Evening star., 1936-12-06
POLICE GET GIRL
!. PLEAFOR BICYCLE.
Christmas Party Chairman
-, Says Some Kind Reader
, Might Meet Request.

This is addressed to Elizabeth Mar
tin Of Edmonston, Nd, just across
the District line.
Elizabeth is IA, q little old for dolls
and such. She likes out-of-doors
psay and her most cherished desire
is a bicycle. She realizes, however,
that bicycles are rather costly play
things.
Young Miss Martin was faced with
q dismal sort of Christmas until she
exercised her literary talents. which,
though subject to the limitations OF
age and experience, are nevertheless
compelling, as the following letter to
Capt. Joseph c. Morgan, chairman
OF the Metropolitan Police Christ
mas party, will attest:
IT would love to have a bicycle, but
I know that was to ask too much. My
mother is dead. Father works at
night. He says we will have very
little Christmas. I am IA. I would
love bicycle or pair Of shoes, size
2la, but, Of course, I'd love to have
the bicycle. Thanks
Must Not Pledge Too Much.
You will get the shoes, Elizabeth,
but the bike-well, Capt. Morgan
can't make any promises. You see,
there are so many girls and boys to
feed and clothe and cheer with toys
on Christmas day that perhaps an
elaborate gift like bicycle would de-
prive another of something that Is
badly needed. But although you do
not live in the District you will get
the shoes and probably another gift.
and maybe some kind fellow will read
this and get that bicycle you'd SO love
to have.
Elizabeth's appeal Is one Of hum
dreds that are being received by
police from children or parents whose
little ones must depend for happiness
at Christmas on your support Of the
police party and the Star-Warner
Bros.-N. B. c. Christmas Toy Cam
paign:
1t is not only more blessed to give
than to receive, but 1t is just as easy.
One way to help is to bring q doll
TO Gordon Hittenmark's Doll House. on
and F streets. The brightly painted
structure is open throughout the
day. At night, gift can be deposited
through a small trap door, like those
at laundries, in the entrance to the
Doll House.
Collection Center Has Phone.
Another is to call Metropolitan 100
that's the number for the police
party's gift collection center in the
District National Guard Armory-the
nearest police precinct station or Capt
Morgan, at precinct No. S. Gifts
will be called for Especially needed
are baskets of food n-perishable)
and garments such as shoes, trousers,
evercoats.
The Doll House opened yesterday,
with Hittenmark, your timekeeper"
OF Station WRC and housekeeper OF
This unique receptacle for Christmas
presents, conducting a sidewalk broad
cast in which participants included
Mai. Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
Of police. and Mrs Brown, donor Of
the first doll; Capt. Morgan. Louis
George Ford, who decorated it: How
ard Somerville. manager OF the VIII
lard Hotel, which provided the site,
And an embarrassed colored messen-
ger from the Treasury Departments
Ioans and currency division. who stag
kered up with a huge box OF dolls
given by employees of the division.
. For the convenience of prospective
Importers of the police Christmas
party here is list Of the police sta
lions with which to communicate:
First precinct. New Jersey avenue be-
tween D and E streets, Capt. Harvey G.
Callahan; second precinct, U street
Between Ninth street and Vermont
avenue, Capt. James Bobo; third, K
street between Twentieth and Twenty
hrst, Capt Arthur Miller; fourth. E
between Fourth and Sixth streets
southwest. Capt. jeremiah Sullivan;
hfth, Fifth and e southeast, Capt.
Morgan: sixth, Nicholson between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth, Capt.
Joseph Pierson; seventh, Volta place,
GEORGETOWN, Capt John Bowers:
eighth. Albemarle west of Wisconsin
avenue, Capt. Lloyd Kelly; ninth be-
tween E and F northwest, Capt. Rich
ard Mansfield; tenth. Park road be-
twee Georgia and Sherman avenues,
Capt Ira Sheetz; eleventh, Nichols at
Chicago avenue southeast, Capt. Hugh
Groves; twelfth, Seventeenth and
Rhode Island avenue northeast, Capt.
Sidney Marks; Traffic and Detective
Bureaus, Headquarters, 462 Indiana
avenue; Women's Bureau, Fifth street
between M and N. Capt. Rhoda Mil
liken; harbor precinct, Seventh and
Water southwest Iieut William Car.