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Evening star., 1934-04-15
TREASURY PAY ROLL
POLICY OPPOSED
Local No. 2 of Federal Employees
Want Cash Instead of
Checks.

A resolution opposing the new policy
of the Treasury Department in meet
ing the Federal pay roll with checks
instead of cash has been adopted by
the Board of Representatives of Local
No. 2, National Federation of Federal
Employees.
Opponents of the policy claimed it
is impossible in many cases to get to
the banks in time to cash a pay roll
check and also that many employees
do not maintain regular bank ac-
counts. Several thousand employees
who are members of the locals 18
branches were present at the meeting
Friday, at which the resolution was
adopted.
New officers of the local, which is
beginning its nineteenth year, were
installed by Luther C. Steward, ma
tional president. They are: Joseph
Stansfield. Interstate Commerce Com
mission, president; Harlow Bacon
Commerce Department. vice president;
Henry G. Nolda, Veterans Admins
! tration, secretary and A. M
Reising. Interior Department, record
ing secretary.
| Speakers included Mr.. Steward. Miss
Gertrude McNally. national secretary
treasurer, and Miss Matilda Lindsay
national organizer.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
TWO SUFFERERS MEET
Leukemia Victim Talks to Girl Who
Is Turning to Chalk.

Leukemia Victim Talks to Girl Who
Is Turning to Chalk.
CHICAGO, April IA LP.-Two girls
af1icted with rare diseases for which
science has been unable to find a
cure met today in the children's ward
of the Cook County Hospital and ex-
changed condolences. while physicians
who have been baffed by their
maladies looked on. -.
The meeting was in the room OF
little Loretta Sitkowski, 6, who is
unable to leave her bed. She is grow
ing more wan daily, the victim Of the
deadly lymphatic leukemia.
Her visitor was Genevieve LiSS, IA,
who since she was l year old has suf-
fered from an aff1iction known as
scleroderma with calcinosis, condi-
ton in which abnormal amounts Of
calcium are deposited in the para
thyroid glands. She is strong enough
to be up and about.
Genevieve will gradually become so
stiff that she cannot move or speak,
unless some discovery Is made that
will arrest the process which is grad
ually turning her into ,chalklike
substance.
DR.. Karl Meyer head of the hospi-
tai, explained that the girl was placed
on a fat diet, and that doctors were
studying the condition of her para
thyroid glands. A drug supply house
he said, had given the hospital fel-
lowship to aid in the study of the
case.
OF the other girl, he said:
Loretta will die. The only hope
would be to improve her condition SC
that it might become chronic, but
that is scarcely possible since the
disease was not caught in time"
Loretta's white blood count is q, 1000
1t should be 5000. Her red blood
count is 2,700,0o0. 1t should be 5,0oO,-
600.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 14.-Four-
year-old Willie Mae Miller died today
with a smile on her childish lips. q
victim of leukemia, which medical
science has been unable to combat.
For days and weeks those lips had
known song and laughter, while her
bereaved parents knew death was in
evitable-at least doctors said so.
Leucocythemia, or leukemia, that
rare disease in which the white cor
puscles rout the red corpulscles from
the blood stream had won the
battle-a battle so unequal that physi-
clans long ago lost hope for her
recovery.
Dies on Operating Table.
The scene was hospital operating
table. where the 4-year-old girl had
been placed for a hurried examina-
ton following a relapse at her home
There was gasp of pain, then a
heeting little smile. She slumped back
on the table 1t was the end.
AS death approached, she turned
her big. hazel eyes toward her mother
and daddy. Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Miller
who stood beside the table.
Don't cry, daddy" she said
please don't, mother dear"
The child was too young to know
that death was near. but her mother
said she realized something terrible
was happening to her as they rushed
her to the hospital shortly after 4
o'clock this morning.
Was Not Afraid.
I'm not afraid" she had told her
parents. II love you, love daddy
and love Jesus. I'm not afraid"
1t was only yesterday that she sang
again as she sang while undergoing
treatment at the hospital.
! Il didn't know she was going SC
soon," the father said. Yesterday
she was singing again, that 'Good-by
I Have to Leave You 1t was heart
breaking"
For weeks Willie Mae remained at a
hospital here Blood transfusions and
X-ray treatments apparently were
futile. The child, dying on her feet
sang, and laughed, and played with
the toys that she received every day
from persons interested in her fight
Evening star., 1934-04-15
N. R. A. COAL WAGES
FIGHTS POSTPONED
Alabama Injunction Hearing Set
for Thursday-Compromise
Held Possible.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
At the request of the N r. A.,
Alabama coal operators agreed yes
terday to delay until Thursday a
hearing in Montgomery originally set
for tomorrow on continuation of the
temporary injunction against enforce
ment of the March 81 N. r. A. wage
increase order.
Forney Johnston, the operators
attorney. interpreted the request as
meaning N R. A. would seek to COM
pose the wage differences without
further procedure IN Federal courts.
However, II Administrator Johnson
declines to modify the wage increase
order, the hearing will be held, the
attorney said, with counsel for the
N. r. A. and the operators present.
May IA was agreed upon as the
date for determining whether the In
junction will be made permanent, II
the differences stiil were not COM
posed.
The Alabamians seek a suspension
of the order which raised wages in
Alabama coal fields from so to 70
per cent until a study can be made
Of the justification for wage differ
entails as between Southern and
Northern fields.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
PLANS FOR MILK
SURVEYOUTL|NED
Or. Howe Announces Ques-
tionnaires Will Be Filled in
by School Children.

Together with announcement of
partial completion of a committee to
supervise the survey this week of
consumption of dairy products
among school children in Washing
ton, the method of securing the sur
vey was explained in a statement
yesterday by DR.. Frederic c. Howe,
consumers counsel of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration.
QueStionnaires will be filled in by
children in three selected sections of
the city. These questions are de-
signed to bring out information re-
garding health conditions due to a
possible lack of dairy products among
all classes of children, DR.. Howe said.
Mrs. Wiley Selects Aides.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, president
ems Clubs, who is chairman of the
Supervising Committee, has selected
Mrs. Bernard Hearn, chairman Of
the Living Costs Committee of the
League Of Women Voters, and Mrs.
Howe Warner, representing the
American Association of University
Women. as members of her commit
tee. A third member will be chosen
from the Washington Parent-T Teacher
Association. she said.
The first meeting Of the committee
will be held tomorrow at 2:30 pm.
in the Y. w. c. A., when plans for
holding the Washington survey will
be completed. After the meeting the
committee is expected to have an in
terview with Dr. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of Washington schools
when formal permission will be re-
quested to make the survey.
One of the groups, it is planned,
will survey a so-called slum section,
another poor class and the third a
middle class section.
1t is expected that the survey will
be completed by the last of the week
Survey Is One of so.
The survey here is one of so to be
conducted in cities throughout the
United States, it was explained by
DR.. Howe.
These are being made at the re-
quest of IL leading women's organ
izations of the country. The pro-
posal for the inqairy was made by
Mrs. Edward P. Costigan and Miss
Ellis Meredith, representing the II
organizations.
DR.. Howe regards the milk survey
as necessary for the health of 7,0o0,-
600 children suffering from depres-
sion incomes, he said yesterday.
I'VE want to find out the actual
amount of milk consumption among
children in the different classes in
each community, how much of the
family budget goes for milk, the re-
lation between these expenditures
and the family income, how much
of the family's milk supplies come
from relief agencies and how much
the children are getting in the form
of butter, cheese and other milk
products"
Evening star., 1934-04-15
HURRICANE HITS MEXICO

TUXTEPEC. Oaxaca, Mexico. April
IA P).-Several persons were injured
and houses and crops were tumbled
and fiattened by hurricane winds
which swept through the region of
Valle Nacional and Ojitlan last night
A fire starting at the height of the
storm destroyed more than 100 build
ings in the town of Jalapa de Diaz.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
HUSTON TAKES ROLE

DENVER, April IA R).-walter
Huston will close ''Dodsworth," cur
rent Broadway hit. temporarily this
Summer to play the lead in "Othello'
at the Summer festival at Central
City, Colo, he telegraphed festival
heads TODAY.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAV

TODAY.
Meeting, Upsilon Lambda Phi Fra
ternity, Hamilton Hotel, 4:30 pm.
Tea, Massachusetts Society, Daugh-
ters of the Colonial Wars, Chinese
room, Mayfower Hotel, to pm.
Meeting, Sacred Heart Home Guild
Sacred Heart Home, Hyattsville, Md.
$3.50 pm.
Address. Kirby Page. author-le lee
turer, THE Middle Glasses and the
Social Revolution" 709 G street
S:45 pm.
Tea. Maryland Daughters Of the
American Revolution, ball room, May
flower Hotel. 4 to pm.
Meeting, Texas Daughters of the
American Revolution, north room
Mayfower Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Dinner, delegation of Missouri in
dustrialists, Chinese room, Mayflower
Hotel. 7:30 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, japanese Government
Railways, Pan-American room, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, Underwood Elliott Fisher
Co., Jefferson room, Mayflower Hotel
10 am.
Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fra
ternity. University Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Board of Trade, Univer-
sity Club. 1890 pm.
Buffet supper, Worcester Polytech-
mic Institute, University Club, 7:3C
pm.
Play, "The Spanish Onion" three
act comedy. keenan, Klub of st
Teresa's Parish, church auditorium
Thirteenth and v streets southeast
s:15 pm. Also on Tuesday evening
Dinner-card party, Five Hundred
Club, Hamilton Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Psi Omega Dental Fra,
ternity, Hamilton Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Gard party. Episcopal Church Home
lalee ball room, Willard Hotel. 2 K
pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Leukenia Takes Child as She
.Begs Her Parents Not to CRY
A Gasp of Pain, a Fleeing Smile, and
Little Willie Mae Meets an
Inevitable Death.

Letters came from all parts Of the
country, and from Canada. offering
words of encouragement, remedies
and prayers.
Ministers pleaded for divine inter-
vention frcm their pulpits and school
children offered their prayers.
TWO SUFFERERS MEET.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Address. Kirby Page. authorized
turer, "The Middle Glasses and the
Social Revolution" 709 G street,
545 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Meeting, Sacred Heart Home Guild
Sacred Heart Home, Hyattsville, Md.
$3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Meeting, Upsilon Lambda Phi Fra
ternity, Hamilton Hotel, 4:30 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Tea. Maryland Daughters Of the
American Revolution, ball room, May
flower Hotel, to pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Tea, Massachusetts, Society, Daugh-
ters of the Colonial Wars, Chinese
room, Mayfower Hotel, 4 to 6 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
TOMORROW.

Luncheon, japanese Government
Railways, Pan-American room, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Meeting, Texas Daughters of the
American Revolution, north room
Mayhower Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Dinner-card party, Five Hundred
Club, Hamilton Hotel, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Meeting, Psi Omega Dental Fra
ternity, Hamilton Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Meeting, Underwood Elliott Fisher
Co., Jefferson room, Mayfower Hotel
10 am.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Buffet supper, Worcester Polytech-
mic Institute, University Club, 7:3O
pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Decorative Dining Suite
$157 .
Other Bedroom Suites

Each is special value and at special price.
Maple finish Modernstic Suite $50
Solid Mexican Mahogany Suite e................ S97
Richly Inlad Sheraton Suite walnut and gum sll9
Duncan Phyfe Colonial Suite wal or ma veneers Sl24
Queen Anne Suite with matched walnut 'front.'. S147
Rosewood Veneer Suite hanging mirrors. ...... S167
Block Front Suite solid Philippine mahogany s174
Acacia BurI Veneer 'front.' French motif ...... Sl97
Effective Directoire Suite; solid walnut. ........ S22t
Exceptionally Fine Colonial Suite wal. nah. S247
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Play, 'The Spanish Onion" three
act comedy. keenan, Klub of st.
Teresa's Parish, church auditorium,
Thirteenth and v streets southeast,
Sis pm. Also on Tuesday evening.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

We almost hesitate to quote
the price for fear you will
undervalue this suite; but
please remember that it is a
special price for a special
value offered in the Ami.
versary Sale. Four attrac.
tive pieces, with burl walnut
veneerinS. We have ar
ranged that the pieces will
be sold separately if desired,
at proper tionately low
pric s. dresser, $3.50;
chest, $l7.50; vanity, $3.50;
bed, S17.M.
It's only once in many a
long season that you can
rightfully expect to buy to
such advantage.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Dinner, delegation Of Missouri in
dustrialists, Chinese room, Mayfower
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fra
ternity, University Club, 1890 pm.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-12-13
DENHAM

Mrs. Guenther visited at Swan o.
sons Sunday afternoon.
Miss June Gustafson spent the week
end at Egnor Anderson's.
Miss Virginia Benson visited ut
Royal Hillbrand's Saturday evening.
Mrs. Carlson and Godfrey visited ut
S. Olson's Monday evening.
Mrs. Lundberg and daughter, Mrs.
Dahlberg, and son, Arvid. recently
made a trip to Iowa to visit relatives.
The Christmas programs will be Civ
en- at Denham Wednesday evening,
Dec. 10; at Maple Grove, Dist. No. 81,
on Thursday evening, Dec. 20; and III
the Oak Hill school Friday evening,
Dec. 81.
Church Notes.
The M. E. Ladies' Aid has postponed
their L. A. sale from Friday evening,
Dec. ID, until Monday evening, Dec. II,
because of the play being given in
Willow River that evening.
Remember the sale at the Swede
Park church Saturday evening. A
wool filled quilt will be sold and some
embroidered articles. There will also
be a grab-bag sale. Members please
donate packages and label as to value,
10c, Csc, or soc.
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garet Anderson. Helen Kantorowicz
Donald Mossberg, Maxine Meixner,
Frances Novack, Edna Mae Dockan;
junior "a" honor roll-Omar Dolly,
Grace Hillbrand, Wanda Habdas; jun
ior "B" honor roll-Julia Markus,
Marian Amundson, Vera Olson,
Blanche Sostack, Frank Uhlir; sophie
more 'B" honor roll-Bernice Dab
len. Fern Breckheimer. Ruth Gilbert,
John Norbeck, Virginia MossberS;
freshman "B" honor roll-Pearl John
son, Pearl Norbeck, Elizabeth Paul
son, Erwin Prachar, Alice Devall.
Norman Dolly, Helen Dahleen, Vim
cent Cofer, Clarence Christensen,
David Ekberg.
Walter Popek, Lyle Ehmke, and
Lewis Mlaskoch have been designated
in the order mentioned, as the most
valuable players on the 1894 football
squad. Walter Popek is the captain
elect for 1885.
The shorthand-typing students have
entered a race, and they are striving
to drive the five leading cars. The
yellow car leads the race which is
a ten-minute speed test. They are
all trying to attain the standard of
forty-five words a minute with no
more than seven errors. To improve
their skill in accuracy, speed, and
punctuation they have project un-
der the title Just Little Smile
\ ;oh ;-fc Of tobias OF
lively. They are also tipping Christ
mas designs. with the purpose of cen
tering the material on the paper.
Members of the bookkeeping class
have received their practice set in
order that they can work on it dur
ing Christmas vacation.
The agriculture classes are learn
ing to be preachers" They are tying
knots and learning how to splice.
The Moose Lake high school A
and B teams will be here on Tuesday,
Dec. IS.
The annual Community club pro-
gram and Christmas seal sale will
be held Wednesday evening, Dec. 10.
The Finlayson high school boys
play us here Friday evening, Dec. 81.
The championship of the world
was decided at a practice game Mon
day evening when the Willow River
school faculty men defeated the Will
low River high school boys in close
game 40 to AZ. 1t required an over
time period to decide the game. The
faculty lineup was as follows: R.
Hogan, G; w. Ehmke, Jr., G; J. Cur
rel, c: M. Anderson, F; A. E. Gustaf-
son, F.. Our faculty team challenges
any other Pine county faculty team.
Through a cooperative plan with
over 500 other high schools and many
colleges we are able to offer the en-
tire ten number Northwest Assemblies
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WILLOW RIVER

Miss jeanette Schutt went to Pine
City Wednesday of last week. to visit
friends. She returned Tuesday.
Mrs. Miner of st. Paul. who has
been visiting at the home of Mrs. JOS
ephine Bochek for the past several
weeks, left for her home Monday.
Stanley Brooks, the celebrated actor
from Melbourne, Australia, gave his
dramatic presentation of Charles Dick
ems to the public school and others
here Monday morning. He pictured
Dickens in his writings as a social
refOrmer who exposed terrible condi-
tiOns in jails, boys schools, and other
community institutions. He is an ar
tist in his line of work and those who
did not take the opportunity to see
and hear him missed much He took
some pictures of the village, no doubt
to tell the Australian people about
when he returns to his home.
Ted Fredrickson, who became very
i'll the Friday after Thanksgiving, was
taken to the University hospital the
following Monday and remained there
until Saturday. He is better now and
is staying at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Johnston. The community wishes
him a speedy recovery and return
home.
Miss Lucille Williams of Brook
Park, dramatic art teacher in adult
education, was here Monday night and
gave talk on organization of a group
who will carry on the work as she has
it outlined. She met with the COM
mittee from the Community club, who
is sponsoring an entertainment We'd
nesday night at the school gymna-
SUM at eight o'clock. With the adj
mittance charge Christmas Seals will
be given and the receipts will be
turned into the Seal sale fund.
Mrs. Anna Cofer returned Monday
of last week from Onamia, where she
went with her daughter, Mrs. Robert
Boxell, who had visited here and with
Mrs. Eddie Suk of Duluth.
Vincent Golfer recently visited Du-
luth and spent few days with his
relatives, Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Suk.
Vincent's home is in North Dakota,
but he is here this winter attending
the local school, staying with his
grandmother at the COfer hotel.
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Willow River School Notes

The junior class play Seventeen"
will be presented at the Willow River
high school Friday, Dec. IA.
The school has purchased COM
plete set of "Compton's Pictured En-
cyclopedias' for the students use.
These books were written for the pur-
pose of inspiring ambition and slim
ulating the Imagination. The infor-
nation and knowledge obtainable in
these books is great and everything
is expressed in an extremely inter-
esting style.
There have been a few absences
on account of an epidemic OF the
"twenty-four hour" measles. These
measles, however, are not serious,
provided the person affected takes
good care of himself.
We are rejoicing over the fact that
our Lyceum is a financial success.
Last years course assured us of our
enjoyment in any such venture. At
the present we have $4.75 above the
amount specified by the contract.
Monday, Dec. 10, Stanley Brooks,
VINO Is an actor anu d IedCntI vi
dramatics at the University of Mel
bourne, Australia, entertained us by
giving vivid limitations of characters
from Dickens. He chose characters
from 1.-The Pickwick Papers," "Tbe
Christmas Carol" and Nicholas
Nicholby." He did much to increase
our appreciation and stimulate our
reading.
The Willow River high school
boys basketball teams played Nc
Grath Friday, Dec. 7. Our first team
lost by a score of 81 to 16; the Sec
ond team won by a score of 13 to
AS a preliminary game the soph'
senior girls played the frosh-junior
girls. The latter won by score Of
II to 10. The boys and girls teams
are going to Meadowlands Friday
Dec. IA.
The following students are on the
honor roll for the second six-weeks
period: senior "a" honor roll-Lor.
raine Breckheimer, Bernard Young
Quist; senior "B" honor roll-Mar.
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MUNICH

Henry Stephan entertained company
from the City over the weekend.
Geo. Ausmus returned home Satur-
day from the southern part of the
state, where he has been working the
past eight months.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Scofield and Yer
non spent Sunday at the Walter Purdy
home.
The school program in District SO
will be given Friday evening, Dec. 81.
Everyone welcome.
A number of children have been
absent from school on account of
measles.
Mrs. NovyIs sister, who had been
visiting here, has returned to her
home in the City.
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EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES
Enamel Rrunn

Sunday school Sunday at 10 a. m
Children wishing to take part ON the
Christmas program are asked to be
present.
Luther League monthly meeting
and program next Sunday at p. m.
The Ladies' Aid will have a sale
at the church Friday, Dec. IA, and
lunch will be served at noon.
Vilstad Church.
Ladies' Aid meets at the home of
Mrs. Victor Carlson Thursday, Dec.
IS, at p. m.
Sunday school next Sunday at 10:
Swedish services at 10:45 a. m.
Oak Lake.
Sunday school and Bible class next
Sunday at 1920 a. m.
CHARLES S. RYDELL, Pastor.
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lyceum course for only fifty cents.
We have had four of the ten numbers.
The next high class educational en-
tertainment will be given here at
9 a m. January Is, by the Browns
(quintet) Jubilee singers. These ne
gro singers won the Chicago Tribune
first prize cup a few years ago All
of our numbers are first class and
high class.
Grade News.
The grades are busy at work on
their operetta 'Cobblers of Fairy
land" which is to be presented soon.
The first and second grades are en-
joying their new readers.
The third and fourth graders regret
the loss of their playmate, Richard
Johnson, who has left to attend school
in Minneapolis.
The third graders are working on
a Health Play to be given at their
Christmas program.
The seventh and eighth graders are
making booklets on "The affects of
alcohol on the human system"
The seventh and eighth graders
promised us that their Christmas pro-
gram is going to be a success again
this year.
The following are on the "A' honor
roll this month: first grade-Doris
Cooper, Gloria CHASER; second grade
Della Larson, Eline Keller; third
grade-Arlene Anderson, Mary Beth
Gustafson; fourth grade Lar
son, Gloria Klatt, Edith Myrdal; fifth
grade-Luella Wermerskirchen, Rob-
ert Borchardt; sixth grade Helen An
derson, Amanda Gross; seventh grade
Richard Wahlstrom, Ruth Goring,
Myrtle Ahlbrecht; eighth grade-Mary
behring's, Phyllis Chaser
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Oak Lake NeighbOrhOOd
Mrs, C. E. Anderson is spending

Mrs. C. E. Anderson is spending a
week in st. Paul. visiting relatives.
The Farmers club wild meet at
Sunnyhill school Friday evening, Dec.
14th.
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid met
at the Ed Armstrong home Saturday,
and the ladies tied quilt which will
be given to a worthy person.
Mrs. S. M. Lund went to Duluth last
Thursday and expects to spend Christ
mas with her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Smith. After the holidays she will
go to st. Paul for the remainder of the
winter.
An operetta, "Christmastide" will be
given at Sunnyhill school Saturday
evening, Dec. %.