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Evening star., 1937-12-23

in day and that the real desire back
of these invitations probably is never
satisfied for either the family or the
children"
Miss Morss talked about the young
children that need foster homes. She
spoke of light-haired, blue-eyed baby
boy Of months, and a 3-year-old
playful little colored girl. She told
about a brother and sister Of 7 and 2
years, respectively, who need home
with a Catholic family.
A father and mother have deserted
five brothers and sisters ranging In
age from 5 to II. There are two sis
ters of 4 and and baby brother of
7 months, all Catholic. There are
four little colored brothers and sisters,
ranging from 4 to ii, whose father
died and whose mother has serious
heart ailment.
1--WE need help to find homes" she
said. I'VE are asking you, who have
come through your own efforts to
understand the needs Of dependent
children to help us In the discovery
Of thoughtful families who are willing
to work and share for 365 days Of the
year with these children"
Evening star., 1937-12-23
HOLIDAY PAY is SOUGHT
FOR PER DIEM WORKERS

Following a ruling by Acting Con-
troller General Elliott that per diem
employees are not entitled to pay for
the holidays on Christmas eve and
New Year eve granted by executive
order, Charles I. Stengle, president
OF the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees, announced last
night that legislation will be sought
at the next session of Congress putting
these workers on the same basis as
those on annual pay rolls
Mr.. Elliott's ruling was given to
the Secretary of the Navy, and simply
reaffirms an old principle that in
variably raises the same issue when
executive order holidays are granted,
thousands of regular employees paid
on q per diem basis contending they
are entitled to the same consideration
as others whose pay rates are figured
differently.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
THUGS CONTINUE
ACTIVITIES HERE
Colored Man Is Heaviest
Loser, Reporting $3.50
Taken by Robbers.

A number of hold-ups, housebreak-
ings and purse snatchlngs were re-
ported to police during the last "a
hours as thugs continued their pre-
holiday busy season.
The heaviest loser was Thomas
jolly, 35, colored, 1900 block of Fifth
street NV, who told police he was
forced to enter car here and driven
into nearby Maryland. where he was
robbed of $3.50 before being put out
blindfolded.
Jolly said three white men, one OF
them armed, were in the machine. He
reported he was driven to College Park
before being elected from the auto.
mobile
Edward Pitts, 1924 Irving street
NV, driver of a Capital Transit Co.
bus, reported two colored men boarded
his bus at Fifth and w streets NV.
while it was empty of passengers and
robbed him of So and rs tokens.
Miss Elsie Garriety, 1919 Sixteenth
street NV, lost $18 and a railroad
ticket to Providence, R. l., when a
colored man grabbed her posketbook
from her arm, while she was walking
near Sixteenth and Crescent streets
NV.
Charles J. Collier, SO, of 1925 Twen-
ty-second street NV, said a colored
man pressed a gun in his back and
took $57 from him in the HOO block
of I street NV.
A polite bandit" gave back Miss
Lillian Finkelstein's purse after emp
tying it of $50. Miss Finkelstein. who
lives at 1916 Seventeenth street NV.
said the hold-up occurred at Seven
teenth and T streets NV.
Amos T. Johnson, house detective
at the Raleigh Hotel. reported the
theft of two overcoats, one topcoat and
a hat, belonging to members of Hap
py' Walkers orchestra.
Two colored boys, one about 10 and
the other IL, escaped with the purse
of Miss Mary Waldron, 1920 Sixteenth
street NV, after snatching it near
Sixteenth and Corcoran streets NV.
Evening star., 1937-12-23

until they have chance to prepare
case
I'VE have never been heard" he
said.
Complaint Never Heard.
In answer to the charge that the
stands are unsightly and unsanitary,
as the Federal authorities maintain,
the operators claim they have never
heard any such complaint. The Gus
toners gathered around each stand
pointing proudly at the neatly stacked
counters, the shiny Christmas deco
rations and the polished cold drink
stands
At William H. Boyer's stand in the
basement of the State, War and Navy
Building a brightly lit Christmas tree
decorated the stand.
Mr.. Boyer said he couldn't under
stand the situation. We're not asking
for charity or the blind pension" he
said. I'VE want to keep on making a
living and I don't see how we can if
they take all our profit away"
Mr.. Boyer is the sole support of
his mother, who is nearly blind her
self. He is very popular among his
customers, who remarked that he was
always cheerful and deserved to get
along"
Support Parents and Child.
Douglas Richardson, 27, who oper-
ateS the stand in the Securities and
Exchange Building, contributes to the
support of his mother and father and
is the sole support of his 4-year-old
daughter.
Il don't see how there could be any
complaints about the stands being un-
sanitary" he said. I'VE comply to
the letter with the permits issued us
by Columbia. Everything sold across
this counter is wrapped"
Mr.. Richardson agreed that fixtures
in some places would be worth while,
but he thinks he could do the same
job without spending $1,000 on it,
He termed the supervision fee sui
cidal."
II might as well go on relief as
try TO run q stand at what I'd make
with the welfare supervising it." said
Frank Hodges, 80, who was the first
blind stand operator. He has been in
the Walker Johnson Building, 1874
New York avenue, for four years. The
building now houses the w. P. A., but
when he first came the F. E. r. A.
occupied it.
Sole Support Of Six.
Mr.. Hodges is the sole support of
a wife and five children. He feels
that under Government supervision
he couldn't meet even his domestic
obligations.
IF the welfare gets in, we're
squeezed out" he said. "And while
We stay, we'u make less than living
wage"
The operators were unanimous in
their praise for Columbia Polytechnic
Institute and attacked the Welfare
and Recreational Association to a
man. They all feel that Columbia
was trying to help them to be in
dependent despite their handicap,
while the association is planning to
take \their small livelihood away.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Blind With Families to Keep
Fight y. S. Control of Stands
Operators IN Federal Buildings Fear
Lining Incomes They No,o Earn viii
Become BeloU-Standard Wages.

Confused by the sudden turn OF
events which they think will turn liv-
ing incomes into substandard wages,
the nine blind persons operating stands
ip Federal buildings today were, des-
perately looking for way out of the
proposed Government supervision" of
their businesses.
The stands now are under super
vision of the Columbia Polytechnic In
stitute, which receives no pay for its
services. After January /, however,
the Vocational Rehabilitation Service,
Office of Education of the Interior
Department. will be in control. taking
what is estimated to be 20 per cent
of the profits OF the stands.
Almost as much aroused as the Blind
operators of the stands are the Gus
toners who patronize the stands Hun
dreds of names are going down on the
petitions being circulated by the oper-
ators. The petitions. which vary in
wording. assert the customers are sat-
isfled with the way things are being
run now.
Can Be Independent.
1T was the aim of Columbia for us
to do something on our own without
help from Others" Jerome Beuchert,
%, who has only been operating his
stand in the Social Security Building
for nine months, said today. Most
Of the boys have gotten along all right.
We can be as Independent as any
business man if we're given the oppor-
tunity to get along on our own"
Objecting to the plan whereby the
Welfare and Recreational Association
Of Public Buildings will enlarge the
standsS SMr. Beuchert said: II haven't
even finished paying for my own stand.
Now I have to go into debt for new
stuff that won't be mine even after I
do pay for it. All of us know how
much We can spend, and if we have
to buy more we just won't be able to
make things CO."
According to the plan of enlarging
and restocking, the operators will pay
OF 500 year and 6 per cent on
$1,000 After the principal is all paid
on, they will still not own the stands.
They're going to take practically
everything We have" said William
Phillips, Al, who has been operating
the candy counter in the General
Accounting ONCE for four years.
Boycott Threatened.
Besides the united support of his
customers, who threaten 10 boycott
the welfare stand" Mr.. Phillips is
being backed in his opposition by the
American Legion. Mr.. Phillips is past
commander of the Disabled Veterans
OF the World War and a member of
Sgt. Jasper Post of the American
Legion and the Walter Reed Post Of
Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
The Sightless Stand Operators As
Soclation, composed of the operators
OF the stands in the Federal buildings
and the two stands in the District
Building, which are not affected by
the shift in control, met Monday night
to prepare a protest.
Mr.. Phillips reported that the oper-
ators signed petition at the meeting
asking stay of execution of the order
Evening star., 1937-12-23
NEEDY TO BE AIDED

New pairs of shoes will be given 200
needy school children tomorrow by
the Volunteers of America as part
of their Christmas activity. The shoes
will be fitted at the new Hahn Shoe
Store, 915 Seventh street NV, at
$3.50 am.
Later in the day at Thomson School,
Twelfth and L streets NV, the Or
ganization will distribute more than
500 baskets of food to needy families,
each basket containing enough pro-
visions to last the average family
three days.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
PLAN RELOCATION
OF PEACE CROSS
e
Maryland Road Authorities
Project Change to
Ease Traffic.

Relocation and redesign of the
Peace Cross Circle at Bladensburg,
long advocated as a means of re-
ducing traffic congestion, has been
made part of the Maryland State
roads construction program for 1898.
This was disclosed at the monthly
meeting of the Advisory Board of
the Keystone Automobile Club at the
Willard Hotel Wednesday night by
William S. Canning, engineering di-
rector of the club. following a con-
ference with Dr. Homer E. Tabler,
chairman of the Maryland State
Roads Commission, and Clarence P.
Taylor, director of Highway Planning
Survey.
Governors Opposed.
The board voted to oppose the pro-
poSal of the director of vehicles and
traffic here for speed governors on
automobiles as dangerous.
The proposal that street lights be
AASo o1l LII tilC ulUII IllllS 10 UllIl.
utes later than at present and turned
on is minutes earlier in the after
noon was Endorsed.
Opposition was voiced to the pro-
posal that photographs of operators
be required on all new and renewal
operators permits.
Vice chairman w. c.. Miller was
named chairman of special COM
mittee to confer with committees of
Congress regarding appropriations.
Other members include c. Melvin
Sharpe, Harvey L. Cobb and George
E. Keneipp.
Sultan Guest of Board.
Col. Dan I. Sultan, Engineer Com
a guest of the board, in
dorsed the clubs opposition to the
diversion on motor vehicle tax funds.
He called attention to the i'm
portance of such projects as the Du-
pont Circle underpass, grade separa-
ton at Fourteenth and Water streets
S.W. and grade separation at K street
and Rock Creek Potomac Parkway
NV, construction expense for which
would be taken from motor vehicle
tax funds.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
BONDING HEARINGS
LISTED WEDNESDAY
Attorney and Bondsmen
Free to Practice and Take
Bonds, Board Says.

Hearing of charges of "unethical
conduct" against an attorney and
two bondsmen will be resumed We'd
nesday by the Board of Police Court
Judges.
In ordering the case continued yes
terday, the board asked that the
public be advised that the respondents
have not been suspended and are at
liberty to practce law or take bonds,
as the case may be.
The respondents, Attorney John p.
Mullen and Bondsmen Joseph MCGEE
and Hyman Mendelson, had objected
to a continuance on the grounds they
were losing money because the general
belief was that they were under sus-
pension.
The high light in yesterdays hear
ing came just after close of court, when
the chief witness for the Special Bar
Association Grievance Committee was
ordered held by Judge Edward M. Cur
ran because the witness, Hans Otto
Stasch, had failed to pay a $3.50 fine
on charge of driving while in
toxicated Stasch was taken immedi-
ately to the first precinct.
Time for Payment Expired
Stasch had testified that the re-
spondents. had conspired to charge
him greater premium free than
allowed by law While the wit
ness was testifying he admitted he
had been released on his personal
bond to pay the fine, that the time
was extended once at his request, and
that the final date for payment had
expired.
During yesterdays hearing Stasch
stated he had been referred to Austin
F. Garfield, chairman of the Special
Grievance Committee, after he COM
planned to another lawyer following
imposition. He had never before
complained to any one about the
amount charged for his bond, he ad-
mitted under cross-examination.
Dismissal Motions Denied.
The Board o.. Judges yesterday de-
MED motions to dismiss as to Mr..
Mendelson and Mr.. MCGEE.
Both Of these witnesses took the
stand to deny that they had charged
an excessive premium for the $500
bond imposed when Stasch was ar
raigned ano demanded q jury trial
Mr.. Mendelson said he had SIS
check cashed, put the legal fee Of
$25 belonging to him in one pocket
and $50, which he claims was part
of the fee due Mr.. Mullen, in an
other. He later gave Mr.. Mullen the
$50, he said. The prosecution had
claimed that SIS was charged for
the premium on the bond.
The case was recessed without Mr..
Mullen having taken the stand.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
GROUP HEALTH GETS
MEMBERS INCREASE
Federal Reserve Board Employees
Revealed as Joining H. o. L.C.
Clinic.

Employees Of the Federal Reserve
Board are joining Group Health As
sociation, Inc, the medical care corpo-
ration set up by the Home Owners
Loan Corp, it was learned today.
These employees were among those
OF four organizations outside of the
H. o. L. c. and its affiliates who have
applied for the privilege of joining
Group Health Association, and are
being admitted The others include
Rural Electriflcation, Farm Credit Ad-
ministration and Social Security.
Neither the H. o. L G. nor Group
Health Association officials are solicit
ing outside members for G. H. A., they
insist. The applications came vol
unfairly from the outside groups, who
are being adj ltted only up to the
capacity Of the clinic.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Army Band
at 4:30 pm. today in the Army Band
Auditorium; Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
leader; Karl Rubner, assistant leader.
Program.
March, "The Bohemians" Hadley
Excerpt, In the Woods 80 GODDARD
From the suite Of "Poetical Scenes" !"
Cornet solo, ---"A Aloha Oe"
Albin I. johnson, soloist.
Prelude, "L'Aresienne." -Bizet
From the suite.
Characteristic, Parade Of the Wood
en- Soldiers" ---- Jessel
Intermezzo, "Snowflakes" Fulton
March, Distant Greeting" - Loring
''The Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra in Stanley Hall at
$50 pm. today; John 8. M. Zimmer-
mann. bandmaster; Anton Pointner.
assistant.
March, Loyal Comrades"
Blankenburg
Overture. lie Roi Ia Dit" (The Kine
Hath said) Delibes
Entr'acte:
''Serenata !. Arabe" Tarreoa
"Serenad0 Italienne"- CzibulIa
Scenes from the opera, Count Hoff-
mans Love Tales" offenbach
Popular Numbers:
"A Smile VIII Go q Long, Long
Way" Ak.t
"All Over Nothing at All"- Rule
Waltz petite, "Chiquita" WAYNE
Finale. The Land Of Moa" syratheov
The Star Spangled Baflner.n
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Library to Be Closed.

The Library of Congress will be
closed all day tomorrow and Saturday,
but will be open to patrons on Sunday
from 2 pm. until 10 pm, it wa
Announced today. =
Evening star., 1937-12-23
TAGS DEAD JAN. |
Hazen Repeats Warning to Pro-
crastinating Autoists.

crastinating Autoists.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen to-
day repeated his warning to motorists
that there would be no extension of
time for. the use Of 1887 automobile
tags beyond midnight December 81.
He issued the warning after Traflc
Director william A. Van Duzer re-
ported that Monday there were some
81 600 fewer tags issued than on the
same day last yeaS. The figures were
8o.21s tags this vi as compared with
loO,0 In 1896.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
WINS AD PRIZE

n. ]. kaufman Agency Gets $50
Fur Week Contest Award.
The Henry j. Kaufman Advertising
Agency announced yesterday it had
been awarded first prize OF $50 for its
entry in the 1897 national fur week
ad contest. -.,.''.
The firm was informed of the selec-
ton in letter from Lawrence VAL
enstein, chairman of publicity for
national fur week.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-02-19
Rernson News

Mrs. George Reid and daughters,
Eleanor and Barbara spent Sunday
with her mother. Mrs. Alison Payne.
The Ladies Aid Society of Remson
will hold a festival in the church
house on Wednesday evening, Feb. "a.
They will serve oysters, Ice cream,
cake and coffee. EVERYBODY come and
enjoy the evening.
Mr.. Bill Miles of Modestown, Va,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Bun
dick on Sunday.
Mrs. Marion Ards is still under a
doctors care since her return home
from the Methodist Hospital in Phila-
delphia. We hope she may soon be
restored to perfect health.
Those on the sick list this week
are Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Jones, Mr.. Paul
Jones, Mr.. Marion Jones and Mrs. AL
lison Payne. We wish them all a
speedy recovery.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-02-19

may have to be settled. When one has
ment, or he may die and his estate
a Federal Loan one knows that as
long as the interest and taxes are
paid, and the buildings are insured,
there is nothing to worry about, if
the loan, in part or in full, is paid,
at any time.
This association has loaned in this
county $541, 10000 from the Federal
Land Bank and the Land Bank Com
the loans now outstanding
are on a 1-2 per cent basis; if this
money were loaned out at 6 per cent,
which is the general rate charged on
other loan, it would amount to $780,
$1,000 yearly; the difference in the
rate will just about pay the taxes.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-02-19
A TOTAL in COUNTY OF
S2,366.S2 FOR RED CROSS

A total of $2,366.s2 has been do
mated by Worcester County residents
to the American Red Cross for Flood
Relief, it was announced this morn
ing by Miss Lena H. Riggin, County
Floor Relief Committee chairman.
Total donations received are as fol
lows:
Pocomoke City $556.61; Berlin
$52O.5O; Snow Hill, $48O.14; Ocean
City, $233.Os; Stockton, $151.19;
County Commissioners, 500; Newark,
$66.25; Bishopville, $500; Public
Landing CCC, SAT; Whaleyville, $41;
County, State Road Employees, $32;
Girdletree, $S2.15; Box Iron, $14.25;
C. &. P. Telephone, $40; Melbourne,
S.; and Herring Creek CCC, sos.
Showells, SIG. Total $2,366.82.
Since the report of last week from
Pocomoke, the Workers Guild of ST.
Mary's Episcopal Church has contri-
buted $40 and Messrs. w. A. Hob
litzell and John HI. Clarke, and Mrs.
John Duncan have been added to the
list Of individual subscribers.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-02-19
CAMP SUPT.
ADDRESSES THE
ROTARY CLUB
Princess Anne ROtarians Hears
A Report Of The West
over Draining Camp

One of the features of the pro-
gram, of the Princess Anne Rotary
Club at it's regular meeting Tuesday
evening was a report given by D. A.
Hannaman, Superintendent Of the
Westover CCC drainage camp.
Mr.. Hannaman discussed the drain
age work being done by the CCC boys.
He praised the spirit shown by the
boys who are now in Camp and whose
homes are in several of the South
ern states principally South Carolina,
Louisiana and Florida.
The boys are not only engaged in
ditching work but some time was de-
voted to fighting forest fires, giving
aid during storm and building bird
shelters and feeding stations for quail.
Farmers who have land drained by
the ditshes which have been dug and
cleaned out by the CCC boys have
been loud in their praises and dur
ing the heavy rains of the past month
their farms were drained promptly
and many report the land has been
drier than for many years in the past.
The dragline work on the Peggy's
Neck and Kings Greek Tax bitches
have been of special interest to the
people as well as the fine bitches
dug in Paramount District by hand
and with the aid of ditcher and trac-
tor.
The Marumsco and Long Broughton
tax bitches are being dug with hand
labor and splendid progress is being
made.
Since there is more than 100 miles
in the 81 tax bitches now listed, ii
is the hope of the people of the coun-
ty that the camp will be continued
until all the ditces in the county can
be properly dug and cleaned out, SO
that one of the most serious draw
backs to farming in the county will
be removed. If the drainage factor
can be solved, the farmers will be
able to avoid a considerable loss in
money due to crop failures and poor
yields caused by wet weather and
poorly drained farm land.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-02-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Colvin Redden of Har
risburg, Pa, Mr.. Cleveland Jones of
Coninwingo, Nd, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Burbage, Miss Almeta Jones of
Snow Hill attended the funeral of
their grandmother on Monday after
noon held at Remson Church, Mrs.
Sarah Wise Jones.
Mr.. Ralph Ards of Pocomoke Wis
tied his parents on Sunday, Mr.. and
Mrs. Marion Ards.
Funeral services were held at Rem
son Church on Monday afternoon for
Mrs. Sarah Wise Jones. She had
for some time been confined to her
bed. She was SO years old, was a
good mother, loved her neighbors and
her church and was always ready to
lend a helping hand to the needy.
The community extends sympathy to
the family.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-02-19
MIND" LESSON SERMON
in CHURCHES OF CHRIST

Mind" will be the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of
Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, February
81.
The Golden Text will be from Pro-
verbs 3:5-"Trust in the Lord with
all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding"
Among the citations comprising the
Lesson-Sermon will be the following
from the Bible-Deut. 6:4-"Hear, o
Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord"
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, "Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures," by Mary Baker Eddy, page
34S-"Jesus strips all disguise from
error, when his teachings are fully
understood"
Services: Sunday, Odds Fellow Hall
Pocomoke City, Md.
On Friday, February 10, from 1880
to 7:45 p. M, Station WCAO Bal
timore, will radiocast a Christian
Science program.
This programme is authorized by
the Christian Committee on Publica-
ton. The speaker will be Mr.. JEFF
ferson c. Grinnalde, First Reader of
Second Church of Baltimore, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-02-19
INDEPENDENT
ORDER OF ODD
FELLOWS HOSTS
Entertained Members OF Their
Families And Friends To
Number Of 100

On Monday last Marva Lodge No.
179 of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows entertained members of their
family and friends numbering nearly
100 in their Lodge Room in the Pc
ninsula Building. This date being
close to st. Valentines Day the hall
was appropriately and deliberately
decorated in keeping with the spirit
of the season.
The occasion was graced by the
presence of the Grand Master of the
tate of Maryland, T. Earl Ewing, of
Easton, and his wife. M. William
Miller in his humorous way gave the
address of welcome which was re.
sponded to by the Grand Master with
timely remarks on Odd Fellowship.
Among the many interesting fea.
lures of the occasion were: vocal sole
by George S. Matthews, Jr., accom-
panied by Mrs. Helen Dyott at the
piano; reading by Miss Bernice Hall;
and representations of movie stars by
M. William Miller.
Refreshments were served at 1C
p. M, followed by the social hour
Merriment gave proof to the fact
that this feature was thoroughly en-
joyed by all. The guests departed
at IL o'clock expressing themselves
as having thoroughly enjoyed the
evening which was pleasing to the
Lodge members who in return prom
Used to have a REPETITION in the near
future.