Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-23


cash donations to the sixteenth annual
metropolitan police Christmas party,
which Is resolved that no one in Wash
ington shall 60 hungry on Christmas.
Capt. Joseph c. Morgan, party
chairman, reported that more than
$4,000 has been contributed. in addi-
ton to quantities of food, clothing
and toys. He said, however, that more
Is needed to buy food to flll Christmas
baskets. The police hope to distribute
more than 1000 baskets.
Checks should be made out to the
metropolitan police Christmas party"
and mailed to Capt. Morgan at the
nth precinct or, to expedite purchases.
brought to gift collection headquar-
ters in the National Guard Armory,
Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
The police campaign. conducted In
conjunction with The Star-Warner
Bros.-N. B. c. Christmas toy cam
paign. drew toward a close today with
declarations from its sponsors that it
had been "the biggest ever" with
donations reaching an all-time high.
1000 Baskets Crowd Armory.
The collection center at the armory
presented . scene which gave assur-
ance Of a merry Christmas to thou
sands Of the city's needy. More than
1000 baskets, filled to overlooking,
were stacked six and eight deep in
the vast drill room. Baskets yet to
be filled were piled to the lofty ceiling.
Each basket will contain 20 articles,
including coffee. cereal, -four, rice and
a 4-pound smoked ham. The police
have bought up the entire supply of
small "cala" hams In Washington and
Baltimore. The contents Of each bas-
ket. If purchased at retail, would cost
$3.50. Reductions obtained by buying
at wholesale and ut the lowest bid
prices, plus donations by many Of the
merchants from whom purchases were
made, lowered this cost drastically.
This is how the baskets will be dis
tributed:
They will be taken today and TO-
morrow. as packing Is completed, from
the collection center to every precinct
in the city. From 4 to 8 pm. to-
morrow. holders Of the blue tickets
which have been distributed by DO.
licemen and testify that the bearer
Is . member Of . needy family which
has been Investigated and found to be
deserving, will call at the precinct
stations and be given the baskets. To
shut-ins and others physically I'M
able to leave their homes, the baskets
will be delivered by policemen.
Thousands 10 Benefit.
Thus will thousands of under
1kvileged throughout Washington re-
cove the makings of Christmas
dinner and probably Of meals for sew
eral days to come. Since they can
not thank individually all who have
contributed 50 generously to make
their Christmas happy one, this will
express their gratitude.
As for toys-"we've as many as we
can use," say onicials of the police
party and the District Congress of
Parents and Teachers. Countless
thousands Of playthings to cheer the
hearts Of poor children have been
distributed this week following their
collection from II Warner Bros.
theaters where matinees were held
Saturday morning; from Government
agencies; from the Pail Mall room of
the Raleigh Hotel, Helen Hamilton's
Russian Club Troika, the Club Volga
Boatmen, the Heish-Ho Club. where
the campaign; from the shoreham
Hotels toy ball: from the apartment
house and hotel Hobbies, and from the
Lotus Restaurant.
1--WE never seen anything like It,"
said Mrs. Walter B. Fry, president Of
the District Congress Of Parents and
Teachers. "And the moving com.
panies which loaned their trucks for
collection Of the toys, and the police,
who helped out in this same work with
patrol wagons, said they never had,
either.
Every ones been wonderful"
Toys Taken 10 Schools.
All toys collected during the cam.
paign were taken to the following
schools. representing divisions In the
public school system: Wallach, seventh
and headquarters; Wheatley,
sixth: Emery, nth; Petworth. third,
and Curtis, first. These schools, In
turn. gave toys to all schools in their
respective divisions, the president Of
the Parent-Teacher Association in
each school filling out requests ct the
distribution centers according to needs
in the school area served by her asso-
citation.
The toys have been re-wrapped by
PARENT Teacher Association members
fcr each school md are heing disxib-