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Evening star., 1933-12-13
MOOR old Santa Claus was just
- about ready to drop today.
The only trouble was that the
remains Of the mountain of let

NOOR Old Santa Claus was just
- about ready to drop today. /
The only trouble was that the
remains Of the mountain of let
tiers that fell on him yesterday
still were packed so tightly around his
boot tops that he couldn't move.
ITS just the same as If were frozen
here" he lamented, swaying back and
forth in the hope that the weight of his
rotdnd body would break the viselike
grip in which the letters held his legs.
Poor old fellow-even his best friends
wouldn't have known him. His fur
trimmed red suit was rumpled and
soiled, his long white hair was a strag-
gly mass of kinks and his beard fell
away from his chin in tapering shoots
that looked like icicles. His usually
jovial countenance was haggard and
there was tired look in his eyes.
Standing All Night.
And no wonder! He had been stand
ing there all night-reading one heart
breaking letter after another. pausing
now and then to give himself a shake,
hoping that each letter and each shake
would release the pressure on his legs
and enable him to topple over and fall
asleep.
"Ill read my way out of his if it
takes from now until Christmas, he
muttered, surveying the sea of letters
that stretched out in all directions and
filled every nook and Granny Of his
workshop. He picked up an envelope
and ripped it open.
Dear Santa Claus" he read. "I am
writing to you to tell you that, unless
some one helps us, we won't get thing
for Christmas. My father has no work
and we don't have a penny
My sister and brother will be so
disappointed if they don't find any
thing for them on Christmas morning.
So Santa, will you please remember us?
PLEASE don't pass us by. know my
sister would cry herself sick If she
don't get anything. and my mother
said she hopes that. by next Christmas,
we will be able to help some poor chill
dren.
My father has tried to get work,
but cart find any. My brother,
-, is II years old. He needs a
sweater. He don't have any to wear,
and he needs pants very bad.
Evening star., 1933-12-13

my sister, -, is 9 years old. She
will be pleased with anything she gets,
but she needs clothes very bad. and my
sister, -, aged 8. wants doll, set
Of dishes and book called The Five
Little Peppers
my name is -. I am IA. Any
thing you want to give me, will be
pleased with, but need clothes, stock
ings and things to wear very bad. ]
will be awful glad if you would give my
mother some bed covers. We don't have
enough covers to keep us warm at night,
Our house is so cold. ."
Looked Like Mail Pouch.
ing CT his coat, which was so full OF
letters already that 1t looked like a
mail pouch. Envelopes stuck out OF
them around his waist, beneath his
broad belt. He pulled another letter
from the mass around his legs, tore
open the envelope and read:
think 1t is going to be poor
Christmas this Christmas for my three
children. Their ages are IA, IL, IL. ]
hope some good Santa Claus may bring
my children some toys. food or cloth
ing. -"
Their father and I don't like to tell
our children they will have a poor
Christmas, because their father has
been working for the relief and the
money only buys something to
eat I hope Santa Claus will
be good to our children this Christmas
and come on Christmas eve or
Christmas morning. ."
One after another, Santa pulled let
ters away from his boot-tops, ripped
them open and scanned them thought
fully. They were written on all kinds
of paper. some with pen and ink, others
in pencil. Each one differed from all
the others. and yet there was a certain
sameness about them. =.
Poverty =. hardship d.. hunger .
suffering. Little children, poor
little children, with no food, no clothing
not enough covers to keep warm at
night. ID.
It's prodfgious task that Santa has
on his hands this Christmas. but you
can help him with it. Buy a new toy
or new coat, dress, sweater or other
article Of wearing apparel and take
them to one of the dozen TOY matinees'
Evening star., 1933-12-13
ICE CREAM ENTERS
LOCAL MILK FIGHT
Union Charges DemoraIiza.
tion in Market by Price
and Wage Cuts.

Ice cream was thrust into the fore
front Of the local milk situation today
with protest by the Ice Cream Work.
ers' Union that two outside manufac-
turers here are demoralizing the mar
ket by price-cutting and wage-slashing.
Charles McCloskey. business agent
for the union. an affiliate Of the
Bakers and Confectioners' Interna-
tional. charged the Breyer Ice Cream
Co. of Philadelphia, subsidiary of
National Dairy Products Corporation,
and the High Ice Cream Co. of Rich
mond with selling ice cream here at
such low prices as to threaten the Jobs
CT more than 1000 employees of uniNf<~
lied Washington firms.
50 Already Laid OF.
Plans for concerted fight against
the two outside manufacturers are to be
laid tonight at meeting of union
members in Trade Union Hall, 72O
Filth street. McCloskey said more than,
50 employees already had been laid off
as result of the price-cutting. and
that it was the intention of the union
TO use every means possible" to force
the two foreign" concerns to adopt
union wage scales or cut of their mar
ket here
We are not going to sit back and
see bread taken from the mouths of our
children by these manufacturers nav
Ing starvation wages and threatening
70 lay OF union workers. said Nc
Closkey.
Breyer and High are selling ice cream
TO dealers at about so to 75c a gallon.
as compared with S120 of the local
dafries-Fussen-Y Young, Carry. Colon
ial, Washington Maid, Melvern and
southern, another subsidiary of Ma
tlonH Dairy Prodr cts.
Meanwhile investigation by the Sen
ate District Subcommittee of the milk
price fight between Walker-Hill Dairy
and the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association was assured as
Elwood H. Seal made plans to lay the
controversy before the committee. of
which he is special counsel
Seals attention to the fight. which
threatens to break into a general milk
price war, was drawn by a letter from
the dairy company late yesterday, which
charged discriminatory tactics of the
producers association might result in
driving all local Independent distribu-
tors out of business.
The letter in effect charged unfair
practices by the association.
Evening star., 1933-12-13

University Of Missouri's College of Ag-
ricuiture, were among those saying they
believed agriculture was on the up
grade.
Farm Outlook Better.
Hearst said decided improvement
in morale had taken place in Iowa,
while Olson said the people In Min
nesota were willing to give the admin
istration chance to make good, and
both Steward and Mimford agreed that
the farm outlook in Nebraska and Mis-
souri, was considerably brighter
From the other side Walter M. Sin
gler, president of the Wisconsin Co
operative Milk Pool. defended strikes
on the ground that they tended to
"solidify farmers to work cut their own
salvation" But he added that he did
not expect another strike for a long
time. if ever
John Bosch, president of the Mime
sofa Farm Holiday Association. said so
far the Government had done nothing
of a corrective measure for farmers,
and B. v. McVeigh. head of the South
Dakota Holiday Association, likened
the position of the farmer to panic"
Evening star., 1933-12-13

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the United States amounts to about s4,-
0O0, ,0O0, ,000
There are about 1000 employees an:
100000 telephones. Telephone me-
sages are sent over $1,000 900 miles
wire.
Telegraph and cable companies have
an investment Of about $500 900 ,0oa
and, aside from the use they make C
telephone wires, have about 100000
additional miles of their own.
Combination Rumored.
There have been rumors for son
time of possible combination of West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph.
Wireless companies, not including
commercial broadcssting, are encom-
passed in about five large systems with
100000, 900 of assets
In recent years the various COM
munications companies have made use
ties. American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., for instance, leases its wires for
telegrahic use.
Those urging Capitalization have
pointed to the probable developments
in communications which may neces-
state greater use of radio by telephone
companies.
May Include Television.
Television also may soon enter the
picture and it has been contended to
be Illogical and inefficient for these
various developments to go ahead with
out coordination.
The Roper Committee on Communi-
cations is an outgrowth of the Trans
portation Committee under Railroad
Co-orrinator Joseph B. Eastman.
Eastman is studying the divisions of
land. water and air while the Roper
Committee is dealing with communica-
tions cnly.
The membership of the Roper Com
mittee includes Secretary Roper. DR..
w. M. w. Splawn. adviser to the House
Committee on Commerce: DR.. Irwin
Stewart, Department of State: Lieut..
Comdr. E. N. Webster. Coast Guard. re-
tired, Treasury Department; Mai. Gen.
Irving Carr, War Department: Capt.
S. c. Hooper, Navy Department; CharieG
Nick. Saltzman, Commerce Department:
DR.. j. H. Dellinger. Bureau of Stand
ards; Hebert L. Pettey. Radio Commits
sion: Senator Dill Of Washington and
Representative Rayburn of Texas.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
FARM FEDERATION
BACKS ROOSEVELT
Resolution Is Unanimously
Adopted-Broadening of
Program Urged.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 13.-The Amer
ican Farm Bureau Federation today
heartily Endorsed the Roosevelt agri-
cultural recovery program, urged that
selfish opposition" to it be broken
down, and called for its provisions to
be broadened even further to bring
parity prices to farm produce.
A resolution expressing faith in the
Federal administration was the first
of 81 recommendations to be conSid-
cred by the huge farmer organization
in drafting its legislative policy for the
next year. 1t was adopted unanimously
by the 1000 delegates attending the
Federation's fifteenth annual conven-
tion.
Urge Silver Rem0netizing.
The delegates then went on to adopt
also unanimously, resolution calling
on President Roosevelt for establish
ment of a dollar which would bear a
direct ratio between purchasing power
and the prices of commodities.
1--WE also call attention" the resolu-
ton said. "to the desirability of remon-
etizing silver on the index basis so that
we may add a greater volume OF money
to our circulating medium, increase
both credit and currency in the Nation,
and place our Nation in better posi-
ton to expand trade with silver-using
countries"
From an agricultural point Of view,
the document stated, the country has
suffered from def1ation for years. and
"it is time that we enter relation
era, in which money and credits are to
be aided rather than hindered in the
velocity of their movements, and where
commodity prices, rather than the
weight and price of gold, will determine
the purchasing power of the dollar"
Unrest Held Settled.
Agricultural leaders attending the
sessions of the federation expressed the
belief that the administration policies
were having their good effects, in set
Ting a spirit of unrest and creating
optimism for the future.
However. on the other hand those
who led the strike movement in agrt-
cultural States. such as Farm Holiday
Association and farmers union leaders,
were Just as certain that conditions
had not been bettered and that the
future didn't offer much.
Charles E. Hearst, president Of the
Iowa Farm Bureau: Charles L. Hill,
chairman of the Wisconsin State De-
partment of Agriculture and Markets;
A. L. Olson, Minnesota State Farm Bu-
reau president; G. B. Steward, secre-
tary Of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, and Dean F. B. Mimford Of the
Evening star., 1933-12-13
ADMIRAL LAWS TO RETIRE

SAN FRANCISCO, December 13 (P).
Ending a career Of more than 80
years service in the Navy, Rear Ad-
miral George Williams Laws, comman-
dant Of the 18th Naval District, with
headquarters here, will be retired 20
civilian life on March /, it was an
nour ced today.
He will be relieved Of all active duty
on or about February IS by Rear Ad-
miral James j. Raby, who commands
the sixth naval district at Charles
ton, s. c.
Rear Admiral Laws at one time was
on duty here in the Bureau of Ord
nance and later In the ONCE of Naval
Operations at the Navy Department. In
1928 he returned here to the same duty.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
Arrive In Rain After 1,100-MiIe Hop
From ManaOs.

hEFc III Isain AIter l,lVU-Mue mop
From Manaos.
PoRT-oF-sPAIN, Trinidad, Decem-
Der 13 H1.-Col. and Mrs. Charles a.
Lindbergh, who rode the tail Of a
tropical rainstorm into this picturesque
old capital, rested today with indica-
tions they might tomorrow hop for
Miami. Fla
That coastal city was expected to be-
the next objective in their return flight
to the United States. Their indicated
route lay across the Caribbean to Miami
and thence northward to New York
about $500 miles in all.
Rain bathed their big, red hydro
airplane as the colonel set it down to
the cheers Of thousands yesterday after
an 1,100-mile hop in hours 80 min
utes from Manaos, Brazil.
With Mrs. Lindbergh at the wireless,
they were in almost constant touch
with stations on land throughout their
flight of many hazards over jungles,
mountains. swamps and the isolated
Qanos of Venezuela.
Up the Trinidad Coast visibility was
poor, but weather conditions improved
as they progressed and only fine rain
slanted against the serene waters of
the harbor as they swept to an easy
landing.
Both smiled as they stepped from
the plane.
I'm not bit tired" said Mrs Lind
bergh to one or two acquaintance she
had met on a previous visit.
They spent the night at the home
OF Gov. Sir A. A. Claude Hollis.
Evening star., 1933-12-13

the Distilled Liquor Industry Code Au-
thority, told the two committees in their
Joint hearing that only tax of $150
to So would root out the illegitimate
beverages.
Choate, appearing before the COM
mittee yesterday. said: I'VE all share the
view that the tax has got to be kept
low enough to keep out the bootleg
gers" DR.. Doran also told the COM
mittee 'the bootlegger is intrenched
a-ld mu-t BE rooted out, blasted cut"
Evening star., 1933-12-13

The Liberals did not know it, but
George Peek was all ready to spring
something on them before their blow
hit hinh
Most of the N. r. A. codes are for
two years. Only few were for two
and three months period (steel, auto
mobiles) and these probably will be
renewed.
Jokesters are quoting President Mich
olas Murray Butler of Columbia as
saying, apropos of his college profess
sors going into public service: "The
universitys loss Is the Nation's-loss,
also"
(Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1933-12-13
Scalding May Prove Fatal.

PRINCETON, KY, December 13 (P).
Clyde Stallings. 26, fell into vat
of boiling water while helping in hog
killing at the farm of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wright Stallings, near here,
yesterday. He was scalded up to the
neck and little hope for his recovery
was held. He slipped as he was lifting
n hog into the vat.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
Heads American Academy.

NEW YORK, December 13 R.-
John Russell Pope was elected president
yesterday of the American Academy In
Rome, succeeding Charles A. Plhtt
Trustees elected included George Simp-
son Koyl, fellow In architecture In the
academy and dean of the University Of
Pennsylvania School CT Fine Artc.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
Other Costs Are Listed.

The G. c. G. costs about $500, 0,000,OO0
every six months, while Hopkins figures
feeding and clothing the S1,000000 fam
lilies which remain on relief rolls would
require S250O00, 900 to $500, ,O00,oe0, de-
pending on conditions.
1t is regarded as probable that the
Federal Government will not be able to
abandon the relief program for another
year or more although the avowed in
tention is to turn it back to cities,
counties and States as soon as possible.
Officials privately expressed the hope
that industry would start absorbing the
Civil Works employees even before
Spring.
It is known that the President hopes
to continue the Civilian Conservation
Corps for another six months, possibly
longer. This project, while not directly
connected with the emergency unem-
ployment relief program was the first
move in the Presidents program to help
those in need of work and he has ex-
pressed the opinion that what IS being
done in the Nation'r forests will prove
immensely profitable in the future.
States to Get Funds.
In addition around S100, 900. 900 will be
allocated to the States by the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration or
spent for food and clothing to be given
needy unemployed by the Federal Sur
plus Relief Corporation.
The Emergency Relief Administra-
ton has approximately $197,000,000
left of the $5OO,OOO,OOO appropriation
made by the last Congress, but $780,
100000 of this had been allotted by
Hopkins to the civil works program.
The question of tools for workers Is
proving a problem for the Civil Works
Administration. Hopkins has appealed
to the national organization of hard
ware manufacturers and as a result it
was stated that several factories were
starting at once, working day and
night, to supply picks, shovels, Wheel
barrows and other hand tools needed.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
NEWSPAPER MEN HERE
FOR GUILD CONVENTION
Hugh Johnson to Be Guest of
Honor at Friday Meeting in
National Press Club,

Newspaper men from all parts Of the
country were assembling in the Capital
today in preparation for the convention
Of the American Newspaper Guild Fri
day at the National Press Club.
Recovery Administrator Hugh S..
johnson will be guest of honor and
principal speaker at luncheon Friday
noon, which will open the convention.
Among the other speakers will be DR..
Leo Wollman OF the Labor Advisory
Board, and Assistant Secretary Of Labor
Edward McGrady
John L. Eddy. secretary of the News
paper Guild Of New York, and Haywood
Broun are handling convention ar
rangementS.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Cheering Views on
Business Received
by Roosevelt.
BY PAUL MALLON.

TINE confidential reports Mr..
Roosevelt is getting on the busi-
ness outlook are highly opti-
Il mistic.
The experts who work in his
own private economic laboratory have
advised him that things generally look
rosy for at least three months to come.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
Control Huge Spending.

Local councils in England controlled
the spending Of $1,655, 100000 in the
last year.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
L|NDBERGHS DELAY
MIAMI TAKE.0FF.
Pan-American AirWay Off.
ciaIs Told Trip Will Be
Begun Tomorrow.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 13.-Col. and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh probably
will not leave Trinidad for Miami until
tomorrow, Pan-American Airways Of
ficials said today.
Col. Lindbergh informed the airways
yesterday that he would stay in Port
of-Spain today and possibly take off
tomorrow. The officials said Trey did
not believe he had changed his Md.
REST IN TRINIDAD.
Evening star., 1933-12-13
C. w. A. TO CONTINUE,
BUT FATE OF P. W. A.
REMAINS UNKNOWN

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Evening star., 1933-12-13

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Relief Administration as well as the
sum allotted on the civil, works scheme.
The civil works program, for example,
will cost around $780, 100000 between
now and February IS. Another $780,
100000 would be needed to carry 1t
through the middle of April, while
5000, 900 900 additional, officials esti-
mate. would be sufficient to continue it
another two or three months after
that
Evening star., 1933-12-13
FEDERAL CONTROL
OF WIRES AND RADIO
STUDIED BY EXPERTS

Continued From First Page)
The Washington times., 1933-08-04
D. c. JOBS UNIT.
ENDS SEPT. |

The District Committee on EN-
ployment will pass officially out
of existence September /, under
present plans of District officials,
and its work will be taken over by
the Emergency Relief Division of
the Board of Public Welfare.
The change is in keeping with a
recommendation by Allan John
stone, field representative Of the
Federal Emergency Relief Admin
istration, who urged coordination
of relief activities in the District
and establishment Of branch re-
lief stations in various parts of
the city to relieve congestion at
the present headquarters at John
Marshall Place and c Street
Northwest.
William Cleary, secretary Of the
Committee on Employment, will
be retained under the new plan
as assistant to Leroy Halbert, d.
rector Of the Emergency Relief
Division.
The Washington times., 1933-08-04

of the world have failed to &C
complish.
For a moment the courtroom
paused before the audacity Of the
question and you could see q
strange look upon the faces Of
the jury and upon the faces Of
the spectators and even upon the
quiet faces of the court officials.
Gregg wanted Mrs. Costello to
describe the expression Of death.
When she went upstairs that
morning, to look for her pocket
book to buy some candy for her
little Buddy, Jessie Costello found
the body of her husband, lying
upon the floor in the hall. She
said:
"T screamed and I ran down
stars and told the cleaning wO-
man that Bill was lying on the
floor and that he looked like he
was dead"
He Was Whittier
And then Gregg wanted to
know how she knew he was dead,
why she thought he was dead,
what there was about his face
that made her think this was diff
ferent from the other times when
she had seen Bill upon the floor
in a fainting fit.
She couldn't do it. She said he
was whiter-that he looked diff
ferent-that he looked the same
way her baby looked when two
years before she found that baby
dead in his crib.
The Washington times., 1933-08-04
COAL DEADLOCK
SEEN BROKEN
BY NRA PLAN
Arbitration Committee Due
in Tentative Truce Up in
Farley Here Today
By international News Service

An arbitration committee will
be named at once by the National
Recovery Administration to pacify
the soft coal field. preventing
renewal of bloody strife between
miners and Pennsylvania opera
tors, if temporary compromise
agreement now hanging fire is
placed in effect.
This was disclosed today by
NRA officials.
The pending agreement would
be in the nature Of "stand-still
arrangement" which would pacify
the soft coal fields urtIl a code
can be adopted The code is now
awaiting hearing on August 9.
Meanwhile, the tentative agree
ment now under consideration
would apply to all companies will
ing to accept it.
Concessions Asked
The miners representatives.
headed by John Lewis. have asked
two major concessions, namely:
grievance committees, Of their
own selection, to take up any dis
putes that might arise; also the
question of unionization of mines
would be waived temporarily pend
ing adoption of coal code.
These two points are now being
discussed.
Officials of NRA did not say
rr1I0 Of
were, but let it be assumed that
a truce was discussed by Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson, Governor
Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, Thomas
Moses, president of the Frick
Coke Company, a subsidiary Of
the - ted States Steel Corpora
ton, and President Lewis of the
United Mine workers of America.
Progress" Reported
When johnson saw reporters he
was reticent. He said:
"All can say is that progress
is being made"
johnson declined to affirm or
deny that he had received q let
ter from Moses asserting that the
F'rick Company would not deal
with the union or with strikers
and would not deal with the NRA
if that involved also dealing with
the union.
Peace negotiatorS conferred
while telephone lines were busy be-
tween the Capital and Hyde
Park, the vacation place OF
President Roosevelt.
TeagIe Aid Sought
To aid him in his efforts to
win cooperation from the mine
operators, johnson has called in
Gerard Swope and Walter c.
Teagle, members of the Admin
istration's Industrial Advisory
Board. Teagle is president OF
the Standard Oil Company OF
New Jersey.
While johnson so far has been
without authority to command
any action in the coal dispute in
the absence of a coal code, he
hoped his conversations with
President Roosevelt and with w.
A. Irwin, president of the steel
corporation, would bring negotl-
ations to a point where truce
at least would be called IN the
Pennsylvania strike area.