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Evening star., 1939-06-14

baggage car In which store workers
will set up 4 piano for dancing.
Each car viii have its captain, who
will direct entertainment en- route.
E. Guy Donaldson, president of
the Palais Royal Employees Asso-
citation, is in charge of arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1939-06-14

the order, will head the new unit
as State deputy, his appointment
having been recently announced
from national headquarters at Rock
Island, Ill. In referring to creation
of the new independent group, Ma
tional President Oscar E. Aleshire
said: Il have always thought 1t
proper to have a national Office of
this society In Washington"
Mr.. Potter, general manager of
the West End Laundry. has been
a resident of the Capital for 80 years
Evening star., 1939-06-14

Silk manufacturers Of Japan de-
mand that the entire silk industry
be reformed with the view of in
creasing business.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
and Is active In business, fraternal
and civic organizations.
Left Ericsson Duy Voted

The Senate approved yesterday
a resolution requesting the Presi-
dent to proclaim October 8 each
year as Left Ericsson Day. The
House has yet to act.
Evening star., 1939-06-14

Cattle meal Is to be made from
seaweed in a new factory in Iceland.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Peace Group Director
Returns From Lima

BY the Associated Press.
Miss Mabel Vernon, director OF
the Peoples Mandate Committee
returned yesterday from Lima, Peru,
where she headed delegation
which presented to the Pan-Ameri-
can Conference a mandate with
100000 signatures for a truce in
ornaments, peaceful negotiations
and international agreements to
end international anarchy"
Miss Vernon said the mandate
committee was encouraged by the
apparent realization of conference
delegates that force offers no solu-
ton for the crisis the world now
faces" She cited the statements
made by Secretary of State Cordell
Hull and by DR.. Mello Franco of
Brazil, chairman of the conference
peace commission. --
Miss Vernon began preparations
while in Lima for a tour of the
United States by a delegation of
American women to be made
this spring under the auspices of
the mandate committee. -,-
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Guard Officers Named
For Speciui Truinino

1t. Col. Peyton G.. Nevitt and First
1t. Herbert F. Mitchell, members
OF the District National Guard, were
among the 20 Guard officers named
to report for two weeks special
training at Fort George Meade, Md,
January IA, the Associated Press re-
ported yesterday.
Others named for the first school
included 1t Coils. Sheppard Crump
and Wade M. Geogehan of the Vir-
ginia National Guard, and Brig. Gen.
Amos w. w. Woodcock, Maj. Philip
K. Moisan, Maj Louis c. Smith and
Frank T. Leilch of the Maryland
National Guard.
Announcement of the training pro-
gram for National Guard officers was
made yesterday at Sd Corps Area
headquarters in Baltimore. Men
who attend the course, which is de-
signed for command and staff train
ing for officers prevented from at
tending service schools because of
business or professional reasons, will
be expected to continue the instruc-
tion for three consecutive years.
Similar schools will be established
in each of the Army corps areas.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Child Welfare Conference
AT Baltimore THURSDAY

Maryland and national leaders
IN the field of child welfare will ad-
dress a child welfare conference
and school of instruction to be held
at the War Memorial Building in
Baltimore, Thursday.
The conference is being held as
the opening event of the 1899 pro-
gram Of the Child Welfare Com
mlttee Of the Department of Mary
land, American Legion Auxiliary.
The session is to begin at las pm.
Speakers, and their subjects. in
clude: Raymond j. Kennedy of Bal
tlmore, former Maryland State SEN
ator, "Environment-The Cause and
Cure of Juvenile Delinouencv":
Mrs. Katherine Kirwan, executive
secretary of the Maryland Chill
dren's Aid Society, Available Aid
for Children in the Counties; and
Miss Mary E. Church, executive Sec
retary of the Maryland League for
Crippled Children, aid for the
Crippled and Physically Handi-
capped" Paul Beisser, national
chairman of the Child Welfare
League of America, and director of
the Henry Watson Children's Aid
of Baltimore. will lead a general dis
cussion
Mrs. Ralph J. Shelter of Hyatts-
vile, Md, is State child welfare
chairman for the sponsoring organi-
cation.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
0verton Will Head
on D. {.
Appropriations
King Is Undecided
Whether He Will Lead
District Committee

Senator John H. Overton, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana yesterday &C
cepted appointment as chairman of
the Senate Subcommittee on Dis
trict Appropriations, but Senator
King, Democrat. of Utah said he
still was undecided whether to con-
tinue as chairman of the District
committee, which handles new laws
for the city.
Meanwhile, it was learned from
reliable sources that two new mem
bers probably will be appointed to
the Senate District Committee this
week as the result of new ratio
Of party representation.
Makeup of Body Fixed.
While the roster of committee as
signments will not be made UP for
several days it is understood Senate
leaders have fixed the size of the
District committee at II Democrats
and Republicans. In the last Con-
gress the membership stood IL to 3.
The death of Senator Copeland of
New York and the defeat of Senator
Hitchcock of South Dakota in the
primaries left two Democratic va
cancies, but the reduced ratio calls
for only one new Democratic ap-
pointment and one new man on the
Republican side
Chairman Glass of the SEN
ate Appropriations Committee an
nounced week ago he had offered
the District Appropriation Subcom-
mittee Craftsmanship to Senator
Overton. but at that time the LOU
isiana Senator said he wanted to
consider the matter. From his home
in Louisiana yesterday he wired his
acceptance to Senator Glass.
Succeeds Thomas.
Senator Overton will succeed
Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat.
OF Oklahoma, who will become
chairman of the subcommittee
handling Army appropriations. SEN
ator Overton has been a member
for several years of both the Senate
District Committee and the District
subcommittee of the appropriations
group. One or two new members
also may be added to the subcom-
mittee handling the District supply
bill, this this will await the fixing
of the new ratio of the Appropri-
ations Committee.
I have not made up my mind
yet" Senator King said late yester-
day, referring to the District Com
mittee Craftsmanship. He indicated
he would decide early this week.
when the general slate of Senate
Committee assignments is being pre-
pared.
In addition to directing the Dis
trict Committee, Senator King is
kept busy by membership on Judici-
ary, Finance, immigration, Terri
tories, Privileges and Elections and
the Temporary National Economic
Committee, studying monopolies.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
$50 Monthly Pension Plan
Urged on CONGRESS

Congress was urged yesterday to
pass general welfare act providing
$50 monthly payments to persons
over so years Of age by the General
Welfare Federation of America.
Claiming all over go should receive
pensions, the organization said the
legislation would supersede the So
cial Security Act, which provides for
workers only. The money would be
raised through a per cent gross
income tax with an exemption OF
the first 500 monthly income and
that portion of the income of busi-
ness which is paid out in wages,
salaries, commissions, taxes and in
terest on debt" Arthur L. Johnson,
executive secretary, said.
In sponsoring the welfare legisla-
ton the organization said it would
bring tax economy, recovery, cure
unemployment and aid industry. 1t
represents a reasonable program
that will be fair to all groups and
all classes in America" Mr.. johnson
said.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Farley 10 Seek Lifting
OF Spanish Arms Ban

A national conference to urge
lifting of the arms embargo against
Spain will be held at Almas Tenn
pie January under sponsorship of
the North American Committee to
Aid Spanish Democracy. Among
the organizations slated to par
ticipate in the conference are the
American League for Peace and
Democracy, Central Spanish Com
mittee, Friends of the Abraham Lin
coin Brigade, Lawyers Committee
on American Relations with Spain,
National Negro Congress and Wash
ington Friends of Spanish Democ-
racy.
A petition bearing 100000 sigma
lures is to be presented to Presi-
dent Roosevelt as one step in the
effort to obtain lifting of the en-
barge. thereby permitting trans
portation of arms for the govern
ment cause in Spain from this
country.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
ICkes Launches
Parks Traffic
Safety Drive
1889 Designated
Drive-Right' Year
In District

In an effort to promote traffic
safety in the District of Columbia,
Secretary of the Interior Ickes has
designated 1889 as Drive Right
Year" in the National Capital parks.
BY instruction from the Secretary,
G. Marshall Finnan. superintendent
Of National Capital Parks, today
launched an intensive campaign for
prevention of motor vehicle acci-
dents in the local park system. The
entire United States Park Police
force will participate in the CAM
paign.
Alarmed by the appalling number
OF deaths, serious injuries and the
great amount of property damage
caused by motor vehicle accidents
on the streets of. the District of Co.
lumbia during the last year, the Sec
retary OF the Interior has directed
the National Capital Parks authori-
ties to conduct an educational cam
palgn designed to effect highway
safety, through instructing opera
tors OF motor vehicles in safe driving
methods and urging careful observ-
ance OF the simple rules of the road"
the National Park Service explained.
IN announcing the drive.
To Distribute Booklet.
Distribution of the booklet "A
Guide to Traffic Safety" recently
prepared by the Interior Depart.
ment, will be an important factor
IN the campaign. In a preface to
the booklet, Secretary Ickes says:
Careful and intelligent driving
IS the key to the solution of our
highway traffic problems today. The
rules OF the road are simple and
few. They require only the exer-
else OF common sense and consider
alton OF the rights of others to pro-
duce effective results"
The booklet exhorts the driver to
exercise every possible precaution
TO determine the safe operating con-
dltion of his car, outlines the car
dlnal points of safe driving on the
highways, reminds the driver always
TO be alert to the danger of striking
children at play, and stresses con-
slderation for "the other fellow"
Traffic Rules Included.
A digest of the regulations gov
erning traffic in the National Capi-
tai Parks also is included in the
booklet.
Park policemen will assist in dis
trlbution of the booklet and will
call the attention of both motorists
and pedestrians to unsafe prac-
tices, Mr.. Finnan announced. They
have been instructed to insist on
strict compliance with the traffic
regulations designed to promote safe
driving.
MI. Finnan also hopes to enlist
the cooperation of civic associa-
tions, luncheon clubs, school author
tiles and pastors and church Off
GERS in his effort to make the drive
right year. campaign accomplish
its objective of reducing the mum
Der of traffic fatalities in the Dis
trict, the Interior Department said.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Lincoln Proclamation
To Be Marked by U. G. &,

The 18TH anniversary of Presi-
dent Lincoln's emancipation proc
lamation will be commemorated at
3 pm. today at a meeting under
the auspices of the United Govern
ment Employees and the Civil
Liberties League of Elk Lodges at
Shiloh Baptist Church, Ninth and
P streets NV. Senators M. M. Lo-
gan of Kentucky and Harry H.
Schwartz of Wyoming will speak.
Another speaker will be j. Finley
Wilson, exalted ruler of the Elks.
The speakers will discuss civil
liberties in 1899, minimum wages
and social security emancipation.
In announcing the meeting, Edgar
G. Brown, president of the United
Government Employees, said there
was need for the present Congress
to approve legislation granting civil
rights to minorities in the Nations
Capital and minimum wages for
farm laborers and household work.
ers to assure decent standard of
living. "A musical program will be
given by the Dixie Harmonies and
st. Georges string quartet.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Special Dispatch to the Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, Dec. 31-Dr. F. M
Brooks, Oldest practicing physician
in Fairfax County, was given a sur
prise party at his home last night
in honor of his Both birthday.
DR.. Brooks began his medical
career here in 1888. He takes an
active part in public activities and
is serving his 26th year as chairman
of the Fairfax County Republican
Committee. For more than
quarter of a century Ae has been
president of the National Bank of
Fairfax. For a number Of years he
was chairman of the County School
Board and was a candidate of his
party for Congress.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Rutland Ranks
'38 as Banner
Health Year

DR.. George c. Rutland, District
health officer, last night character
lied 1898 as a banner health year."
Without having complete figures
before him at the time of issuing a
holiday statement, DR.. Ruhland said
that unless some statistical dark
horse" appears for the few remain
ing days to be accounted for, 1888
will be the healthiest in the history
of the community, in so far as death
rates are indices of city's health.
THE year has seen improvement
In the control of the contagious dis
eases Also" said the health officer.
pneumonia deaths have been re-
duced, and tuberculosis is slowly but
surely being overcome in the District.
1--WE are thankful. to the many
citizens who have helped the Health
Department to make 1888 a banner
health year. We hope this co-opera-
tive effort will continue to be force
for more abundant health and
prosperity of the community"
DR.. Rutland also made public fig
ures on accidents in the District for
1887, showing 511 fatalities during
the year.
The mortality rate for accidents
is 81.5 per 100000 population, ac-
cording to Joseph B. Irvine, director
of the Bureau of Vital Statistics,
rate slightly lower than the rate of
85.7 G936) for the Nation as a
whole"
IF deaths from motor vehicles and
falls could be erased from the slate
Of casualties" said the report, more
than half of the accident problem
would be solved"
There we're 178 motor vehicle acci-
dent deaths In 1887, and 129 deaths
from falls.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Trio and Orchestra
Schedule q Concerts

Four concerts by the District w.
P. A. Concert Trio and three musical
dances by the orchestra comprise
this weeks schedule.
Following is the complete sched-
ule:
w. P. A. Orchestra.
Tuesday, dance for patients Of
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, 7p.m.
Thursday. dance at Friendship
House, $3.50 pm.
Friday. dance for boys of C. c. c.
camp, Rock Greek Park, pm.
w. p. A. Concert Trio.
Tuesday, concert for patients of
Washington Sanitarium, 7::30 pm.
Wednesday, concert for patients
of st. Elizabeth's Hospital, w. r.
Building, 1:30 pm.
Thursday, concert for patients of
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, r. c. Hall,
1880 pm.
Friday, concert for patients Of st.
Elisabeths Hispital. Center Build
Ing, 1:3o pm.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
$500 and Taxi(ab
Stolen in 4 HoIdups,
; Purse Snat(hinqs
Bandits Posing as
Customers Get $3.50
From Radio Store

-Four holdups and three purse
snatchings, involving loot of $500
and a taxicab, were reported to
police last night in the midst of
Washington's New Years Eve cele-
bration.
Two colored men walked into a
radio store at 1921 H street NE,
told the manager, Joseph B. Brown,
20, of the 1900 block of Emerson
street NV, that they wanted to
buy a radio, and had him wrap
one up for them.
When Mr.. Brown asked them for
the money to pay for the radio,
one of them reached in his pocket,
pulled out pistol and pointed it at
the manager to force him to hand
over $3.50 out of the cash register,
police were told. Then they made
Mr.. Brown lead the way into rear
room and open the rear door,
through which they escaped.
Laundries Held Up.
Two men of the same description
held up Charlie Lee, proprietor of
a laundry in the 400 block of R
street NV. and robbed the cash
drawer of $40.
Another laundry Office, in the HOO
block of Montello avenue NE, was
robbed of IS. Doris Hartley, 1884
Maryland avenue NE. the man
ager, said a young white man held
his hand in his pocket as if he had
a pistol and forced her to hand over
the money.
James Boyd, 469 Florida avenue
NV, a taxicab driver, reported he
was held up and robbed of So and
his taxicab by two young white men
wearing lumberjacks. whom he
drove from Fourth street and Mary
land avenue S.W. to the 1900 block
of Third street NE
Three Purses Snatched.
Florence McKenna, 26, and her
sister. Mildred, 20, both of the Chas-
Teton Hotel, Sixteenth and r streets
NV, were seized from behind and
thrown to the sidewalk by a colored
purse snatcher as they were walking
near the hotel He ran off with Flor
ence's pocketbook, containing IS, but
overlooked Mildred's, which con-
tanned $40.
Their assailant wore his hat
turned down all around, as did COL
ored man of the same appearance
who snatched purse containing So
from Beatrice Gallivan of Boston,
Mass. in front of a home where she
is visiting in the 2100 block of o
street NV.
Another colored man seized a
pocketbook containing $40 from Elsie
Dewey. 1928 Fourteenth street NV,
as she walked near her home.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Dr.. George A. Lewis Dies

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec 81 (P).-
DR.. George E. Lewis, So, resident of
Rockville for 36 years, died last night
from heart ailment Funeral serv-
ices will be held Tuesday, with burial
in Arlington National Cemetery. DR..
Lewis was veteran of the Spanish
American and the World Wars.
Active in Masonic circles, DR..
Lewis was past master and for many
years secretary of Montgomery
Lodge, No. 1876. of Rockville, and
held Offices in other Masonic organ
izations. He was born in North
Troy, VT, but as a child moved with
his parents to Washington, where
he lived for many years.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Mary Voux WoIcott
To Exhibit Sketches

A special viewing of water color
sketches of wild flowers in various
national parks, from the brushes of
Mary VauX Walcott. will open Fri
day in the foyer of the Natural His
tory Building, National Museum, en-
trance at Tenth street and Constitu-
ton avenue NV.
Fridays exhibition, under the aus
pices of the National Collection of
Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution,
will be held from 2:3O to 4::3O pm
The display will continue through
January 30, being open week days
from 9 am. to 4:30 pm. and Sum
days from 80 to 4:3O pm.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
SnlokeFeIIs3 },
Rescued
In Fire Here
Two Firemen and
Carpenter Are
Overcome &

Three persons, two of them fire.
men, were overcome by smoke late
yesterday afternoon in a fire which
badly damaged two-story brick
duplex at SIG Eighth street NE.
Joseph H. Price, 80, and w. r.
Sweeney, 81, both of No. 8 Engine
Company, were the injured fire.
men. Mr.. Price was admitted to
Casualty Hospital in an unconscious
condition. Later, hospital attaches
reported he was responding salts
factorily to treatment. Mr.. Sweeney
received first-aid at the scene of
the fire.
Arthur S. Perkins, 56-year -old
carpenter, who resided on the Sec
ond floor of the house, was over
come. He was treated at Casualty
and released.
Mr.. Perkins was rescued from the
burning building by two youths, Jack
Williams, 19, of 784 E street NE. and
Melvin Mosburg, 81, of 1924 Mon
tello avenue NE. They were pass
ing and responded to Mrs. Perkins
frantic cries for help.
Woman Discovers Fire.
They said they found Mr.. Perkins
overcome in the middle bedroom on
the second floor where, evidently,
the fire started
Mrs. Perkins said she discovered
the fire when she opened the bed
room door. Smoke poured out" she
said, land I couldn't see. I ran
downstairs and cried for help"
Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins were alone
in the house. Their daughters Ethel,
20, and Marguerite, II, had gone to
stores nearby and the occupants of
the lower floor, Mr.. and Mrs. Archi-
bald Smith, were away.
Acting Battalion Chief w. L. Nc
Mahon of the Fire Department esti-
mated the damage to the building
at $1,000. The fire burned through
both ceiling and floors in the middle
room, where Capt. Mcmahon said
he thought it started. He had not
ascertained the cause.
Building Owned by Church.
Furnishings in the middle room
were destroyed. 1t was in the hall
way adjoining this room that the
flremen were overcome.
The building was owned by the
Eastern Presbyterian Church. 1t was
decided to the church recently under
the will of Mrs. Annie E. Henning
of Washington, who died q few
years ago.
DR.. Alfred E. Barrows, pastor of
the church, said the loss is covered
by insurance.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

That experience started her on her
unusual career, she said.
Miss de Lys is tall, slim and olive
skinned, with straight drawn black
hair coiled in a loose knot on her
neck. Her enthusiasm for her work
is contagious and she is busy with
plans for an expedition into the
mountainous regions of Costa Rica
in search of lost group of original
Spaniards, reported to be living un-
der ancient customs and conditions.
Nine ClassificatiOns.
OF the more than 10000 supersti-
tlons she has uncovered, she has
reduced them to nine various classi-
flcations, with two of them-sympa-
thetic magic and the law of similar
lty or contact-forming the basis for
all. She gives logical explanations
OF all of the familiar pet beliefs"
of four-leaf clovers, rabbits foot,
broken mirror and the entire field
OF superstitious beliefs.
From her study, Miss de Lys be-
lleves that all people would be far
happier and more satisfied if they
would be content with fewer worldly
possessions, for. she says, Its the
worldly possessions that weight you
down." She said that it was far
easier to get along with primitive
and semi-civilized people because
their lives were simple and their
values standard. There is a COM
plete understanding of fundamental
laws no "rackets" to contend with,
and none of the complex problems
OF modern civilization, she said.
MISS de LyS has been the guest of
Miss Paulette Parent, 2O17 o street
NV, for 10 days and plans to leave
Washington today for New York
City, where she will be guest woman
speaker on the For Men Only" radio
program Tuesday night. Miss de Lys
and Miss Parent are close friends.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
50 Motions to Come Up
In District Court >7

Fifty-nine motions are to be heard
Tuesday when the new term of Dis
trict Court opens. Three justices will
be on hand.
Justice Jennings Bailey, who will
become the presiding justice in Mo
tions Court for the new term, will
hear 80 motions. Justice Jesse C.
Adkins, who is regularly assigned to
criminal work, will hear l3, and
Justice Joseph w. Cox will hear is.
The District Courthouse will be
busy Tuesday, inasmuch as the new
jur1es are to be chosen. The new
grand jury will sit for three months,
while the petit juries, which will
hear criminal and civil cases, will
sit for month. ,E5.