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Evening star., 1936-12-29

several months, due to Moran's poor
health.
Moran Is 72. His time in active
service has been extended twice. He
has had many offers In the past to
write his memoirs for publication, but
has rejected them.
If he should write an autobiography
after he retires, Moran said, it will
disclose no secrets learned by the
White House detail since Secret Serv-
ice men were first detailed in 1901
to guard the Chief Executive and his
family after President Mckinley was
shot.
Until that time the Secret Service, q
Treasury unit. worked solely on coun-
terfeiting cases.
A detail of picked Secret Service
men is stationed constantly at the
White House, and the uniformed po-
lice around the mansion are under
Moran's direction.
When the President travels an
advance agent" of the Secret Service
goes ahead to lay out the route, ar
range for police guards in crowds and
make precautions against any possible
danger or inconvenience.
Evening star., 1936-12-29
MOTOR CYCLE CRASH
FATAL TO OFFICER
Policeman Grissett Dies of Inju-
ries Received When Ma.
chine Overturned.

Injuries received several days ago
when his motor cycle overturned
proved fatal last night to Policeman
Ernest ]. Grissett. 90. of TOLL Ninth
street. He died in Walter Reed Hos
pital. Physicians said he had been
unconscious since the accident.
Grissett, who was attached to the
Traffic Division. swerved his machine
to avoid striking an automobile
driven by Joseph Ryan. ID, of Hyatts-
Vile, Md, at Fifth street and Concord
avenue
The officers death raised the Dis
tricts trafiic toll for the year to 80.
The toll was 112 at this time last
year.
Grissett, who was married. became
q motor cycle policeman November
l, 1888.
Evening star., 1936-12-29
20RDERED HELD
BY YCORONER'S Jury
Gray and Mrs. KeIIison Face
Further Action in Fatal
Shooting.

A coroner's jury yesterday held
Louis Randolph Gray, 80. colored, for
grand jury action in connection with
the fatal shooting Of John O'Donnell,
AZ, Of 912 Twelfth street, during an
argument early Sunday at the corner
Of Eleventh and M streets.
Before hearing witnesses in this
case. the jury returned a similar ver-
dict in another recent fatal shooting.
holding Mrs. Frances Moreno Kelli-
son, IS, of 1911 Eleventh street, for
grand jury action in connection with
the staying of her 25-year-old hus-
band, John H. Kellison.
Eyewitness accounts of events which
preceded the killing Of ODonnell were
given the jury by John Nolan. 3Ii c
street southeast, a laborer, and Frank
Mangan, also of 912 Twelfth street,
both of whom were with the victim
when he accosted Gray and asked for
Q match.
Shot Through Heart.
Gray, who lives at 1926 Eleventh
street, refused O'Donnell's request
with the words, Don't ask me for
nothing" 1t was testified. ODonnell
struck the colored man. who then
fred two pistol shots at him, the jury
was told. O'Donnen was shot through
the heart, and Nolan was shot in the
arm after he, too, had struck Gray,
according to the testimony.
Mangan, meantime, had leaped be-
hind q tree and was uninjured.
ODonnell was rushed to Emergency
Hospital, but was dead on arrival.
Nolan received treatment at George
Washington Hospital.
Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
Murphy, who performed an autopsy
on the victims body. said the bullet
that killed him caught in the fold
of q handkerchief he was wearing in
his left breast pocket and entered his
chest, pulling the handkerchief into
the wound.
A high light of the testimony in the
Kellison inquiry was the disclosure by
Se-gt. Walter S. Beck Of the homicide
squad that the .32-caliber revolver
used in the shooting belonged to Dali
ton Robinson, 1900 block Of Twelfth
street, whose home Mrs. Kellison and
two of her daughters allegedly visited
shortly before the tragedy. Mrs.
Kellison previously had told investiga-
tors she purchased the gun from an
unidentified colored man three weeks
ago.
Admits Ownership.
Robinson admitted on the witness
stand that he owned the revolver, but
denied he had given it to Mrs. Kelli-
son. He testified he last saw the gun
In bureau drawer at his home about
10 days ago.
The inquest also was marked by
the testimony of Frances Mae Greg
ory, IA, and her 12-year-old sister
Bessie, two Of the six children of Mrs
Kellison by previous marriage. They
told the jury their stepfather often
argued with their mother and had
struck her on several occasions.
Throughout the investigation Mrs
Kellison held her head in her hands
crying intermittently, and raising her
head only once or twice to talk with
her attorney, Milton I. Lewis. When
she heard the jury's verdict she be-
gan sobbing violently.
Evening star., 1936-12-29
HULL AT SANTOS

SANTOS, Brazil, December 10 @.-
United States Secretary Of State Cor
dell Hull declared his determination to
press forward in the all-important
work of consolidating the peace of the
Americas" upon his arrival here to-
day en- route home from the Inter-
American Conference
He hailed realization at Buenos Aires
of practical arrangements to safe
guard peace on this hemisphere"
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CONFERENCE is SET.
Union Representatives From 10 Cities
to Meet.

union representatives FROM ~ CItfc9
to Meet.
DETROIT, December 20 (P.-The
United. Automobile Workers of Amer
lea called a conference of union rep
resentatives from 10 cities to meet at
Flint, Mich, Sunday to approve rec
concentrations concerning collective
bargaining with the General Motors
Corp"
Wyndham Mortimer, first vice presi-
dent of the union, announced the con-
ference was called "in view of the
growing seriousness OF the situation
caused by strikes now in progress in
General Motors plants in Atlanta,
Ga. and Kansas City, Mo-. and the
one precipitated in the Fisher body
plant at Cleveland, Ohio, Monday"
Mortimer said those present at the
Flint conference will include repre-
sentatives from General Motors plants
in Anderson, Ind; Norwood. Toledo
and Cleveland, Ohio; Janesville, Wis.
st. Louis, Mo-. and Detroit, Pontiac,
Lansing and Flint, Mich.
Evening star., 1936-12-29
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
PROBLEM.

PROBLEM.
SS"HE same girl" the one who
always writes to the Way
side under that signature
4 bobbed up yesterday with q
thought which is being passed on fol-
what it Is worth at this particular
season.
Don't you think" she wants to
know, something should be done
about the practice Of delaying the
mailing of Christmas cards until the
last minute? I've received lots OF
cards from persons who haven't writ
ten for ages, and feel awfully cheap
not having sent them one. When ]
got theirs it was just too late"
Certainly We think it Is one OF
those things about which something
should be done, and so does every one
else, especially James Aloysius Farley
But just what should IT. be?
BACHELOR.
David and Sheila are brother
and sister and the reason for the
absence of family name in this
story tUiu become apparent in Just
q paragraph or so.
They ,Oere talking over their
childish AFFAIRS the other night as
they ate their curds and Uhey, or
whateuer children eat, Dhen Sheila
popped the question:
"HoU is it you neper haue any
girl triends?"
Don't Uant any," DaDid er-
planned. "IH be ddrned if I'm ever
going to hare a wite sitting around
home jabbering about money all
day."
\ y
SLEEPY SANTA.
IT COMES to light a little bit be-
latedly, perhaps, but it should be
said for the record that Santa Claus
ran afoul the Silver Spring police.
Following q regular custom, q
Washington friend Of Marshall Davis
Evening star., 1936-12-29
DONATIONS MADE

Charity Benefits by Recent Grit
ath Stadium Pageant.
Twenty-Five dollars has been do
mated to each Of five charitable or
CARNATIONS by the Interdenomina-
tional Ushers Union and its Ladies'
Auxiliary. it was announced today by
William H. Davis, president.
Southwest and Southeast Commu-
nifty Houses. Episcopal Ear, Eye and
Throat Hospital; Stoddard Baptist
Home and the Phyllis Wheatley Y
w. c. A. are beneflciaries of the
funds derived from a pageant re-
Gently held at Griffith Stadium.
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U. S. BAN TO BE ASKED.
Neutrality Committee Members Fight
Arms Shipments.

LONDON, December 20 R.-
Great Britain and other members of
the International Neutrality Commit
tee to isolate the Spanish civil war
may urge the United States to ban
arms shipments to both Fascists and
Socialists, informed sources predicted
today.
The proposal was expected to be ad-
vanced, reliable persons declared, after
Whitehall showed concern over the
granting in Washington of q license
for shipment of airplanes to Spain.
Evening star., 1936-12-29

They went to the doll department
and the manager called to q very
personable young lady.
will you please demonstrate a
didee doll for the gentleman?" he
asked.
Eager to oblige, the young lady
gave the doll drink out of . bottle,
held it out to the reporter. He took
It, started violently, blushed, shook
Q dripping hand. and passed back
the doll hurriedly. Calmly. the young
Lady proceeded to change the dolls
clothing for the next demonstration.
That" muttered the scribe when
he had regained his composure, calls
for too much in the way of the ma
ternal instinct"
TURKEYS.
A butcher friend OF a Wavside
operative confessed the other day
to past Which he still thinks q
lot more cleper than shady and
tDe're passing along the confession
for sohateuer value it may haze to
the ioorld.
"The best job ! ever had," the
butcher explained, "tDas boning
turkeys. used to get 81 apiece
for them; perfectly stDeu PROPOSE
ton until some one let out the
neios that ia man icho knew hour
could bone about eight turkeys in
one hour"
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Strike
Continued From First Page.)

Homer Martin declared mo local set
tlement will suffice" in the 13-day- old
strike there which union members
said was called in protest against dis
charge of a worker at the adjoining
Chevrolet plant, where 1,150 are idle.
The General Motors Atlanta unit
has been idle for month in a strike
also called by the United Automobile
Workers. affiliate of John L. Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organi-
zation.
rnNCEDrNrr vc CIT
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dents and chas-
ing counterfeit
ers.
s ecr etary Of
t h e. Treasury
Morgenthau, who
supervises the e
Secret S r vice,
said yesterday he
will name q sue
ceSsor to Moran
this week. Frank
Wilson, former
ACE" Of the in
telligence unit,
Internal Revenue
Bureau, has been
arfin0 chief for
Evening star., 1936-12-29

who lives in Wynnewood Park, Md,
was scheduled to appear at the Davis
home Christmas eve to impersonate
Kris Kringle.
When he failed to arrive on sched-
ule the family was somewhat con-
cerned, but waited patiently, never
theless. Along about 1890 pm. the
telephone rang and Marshall an
swered.
The voice on the other end Of the
wire announced:
"This Is the Silver Spring Police
Department. There's a Santa Claus
down here who can't find your house.
He's under the weather. Come and
get him."
WAITING.
WHERE would you look for a de-
w layed dinner guest, young, fe-
male, and quite attractive? Sitting
on the floor reading newspaper out
side the door of an alien apartment in
one of the largest apartment hotels on
Connecticut avenue?
It hardly seems likely, but that Is
where one hostess in Washington
found her guest, who did not show up
for dinner.
In its way, it was logical enough,
too. The guest had been calling on
some other friends and thought to
pay one more call before keeping her
dinner date. The call was In the
same building, so she walked upstairs
instead of using the elevator. She
rang the bell, but no one answered.
She felt sure they should be at home,
or would be in a few minutes, so
when she spied the evening paper. she
sat down to read. She was still read
ing when the posse (quite put out by
it alp found her some time later.
INCIDENT.
NEWSPAPER men. traditionally.
= are not given to embarrassment.
Yet to one of Washington's veteran
reporters came one Of those moments
when the face reddens, the palms of
the hands grow moist and a fever
steals around the neckband, all be-
cause of a doll.
He had gone to toy department to
inquire, in furtherance of a Christ
mas story. which toys were most in
demand. The floor manager told him
that one Of the most popular of all
was the didee doll. He looked puzzled.
The floor manager hastened to en-
tighten him.
Come this way" he said, II will
have one Of the salesladies give you
demonstration"
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To Ship Rubb4 to Q. 5.

A new company plans to produces
5000 tons Of crude rubber in Bolivia
and ship Il to an American coucorn.
Evening star., 1936-12-29
SECRET SERVICE
CHIEF TO RETIRE
Successor to W. H. Moran
to Be Named This Week
by Morgenthau.
BY the Associated Press.

william H. Moran. veteran chief of
the Secret Service. will retire to pri-
vate life Friday after half a century
Of colorful service in guarding Presi-
Evening star., 1936-12-29
Night FinaI Delivered by Carrier
Anywhere in the City
FssJI Sports

Race Results Complete Market the Day. Latest News
Flashes from Around the World Whatever Is, you'll hnd
it in The Night Final Sports Edition.
THEeuoHT FINAL SPORTS andksUNDAY sTAR-delivered
by carrier-7oc month"; Call National 5000 and service
viii start at once. =- -xs-
Evening star., 1936-12-29
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia Occasional
rain tonight and tomorrow; somewhat
warmer tomorrow; lowest temperature
tonight about 40 degrees; moderate
winds, mostly easterly.
Maryland and Virginia-Rain to-
night and probably tomorrow; slightly
warmer tomorrow.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear today.
RAn0Yt far last "a Ham,.
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Record for Last "a Hours.
fFrom noon yesterday to noon todayD
Highest. so. at noon yesterday. Year
ago. 60
Lowest. SO. at 7:15 m. today. Year
ago. 13.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 105, on July 10
Lowest. o. on January %
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
Prom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 81 per cent. at noon today
Lowest, 43 per cent. at 5 am. today
Evening star., 1936-12-29

FOREIGN STATIONS.
q an. Greenwich time. today.)
Temperature Weather
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kidnapping

CONTINUED From First Page.)
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The Sun and Moon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

money to him and he asked that
the sheriff be ordered to release
it to him.
Thorne was the SO called Ger
man chemist who was concerned
with H. R. Burton of Brawley late
last week in an alleged scheme for
lifting small bills into higher de-
nominations by mysterious chem
ical process.
Thorne and Burton were turned
over to Los Angeles officers after
Thorne was identified by Los
Angeles businessman as one of
the men who victimized him IN a
deal similar to the one alleged to
have been attempted upon Braw-
ley resident.
Ware said the money was held
upon the advice of District At
torney Elmer Heald, who deemed
it wise to have the court deter
mine to whom the money belonged.
Los Angeles officers asked that
the money be turned over to them
as evidence in their case but the
request was refused.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

NEW YORK, WP)-Young Ameri-
cas- Christmas stocking this yeal
will reflect machine age rather
than a military age. Transporta-
tion toys, with many new and inn
proved features, are likely to head
the list and jam Santa's pack.
A peek into toyland reveals:
Pint size motor cars that hum
like authentic engines turning over
streamlined sleds with "airplane
decks" headlights that can be dim
med or frightened, a new wheel toy
model with free wheeling, doll car
riages and velocipedes with pneu-
matte tires and parking brakes, and
dump trucks and fire engines with
aerodynamic stream lining
Building Sets Popular
For air-minded youngsters hun
dreds of model building sets which
reproduce different types of COM
mercial airlines were shown at the
Toy Association preview here.
The toy parade of streamlined
trains include every new model in
railroading. Illuminated passenger
cars, observation cars and true-to-
life whistles are some Of the new
features. A siX-Wheel drive loco
motive, formerly a model makers
luxury, has been manufactured for
the first time
With a new version of the cleo
trio eye, boys can control electric
train sets by the wave of a hand.
With an optical lens set children
can build their own microscopes
and kaleidoscopes.
More Handicraft Toys
A new development in handicraft
toys is an electric pencil which can
be utilized to do wood-burning from
stencil outlines. The Woodworking
is done on plywood plaques. A
tapestry weaving set is another de-
velopment in handicraft play. Mir
ror drawing devices with electric
lights have been perfected SO that
a masterpiece can be copied in full
color.
Build your own home" is
slogan, to judge by the increase in
varieties of building equipment.
and period furniture
for playroom use and for doll houses
is featured, and there's a boom in
the sale of children'S desks and
playroom furniture.
90
LONDON, WR)-Christmas toys on
display in British stores include
three times as many soldiers, air.
planes, tanks and guns this year as
last, a United Press survey showed.
Britih toy dealers said the sharp
increase in nursery guns" undoubt-
edly was due to the troubled Euro
pean situation and vast domestic
rearmament program.
Guns no longer are dummy mod
lis, but actually fire shells. Unless
hey fire they arc not wanted, a
eading West End shop manager
;aid.
Miniatures Are Exact
Toys are more highly mechan-
zed, especially military units, which
ire exact miniature models of those |
lsed by armies and air forces.
Tanks and planes are among the |
most popular toys. One tank, 3
'eet long, equipped with toy shovels, |
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
Drama i'm Holdup
Turned to Whimsy

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 10. U.R)
Drama turned to whimsy last
night in the RoaSty- -Toasty restaur-
ant. A man with hand in pocket
demanded money in hold up. Man
ager Mabel Morrissey pointed out
that there was no money. The
bandit looked in the till, withdrew
his hand from his pocket and said:
mo gun, either"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
Highway Officials
To Tour California

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. U.R)-
Highway officials attending the ma
tional highway commissioners con-
vention in San Francisco, will tour
southern California's highway sys-
TENS late this week, led by Super
visor Leland M. Ford of Los An
geles county, it was announced to-
daV
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

The Alamo-Verde Young Peoples
dance club met Saturday evening
at the Verde school. Dues were
paid by members. A motion was
passed that those attending the
dances who are not members will
be charged 25 cents each. 1t was
decided that the club put on
Christmas dance to be held at
Verde school Friday, December 18.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
CHRISTMAS TOYS THIS YEAR
WILL REFLECT MACHINE AGE

carries guns which fire sparks as
soon as the caterpillar track be-
gin to go round.
One of the most popular toys is
tractor which pulls a howitzer
loaded with two large shells. Noz-
zles of the shells unscrew to take
caps. The howitzer shoots these
shell three feet high.
Guns Spit Sparks
Machine gun nests containing
guns which spit sparks are being
ordered in large numbers.
Another leading favorite is an
army lorry, camouflaged, mounted
with anti-aircraft guns.
While boys want toy guns and
other modern military equipment,
they also continue to buy in large
numbers relocated toy soldiers Of
1890. Redcoats, Lifeguards and
Highlanders are the most popular
types of soldiers, constituting ap-
proximately rs per cent of the toy
soldier trade.
LEIPZIG, U.H - Toy making has
become a fine art. The ancient
problem of providing suitable play
things for children now is taken
seriously and psychologists have
been consulted on educational val
ueS of toys.
These conclusions are evident in
displays at the Leipzig Fair, a
world clearing house for toys.
Toy makers start in about a year
ahead of time to design playthings
for the Christmas season. Many
months of labor are expended that
children may be pleasantly surpris-
ed on Christmas morning. The
modern child is eXacting in his
choice of toys, manufacturers have
found.
Dolls More Lifelike
The newest dolls this season show
a great advance in the science and
art of doll making.
The dolls are exceedingly lifelike,
built with articulated skeletons of
steel and built up to feel soft and
appealing to the touch. Among the
new mechanical forms there are
dolls which laugh and cry and even
speak with limited vocabulary.
The streamline toy of many forms
is much in evidence in Germany.
Toy locomotives and cars, minia-
ture automobiles, and trucks and
trailers; the aircrafts are stream
lined and appear trim and eff
cient.
More Machinery Reproduced
Every form of machinery seems |
to have been reproduced this year
in the world of toys. For the child
who is mechanically minded there
are fascinating models of derricks,
drills, engines of many forms, dyna-
mos and the rest, which operate in
the most lifelike manner. A COM
olete machine shop may be assem-
oled with these toys to be driven by
steam or electricity.
Doll houses are larger and more
varied this year than ever before.
The up-to-date child will find new
doll flats and penthouses furnished
with modernistic furniture and
equipped with the latest plumbing
and electric labor saving devices.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
Earthquake Bridge
Will be introduced

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 10. Wn)
Bridge addicts who have mastered
auction and contract now may try
new form of the popular agme.
Mrs. B. G. Hinkle will introduce the
game tonight. In it, all deuces and
a new form of the popular game.
quite properly is called Earthquake
bridge"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

Mrs. L. w. Armstrong and Mrs.
Gerald England motored to Los An
geles Thursday to attend the fun
eral services of Mrs, Armstrong;
father, Benjamin Miller. They re-
turned Sunday evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

D. Mckenzie and Mrs. r. H. Will
liams called at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. G.. H. Bell Saturday after
noon.
Walker CULLEN has leased the L.
E. Spicer ranch.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

1l Thorne when he was arrest
edDecember 6, was placed in an
envelope marked with Thorne's
name and locked in the vault of
the sheriff's office, according to
the complaint.
Puffer. Ell Centre attorney, al
iegeo That Thorne assigned the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
RIFF WARE FACING SUIT OVER MONEY IN BUNCO RING CASE

The Whitman Seed Co. Of Yuma
is thrashing Bermuda seed on the
White ranch one half mile east Of
the Alamo store.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
RETURN OF 1920
ASKED IN ACTION

Money found upon the person of B. H. Thorne, who is
charged with attempted grand theft in Imperial county
and two counts of grand theft in Los Angeles county, is
sought from Sheriff Robert W. Ware in suit filed We'd
neSa by Thornes attorney Lee Nuffer The taken
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

Mr.. and Mrs. D. Mckenzie had as
their guests Sunday afternoon Mo.
and Mrs. Grover Baker of Ell Gen.
tro.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

Violet, Emmitt and Barbara Nc
Cain spent Sunday afternoon at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Tuttle.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

day afternoon at the home of Mrs
j. d. Channon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
ALAMO-VERDE
By AMY FUTILE

Wilbert Amstead of Holtville has
been assisting Jake Neidiffer at the
Alamo store.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10

Those from Verde who attended
the farm bureau luncheon at the
California hotel in Ell Centre Satur-
day were: Mr. and Mrs. l.. C. Hawk,
Mrs. George Hunick and B. Stall
man.
Mrs. D. Mckenzie, Mrs. G. E.
Tuttle and Amy Tuttle visited Mon
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
Miniatures Are Exact

Toys are more highly mechan-
lied, especially military units, which
are exact miniature models of those
used by armies and air forces.
Tanks and planes are among the
most popular toys. One tank, 3
feet long, equipped with toy shovels,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
IV. Hardware Stores New Budget Plan

Makes Electrical financing
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-10
#utk9M
Full Automatic Range
Pay Only $QO5
and $3.05 Monthly

You'll have the current saving
Calrod elements - the Thrift
cooker that makes tough meats
tender = and many other ex-
elusive Hotpoint features that
hundreds of Valley homes are
enjoying.
Other Models at $1.19 down