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You can have a Fine New Piano in vour home •/ for onlv 13*50 monthly Nothing more to pay! Kin's offers you >his opportunity to hove o new piono, with bench included, in your home. The pianos are excellent spinets of a well-known make, brand-new latest model instruments. For your own playing pleasure, for your child's musical education, this plan allows you to have a piano delivered to your home immediately, the only charge being $13.50 monthly, absolutely nothing more to pay. tom REpublic 6212 Falls Church Boy, 16, Drowns During Swim In Flooded Gravel Pit A swimming party by a group of Falla Church High School boyi ended in tragedy yesterday when Claude Burr ess, 18. drowned a short distance from where his classmates were playing. It w’as the second time this . year the group f had gone to a flooded gravel pit on Edsei road between Lincoln ta and Springfleld for a swim after school. Chester McCarl of the 700 block of n»n*> B«rr»M. Marshall street. Falls Church, said Claude jumped off the back of a rowboat and swam to a small island. "The boys in the rowboat went j home.” Chester said, but Claude remained behind to swim with me and several other boys.” Chester said he and Logan Smith, 100 block West Cameron street, and Buddy Reeves. 100 block Namkin walk, both of Falls Church, were swimming together when they realized Claude had disappeared. Chester recalled that he last saw Claude near the island, and began calling his friend. At first. CHester said, they thought Claude was hiding, but when he failed to answer their calls, they decided to dive for him. Chester said he saw Claude s lifeless form, and the others helped him to bring the body out. Claude was the son of Mrs. Ann McCasland, 3028 Manning drive. Alexandria, but he lived with his grandfather. Harry Lusby, near Falls Church. Britain's best customers in 1948 were, in order. Australia, South .Africa and India. For Greater Efficiency in Offices! Far Greater Relaxation at Home! BY FAR THE GREATEST VALUE OF ALL! ’ 5-YEAR WARRANTY! COOLS ROOM AIR cm hot days and nights, regardless of outside temper atures. DEHUMIDIFIES wringing oppressive moisture out of the air, leav ing it cool, dry and mountain-fresh. PULLS IN FRESH OUTSIDE AIR . . cools and purifies it. CIRCULATES THE AIR constantly and gently, with out creating drafts. RELIEVES HAY FEVER by filtering out irritating dust and air-borne pollens. See the amazingly efficient Philco single-room Air-Conditioners at your Philco dealer ... today! The Jo#. M. Zomoiski Co. 2122 24tk Place N.l. Washington, D. C. Please send me additional information and illus trated booklets on the Philco Air-Conditioner. Name.-. Address... Phone No SeeV&ur PHILCO Deafer I 1NGLEWOOOD. CALIF—FLAMES RAEE HOLLYWOOD PARK RACE TRACK—Flame* envelope the grandstand of the Hollywood Park rare track as the lavish racing piant was destroyed by ftre early today. The track was scheduled to begin its annual meeting May 17. Nearly horses in the stable area, half mile away, mere saved. —AP Wirephoto. Hollywood 'Continued^ From First Pass.' for the coming meeting were saved because of the stable*' lo cation a half mile from the mam racing oval. Also spared was the track s col orful flock of black and white swans and geese. The fowl hud dled safely in the little lakes in the infield. Santa Anita Offer* Aid. Jack MacKenzie. general man ager of the track, could not be reached for comment, but Santa Anita Park quickly offered its fa cilities for the season. The fireman. Inspector Clifton Freeman. 30. of Inglewood, suf fered severe injuries when he tried to jump from the collapsing grandstand roof into a tree, and missed. His condition at Cen tinela Hospital was reported seri 0U". First alarm of the Are was given by Joe Cohens, night watchman, who said he found Aames shoot ing up an elevator shaft in the clubhouse while making his rounds. The stiff breeze swept the Are rom one end of the 1.200-foot ,ong stands to the other before Inglewood Are equipment was re inforced. The 11-year-old track was built at a cost of about *2.500.000 and since then an additional *2.500.000 had been poured into improve ments. Only charred stands, twisted steel girders and gaping roof sec tions remained of the lavish estab lishment this morning. One block of parimutuel windows, apart from the general stands, was un scathed. The rest of the wager ing booths, with much costly equipment, was lost. At its height the blaze was visi ble at Westchester, a community Ave miles away. Pilots approach ing Los Angeles Municipal Air port radioed the control tower that “it looks like half of Ingle wood is on Are.” Flying embers for awhile posed a threat to the stable area and its valuable residents, but it was not necessary to move out any horses. Leading thoroughbreds were on the scene training for the sched uled opening. The disaster brought an offer from Gwynn Wilson, general manager of Santa Anita park "We extend our full facilities to the Hollywood Turf Club for the operation of thru' meeting subject to the permission oft he California Horse Racing Board. Mr. Wilson said. Truculent Turtle to Retract 1919 Atlantic Flight of NC-4 • v ***•• The Navy will remember the 30th anniversary of its famous NC-4 trans-Atlantic flight by re tracing the route with Its dis tance-record Truculent Turtle pa trol bomber. It announced last niaht the Turtle—holder of the .world non stop record, without refueling, of 11.236 miles—will take off at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Naval Air Station near Rockaway Point, Long Island, N. Y.. for Newfound land, the Azores. Lisbon. Portugal and Plymouth. England. Unlike the NC-4, the Turtle plans only one stop en route, at Lisbon. It was from a seadrome a few miles from Rockaway Point that the four-eneined flying boat NC-4 together with two similar planes took off on May *, 1919 Only the NC-4 completed the flight to Plymouth. Trouble forced the two others down. Invited to fly with the Turtle Is Rear Admiral A. C. Read. A $9,950 Built On Ynur Lot in Vo. For Homo or Inveotmont SIX ROOMS * FULL IASIMINT. Only $1,000 rath. FHA fi nanced. Normal raravatiant, utility eonnectioni. Choice Lot* For S*lo Rato Threoih LONGACRES REALTY, INC. OX. 101«. OW. 5313 f FRED PELZMAN'S FASHION SHOP meet the heat ^ with fc1 cool composure in a Fred Pelzman air-cooled crisply-tailored summer suit No matter how hot it gets under the sun, you can keep degrees cooler in a Fred Pelzman summer suit. Our col lection of tropicals, airweaves, gabar dines, Haspel seersuckers and cords possess a fabric stamina which keeps them unwilting all day long. The porous fabrics act as air-conditioners . . . and featherweight construction eliminates bulk and weight. We suggest you select your Fred Pelzman summer suits tomorrow and be ready for sud den Washington heat $20.50 to $79.50 junior offk-rr then, hf w »« pilot of the SC-* which now is m » museum here Quota Set for Armed forces Physicians and Dentists Defer,,** Sec-e'a"*' ’nhnanr * > £er«t*y an no ..need ear a ai iabm* o - erf cunt** fo* ih# Rt*»» a nd tNr Dim• .ct ,n the Arlrne e*v*r *’ men campaign to 5 <*-■ * heeded ph'swjam and d»" • ■ • t«v tfte Armed Farce* A Q'tO’.a of *0 a a* art ’*■*• Dmiict. 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