method.
Her influence in education Will long
endure. All of us who came under her
spell, and those Of US who are now
training students to be teachers, will
pass on as well as we can the inspired
principles which she so strihngly ex-
EDWARD HARLAN WEBSTER,
State Teachers College, ,Montclair. N. 4
Evening star., 1932-12-21
Correction as to
Canadian Banks
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Articles on banking should be &C.
curate. Yet James Montagnes In Sun
days Star says there have been no
bank failures In the Dominion since
1922. The one before that was In
1914"
In British Columbia there were 28
trust companies doing banking busi-
ness in January, 1914. Within q few
months 26 failed. One had some $40,-
100000 deposits. Its managing director
shot himself.
What State can match that record?
What was then the largest bank In
Canada was kept open by government
help on an enormous scale. am told
that this is true of many other banks,
but this one I know about.
Rand -McNally's Bankers Directory
for January, 1914, and January. 1915,
will confirm what I say Of British Co
lumbia.
Neither the banking laws Of Canada
nor their administration offer much to
copy with profit. WILL ATKINSON.
Evening star., 1932-12-21
Other Worlds.

A child judges the rest of the world
by the little world into which he was
born and in which he lives. To the
child born Of parents blessed with the
material riches of life the rest Of the
world appears like his own. There Is
always food for every one; there are
comfortable, warm beds for every one;
there are shiny and interesting play
things for every one. Disillusionment is
gradual process.
But there are other children who also
tai he measure Of the rest of the
world by what they have come to ac-
cept as the inevitable accompaniments
of life in their own. That Is one of the
facts, in connection with the dreary
blight Of these hard days, that, at this
season especially, wiring the heart.
There are children who believe that to
be hungry is the natural state; that
everybody is cold good part part Of
the time; that the drab and colorless
existence they know is shared by every
body, everywhere.
If disillusionment for the child who
Is born to comfort and the care of
loving parents always able to provide
for him Is cruel there is comfort In
the thought that it is. for most of
them. gradual process.
But what a joy it is to share in the
oisillusionment of those other children
TO help in creating those circum-
ST. :ces that will teach them to know
the, is another sort of world after all,
a world where there is warmth and
shelter and food, where parents return
smiles with smiles, instead of tears!
There are seventy-eight children In
the families represented by The Stars
Twenty Opportunities" When one Of
these opportunities has been closed
by the generous gifts Of sympathetic
Washingtonians it means that for some
of these children there is created a
new world. The sweet promise in this
new world must be as revealing, to
them, as it was to the wise men who
followed the star to Bethlehem.
Evening star., 1932-12-21
Bill for Philippine Freedom
Strongly Assailed by Public

main Americas possessions. they are
due to cost us a billion dollars, 10 bat
tleships and 100000 men, sooner or
later. The entire situation IS remindful
of the owner Of cocky fox terrier
watching it playing in street largely
filled with traffic. If he undertakes to
protect the pup, the traffic more than
likely will get him. But the pup Is
doomed. So what TO do?"
Statements from Filipino sources are
quoted by the Columbia IS c. State to
show that "as the sentiment for inde-
pendence developed at Washington 1t
faded in Manila" The Boston Tran
script believes that after all their
bluster for a generation, the Filipino
politicians will be as much relieved as
will the American people to have this
question laid over until another day,
when it may be discussed more impair
tally than is possible during the de-
preston period" Quoting Winston
Churchill, British statesman, to the
effect that 1.-The hauling down of the
Stars and Stripes at Manila would not be
signal of peace, progress and tranquil
lity," the Houston Chronicle comments:
THAT is the Churchill theory, and no
doubt 1t is one held by most English
men in the Far East. The United
States will wish to do what is best for
the Filipinos themselves, and it Is pos
sible the ideas of the British should
carry weight. At least Congress and the
American people will be inclined to give
them serious consideration" The pur-
pose Of the bill is referred to by the
Springfield (Mass) Union as sham in
dependence" while the Oshkosh Daily
Northwestern quotes FilipinoS as de.
claring that the measure is ''unrespon-
sive to Filipino political aspirations"
and the Hartford Times concludes:
THE inspiration of the Halves bill Is
neither commendable nor honorable It
has little regard for the welfare of the
islands and their Inhabitants, but Is
concerned entirely with the competition
which their agricultural products offer
in our markets. 1t will not be to the
credit of the Americans If Filipino in
dependence is withheld after they are
ready for 1t, or If 1t is forced upon them
too soon for such reasons as those which
inspired pending legislation"
Evening star., 1932-12-21
The Exit of 81. G."

Recent debate in the House Of Com
mons at London, as a result of which
the British cabinets decisicn to pay
the mid-December American ceb. in
stallInent was approved without a
division, was notable for the demon
strated political impotence of a states
man who hut yesterday was an all
powerful figure. With the exception of
Winston Churchill's, David Lloyd
Georges voice was the only one raised
In criticism of the governments action.
living parliamentarians in Great Bri-
tain, both had the House of Commons
almost unanimously against them. In
deed, Il. G. was nearly howled down,
and presented the pathetic spectacle of
man who, once the magician Of the
House, was left without a party or
friend to support him.
Commenting on this phenomenon,
Mr.. A. G. Ga-diner, whose incisive
weekly reviews OF British politics are a
regular feature OF The Stars editorial
columns, states that the incident
showed that Lloyd George had entirely
miscalculated the temper Of Parliament
and is taken to indicate that his polit-
ical star has finally set" The dynamic
little Welshman" based his futile pea
to the Commons on the argument OF
mo debt parley no pay" But what
set the House against him was his
attempt to wipe out personal grudge
against Stanley Baldwin, now the Con-
servative leader in Parliament and the
man who negotiated the American debt
settlement at Washington in 1923.
The cup Of Mr.. Lloyd Georges un-
happiness in Westminster last week
must have overflowed when one Of his
erstwhile most faithful lieutenants, Sir
Robert Horne, chancellor Of the ex-
chequer in the former prime minister
government, threw him over and de-
Tended Mr. Baldwin. IL. G.'s" palpable
desire was to exploit existing popular
resentment in Great Britain toward the
United States against the Conservative
leader, who was chiefly responsible for
expelling the Lloyd George government
from ONCE in 1922.
Although the Liberal party, which he
once gallantly and effectively captained,
has become little more than shadow
in British politics, split two ways over
the tariff issue and otherwise shorn of
authority, David Lloyd Georges star
fades at the end of career of which
his descendants will have no cause to
be ashamed. His organization Of VIC
tory for Great Britain in the darkest
days Of the World War, when his high
powered energy fired his whole people
with the will to win, alone assures the
man Of Harlech" enduring fame.
Evening star., 1932-12-21
England's "Ear.Marked"
Gold Should Come Here
To the Editor OF The Star

TO the Editor OF The star.
Why Is this "ear-marked" United
States moratorium payment OF gold by
England left in its full amount In the
Bank of England? Why has not, say, 5,
10 or 20 million dollars OF it been
shipped to these United States Govern
ment at once? Last authentic report
states: Bank Of England has s470, ,OOO,-
600 Of gold" Why leave it to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank Of New York City
when to call for the amount We want
shipped to US? Was not the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York City one of
Clarence SINNERS" conSultantS upon
his last mysterious visit to these United
States? Has Congress no voice as to
when the United States is to receive
this English payment? Was 1t not Con-
gress that made the Hoover moratorium
possible. which France now says IS the
cause Of all the trouble about the World
War debts Of the European nations to
the United States"
II France, at her own sweet will, II
ever. concludes to pay her overdue after
he-armistice moratorium debt, with a
MISREPRESENTATION attached, with her s3,-
800 .O00, 900 of gold, twice as much. per
capita, as the United States now has,
will she, in accord" with England, ear
mark" the United States gold also and
keep it in the Bank Of France?
II the case were vice versa would
these nations permit us to "earmark"
our gold payments were such due from
US to them?
"Shylock Uncle Sam" they have called
us, but only since We sent them 2,000,-
900 American youth, soldiers, paid trans
portation-passage for them overseas to
save the rest Of Europe from World War
defeat-sure defeat at that-by Ger
many. We poured billions of our
bond buyers, tax-paying citizens dollars
and credits into their begging hands.
In these non-Andrew jackson days
Uncle Sam is Just an "easy mark" to all
Europe No easy mark to $4,000, 900 un-
employed, $4,000. 900 dependents and
average $1,000 "beggarly salary paid
Government clerks. Keep your gold, Eu-
rope! Give up 8ls per cent plus fur
loughs without pay. you Government
clerks. Beware. Uncle Sam! There
might be, there may come, an "Ides OF
March" for the Gods grind slowly but
exceedingly we'll" w. E. RYAN.