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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-31
RED CROSS CHAPTER APPEALS
FOR HNEISE RELIEF FUNDS

An appeal LOT IundS 10 De USED
for the relief of millions of suffer
ing men, women, and children in
China was made today by Robert
z. Spottswood, chairman of the
Key West Red Cross Chapter,
who announced that at the sug-
gestion of President Roosevelt,
chapters throughout the country
were joining in the appeal
In asking this community to as
sist in raising this fund, there is
little need to emphasize appalling
conditions existing around Shang-
hal and other cities, inasmuch as
newspapers, newsreels and radio
have wildly pictured conditions
that exist.
This money will be allocated to
relief agencies and hospitals al
ready existing, and a committee
of American business men in
China, appointed by the Ameri-
can ambassador, Nelson T. John
son, would be formed to distri-
butte the fund No personnel will
be sent from the United States.
In addition to the urgent need
for food, shelter and warm cloth
ing, one of the great needs in
China at the present time is for
medical assistance. Great danger
exists that epidemics may break
out.
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, ma
tional Red Cross chairman. said
American officials in China had
informed him that $4,000 sick
and homeless persons were
crowding the International Set
Element and Greater Shanghai at
the present time, with many times
that number scattered throughout
central and interior cities, towns,
and villages that have been de-
vastated.
The national chairman also
pointed out that lack of adequate
housing facilities for the homeless
was aggravating the health prob
lem, and that existing public shell
tiers had long been over-crowded.
resulting IN thousands of home
less being forced to hubble I'm
der straw mating shelters with
out sufficient protection from
SHOWS and cold rains sweeping
over the country.
Alleys and doorways IN the
towns and cities were crowded
with bewildered men, women and
children. Americans on the scene
reported, and since railway serv-
ices had been disrupted there was
no way to evacuate them to other
areas.
An offer tof assistance to the
japanese and Chinese Red Cross
Societies was made last August
by International Red Cross Com
mittees at Geneva. The Japan
csc Society replied that their re-
sources were adequate to deal
with their situation, but the Chin
csc stated that they very much
needed outside assistance.
The Red Cross has become an
international symbol of mercy,
and there is great need for our
cooperation at this time, said Mr..
SpottswoOd, 'and / am sure thai
our appeal viii meet with a gen.
erous response. and that we who
live in such a fortunate land viii
assist the suffering and homeless
thousands in China.
Contributions may be sent to
Mr.. Spottswood. Hilton Kemp or
to Mrs Grace B. Phillips. and
checks should be made cut 70 the
American Red Cross.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-31
Extra Sailing Of Ferry
Now Becomes Necessary
NZZZZZZZZ
FINE SPECIMENS
OF FISH LANDED

Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Renouf.
who with a group of friends
are spending a happy vaca-
tion at their trailer camp on
Summerland Key. are still
finding the fish biting and
have succeeded IN landing
some fine specimens.
Some time ago two excel
lent specimens were caught
and shipped to the folks at
home. in Cleveland. Cincin-
natl and other points. to give
them an idea of the size and
kind which are caught In
these waters. and last week
Mr. Renouf brought IN two
fine jswfish.
One Of the catches weighed
about us pounds and the
otheF. also = jewish. weighed
just . rtrifIs over zoo poundsss
- -. =. !,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-31
DEFINITE QUOTA
FIXED FOR old
AGE ASSISTANCE
MOUNTING NUMBER OF
THOSE SEEKING AID CAUS-
Es WELFARE BOARD TO
ADOPT MEASURES
Especial to The CItI.enl

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 81.
The mounting number of those
seeking Old Age Assistance, al
ready nearly double estimates
upon which legislative appropria-
tions were based, has caused the
State Welfare Board to fix def
mite state and district quotas, ac-
cording to announcement yester-
day of Clayton c. Codrington,
state welfare commissioner.
When the quotas are filled
and the deadline is rapidly near
ing-applications win be taken
and filed until vacancies have
been created by the closing of
casas, Codrington said.
In districts whose earlier
quotas have ben filled, an addi-
tional Is percent will be enrolled,
the commissioner explained, in
view of the heavy death rate of
more than one percent per month.
Funds that accumulated during
the organization stage of the pro-
gram viii make this possible, as 1t
is only since the beginning of the
present year that OAA monthly
payments have appropriated the
average amount provided by leg
islative appropriations supple
mented by matching federal
funds
Prior to fixing the quotas, the
State Welfare Board '1eveled" the
II welfare districts, so that all
should be on parity and so that
no discrimination would be pos
sible, the commissioner added.
The need for this was occasioned
by some of the districts being
much better Stalled when the
State Board went into office on
July / than others, and the time
required to obtain visitors and
other social service workers un-
der the prevailing merit system,
he said.
The State Board was confront
ed with two alternatives" Cod
rington stated. 1T could either
fix definite quotas consuming all
available funds and let the indi-
vidual grants remain the same as
now, or it could place all the
eligible applying upon the pay
roll and reduce the size of the
grant. It chose the former as
there is grave doubt that the So
cial Security Board at Washing
ton, would permit the lowering
of grants that were primarily bas-
ed upon need.
The Florida Social Security
Survey, made by the former State
Social Welfare in cooperation
with the Works Progress Admin
istration, estimated the number of
needy aged more than IS years
old as q, 304- This estimate was
taken into consideration by the
1887 legislature in appropriating
So. 400, 900 for Old Age Assistance.
Aid to the Blind. Surplus Com
modify Distribution. Child We'll
fare Department and adminiStra-
tive expense. The estimate was
ultra conservative. Codrington
pointed out, in view of the fact
that 25.475 had been granted as
sistance as of January and the
number of applications pending
as OF December 81 was 1883, a
total of 44.S63-
The present allowed quota of
the State Welfare Board is ST.
So.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-31
LIKED ovERALLs

MINNEAPOLIS.-One of the
reasons why Leonard n Crates
OF this city applied for q divorce
Was that his wife insisted on
wearing overaIlS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-31

Beginning Tomorrow murnHlE
February Isl.
LEWIS AND SAWYER
wriu start scsvengeT serr1ne ~
compliance with re recgrt CltE
Council award
We g1zrantee prupE sGrvz1e A.
every respect inclu1Eng ere a.
your containerE
Daily routess
Mondsy-frum Fr0ut ElrEs1 -
and including Fieuz1zg seree<
Tuesdsy-frurn Fieznlng EtrEG
o Dsvixior street.
Wednesday - frun DswznE
street. 90 head e iz1nnd
THURSDAY. Fri1sy and S4tU-
day. rspez&1nx zb0vs s-ns1zle-
Fer Complaints 1nd
Service Cal
CITY SCAVENGR
SERVICE
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Y. N. C. A. TO SPONSOR
LECTURES ON HYGIENE
Dr.. Carl A. Wilzbach of Cincin-
natl Delivers First of Series
Wednesday at Lions Club.

DR.. Carl A. Wilzbach, executive Sec
retary Of the Cincinnati Social Hy-
giene Society. will deliver the first
of series of lectures here at 1890
pm. Wednesday at luncheon of the
Lions Club in the Mayflower Hotel.
His subject will be "A. Common Sense
Health Program"
Wednesday at 8 pm. he will speak
before young peoples groups at the
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church on
preparation for Marriage and
Thursday at 10:45 am. will speak be-
fore students of the Woodward Boys
School on Becoming 4 Man" Again,
he will speak on Preparation for Mar
riage" at 8 pm. Thursday before stu
dents in the George Washington Uni
versity auditorium.
At 1880 pm. Friday he will speak
before executives of character building
agencies on "Co-ordination in Public
Health" in Barker Hall of the Y. w.
c. A. and at pm. that day will speak
at the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church to a group of young married
persons on Making Go OF Marriage" ("
The addresses here will be under
auspices of the Young Mems Christian
Association and the Lester E. Ward
Sociological Society.
Evening star., 1938-02-20

the old speech to successive gener-
atoms. Contaminations crept In
and were perpetuated. The quota
ton was taken down directly from
the lips of Ellis by Miss Siser.
Translated, the story Is as fol-
lows: A man called God . word.
He called God . bad word. God
put him in the moon. He suffered
and suffered. He suffered eat and
he suffered drink (hunger and
thrist).
It's . problem for any linsnist
to unscramble. Take, for exam
pie. the last words: He tufIy
nunk." "Nunk" Is . contamina-
ton of dunk" pre-Chaucerian
Anglo-Saxon for drink" which
still survives in the American Ian
guaSe In such expressions -
"dunktns doughnuts." &c.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY
TO BUS HOLD.UP CHARGE
Judge Holds Him for Grand Jury
Under 81 500 Bond-Revol-
yer. Held Hidden.

Stanley P. Samson, "a, Of the 400
block Of Decatur street NV, was held
for the grand jury under $500 bond
after being arraigned before Judge
Edward M. Curran in Police Court yes
terday on = charge Of robbery. He
pleaded not guilty.
Walter Bierwagen. Alb Third place
NV, Capital Transit Co. bus driver,
identified Samson as the man who
held him up on his bus at gun point
the night of February 3 after he
stopped at Kansas avenue and Decatur
street NV, thinking Samson a pros
pective fare. Several passengers were
on the bus at the time Samson is
alleged to have robbed the driver Of
So and some change. Police said at
least one person, besides the bus driver,
had identified Samson in . police
lineup.
Policemen Who arrested Samson on
February 10 said he attempted to hide
as caliber pistol behind the scout
car seat en- route to the police stations
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Sufferers From Cataplexy
Dare Not Laugh, Clinic Is Told
DR.. Dickens Describes Strange Condi.
ton in Which Emotion, Causes Pa
tient to Fall, Helpless.

praecox, If cases are treated early
enough. were described by DR.. H. D.
Shapiro Of the George Washington
faculty. In one case the patient is
thrown into convulsions and coma by
repeated shock does of insulin. for
merly used chiefly in the treatment
Of diabetes.
Change In Personality.
About so per cent remissions have
been obtained, DR.. Shapiro said, in
cases OF brief standing. After in
sulin shock, he said. there is a re-
markable change in personality The
silent become talkative and the ex-
cited become quiet. The problem is
to make this change permanent.
A common remark of such patients,
he said. is: Il feel as If had been
reborn"
Nobody knows. Dr. Shapiro said,
why insulin shock doses work as they
do. One explanation is that normal
thought processes follow certain chan
nels in the nervous system. These
channels become blocked in some way
by the abnormal thought processes
Of the insane and the insulin tends
to clear them out.
Metrozol, a drug used hitherto
chiefly as heart stimulant, is much
quicker acting and the treatment can
be given in the home or the ply
sicians ONCE. 1t induces convulsiohs
similar to those of the epileptic, and
its use was due to the observation
that epilepsy and dementia praecox
seem to have an antipathy for one
another. It seems to act better. DR..
Shapiro said. on patients of the ex-
tremely depressed type who do not
react well to insulin shock.
Experiments now are in progress,
he said. to determine the effects of
metrazol in some phases of the maniac
Oppressive irsanities and the value of
both in the very prevalent psyche
neuroses which are just on the border
line Of insanity.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
D. c. CARING FOR 3,O28
UNDER 0LD.AGE PROGRAM
Total Of 3,471 Grants Made-217
Requests for Aid to Blind
Approved.

The District was caring for 3.o2s
cases under the old age assistance
program at the end of the last month.
according to report to the Board of
Public Welfare by Miss Alice Hill,
relief director.
All told, the District has made 3.471
grants in old age assistance, but the
number has been reduced by deaths
among beneficiaries and by develop
ment of information that relief was
no longer necessary, Miss Hill said.
The report covered the first two
years of the operation Of the District
old age assistance program. During
the same period, she said, the District
had approved total of PIT applica-
tions for aid TO the needy blind, of
whom 1876 were receiving relief in
January. The figure for the needy
blind was reduced for the same reasons
as for the needy aged, she said.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
STATUE OF BEADLE
WILL Be UNVEILED
South Dakota to Present
Memorial to Hall of Fame {
This Week,

A statue of Gen. William H. Beadle,
Civil War soldier and pioneer educa-
tor in the Northwest, is being placed
in the Hall of Fame at the Capitol
this week by South Dakota.
Funds for the statue were provided
by the students and teachers of the
State in recognition OF his service to
education in that section of the coun-
try. He advocated the township sys-
tenn of school organization. An in
scription on the statue reads:
Gen. w. H. Beadle, l838-l9l5, Edu-
Gator, Conservationist, Statesman and
Soldier. Through his leadership
twenty million acres OF school lands
were saved to posterity in South Da-
kota, North Dakota, Montana, Wash
ington, Idaho and Wyoming. Pre-
sented to South Dakota and the
United States by the teachers and
children Of South Dakota. 1888"
The statue will be unveiled at exer-
cises in Statuary Hall at the Capitol
at 4 pm. Wednesday, The presenta-
ton will be made by Gov. Leslie Jen-
sen. and accepted by Vice President
Garner. The South Dakota congress
sional delegation is being assisted in
making the arrangements by Barrett
Lowe, chairman of the Beadle Gen.
tennial Commission.
Prior to the ceremonies the South
Dakota Society will give a luncheon,
and after the exercises q dramatiza-
ton of the life of Gen. Beadle will
be broadcast by the National Broad
casting Co. at 6 pm
Speakers at the unveiling exercises
will include Senators Bulow and
Hitchcock and Representatives Hide
brandt and Case, all of South Da-
kota. and w. w. Howes, who is First
Assistant Postmaster General and
president of the South Dakota So
ciety. Observances are being held
throughout the State this year in
honor Of the Tooth birthday anniver-
sary Of Gen. Beadle.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
YOUNG WOMAN CLERK
HELD UP, THEN FAINTS
Found Unconscious on Bakery
Shop Floor After Armed
Bandit Flees.

Found unconscious on the floor Of
a bake shop at 31l4 Georgia avenue
NV. last night, Beatrice Notara,
23-year-old clerk. told police, after
being revived at Emergency Hospital,
that she had tainted when held up
and robbed by colored man, armed
with a pistol.
Miss Notara said she was alone in
the bakery. when the colored man
entered, pointed the gun at her and
demanded money, all the while keep
ing a sharp eye on the door and two
companions waiting In q sedan at the
curb outside. She said she gave him
about 81 from the cash register and
81 from her purse and then tainted.
A colored boy, passing by, saw the
girl lying on the floor and notified
launrdy clerk next door, who called
police. She was treated at the hos
pital for mild shock, later going to
her home at 6l9 Irving street NV.
Evening star., 1938-02-20

the fate transformed to fat"
Now everybody in the hollow had
the same surname. If everybody
IN Washington was named Smith"
the name John Smith" would be
OF no more use in differentiating
an individual than plain John"
Family names arose originally
when some effort was made to dis
tinguish individuals. So arose the
system. familiar from the Bible,
OF using such q designation as
James. Johns son" to distinguish
q particular James from oil the
other men Of that name in the
community.
The same system arose In the
Virginia hollow. Fat" became
Christian name handed down from
generation to generation. Some
lons-dead Tat" had . Son John.
Evening star., 1938-02-20

can which National Park Service
and Resettlement Administration
workers have had to get used to
from the most primitive noun
taineers In the Shenandoah Ma
tional Park area Of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. -.
It might be described as Ameri-
canized pre-Chaucerian English.
The above linguistic gem, quoted
exactly, IS to be credited to Ellis
Corbin. aged 10, of the Corbin
Hollow Corbins, whose ancestors
came to Virginia early in the l7th
century. They weres then English
peasantry among whom the pre-
Chaucerian had survived. whereas
the literary language had become
greatly modified.
They soon became isolated In
virginia and continued 70 pan cn
Evening star., 1938-02-20

or daughter Susie. Since the
actual family name had no differ.
entiating value these children were
distinguished as Pats John" or
Fats. Susie" These names be-
came attached to them. It was q
simple matter to turn the termin-
ology around into John Fat" or
susie Fat" as the actual, and
valueless, family name came more
and mare into disuse.
M S Sizer tells of the emergence
Of two new family riames-Powell
and Stephens. She says:
1.-TWO brothers, respectively
great-grandfathers of each group,
were named John Powell Jenkins
and Henry Stephens jenkins.
Their numerous descendants, to
avoid eonfunon Of individuals, dis
Evening star., 1938-02-20
NEWB|LL LLDRAFTED
|ND.C. CRIME WAR.
Would Require All With Pris.
on Records to Register
With Police.

A bill designed to make criminals
shun the Capital by requiring all men
and women with prison recNds to
register at Police headquarters was
being prepared by District oficials
yesterday for early submission to Con-
gress.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown. superin-
would have the double effect of caus-
ing many criminals to leave Wash
ington and deter others from coming
here rather than furnish police the
detailed information about themselves
that would he required.
Penalties provided for violation of
the law would give police a powerful
new weapon in curbing the activities
of suspicious characters, against whom
no action can be taken under present
laws, Maj. Brown added.
He said the bill was being drafted
by Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal along the lines of an ordinance
recently put into effect with "satisfac-
tory results in Philadelphia. Copies
Of the Philadelphia ordinance were
being studied by police and other
District officials.
The Philadelphia law requires all
persons living there who have served
prison sentences within 10 years any
where in the world to register at
police headquarters, furnish such
relevant information about their rec
ords as may be required by the super
intendent of police and notify police
within "a hours if they change their
address.
Newcomers to the city subject to
the law are required to report at
police headquarters within six hours
of their arrival.
The Philadelphia ordinance provides
penalty of 500 fine or 80 days i'm
prisonment for violation.
1t specifics that the information
furnished to police shah be held As
confidential. mot to be disclosed ex-
cept to police authorities for the pre-
vention or punishment of crime or
the detection of crimes"
Evening star., 1938-02-20
CAPITAL ARRANGES.
WASHINGTON RITES
Patriotic, Veteran and Civic
Groups to Mark Birth.
day Tuesday.

Led by its patriotic. veteran and
civic organizations, the Capital will
join Tuesday in a traditional observ-
ance OF George Washington's BIRTH
day.
Chairman Summers of the House
Judiciary Committee is to be the
anniversary speaker at the annual
meeting at 1890 am of the Asso-
citation of Oldest Inhabitants Of the
District in the Old No. 10 Engine
House. Nineteenth and H streets NV.
Pilgrimages to the tomb OF WASH
ington at Mount Vernon, a special
show in the riding hall at Fort Myer
and banquet of the Military Order
of the Purple Heart, founded by Gen.
Washington. will be other features of
the local observance.
All Federal and District Govern
ment offices and the public schools
are to be closed.
Purple Heart Order Banquet.
National officers of the Military
Order of the Purple Heart will be
among the honor guests of the Dis
trict department Of the order at the
banquet Tuesday night in the Kene-
saw Hotel. SIXTEENTH and Irving
streets NV.
Maj. j. Stewart Richardson of the
Veterans Administration will act as
toastmaster, and speakers will be Earl
Goodwin, news writer and radio
speaker. and Capt. Fred c. Kochli,
national service officer Of the Legion
of Valor. Department Comdr. E. B.
Fetty will preside.
In tribute to the horsemanship Of
Gen. Washington, officers in charge
of the Washington's Birthday Horse
Show at Fort Myer Tuesday evening
have arranged program intended to
test the mettle Of both horses and
riders
Maj. A. W. Roffe. in charge Of ar
rangements, has sought to provide
something new and different in the
jumps and the manner of negotiating
them. All entries will be permitted to
school their mounts over the courses
at least twice prior to the show.
Judges for Show.
Judges for the show will be Col
Warren w. Whitside, commanding the
Front Royal Remount Depot; Col. w.
w. Gordon, Army War College; Harry
H. Semmes. joint master, Riding and
Hunt Club Hounds, and Sterling w.
Larrabee, master, Redlands Hunt.
Members of District Post. No. II,
Irish War Veterans, will make a pill
grimage to Mount Vernon. leaving
their headquarters, 1892 Eighteenth
street NV, by automobile at 10 am.
Representative McGroarty, Democrat,
of California will speak at the tomb.
All Irish societies and veterans Or
ganizations are invited to join in the
tribute.
Members of George Washington
Post, No. 1, American Legion, will
make their annual pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon, assembling at 10 a IN. at Con-
necticut avenue and H street NV.
Comdr. John F. Dull will place a
wreath on the tomb.
A George Washington celebration
was held last night by the Interior
Department Recreation Association in
cooperation with other Federal en-
ployes' recreation associations in the
cafeteria of the new Interior Depart
ment. The program included an ALL
States dance and an inspection of the
building.
Evening star., 1938-02-20

continued local usage Of the COM
mon Jenkins surname and substi-
tuted either that Of Powell or
Stephens. As result the original
family name is being replaced"
Apparently, Miss Sizer found, the
name Jenkins is still used only
when members Of the family must
sign legal papers. The names
Powell and Stephens appear on
their mail boxes.
A linguistic gem obtained by Mis-.
Sizer is the following:
"Um ma'un taalled bod um
wuud. He TAILED bod um baud
wu'ud. Dod put de in de moon.
Him tu1y an tupy. Him tuny
weat. Him fluffy nunk."
This Isn't Choetaw. Ethiopian,
q plain uonsense. Nrts tie Amesa.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
ASSIGNED TO AIR SCHOOL

Seven Army Air Corps officers now
on duty in Washington, four in the
War Department and three at Boiling
Field, have been assigned to duty as
students at the Air Corps Tactical
School, Maxwell Field, Ala, for the
1889 course.
O1icers assigned from the office of
the chief of the Air Corps are Majs.
Rowland G. w. Blessley, william B,
Souza and James A. Mollison and
Capt. Donald F. STAGE. Boiling Field
omcers IN the group are Capts. Ar
thur L. Bump, jr, and George w.
McGresor and First 1t. Stanley K.
Robinson.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
U. G. (. FORUM TO HEAR
LAMBERTS0N OF KANSAS

Representative LAmbertson Of Kan
sas will be the speaker at the United
Government Employees Forum this att
ernoon at 3 o'clock in the Garnet-
Patterson Junior High School Audi.
torium. Tenth and U streets NV.
His subject will be Justice for Low
Paid Workers In the Government"
Edgar Brown, president of the
group, will report on the progress
made toward securing . $50 yearly
raise from Congress for employees In
the lower brackets.