Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1939 — Page 9

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER

23, 1939

The Indianapolis Times

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SECOND SECTION

M'ALLEN, “The Valley,” Tex., Dec. 23.—If there is anywhere in the United States.a “little world all to itself.” it is certainly this far south tip of Texas along the mouth of the Rio Grande, known as “The Valley.” “The Valley” is a strip of richly irrigated fruit and vegetable land extending some $0 miles back from where the Rio Grande flows into the Guif of Mexico. and varving from 8 to 30 miles wide, northward from the river. This is where your famous pink grapefruit comes from. In this valley live some 300.000 people. In it are a dozen and a half good-sized towns, and innumerable crossroads settlements. In it are 22 newspapers, radio stations, good hotels, magnificent homes. “The Valley” looks like Florida, feels like Panama. sounds like Mexico, and acts like Missouri. Citrus news is the biggest news, and the bigger papers have “citrus editors.” The streets are lined with high straight palms, green groves border the roads for miles; patios and yards are draped with a tropical lushness of banana, papaya and bougainvillea. You distinctly get that feeling of “another world.” Coming south from San Antonio, you drive through 225 miles of sagebrush—drab and endless—and then you suddenly pop right into the heart of this luxuriant tropical greenery, = » 5

An Important Industry

The Valley is very young, still just a child. True, there were towns here in Civil War days. But they were just little sun-baked towns sleeping the years away. The first Valley awakening came just before the World War. But that was merely a stirring. You could say the Valley is really only 20 vears old. For citrus wasn't brought in until wartime. The first shipments of citrus fruit were after the war. In 1921 only 4000 boxes of grapefruit were shipped from the Valley. Last vear there were 15,672,000 boxes! The Valley today produces 35 per cent of all the

Qur Town

SOMEHOW, IT TICKLES this department to be able to report that, once upon a time, the choir of Plymouth Church went on strike, all on account of & couple of sopranos acting up. The story came to me by way of Waldo Littell, a rattling good teacher on the cornet, who spends his spare time collecting just such Juicy items. Back in 1885 or thereabouts, William Horatio Clarke was the organist of Plymouth Church. Even more to the point was the fact that he was the father of four (4) boys—Will, Ed, Ern and Bert—as talented a bunch of kids as ever entertained Indianapolis, Certainly you remember them. Why, just last week I mentioned their names in connection with my nostalgic piece about the old When Band. It was during the period that father Clarke had charge of the Plymouth Church choir that Bert had the bright idea of organizing a brass quartet, something nobody had thought of before. He asked Walter Rogers what he thought of the idea. Walter was the 17-year-old wonder from Delphi, Ind, who handled the cornet in Mr. Beissenherz's orchesira over at English's Opera House. Competent critics at the time said Walter was the niftiest cornetist anywhere around here. He could play the Excelsior Polka by Frewin and repeat it for an encore without getting purple in

grapefruit raised in the United States. It grows] nearly four times as much as California and Arizona | combined. And Florida, the leader in grapefruit, isn't] quite double the Valley. It has more than 7.000.000 citrus trees. For 80 miles there is hardly a square] block of land that isn't green with growing things. | A main highway runs from one end of the Valley to the other. You are scarcely through one town before | vou are in another. They call it the longest Main Street in the world. | The Valley is becoming more and more a winter-| ing place. Already the winter residents are in Browns- | ville and McAllen to the tune of many thousands. The climate is tropical, except for five or six “northers” each winter. These come with agonizing suddenness. You may start a round of golf with your sleeves rolled up, and finish it blue and shivering. They last three or four days, and then it is warm again. Right now, in holiday time, I am walking around in a daze of delight with the temperature at 90. = = =

They Like a Carnival

The Valley is not lacking in the spirit of fun.! Holidays are frequent and colorful. The towns are so close together that they all work in unison on theh’) holidays. They divide up the dates—one town has a| fair this week, another has a fiesta next week, a third | has a vegetable exposition the following week. There| is no destructive and picayunish rivalry between the! towns. They are all simply “The Valley.” The Valley's festival season winds up in February | with its Charro Days. This is the local equivalent of the Mardi Gras. It was started only three years ago. but people swear it is actually as wonderful as Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It is held in Brownsville, but the whole Valley claims it, and takes part. The men grow beards for two months ahead. Poor indeed is the Valley resident who doesn’t have hanging in his closet a Charro out-| fit—the bright, embroidered Mexican Sunday-after-noon stroiling costume. People start wearing them to work a week ahead of time. Charro Days last four days (this vear, Feb. 1-4); | the people of Matamoros on the Mexican side of the river join in. Everybody has a wonderful time,

By Anton Scherrer they could to give their favorites a push. Mr. Clarke. | a gentleman with sound, old-fashioned ideas, had a strike on his hands. To put an end to the affair, | father Clarke fired the whole chorus which, of course. | left Plymouth Church without a musical attraction for the following Sunday. On the following Sunday when the parishioners {ook their seats, they couldn't believe their eves. Instead of a nicely starched choir in the sanctuary. there sat four scared bovs dressed in their Sunday suits, each one holding a shiny brass instrument in his lap. Surprised and even angry murmurs came from | all parts of the auditorium mostly, I regret to report.! from discharged choir members who had turned up in the hope of having a good laugh at father Clarke's predicament. | » » 5

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They Score a Triumph

The bovs were visibly nervous when they started but they pulled themselves together and improved as the program progressed. With the result that, for the first time in their lives, a lot of church people around here got wise to the fact that sacred music could come | out of the big end of a horn. Indeed, the Schubert Brass Quartet went over so big that it was engaged for the rest of the season and. beginning with that day, Plymouth Church had the S. O. S. sign out every Sundav. Nobody missed the choir after that. { Which leaves me to tell vou what became of the | Clarke bovs. Will, a fine organist and pianist, was,

There's Comfort but No Surplus for ‘Man in Middle,’ Survey by U. S. Shows

By NEA Service

LEVELAND, O., Dec. 23.—There is a mathematical spot in the exact center of economic life in the United States—and Harry Frowen, Cleveland motor plant worker, lives on it with his wife and children. Mr. Frowen is Mr. Average American come to life, and his wife is Mrs. American. They're the folks the politicians talk to and about, the people in the middle of

everything, a dot on a financial graph turned into flesh and blood; they're

American life itself.

Studies by the Department of Labor in 54 American cities showed the average American earns $1160 a year, has a wife and two children, lives in a rented house and eats dessert once a day. He's in the very center of the earning scale; half the workers of the country make more, half make less. And that's Harry Frowen, his

| wife and the two little Frowens.

Just how is life on $1160 a year? Well, for the Frowens it means health, comfort, some small luxuries—and no leeway. Mr. Frowen qualified for the average over a five-year period, during which his yearly income varied but a trifle from the Department of Labor figure. But because Mrs. Average American does the family budgeting and most’ of the buying, this is Mrs. Frowen's story. ” = ” ARRY'S weekly salary would take him out of the $1160 annual income class if he worked every day. But auto plants close down at times, so it pulls his av-

| erage down again.

Night clubs are out, of course, and so are fancy clothes. Mrs. Frowen has no fur on her winter coat, but she dresses comfortably. She has two nice dresses, Harry has one Sunday suit, the children —Jackie, 2, and Elaine, T—are comfortably dressed. The Labor Department found the average family spends $38.75 a month for food. Mrs. Frowen buys carefully and gets off for about $35. The average rent is $19. The Frowens pay $26. The Frowens average $250 monthly for medical service, $5.50 monthly for recreation, $95 yearly for clothing, $15 yearly for gifts. On paper they have money left over each month. Actually it has gone for incidentals. Like college boys they live more or less from week-end to week-end. Harry's job is hard—he's a “trouble shooter” in the rear axle department of a truck factory— but come Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. relax anc have a swell evening for themselves. = = EJ

ARRY and his wife do the marketing early and have supper with the kids. If it's really a big night, they call in a neigh-

Payday conference of Mr, and Mrs. Harry Frowen and their children:

comfort—and a lot of fun.

di By Ernie Pyle How to Live on $1160 a Yearl—An Averag

e Family's Story

$1160 a year provides health,

" borhood girl to watch the children, and go to a show. On rare occasions the factory U. A. W. holds a dance. Most Saturdays they sit at

home and Mrs. Harry dces the mending while Harry reads Western stories. Sunday morning, Harry sleeps until 11. In the afternoon the family goes for a ride in their 1935 car. In the summer it's to a sandlot ball game, in the autumn to high school football. “We were lucky to have a car when we got married,” says Mrs. Frowen. “Harry trades his car in every cbuple of years on another second-hand one.

“Were buying a refrigerator on time and we've almost paid for the washing machine, The furniture is ours, so we can get a nicer apartment for the same rent we'd pay for a small furnished one. “Harry goes to school one night a week. He's learning to make machine tools and read blueprints. He wants to learn a trade so he won't be a laborer all his life.”

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OOD? The diet, simple. “The children get a good breakfast—orange juice, toast, an egg and cereal. Harry gets coffee. I

she said, is

usually go lighter. At lunch Jack and Elaine have soup, milk and cookies or sandwiches. Harry takes sandwiches and fruit, and I have something from the icebox when I think of it. In the evening we all have meat; potatoes, vegetables, dessert and coffee.” The Frowens have been married eight years. They don't care about Dr. Townsend's pension plans, and they don’t care about the war except in one way: It means more work, fewer layoffs for the factory. They love each other and are happy. There's a lot of fun to be had on $1160 a year.

LOSES PLEA FOR NEW JURY TRIAL

SEC Investigator of Big Mail Fraud.

A motion for a trial by jury filed by Robert D. Beckett was overruled yesterday by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Beckett, sentenced Dec. 2 to eight years in prison and fined $2500 for

Acquires New GIVES RULING

BURNING U. S. VESSEL ENDS 150-MILE DASH

| announced acquisition of a new

Beckett's Story Disputed by

Baby Incubator

METHODIST HOSPITAL today |

baby incubator with an oxygen top for the safeguarding of prematurely born infants. The new machine will be placed | in the children’s floor, apart from the section reserved for infants born in the hospital. It will be | used for children born outside | the hospital and taken there for treatment. | | | |

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Miss Mary Warstler, nurse supervisor, said the new machine | will do a great deal in the cam- | paign to save prematurely born infants.

union. The court held

ON PIGKETING

Illegal if Placards Fail to ‘True Facts,’ Court Holds.

The Indiana Supreme Court has] ruled that picketing by labor unions] is illegal if the action is used to coerce employees into joining the probably was sabotage, but that was|ute for a fling at the counters, the

ployer is at peace with his em-|

CRISTOBAL. C. Z., Dec. 23.—The 5586-ton American freighter Wind |Soush lay at anchor today after a 150-mile dash to port with a fire in her No. 3 hold. Thet Cristobal fire department stood by to smother out the still smoldering fire as soon as the deck cargo of inflammable cellulose had been unloaded. The ship had a crew of 37 and 10

passengers, including a woman. The ship's operators in New York, the, Shepard line, charged that the fire

discounted by the that if an em-|here.

ship's officers]

CLERKS READY FOR EXCHANGES

‘Many People Find They

Want Something Different Than What They Got.

While you are wrapping your Christmas gifts for distribution, or perhaps setting out at the last min-

department stores are way ahead of you, Know what they're doing? They're getting ready to exchange those

the only one who didn’t pursue music as a profession. (participation in a $640,000 Indiana Edwin (Ed) got to be bandmaster of the 21st Infantry mail fraud, asked that the sentence (Regular Army) and later played cornet iii SOUS&'S he vacated and sought to withdraw

| ployees and that none of them want | 2 |to belong to a union, the “picketing | { {is wrongful and oppressive and | ought to be enjoined.” The ruling : Band. Still later he served as Sousa’s manager. Ernest g previous plea of guilty. 2-ALARM BLAZE |was given in the case of a Gary | (Ern) became trombonist in Patrick Gilmore's Band;| Beckett contended that he aided | |Ind., grocer who sued to enjoin the | PROFIT $22.0 00 You may allow your imagination

|gifts that aren't even unwrapped | vet. Just as surely as there is time and tide, death and taxes, department stores will be dealing with myriads of exchanges the weeks after Christmas.

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Brass Quartet Is Born

Rogers immediately fell for Bert's idea and without further ado the Schubert Brass Quartet was born. Except for Walter Rogers and his cornet, the quartet was a strictly family affair. Ed played the alto horn; Ern, the trombone, and Bert, the second cornet. (Ten vears later, Bert Clarke and Walter Rogers piaved side by side in Sousa’s Band). The Schubert Brass Quartet practiced like everything—sometimes as often as twice a day—and was going pretty good when the Plymouth Church choir of 35 voices started acting up. Seems that the choir had a bunch of temperamental sopranos, every one of whom had the idea that she ought to be the soloist. And to complicate matters still more, every one of the gals had a following of friends who did what

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—We would get along better in this country if the opponents of the Administration would take a look at Senator Arthur Vandenberg’s article in the January issue of the American Mercury and use it as a model. That goes particularly for Republican Presidential aspirants and Republican policy makers. Senator Vandenberg is one of the leading Republican Presidential possibilities and he doesn't come out as a New Dealer. Far from it. He lays heavy blows on

“the

By Raymond Clapper

after that with Victor Herbert's. Then Walter Dam- Ropert, Wright, a Security and Ex-| ‘Retail Clerks’ Union from picketing | rosch picked him up and stuck him in the New York change Commission investigator, in| | his store. Symphony Orchestra. He stayed there more than the fraud probe in return for Mr. | Picketing Authorized ‘to hy the loose, and you still, years. | Wright's promise to ask the Court | . hi ; ’ iecinn? | probably, never would be able ‘to As for Herbert L. (Bert) Clarke. the kid who eor- gor Dl 9 | Les charred in his Salt na the City Commission's Revenue think up any more curious swaps anized the Schubert Brass Quartet, he played with > Hon : oe be : a. vi Tn nds headed by re Innes. Victor Herbert | Mrs. Beckett Appears ‘All Downtown Equipment fon he mio iSining 5 organiza- | Expected to Exceed tian ios Pies Rew atk: and John Philip Sousa, to mention only the more im-! Mr. Wright testified vesterday . | i oon jobs Jonge OY ry $60 000 for Year erfume Jor a, Tipe portant ones. Since leaving Indianapolis he has played )..+ «the only thing I ever told him | Used to Fight Fire in Paper issued’ & temporary injunction ’ Ta Mittens for a tooth brush? Easy. more than 6000 programmed cornet solos, including tu Ts , duty t k | against the union ut : authorized S———— Perfume for a pipe or vice versa? 473 concerts in one season. Today, a man of 72, Bert was hat i was my duty to ma e Corp. Warehouse. auion officials to teket the Sor | Revenue of the City Building | Anything is simple for the people Clarke is the director of the Long Beach (Cal) Mu- the investigation and that he might | with. bl a A 18.3 Oe | Cornmnicsion is expected to exceed |Who think up what they would nicipal Band playing two concerts daily the vear pe hurt by what I found out.” Mr. | " ea | he ,Jracares. siating rue | 60.000 this vear or $22.000 more 'Ather have had than what they around. Long Beach, in case vou haven't heard. is " : > - . ourteen companies of firemen re . : 1 ; 4 Ew ’ +. | got. both a summer and winter resort. [sink Becheys or operaied with all available downtown equip- Fp Dvidence i de By a rs Choris thie Sepa But the worst problem is what llater used against Beckett. |ment were called last night to ex- |. "1." ead “This store is un- | commissioner, reported today. people, who would rather have a | Mrs. Beckett told Judge Baltzell|!inguish a fire in the block-long| et." "000 i764 labor” and the| The revenue, acquired through different size of what they got, that “Mr. Wright told me he would | Varehouse of the Paper Products | wer court held that this placard | building permit fees and plumbing think up to get for what they got ‘do everything he could to recom- COP. 123 S. Missouri St. : | was illegal because the store clerks license and inspection fees, will ex-| When the store hasn't got the size |mend leniency. He told me the day | Charles E. Phillips, company pres-| co. "pot" on strike and that there | ceed the contemplated revenue|they would rather have had. the trial opened, by telephone, that ident, said principal damage Was|...",o dispute between the store budget for this year by about $8000,| This is called, in the trade, think« “I hope I am a square dealer who is realist enough |everything would be ali right.” [from water on stock, Wrapping | whers and the clerks. Mr. Popp said. The funds will be|ing on their feet and when a custoto perceive that civilization everywhere, American in®| George S. Dailey, Indianapolis at- | PaPer, paper plates and paper nap- The proprietor, Aaron Roth, | Paid into the City general account mer in a department store thinks cluded, is in a state of flux; that new problems de- torney appointed by the court to|Kins. Cause of the fire was unde- |... o0eq that the union was picket- |and be used by the City for 1940. |on his feet—that is, attempts to Fa his store in an attempt to| An increase in the valuation of reach a decision with no home work —that’'s something. Take Leisurely Inventory

mand new answers: that the hands upon the clock defend Beckett, said he toid Beckett termined. ; ait of history cannot be turned back, no matter how much that “from conversations with U. S. The fire was , discoy ered shortly | £0 ce him to sign a contract for a|building permits issued this year, we may itch for the so-called good old days; that!Attorney Val Nolan I think there 2fter 8 p. m. by employees in the gjoceq shop. which is expected to exceed last eight years of the New Deal have launched certain might be a possibility of leniency offices of the adjoining General | Decision Reversed year's valuation by about $2,000,000, social concepts which, in their objectives, cannot and but that Mr. Nolan made no Electric Supply Co, who were | c verse and an increase in the number of | Their minds take a leisurely ine should not be reversed; that after you have made an promises.” Jago late. | Judge Ce Shake o fee Su- | J lumbing inspections account for the| ventory of the items the store care an omlet vou can't get the eggs back again no u's Ovinion Avked They sounded the alarm by break- |preme Court, who wrote the deci- | )arge estimated revenue, Mr, Popp |ries. which number into the thoumatter how hard vou may wish to. I perceive that] Murphy's Opinion Aske | \ a Re hes in tne : we must go forward in social-mindedness as dis- | “Beckett told me that Mr. Wright alarm system. The first firemen to | 8

| choose while the clerk mentally goes

CHOOSE C. l. 0. UNION 0, bit tot for pos oO the rush AT HARVESTER CO.

{of the Christmas season is over be= {cause it has been a strain on the {he |DEIVES. But next week they will {look back on the Christmas work as la soothing and restful period when | right to represent employees of the they didn’t know how well off they

ling the connection of an automatic Sion, explained that facts in the | .. sands, and they mentally pick and : . es DTT ren lp : | picketing at the store was a form | tinguished from sheer socialism: but that wishbone pad told both him and his wife S2Ch the scene turned in a Second |= coercion to force clerks to join | altruism has got to give way to backbone practicali- that he would be promised leai. | M30 when they discoverec. the ie ator | the Administration's head, and ties, and that a bankrupt Utopia has got to be rescued a i 4 p fire was in the paper stock. : “The 1933 Anti-Injunction Law they are more deadly in their from fascism at the right and communism at the left.” enéy,” Mr. Dailey said. | The fire was brought under con® | clearly states that v lovee shall impact because he does not rest . "on Judge Baltzell said he would ask trol quickly, but firemen poured °€ary Siaies that no employee sha his case upon a blind denuncia- ~Holum Is Out | Attorney General Frank Murphy | Vater two hours before it was ex- | United Farm Equipment Workers of

{be coerced into joining any union a € : : against his will,” Judge Shake said. , tion of everything that has hap- : : ‘for an opinion on whether or not tinguished. \ the roof | | The Supreme Court decision re-| America, Local 118, has won the pened in Washington since 1933. Discount the skillful use of catchwords in this pas- the Court could | Fire broke through the roof in

supply without | In this he shows greater po-

By a margin of five votes,

sage and you still have left the essence of the only cost a transcript of the trial to aa] or International Harvester Co. plan litical skill and more practical hard-headed approach to the country's problems in Edward J. I of Henderson, NO damgae was done io the build- {ing on the ‘ground ihe Lhe dome lat Mationel Harve iT to - statesmanship than do many of his fellow Republicans the next four years. It is hard-headed in that it'Ky, and Chicago. Hartenfeld’s at- N82 company officials said. a type of lawful picketing and [Robert H. Cowdrill, regional NLRB who, unable to sort out their ideas, merely fire a does not try to dodge the fact that many of the things torney, Julian C. Ryer of Chicago, A rer = ruFek ordered the case restated by the | chief here. T E ST YO U R blunderbuss in the general direction of Washington. undertaken in this Administration must be continued. had moved for such a transcript U. S. SCRAMBLES EGGS trial court “in harmony with this! Of the 862 votes cast, the C. I. O. Republicans are simply refusing to look facts in the jo NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (U, P.).— opinion.” | affiliate received 430. A total of 425 KNOWLEDGE tec nique. rn ————————— ee ee same piece of cloth as communism and naziism, as The present urgency is that our political discussion Chicago. said today that heavy Federal pur- MOSCICKI REPORTED ILL union represent them, Mr. Cowdrill steelman Ernest Weir did the other day. or when they, come down to earth and deal, as Senator Vandenberg| Judge Baltzell cited several cases |chases of eggs for relief clients had| BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 23!said. Four of the ballots cast were as do some of the Hooover group, dismiss the Roose- does, witih hard realities. One of those realities is which indicated the Court might | forced prices up to the point where | (U. P.).—Ignacy Mosciciki, former challenged and not counted, two|l—In which country is the Mace velt Administration as composed of creatures of canine that this isn't the same kind of world wé had 50,not have the power to order a the average low-paid worker had | President of Poland, was reported were blank and one was voided, he | kenzie River? ancestry. vears ago. Another of those realities is that a major-| transcript made for a pauper, as to eat only cold storage eggs, while today to be seriously ill at Craiova, |said. Mr. Cowdrill said the chal-| 2—What is cryptography? ® = ballots would not have A Classic Line for themselves and have acquired considerable im- 2 of 4 Defendants ons. | forced domicile. SRame Ine UNOStH receniy- dite munity to the old-style political hokum. They expect : ! | Government to do things that were not considered| Hartenfeld and Beckett were two 4—Who is Commander of the Air New Deal as “an indigestible mixture of forward=- within its scope a generation ago. That is something Of four defendants in the mail Pa rty at Sta te House “te » What Say Frank? Force in France? looking aspirations with backward-looking errors.” the Republicans have to bear in mind. But they also fraud case tried here last month. : / 2 * 2» 5—What class of animals live both Senator Vandenpeig Ruhl up his Seneral Indick. expect that these objectives be undertaken with fair A Federal Court jury acquitted - on land and in water? ment of the New al with a statement o is own i 5 : : ys aly 4 . . 4 A 4 6—What is the relationship of chile viewpoint thus: crats will hav A Blvd.; the other defendant, Mrs. . y » : BVe 1: eur Sn ing Ethel Pitt Donnell, 3707 N. Meri- dren who have one ‘parent in > dian St., is serving a 10-year senM D tence at the Federal Women's a |Prison at Alderson, W. Va. Harty y |enfeld also received a 10-year sen- | tence.

several places, but other than that, versed the Lake Circuit Court rul-| {| were, | It is hard-headed in that it proposes to improve the to aid him in Hartenfeld's appeal face when they brand the New Deal as cut from the {to the Circuit Court of Appeals at The New York Mercantile Exchange employees voted against having the itv of the American people have made that discovery Hartenfeld alleges he is. | persons on relief were getting fresh Rumania, where he has been given |lenged changed the result. covered planet, In a classic line, Senator Vandenberg defines the and effective methods. That is something the Demo- John K. Knapp, 3603 Washington common?

T7—Name the Strait between Sicily and Italy. 8—Can Japanese be naturalized in the United States?

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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WASHINGTON, Friday.—This morning we traveled from Hyoce Park to New York City. Our cars were filled up with all the paraphernalia which a family requires for travel, but we reached the railroad station very comfortably, The trip to Washington was uneventful, broken only by giving the baby his dinner and getting lunch for ourselves. Franklin Jr. and Ethel and their small son arrived a few days ago. While they went off, they left this child the first to arrive in the White House for the holiday season. He settled himself comfortably, and greeted his voungest cousin when we arrived today. I think this old house likes the sound of children’s voices. It is certainly an ideal place for children of every age to play in. At first they are made to feel a little strange, but they soon find the high ceilinged, big rooms no more awe inspiring than the little rooms of my cottage. Everyone in the house is a friend, within 24 hours after their arrival. I am particularly happy to have our farzoft Seattle

family here this year, and only wish that James and| Elliott and their families could be with us. But! having three families is doing very well and I feel we should be duly grateful. Tomorrow will be a busy day for me, but having Christmas eve fall on Sunday is going to make it| possible to do some of the things during the day instead of crowding them all in on Christmas eve. | At 8:45 tomorrow morning I shall be at the | Capitol Theater for the Central Union Mission's] Christmas party, and at 9:30 at the Wilson Theater in Arlington, Va. for an annual Christmas party for the underprivileged children. Then a short press conference, and at 1:15 I attend the Christmas party given by the Volunteers of America, and at 2 o'clock! the party given by the Salvation Army. Then I] return to the White House for the big tree in the! East Room at 3:30, when we greet all of the people! who are part of the White House family. At 5 o'clock, | I go to listen to the singing of Christmas carols at the Christmas tree in two of the alleys of Washington. These alleys are the slums of Washington and they | are gradually disappearing. This year, my public duties end at 6 o'clock. I still] have all day Sunday for the last family preparations, |

which crowd upon one at Christmas eve,

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EX-MOVIE STAR'S SISTER DIES AT 39

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U. P.).— Mrs. Margaret Shelby Fillmore, sister of Mary Miles Minter, goldenhaired queen of the silent movies, will be given a private funeral service next Tuesday at noon. She died Thursday night after a long illness. She was 39. Mrs. Fillmore had figured in the family’s much publicized financial affairs and in investigation of the murder of Director William Desmond Taylor, an unsolved film colony mystery of 17 years ago. For years she wrangled in and out of courts with her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, over money matTwo years ago she won a judgment for $20,000 she claimed the mother took from their joint

(safety deposit box,

Wilford Downs of 133 Leota St. has no doubt about liking the present he got yesterday at the State House-Salvation Army children’s party. His 6-year-old eyes glisten when the flier whirls through the air in front of him at the State House.

Times Photos. Four-year-old Frank Hollingsworth of 1431 W. Ohio St. isn't quite sure what he thinks about the drum given him at the party. Martha Mauck, State House employee, is waiting patiently while Frank

deliberates a decision.

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