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mt 0m METROPOLITAN I U. S. Weather Bureau Reports: Rain and ritinf temperature Friday and alto Saturday FINAL EDITION Friday, December 2, 1938. 108th Year. No.

212 On Guard for Over a Century 32 Pages Three Cents Man and Wife Murder Friend rn nn JU to Get 84 Cents Trapped in Trying to Police Admit Returning Pistol to Livingston Dispose of Their Victim's Body They Tell of Putting Mickey Finn in Beer Irate Workers Striking Again After Reprisal Daladier Is Leader in Punishment Move; Calls Deputies Trooper Bares Reds Start Auto Strikes, Martin Admits to Dies SchoolrBus Crash Toll May Mount to 30 Dead Auto Strikers Get Layoffs at Union Request Martin at first sought to evade questions hurled by Chairman Alexander, superintendent at the hospital, said were parts of "one or two bodies." Seventeen of the more than 40 students on the bus, en route to Jordan District High School near Midvale, a Salt Lake City suburb, were injured, at least six critically. Safety Stop Made Conflicting testimony hampered officials who sought to determine the cause of the accident, one of the worst of its kind In the Nation's history. Students who escaped death told how Driver Farrold Silcox, 29 years old, stopped near the crossing in accordance with Utah law, then went ahead. Engineer E. L.

Rehmer said in his report to Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad officials that although a light snow was falling, "visibility was at least 1,200 feet." Brakeman G. M. Kelley reported seeing the bus come to a stop and then, he said, "when the train was an engine and two car lengths from the crossing, the bus started. Yelled 'Big Hole "The fireman and I hollered "big hole' (an emergency cry on board train to indicate a coming crash). The engineer made emergency application of brakes.

The crossing whistle was properly sounded and was still sounding when we came to the crossing." The fifty-car train, The Flying Ute, apparently struck the bus just ahead of its middle. The body of the bus was tossed nearly 100 yards to the left. The chassis was wrapped around the front of the engine and ground under the wheels. Bodies of the children, their school books, lunches, band instruments and even a pair of shoes were tossed about under the train. Some of the children who escaped death were thrown from the bus.

Train Running Late Although the speed of The Flying Ute could not be definitely determined, Sheriff S. Grant Young said the train was running almost two hours late because of the storm. Its normal speed at that point, he said, was from 60 to 70 miles an hour. Please Turn to Page 2 Column 2 Leebove Fears of Being Killed Gun Was Taken Away Temporarily at Victim's Plea HARRISON, Dec. 1 (A.P.) A State police sergeant testified Thursday at the trial of Carl (Jack) Livingston for murdering Isaiah Leebove that Livtigston's pistol had been taken away from him temporarily in July, 1937, after Leebove had complained of threats against his life.

The sergeant, Lloyd J. Wagner, said that the gun board had refused to revoke Livingston's permit and restored the gun, after Livingston said that he did not intend physical harm to Leebove, but instead would "get even with him" through some business deal. Wagner testified that Leebove at the time told him he "would not be responsible for what happened to Livingston If he continued to go around armed." The gun board that declined to revoke Livingston's permit was composed of Sheriff George Bates, Prosecutor Donald E. Holbrook and Wagner. Wagner told the jury that Livingston had told him that "Lee-bove's gang" might endanger his (Livingston's) life.

The sergeant was instructed to produce in court Friday carbon copies of letters and telegrams which Livingston had submitted to the gun board to substantiate his charges that Leebove had threatened him. Defense attorneys succeeded In excluding testimony i of another State witness, Deputy Sheriff Rob' ert Carter, who was called to tell of statements Livingston made to Sheriff Bates while on his way to jail after Leebove was shot to death. The attorneys contended there was no evidence that Livingston had been apprised at the time of his constitutional rights. Earlier a State witness testified that after the shooting of Leebove Livingston had locked himself In his hotel room and prepared to defend himself with a shotgun against unidentified gangsters. Hotel Porter Testifies! Stanley Parrlsh, a porter at the Doherty Hotel in Clare, was the witness.

Livingston lived at the hotel, and it was in the Doherty taproom that Leebove, oil promoter, was shot to death the night of May 14. Please Turn to Page Column 8 Woman, 86, Collects Accidents in Threes PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1 (A. The superstition that accidents come in threes came true today for Mrs. Wilhelmlna Rechel, eighty-six-year-old widow.

First she slipped on Ice and fell Into a rubbish fire. Second, she ran into her house and set fire to a rug and a sofa with her flamlne clothing. Third, an am bulance taking her to a hospital collided with a bus. Despite her age and serious burns, physicians said that her condition was "fair." Emerson Foe Divorced LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (A.P.) Joan Rexford, dancer, divorced J.

L. Lubowskl, musician, today on the grounds of extreme cruelty. She said that he called her rattlebrained for reading Emerson's works. The quota, the highest the Good' fellows have ever set for Ruth Alden, was more than double the number asked for In the first drive four years ago, but so completely has the Christmas dress idea gripped the hearts of Michigan women that they met the challenge before the deadline hour was reached. "It was magnificently done," said James L.

Mahon, president of the Goodfellows, when Ruth Alden telephoned him Thursday that the quota has been passed. "Please say to the women who have worked so hard and will. Ingly and to those who have given so generously that the Goodfellows of Detroit will find inspiration In Solution of a knockout-drop murder, the profits of which were 84 cents and a Jacket later pawned for $4, was announced Thursday by the Homicide Squad. The killing came to light, detectives said, When the man who engineered it asked an acquaintance to help him dispose of the body, Peter Vlohos, 48 years old, of 3855 Gilbert was the vic- tim. Ernest Demzik and his wife Laura con'essed responsibility for Vlohos' death, the officers said.

His body was found in the couple' room at 2933 Trumbull Ave. He Hurries to Police Vlohos' fate came to the-attention of police at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when John Corbish, of 1052 W. Lafayette appeared at Trumbull Station. Corbish told officers that after drinking with Demzik in a beer garden, Demzik Invited him to Demzik's room.

There, Corbish said, Demzig showed him a man's body and asked Corbish to help smuggle it out of the house. Corbish hurried directly to the station. Thursday, Demzik and his wife told their stories to William A. Dowling, chief assistant prosecutor, and John Rlcca, assistant prosecutor. The prosecutors said Mrs.

Demzik told them that Monday morning Demzik suggested to her that they employ knockout drops to rob a man. Gets Knockout Drops As a likely victim Demzik suggested Vlohos, whom he had known" for two years, the prosecutors said Mrs. Demzik told them. Later in tne day Demzik obtained the ingredients for knockout drops and turned them over to her, Dowling and Ricca said they were told. Mrs.

Demzik, they said, admitted having dropped the poison In Vlohos' beer as the three sat in a drinking establishment. Though at that time Vlohos had taken only three beers, the prosecutors were informed, he appeared to become very drunk; so drunk that as they tried to assist him from the aloon a window was broken. The Demziks helped Ylo-hos to their room, and took from him a small amount of money and hii jacket, the statement continued. Neither could remember just how much money there had been. Subsequently, though, the Jacket was pawned for J4.

Two Kept on Drinking With Vlohos' money, the prosecutors were told, the couple continued drinking. Ultimately, they went home and to sleep. Discovery that Vlohos was dead did not come until Tuesday morning when Demzik went out to hunt someone who would help him dispose of the body, Dowling and Ricca said. In the interval between Corbish's appearance and the taking of the statement, the case was investigated by Detective Lieut. Leo Doyle, Detective Sergt.

James Turner and Detectives Elmer Brackett and Joseph Wolff. The officers said that shortly after the Demziks' statements were obtained an autopsy report disclosed that Vlohos had been killed by poison. In November, 1937, according to the detectives, the Demziks were among those rounded up in a widespread investigation of knockout-drop robberies which followed the death by poison of Chester Pollard, who lived at 1533 Cory Ave. They were released for lack of evidence. France Protests at Italian Claims PARIS, Dec.

1 fA. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet protested officially to Italy tonight against Fascist demonstrations believed here to herald the opening of a campaign to get Tunisia from France. Bonnet called Rafaele Gtiariglia, Italian ambassador to Paris, to the foreign office and expressed a firm protest against cries of "Tunisia! Tunisia!" voiced by Italian deputies yesterday in the course of a speech by Count Galcazzo Ciano, Italy's foreign minister. Italians Press Demands ROME, Dec. 1 The Leghorn Telegrafo, owned by the family of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, intimated tonight that Italy would press vigorously for return of for mer Italian territories as the price of friendship with France, and might even resort to force.

The article was written by Giovanni Ansaldo, editor of the newspaper and one of Italy's most noted po litical writers. Italy reinforced her position in Libya today, making a fresh bid for Moslem allegiance by promising limited citizenship to Libyan Arabs while the press continued the clamor over French Tunisia. Tr-, Italian possession's military strength was consolidated by laying the basis for a conscript native army. One Way Maybe TORTALKS, N. Dec.

1 (A. A thief broke into the automobile of the Rev. F. O. Polston.

only loot was a briefcase containing no crpi" of a sermon entitled "How to Win a Soul." SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1 (A. A freight train speeding a mile a minute in a snow storm crashed into a school bus at a little-used crossing today, killing at least 22 students and the bus driver. Hysterical parents identified the bodies at an improvised morgue in Salt Lake General Hospital. In addition, authorities sought identification of what Dr.

R. J. Her Boy Pleads with Governor for Mrs. Hahn COLUMBUS, Dec. 1 (U.

Thlrteen-year-old Oscar Hahn pleaded solemnly for five minutes today for Gov. Martin Davey to spare the life of Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, Cincinnati poison murderess condemned to die in Ohio's electric chair Dec. 7. The boy described his parent as a good mother.

Daniel S. Earhart, Gov. Davey's executive secretary, adjourned the clemency hearing after lengthy testimony, and announced that he probably would not submit his re port to the Governor before next Monday 48 hours before Mrs. Hahn's scheduled execution. Gov, Davey said that he would make his decision Tuesday.

The blue-eyed Oscar was brought here from his school in Cincinnati to plead for his mother's life as "the greatest Christmas I ever have had or A. P. Wirephoto OSCAR HAHN ever will have." The handsome, serious youngster visited his doomed mother in her death-row cell at Ohio Penitentiary before going before Earhart. On his way here with his mother's two lawyers, Oscar begged them to "take me before the Governor or somebody." "I want them to see me and know that I am a good son," he said. "I want them to know I am the kind of a boy who could not have been raised by the kind of a woman they say mother is." At the clemency hearing, Oscar was asked by Defense Attorney Joseph H.

Hoodin what he thought of the State's charges that his mother poisoned Jacob Wagner, 72, of Cincinnati, and six other elderly men for their money. Oscar replied, calmly: "I don't think she ever did that. She has been a good mother. I don't want her to die. I don't think there ever could be a mother as good as she Is.

Nobody can ever take her place-." Hooding asked Oscar whether he knew what would happen if Gov. Davey refuses to grant clemency. "Yes, sir," the boy said. Hoodin summoned Oscar to testify, because "I want to show what kind of a boy he is and raise the question if' a mother such as Anna is pictured could have a son like him." A $1,038 Splash OAKLAND, Dec. 1 (A.

A wet sponge, which fell six stories and struck Mrs. Gladys! L. White on the head, resulted: in an award of $1,038 to her in court tdrlay. She sued the Latham Square Corp. and Peter Massaro.

window washer, saying that the blow strained her neck and fin- I hl ii 3 1 'It I By Clifford A. Prevost i WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 Admissions that virtually all strikes which have slowed production in the automobile industry in the last two years were inspired by Communists were wrung from Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers union, when he appeared today before the Dies committee Investigating un-American activities. Girl Is Freed by Kidnapers Victim Hysterical on Return to Home OXON HILL, Dec. 1 (A.

Mary Brown, eighteen-year-old student of Notre Dame Academy In Washington, missing since yesterday afternoon, was returned to her farm home near here tonight in a hysterical condition. Friends of the Brown family said Mary told them she had been seized by two men in a truck. taken to near-by Washington and held there until this evening. She then was put Into the truck, the friends said, and waa taken to a spot about a half-mile from her home and released. Persons at the Brown home said that Mary, with her clothes tattered and her body bruised, col- lapsed after going up the lane to the house.

Mary said she had been knocked out several times by her kidnapers. State police in charge of the case said they could give no details until they had an opportunity to question her. Mary disappeared yesterday while she and a sister Lucy, 15, were returning from classes at a Washington business school. Lucy told police this story: Two men offered the girls a ride. The sisters refused, and the men leaped from the truck and seized Mary.

Lucy escaped by crawling under a fence and run ning home. Harlan Ex-Sheritt Indicted as Slayer HARLAN, Dec. 1 (A.P.) Commonwealth's Attorney Daniel Boone Smith said tonight that the Harlan County grand Jury had Indicted former Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton on a murder charge growing out of a political shooting five years ago. Middleton, now a coal company executive, was freed on $5,000 bond.

The shooting of Robert Roark, Republican election officer, precipitated calling out National Guards for duty in the county un til after the August. 1933. pri mary. In which Middleton was nominated for sheriff on the Re publican ticket Middleton asserted at the time that the shooting followed a raid on a home in which Roark and four other men were stuffing a ballot box prior to the election. Morro Castle Fire Hero Guilty of Planting Bomb JERSEY CITY, Dec.

1 (A. George W. Rogers, 41 years old, radio operator hero of the Morro Castle disaster and suspended Bayonne policeman, was convicted today of assault with Intent to kill a superior officer. He faces a maximum sentence of five to 20 years. Rogers was accused of leaving a home-made bomb, labeled a "fish tank heater," for Lieut.

Vincent J. Doyle to "repair" last March 4. The "heater" exploded when Doyle Inserted a plug into an electric socket, and he suffered a broken leg and lost three fingers. The State contended that Rogers wanted the lieutenant's job. Rogers stuck to his post when fire killed 124 on the Morro Castle in 1934.

That'll Show the Judge CAPE MAY COURTHOUSE, Dec. 1 (U.P.) Signey Ingram, 39 years old, a burglar, told Judge Palmer M. Way yesterday that he would "sign an affidavit authorizing the court i to sentence him to death if he i did not go straight. Judge Wayj ignored the plea, sentenced Ingram i to 10 years in prison, and today Ingram escaped. Drunkometer ST.

LOUIS, Dec. 1 (A. The Police Department today add-j ed a drunk deteetor to its ecien-1 tific equipment. The device, known as a drunkometer, tnei amount of alcohol present in the breath. PARIS, Dec.

3 (Friday) A new wave of strikes early today brought out troops and Mobile Guard reinforcements throughout France as workers revolted against the wholesale firing of many thousands In reprisal for Wednesday's abortive general strike. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) executives met late Thursday night with leaders of the metallurgical, building, textile, chemical, wood, paper, food supply and leather workers unions to dis cuss the next move. CGT Urges Resistance The CGT instructions to 100,000 key Industry workers said: "First, oppose everywhere the signing of new Individual contracts. The collective contracts with the trade unions must remain the law. "Second, on the opening of the factories all workers in all plants must return and resume work without permitting sanctions or firing.

"Third, in case of sanctions resistance and solidarity must he immediately organized until removal of the sanctions and rehir-ing Is obtained." Thus the labor confederation assumed leadership in the new strike outbreak, occurring only 48 houn after the start of the general strike participated In by an estimated 1,000,000 of the CGT'I 5,000,000 members. Firing Estimates Vary Government sources put the number of dismissals of workers throughout France at "not more than 70,000." The Socialist Party, however, charged that 1,500,000 workers had been punished because of the strike which Premier Edouard Daladier broke with a show of military force. Throughout the country factories turned away strikers, pay ing them off and announcing in some instances that rehiring would start Monday under new contract! undoubtedly banishing the forty-hour, five-day week because the workers supposedly violated their old ones by starting an "illegal" strike. Daladier Shows Way Daladier himself led the reprisal move by locking strikers out of all nationalized arms plants and army-requisitioned utilities. Most private industries immediately followed the Government's example.

At Saint Nazair a crpnpral strike In shipyards and aviation factories was ordered tnr SViHaw morning as result of the aviation ymia iockouis ana employers refusal to receive union delegates. ine bamt iNazaire shipyards operated Thursday, with 150 work, ers discharged for their strike activities, but the aviation plants were closed under Daladier'a orders. Please Turn to Page 2 Column I Armless Youth Takes Judge on Auto Jaunt XENIA, Dec. 1-(A. J) Armless Paul Layton, 21 years old, took Judge George H.

Smith for a thirty-minute joy ride today in an effort to prove himself entitled to a driver's license. Lavton took off his shoes and sock. to sign with his toes an application for a temporay driver's permit. Donning soft slippers and propping himself on three cushions behind the wheel, Layton drove the judge around town, starting, stopping and backing up without mechanical aids. Layton testified that he had been driving since he was 14.

Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Alden, Ruth 19 Around the Town 25 Chatterbox 14 Collyer's Selections 23 Comics 31 Crossword Puzzle 25 Editorial 6 Financial 23 Foreign News 5 Good Morning 6 Guest, Edgar A 6 Iffy the Dopester 3 I Wish to Report 14 Music 25 National Whirligig 6 Newton, Dr. Joseph Fort. Obituaries 23 Quiilan. Robert 6 Radio Programs 23 Screen 24 Serial, "Restless" SI Society It State News 10 Sullivan, Ed 25 Theater 6 Vital Statistic 23 Ward to the 21 Waxhipgton News 12 Wea-vr 7- 2 At the request Thursday of of ficials of the United Automobile Workers, four men whom the union held chiefly responsible for an unauthorized strike at the Plymouth Division of the Chrysler Wednesday were given two-week layoffs. The 14,600 men in the Plymouth plants and In other plants who were made Idle a a result of the strike went back to their jobs Thursday.

Leo Lamotte, president of Plym outh ImWs-IL of the U.A.W., said in connection with the layoffs: "Ai a result of our investigation we have determined that four men were chiefly responsible for trouble. We asked the company to give them two-week layoffs. The company agreed. Those laid off are S. Fedorinchik, chief steward; Sam Daugherty, Nick Ogen and S.

Bogel." Lamotte said it was clear that the action which closed the Plymouth plant was unjustified and that therefore, "disciplinary action against those who caused the trouble Is justified because such stoppages endanger the strength and solidarity of our organization." Lamotte is a member of the U.A.W. international executive board and regional director of union activities In Chrysler plants. He continued: "Under these conditions, responsible unions must lead the way toward mobilizing the people against any liquidation of the progressive measures passed by Gov. Murphy's Administration. This requires self-discipline on the part of labor.

Please Turn to Page 8 Column i U. S. Stops Flight to Loretta Young $100,000 Fraud Blamed on Her Supposed Fiance NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (A.P.) William P. Buckner's nnnnunreH plan to fly to California and marry ix)reua Young, movie actress, was stalled tonight when he was arrested on a mail-fraud charge on his arrival aboard the liner Queen Mary.

Buckncr. 31 vears nlrt. wan ner- mitted to talk with Miss Young in Hollywood by long-distance telephone. (Miss Young said in California that she knew nothing of the purported marriage plans.) Bruckner asked permission to go to California on a promise to return and face the accusation of de frauding bondholders of the Philip- pine Railway Co. of what William Maloney, assistant United States attorney, said might exceed $100,000.

Maloney said that the prisoner had used the money to have a good time on Broadway and else' where. William Gillespie, 42, of Brooklyn, was arrested as an ac complice. Buckner was accused of organ izing a protective committee of bondholders, electing himself chairman, and then mulcting the committee and others on a promise to persuade the Philippine Govern' ment to buy the bonds at 50 per cent of face. They were quoted at 11. Leader in Strike Escapes Gunmen CHICAGO, Dec.

1 (A. Herbert March, a leader of the C.I.O. strike at the Chicaro stnel- yards, escaped unscathed today rrom an attack by unidentified gunmen. March told police he was driving to the picket lines when three men drew alongside In another automobile and fired four or five shots. March leaped from the car and fell to the pavement as his assailants sped away.

Meanwhile, the strikers consented to sale of 8.000 animals exhibited at the International Livestock Show on the strika-bound market at the yards. Let Those Feet Hang as Cure for Insomina CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (A. If! you can't seem to find a place for your feet at night, try hanging 'em over the edge of the bed maybe you'll sleep better. Dr.

Edmund Jacobson, of Chicago, told the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers' convention that sometimes folks who can't get their feet comfortable will obtain relief by having the mattress a little shorter than the body so their feet just har.g over Martin R. Dies, Texas Democrat. When transcripts of two addresses which he was alleged to have made last summer were read into the record, Martin reluctantly ad mitted that the assertions which they contained were substantially true. Transcripts Are Surprise Introduction of the transcripts surprised Martin. They recorded remarks made by him before two gatherings of Catholic priests, last July 18 and Aug.

17, at the Shrine of the Little Flower, parish church of the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin in Royal Oak. Martin admitted making two talks at the shrine, but could not recall whether the excerpts placed in the records by Dies represented an accurate recording of what he had said. Dies announced that the stenographic report of what Mar tin had told between 600 and 700 priests had been provided by the priests themselves.

Martin said that he had spoken extempo raneously, and that he had assumed his remarks were In strictest con fidence. Blnmea Reds for G. M. Strikes In his talks at Royal Oak, Mar tin said that probably all the 345 unauthorized strikes In plants of the General Motors Corp. resulted from agitation by Communists.

He told the priests, according to the transcript, that not one strike occurred which was not Communist-Inspired but today he said he doubted if this were true of all of the ait-downs. He admitted that Communists from outside the Saginaw, area were responsible for the shutdown there, and that he had told the priests that Red followers had threatened to kill him If he entered the G.M. plants. He finally entered and persuaded all except Communist workers to discontinue the slt-downs, he testified. In a strike at Pontiac, the strikers brought in Communists from Detroit and other cities.

Martin aaid. Please Turn to Page 11 Column 2 Curb on Peddlers Aired by Council An ordinance which 'would prohibit the distribution or selling of printed matter and bar peddlers from the vicinity of Briggs Stadium was taken under advisement Thursday by the Common Council after it had heard protests from labor and newspaper representatives. The draft of the proposed ordinance by Clarence E. Page, assistant corporation counsel, was called unconstitutional- by Isadore Levin, attorney for an afternoon newspaper. Lewis Golsteln, representative of scorecard venders outside the park, charged that the Detroit Baseball which asked for the ordinance, wanted to do away with competition In selling scorecards and refreshments to fans.

Frank X. Martel, president of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor, also spoke against the proposal. Walter O. Briggs, vice presi-dent of the club, said that army of peddlers impeded traffic. Cuts OH Own Thumb to Get Out of Wreck CANTON, Dec.

1 (A. Eighty-one-year-old Fred Watts cut off one of his thumbs today to free himself from his wrecked automobile. He feared the machine would catch fire after roiiing down an embankment. Opening his hunting knife, with his teeth. Watts whacked off his left thumb caught In a door and then walked five miles over snowy mountain roads to a doctor's office.

Watts was going deer hunting when the accident occurred. A Vet Who Crochets Beats 185,000 Women NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (A. Gilbert Jordan, of Enfield, 111., who does ail he crocheting in the Jordan family became hw wife hasn't the patience, came to town' today to rick up the blue ribbon he won in the National Crocheting Exhibition. Jordan, who has been crocheting ever since those touRher days when he was snrnevi here in France with the S2nd Division, found people standing around fingering his prize-winning bedspread.

He was the cn'y man in the were wenun. Death Toll in U.S. Set 73,000 Lower NEW YORK, Dec. Death will strike 73,000 fewer blows in the United States this year than last, the Association of Life Insurance Presidents was told today. Dr.

Harold M. Frost, medical director of the New England Mutual Lire insurance re porting the results of an associa tion survey, told the convention the figure indicated that actually 85,000 lives were being saved this year in comparison with 1937, al though a larger population will cause a net saving of approxl matcly 73,000. Plant Blast Kills Man MALDEN, Dec. 1 (U. Leonard Barrett, of Saugus, was killed, another man was Injured critically and several patients reportedly were thrown from their beds in nearby Maplewood Hospital tonight when an explosion occurred in the N.

W. Mathey shoe cement factory. Dress Drive Over the Top; No Child Will Be Forgotten Hundreds upon hundreds of dresses for little girls poured into the Free Press offices Thursday. From morning until nightfall the stream of packages never ceased. And scarcely one of the 2,000 and more women who came with their gifts failed to anxiously ask, "Will Ruth Alden's Sewing Bee reach its quota?" The answer is that It did reach and pass its quota, and because so many women labored so lovingly and gave so generously, not one of the 15,600 little girls on the Goodfcllow lists will be without a new dress on Christmass morning.

The actual total of dresses and dollars was 16,345. This is slightly more than the Goodfellows requested, but the surplus will be welcome one. Many women sent sizes other than those requested, and, while every dress received will be used, the additions! dresses and dollars received will enable the Goodfellows to carry out their original plan of giving a dress to every needy little girl between the ages of 4 and 9, their triumph. "With such an example set before us, we cannot fail to meet our responsibility, and we pledge them our word that on Christmas morning they can be assured that no child in Detroit will be forgotten." Please Turn to Page 4 7 the e.ge..