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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18

LONEY is only 10 months old.
He has reached the toddling
stage. Still too small to sit at
a table. he eats in high
chair. Yet he's starting life in a
prison-simply because there's no
other place to 60.
Bobby is Sloney's companion. Bob
by's a little older. He says he's IS
years plus" And, of course, Bobby's
in prison too.
Both are unfortunate victims Of
life's uncertain circumstances. They
were deserted by parents who brought
them into the world, and a prison
to them is better than no place at all.
But the most revolving thing about
Sloney and Bobby in this early stage
of life is the fact that they are
forced to associate. day and night.
with older and more worldly boys
and girls
Bobby and Sloney are the youngest
of the 50 inmates in the Districts
receiving home for children, on Po-
tomac avenue southeast. Eighty per
cent of these prisoners-they're all
children under II years of age-were
picked up by police and are being
held for one purpose or another.
The remaining 20 per cent are chill
dren who ran away from home or
were deserted by parents who had
no interest in their welfare.
Anyhow, Bobby and Sloney live be-
hind heavily screened windows in an
environment somewhat criminal in
character. Some of the older boys and
girls talk about mature things which
Bobby and Sloney should not hear
about.
New High in Rough Talk.
Grady H. Leonard. superintendent
of the receiving home, who has had
an Army career. frankly admits he
has heard some rough" language
in his days. but says these children
have taught him some new words.
And these are conditions under
which Sloney and Bobby live. as we'll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
FIVE MORE STREETS
ARE MADE ONE Way
Parking Restrictions Extended
to Sections of 35 Arteries
BY Officials.

Sections of five additional streets to-
day were reserved by the Commission
ers for one-way traffic movements on
recommendations submitted by Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer. At
the same time. parking restrictions
we're extended to sections of IS arteries
The new one-way streets are Ward
place from Twenty-second street to
New Hampshire avenue. for east
bound traffic only; Eleventh street
from B street northeast to South Car
olina avenue southeast, one way SOUTH
bound; Thirteenth street from South
Carolina avenue southeast to Tennes-
see avenue northeast, one way north
bound; Seventeenth street from ]
street to Florida avenue, one way
northbound from 4 to 8 PM, and D
street from South Carolina avenue
southeast to Pennsylvania avenue. for
eastbound traffic.
The Commissioners also ordered in
stallation of traf1ic signal lights at
intersections with Sixteenth street OF
Spring road and Upshur, Allison and
Decatur streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
BOY, 8, IS AMONG
TRAFFIC VICTIMS
Edward Boyd Receives Fractured
Leg and Head Injuries.
Two Others Hurt.

Three-year-old Edward Boyd, 1112
Chicago street southeast, was in a
serious condition in Casualty Hospital
today with fractured leg and head
injuries received yesterday when he
was struck by an automobile at Nichols
avenue and Talbert street southeast.
The boy stepped from between
parked cars into the path of a machine
operated by Charles Gibson, Al, Of
1851 Hayes street northeast, police
were told. Edwards left leg was
broken, and it was said he may have
fractured skull.
Struck by an automobile while
crossing in the 1900 block of U street,
two colored persons were taken to
Freedmen's Hospital. The victims
were Beulah Baker, rs, of AL l. street,
whose hip was dislocated, and Willie
Henry, 20, also of the l. street address,
who may have suffered fractured
shoulder.
They were hit by machine driven
by Lamar Brown, ~, colored, 1918
Ninth street northeast. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
MRS. HUDSON AWARDED
RESIDUE OF ESTATE

Mrs. Barbara s. Hudson. 2723 @
street, will receive the residue of the
estate of her late mother, Mrs. Marion
c. Scudder, it was learned today in g
dispatch from New York. The net
value of the estate was set at 81, 3d.
336 in an appraisal filed in New York
this morning for State transfer tax
purposes.
Mrs. Hudson, whose husband, David
Ernest Hudson, Is special assistant
to the Attorney General. inherits one
sixth of the residue outright; tenn
porary life estate, payable at IS, In
another sixth and life estate in the
remaining two-thirds Of the residue.
Mrs. Scudder, the widow Of Marvyn
ecudder, notsd actuayy. dilf March IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18

as other children still in their teens
who are in the receiving home for
no fault of their own.
Meanwhile. Chairman King Of the
Senate District Committee made
known his intention of studying IA
cilities at the Receiving Home at the
first opportunity to find out what
changes or Improvements may be nee
essary. Since becoming chairman Of
the committee the Utah Senator has
taken a special interest in the needs
of the various welfare agencies of the
city.
Under ordinary circumstances, Slo-
ney and Bobby would be segregated
from older children. especially those
who constitute a bad influence on
their impreSsionable young lives, but
segregation is impossible because of
the limited accommodations at the
receiving home.
For an institution of its character,
the physical conditions are not bad
but they're none too good. Larger
quarters are needed for purposes of
segregation. For three years Leonard
has asked the Commissioners for
funds to erect a new and larger build
ing, but his estimates. he said, usually
are the first ones to be turned down.
The building in which the receiving
home is located is only about eight
years old. and appears modern from
the exterior. It was built originally
as an apartment house, but the Dis
trict Government rented it at the
time Washington was up in arms
against the mingling of children and
adults in the House of Detention. The
rooms, naturally. are small for insti-
tutional purposes. especially at time
when the receiving home is accom-
modating its maximum capacity.
What Leonard wants to do is to
segregate the smaller boys from the
older boys, most of whom, he CLASH
fies as bad" He also is anxious to
separate, for health purposes. the dis
eased children from the healthy ones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18

A legal Strategem by Assistant U. S.
Attorney John J. Wilson, which might
have cut short the District Court claw
machine trial by several days. and
taken the case entirely out of the
hands of the jury, failed today.
When the trial adjourned late yes
terday at the close of the Govern
ment's case. Defense Attorneys Harry
T. Whelan and William A. Gallagher
indicated they would move today for
directed verdict.
AS court opened this morning, Will
son walked in with an array of law
books in his arms. Gallagher in
formed Justice Jesse c. Adkins that
he didn't want to make his motion
right away, but would like to know
first what would happen should Will
son Join in the motion for the d.
rected verdict.
Wilson then disclosed that was what
he had intended to do. BY also NOV
ing for a directed verdict, he contend
ed, rebuttal testimony would shut of
and the Judge would decide the case
as a matter of law.
Judge Adkins said frankly he was
not entirely familiar with the tech
meal aspects of the maneuver, and
Gallagher then ended the discussion
by saying he would not make his
motion.
Since the jury had been excused
until Monday, Justice Adkins told OPP
posing counsel he would be glad to
have them educate" him concerning
the law involved. The rest OF the
morning was devoted to discussion OF
the legal issues.
A Government witness. who kept the
spectators and jury in almost constant
laughter by his answers, and occa-
sionally brought a chuckle from the
Judge, occupied the stand throughout
yesterday afternoon.
He was Herman Lucas, 1909 Twen-
tieth street. a securities salesman.
Asked by Whalen, representing the
claw machine interests, whether he
considered the game as healthful,
Lucas almost shouted:
"Healthful! should say not. It's
caused me to use more profanity dur
ing the past year and a half than l
ever used before in my whole life"
Throughout his testimony. ne was
continually fishing out Of a pocket
some prize he had won from claw
machine.
Lucas said he sold back $1,000 worth
of prizes to the machine owners, but
estimated that in the year and a half
he has been playing he spent all OF
that and $500 besides.
Once, he related, he spent $34 in
one day playing single machine.
IT started about o'clock" he told
the jury. land finished up too late
for dinner ut the boarding house"
He estimated b could spend - N
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
APPEAL PLANNED
BY MRS. HARTMAN
Postal Fraud Order Not to Stop
Campaign to Legalize Lot.
teries, She Saws.

Mrs. Oliver Hartman, New York So
ciety leader. today was preparing to
appeal a District Court ruling yester-
day refusing her request for a restrain
ing order to prevent enforcement of a
post Office fraud order closing the mails
to the National Conference for Legal
izing Lotteries, which she heads.
This ruling will not in any way
affect my campaign to legalize lot
teries for public welfare" Mrs. Harri-
man said. This Is only temporary
setback"
The fraud order was issued after the
Post ONCE Department had held the
organization was conducting an ESSAY
contest" which was, in effect, lottery.
In dismissing the suit for restrain
ing order, Justice Daniel w. O'Don-
oghue announced he would permit
Mrs. Hartman to appeal from his
order. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
D. c. HEADS GET
JAIL JOB PLANS
Assistant Engineer Commits.
sioner Completes Study
of Problem.

Alternative plans for the enlarge
ment and alteration of the District
Jail and for the construction of a new
jail were submitted to the Commits
sioners today by Capt. H. S. Bishop,
Assistant Engineer Commissioner, as
the outgrowth of the studies of means
Of lessening serious overcrowding at
the present old structure.
The Commissioners deferred action
in order to give further consideration
to the problem and, if possible, to find
means of financing the cost.
The engineering studies made by
Capt. Bishop were ordered by the Com
missioners after the serious aspects of
the overcrowding of the Jail and at the
District Workhouse and Reformatory
were described in series of articles in
The Star.
problem by personal inspection of the
jail made recently by Attorney General
Homer S. Cummings.
Capt. Bishop reported he had con-
sidered plan for new Jail to house
1000 prisoners, the cost of which he
estimated at approximately $4,000, 900.
He studied an alternative plan for a
new Jail to house 878 prisoners which
he estimated woald cost S1,500,000.
He also considered proposed alter
atoms and additions to the present
Jail, intended to provide housing for
s96 prisoners, to cost 81 ,407, 900, with
alternative plans for expenditure of
either $s55,0O0 or s1,o45,0o0.
Capt. Bishop said he thought it
would be impossible to provide a new
Jail for the estimates stated in the
proposals he studied. In lue Of such
plans he said he felt the most practi-
cal solution would be to make alter
atoms and additions to the existing
jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Army Band in the audito-
rum at 4:30 pm. today. Capt.
Thomas r. Darcy, leader.
Program.
March, 1.-THE Worlds Progress"
Herbert
Paraphrase, How Far Art Thou"
Nesvadba
Solo for e fiat clarinet, Third
Fantasia" - Escudie
Ray Meyer. soloist
serenade from the "Cockney Suite"
Ketelbey
Waltz, "Amaryllis" --- vecsey
March, "St. Julien Hughes
1.-THE Star spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
$83O,O()D SOUGHT
FOR RELIEF WORK
Supplemental Fund Held
Vital to Prevent Suf-
fering Here.

Organization of a concerted public
campaign designed to bring about the
appropriation early in January Of a
supplemental relief fund of $3.50, 900
was started today by the Washington
Council of Social Agencies.
Directors of the council determined
yesterday that such fund was es-
sential to prevent hardship and suf-
fering by several thousand families
ruled ineligible for direct relief by
the District government because they
have one of more members technically
classed as "employab le," but who. the
council is convinced, cannot find work
The movement is in support of rec
concentration filed some weeks ago
with the Commissioners by the Board
of Public Welfare, which held that the
District relief appropriation for this
fiscal year would be inadequate to
meet the needs of this class of cases.
May Confer January 5.
The council is asking for a confer
ence with the Commissioners, which
probably will be held January S. to
urge them to make an insistent plea
for Budget Bureau approval of the
additional $830,000.
Because of the decision that only
"unemployable" cases could be given
care under the current District relief
appropriation, the Public Assistance
Division dropped some 1000 cases last
July l. This was ordered by the Com
missioners because it was calculated
the existing appropriation could pro-
vide for no more than 4.000-odd re-
naming cases, which were classed as
"unemployable"
I'VE have no sure way of knowing
how many of the so-called employ
able cases are in need today" said
Elwood Street, welfare director.
Number In Want.
1T may be assumed that perhaps
1000 have found some means of liveli-
hood, but we are convinced there
must be 5000 who are actually in
want"
Mrs. w. A. Roberts of the Council
of Social Agencies was even more
positive about the need.
These people are not only ineligi-
BILE for municipal aid, but they can
not be helped by the members of the
council because their funds are lin
tied. 1t should be remembered that
the Community Chest this year failed
to meet its quota by some 5000 O0
This means the Chest agencies sim
ply do not have the additional funds
which would be necessary for the as
sumption of so large on increased
load"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18

| Friends of the nursery have searched
the neighborhood in vain for some
suitable rooms into which to move
1t was said, however, that no funds
are available for rent.
Many small children attending the
nursery come from homes which can
not provide milk. codliver oil and
other essentials, 1t was said.
The nursery staff carried on with
out pay for several weeks last Winter
when lack of funds cut of their wages.
The mothers of the children helped.
and a Christmas party was provided.
From donated cloth small snow suits
were cut and stitched together. and
old toys were repaired and painted.
Enough money was raised to provide
nourishing food for the children
through the emergency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18

This is impossible. however, under
existing conditions.
At present there are only two pri-
mary segregations. The girls are
separa ted from the boys at all times
and the white children from the COL
ored only at bed time.
Leonard likewise stresses the need
of adequate recreational facilities. The
existing play rooms. where the children
virtually live in Indictment weather, are
too small to permit child to spend
its pent-up energy. Exercise is vir-
tually impossible. AS a result, the
children are forced to while away the
time playing checkers and cards and
other games which do not require run
ming or jumping or large amount of
space.
A small fenced-in playground ad-
Joins the building, which is used in
good weather, alternately by the boys
and girls. In the Winter. however,
much of the time is spent indoors.
Leonards chief problem arises at
bed time. When the number of in
mates in any particular group ex-
ceeds the available beds, the excess
is forced to sleep on the floor. That
has happened frequently in recent
weeks in the bed room set aside for
colored boys.
All the bed rooms, however, are
arranged in dormitory style, with the
cots so close together, that the chill
dren sleep almost cheek to cheek. In
one comparatively small room, used
by the white boys, there are 10 cots
Ordinarily, the imprisonment OF
children in the receiving home aver
ages about 512 days. In some cases
the time has been considerably longer,
Little Bobby, for instance, has been
at the receiving home three months
and in that time has learned many
things he never knew before. He
thinks it's funny instead of discour-
teous to stick out his tongue at
strangers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
THEFT CONFESSED

CINCINNATI, December 10 R.-
Sylvester A. Grote, a deputy county
auditor for 10 years, was under police
guard in his home last night after
Auditor George Guckenberger an
nounced he had confessed the theft
of more than $28,100 in bonds from
safe deposit boxes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
r AVING lost a two-year struggle

Y VAVING lost two-year struggle
for existence, the Fairbrother
Nursery School was to close
L L today with Christmas party
for its IS underprivileged children.
The laughter of the 8. 4 and S year.
olds over their toys was subdued by
the knowledge that the nursery must
suspend operations unless new home
is found.
Overcrowding of pupils at the Fair
brother Public School, Tenth and E
streets southwest. forced officials to
take over the quarters occupied by
the nursery.
The P. w. A., which has supplied
the wages Of a nurse, dietician,
teacher and housekeeper, and money
for cod liver oil and milk, cannot pro-
vide quarters for the nursery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-18
Pantomimes Presented.

Old-style pantomines are being pre-
sented in JohsTnesburs. South Africa.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-05-22
Mrs. F. r. Roosevelt
Astounds Snobs With
White House Party

WASHINGTON (C) Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt shocked and
astounded social snobs Friday
when she announced she would en-
terrain with a party at the White
House sixty girls from a detention
home, forty-nine of whom were
colored.
On Saturday Mrs. Roosevelt
made good her announcement and
served the girls ice cream and le-
monade on the White House lawn
while matrons of the detention
home looked on.
DR.. Carrie Weaver Smith, super
intendent Of the home, said, Mrs.
Roosevelt knows that the word
lady means actually, not an &c
complished female, but the loaf
giver, the mistress of the manor,
whose function was to share the
loaf with those in need, and in a
very special sense she is, therefore,
the First Lady of the Land.
What she has done today will
accomplish more for delinquent
children than all the White House
conferences"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-05-22
LIBERIA SEEKING TO
DISCOURAGE NEGRO
ORGANIZED GROUPS

MONROVIA, Liberia CAMP -
Skilled artisans, trained agricul-
turists, business men with capital
and young physicians possessing
the missionary spirit to go into the
Hinterland and improve health CON
ditions among the Aborigines, are
types Of Negroes wanted to settle
In Liberia" President Edwin Bar
clay has informed Lester A. Walt
on, the American Minister. OPP
portunists and political agitators
are not welcome.
"Since the Virginia Legislature
memorialized Congress to permit
the colonization of Negroes in Ii
IBERIA, many inquiries have been
received relative to the Govern
ment's attitude toward the plan.
An organization on south side Chi
cago, whose aim is ito return peo-
pie Of African descent to their
motherland, Africa" of which Mrs
M. M. L. Gordon is president, and
Miss Ethel Wad1ell is secretary,
has asked President Barclay if the
published reports are true that he
is opposed to the Wholesale influx
Of Negroes.
president Barclay has directed
his Aide-de-camp, Col. t. Elwood
Davis of the Liberian army, to
make a reply that Liberia favors
the repatriation of Negroes from
the United States, that the Repub-
lies established principle is to
make it an asylum for those of At
rican descent. However, as Liberia
is autonomous, it has been compel
led to take a definite position re-
garding the coming of organized
groups, having as their object the
making of the country the base of
International antagonisms.
"All prospective migrants are
advised to get in touch with the
Liberian Government and make the
necessary arrangements before
sailing"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-05-22

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. amp
plans for opening a Negro Boys
club in a building to be loaned by
a prominent white business leader,
Crawford johnson, Jra were dis
cussed between leaders Thursday
evening in the white Boys Club,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-05-22
METHODIST MERGER
ACCEPTED LEADERS
EXPRESS OPINIONS

COLUMBUS, o. CAMP - Re-
conciled to the decision of the M.
e. church in quadrennial conven-
ton here to accept the three-way
Evanston plan of .unification with
the ME-. Church, South, and the
Methodist Protestant Church, Me-
gro leaders both for and against
the merger have announced they
plan to Immediately prepare for
the new setup which cannot take
place before 1888.
DR.. Mary Mcleod Bethune, pre-
sident of Bethune-Cookman College
and one of the strongest opponents
of the plan, declared, I'VE are to
prepare for this new setup. Our
leadership should be increased i'm
mediately in the episcopacy and
other agencies in order. that we
may be able to carry on the work
of the Central Jurisdiction"
Rev. ]. B. Redmond, Chicago
pastor, asserted: I'VE need now to
plan our course, contact our friends
and see that as a minority group
we have full opportunity for adj
vancement and protection from be-
ing erlerged."
A. P. Shaw, Me. editor: ut is
our opportunity to contact the
South and lessen racial friction
and misunderstanding"
DR.. Willis ]. King, president of
Cannon Theological Seminary:
THE best that can be done at pre-
sent. The opportunity for race ex-
preston, contact, cooperation and
understanding win be a distinct
gain"
DIR. M. S. Davage, president of
Clark University: ut will raise the
level of interracial appreciation IN
the South"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-05-22

L ate News Flashes

WASHINGTON (kNPl Gov.
Eugene Talmasge Of Georgia was
directly blamed for the outbreak
Of recent lynchings IN that state
ia 4 telegram sent him this week
BY Representative Arthur Mitchell
Of Illinois. The Congressman scor-
ed the governor for his connection
with the Georgia Woman's World,
which has been attempting to
spread anti-Negro and anti-Roose-
velt propaganda in the South Dy
publishing photographs Of Mrs
Roosevelt N the company Of coll
ored persons.