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Evening star., 1933-12-24
I'm hoping maybe somebody will drop in.
Though Christmas is a day to yer own family
when ye don't give heed to strangers"
Illustrated By PAUL KROESEN

M HRISTMAS morning neither the old lady
vi the Chinaman came to the park.
~ The old lady lay her bed In her one
room Beside her was the silk umbrella. On
a table where she could touch them were the
tiny tree with its brave decorations and doll
and drum and horn.
She tried once to get up but the cough was
worse, and her head felt queer. IT'S best
lie still" she said when any one comes
III get up
So she lay quietly fondlng the presents, lis
tening for footsteps on the stairs. Noon came.
She thought about getting up for q bite to eat,
but the effort seemed too great
She turned her head to the tree she could
not see. One trembling hand counted over the
little bags Of candy, felt Of the crinkly star
and the red ball.
"-rs a grand tree" she murmured. "The
childer would have liked it. Maybe it isn't
too late. Maybe some one will come yet"
No one came.
She began to scold herself "Take shame
to ye. Wanting some one to come running
round after the likes Of ye. Aren't ye old?
the one when ye met Tim" She began to
recount Christmas days that were past
In the midst of the list there was q noise on
the stair, confusion of footsteps.
There! Didn't I say some one would be
coming?" The old lady tried to get up but
The door swung open and she heard . ia
miliar stunning sound.
'Why, it's the Chinkie!" She lay back on
her pillow. . pleased smile on her lips.
In the doorway stood the old Chinaman. His
wrinkled yellow face was Is immobile as ever.
Before him on the threshold were three Chi
nese children They were arrayed In their best
gray silk trousers and coats Their little round
black eyes in their little round yellow faces
stared at the woman on the bed.
He showed them gently into the room. "Clis-
mas for children. Me velly pleased bling chill
dren"
The three advanced in solemn row to the
bedside where the black head Of the youngest
barely showed above the bed.
~Childer! Well I'm beat. Childeri Take
the rocker, Chinkie It's the best. Where are
ye dears?" Her hands groped for the chill
dren. rested on their smooth black hair.
The old lady's face was beaming. Her ex-
element made her cough more frequently, but
she did not notice.
do We see the tree, dears2 With the star
at the top and the candy bags that yell be
taking off soon? And there's three Of ye now?
'Tfs lucky I've doll and . drum and horn,
when I was only planning on two"
The oldest boy child Of z. spoke. I'VE
have brought Christmas present for you.
too s7eE-
The English words were well spoken by the
young Oriental. He fumbled with the string
on the package he carried
Dear, dear" A strange tear trickled down
Evening star., 1933-12-24

<<~H, don't ask nothing of no one.
w wash me own clothes what the land
lady hangs out, ana I take me own
bath. Oh I get along hne. And then TO
cross the street. an the newsies on the corner
are helping me. There's nothing can't do
for myself.
'Except-sometimes get tired talking to
myself alone. haven't many friends. Me old
friends are dead, and the young folks Is too
busy with their work and their youth to be
friends with old woman like me-"
She was silent q moment, and then, Have
ye got q son, Chinkie?"
There was no reply.
They're q queef race" she muttered to
herself, and then suddenly cpcked her head
on one side. An inquiring hand slid along the
bench There was no one on the other end.
She was the bench's sole occupant.
why, he amt hereI What do you suppose
has happened him?"
She peered around anxiously Is though she
could see.
Then she heard him shufning down the Gin
finally sat down stinay and began to rub his
knees. @
The old lady kept still until he was seated.
Then she leaned forward eargerly. "Chinkie.
you don't never talk, but you're old like me.
And you're stiff, you got pains IN your joints.
I can ten by the walk Of ye. Oh, can hear,
IL I have been blind these six years"
For NE first time the Chtnaman stared di-
rectly at her with his mvinking black eyes.
Then he said rapidly, ME velly old. Got velly
much pain in knees"
"I know 1T" The old lady triumphant.
"Just you wait. III drive all the pains away.
Wasn't me mother, God rest her soul, the bese
spH esheFbs ip aIl2gorth Of Ireland7"
Evening star., 1933-12-24
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A blind woman>
!. an aged 6ioaman
---and Chnist177as
MILDRED
SCOTT
ADLER

- F1aight there is
~ q wooden bench inside the cement gateway The high
- back a shelter from the wind The suns rays
~ y concentrate here with mellow warmth. 1t
alone yet within sound of the clatter Of
Haight street.
It has Its regular patrons People who sit for an hour
in and away back again. A queer
eollection-odds women, $
Golden Gate Park.
There the old lady who came every morning at o.
She entered the gateway slowly from Haight street. cane in
the inside of the arch, five to the
bench careful slow settling back the left
of the bench Then her hands comfortably
her she turned to listen for each note IN the multitude
of noises outside the park.
Every day, the old lady settled herself the left
end of the bench, the shveled old Chnaman rising
Evening star., 1933-12-24

1erkuy I1Rm the 1gnt emu.
Every morning at quarter
to 9 he shuf1ied down the
path, market basket ON his
arm. Every morning he
glanced at the bench, mur-
INJURED to himself. started to
pass it by, and finally sat
down.
The market basket was placed
carefully on the seat beside
him. Then, as though from
long habit, his lean yellow
fingers began to rub his knees.
In his yellow wrinkled face,
beneath the round straw hat,
his unwinking black eyes
stared at the pond where the
mallaris dipped in the dark
green water.
So he sat, apparently see
ing nothing, hearing nothing,
of the life around him. At 9
he again murmured to him.
self, adjusted his market bas-
ket over his arm. rose stif1y
to his feet and padded
through the gateway to
Haight street.
The old lady and the old
Chinaman - two stars in
separate orbits, yet destined
to be drawn together out OF
the vastly different circles In
which thew moved Eor that "a
Evening star., 1933-12-24

One morning she said. do ye know I'm
almost getting TO look forward to the morn
fngs now7 To have some one to talk to regu-
lar, do ye see?"
As usual there was no answer. The old
lady went blithely ON.
NE SON John Is regular, too, now. He
comes to see me every other Sunday. And he
has promised hen bring the childer With him
for Christmas that's only two weeks OF. Me
sons wife. Wen, she's . pretty thing and
doesn't want to be bothered with the likes Of
me- Although I amt no trouble. I live on
me $50 month; she spends all Of Johns pay"
She nodded in satisfaction.
Evening star., 1933-12-24

pWO days before Christmas she reached
O the bench q little late. Her cough
choked her 50 badly that for q long
moment she could not speak.
well, I'm ready, Chinkie. I've got the tree
and red ball and q star and even q string OF
pop corn and candy in little bags. And donie
that goes to sleep, and drum. and horn"
Again she had to stop to cough
Wont the childer be pleased now? Oh, ttn
be good to have childer Of me own around
again."
For once she was so lost in thought that she
did not hear the Chinaman depart.
The next day, the day before Christmas.
the Chinaman sat ON the bench long time
before the old lady came through the gate
way.
She groped her way to the bench and sank
in q little huddled heap on it. She seemed
to have shrunk overnight. She turned wist-
fully to the old Chinaman.
"Chinkie. had to come as to tell you,
though the strength Is all gone out Of me legs
this morning. John and the childer aren't
coming. He wrote me letter yesterday.
They've gone away to spend Christmas"
There was q long minute OF silence. The
Chinaman laid nothing.
"And me tree and me presents for the
childer-"
Again q silence. There was resolute note
OF cheeTful1e8 when she spoke again. ~But
he sent me, . present A six umbEella-too
sezand- for thg thessof me. 20 %
Evening star., 1933-12-24

The next morning she was at the park bench
waiting for him.
Here" she thrust a black bottle toward him.
Rub that on yer knees and see don't it make your
knees young again."
It, shook it vigorously looked at it again.
Next morning she questioned him eagerly, Did
ye put It on?"
pond and question him thereafter as she would
be said no more
Mornings went until two weeks had drifted
BY. The old lady was more talkative than ever.
She planning her Christmas
Johns wife, she don't let him bring the childer
other times but Christmas is day for childer
and they're coming I've been saving for .
month past for . bit Of q tree. Thereu be
candy and dolhe and o drum for them to
remember their granny by" deep cough
shook her.
Mother av Mercy. the cough has took me bad
e this winter. I've been saving the fuel IN
3 me store to buy the tree and maybe . red ball
, and star to hang On It,"
. The Chinaman sat as impassive Is one Of his
own Buddhas. His hands longer rubbed
his knees. They were folded calmly acro9 his
! stomach.
"Tis q great day. Christmas" she went On
softly. "A day for love OF God and for love Of
cfilder. Johns wife now, she don't know al
she Is missing I'd rather be me with me old
blind eyes than be her with her pgettiness and
her love of money and fashion"
, and trotted OF.
Evening star., 1933-12-24

Continued on Fourteenth Page
Evening star., 1933-09-13
DA|RYMEN Forming
PROTECTIVE GROUPS
Move Made in Fairfax and
Loudoun to Modify As
sociation Set-up.

Dairy farmers in Fairfax and Lou-
doun Counties, Vas are forming pro-
tective committees in q move to
modify the present set-up of the Mary.
land Virginia Milk Producers Associa.
ton, it was revealed today by Elwood
H. Seal, assistant corporation counsel.
who is conducting an investigation Of
the milk situation here and IN Balti-
more.
A similar move has been started by
dairy farmers In Montgomery County,
Md. 1t became known yesterday. 1t is
said some members Of the association
are protesting against what they caA
management Of the organization.
Seal has heard complaints that Isaac
Heaps, head of the Eastern States Milk
Marketing Association, and John Nc.
Gill Of the Maryland Virginia associa-
ton, have been forcing dairy farmers
into the association and then paying
them low prices.
Seal announced today that in the
next day or two he will endeavor to
find who now actually holds the 4,4s0
shares Of stock in the Cloverland
Farms Dairy Of Baltimore, which were
owned by Charles Bowman at the time
OF his death. During his investigations
In Baltimore, Seal learned Bowman
held so per cent interest in the Clover
land Farms Dairy and at the same time
was head Of the Western Maryland
Fairfield Dairy. Bowman, he found,
purchased his holdings in the Baltimore
dairy shortly before selling the Western
Maryland Fairfield concern to the Ma
tional Dairy Products Corporation.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
W. R. BROWNE DIES
AFTER OPERATION
Attorney in Veterans Administra-
ton Became Ill While Serv-
ing in Manila, P. I.

William Russell Browne, 30, an at
torney in the Veterans Administration,
died yesterday at his residence, 1727
Taylor street, following a long illness.
A native of Remington, Va, where
he was born September 20, 1902, Mr..
Taylor came to Washington when a
boy and had lived here continuously
since.
He served with the Coast Guard and
entered the Veterans Administration
in July, 1924. He became Ill while
serving the administration in Manila,
P. l., and underwent an operation in
San Francisco several weeks ago. He
was brought to Washington last week.
Mr.. Browne lived with his father-in-
law, Maj. Walter r. Metz. He Is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Eleanor
Browne; his mother, Mrs James LIE
Sage, and a brother Ashley Browne.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row at pm. at Hines undertaking es-
tablishment. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery at 2 o'clock with
full military honors. A color escort will
be provided by Jasper Post, American
Legion.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
YOUTH GIVEN TEN
YEARS FOR HOLD.UP
Surprise Indictments Hold Two
Arrested at Alexan-
dria.
BY a sta1 Correspondent of The Star

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, September 13.-
BY means Of surprise indictment which
Commonwealth Attorney Albert v.
Bryan put into the docket of the Cor
poration Court here yesterday, Littleton
May, 10, Of the 400 block Sixth street,
washington, one of two men caught
here yesterday after they were alleged
to have conducted two hold-ups in Vir-
ginia Monday night, was sentenced to
10 years in the State Penitentiary by
Judge William p Woolls when he
pleaded guilty to one of the jobs.
May pleaded guilty to holding up a
Washington taxicab driver and rob-
bing him Of s6 in Fairfax County
within mile of this city. He and his
companion, Dallas c. Williford, 25, also
of Washington. were indicated by a
grand jury of the court which was in
session yesterday. Williford pleaded not
guilty
Police said the pair engaged the taxi
OF Edward E. Bowen, 46 Randolph
place, washington, Monday night, and
after holding him up near here, drove
to Richmond, Va, where they are al
ton attendant and robbed him Of $21.
Leaving the atteLda tied to chair,
the pair started back to washington.
When near Fredericksburg they put
Bowen out of the taxi.
Bowen called washington police, who
in turn notified Alexandria police that
the two were en- route to Washington
They were caught by Officers Miller and
Townsend at Washington and Franklin
streets here. Both were armed. police
said
Evening star., 1933-09-13
CIVITAN HEAD GIVES
VACATION ADDRESS
Shelton T. Cameron Describes
Experiences in Canadian
Woods.

Shelton T Cameron. president Of the
Civitan Club. who has just returned
from a months vacation in the Ca
madam woods, described his experiences
at the clubs regular monthly dinner
meeting yesterday at the Kenwood
Country Club.
Arrangements were made for the
Civitan Convention to be held in Nor
folk, Va. September %. Civilians from
Washington, Annapolis and Baltimore
have chartered boat to leave Balti-
more September 81 for Norfolk, it was
announced.
Dr. c. R. Mccullough and w. M
Kochenderfer were named delegates to
the convention, while the alternates
were L. v. Pearson and F. E. Penning
ton.
Rudolph Jose, chairman Of the Club
Activities Committee, reported on the
work of the Civitan Boys Garden Club
during the past year.
The club Endorsed the Halloween
celebration which will be held here this
year under sponsorship of the Greater
National Capital Committee, Washing
ton Board of Trade.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
TEAM TO BE HONORED

will be guests of Stansbury Lodge,
No. "a, F. A. A. M, at the latter's six
tieth anniversary and festival on Geor-
gia avenue at Colorado avenue before
1t closes, Saturday night, it was an
nounced today.
The lodge, which boasts the honorary
membership of President Roosevelt,
who, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
laid the corner stone of the Brightwood
Masonic Temple in 1919, opened its
festival September 4. Besides tradi-
tional carnival features, the program
includes concerts by the Elks' Boys
Band. A new automobile will be given
away Saturday night when the car
nival closes.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
STORE SALESSHOW
AUGUST INCREASE
N. R. A. Efforts Reflected in
Upward Leap of Federal
Figures.
By the Associated Press.


Efforts Of the N. R. A. to restore
national buying power were reflected in
an upward leap in department store
sales during August, as reported yes
terday by the Federal Reserve Board.
Board officials, however, attributed
part of the rise to heavy buying in ex-
pectation of higher price levels later.
The board found sales in August to
rate an index of IS, against the 100. or
the 1923-25 average, compared with II
in July and 68 in June. 1t did not ois-
close the actual dollar totals Ct sales
and trends.
Preliminary figures showed the Au-
gust dollar sales total was approximate
ly 16 per cent above August, 1882, and
indicative of greater buying power in
recent weeks because the sales tor the
first eight months of the year were 10
per cent less than In the same period
last year.
Although officials carefully explained
in private comment that the dollar
sales increase would not mean corre-
spending boost in store income, because
of increased costs of operation, they
said they looked for a steady rise in
sales from higher purchasing power to
remedy this.
The average gain in dollar value Of
sales ranged from per cent in the
San Francisco Reserve district to AZ per
cent in the vicinity Of Cleveland, where
the release of frozen bank deposits
stimulated buying.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
BUYING MADE TEST
OF TEXTILE CODE
Cotton Industry Head Says
N. r. A. Merit Will Be Shown
in Purchases.

(copyrght, 1888. by the Associated Presso
NEW YORK, September 13.-The
cotton textile industry, first to adopt
. code under the N. R. A.. Is now
anxiously awaiting the public reaction
to higher prices.
George A. Sloan. president Of the
Cotton Textile Institute, explains that
mill executives are awaiting convincing
evidence that the consuming public
understands the changes which have
taken place, and is willing to meet the
increased costs
Sloan. in an interview, pointed out
that the number of persons on the In
dustries pay roll had been greatly ex-
banded, but higher wages and shorter
hours have had the natural effect OF
causing an increase in manufacturing
costs and prices of cotton goods ma
turally reflect these increases"
Buying to Be Significant.
The present phase of cotton mill
problems, he continued has close con-
nection therefore with the N. R. A.
efforts to encourage purchasing. II the
N. R. A. buying campaign serves to
enlighten the public as to the sinister
implication of low prices, and con-
vinces the public that positive detri-
ment to it's interests exists In moral
nately low price levels and the result
ing dissipation of capital and depres-
sion and misfortune for industry. a
long step will have been taken toward
the resumption of normal business.
Sloan. who is chairman OF the
economic planning and fair practice
agency under the cotton textile cooe'
stressing the marked gains in employ
ment. said mere than 100000 additional
workers were employed in mills in
July than three months previously; the
total amount in wages paid in July was
60 per cent greater than in April and
more than double the total wages paid
In July, 1882.
Wage Increase Cited.
preliminary reports indicate that
total wages paid to cotton mill workers
during the last week in August were
substantially ahead of the pay rolls
early in July. This is a reflection OF
the shorter work week and of the &C
tivity of the industry on orders that
buyers placed for future delivery prior
to the effective date of the code"
But now the task is to educate the
buying public to the benefits resulting
from higher costs and higher prices.
Sloan said, The N. R. A. is with good
reason pointing out that the entire
pubic Has d SIdhe Ill Illc I'll NC w b1A4S
about constructive increases in prices.
as it is obvious that without the public's
sympathetic understanding of the rea-
sons for price increases the admins
trations plans for recovery would fall
to the ground"
The cotton textile industry has now
been operating under the code for nearly
two months The code affects approx
mately 100000 workers in cotton textile
manufacturing and many more in other
branches of the textile industry which
have come under this code. Hours of
labor have been reduced from a range
of 48 to 60 hours week to 40 hours
and mills are in general paying the
same wages for the shorter week that
they paid for the longer week
Evening star., 1933-09-13
TESTIFY MIDDLETON
STRUCK COLORED PAIR
Three Fellow Officers Make Decla-
ration Before Trial Board
Hearing.

Fourth Precinct Policeman ]. g. Mid
dlethon struck q colored man with his
fists and slapped colored woman IN
the face at the station house on July
IA, three fellow policemen testified to-
day during police trial board action
against the ofhcer.
Policemen Walter B. Sanderson, col
ored patrol driver; James Rednick, sta.
ton clerk, and j. T. Kirby, assistant
station clerk, told the trial board Mid
dlethon struck the man and woman,
whom he had arrested, after their car
had been involved in collision with
his own automobile.
The alleged mistreatment Of the two
prisoners was ohicially reported to the
commander Of, No. by Policeman
Sanderson. Neither Of the prisoners
Mrs. Dorothy e. Wood and George Bur-
rcll-complained of the alleged attack.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
MIRA. Activities
Hearings Set On Codes For
Three Industries
Today.

Today's N r. A. activities include
Soft coal operators, miners and
N. r. A. officials draft new code.
Hearings continue on codes for the
boot and shoe, motion picture and silk
textile industries.
Yesterdays developments:
Hugh S. johnson hailed signs Of
economic advance in New York City
N. R. A. rally
johnson announced plans for COM
pliance boards to compel Blue Eagle
observance.
N. r. A. officials. soft coal operators
and miners began draft of new code.
National Labor Board ruled Berkeley
Woolen Mills of Martinsburg. w. Va,
had violated law by attempted coercion
of employees.
Hearings opened on codes for the
motion picture. boot and shoe and silk
textile industries.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
|CKES STUDIES RISE
IN GASOLINE PRICE
Advance Called Unjustified on
Basis of Crude Oil
Quotations.

Oil Administrator Ickes and his oil
advisory and planning committee had
before them today figures showing the
prices of retail gasoline have advanced,
particularly in the Washington area, far
out of proportion to the advance in
basic crude oil prices since August Is.
Since that time the figures compiled
for Secretary Ickes yesterday showed,
the price Of gasoline to the consumer
in the Standard OIL Co. Of New Jersey
area which dominates this field, has
advanced cents per gallon, while the
advance in crude oil prices has not JUS
titled that
Oil men said tina: On the basis Of the
price being charged now in Washington
for gasoline, crude oil should be selling
we'll over a dollar a barrel whereas it
actually Is selling for less that 80 cents
a barrel
Facts to Govern Action.
Ickes was unwilling to characterize
the out-of-line spread" between the
prices to the producer and to the con-
sumer as "prof1teering" on the part Of
the marketer, nor was he willing to call
the situation oppression" within the
industry.
"Of course" he said. "where prices
are out of line they will be brought back
in line. But we must get our facts and
then, when we have them, proceed on
them"
Ickes said regulation Of producer and
consumer prices under the oil code
would not be left to the consumers
council of the N. r. A., but would be
handled by the OIL Administration
itself.
Price Fixing Complex Task.
This situation, which has poured
millions into the treasures OF the OIL
marketing concerns in this area since
the advances went into effect, is re-
garded as a primary reason for early
fixing by the Oil Administration OF a
basic price for crude oil, with cor
responding fixing of the price to the
consumer on that basic price. The OIL
Administration has price-fxlng power
under the N. r. A. oil code. but no
price-fxing action has been taken so
far, although it is known that Mr.
Ickes and his Gil committee are work.
ing toward this end.
The price-fixing work on oil Is an
exceedingly complicated question, with
many puzzling factors involved, such
as freight rate differentials, the d11er-
entails on pipeline oil and tank car
oil, the vast difference in the various
grades of oil, and the important FAC
tor of by-products marketing all en-
tering into the situation.