A-8 ** THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. , THUEBDAY, DECEMBER 23. lfSt .. ■ With Regard to a Card of Thanks Very often o cord of thanks in H»« Star meets a need which can hardly be solved hi any other way Not only is it a graaom expression of gratitude to these who hose sent floral tributes hut also courteously acknowledges the services and kind nesses of the many to whom a per sonal note of thanks cannot welt be mailed or whose names and sd dresses are not known Insertion at a card of thanks may ba arranged by telephone to The Star, ST 3-5000 The Evening and Sunday Star GSEES9SS9SSS9mmeBSBBnBSS9SfiS» Card at Cttastka BOPS, ISTttU C. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the Rev. Horsey, Rev. Breeee and friends for the many net* of kindness, floral tributes, cards teletrams »nd messages of condolence at the death of our late mother and J OUvl X. CLEM ENTS • Srathff BOUCHER. HARRIETT E. HARRIS. On Wedneoday. December 22, 1964. HAR RIETT E. HARRIS BOUCHER of 4801 Connecticut ave. n.w.. the beloved wife of Henry N. Boucher and elsler of Meson Dix Harris of Fitchburg. Mass. Mrt. Boucher rests at the Deal Funeral Home. 4812 Oeorgla ave. n.w. where ahe will remain over Christmas eve and Day until Sunday. December 28. whan aervlces will be held at an hour to be announced. She will go to Fttchburc. Maas., where further serv ices will be held and where Interment will be made until spring, when she wilt be burled In the family plot at Rutland. Maas., Cemetery. BROWN. WILLIAM C. On Thursday. De cember 23, 1964. at his home. 728 Tth st. n.e., WILLIAM C. BROWN, the beloved hnsband of Marcarct E. Brown and brother of Miss Bessie Brown of Washington, D. C.. and Florence Hurwitz of New York City. Friends may call at the Lee Funeral Home. 4th st. and Mass, ave n.e. Notice of funeral services later. BURTON. OLGA BTEF.tNLI.LI. At De troit. Mich., on December 18, 1954, wife of Rlehard O. Burton, daughter of Angelo and Cornelia Stefaneill, sis ter of Peter and Edward Stefaneui and Mrs. Rose. Cavan Services at Cham bers' Funeral Home, f.soi Cleveland ave.. Rlvcrdale. Md., on Friday. De cember 24 at 11 a.m. Interment Washington National Cemetery. 23 BUTLER, EDWARD. Suddenly, on Saturday, December 18, 11164, ED WARD BUTLER of 103.1 oth st n.e.. husband of Jacqueline Detaining But ler father of Maxine, Norma Jean. Michele. Maria and Vivian Butler, son of William and Lula Butler, brother of Avon and William Butler. Jr. Friends may call at the Carver Memorial Fu ptral Heme. 20 R st. n.w.. whf'e fuaersl services will be held on Fri day. December 24, at 1 o.ot. Inter ment Woodland Cemetery. 23* COCKERILL. BAILEY D. On Wednes day. December 22, 1054. st she nome of his daughter. 025 North Vermont at.. Arlington, Va.. BAILEY D. COCKERILL. beloved father of Mrs. Mae B. Shipman of the above address Mrs. Mrytlr Horseman of Biadensburg, Md.: Mrs. Ruth Free of McLean. Va.. and Joseph H. Cockerill of Cathkruin, Va Friends may call at the Reed- Green Funeral Home Herndon. Vau Where services will be held on Fridav. December 24, at 2 pm. Interment in National Memorial Park Cemetery. COPELAND, ROSA G. On Thursday, December 23. 1054. ROSA O. COPE LAND of 1230 Rhode Island ave. n.e., wife of James L. Copeland. Funeral and Interment in Raleigh, N. C. Local arrangements by Frazier's. CROSS INGHAM. WILLIAM. On Wed nesday, December 22. 1054, at his resi dence. 2001 Owens rd. s.e.. Oxon Hill. Md.. WILLIAM CROSSINCHAM. beloved husband of Emma R. Cross- Ingham and lather ot Evelyn O’Don nell. Edna C. O'Donnell and Jacqueline R. Esworthy. Funeral from the Sim mons Bros. Funeral Home. I (101 Good Hope rd. s.e., on Friday. December 24. at 10:16 a.m.: thence to St. Ignatius' Catholic Church. Oxon Hill. Md., where mass will be ottered at 11 a.m. for the repose ot his soul. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. CUNNINGHAM. MARY VALERIE mriA obNA Wiles), beloved wife ol the late Maurice B. Cunningham, motner of Mrs Katharine R. Urtck and Mrs. Goldie F. Landis, sister of Mrs. Mar- Bret E. Wilson. Mrs. Hext Ware, j Bessie Lavine. Charles. Thomas ' and William Wiles. Funeral from the Timothy Hanion Funeral Home. 3831 t Georgia ave. n.w. on Friday, December .. 24. at 8:16 a.m. High requiem mass • at St. Theresa's Church. 15th and V ats. s.e.. at > a.m. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery. 23 ftCNHOFER. FRED. Members ot the —. International Gosteva •sdPf Association are hereby notified of the death of FRED DENHOFER on Monday. December 21, W 1854, at Bethesda Hos pital. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday. December 23. at the 8. H. Hines Co. Funeral Home. 2901 14th st. n.w. Interment Prospect Hill Cemetery. KURT MOSS, President. DANIEL D. KORN. Secretary. DORSEY. WILLIAM BAKER. On Tues dav, December 21. 1854. WILLIAM BAKER DORSEY, uncle of Hammond 9. Dorsey. Mrs. Anna D. Cooke. Miss Xlise Dorsey and William F Doisey. Funeral services at the SaSeil Funeral Heme. 475 H st- n.w.. on Friday, December 24. at 11 a.m. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. DOLNVEOR, BOYD H. (HAFFY). On Wednesday. December 22. 1954. BOYD H. (HAPPY) DOUNVEOR. devoted hus band of Marion Dounveor, father of Boyd H. Dounveor, Jr. He also leaves to mourn his passing his mother. Mrs. Emma Williams, his stepfather. Rev. John Williams; two brothers. John H. Dounveor of Detroit. Mich., and James Williams; one sister. Mrs. Crettle .Jef lersuu. and a host of other relatives and friends. Alter 4 p.m. Thursday. December 23. friends may call at the I. a*,-. Funeral Home. 389 Rhode Island ave. n.w. Funeral services on Friday. December 24. at 1 p.m., at tne third Baptist Church, nth and ©ue sts. n.w.. Rev. G. O. Bullock of ficiating Interment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. The family may be reached at 304) Rhode Island ave. n.w. ELLIS. ANITA B. On Monday. Djc«*- ber 20. 1964. ANITA B. ELLIS of . 1354 Ingraham st. n.w.. wilt ol.Wal ter C. Ellis, mother of Rayford W. Eiifb> Dorcas E. Gwaltney. grandmother ol Deborah R. OwoHney. stater of Richard P.. John N., Roger N. and Charles 8 Brown. She also to sur vived by many other relatives and a devoted friend. George Clarke. Friends may call at her late residence on Thursday. December 23. after 4 p.m. Funeral from St. Mary's Rpto* copal Church. 730 23rd st. n.w.. on Friday. December 24. at 12 noon. Interment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements by Malvan St Schey, Inc.* SLLfS. ANITA B. AU offleers and mem —- bers of the Fast Presidents’ k Parley of James Reese Eu #Tw rope Unit 5 are requested to mwM wto ataas-Mta* ia»9 ELLIS, at 1354 Ingraham it. x n.w.. Krf“%3ffiSfL ! 88 L st. n.w.. HATTIE HUDSON, be loved wife of James Hudson, sister 1 ; of Frank Oliver Jackson. She also ( to survived by a host es other rela tives and friends. The late Mrs. Hud son may be viewed at the Stewart Funeral Home, at' H st. n.e., after 4 p.m. Thursday. December 23. Funeral; 1 on Friday. December 24. from the | Mount Airy Baptist Church. 17 B st. ! n.w., at I p.m. Interment Wood-! * lawn Cemetery. 23 1 JACKSON. EMILY. On Tuesday. De- ! i cember CL 1954. at Freedmen's Hos-1 l | pital. EMILY JACKSON ot 5362-Oay j st. n.e., beloved mother of the late Rev. William A. Jackson, sr- and the 1 late Martha Turner Mosley. She is survived by one daughter. Laura Hamm; a host of grandchildren, great- ! grandchildren and other relatives and I friends. Remains resting at Horton's . Mortuary, 1324 You st. n.w. where I . services will be held on Friday, De cember 24. at 12:39 p.m., Rev. Na thaniel S. Hargrove officiating. Inter ment Wood lawn Cemetery. . JOHNSON. STEPHEN C. On Wednes -1 day, December 22. 1954. STEPHEN C. JOHNSON of 836 Park rd. n.w., beloved bretber of Mrs. Marie J. Smith, uncle of Mrs. Bessie Lynch, Mrs. Ruby Stsf- ; ' ford. Mrs. Elsie Shelton. Mrs. Ida; . Vessels and Otis Johnson. He also ; to survived by other relatives and ; many lriends After 12 noon Satur- ! day, December 25. friends are invited ■ to call at the Jarvis Funeral Church. 1432 You st. n.w. Funeral services on Sunday. December 26, at 1 p.m., at the Providence Baptist Church. BeulahvlUe, Va. Interment church cemetery. 25 KELFL. ANNETTE L. On Tuesday. De- 1 cember 21. 1954. ANNETTE L. KEEFE, i beloved wife of the late Clarence E. Keefe, mother of Edwt rd 8.. Francis I J„ Gerald P. and Leo Keefe, sister I of Mary Wheatley. Michael L. and . James Lyden. Friends may call at! | the Robert A. Mattingly Funeral Home. 1 •I 131 11th st. s.e.. until Friday, De-j cember 24. at 8:30 a.m. Requiem mass at St. Joseph's Church at 9 1 a.m. Relatives and friends invited. : ' Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery. 23 { I KELLEY. DOVEY OVERBY. On Wed- j nesday. December 22. 1954. at her ; 1 : residence. 1820 North Oakland st- ! i I Arlington. Va . DOVEY OVERBY KEL- j LEY. beloved wife of Thomas J. Kelley, ] i mother of Mrs. Shirley Harrison of ' i Dearllng, Oa. She also is survived by cne grandchild. Frlenas may call at the Ives Funeral Home. 2847 Wilson blvd.. Arlington. Va., until Friday, December 24. at 4:30 p.m. Funeral services in charge of the Blanchard • Funeral Home. Thomas. Ga. • ! ! KENDROS. GREGORY. On Wednesday. December 22. 1954, at his residence, 1352 Sheridan st. n.w., GREGORY > KENDROS. cousin of Mr. and Mrs. Aiseit and Spiro Kendros. Friends i may call at the S. H. Hines Co. Funeral Home. 2801 14th st. n.w. Services at Bt. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church. Bth and L sts n.w.. on Friday. De cember 34, at t p.m. Interment Olen -J* woOd Cemetert. 2-1 •-'LUCK. MARTHA. On Wednesday. De . cember 22. 1954. MARTHA BUCK. [ She to survived by a son, Morceilus Luck of Pittsburgh. Pa., and other relatives and many friends After 6 ; p.m. Thursday. December 23. friends j may call at the Frasier Funeral Home. 1 389 Rhode Island ave. n.w. Funeral services on Friday. December 24. at 1 p.m.. at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. Rev. C. T. Murray officiating. Interment Lincoln Memorial Ceme tery. MASINO. BLANCHE F. On Wednesday. December 22. 195*. at her residence, 1336 East Capitol 3t., BLANCHE F. MASINO. wife of Frank N. Masino. mother ot Vlretnla Masino and Dr. ‘ Frank N. Masino Jr.; sister of Mrs. 1 : Anna V. Miley. grandmother of ; Virginia Ann. Frank N. Masino. 3rd; 1 Bertha M. Jennings and Mary Oates: ! aunt of John H. Jennings and Cleve ; land F. Coates. Friends may call at ' the Lee Funeral Home. 4th st. and Mass. a??, n.e.. where services will be j he.a on Friday. December 24. at 1 D.m. Interment Glenwood Cemetery. . ! 23 MAYFIELD. WILLIE H. Departed this 11 life on Monday. December 20, 1954. j WILLIE H. MAYFIELD of 1702 Kalmia ! | i rd n.w. He to survived by one daugh- ! ter. Mrs. Helen Osborne: five brothers, I three sisters and a host of other rela -1 tives and many friends. Remains may be viewed on Thursday. Decem ! ber 23. after 3 p.m.. at the Hall ’ Bros. Funeral Home. 621 Florida ; ave. n.w., where services will be held on Friday. December 24. at 1 ! p.m. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. i MckLROY, ANNA SAGE. Members of K -a Warren G. Harding Chapter, 1 ■ No. 31. O. E. 8. regret to vQs. announce the passing of our * sister. ANNA HAGE McEL ROY. • s If VERA PADLOCK, s V Worthy Matron. I : JACOB HOWARD. Worthy Patron. ELSIE L. HOWARD. Secretary. 1 MELLOR. WILLIAM H. On Wednesday. I i December 22. 1954. WILLIAM H. MEL } ! LOR of 6334 Illinois are. n.w.. beloved 1 husband of Evilyn M. Mellor. father of Elizabeth Anne Mellor, William 1 Herbert. |r.. and Mrs. Mary Carolyn t Vas Dias. Funeral from the W. W. - I Deal Funeral Home. 4813 Georgia ave. . n.w., on Monday. Decefnber 27. at I r p.m. Interment Arlington National 1 j Cemetery. (Ellicott City Times please l copy. 1 25 ; MILLER. VIOLA J. On Wednesday. 1 December 22. 1954, VIOLA J. MILLER : of 6321 Cloy tor. n.e- wife of Sergt. [: Fioya Milter, mother of Floyd Wesley * 1 Miner and Ramona V. Miller, sister ot ' ' Mrs Lucy Michaux, Mrs. Mollie Echols. 1 Vernon, fiasco. Bruce. Jack and Paul -1 >ther relatives and friends also survive. Funeral and Interment ... - .4. l. uocal arrangements Ijj r raster's. * I MOFFETT. ANNIE A. On Tnursday. * December 23. 1954, ANNIE A. MOF -0 FBrr. beloved wife of Arthur D. : Moffett and mother of Ruth Rezac. I i A»;ce Foot’. Nora Horne. Marvin. Jo } seph and Paul Moffett. Funeral serv * ices at the Simmons Bros. Funeral - | Home, 1681 Good Hope rd. s.e.. on . t Friday, December 24. at 8 p.m. Inter ; 1 men* Ceday HUI Cemetery. 24 : NEARY. REV. MICHAEL J- S. A J. On i Tuesday. December 21. 1954. at: . Georgetown University Hospital. Rev j ' ! MICHAEL J. NEARY, 8. S. J., pastor ' J of St. Cyprian’s Church. 12*2 C st. 1 F j at- beloved brother of Patrick J and , ,j John Neary. Remains will lie in state “ at St. Cyprian’s Church after a 9 j a.m. moss on Wednesday. December 22. ! On Thursday. December 83, at 9 a.m..; *; December 24. a solemn requiem mass * will be offered at 10 a.m Relatives I 1 and friends are Ihvlted. Interment: n Mount OUvet Cemetery. 23 j i NEARY. RET. MICHAEL 1- S. S. 1. j =f,“K!«.» c S'SFSS: s church, 13th and C sts. s.e- on Frl- j 7 , ■ j Our ritual servlee for the repose of | : t Ei soul Win take place at the Januarr . meeting. Every member will please: j be present. The social program j planned for that meeting will be poat : &£d n oi%.^l.rn A e Y,nt A«, living are on* one. one daughter, one grandchildren, one nephew and other j relatives and friend*. *s**>! & : Thursday. December **, friend* may call at the Henry 8. Washington A 1 SJai.^ssss.’ 1 ' ifu.utri.st lawn Cemetery. ■SrSa’S-fcffi 620 48th pl. n.e. Notl ? later. Arrangements by Henry S. Washington * Snnx i Bratljd i BYNEX, DAVID C. On Thursday. De ■ Allen Rynex. Service* at the 8 H. Hines Co. Funeral Bane. 2901 14th 9 t a.l"~lnTer^t M Con I j5 C eS& oimf ; tery. ! SHORTER, MARY E. Ot 2907 Carlton ave sx., an December 23. 1954. be loved mother of Miss Mary Margaret Acton, sister of James. C. Lacey of Spring Hill. Md. Services at Cham ber*’ Funeral Home. 517 11th at. s.e., on F,*May. December 14 it 1 pm. Interment Mount Rest Cemeteiv. La Plata. Md. SMOOT. WILLIAM E. Departed this life suddenly, on Wednesday, Decem ber 22, 1964, at the D. C. General Hosnital. WILLIAM E. SMOOT of 2345 Nichols ave. s.e., hnsband of the late Mrs, Minnie B. Smoot, devoted brother of Chester A. and Walter A. Smoot. He also is survived by a niece. Mrs. Iris S. Brown: two nephew*. Arthur and Frederick Smoot: other relatives and many friends. Notice of tuneral later. Arrangements by the Robert O. Mason Funeral Home, 2660 Nichols j ave. s.e. 24 STONE. FLORENCE V. On Monday. De- V.^STONE ave ae- beloved wife of Virgil F Stone, mother ot Ralph Marshall. Isa dora Marshall. Chapman P Marshall. Mildred V. Schneider, Frances V. Bryant, all of the Washington area. Mrs. Stone aloe to survived by eight e andchiidrea. Friends may call at the e Funeral Home. 4th st. and Mass, ave. n.e., where services will be neld on Thursday, December 23. at 2:30 p.m. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. (Kins Georges County paper* Please copy.) 23 SUIT, CLARA B. On Sunday. Decem ber 19. 1964. CLARA B. SUIT of 1516 East Capitol st., wife of the late Harry F. Suit and aunt ol Walter F. Schroeder. Friends msv call at the Birch Funeral Home. 3034 M rt. n.w., where prayers will be offered on Fri day. December 24. at 8715 a.m.: thence to the Holy Comforter Catholic Chitren, 14th and East Capitol sts- where mass will be offered at 9 a.m Interment Mount OUvet Cemetery. 23 SWITKES. NATHAN. On Wednesday. December 22. 1954. NATHAN SWITKES of 6420 7th st. n.w., beloved husband ot Mae D. Swltkes and devoted father of Joseph N. and William sB. Swltkes. He also Is survived by a brother, Mor ris Sweetklnd of New Haven. Conn. Funeral services at the Bernard Dan zansky it Son Funeral Home. 3501 14th st n.w., on Thursday, December 23, at 1 p.m. Interment Mount Lebanon Cemetery. 23 TOTTEN. MARIAN L. On Wednesday, December 22. 1954, at Garfield Hos pital, MARIAN L. TOTTEN nf 6906 New Hampshire ave.. Takoma Park. Md.. the beloved wife of Ross L. Totten, mother ot M. Caro.e ToLen and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Leapley, all of Tacoma Park. Md. Friends may call at the Lee Fu neral Home. 4th st. and Mass. ave. n.e wnere services will be held on Monday. December 27. at 11 a.m. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. 26 TOWNBLEY, JULIA L. On Wednesday. December 22. 1954. at Garfield Hos pital. JULIA L. TOWNSLEY of 3802 South Capitol st- sister of Page Towns le> and Albert Townsley. both of Chi cago. Services at the 8. H. Hines Co. Funeral Home. 2901 14th st. n.w.. on Friday, December 24. at 10 a.m. Interment Chicago, 111. WARD. MABEL BARTON. On Tuesday. December 21. 1954. at Garfield Hos pital. MABEL BARTON WARD of 1801 16th st nw- beloved wife of the late Martin P. Ward, Serviees at the 8. H. Hines Co. FuiAral Home. 2901 14th st. n.w- on Friday. December 24. at 11 a.m. Interment Rock Creek Cemetery. , a23 WASHINGTON. EMILY. On Tuesday. December 21. 1954. at Prince Oeorges Hospital. Md.. EMILY WASHINGTON of 6101 H st. n.e.. Fairmont Heights, beloved wife of Frederick Washington. Also surviving are five daughters, two sons, her father, four brothers, five sisters and other relatives and friends. After 5 p.m. Thursday. December '-3. friends may call at the Henry 8. Wash ington Sc Sons Funeral Home, 4925 Deane ave. n.e. Mass will be offered at 9 a m. Friday. December 24, at the Church of the- Incarnation, Sheriff rd. and Browning pl. n.e. Interment Mount OUvet Cemetery. WHEELER. GARNET REBECCA. Passed to the great beyond on Monday. De cember 20. 1954, at St. Elizabeths Hospital. GARNET REBECCA WHEEL ER. wile of Isaiah Wheeler. She leaves to mourn one aunt. Lucille Weiiford, and other relatives and friends. Remains may be viewed after 6 p.m. Thursday. December 23, at Smith's Funeral Home. 1125 19th st. n.w.. where funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday. December 24. Interment at Payne’s Cemetery. WILKIttSON. JAMES LOGAN. On Wed nesday. December 22. 1954, at Freed men’s Hospital. JAMES LOGAN WIL KINSON of 2611 llth st. n.w- be loved husband of the late Mrs. Bessie Moss Wilkinson, brother of Mrs Laura K. Bruce, Dr. Garnet C. and P. D. Wilkinson. He also to survived by other relatives and many friends. After 5 p.m, Thursday. December 23. friends are invited to call at the Jarvis Fu ~ nißgl rlgiirn 1432 You st. n.w., where funeral services will be held at.i p.m. Fridav. December 24. Inter ment Woodlawn Cemetery. 23 WTEN’EKE. BEATRICE. On Tuesday. December SI. 1954. at her residence. 224 South Carolina ave. s.e., BEATRICE WIENEKE. wife of the late Frederick Wieneke. mother of Mrs. Alouise Berg Os Arlington. Va.: Mrs. Bernadina Smith of Anaheim. Calif., and August H. Wieneke. Friends may call at the Lee Funeral Home. 4th st. and Mass, ave. n.e- where services will be held on Friday, December 24. at 11 a.m. Interment Mount OUvet Cemetery. 23 wboD, ALFRED. Suddenly, on Mon day. December 20, 1954, at his resi dence. 24 E st. s.w.. ALFRED WOOD, beloved brother of Mrs. Susie Colbert, Mrs. Viola Curtis. Miss Prances Wood, John. Charles snd Willie Wood of Baltimore. Md. He also leaves to mourn his passing many nieces, neph ews. other relatives and many friends. Remains resting st his late residence, where friends may call after 4 P.m. Thursday. December 23. Funeral serv ices on Friday. December 24. at 1 p.m- at the John T. Rhincs At Co. Funerav Home. 901 3rd sr. s.w.. Rev. B. H. Whiting officiating Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. 23 Sn iSrmoriam BLAYLOCK. JENNIE ELLEN. Ia lov ing memory of our dear mother. JEN NIE ELLEN BLAYLOCK, who departed this life one year ago yesterday. De cember 22. 1953. Although our hearts are heavy On this sad memory day. We know our mother is happy In God's eternal way. LOVING CHILDREN. JULIA. WILLIAM. ADA AND INEZ. BROWN, MRS. ELLEN. In loving mem ory of our darling mother, Mrs. ELLEN BROWN, who left us thirteen years ago today, December 23, 1941 God cave us a wonderful mother. She was one who never grew old; God made her smile as the sunshine. He made ber heart of pure gold. HER DEVOTED CHILDREN. BERTHA B. INAFP. SADIE E. LANCASTER AND ELLA BROWN. ♦ BROWNE. LAWRENCE WILLIAM HOO VER. A tribute to the memory of my brother LAWRENCE WILLIAM HOO VER BROWNE, who passed away six years ago today. December 23, 1948. HOWARD E. BROWNE. COLBY, NANCY A. Sacred to the mem ory of our mother and grandmother. NANCY A. COLEY, who departed thto life December 23. 1912. CHILDREN AND COLEY. NANCY A. In lovbig memory of my dear mother and brat friend. NANCY A. COLEY, who died December 23. 1912. When day* ora dark and friend* hr* few. Dear mother, how I mice you: Thera may be friends who may be true. But I lost all when I lost vou. HER LOVINO DAUGHTER, LILLIE C. WASHINGTON. « DALY. GRACE C In tovmg memory of our dear mother. GRACE C. DALY, who passed away ten years ago today, i December 23. 1944. i Anniversary maw at .Holy Name I Church. We misa her love, her cheery way*. ; _ Please, God. lust lot her knew That we down here do not forget. We love and miss her so. HER DEVOTED CHILDREN DICE, GILBERT L. In sad but loving ; memory of my husband. GILBERT L. DICE, who passed away two years tso . today. December 23. 1952. 1 You era stone, but not forgotten. Never shell your memory fade. DEVOTED WIFE. ANNIE. * GREEN. ALOYBFOK bi food and lovtne memory of oar devoted husband ana father. ALOYSIUS GREEN, wte passed year oaa today, December . God cave me strength to hear it And courage to fight the blow. , But what it meant to lose you No one will ever know. DEVOTED WIFE AND CHILDREN. i HARRIS. PAUL Q. In loving memory of I our son and brother. PAUL Q. HARRIS. r& o a&nsaLn'mst. OO.W. h« * T—to 1 onr of our husband and father. BEK ’ NARD T. POGUE, who departed thto , toe year ago today, December Peacefully kkepinc. resting at last. The world'* many trouble* and triala arc post; to silence he suffered, in pattene* he Until God coned him home ta suffer no more. years M»*today. December A token es love and remembrance . Os one we shall never fowggt: ■is memory to n* is p treasure. Hit tea 1 lifetime nf regrets gjg DEVOTED SONtep* J. Edward Heberle, 68, Dies; ; A Director of Capital Transit Was Authority On Fores and Labor Problems J. Edward Heberle. «8,.a di rector of the Capital Transit Co. ! and an authority on transit fares [ 1 and labor arbitration, died yes • terday at Georgetown Hospital after a short illness. He became : 111 while vacationing last week , in Mexico. [ Mr. Heberle was with the I .Transit Co. and its forerunner for 43 yean when he retired as ' vice president and controller in > 1951. He lived at 1016 Sixteenth street N.W. Born in Olean, N. Y.. Mr. ; Heberle got his accounting train ! tag in Southeastern University i j here. He began working for the ! Capital Traction Cto. in 1907 when he first came to Washing - i I ton. He was first appointed i secretary to the chief engineer, ; then chief clerk and ta 1920 as | sistant secretary of the com pany. He was made assistant to the president six ydars later, a position he held when the company merged with Washing ton Railway A Electric Co. He became vice president and controller when the new Capi : tal Transit Co. started opera tions in December, 1933. Since his retirement in 1951, he had continued to serve on the board of directors. Mr. Heberle was a past treas j urer and Executive Committee I I member of the American Transit Association and he had also ; served as president of the Ameri : | — t — . John E. Farmer, 85, Retired Conductor And Indian Fighter John Edward Farmer, 85, re tired railroad yard conductor and former soldier who fought in Indian uprisings and the Spanish-American War, died yesterday at Mount Alto Hos pital. He-lived at 912 Ninth street N.E. A native of Spottsylvania County, Va., Mr. Farmer en listed in the Army in 1891 and again in 1896 for three years. He fought ta Indian uprisings and participated in the capture of the Apache Chief Geronimo. He was a sharpshooter on the Army rifle team. Mr. Farmer came to Wash ington after the Spanish-Amer ican War and began his railroad career. He retired from the . Washington Terminal about 15 ; years ago. He had been a mem ber of the Brotherhood of Rail ' road Trainmen for 50 years and was a member also of the United Spanish War Veterans. His wife, the former Florrie Bussey of Washington, whom he married ta 1901, died in 1942. Survivors are two sons, Lloyd F. t Silver Spring; Norman W. of the home address; three daugh ters. Mrs. B. W. Seaton, Harris burg. Pa.; Mrs. J. T. Gaiser, 1430 ! Saratoga avenue N.E.; Mrs. H. C. Sacra. Tampa. Fla.; a brother, George W., Alexandria, Va.; a sister. Mrs. J. W. Bussey, Fred ericksburg, Va.; 11 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Services were held today at Hines’ funeral home with burial 1 in Arlington Cemetery. Mrs. Thomas J. Kelley, Wildlife Service Analyst Mrs. Thomas J. Kelley, 45, budget analyst for the Fish and Wildlife Service, died last night at her home, 1820 North Oak i land street, Arlington, after i several months’ illness. Bom in Mississippi, Mrs. Kelley was the former Dovey Overby. She was graduated from George Washington University and had worked for the Veterans’ Admin istration and War Department. In 1937 she became a budget analyst for the biological survey of the Agriculture Department, ! now the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice of the Interior Department. Survivors are her husband, ta charge of the records and com munications section of the Fish ■ and Wildlife Service; a step daughter, Mrs. Shirley Harrison, Dearing, Ga.; her parents. Mr. ■ and Mrs. John R. Overby. Vicks i burg, Miss., and a brother. ; Archer R. Overby, Wheaton, Md. i Services and burial will be . 1 held Sunday in Dearing, Ga. j " " ‘ !. Vernon Foster, Counsel /For Illinois Central ■y the Auociotod Pros* . CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Vernon . W. Foster, 73, retired vice presi ' dent and general counsel for > the Illinois Central Railroad, died today ta Illinois Central Hospital after a long illness. t i He retired January. 1951, j I after 53 years’ service. He was 7 bora and reared ta Norwalk, Ohio, and was graduated from Sandusky (Ohio) Business Col lege in 1897. Survivors include the widow, \ a daughter, Jane, and a son, f John W., an Illinois central at i tomey, all of Chicago. : Mrs. W. M. Daniels, : Ex-Official's Widow Mrs. Winthrop M. Daniels, i widow of a former member of , the Interstate Commerce Com mission, dt*d Tuesday night ta 1 Houston, Tex., friends here have been advised. Mr. Daniels was with the ICC \ here from 1914 to 1924. r A son, Balfour, survives. He is dean of Houston College. Mrs. Daniels had lived with him. Funeral services will be held ta Sayteook Point, Conn., on Tuesday. O Mfl ■pppwmHi ■i ; I IHH j|jg| JSHHk Bw . 'imp. J. E. HEBERLE. can Electric Railway Account ants’ Association. He had been president of>the District of Co lumbia Controllers’ Institute and the CTC Quarter-Century Club. He was a fqymer director of the Union Trust Co. and a member of the Metropolitan Club, Columbia Country Club, Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club and the Washington Board of Trade. He was a director of the Boys’ Club of Washington. Survivors are his widow Lora, a brother, Frederick P., Olean, and three sisters, Miss Rose S. ■ Heberle, Bellevue Hotel, 15 E street N.W.; Mrs. Anna E. Cooley. > Rochester, N. Y., and Sister Petronilla Heberle, DePaul Hos ■ pital, St. Louis. i\ Services will be held at 9:30 ;' a.m. tomorrow at St. Matthew's • Cathedral. Burial will be in • ; Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Henry Boucher, Active in Fund Drives . For Girl Scouts Mrs. Henry N. Boucher, 61, ■ the former Harriett E. Harris, ; member of a New England ! family dating from early Co -1 lonial days, died yesterday at - Emergency Hospital. She lived i at 4801 Connecticut avenue N.W. l Mrs. Boucher’s great-great grandfather, Thaddeus Mason I Harris, was a well known Uni . tarian minister ta New England, i Her parents were the late T. • William and Emma Joyce Harris . of Maine. Her mother died here . in 1951. Lived Here Since 1935. A native of Brooklyn, N. Y„ Mrs. Boucher was educated at | Simmons College In Boston. ■ jm bl Hi Bk. ■ESS f 11 Hr "IB —Chose Photo. MRS. HENRY N. BOUCHER. She had lived in Washington since 1935 and was married five years ago. Her husband is a community planner and land , scape architect. During World War I, Mrs. . Boucher was prominent in wel ' fare work in New York. Later she was active in Girl Scout ■ work and worked with Mrs. Herbert Hoover in various fund , drives for the Scouts throughout the country, and particularly in ’ the mountain States of the ; West. In 1933, Mrs. Boucher was ta personnel work for the Moses Park Development Program in ; New York, where she met her husband. After coming to Wash ’ ington she did administrative work for the Rural Electrifica tion Administration and in the 1 early 1940 s she transferred to personnel work in the office of 1 the Secretary of War. Managed Showroom. In recent years, Mrs. Boucher had been engaged in interior , decorating the Washington show . room of Stapler Fabrics of Phila ! deiphia. Besides her husband, she is survived by a brother, Mason Dix Harris, Fitchburg, Mass. Her body will be at Deal’s fu neral home, 4812 Georgia ave nue N.W., tomorrow and Sat urday. Burial will be ta Rut land, Mass. : Mrs. F. 0. Gaither, 1 Daughter of General Mrs. Frederick O. Gaither, ot s Hope House, Lanham. Md , died ; Monday ta Prince Georges Coun -1 ty Hospital. The former Hortense McKee, Mrs. Gaither was born ta Wash -1 ington, the daughter of the late ; Union Army Gen. and Mrs. George C. McKee of Jackson. Miss. Her father was a Repre sentative from Mississippi from 1869 to 1875. Survivors are two sons and four daughters, Army Col. , George McKee Gaither, Fred t erick O. Gaither III; Mrs. . Eleanor G. Nolan; Mrs. Rosalie i G. Ashley; Mrs. Ann G. Brick s erd and Mrs. Hortense G. Scott, all of lantwi Md., ***** two ; sisters, Mrs. Rosalie McKee Shelton of 2936 Porter street s N.W. and Mrs. Annie McKee . Pace at Dallas. Tex. Services were to be held today I in Chambers Funeral u™* i Riverdale, with private burial rites. Family's Possessions Destroyed in Fire at Highland Dwellings Christmas went up ta flames today for a Washington young couple and their 4-year-old son. Only a few scorched Christ mas toys were salvaged from the Mam which swept their duplex! apartment at 714 Yuma street SK. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Vir den L. Holden, lost all the furni ture. clothes, and personal pos ; sessions acquired during their | five years of marriage. “I guess we were pretty lucky, with no one hurt,” Mr. Holden. 26. said. I Police reported that the blaze may have been accidently start ed by the boy, Ronnie. Mr. Holden had left for work when the fire broke out this morning. His wife, Betty Jean, 22. gave this account of the blase ta Highland Dwellings: She was upstairs and suddenly j realized she didn’t know where! Ronnie was. Searching for him, she opened the door to.a utility room off the kitchen, and was greeted by leaping flames. Leaving the door open, Mrs. i Holden ran through the house looking for her son. She finally' found him hiding under a bed.; The young mother, in her j housecoat, and Ronnie ta his pa- ■ | jamas fled the building. I The fire department was called i at 8:55 a.m. Firemen were able to stop the! 1 blaze from spreading, but couldn’t j ■, save the Holdens’ apartment. Mrs. Holden said Ronnie might i have started the fire by sticking! a mop into the coal furnace and i then puling it out. Ronnie said j I he didn’t, and Mr. Holden was j : inclined to believe him. “He never played with matches I and he feels the truth,” Mr. j Holden declared. He said his family would move ta with his mother, Mrs. Ruth Goldsmith, 602 Emerson street N.E. Mr. Holden had stretched his $56-a-week paycheck for a full Christmas for his family. He has been working as a truck driver for an oil company. “I was going *to bring home his tricycle today, but I de cided to get it last night. We had everything but the tree.” Expectant Mother Flees Fire With 2 Children An expectant 19-year-old mother and her two children escaped injury today as fire de stroyed two rooms and all the Christmas presents at their home ta Friendly, Md. Mrs. Mary Evans told firemen she smellkd smoke at about 6 a.m. and rushed into the living room to find the front door and wall ablaze. She bundled up her two children, aged 2 and 1. and dashed out the back door. Mrs. Evans* father-in-law and : mother, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Gardner, who live near the Evans house, at 8652 Old Fort road, suffered cuts and bruises in a vain attempt to fight the blaze with water from a barrel. The Evans well is dry, the family said. Mrs. Evans also lost a bag she had prepared in anticipation of, going to the hospital. Her husband Is a sailor at the Patuxent Naval Air Station. Firemen confined the blaze to the living room and a bedroom of the one-story frame house. The fire destroyed a closet where the Christmas presents were kept. Damage was estimated by firemen at about SI,OOO. They said the fire apparently was started by an oil stove. Baby Girl Falls in Harbor, Floats on Back Till Rescue! By tha Associated trass LONG BEACH. Calif., Dec. 23. j —Because 18-month*old Pamela | Newton wasn’t frightened when 1 she fell off a 30-foot high wall into the harbor, she’s alive today. | The harbor is 60 feet deep at the point where the child fell. Her father, Donald C. Newton, an oil well driller, had left his four daughters in the family auto while he talked with a drilling crew working nearby. Barbara, 16; Donna, 5; Kathleen, 3, and j Pamela got out. Barbara ran to her father and cried that Pamela : had fallen into the harbor. Mr. Newton swam 50 yards in; the direction indicated by work- j ers on shore. He found Pamela. “She was floating on her back, | looking at the sky,” Mr. New-, ton reported. “She wasn’t even crying.” 2 Needy Families Receive Yule Gifts From Eisenhower Sy Hw> Associated F(tsi MEMPHIS. Tenn., Dec. 23 A Mississippi farm wife and an Arkansas farmer received Christ mas gifts for their families last night from President and Mrs. Elsenhower. Mrs. Lonzo Bowman of Clarks dale. Miss., received two pack ages. She didn’t open them im mediately. but said she had written Mrs. Eisenhower “telling what a hard time our family has been having.” The other gift, a doll named Mamie, a toy tractor, and a model of the White House, went to the children of Eddie Ward, j a farmer of Lake City, Ark. Mr. Ward said he had written Mrs. Eisenhower because he had no way to provide a Christmas for Alice. 12, or Eddie. 10, and Johnny, 9. “This is the greatest thing Bw could have sent me,” Mr. Ward said. The gifts arrived here by com mercial airliner and were de livered by tiro Army officers sta tioned here. Lt. Col. James D. Cline rad Capt. Warren G. Reed, j f 4 ||||'' ■ • . > to, * nHHPjpp v /Si —Star Staff Photo* by (tone Abbott. TWO DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS—Mn. Vlrden L. Holden holds her son Ronnie, 4, and looks over the scorched Christmas presents that were the only objects saved from a fire which destroyed her Southeast apartment. ■Hr L-’Hr THE STAR TOT—A District fireman looks down at a tricycle— intended as the prise present tor the 4-year-old boy—that was burned in the blase at 714 Yuma street S.E. The scene is the backyard of the duplex. Court Rejects Bid For Revocation of Dr. PeckhadTs Bail The U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today | turned down a Government re quest to revoke a $5,000 bail set last summer for Dr. Henry L. Peckham, jr„ 47-year-old physi cian, pending outcome of an ap peal from a conviction on an abortion charge. The Government motion, filed on December 15, was argued yes terday before Chief Judge Harold M. Stephens and Judges David L. Bazelon and E. Barrett Pretty man. The request was formally turned down in a brief written I Shipping Firm Cleared On Tanker Charges | A Federal Court jury has found , the Philadelphia Marine Corp. [not guilty of making a false j statement in connection with I the transfer of a Government ! surplus tanker. The jury in U. 8. District Court for the District of Colum bia deliberated four-and-a-half hours to reach its verdict in the two-week trial. The firm had been indicted a year ago on charges that it made a false statement when it reported that control of the company rested with American citizens. The indictment had charged that the firm at that time was ; under the control of Manuel E. Kulkundis of New York, a Greek ; citizen. TV Plea Nets $400,000 In Week for Negro School •ytoAuactotedlnM HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 23—A television appeal for $1 million to help expand a Negro school ta a small Mississippi community has brought an estimated $400,000 —4O per cent of the amount sought—within a week. NBC announced yesterday that 66 bags of mail already opened contained .$217,500 and another 84 bags are expected to yield an additional 8200.000. The appeal was made by Ralph Edwards on his “This Is Your Use” program. I W. R. Frank Hines, President Washington', Foremast Fnnerot Homo* Shoe* UTS Si S. H. Hines Conroaiml 2HF43-9SS7 Fourteenth Street HW COttmHm S-7923 No Oromoh Establishment, order. The Government had requested the revocation of the appeal bond in view of Dr. Peckham’s arrest on December 14 on a charge of performing an abortion on a 26- year-old married woman. Bond in the latter case was set at $lO,- 000 when the physician was ar raigned before United States | Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence. The $5,000 appeal bond was set , by the appellate court in June pending outcome of Dr. Peck ham’s appeal from conviction on a charge of performing an abor , tion on a 28-year-old woman. The motion to revoke bond was l opposed in argument by Dr. Peckham’s attorney, Albert J. I Ahern, jr. [ I Mr. Ahern argued that the re | cent arrest of his client did not I mean that Dr. Peckham is guilty. ! The physician is now free under bonds totaling $15,000, including the appeal bond and bond posted after his recent arrest. - fcOLUNsI | FUNERAL HOME | Francis J. Collins 9 || 3821 14th St. N.W. g EltkrhoM RAndolph 6-7117 g ■& Our funerals art not priced to gain a volume of any particular patronage; w a feature prieeg that will satisfy any circum stance. /