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Evening star., 1933-12-22
CLEANERS ABIDE BY CODE
IN CONTINUING FIGHT
N. Il. A. Rate Far Too High, De-
clares President Paul of
Outlet Association.

All members of the Retail Cleaning
stores and Outlet Association will be
advised to comply with the N. r. A.
code governing price regulations, Isadore
Paul, president of the association, said
today. although, he contended, dry
cleaning prices are still too high.
The highest quality of cleaning can
be given at far below the minimum
prices now established" he said. I'VE
are far from satisfied with Gen. John
sons answer to our protests against the
reolculously high prices first establish
ed" Mr.. Paul asserted, but will urge
our members to abide by the new price
schedule while continuing to fight for
prices the public can afford" Mr. Paul
said his organization could make a
handsome'' profit with base price of
price now being charged.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
FIRST LADY GIVES
40 CHILDREN TOYS
Mrs. Roosevelt Attends Wed
ding, Then RuSheS to Union
League Party.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, DecembeS 2-In the
f1nery in which she had just come from
a wedding, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
played Lady Bountiful at Christmas
party for 40 poor children yesterday.
She had hung the tree with baubles
of silver Wednesday in the headquarters
of the Women's Trade Union League,
and in the interval she procured the
presents.
In long blue velvet gown, she stood
yesterday in crowded room and
handed out sweaters, toys, candy and
apples to rows of scrubbed and fresh
faced children. The children were all
very good. and scarcely any of them
opened the boxes they had been told
to keep intact until they got home.
Tiniest Boy Opens Box.
Mrs. Roosevelt laughed as she pre-
Sented to one of the tiniest boys a box
that was bigger than he was. You're
very small" she said gently. Since
spectators were curious, this little boy
did open his box to show workmanlike
tool chest.
Crowded in the back room of the
old-faShioned house where the league
has its headquarters were unemployed
girls from the club room which Mrs.
Roosevelt has established for them on
the ground floor of the building
After she had handed OUT the pres
entS, Mrs. Roosevelt went downstairs
to look at the club room. She left to
shouts of Merry Christmas to you
ALL from 40 childish voices. For
many years it has been Mrs Roose-
velt's custom to preside at Christmas
party at the league.
Gives Bride Away.
The wedding she attended Just before
going to the party was that Of Mrs
June Hamilton Rhodes and Ferdinand
Doan Sanford, at the Reformed Church
of Harlem. Mrs. Roosevelt gave the
bride away. She sat in the front row
on the aisle and rose as the wedding
party reached the altar.
Every one, including the bride, was
dressed in blue velvet. She and Mrs
Roosevelt became friends during Alfred
E; Smiths campaign for President IN
1928, when Mrs. Roosevelt directed
women's activities and Mrs. Rhodes d.
rected the publicity.
Mrs. Roosevelt did not go to the
wedding reception afterward but hur-
ried down to the Christmas party,
without bothering with a police escort
Asked whether she had any plans fo-
the evening, she said, I'm just a pri-
vate citizen from now on" Earlier in
the day she had done some Christmas
shopping.
Today Mrs Roosevelt planned to go
to Hyde Park for the Christmas festival
at the Waikiki furniture shop for all
the neighbors and employees. If pos
sible she will go by automobile and
will get back to New York in time to
take a late train to Washington.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
LEGION POST ELECTS
MAJ. PURCELL AS HEAD

Maj James A. Purcell was elected
commander of the Augustus P. Gardner
Post, No. 18, American Legion, at its
meeting Tuesday night at the Army
and Navy Club.
Other officers elected were Mai. Gen.
H l. Gichrist, vice commander; Will
liam C. DeLacey, historian; Maj. Gen.
Robert q. Patterson, surgeon, and Lieut..
COmdr. Alexander B. Lagare, chaplain.
An Executive Committee was selected as
follows: Admiral w. H. Standley, Maj
Gen. T. Q. Ashburn, Brig. Gen. Charles
E. Kilbourne, Brig. Gen. William H.
Horton, Maj. Theodore CogSwell, Maj, A.
Coulter Wells and Lieut.. Comdr. Louis
P. Clephane.
Col. j. Miller Kenyon was named
parliamentarian of the post and Lieut..
Frank A. Dawson adjutant.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
ROOSeuelt'S Christmas Mail
Breaks White House Records
Presents, Letters, kilograms and Cards
From Admirers Haze Averaged $4,000
Day for Last 10 Days.

front portico, one on either side Of the
main doorway and two others near the
front of the portico, which will be illu-
minated with colored lights each night
during the Christmas and New Year
period. Besides these a 20-foot spruce
tree, sent to the White House by the
New York State Conservation Commits
sion, has been placed at the South end
of the historic east room and will to-
morrow be appropriately decorated and
trimmed This tree will be known as
the public tree and will be viewed by
the many thousands of visitors who
visit the White House during the
Christmas season.
Another large spruce tree, a present
from the Girl Scout organization of
Vermont, will be erected in the blue
room, which is the formal receiving
room of the White House. 1t has not
yet been decided whether this tree will
be decorated or not. Besides all this
there will be numerous other smaller
Christmas trees used in the general
scheme of Christmas decorations for
the White House. In addition there
will be evergreens appropriately hung,
poinsettia plants and the customary
number of Christmas wreaths for the
various windows of the mansion itself
and the executive Office.
Mrs. Roosevelt has been busy for
some time making ready for the White
House Christmas. She journeyed to
New York yesterday where she took
part in Christmas function. Today
she is at the furniture factory in VAL
Kill on the Roosevelt's Hyde Park es-
tate, where she is taking part in the
Christmas observance She Is expected
to return to the White House tonight
and tomorrow afternoon will take part
in the Christmas ceremonies at the
Salvation Army headquarters on E
street.
Doll Put on Ice.
While little is known of the real ma
ture Of the Presidents Christmas pres
ents, it is known that one long paste
board box, marked fragile, arrived at
the White House yesterday and, sup
posed by those who received it to be
flowers, 1t was Immediately placed in
the refrigerator, but upon being opened
today it was found to be large doll
in Rumanian national costume, with
a card pinned to it indicating that it
was intended for Miss Marguerite lie
Hand, the Presidents private secre-
tary, who makes her home in the
White House and is included as men,
Der of the presidential household.
The personal Christmas greeting card
of President and Mrs. Roosevelt was an
attractive etching of a portion of the
White House from the rear. A wide
spread distribution of these cards was
not made, the President and Mrs
Roosevelt confining them to old, inti-
mate friends.
Another old Christmas custom of the
Roosevelts, like that of millions of other
Americans, is to hang up stockings on
Christmas eve for each member OF the
household, from the Presidents mother
on down to the grandchildren, who will
have a stocking hung and mysteriously
filled and opened on Christmas morn
inc
Evening star., 1933-12-22
People, Bugs Crowd Houses.

Aroused by the report of j. H. Pat
terson, a sanitary inspector, Glasgow
Scotland, proposes to replace old apart
ment houses in the Garngad district
with modern buildings at cost of over
S1000,000. Patterson reported that Of
SAB houses, BAT were definitely uninhabi
table. A one-apartment house hao
eight inhabitants, another had six and
many others were crowded. Leaking
roofs, falling floors and crumbline
plaster we're common, and beetles and
bugs swarmed the beds and walls, he
said
Evening star., 1933-12-22
OIL LABOR POLICY
BODY REORGAN|zED
Action Taken Because Mem.
bers of Organized Labor
tJsTe UEabIe to Serve.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes, as oil administrator,
reorganized today the labor policy board
of the oil administration.
The reorganized board will replace
that set up the latter part OF last
month. consisting Of three members
representing employers, three represent
ing labor and an impartial chairman.
The new board will consist OF three
impartial public representatives,. The
Secretary, in announcing the change,
said the reorganization had been made
because of the inability Of certain
representatives of organized labor to
participate" in the boards activities:
The new members will be William M.
Leiserson of Yellow Springs, Ohio, sec
retary of the National Labor Board,
chairman; James Mullenbach OF Chica-
90. labor and relief expert, and DR..
George w. Stocking of Austin, Tex, a
member of the former board as a labor
representative.
The other labor members of the former
board were H. c. Freming, president OF
the International Association OF Oh
Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers,
and Charles c. Jones of Bayonne, N. j.;
N. R. Margold, solicitor of the Interior
Department. and chairman of the Pc
troleum Administrative Board, was
chairman Of the former board.
Members of the former board repre-
senting the industry were s. w. Candee
of the Tfdewater Oil Co, New York
City, N. Y; r. H. Ivory OF the STANDARD
OIL Co. OF California, and ~ ". llm'
norman of the Continental OIL Co.,
Ponca City, Okla.
Because of an urgent need for q
board Of this kind "a labor policy board
1t was decided that for the present a
board composed Of three impartial pub
lie representatives would be established
as a successor to the previous board, ii
the Secretary said in q statement.
Formation of such a board was rec
commended by the Planning and Co
ordination Committee representing the
oil industry under the oil code.
Evening star., 1933-12-22

Winter arrived at SO this morning,
but the announcement in almanacs of
its arrival is the only authority WASH
ingtonians have for it.
A warm breeze from the south had
brought the temperature up to As de-
grees at 10 am, from last nights mini
mum of "a, and the warm sunshine
was hardly indicative that the cold
season" had arrived officially in the
dead Of night.
The forecast for tonight and tomor-
row Is cloudy" with little change in
temperature in sight. The Weather
Bureau would not hazard a prediction
on Christmas weather this early, they
said today.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
WINTER ARRIVED THIS MORNING
INTENDED BY Il W4RM BREEZE

According to astronomical science, the
earth's axis was inclined % degrees 27
minutes away from the sun at 1:58 this
morning and started the six-month
backswing that will halt late next June.
For meteorologists actual Winter be-
gan December ! and continues until
March /.
Weather experts refuse to forecast
what kind of Winter it will be, but say
Winters.
Today, as the first day Of Winter and
the advent of what Is scientifically
termed the winter solstice." is known
to the layman as "the shortest day Of
the year." s...-.-
Evening star., 1933-12-22
SILK TRADE CHEERFUL.

NEW YORK. December % R).-
Sentiment Is improving in the silk In
dustry regarding Spring prospects. Bet
terment Is noted In the primary gray
goods channels. among converters and
the large mills. Prices are also showing
a flrmer tone.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
POU PLEDGES SUPPORT

Representative Pou, Democrat, Of
North Carolina, chairman Of the House
Rules Committee. yesterday pledged
his support In the next Congress to
President Roosevelt and administration
measures.
P0uS committee will decide to large
degree legislation to be considered by
the House.
AS we approach the opening Of the
session OF Congress" Pou said, "I am
Evening star., 1933-12-22
Golfer Beats Son, Wins Bet.

Ts win a bet with his wife, Gus
Faulkner, q well known golf profes.
sional, defeated his son Max at golf at
a tournament in West Surrey, England,
recently. During a breakfast-table
argument, declares the elder Faulkner,
his wife said Max could beat him be-
cause the youth had better golfing
temperament. "She thinks such q lot
of Max that she wagered he could beat
me-" added the proud father. ct ac-
cepted the bet and I won the money,
but the boy played grand golf" The
wager was won by one stroke,
Evening star., 1933-12-22
Children Ignorant Of Rain.

CAPETOWN OP.-There are children
10 years old in the Western part of
South Africa who never have seen rain.
The minister of lands found them when
he visited districts in which no rain
has fallen for a decade.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
P. & G. SALES MOUNT.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. Decemhe

CINCINNATI, Ohio, December % Cp).
Tonnage sale of Proctor & Gamble
Co. for the current six months are run
ming about 10 per cent ahead OF the
corresponding period in 1882 with dollar
sales showing a larger improvement,
President R. R. Deupree said today
Evening star., 1933-12-22

impressed moro than ever with the
necessity Of supporting the President.
So far as am concerned, shall pur-
sue that course
Evening star., 1933-12-22
A. P. MAN COMMISSIONED
Charles P. Williamson Becomes
Captain in Marine Corps Reserve.
Charles P. Williamson, Associated
prrSs n0rrpsnNndent al the Navy De.

a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve
Acting Secretary Henry Latrobe Roose-
welt handed him his commission at q
brief ceremony, in which he congratu-
lated the newspaper man on entering
the corps.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
Christmas Trees Placed.

its first aspect Of the season when the
Christmas trees were placed on the
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
London Says Ford Lays
Trouble to Competitors

LONDON, Jan. 27 GN.SJ,
The London Evening Standard
today quoted Henry Ford as
charging that the present strike
which has tied up Ford plants
was due to the efforts of his com
petitors to prevent him from
putting a new car on the mar
ket.
Declaring it had talked to the
motor manufacturer on the trans
atlantic telephone, the newspaper
quoted Ford as follows:
"My competitors are trying
to stop another Ford car from
being made. They have sue
ceeded for q few hours, but
shall fight them.
1.-The truth is that certain
bankers, in cooperation with
my competitors, are trying to
obtain control of this concern
in an effort to prevent the
new Ford from leaving the fac
tory.
81 know what to do about
this. 1 shall fight them and
prove that Ford production can.
. not be stopped. 1t will cost a
great deal Of money, but 1 can
not help that"
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
FARRELL SCORES
DUMPING PLOT

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tries can ship their goods to the
American market they will not
stabilize their currency, he said
Farrell was asked:
"IS there any question but
that England went off the gold
standard to get business in the
United States?
He replied:
"NO, they will all be on the
gold standard whc nthey ac-
cOmplish their purpose
"DO you mean the war
debtS?"
eyes, these things are all 4
means to an end"
He refused to discuss war debts
further.
Wants Handicap Abolished
Speaking from an experience
of 40 years in foreign trade, Far
Tell said the position Of the
United States in the forthcoming
world economic conference would
be improved If deprecated cur
rency legislation were enacted to
take from foreign countries the
advantage they now have in the
American market.
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
j, 8. CALLED ON
To REAFF|RM
DEBT STAND
Robinson Resolution Repeats
Opposition of Congress to
Cancellation or Cut

A Joint resolution reaffirmine
the opposition Of Congress tc
debt cancellation or reduction
was prepared today by Senator
Robinson (R) of Indiana as an
outgrowth Of forthcoming debt
negotiations between the United
States and several other debtor
nations.
The resolution stated:
"Tt is cOncurrently reported
and not denied that foreign
countries indebted to the United
States have sought and are
seeking conferences with
officials Of our Government for
the purpose Of recOnsiderinS
their indebtedness.
Congress declared a definite
policy concerning such indebted
ness when it attached a rider
to its approval Of the Hoover
moratorium and desires that
said foreign countries should
be under no misapprehenSiOn
as to the definite position Of
the United States on this
question"
The language reaffirmlng this
policy was copied from the de
claration approved by the two
houses when the moratorium was
sanctioned.
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
MORE NARCOTIC
ARRESTS NEAR.

FREDERICK, Md, Jan. q.
With four men caught in the net
spread by agents Of the Federal
Narcotics Bureau investigating
peddling of drugs in this county,
more arrests may follow, It was
indicated today.
The men arrested are Edward
K. Saltzman, 18-year-old clerk at
a local drug store; Roy r. Soper,
Bruce T. Strailman and James M.
Sigafoose.
Evidence gathered by the agents,
it was said, shows that Saltzman
sold the drugs to Sigafoose and
Strailman through Soper.
The four are free on bail pend
ing action of the U. S. District
Court at Baltimore. other sus-
poets are being investigated, the
agents said,
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
Roosevelt Advisers Here
To Study Debt Situation

President-elect Roosevelt today
assumed active direction. of the
forthcoming war debt negotia
tions, although the system was
rather one Of remote control.
His personal representative and
economic adviser, Prof. Raymond
Moley, was consulting State De
partment officials, including Sec
retary Stimson, as to whether
there is to be an American reply
to the British note accepting con
ditionally Mr.. Roosevelt's invita-
ton to take up the 81, ,499 ,000, ,000
British debt soon after March 4.
Another personal representative
and economic adviser, Prof. Rex
G. Tugwell, was comforting with
Treasury officials over the more
purely financial phases Of the
debt problem.
Sees State Officials
Prof. Tugwell also conferred
with two Assistant Secretaries OF
State and two economic advisers.
including Frederick Livesey, who
has just returned from Geneva.
The two professors excited no
little attention in the Capital as
they moved mysteriously about
their duties as liaison officers be-
tween the outgoing and incom-
ing administrations.
Meanwhile, the British them
selves were not idle. On two sue
cessive days, Sir Ronald Lindsay,
the British ambassador, has
1unched with Senator Joseph T.
Robinson, Democratic leader OF
the Senate, at the Capitol. Robin
son has been active IN erdeavor-
ing to head-off the indignant out
bursts of those who are opposed
to cancellation or reduction OF
the debts.
Sir Rona1d's activity about the
Senate and his direct app1 oach to
Democratic leaders who will be
in command of the next Senate
is unusual. to say the least, and
there was considerable comment
about it today, some Of it dis
tinctly unfavorable.
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
PLANTS
SHUT DOWN

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pickets, no violence had been re-
ported.
The Briggs strikers have ap-
pointed Phillip Raymond, former
Communist candidate for mayor,
as their organizer. Pickets in
sisted, however, that Communism
was not involved.
Many American flags were seen
in the picket lines, and suspected
Communists were mptly
elected from the mass meetings.
IL Demands Listed
Raymond announced a list Of
IL demands. Recognition Of a
shop committee, elected by the
workers, with full power to settle
grievances, headed the list.
Other demands included: Cessa-
tion of payments by Briggs work
ers to the city welfare depart
ment for relief received during
unemployment; no discrimination
against strikers; minimum wage
Of As cents an hour (for girl
workers., and top wage Of 81 an
hour for power-hammer men.
John Ballenger, superintendent
Of the welfare department, de-
claring the city does not approve
of "use Of welfare dependents in
industrial disputes" revealed that
a request by the Briggs Company
to recruit strike breakers from
city welfare lists had been re-
fused.
The request was denied by the
Rev. j. E. Hickey, Of the Sacred
Heart Seminary, president Of the
welfare commission.
CHESTER, Pa, Jan. ~ (I.N.S0.
A poster at the Chester assembly
plant Of the Ford Motor Com
pany today informed 1,400 work
ers their services will not be re-
quired "untN further notice"
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
YOUTH ADMITS
KILLING CHILD

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showed her the pencil, then the
quarter. He said: ~,
81 gave her a penny, and told
her to buy some candy. / told
her I'd wait around the corner
until she came back. When
she came out Of the store
took her into the hallway.
''When we started down the
cellar she began to cry, so I
punched her to make her quit.
"When she fell off the bench
I tied the rope around her neck"
Immediately afterward police
took the negro to the tenement,
where he reenacted the crime.
Served "Pen" Term
Price, police records revealed,
was sent to the New York City
reformatory in March, 1928, upon
conviction of making improper
advances to a small boy. Follow.
ing his release, he was arrested
on a similar charge in october of
that year and sentenced to the
penitentiary.
Formal charge of murder will
be lodged against Price later to-
day, the district attorneys office
said,
The Washington times., 1933-01-27

New re- DIR. N. M. BUTLER
SpOnsibilities have been put on
our English-speaking people by
happenings in the world around
us. After 300 years Of develop
ment of our fundamental insti-
tutiOnS we find them challenged,
not on the surface merely, but
deep down as to their fOunda-
tiOns and principles by critics
who are determined, who are
inSiStent that we are wrong"
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
ROOSEVELT HAS
PARLEY TODAY
ONFARM BILL
Gradually Mapping Full Pro-
gram to Present to Con-
gress; Birthday Monday

WARM SPRINGS, Ga, Jan. 27
IN.SO. - President-elect Roose,
welt, it became apparent today,
is going to have a comprehensive
program embracing all the high
points of his promised new deal
ready for submission to a special
session of Congress Immediately
after March 4.
Since arriving at this health
resort last Sunday, Mr.. Roose-
velt has had a series Of confer
ences from which very definite
policies have emerged on inter
national debts, Federal budget
and finances, railroad rehabilita-
ton, power development, and
farm relief.
Today, he again turned his at
'tention to the agricultural Situa-
ton with the arrival of Henry
Morganthau, jr., New York State
conservation commissioner, who
has been the President-elect's con-
tact man in the effort to get the
domestic allotment bill through
the current session of Congress.
WOOdin a Visitor, Too
Another conferee was to be
Henry H. Woodin, president Of
the American Car and Foundry
Company, whose counsel has been
sought on railroad matters.
Woodin has been mentioned as a
possibility for ambassador to
Germany.
Next Monday the President
elect will get around to serious
discussion of selecting a Cabinet
when Democratic National Chair
man James A. Farley, Louis M.
Howe, the Roosevelt confidential
secretary; Democratic National
Treasurer Frank Walker, Edward
F.. Flynn, the Bronx leader who
broke with Tammany in the cam
paign, and others arrive for his
birthday party.
Fifty-One Next Tuesday
Mr.. Roosevelt will be 81 on
Tuesday and his political inti-
mates have been invited to a
stag dinner Monday nigh. in cele-
hration.
The PreSident-elect smilingly
insists no final Cabinet decisions
will be made, however, until after
his return from the Today cruise
aboard Vincent Astor S yacht
Nourmahal, which begins Feb
huary 4, although he might"
announce one selection just be-
fore leaving. When newspaper
men suggested it probably would
be Farley for Postmaster General,
he merely grinned.
Mr.. RooSevelt's announcement
that he was considering creation
Of a single Federal agency for
regulation of all phases Of trans
portation and a similar body to
control all kinds of communica-
ton frankly is a trial balloon.
Under his tentative plan, rail-
roads, motor bus traffic, CONNER
cial aviation, shipping, and in
land waterways would all be regu-
lated by a reconstructed inter
state commerce commission" The
radio commission probably would
be expanded to handle telephone
and telegraph and power trans
mission.