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Evening star., 1935-12-25

Infantry at Fort Douglas, Utah. and
Hartshorn is in the chief of STATS
Office.
Maj. Gen. Foulois' policy of nego-
tiated contracts in Army airplane pur-
chases evoked a congressional investi-
cation, at which that system was criti.
cized sharply, and the House Military
Affairs Committee called on Secretary
Dern to ask for Foulois' resignation.
New System Instituted.
The War Secretary refused to COM
ply, but he instituted a new system of
awarding contracts through compete
tive bidding. Foulois was absolved Of
any wrong-doing, but he was criticized
for giving the House Military Affairs
Committee misleading information.
At the height of the controversy be-
tween the committee ana the War De-
partment, Foulois last August applied
for and was granted In extended leave
of absence pending his retirement.
No successor for Westover as as
sistant chief of the Air Corps has
been announced. Also remaining to
be filled are such key posts in the
Army high command as chief Of the
National Guard Bureau. quartermas.
ter general and chief Of finance.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
PRESIDENT TO GREET
SCHOOL JOURNALISTS
Washington Newspaper Publish
fishers Will Be Hosts to Dele.
gates at Dinner Saturday.

A call at the White House and a
dinner as guests of Washington news
paper publishers will feature the an
nual meeting of the American Asso-
citation of Schools and Departments
of Journalism, which opens four-day
session here, Friday.
President Roosevelt will receive the
delegates after his regular press con-
ference Friday moruing, according to
Frank L. Martin, dean of the Univer-
sity of Missouri School of Journalism
and president Of the association. The
delegates will be guests of Washington
publishers Saturday night, according
to Eugene Meyer, publisher Of the
Washington Post.
Headquarters will be in the willard
Hotel, and sessions will be held In the
National Press Club. Publishers,
editors and correspondents Of Amer
icao and foreign newspapers will
speak.
The American Association Of the
Teachers Of Journalism will meet In
conjunction with the other conven-
ton, and several meetings will be
joint sessions. During the conven-
tions, Dean Martin will be the guest
of the alumni of the University School
Of Journalism at a dinner. About IS
alumni Of the school live here.
Evening star., 1935-12-25

ditional wax candles. Two tiny mouths
opened longingly for a bit of leb-
kuchen-that appetizing ginger bread
cookie without which no Christmas
in Oberammergau is complete.
Bake Oven Cookies"
Last Christmas the Langs shopped
in Washington for lebkuchen until
their feet we're weary. Yesterday,
however. the odor of baking lebkuchen
waited from the family kitchen as all
day preparations were made for their
celebration.
Christmas in America Is nothing
new for Dr. Lang, who is son of the
most famous of all the portrayers of
the Christus in the Passion Play" and
for several years has been professor of
German in Georgetown University. 1t
is still novelty, however, for his wife,
the former Klara Mayr. who played
the part of Mary Magdalen in the 1884
jubilee presentation of the biblical
drama. This is her second Christmas
in Washington and she thrilled at the
sight of snow, the lack Of which sur
prised her so last year. Her sister,
Miss Bertha Mayr, is visiting them.
DR.. Lang lectured yesterday in New
ark, N. j., but hurried home in time
for the family celebration, which be-
gan just before the evening meal. AS
much as they could. the Langs fol-
lowed the traditions they have always
Evening star., 1935-12-25
Chance Meeting
| In KIOr,dike WOr,
Bride for Pittnarl
Dog Teams Tangled IL,
Battle on Gold
Rush Trail.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
About 36 years ago beautiful young
woman, wrapped in furs. rode on sled
drawn over a Wintry Klondike tran
by team of huskies driven by half
breed Indian.
She was Mimosa June Gates, daugh-
ter of a famous mining man known
throughout Alaska and California as
"Swiftwater" Gates.
At narrow point in the trail, where
a turnout was difficult. the team met
another driven by an ambitious young
lawyer much interested in mining.
The dogs tangled in battle, and the
high-strung attorney upbraided the
half-breed driver in language rich with
q Klondike flavor. When the young
woman stirred on the sled. it was a
much chagrined attorney who pulled
his own team out of the trail, and
with profuse apologies, muShed on to
the next camp.
Only then did he learn who the
young woman was. Forthwith he
turned his team about, overlook her
outfit at another camp and made his
apologies even more emphatic. Thus
began the romance that made Miss
Gates the wife of the present Sena-
tor Kay Pittman of Nevada and gave
Capital circles one of their prettiest
Christmas-time stories.
Evening star., 1935-12-25

known. Outside the door Of the din
ing room, where piles of gifts were
carefully concealed. the family sang
carols and other songs. When Anne
Marie and Elizabeth are old enough,
they will have to sing, too, before their
fingers tug at packages.
Presents and Feast.
When the door was opened more
carols we're sung before the manger
of the Christ Child as the family
gathered about the tree. After the
presents were distributed and thanks
offered for the blessings of the year.
a good old Oberammergau feast
awaited the family.
In their Bavarian home the Langs
always attended midnight mass to
listen to the music of Rochus Dedler,
who, more than 100 years ago, COM
posed the mass for his home town
and wrote the incidental music for
the Passion Play" Last night they
heard mass here.
A mysterious box from the elder
Langs and Mayrs arrived yesterday,
carefully timed to reach here on
Christmas eve. 1t was a temptation
not to open it until the appointed
hour.
Anne Marie and Elizabeth are SO
much alike that it is hard to tell them
apart. But Elizabeth is one point up
in the game of life, for she is proudly
cutting two new teeth.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
BOARDS AID ASKED
BY ROBERTS ON DATA
Peoples Counsel Seeks Informa-
tion for Demanding Pepco
Return Rate Cut.

Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts
today sought the aid OF the Public
Utilities Commission in gathering in
formation on which to base a demand
for a reduction from z to per cent
in the annual return of the Potomac
Electric Power Co.
The commission. it is understood, Is
considering q cut in the return to 6ia
per cent when 1t orders the yearly
slash in rates next month. The new
rates will be fixed in accordance with
the existing sliding-scale arrangement,
after public hearing scheduled Janu-
ary 10.
Roberts. asked the commission to
earmark funds from its incidental ex-
pense account to compensate an in
vestigator, whose duties would include
the gathering Of data on the current
rates of interest on sound stock and
bond issues. He told the commission
study Of Reconstruction Finance
Corp. and Federal Reserve Board sta
tistics would show Prevailing money
rates to be under per cent.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
Rubber.Making
Find Reported at
Edison Laboratory
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORT MYERS, Fla, December IS
Persons in close touch with work
at the Edison Botanical Research
Corp. laboratory here believe a method
for increasing the percentage oi
rubber taken from goldenrod has been
found.
Harry Ukkelberg, head botanist, who
works at the desk formerly used by
Thomas A. Edison, has revealed there
has been a discovery which may
climax the years of experimentation
and bring to realization the dreams
Of the late inventor.
Ukkelberg declined to explain further
Goldenrod plants developed in seed
beds at the laboratory test IL per cent
rubber, others said. Another to 10
per cent is resin.
II the resin could be processed into
rubber the experiments would be a
commercial success. Acquaintance
believe this is the discovery Ukkelberg
has made.
Edison's hope was to produce do
mestic rubber at least as an emergency
source If foreign supplies were cut
OF. Henry Ford and Harvey Fire
stone, who encouraged Edison in his
first rubber-producing experiments,
make 1t possible for the laboratory to
carry on.
Edison selected goldenrod as the
plant most likely to produce domestic
rubber in commercial quantities, after
experiments had been conducted with
more than 100000 plants. He crossed
the common goldenrod with Q giant
variety he found growing IL feet high
In the Florida Everglades.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
ADDITIONAL FOOD
SOUGHT TFORNEEDY
Police Supply Is Exhausted
as Demands of Poor
Prove Too Great.

There were only a few "left-overs''
from the police Christmas party to-
day-not nearly enough to be divided
among a still lengthy list Of hungry
men, women and children.
Thousands were assured Of sub
stantial holiday meals as the city's
bluecoats worked far into the eve
ming yesterday distributing baskets
of food.
1t was breaking task with
q heart-breaking ending that came
when the supply Of provisions dwin-
died and left many needy cases unat-
tended.
More Donors Sought.
Undismayed by the shortage, how
ever, Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, in
charge of arrangements for the patry,
and the personnel of the Police De-
partment sought last-minute donors.
More food, of the solid, wholesome
variety, is needed, Capt. Morgan de-
clared, If all the destitute families
relying on the police for aid are to
be fed.
Headquarters for the party in the
old National Guard Armory, Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, con-
tinued in operation this afternoon.
As other baskets are assembled to-
morrow they will be delivered or held
at various precinct stations for fam
lilies who failed to share in yester-
days distribution.
Demands Unprecedented.
Despite the food deficit, which was
attributed to unprecedented demands
by persons in dire circumstances, Capt.
Morgan was lavish in his praise of
the manner in which more fortunate
citizens responded to the appeal for
help in putting over" the police party.
This year was the first time q
city-wide party has been attempted by
the Police Department since the move
ment originated IS years ago at No. 5
precinct.
The party will be repeated next year
Evening star., 1935-12-25
SCHALL'S BODY SENT
HOME FOR FUNERAL
Congressional Delegation of Hon.
or Accompanies Remains to
st. Paul, Mimi.

The body Of Senator Thomas David
Schall of Minnesota was sent home
last night, accompanied by a con-
gressional delegation of honor.
Vice President Garner yesterday
named Majority Leader Robinson,
Minority Leader McNary, Senator
Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, of Min
nesota, and Senator Frazier, Republi-
can, Of North Dakota, as the Senate
half OF the group. House members
In the delegation included Represent
atives Knutson and Christianson. Re-
publicans: Kvale, Farmer-Laborite
and Ryan, Democrat, all of Mime
sofa.
The blind Senator's body will lie in
state at st. Paul tomorrow morning,
It then viii be taken to the chapel in
Lakewood Cemetery for burial.
Senator Schall died Sunday of in
juries received last Thursday when
he was struck by an automobile at
Cottage City, Md, near his home.
Evening star., 1935-12-25

craft purchases.
A new adjutant general was ap-
pointed in the person of Brig. Gen.
Edgar T. Conley, who had been acting
in that post since the retirement Of
Maj. Gen. James F. Mckinley.
Col. Walter L. Reed. on duty in the
Office of the inspector general, was
named inspector general to replace
Maj. Gen. John F. Preston, whose
four-year term recently expired.
Both Conley and Reed also were
given ranks of major general.
Moses, Cole Promoted.
The President, on recommendation
of Secretary Dern. promoted Brig.
Gems. Andrew Moses and William E.
Cole to major generals OF the line and
Cols. Duncan K. Major. Walter c.
Sweeney and Edwin S. HartShorn to
be brigadier generals of the line.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
FILM STAR WE'D
IN YUMA RITES
Claudette Colbert and Doctor
on Holiday Honey
moon.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, December
25.-A honeymoon and the Yuletide
mingled today for Claudette Colbert
of the screen and DR.. Joel Pressman
Amid the stir and hustle of furnish
ing her new estate in the Hollywood
hills. the actress and the Los Angeles
physician slipped away yesterday to
Yuma, Ariz., where an excited mar
rying justice" made them man and
wife
They motored back to join Miss
Colbert's mother at Christmas dinner
today.
1T certainly was a thrill to per-
form the ceremony" said Justice of
the Peace Earl A. Freeman. "They
were the happiest couple you ever
saw"
Miss Colbert divorced Norman Fos-
ter, actor, in Mexico six months ago.
DR.. Pressman's divorce from his
first wife became final last week.
The couple met when the physician
attended her during an illness earlier
this year. He is "a, and she %, they
told the marriage license clerk.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
SULLIVAN PRESSES
TEXT. BOOK INQUIRY
President of Education Board to
Be Asked to Cooperate
With Committee.

George E. Sullivan, chairman Of the
Federation of Citizens Associations
committee investigating the alleged
teaching of communism in the public
schools, last night planned to ask Mrs.
Marion Wade Doyle, president Of the
Board Of Education, for permission to
examine school text books and maga-
zine material suspected of advocating
communism.
Despite repeated requests, Sullivan
said. DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent Of schools, has failed to furnish
the committee with the desired ma
terial.
The committee wants list Of study
magazines used in the schools, a list
Of text books used in the Teachers
College and information concerning
the revised social study course ap-
proved by the Board of Education last
June, and now being prepared by the
Government Printing ONCE.
I'VE are going through with this
entire investigation" Sullivan said,
regardless of the decision of the
Board of Education to refuse future
hearings. We have the Congress of
the United States in session next
month. Remember that"
Evening star., 1935-12-25
FLAMES DRIVE 70
FROM APARTMENT
TOSNOWYSTREETS
Blaze Believed to Have
Started From Log in
Open Fireplace.
INTERIOR OF BUILDING
is DESTROYED BY FIRE
Lives of Two Infants Threatened.
Residents Escape With Little
Clothing.

More than 20 residents Of the three
story apartment house at 1882 CO.
lumbia road today are dependent on
friends and relatives for Christmas
homes after being driven from their
own by flames which destroyed the
interior of the building late yesterday
The fire. which is believed to have
started from a burning log in an open
fireplace on the first floor, ragged for
almost an hour, drove eight families
into covered streets, threatened
the lives of two infants and en-
dangered two adjoining apartment
houses. Five engines and three trucks
answered the two alarms.
Playing Near Fireplace.
Three-year-old Ronald Bierwagen
and his sister Marilyn, 18 months,
were playing near the fireplace in the
first-floor front apartment when the
room burst into flames. Their mother,
Mrs. Walter ]. Bierwagen, in another
part of the building at the time, heard
Ronald's screams and rushed to their
ACoNuC 1AOLll Vic SCIOilA
Holding a child under each arm,
Mrs. Bierwagen ran into the street,
while she shouted alarms to other
tenants, who Immediately dashed from
the building through smoke-filled hall
ways as the flames swept from floor
to floor.
The residents of the house were not
given sufficient time even to snatch
overcoats. Room furnishings. clothing
and Christmas toys collected as pres
ents for the children were partly de-
stroyed before firemen arrived, and
little property was saved.
Given Shelter BY Neighbors.
The children and other refugees
were gives shelter in the homes OF
neighbors.
Crowds attracted to the scene filled
the streets. and traffic was tied up in
the busy shopping center along upper
Fourteenth street, where Santa Claus
lane begins.
The building Is owned by Mr.. and
Mrs. G. H. Smith. The amount of
loss had not been determined early
today. but 1t is expected to total sew
eral thousand dollars.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
LIBERTY LEAGUE
HITS n. R. A. SHIFT.
Says Taxpayers Should
Know Moves of Per.
sonnet.
BY the Associated Press.

The American Liberty League yes
terday posed five questions on which
it said taxpayers might want en-
lightenment regarding the shifting of
N. r. A. employees to the Commerce
Department.
The 1,400 workers were taken into
the department to complete N. r. A.
code histories and industrial studies.
This. work is to be finished by April /.
The Liberty League asked:
rs the shift of employees merely a
device to facilitate their absorption
into its regular budget without at
tracing public attention?
Future of Employees.
"Or, If the Congress should balk
at this addition to the regular pay
rolls, will these favored employees be
cared for by authority of the work.
relief act under which the consumers
division of N. r. A., now shifted to
the Department of Labor, Is to go for
ward until July /, 1887?
Does the power delegated by the
President to the Secretaries of Com
merce and Labor to appoint, employ,
discharge and fix compensation and
define the duties of an unlimited
number of employees mean that the
old system Of congressional approval
Of such matters in the regular depart
ments is to be broken down2
Political Considerations"
"Does the clause in the new execu-
tive order specifically exempting the
transferred divisions from civil serv-
ice point to greater injection of po-
litical considerations into appoint
ments under the regular depart
mentS?
Finally, it is pertinent to inquire
whether the technical abolition of the
N. r. A., which was officially killed
by the Supreme Court on May 81,
1885, throws any light whatever upon
the future intentions of the admin
istration with respect to new legisla-
tion for the regimentation Of indus
try"
Evening star., 1935-12-25
BUS DRIVER Is HELD
IN FATAL ACCIDENT

Louis A. Galloway, 3S, Capital
Transit Co. bus driver, was ordered
held for Police Court action under
the negligent homicide law at an
inquest yesterday into the death Of
Mrs. Anna Taylor, 80, Of Berwyn,
Md, who was fatally injured in .
traffic accident December 16.
The woman was a passenger in q
car driven by Mrs. Olive Bateman,
%, also of Berwyn, which collided
with the bus at Thirteenth and K
streets southeast Mrs. Taylor died
in Casualty Hospital last Friday.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
NNE MARIE MoNIKA and

" Elizabeth Matilda, the Wash
~ ton-born twins Of DR.. and
n Mrs. Anton Lang, jr., former
ly of Oberammergau, home of the ia
nous Passion Play, are two sleepy,
but happy babies on this, their first
Christmas day,
At 7 months, they can hardly be
expected to know how the birthday
of the Christ Child is celebrated in
their parents native land. but, all
unconsciously. they had their first
taste of it last night-well, at least.
as much of it as American conditions
prescribed.
For the Langs, at their home, 1903
S street. followed the ancient tradi-
tions of Oberammergau in making the
most of Christmas eve. Anne Marie
and Elizabeth. born May 80 in George
town Hospital. were permitted to sit
up beyond their usual bedtime to
take part in the Christmas eve fes-
tivities, which are the climax of sew
eral weeks of celebrating in the dis
tant homeland of their, parents. That
is why the little girls were bit sleepy
this morning.
Their twinkling blue eyes gazed in
wonder at the little carved manger,
with the figure of the Christ Child in
it and opened wider as they beheld
the. glittering pine tree with its ira
Evening star., 1935-12-25
Drought Develops
Long-Necked Fowls
To Serve ''In-Laws"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GREAT BEND, Kans., Decem-
Der 25.-F'armer Bon Turner is
expecting great things from his
''in-law" dinners If the drought
holds out.
As Turner tells 1t, dry weather
caused his kaffir corn to develop
high of the ground. His chickens
developed extra long necks reach
ing for the grain.
You can serve three or four
pieces of neck to a visiting in
law" he said. Next year I'm
going to try turkeys and geese.
A goose with q neck like that
ought to be worth $25."
Evening star., 1935-12-25
DUNCAN FUNERAL SET

Funeral services for DW. Peter j.
Duncan, So, who died yesterday after
a short illness, will be held tomorrow
at 10 am. at st. Aloysius Church.
after brief service at the home Of
his daughter, Mrs. Paul A. Sullivan,
$3.50 Tennyson street. Burial will be
in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
DR.. Duncan had been a druggist
here for more than 20 years and q
resident of this city more than 40
years. He received his degree in phars,
macy from George Washington Uni
versity.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
W. p. A. Worker Hurt
As Thousands Rush
For Christmas Pay
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, December 25.-
Arthur Taylor, 35-year-old w.
P. A. worker, was knocked down,
trampled and critically injured
yesterday in a rush of several
thousand w. P. A. workers for
their Christmas pay checks.
The checks were distributed
several days ahead of pay day so
that the men could have them
for Christmas. Taylor was
pinned against a wall by the
rush, knocked down and tram
pied.
Physicians said q preliminary
examination showed he had a
broken nose, one or more broken
ribs and internal injuries. He
was taken to a hospital.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
STIFF MOTORING TESTS
DOWN ENGLISH DRIVERS
10000 Failures Cited as Evidence
Of Improved Conditions on
Highways.

LONDON P.-Some $4,000 Eng
lish citizens, or 13 out of every 100
applicants, failed in the compulsory
driving tests for would-be motorists
since June.
These figures are part Of a new
burst Of statistics by England's zeal
ous minister of transport, Leslie
Hore -Belisha, in evidence OF i'm
proved motoring conditions.
The $4,000 who tried, and failed,
would have been behind the wheels
Of automobiles, with resultant dan
gers to life and property, were the
driving tests non-existent, Mr.. Hore-
Belisha pointed out.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
Potato to Be Rarity,
Lawrnaker Says in
Offering 1t as Gift
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Friends of Representative
Church, Republican, Of Illinois,
received Christmas presents to-
day of an anti-New Deal flavor.
They were potatoes, each
mounted on a corkscrew, In
Yuletide wrappings. An ac-
companying letter, printed on
congressional stationery, said
"the once lowly potato" was
destined under the Federal po-
tato amendment for pernicious
taxation, registration, revenue
stamping and ultimate disap-
pearancs from tho American
table"
Evening star., 1935-12-25
SobrietyIs Gift
OfD.C. Drinkers
To Police Court
Usual Christmas Ere 20
or 80 Drunks Cut
to 25

Twas the day before Christmas, and
all through the town, sobriety tri-
umphed, an event of renown.
So temperate was Washington yes
terday, in fact, that only Is persons
were arraigned in Police Court for
drunkenness compared to the usual
Christmas eve average of 10 or 80.
Five of the few arraigned before
Judge John p. Mcmahon were re-
leased on personal bond and the others
given exceptionally light sentences.
Police and court officials couldn't ex-
plain the decrease.
Evening star., 1935-12-25
McKellar ssArrested"
After Experimenting
With Burglar Alarm
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, December
25.-In an experimental mood,
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar
stepped on q banks new burglar
alarm button.
The constabulary proved its
alertness by filling the place with
bluecoats almost before the
echoes of the bell had died. The
Senator was arrested" and CIV
en- a ride home in q squad car.
Evening star., 1935-12-25

AIT CCTpS, WHO
was given full
command of that
branch with the
rank Of major
general. He sue.
ceeds Maj. Gen.
B e n jam in D.
Foulois, who has
applied for re-
tiremert. Foulois'
resignation W as
demanded earlier
this year by a
C on gre S S ional
committee in con-
nection with his
method of air.
Evening star., 1935-12-25

Vacancies In
these ranks we're
caused by retire
ments.
Moses has been
on duty in the
chief of staf's
Office in Wash.
ington; Cole COM
mands the 2nd
Coast Artillery
dis trio t, N e W
York: Major Is
serving on the
War Department
g e N eral staff;
Sweeney conn
mandS the 3Sth