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WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1939. ** B—I
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Capital Plans
For Biggest Yule
In Its History
Many Celebrations
Held as Festive Air
Pervades City
With the schools closed and Fed
eral departments winding up their
work until Tuesday, Washington to
day was preparing £or the biggest
Christmas week end in the city’s
history.
More than 90,000 children were
released from the public schools
yesterday afternoon until January 2,
and private schools and colleges
W'ere closing at the same time.
A festive air pervaded the Dis
trict Building today, where gifts
were exchanged and Christmas
carols sung. Maj. Daniel J. Dono
van, District auditor, issued invi
tations for a yule songfest in his
office this afternoon.
Carols to Be Sung Again.
Child troubadours were to make a
second trip through downtown
Washington this afternoon to sing
carols from their gayly decorated
, Streetcar. About 70 young singers
from the District Playground De
partment will board the car at 5
p.m. at Fourteenth and East Capi
tol streets. The car will proceed up
F street to Fourteenth street N.W.,
then to the car barn on Decatur
stieet. and return.
Several citizens’ associations last
night held annual community cele
brations and lit Christmas trees, and
plans were completed for the light
ing of the national community
Christmas tree by President Roose
velt in the Ellipse south of the White
House at dusk Sunday.
Nearly a hundred members of the
Hillcrest and Summit Park Citizens’
Associations last night attended a
celebration in front of East Wash
ington Heights Baptist Church,
where a tree was lighted. The Rev.
Glenn B. Fausett, pastor of the
church, opened the exercises with
an invocation. John W. Martin,
president of the Hillcrest group,
pressed a button which lighted the
electrical decorations on the tree.
Others participating in the program
were the Rev. Karl G. Newell, pas
tor of Ryland Methodist Church,
and the Rev. Joseph V. Buckley,
pastor of St. Francis Xavier Cath
olic Church.
Citizens’ Celebration.
Members of the citizens’ associa
tions of Takoma, D. C„ and Manor
Park last night held their eighth
annual Christmas celebration about
a 50-foot Colorado spruce at the
Whittier Municipal Playgrounds,
Fourth and Whittier streets N.W.
The tree was lighted by Wallace
C. Magathan, president of the
Takoma association, and Daniel B.
Lloyd, head of the Manor Park
group. Christmas carols were sung
by the members as they circled a
big log fire. The singing was led
by Ira Krider.
The Rev. George Schnobel, pastor
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church,
gave the invocation, and Arthur
Kriemelmeyer, playground director,
made a brief talk. The role of
Santa Claus was taken by William
M. Greene, secretary of the Takoma
group, who made special gifts to
• the boy and girl who had done the
best work for the Christmas Cheer
, Club of the Takoma Recreation
Center. Mary Julia Airley read a
Christmas poem.
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen
and Police Chief Ernest W. Brown
will participate tonight in the light
ing of a community tree at Thir
teenth and W streets N.W. The ex
ercises will be held at 7:30 o’clock.
Parade to Be Held.
Another event at 7:30 o’clock to
night will be a parade sponsored by
the Metropolis View Citizens’ Asso
ciation.
The column will form at Seventh
and Jackson streets N.E. and will
move along Franklin street to
Fourth street N.E.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be one of the
busiest persons in the city tomorrow,
with a schedule calling for partici
pation in several parties given by
welfare agencies for the under
privileged.
At 8:30 a.m. she will help at the
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Capitol Theater; at 9:30 a.m. she
will go to the Arlington (Va.) Ki
wanis Club party for underprivileged
children; at 1 p.m. she will be at
the Volunteers of America party in
Thomson School-, and at 2 o'clock
she will be a guest at the Salvation
Army party, 606 E street N.W.
The Women’s Community and
Welfare Club at Seat Pleasant, Md„
will hold a Christmas celebration
tonight at 8 o'clock in the audi
torium at the Seat Pleasant School.
Gifts of clothing, food and toys will
be made to 125 needy children, and
a community dance will follow, it
was announced.
The Arkansas Avenue Community
Association will hold its first an
nual Christmas party at 8:15 p.m.
Wednesday. December 27, in Tel
ford's Buffeteria, 4724 Fourteenth
street N.W. Mrs. Henry G. Doyle,
president of the Board of Educa
tion, will be* the principal speaker.
An entertainment program and re
freshments will be provided.
$400 Donated by Group
For Boys' Club Work
Two checks totaling $400 were
presented to Police Supt. Ernest
W. Brown by the Cosmopolitan Club
yesterday. One was donated by the
club for a new cabin at Camp
Brown, summer camp of the Metro
politan Police Boys’ Club, and the
other was given by Edmund O. Carl,
president of the Cosmopolitan Club,
to be used as the Boys' Club sees fit.
The Christmas campaigns of local
newspapers also were recipients of
gifts by the club, each receiving $25.
The Rev. John J. Cartwright, pas
tor of the Immaculate Conception
Church, told the club an attitude
of increasing selfishness throughout
the country is undermining Ameri
can ideals of democracy. He said
Christmas is a time “when every
one should strive for noble ideals
and higher purposes.”
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WESTERN BEGINS JUBILEE CELEBRATION—The judges had
a hard time picking the winners at the colorful costume ball
which formally opened Western High School’s celebration of its
50th anniversary last night. Here are Bob Brengle and Toni
Mirick, co-winners of the most beautiful costume prize.
Prizes for the most representative costumes went to Elena
Delgado and John Moore for their cowboy get-ups. The dance
drew several hundred students and younger graduates. The
older alumni will reunite at a dinner in the spring to celebrate
the anniversary.
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Also co-winners of the prize for the most beautiful costume
were Gerry de Foe and Sam Waddell. Other events will be held
from time to time during the coming year to celebrate the an
niversary. At the present time an observance committee,
headed by Miss Margaret Taylor, a member of the faculty, is
working on the program. —Star Staff Photos.
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1,195 Non-Residents
To Cost D. C. Schools
$263,500 for Year
Only About 100 Pupils
From Outside City
Do Pay Tuition
The 2,793 non-resident pupils re
ceiving free education in the Dis- :
trict schools will cost the District
an estimated $263,500 this year, an
unofficial count revealed today.
The total was arrived at by ap
plying to the number of non-resi
dents in the various levels the tui
tion rates for pupils not entitled to
free tuition.
At the same time it was learned
that only an additional 100 or so
pupils from* outside Washington do
pay tuition. No figures are avail
able as to just what that will mean
in income, but a school official esti
mated about $4,500.
The number of non-residents not
paying tuition has increased 311
from last year, or in terms of dol
lars and cents about $30,000.
Supt. Frank W. Ballou told the
Board of Education the increase
this year in non-paying non-resi
dents might be partially explained
by the movement of many former
residents of the District into the
nearby counties.
It was recalled that the tuition
costs are computed on the basis of
the operating costs of the school
system and do not include capital
outlay. Thus the figure of what
the non-residents receive free in
cludes only the costs of instruction
for the year and does not reveal
what they get in the form of new
buildings and additions or even re
pairs to buildings.
Two Grocery Holdups
Lead Night's Crime
Robbery squad detectives today
were investigating two overnight
holdups of grocery store proprietors.
Louis Gladsden, 922 C street S.E.,
said three colored youths robbed him
of $50 after asking for a bag of coal.
One of the men, he said, drew a re
volver while the others scooped up
the contents of the cash register
and took additional cash from his
pockets.
Two white men, one brandishing a
small revolver, took about $12 from
Nicholas Capitan in his store at
1001 L street N.W., he told police.
Two purse snatchings also were
reported to police last night, fethel
Husbands, 20 K street N.W., said one
of three colored youths who ap
proached her in the 400 block of K
street N.W. snatched her pocket
book containing $15. The trio fled
through an alley.
A man clad in a "long gray over
coat” and two companions no doubt
were disappointed in the loot they
got from a pocketbook he snatched
from Ruby Jones, 2100 N street
N.W., near her home last night. The
bag contained no money, only some
personal papers and cosmetics. The
man fled in a waiting automobile.
Pirates' Den Closed
As Rent Suit Is Filed
Don Dickerman’s Pirates’ Den, a
night club at 3135 K street N.W., has
closed, it was learned today as a
suit was filed to recover $3,300 as
sertedly owed in rent.
The suit was filed in District
Court by Merwin A. Mace of Arling
ton, Va. The rent, according to the
complaint, was due from February 1
to December 31 of this year at the
rate of $300 a month. Brandenburg
& Brandenburg are attorneys for the
plaintiff.
Mr. Dickerman could not be
reached for comment, but it was
learned that the club had not been
open for several days.
Heurich Party Tonight
About 700 employes of the Heurich
Brewing Co. and their families will
be guests of the Employes’ Associa
tion at the firm’s 4th annual Christ
mas party for children tonight at
7:30 o'clock in the Heurich Gym
nasium. Guests of honor will be
Christian Heurich, sr„ who is 97
years old; his wife and hit aon,
Christian Heurioh, jr.
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Verdict Upholding
Business Levy
To Be Appealed
Justice Bailey Thinks
Tax Is Unjust, but
Rules It Is Valid
The United States Court of Ap
peals is to be asked shortly to pass '
on the validity of the disputed busi-'
ness privilege tax here, counsel for
the Maryland Distillers’ Products i
Corp. of Baltimore said, following a '
decision by Justice Jennings Bailey
of District Court that the statute
was valid.
The jurist ruled yesterday after
noon in what ia described as the
first test of the statute in District
Court that the business privilege
tax, provided for under the District
of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937,
is legal. Justice Bailey indicated
that his personal belief is that the
levy is unjust but was within the
power of Congress to enact, and so
is valid. He dismissed a bill for re
view' of a tax levy made under the
Board of Equalization and Review
involving the Maryland firm.
The case was placed before Dis
trict Court when the corporation
argued that excise taxes are not
part of gross receipts for purposes
of assessing the business privilege
tax, which is measured on grass re
ceipts. The District government
contended that they are part of
a firm's gross receipts under the
tax statute.
Attorneys George A. Mahone and
Arthur Callahan appeared for the
corporation, w-hile the District gov
ernment was represented by Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Glenn Sim
mon. Yesterday’s proceeding before
Justice Bailey arose under the Dis
trict of Columbia Revenue Act of
1937, which expired in June, 1938,
lawyer said, and the local revenue
act as amended expired on June 30
last. Lawyers explained that the
District’s new income tax law,
which becomes operative in the com
ing year, replaces the business privi
lege tax.
Despite the fact that the business
privilege tax statute has now ex
pired, lawyers declared that a num
ber of cases are pending.
boys Uub Schedule
The four clubhouses of the Boys'
Club of Washington will be open
from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day dur
ing the Christmas holidays, but will
close at 1 p.m. tomorrow to allow
staff members the week-end holiday.
SAVED , BY PLIERS—Ten
year-old Kenneth Burdett,
1926 Fourth street N.E., shows
his dog the remains of the
ring nipped from his fingers
* by Pvt. E. R. Curtis of the Fire
Rescue Squad, who took the
boy to his own home to get
pliers when firemen were
called to cut the ring from the
boy’s bruised and swollen little
finger. —Star Staff Photo.
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Capital's Christmas Events
A Daily Schedule of City-Wide and
Community Yuletide Celebrations
TODAY. |
5:00 p.m.—Carol-singing children’s:
chorus, streetcar tour, beginning
at Fourteenth and East Capitol
streets.
5:00 p.m —Pantomime, "The First
Christmas Night,” Christ Child
Settlement House, 608 Massachu
setts avenue N.E.
7:30 p.m.—Community tree, Thir- i
teenth and W streets S.E., Com
missioner Hazen, Police Chief
Brown to participate.
7:30 p.m.—Parade, Metropolis View
Citizens' Association, from Seventh
and Jackson streets N.E., down
Franklin street to Fourth street
N.E.
8:15 p.m.—Religious drama, "The
Prince of Peace,” Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church, 1410 Co
lumbia road N.W.
TOMORROW.
8:30a.m.—Central Union Mission's
party at Capitol Theater, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt will help
distribute gifts. United States
Marine Band will play.
9:30 a.m—Mrs. Roosevelt will at
tend the annual Christmas party
for 500 children sponsored by the
Arlington <Va > Kiwanis Club at
the Wilson Theater in Arlington.
The program will include music
by the 65-piece Kiwanis Boys’
Band.
1:00p.m—Mrs. Roosevelt will aid in
distribution of 500 baskets of food
to needy families at annual
Christmas party of Volunteers of
America at Thomson School,
Twelfth and L streets N.W.
1:15 p.m—Volunteers of America
party for needy families, 2319
Eighteenth street N.W., Mrs.
Roosevelt expected.
2:00p.m—Annual Salvation Army
party, 606 E street N.W., Mrs.
Roosevelt to give out the first
of 600 baskets to needy families.
Bishop Freeman to speak.
5:00 p.m.—Carol-singing children’s
chorus, yard of Southeast House.
5:00 p.m.—Lighting of tree in Chevy
Chase Circle by Chevy Chase Citi
zens’ Association, community sing
ing of carols.
SUNDAY.
3:30 p.m.—Program at Banneker
Junior High School under spon
sorship of Pleasant Plains Civic
Association and P.-T. A. of Mon
roe and Bruce Schools.
4:30p.m.—Concert by United States
Marine Band, Ellipse.
5:00 p.m.—National Community
Christmas Tree. Ellipse, President :
Roosevelt to light tree at dusk and |
deliver Christmas message to
Nation at 5:11 p.m.
5:00 p.m.—Conduit Road Citizens’
Christmas message to Nation,
broadcast from Ellipse.
5:00 p.m.—Celebration of Pleasant
Plains Civic Associatfon, Ban
neker Recreation Center, Georgia
avenue and Euclid street N.W.
5:00 p.m.—Tree lighting, Michigan
Park Citizens’ Association, at
Twelfth street and Michigan
avenue N.E.
5:30p.m.—Conduit Road Citizens’
Association party, Palisades Park
playhouse, near Sherrier and
Edmunds places N.W.
6:00p.m.—Community tree lighting,
Central-Northwest Citizens Asso
ciation, Vermont avenue and U
street N W.
7:00 p.m.—Residents of Wesley
Heights and Spring Valley will
hold their annual Christmas cele
bration about a community tree
at Forty-fourth street and Cathe
dral avenue N.W.
7:30 p.m.—Michigan Park Citizens’
Association party for children at
Children’s Country Home, Eight
eenth street and Bunker Hill road
NE' MONDAY.
11:30 a.m.—Christmas "Dutch Treat”
breakfast-luncheon for lonely Dis
trict residents or travelers. At the
Shoreham Hotel, with Mrs. Paul
Elliott as hostess.
2:30 p.m.—National Cathedral
American Legion Post’s party for
children at Washington Home for
Foundlings.
Crippled Children to Have
Own Gallinger Quarters
Crippled children will have their
own quarters in Gallinger Hospital
when renovation and recondition
ing there are completed next month.
Forty-four long-term cases will be
housed on the first floor of the
building, so the hospital’s general
wards will be relieved of crippled
children who need a year or longer
to recover.
In the basement there is a clinic
for the regular treatment of 200
patients. Dr. O. Anderson Engh is
director of the clinical treatment,
part of which, called ‘‘occupational
therapy,” teaches children a trade
and at the same time trains them
to use their hands and arms.
Adjacent to the clinic is a work
shop where children can repair their
own braces and make toys for them
selves.
The construction of a swimming
pool where crippled youngsters can
exercise their limbs in tepid water
is nearly finished.
The entire program is made pos
sible by a grant of $24,000 from the
Social Security funds, supplement
ed by D^trict money. There is no
charge for treating patients, and
only poor children are eligible.
Handicapped Children
Attend Yule Party
About 40 physically handicapped
children yesterday were given a
Christmas party at the Thomson
School.
The children, brought to the
school in transportation arranged
by the Kiwanis Club, were enter
tained by Art Brown, radio an
nouncer, movies sponsored by the
Variety Club and a play by the chil
dren of the Thomson School.
The Association for the Educa
tion of the Handicapped Children
sponsored the affair.
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Three-Day Bar Tests
Completed by 600
About 600 Washingtonians will
celebrate a particularly merry
Christmas this year because their
gruelling three-day test of the bar
examination ended yesterday, but
they are keeping their fingers
crossed to see whether 1940 will
really be a happy New Year for
them, as far as the marks are con
cerned.
Former Judge Ralph Given, secre
tary to the Committee on Admis
sions and Grievances of District
Court, said today the number was
the smallest in five years to take
the test. The answer may be found
in the fact that for the first time
the limit of taking the examina
tion only five times became opera
tive at this examination.
Judge Given explained that un
der the new rules a student may
take the bar examination three
times as matter of right. To take it
a fourth time one must have un
dertaken a year's study satisfac
tory to the. committee, and if he
fails then he must take an addi
tional year’s study.
Last December 842 persons took
the bar examination, while in June
there were 968 applicants.
D. C. Court Vacancy
Names Not Yet Sent
President Roosevelt said today
the Attorney General has not yet
sent to him any recommendations
for appointment of a successor to
the vacancy at the District Court
of the United States for the Dis
trict of Columbia caused by the re
cent death of Justice Joseph W
Cox. He said he understood that
Attorney General Murphy had been
studying the matter and probably
would be ready to discuss it soon.
The Attorney General told his
press conference yesterday the ap
pointment will be made the first
week Congress gets back, but added
the nominee has not yet been defi
nitely selected.
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Mother Is Suicide
After Sending Her
Daughter Away
Mrs. Lena King Tavlin
Takes Life Amid
Yule Decorations
lending her young daughter away
for the holidays, Mrs. Lena King
Tavlin, 28, of 3511 Davenport street
N.W. turned on the gas yesterday j
afternoon in her apartment gay with ;
Christmas decorations.
The young mother was uncon
scious when found about 2 p.m. by i
Mrs. Milta Houghton, manager of i
the apartment. Firemen of the
Rescue Squad, summoned by Mrs.
Houghton, were unable to revive her.
She was pronounced dead half an
hour later.
Sent Daughter South.
Mrs. Tavlin. an employe of the
War Department, made arrange
ments for her daughter Jean, 9. to
visit her grandparents in North
Carolina for Christmas, and the lit- i
tie girl left for the South after she
was released from school for the
holidays, without knowing of her
mother's death.
Mrs. Tavlin was found slumped
in a chair near the kitchen stove,
two burners of which were open. In
the apartment investigators saw a
decorated Christmas tree surround
ed by presents as if Mrs. Tavlin
had planned a happy holiday.
Mrs. Tavlin, twice married, was
separated from her second husband,
and shared the apartment with a
young woman friend. Jean was the
daughter of her first marriage.
Worked Yesterday.
Friends said that Mrs. Tavlin went
to work as usual yesterday morn
ing, returning to her apartment
shortly before noon. At that time,
it was said, she seemed distressed
about something. Coroner A. Ma
gruder MacDonald issued a certifi
cate of suicide.
Mrs. Tavlin lived in Greensboro.
N. C., before coming to Washington.
Pamphlet Vendors' Case
Taken Under Advisement
Police Judge. Edward M. Curran
had under advisement today a de
fense plea that freedom of the press
had been invaded in the arrest of
Aria A. Albraugh and Allen Good
said for unlicensed vending in ‘the
sale of political pamphlets at Four
teenth and F streets N*.W. last Sat
urday.
At their trial yesterday their at
torney, Herbert R. Grossman, con
tended the District license law re
garding religious and political pam
phlets was unconstitutional, in that
it violated the provision guarantee
ing freedom of the press. He said
the law claims the right “to say you
cannot speak until you have told
us what you are going to talk about.’’
Three pamphlets introduced in
evidence were entitled “John L>.
Lewis Exposed.” “Communist Jesuit
ism” and “Manifesto on War.”
The defendants testified they were
selling and “giving away” booklets
advocating Socialistic principles.
The arrests were made during
the mid-afternoon shopping rush
after a crowd had gathered about
the vendors. Their sales talk had
drawn comments from hecklers.
Promising an early memorandum
opinion, Judge Curran said:
“The Commissioners are trustees
of the Republic and have as part
of their duties the problem of keep
ing the streets open and available
for their primary use—the move
ment of citiens. The license act
prohibits the sale of any article
of merchandise except newspapers
from the public streets unless th«
person selling same has obtained a
license.”
Traffic Record
The traffic record for 24-hour
period ending 8 a.m. today:
Fatalities, l(a motorist).
Accidents, 42.
Motorists injured, 7.
Motorists arrested, 331.
Pedestrians Injured, 5.
Pedestrians arrested for vio
lation of pedestrian control
regulation, 4.
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Night Club Operators
In Maryland Given
New Year Warning
Sunday Ban on Hard
Liquor Will Hold,
Officials Say
Despite reports Prince Georges
County <Md.) night club operators
expect to serve hard liquor New1
Year Eve, no relaxation of the Sun
day ban on such business is con- !
templated, members of the county's i
Liquor Control Board declared to
day.
Although infractions are antici
pated, there is every reason to be
lieve the board's investigator will be
as active New Year Eve as at any
other time, officials said, adding that
licensees brought before the control
body on charges of breaking the law
against Sunday sale of hard liquir
will be punished in the usual man
ner if found quilty.
Anxious to attract the Capital’s
New Year celebrants, some Prince
Georges night club operators have
been “confident” they will be able
to offer “high-test" beverages
throughout the evening, in contrast
to Washington proprietors, who will
be obliged to sell only wines and
beer until midnight.
Asked for comment, County Prose
cutor H. Winship Wheatley, jr..
pointed out he was “no policeman"
but called attention to the law cov
ering liquor sale.
“It says you can't sell liquor on
Sunday,” Mr. Wheatley said point
edly.
No serious thought of “wide-open"
operations was evidenced in Mont
gomery County or Arlington County,
Va., police and night club men ex
pecting normal conditions with re
spect to liquor bans.
Their usual New Year eve antici
pation reduced, District night club
and hotel operators were preparing,
nevertheless, to stage special enter
tainment programs to entice Wash
ingtonians to their establishments.
Prices of from $4 to $7.50 per per
son have been set by the larger
places, with the tariff including
supper or breakfast, favors and the
show.
The proprietors hope they will be
able to gamer some change from
beer and wine sales between the
time festivities begin, about 10
o’clock in most places, and the ad
vent of Baby 1940, when the bars
will begin to do business in all
classifications—for two hours.
Kennedy Urges D.C. Report
Include Suffrage
The District Commissioners were
urged • today by Representative
Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland,
to include suffrage in their local
reorganization report, as he an
nounced his intention of taking up
the subject early in the session
starting January 3.
MT* If ormorfl* wtlsn « ri
served notice he would Include suf
frage in any future revision of the
Griffenhagen plan, said:
“I believe the Commissioners
should make a definite decision and
include recommendations on suf
frage in their reorganization pro
posals. It is certain suffrage will
be a part of the program consid
ered, and any plan that does not
take it into consideration will be
of little help to the committee.”
Meanwhile, it became increas
ingly apparent that the annual Dis
trict appropriation bill, frequently
one of the first to be drafted, will
come up late in this session, because
of the necessity of selecting a new
subcommittee chairman to succeed
Representative Collins of Missis
sippi, who is relinquishing the post.
President's Pay Day
Intervention Futile
Despite the fact that President
Roosevelt intervened for them,
Government workers will not be
able to receive their next pay check
before thejr regular payday.
The President revealed that he
sought to advance the payday, but
that he was informed by the Con
troller General and the Director of
the Budget that the law prevented
such a move.
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Toll Rises to 82
As Traffic Kills
3 More Persons
Truck Driver, 22,
Dies When Vehicle
Crashes Parked Car
A youthful driver was killed in
stantly early today in a truck crash
on Benning road N.E., and an 80
year-old accident victim injured
Saturday died at Georgetown Hos
pital. A third traffic death was re
ported overnight.
A truck careened off Benning road
in the 3900 block, crashed into a
parked car and overturned, result
ing in death for the driver, Clarence
J. Lewis, 22, colored, 2313 H street
N.W., and injuries to a woman pas
senger.
Police said the truck was tele
scoped when it smashed into a car
parked in a driveway. The force
of the crash sent the driverless ma
chine through a hedge 30 feet from
the roadway.
The driver was pronounced dead
at the scene, and the passenger,
Lillian Harris, 28, colored, 1509 Ver
mont avenue N.W., was treated at
Casualty Hospital for severe cuts on
her face, head and hands.
Arlington Man Dies.
The octogenarian, H. F. Townley
of 4714 Washington boulevard, Ar
lington, Va., died of injuries received
when he was struck by an auto
mobile hear his home Saturday.
Police said the car which struck
Mr. Townley was operated by Brox
ton Good of Arlington, who was re
leased under bond pending a hearing
in Arlington County Court Decem
ber 30.
Ai.JUiibO A I UU nAlt.il AllO aUW
mobile smashed into a streetcar on
the Baltimore boulevard near Belts
ville, Md., yesterday proved fatal
for John R. Massie. 55, of Char
lottesville, Va. He died several hours
after the accident at Casualty, where
his wife was admitted in an unde
termined condition.
The colored youth's death was the
82d traffic fatality in the District
for the year, as compared with 86
for the same period in 1938. Police
noted today that the remaining days
in 1938 passed without a fatality.
10 Others Injured.
At least 10 other persons were in
jured. three possibly seriously, in ac
cidents last night and early today.
Joseph E. Buckley, 17. of 2228
Shannon place S.E. was treated at
Providence Hospital for hysteria,
shock and injuries to both legs when
the automobile he was driving over
turned near Reds Corner. Md.. after
striking a soft shoulder. A com
panion, Ray Gregory, 17, of Arling
ton, Va., was treated for minor face
injuries.
Struck by a taxicab early today on
Benning road N.E. near the viaduct,
Charles Scrivener, 60, colored, 50 O
street N.W., was admitted to Casual
ty Hospital with a leg injury and a
broken shoulder. His condition was
described as undetermined.
Police said the driver of the cab
was Edward A. Armstrong. 28, of
1316 Kenilworth avenue N.E.
Suffers Skull Injuries.
Doctors at Casualty said- Eugene
Mills. 34, colored. 47 K street N.E,
struck by an automobile in the first
block of H street N.E.. suffered
skull injuries. He also was treated
for cuts and bruises on his face and
body.
William Hamby, 19, of 212 Fif
teenth street N.E., received severe
face cuts when a rear tire of an au
tomobile in which he was a pas
senger blew out, causing the car to
crash into a fire hydrant at Good
Hope road and Seventeenth street
SB. The youth was treated at
Providence.
InvestigatofS said the car was
operated by William F. Leftwich,
18, of 1416 Young street S.E., who
escaped Injury. '
Five Injured in Crash.
Five persons were injured in a
head-on collision between two cars
on the Fort Hunt road just outside
Alexandria. Va., last night. All
were admitted to Alexandria Hos
pital for treatment.
Alexandria police said a report of
the accident was made by State
officials and they had no details of
the accident.
incise injured included John C.
Hoff. 21, and Edward Middleton, 20,
both of Quaker lane, Alexandria,
who were returning home from the
University of Virginia for the holi
days. Occupants of the second car
were listed as George E. Feagans,
Everett Feagans. 17, and Elvin
Feagans, 14, all of Route 1, Alexan
dria.
Many Attend Pageant
At Friends School
Several hundred parents and
friends attended a Friends School
musical pageant last night. It was
written by Miss Sade C. Styron,
musical director.
The pageant was entitled
“Through the Ages in Christmas
Scenes and Songs,” and more than
200 children took part. The
scenes ranged from the days of
Bach and Handel to French Quebec,
Elizabethan England and even the
Appalachian Mountain country of
America in Colonial days.
A cathedral scene had a backdrop
of a stained-glass window with
Madonna and Child, designed by
12-year-old Alice Machlis. Partici
pants included William and Mildred
Douglas, children of Associate Jus
tice Douglas and Mrs. Douglas.
Supplementary Cuban
Trade Pact Proclaimed
President Roosevelt today issued a
proclamation putting into effect to
morrow a supplementary preferen
tial trade agreement with Cuba,
which was signed Monday.
Limited in scope, the new agree
ment restores concessions on Cuban
cigars and cigar tobacco, which were
provided in the 1934 trade agreement
but which terminated in 1936.
It also provides for the restoration
of the trade agreement rate of 90
cents per 100 pounds on Cuban su
gar If the Quota provisions of the
Sugar Act, suspended last Septem
ber, are restored.
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