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Evening star., 1938-12-24
Mrs. Woodward
Regrets Stress on
0|d-Age Pensions
Fears Results Will Be
Neglect of Aid to
Dependent Children
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward. new
member of the Social Security
Board, expressed concern today lest
current discussion of old-age pen
sion plans result in neglect of pro-
grams to aid dependent children.
Similar views have been expressed
by other officials Arthur J. Alt
meyer, chairman of the board, said
recently that he felt the Federcl
Government should match Sta.c
funds for this purpose on a SOD
basis, rather than providing ony
one-third, as it does now.
Mrs. Woodward, who has been as
sistant w. P. A. administrator fer
three years, said:
Il am afraid there is a tendency
at present to overemphasize the
matter of providing for the aged.
The aid we should give to children
Is not receiving the interest it should
receive. I feel we should expand
and extend the benefits we are
giving to children"
She said she was interested espe-
cially in the Social Security program
as it affects women and children"
adding that her primary work in
w. P. A. was with unemployed
women.
Miss Jane M. Hoey, director Of
public assistance for the board.
favors adoption of the $3.50 ratio of
Federal funds for child aid. In the
current year, she said, the board is
distributing s214, 100000 for old-age
assistance, and S45 100000 for aid to
dependent children. All but eight
States, she said, participate in the
chlld-aid program, and it is likely
more will take part in the coming
year.
The Advisory Council on Social
Security made no specific recon-
mendation for child aid, except that
the old-age insurance benefits be
extended to the dependent children
on the death of the insured. The
committee took occasion, however,
to say in its report:
The council believes that a pro-
gram OF survivors insurance, in
tended primarily for the protection
OF the dependent orphans of the
deceased wage earners, is of as much
Importance to the community as an
old-age insurance program.
While public assistance is now
being provided to a large number Of
dependent children in this country
on needs-test basis, the arguments
for substituting benefits as a matte
of right in the case of children az
even more convincing than in ii.
case of aged persons. A democrat
society has an immeasurable stal i.
in avoiding the growth of a hai
OF dependency among its youth"
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Maryland Undertokers Protest
Group Burial Association

price to persons joining the East
ern Funeral Association and pay
ing an annual membership fee of
$40. A 5000 funeral, for example,
would cost an association member
only $500, witnesses for the State
association testified.
More than 10000 Baltimoreans
are covered" under the half price
plan, witnesses said. The complain
ants, all undertakers themselves,
asserted the funerals actually given
were not half price"
They were worth no more than
the amount actually paid for them
by the benefciaries, witnesses said.
The attorneGe generals Office is
expected to hand down a ruling on
the legality Of the group burial"
plan next week.
Evening star., 1938-12-24

Weekly Outlook
United States Department of Agriculture
weather Bureau, Washington.
North and Middle Atlantic States. Pre-
cipltation at beginning of week near mid
Ole, and at end of week Much colder
nrSt part of week warmer near middle
and colder toward end of week
:, OHIO Valley and Tennessee: Precipita-
tlon mostly light near middle of week
and toward end Cold at beginning of
week, rising temperature toward middle
and colder toward end of week
The Atlantic storm has moved eastward
beyond Newfoundland while pressure is low
from HUDSON Bay southwark over the Lake
rseion nator and the Atlantic States; Mooseonee
sbs ahee ISM Is moving Tapidly ,soMtheastward over
o9:no yo inches Pressure. is. relatively, high
e eyer r INC i mouth Of the St; Lawrence R liver,
CIarEe tIr CITY Quebec. 3o,04 inches and be
SiteaamShin St en- Manuela.. &c. ls inches Pressure
ward over the Southern Plains. Winnie
is high and rising over Alaska and the
Mackenzie Valley Fairbanks Alaska. 30 56
inches During the last - hours there
has been rather general precipitation over
the, Atlantic and Gulf States. the Ohio
Valley and portions of the Lake region,
while precipitation occurred al> over the
Northern Plains and along the North Pa
the Atlantic States. and in the Northern
Plains States and the No rthern Rocky
Mountain region
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Aircraft Worker Gets
I Years for Espionage
B, the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24-TWenty-
four days after his arrest, Karl
Allen Drummond, 81, former Wich-
ita (KansD youth convicted of espi-
onage, was under sentence today to
serve two years in Federal prison
Tears filling his eyes, the one
time aviation plant inspector parted
from his father, D. W. Drummond
of Wichita, saying:
Don't worry, dad. Maybe you'll
be proud of me yet, some day"
Young Drummond. found guilty
after a one-day trial of stealing
blueprints and photographs of a
revolutionary new Navy bombing
plane and attempting to sell them
to representatives of Japan, becomes
man without a country" as a
result of his acts.
Il would rather give up my life
to the Government than to lose my
citizenship like this" he sobbed,
after hearing himself scathingly re-
buked yesterday by Federal Judge
Leon Yankwich as he passed SEN
tence.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Boat Blast Victim
Expected 10 Recover;
8 Others Burned
Oil Line ExpIodes on
Aircraft Carrier
At Norfolk
B, the Associated Press.

-
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 24-Naval
Hospital attaches said John j. Nc
CURE, technician from a naval air
craft factory at Philadelphia. has
chance to recover from critical
injuries received yesterday when a
high-pressure catapult oil line ex-
ploded on the aircraft carrier Enter
prise during pressure tests.
Mr.. MCGUIRE was severely burned
when engulfed in flaming OIL
P. C. Williams of Deep Greek
escaped injury when the explosion
threw him into the water.
Four civilian employees of the Navy
Yard who received superficial burns
were j. S. White and Joe Vannoy of
Norfolk County, J. A. Saveika and
j. L. Hughes of Portsmouth.
Enlisted men, all attached to the
Enterprise, who received burns of
varying degrees and were confined
to the sick bay aboard the carrier
were V. A. Prather, aircraft ma
chinist; C. B. Cannon, j. E. Ferris,
V. w. Colley and w. C. Banks, all
Seamen second class.
The four civilian employees slightly
burned were thrown from a scaffold
to the plane deck of the carrier.
The scaffold, attached to the side
OF the vessel, was demolished.
1t was revealed that yard police
arrested a suspicious character yes
terday and charged him with theft
and trespassing' Authorities at the
Navy Yard said he had been re-
moved to Jail.
Ranking officers aboard the En-
terprlse said a board of investiga-
ton probably would be appointed
by Rear Admiral Manley H. Simms,
U. S. NJ, commandant of the Navy
Yard, to Look into the cause of the
explosion"
Evening star., 1938-12-24

Palmer, Mass. In June, 1885. he was
appointed assistant to the commits
sioner of mental diseases of Mas
sachusetts and the same year was
promoted to the position he now
holds in the Boston Psychopathic
Hospital
Dr.. Guthrie is prominent in the
American Medical Association and
the American Psychiatric Associa-
ton, the Boston and New England
aftiliates and such other organiza-
tions as the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the
international League Against Epi-
lepsy. He has contributed extensively
to the literature of psychiatry and
was honored by the American Board
of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Fruit Juice Tousts

CHICAGO. Dec. "a @.-The
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has predicted 1,0O0, 900 Amer
leans would drink a toast at mid
night on New Year Eve to welcome
the Francis E. Willard centenary
year.
The glasses of milk or fruit juices
will be raised in homes and at COM
mun gatherings as the first of a
series of commemorative events
planned in the honor of the founder
Of the organization.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 24.-Charges
against an undertakers' group
burial association" were under con-
sideration today by the attorney
generals Office, which must rule on
the first case of its kind in State
history.
A hearing before Assistant Attor-
ney General Charles LIE Viness
lasted from 10 am. to 9 pm, with
complaining witnesses from the
Maryland State Funeral Directors
Association claiming an organiza-
ton known as the Eastern Funeral
Association was operating in viola
ton tic of the NJ yland blue sky
Testimony showed the defendant
group advertised funerals ct half
Evening star., 1938-12-24
They're Pals Now

SOUTH BEND, Ind. P)-The In
ternational Union of Hotel and Res
tauarant Employees has quit picket
ing Daniel Clark's restaurant after
Sc days.
One reason: Mr.. Clark fed the
pickets free and they became so
chummy they were calling him
Danny"
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Boy Receives Eleventh
Blood TRANSMISSION
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Raymond
Potter, jr., IA, received his 18th
blood TRANSMISSION today and. al
though gravely i'll, talked excitedly
of Christmas.
He has been sick 10 days with
staphylococcus meningitis, from
which, medical records show, there
have been only dozen survivors.
A watch, the Christmas present
Raymond had asked for, will be
given to him-but not for Christmas.
His mother took it to the Municipal
Contagious Hospital, but rules pre-
vent its delivery.
DR.. LY her M. Lorance said the
boys corhition was "a little better"
and that the current danger was
from abscesses.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Air Authority Trying
To Enable Ocean
Service by Summer
Much Depends on Britain.
Readiness to Stort
Parallel Route
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
informed persons said today, is max
ing every effort to clear the way for
the beginning of transatlantic air.
plane service by next summer.
Pan-American Always, whose
lines now span Pacific and South
American waters, is expected to
have planes ready to start North
Atlantic flying within three or four
months.
Whether that can be done, how
ever, depends to a great extent on
Great Britain's readiness to under
take a parallel service, and her
willingness to grant this country
landing and route rights in Canada,
Ireland and England, provided she
is not ready at that time
The United States and Britain
made an agreement two years ago
providing for reciprocal rights for
two trips week each way by the
operating companies of each nation
Britain May Lose Out.
The agreement implied that since
the flights were to be reciprocal, the
two countries would begin service
at the same time.
c A. A. members and State De-
partment officials, working together
to straighten out the situation, have
guarded their activities with secrecy,
but indications are that the Gov
ernment's principal concern is to
win from Britain a promise that
Pan American can fly when ready.
IF such an agreement cannot be
obtained. it is likely the State De-
partment will begin negotiations
with some other country, probably
France. for flying rights. France
Germany and Italy have filed appli-
cations with the C. A. A. to under
take service to this country, but
these have not been acted on.
The Importance of the British
arrangement arises chiefly from the
fact Britain controls the least diff
cult route between North America
and Europe-that by way of the
Canadian east coast to Ireland and
thence to England and the conti-
nent.
Two Planes Finished.
Pan-American's readiness to fly
depends on getting delivery from
Seattle factory of six ships, each
designed to carry "a passengers.
Two of these planes have been
completed and are being tested.
Delivery Of these is scheduled for
February. One or both may go into
Pan-American's Pacific service. The
other four probably will be ready
for delivery few weeks later.
One other United States company
American Export Airlines, has an
nounced plans for Atlantic flights
by way of the Azores to Bordeaux.
This company has one ship on order
and expects to use it for survey
work this spring. Construction of
other planes capable of travelling a
nonstop New York -to-Paris route
is contemplated, William H. Cover
dale, American Export president,
has announced.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Weather Report

District of ColmbaPartly tomorrow
much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 81
degrees gentle 7 ~ ~
Maryland-Pary cloudy tonight slightly colder in
' ~ N'
gna-Party cloudy tonight and tomorrow; tonight
west Vrgna-Pary cloudy slightly
increasing cloudn and colder late tomorrow
~ ~ O '"''to"
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Chapel Contract Awarded

The Navy has awarded a $780,
700 contract for extension of the
chapel at the Annapolis Naval
Academy to Irwin g. Leighton, Phil
adelphia.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Buy Food Products

Farmers wives buy more canned
foods and other manufactured food
products than do town housewives,
it is reported.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Milk Richer in Winter

Expet timents at the University
of Missouri indicated cows give
richer milk during cold weather
than they do In the summer time.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
Record for Last 81 Hours.

tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest 70 per cent. at y am
Lowest, 4b per cent. at noon yesterday
Record for Last 81 Hours :.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, IS, ll:50 pm. yesterday.
Year ago, IS.
Lowest. 80. 7:30 am. yesterday. Year
ago. 81
River Report.
potomac and shenandoah Rivers clear
a. Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1938-12-24
D. 6. Concerns Bid Low

Corson & Gruman Co. of Wash
tngton was the low bidder for con-
struction of bridge approaches at
Holmes Run in Fairfax County. 2.5
miles west of Alexandria, the As
ISOLATED Press has reported. The
company's bid was $28,9S0.6l.
This was one of eight projects
costing $254,79352 for which bids
we're opened yesterday in Richmond.
Evening star., 1938-12-24

INTERESTED SPECTATORS-Four young Critics reviewing
play Birds Christmas Caro given yesterday Troop No.
Junior Catholic Daughters of America from St Martins Parish,
Chidrens Hospital They Qe to rght) Phyllis Jean
Miller Venerando Cao holding Reuben Etherdge and Will
liam Rector. Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1938-12-24

It is in order oh December 18th
for all Americans to say "Kiitos,"
which is Finnish for THANK youl"
Evening star., 1938-12-24

Monthly precipitation in inches In
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1938-12-24
Report for Last p Hours.

Highest, 90. ON August is.
Lowest. IA on November 27
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1938-12-24

Automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset. o''S
FERTILIZATION.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24
YULET|DE REMINDS
OF M'CO|N MYSTERY
t9sszz ~ . sstEaes
Thousads Have Speculated
on His Fate Just Six
Years Ago

Coming of another christmas sea-
son brought to the minds of MANY
Henderson people today memories of
the mysterious disappearance six
years ago at this season of r. S. Nc
Coin, one of the citys leading cit
liens and business men.
McCoin dropped from sight when he
left here the morning of December
%, 1882, ostensibly on a business trip
to Richmond. Except for brief stop
at his 1,800-acre farm at Dewitt. Va,
and telephone call to a relative in
contacted since he left that fateful
morning.
A search at that time revealed moth
ing but flock of rumors, and the
discovery of his automobile in a
Columbus, Ohio, garage, along with u
mysterious letter that was mailed
from Chicago to Chief Justice Wal
ter p. Stacy, of the State Supreme
Court, a close friend of the missing
man, saying McCoin was wallaid be-
tween Petersburg and Richmond on
the national highway as he was head
ed back toward Henderson, and that
he was slugged by three hi-jackers
in a car and died OF his injuries, later
being buried in some lonely spot near
Hagerstown, Md.
Last fall a body was found near
Hagerstown which police there report
ed may have been McCoin's. But it
was a false clue Examination of the
dental work in the skeleton proved
not to be that of McCoin. And so the
mystery remains.
Some here hold to the idea that Nc
Coin still lives somewhere q fugitive
from business reverses. Others think
he has died since he disappeared. Few
are heard to express confidence in
the theory of the fatal smuggling de-
scribed in the letter to Chief Justice
Stacy
Mrs. McCoin is an officer in the
East Carolina Training School for
hayward boys at Rocky Mount, where
she has been since soon after her hus-
band vanished. At the time she was
trustee of that institution.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24
CHRISTMAS THEME
AT K|WAN|S MEET
Miss Blacknall Tells of
Christmas In Alaska;
Other Features

The Christmas theme prevailed the
annual Christmas luncheon meeting
of the Kiwanis club at it's weekly
gathering Friday evening. Miss
Bessie Blacknall, of this city, Episco-
pal missionary to Alaska for many
years, and who is at home on fur
Tough, was the chief speaker, and
told of how Christmas is observed
and celebrated in the bleak, far north
ern territory of the United States.
Miss Blacknall gave description
OF the country itself, of the occupa-
ton of the people, their customs and
their Christmas events.
Miss Marilyn Seifert sang Empty
Stockings" and Miss Myrtle Aston
gave lullaby. All were guests of the
club at the meeting, and the program
was in charge of the program COM
mittee, with C. o. Seifert directing.
c. E. Green, incoming president for
1889, presented to Miss Helen Kim
ball, who has been pianist for the
silver as token of appreciation on
club for many years, some pieces of
the part of the members.
E. o. Falkner, chairman of the
privileged child committee, pre-
scented the large milk bottle for re-
ceiving the usual Christmas milk
fund offering, the collection amount
ing to $3O25, to be used by the club
during the coming year in it's un-
der-privileged child work
President w. r. Turner, who pre-
sided, announced that Christmas bas-
kets and boxes had been supplied to a
dozen families with a total of 81 peo-
pie sharing in them. The secretary
stated also that additional provisions
had been made also by members of
the club, including a donation of SO
to the needy through The Salvation
Army, and the replacement of eve
glasses costing $40 for one under-pri-
vileged child
Bill Bryant, student at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, was a guest of
his father, J. H. Bryan, and Boone
Sadler, of California, was with J. w.
Beck as guest. Those on the pro-
gram were guests of the club.
Attendance was 80 percent of the
club membership.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24
Christmas Decorations
Among Most Elaborate
Number OF ZONES non. With Electric Designs Nav
B BE a1 Partes y Rda Eyer o Seem Many

Christmas decorations in the homes
Of Henderson are among the most
elaborate this year the city has ever
witnessed since this style of electric
nominations at the Yuletide season
became so popular a few years ago
IN some respects, the display appears
~ be perhaps the greatest
Virtually every home has some kind
Of decorations, with in brightly color
ed wcathers or festoons or of electric
fixtures. This idea has been stressed
both indoors and Outdoors.
The shopping district was the fret
n blossom out with the electrical fix
t,res Those in homes began to make
their appearance last weekend. Now
they are up everywhere they will be
paced which means in most of the
homes.
4 tavorite pastime of citizens dur
inc the Christmas season is to ride
out over the city at night to view the
many and varied designs that have
been placed. There are many novel
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24

- Unusual arrangements, all ADDING
~ me Christmas spirit and atmos.
phere in the community.
No prizes are being offered this
year for best designs. but tba n,,hl ll,'
IS 10 oe asked to vote its own ver-
ulct' They will express opinions IN
Inc pest lighted door, the hest ont
ooor tree the best home decorations
ana others. Ballots will be placed in
me drug stores, SO that every one
interested will have an onnortun;+,, ~
contribute to the general consers,,s
An announcement of the results 10
@ vo.lhg VIII be made following
taoulations next week.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24

by Beam this morning about $50
o'clock on u S. Highway No. in
North Henderson in vicinity of Ad-
cock-Johnson garage.
Attaches at the hospital said the
woman was unconscious shortly aft
err noon today, and apparently her
right leg was broken in three places.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24

hospital this afternoon. and Sheriff
L. L. Swanson is holding Earl w.
Beam, of Shillington, Berks county,
Pa, charging him with assault with
a deadly weapon, an automobile, and
inflicting serious injury. Bond has
been set at $500.
The young Negro woman was struck
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24

La Verne c. Scneffler, also of Shil'
lington, Pa, was riding with Beam
Beam said he was going south, en-
route to South Carolina for the holi-
days, when the woman stepped from
behind a truck and into the side of
his automobile.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24

Lee Parrish, both of Henderson, were
granted license, as were William
Umpstead Arlington and Mollie Dor
othy Lee of Henderson, and Rufus
Thomas Catlett and Mary Crabtree,
both of Henderson.
A colored couple, Robert D. Alex
ander and Cora Lee Aston, both of
Henderson, were also granted papers.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24
MARRIAGE PAPERS
WERE FOUR FRIDAY

-FOUR marriage papers were issued
lay. 'e''ei
John Atlas Croker and Fenner
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24
Attend Funeral.

Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Dunkley, Miss
Mary Betty Dunkley, and Mrs. c. H.
Ross motored to Wilson today to at
tend the funeral of ]. w. Riley. Ir.
The times-news., 1938-05-23
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS.R.T.DRAKE
Willow Road Resident To
Be Buried From Beulah
Church Tuesday

Mrs. W, r. Drake, 81, q native
Of Henderson county. died e her
home on the willow road yester-
day afternoon. She had been in
i'll health for some time but her
death WAS unexpected.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted at II o'clock Tuesday
morning ct the Beulah Baptist
church with Rev. 2. A. Z Kilstrom 7,
The times-news., 1938-05-23
MRS. DEEDMAN
PASSES away
Services Will Be Tuesday
AT Fruitland; Burial AT
Lanning Cemetery

Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa
Deedman, 3S, wife of Everette E.
Deedman, who died at her home
in the Blue Ridge section this
morning, will be held on Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at Fruit
land Methodist church.
Services will be conducted by
the Rev. Warner and burial will
follow in the Lanning cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Ruth Ray, Ha-
eel Anderson, Kate Hutchinson,
Louise Anderson, Louise Adkins,
Jimmie Kirkwood and Miss Pat
terson.
Flower girls will be Edna JUS
tice, Matte Rogers, Coela Coston,
10 LYDIA, Eliza Rhymer, Frances
Rogers, and Dinah Drake.
Mrs. Deedman was native of
this county and a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. d. w. LYDIA. She is sur
vived by her husband and three
children, George Arthur Hoover
and Jimmy Burel Hoover, by a
former marriage, and Robbie
Charles Deedman.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Jay Pryor, Sewer Clark, r. L.
Coston, w. A. Garren, j. H. Bal
lenger, Bruce Cox, Robert Justus,
Ray Garren, Herbert Merrill, and
Luke Sinclair.