Evening star., 1939-11-01
Sn1edred City
Faces Second
Halloween Fefe

Halloween Fefe
Tonieht's Parade Due
To Be Quieter Affair;
Police Get 300 Calls
A soap-smeared city steadied itself
today and turned to face a second,
less tempestuous celebration of Hal
loween.
Clear skies and dry streets indi-
Gated that the big Halloween parade
which was postponed last night
because Of the downpour-would ga
on as scheduled at 7:30 pm. along
Constitution avenue from Fourth to
Seventeenth street NV.
The rain, which halted the formal
celebration last night, had no ham,
pering effect at all on informal cele-
brants. Pranksters had a large eve
ming. it was testified today by police,
window washers and the general
citizenry.
Police reported that they had be-
tween $50 and 300 calls last night to
rout noisy celebrants. No arrests
had been reported this morning, but
several persons had been treated for
minor injuries.
Most of the police calls last night
were because of disorderly boys.
Scout cars were going on one as
signment after another. and some
cars were handling two or more
calls at time. Many of the calls
they answered proved false.
The Fire Department reported
that its equipment responded to
seven false alarms during the eve
ming.
Deputy Victim of Vandalism.
Typical of the worst aspects of the
evening was the complaint made to
police by Deputy United States
Marshal Charles H. knight, who
lives at 6307 Eleventh street NV.
He reported a crowd of large,
adclescent boys invaded his yard
and broke up his concrete bird bath.
He might have overlooked that, the
deputy marshal said, but he got mad
when the boys started chucking
pieces of the concrete at his house,
some of the missiles narrowly miss
ing members of his family.
Elmer Mahoney, 81, colored, of
780 Columbia road NV, a grocery
delivery boy, did not see the point
Of the Halloween Joke" played on
him. He was dispatched with an
order of groceries from a store at
3001 Sherman avenue in answer to
q phone order. He carried change
for $32 check to an apartment in
the HOO block of Columbia road.
He was greeted at the address by
. man wearing Halloween mask
who pointed a gun at him and took
the money, plus the groceries.
Two Burned by Firecracker.
Mary Kerns, 10, 1910 Thirtieth
street NV, and Martha Gilhart, 10,
5000 M street NV, were treated at
Emergency Hospital for minor burns
received when a f1recracker, thrown
by prankster, exploded at their
feet in the 5000 block on M street
NV.
j. r. Flaherty, 3014 M street Sc,
sent in call for help when a jack
o'-lantern, set in his front window,
ignited the curtains. Damage was
slight.
Crowds on most streets-F street,
M street and Fourteenth street NV.
and H street N.E.-where Hal
1oweeners usually foregather, were
unusually small last night.
But the parade tonight may bring
forth a record collection of watch
ers.
The crowd of spectators probably
will be enlarged by thousands of
young celebrants for whom Hollow
cen entertainments were staged
last night at schools, clubs and pri-
vate homes. At Greenbelt and Glen
Echo, Nd, last night schoolbody pa
trolmen were organized to keep the
damage from harmful pranks at a
minimum.
Winnie Porter Is Queen.
The queen of tonights spectacle
Is comely 18-year-old Winnie Por-
ter, who presides on less gala oc-
casions over steam table in a
Pennsylvania avenue restaurant.
The king is Edgar Kloten, and the
ladies of the court are Patricia
Mayfield, Virginia T. Clark, Doro-
thy Ready, Jane Nolan, Hazel War
rem, Agnes Mills, Donna Dean, Eve
lyn Martin, Teddy Oderman and
Erma Wooding. William Milton is
the court jester.
The parade forms on the Mall at
7 pm. between Third and Seventh
streets, Pennsylvania and Maryland
avenues. The column will be led
by Police Chief Ernest w. Brown
and Col. John w. Oehmann, grand
marshal, followed by the Police
Boys Club Band and platoons of
the District National Guard and
Marine Corps Reserves.
Seats will be provided for 5000
persons along the parade route on
Constitution avenue at a cost of Is
cents each.
They will be located opposite the
od1cial reviewing stand near the
queens section on the south side
Of the avenue between Fifteenth and
Seventeenth streets.
Parties Planned at Hotels.
Distinguished guests from nearby
Maryland and Virginia will be en-
tertained before the parade at q
party in the Willard Hotel, and an
other party will be held at the
6horeham following the parade for
TIA saaneaa and laar ao,axt Disfxint