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Evening star., 1940-12-28
Fire Takes Lives
OF fSXChHdren
And Grandfather

Seven persons, including six chill
dren, were burned to death last night
when fire destroyed their home at
Dowells, near Solomons Island, Md.
Two other members of the family
received burns.
The victims were Louis Bean. COL
ored, and the children of Leroy
Bean, his son. Their ages ranged
from 2 to IL years.
Leroy Bean, who escaped with his
14-month-old daughter, was treated
at the Prince Frederick Hospital for
burns about the arms and face. The
baby was treated by DR.. Earl Coster.
DR.. Coster said the fire started
about 9 pm. and spread through the
frame house rapidly. DR.. Coster said
Leroy Bean escaped by use of
ladder, bearing the child in his arms.
DR.. Coster said he understood Mrs.
Bean and two other children were
attending a motion picture when the
FIRE broke out. Apparently the men,
bers Of the family who had remained
at home were asleep when the fire
started, he said.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
A. B. T.. Board Probe
Welcomed by Lodge;
o-operation Pledged
Justice Department Plan
For Antitrust Inquiry
Surprise to Choirmon

Expressing some surprise over the
intention Of the Justice Department
to launch an antitrust investigation
of the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board here, Thomas E. Lodge, chair
man, said today the board would
welcome SUCH an investigation and
cooperate with any representative
sent from the Justice Department.
There is no price fixing in the
District of Columbia Mr.. Lodge
said, "and no proposal for price fix
ing seriously under consideration by
officials of the District"
No indication had come to him,
Mr.. Lodge said, that the Justice De-
partment contemplated anything in
the nature Of an investigation of
local liquor control
At the Justice Department it was
learned that the inquiry had been
contemplated for some time. Def
mite action, however, was postponed
because of the press of other ousi-
ness in the Antitrust Division and
the lack of an investigator at this
time to assign to the task.
No price control proposal was in
cluded In the series of A. B. c. Board
suggestions presented to the District
Commissioners yesterday. Commits
sioners Young and McCoach prom
ised to give early consideration to
recommendations.
The A. B. c. Board had fatty re-
jected the proposals from some
elements in the liquor industry for a
price control regulation offered as
a means of reducing the "evil of the
price war"
AS an alternative the board sug-
gested a regulation which would
require liquor dealers to report "all"
as to sales contracts, including
free liquor shipments. They pro-
posed ban on "immoderate ana
extravagant" types of advertising, a
ban on use Of comparative prices"
and urged ban on use of liquor
advertising handbills, but they
would not prevent normal price ad-
vertising.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Influenza Cases Here
Are Found Near Normal

Health Department officials, re-
porting on "sampling" survey they
made of the extent of illness among
Government workers and employees
Of department stores and business
houses, said today they had no
reason to believe there was any
serious indication Of influenza here
DR.. James G. Cumming, head of
the Bureau of Preventable Diseases.
said inquiries had been made among
Government agencies and private
business houses covering about
$4,000 workers. He said the survey
showed there was an average abb
sence of about per cent. Pre-
sumably, he said, many might be
considered i'll Of colds, perhaps some
of them with influenza.
One large employer, unidentified.
having 1000 workers, was said to
have per cent of his workers
absent.
The Health Department reported
today there were five cases of in
fluenza under treatment and that
141 influenza cases had been re-
ported through this year to date.
these figures being not much differ
ent from those of last year.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Band Concert

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band Orchestra today in the
Soldiers Home Stanley Hall at $50
o'clock. John S. M. Zimmerman
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, as
sistant.
THE PROGRAM.
March, Under Fire" "--i- -Losey
Overture, The Hermit's Bell"
Maillart
Entr'Acte ta) The Land of the
Sky Blue Waters" -Cadman
(b) La Sirena" (Dsnza
Habanera) Bu Burke
Scenes from the opera Doris"
Cellier
Popular numbers, "Karavan,"
Wiedoeft
Kisses" .-.----------- .Cowan
waltz song. Moments With
You" ---.-. Shilkret
FINALE. up the sstreet"- Morse
"Tfs star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-12-28
W. W. Parce, Retired
Landscape Architect, Dies

William Wallace Parce, 70, retired
landscape architect, of 37l2 Jocelyn
street NV, died today in Garfield
Hospital following an operation. He
had been i'll about month.
A native of Fairport, N. Y, Mr..
Parce in early life was associated with
Frederick Law Olmsted. landscape
architect of Boston Later he worked
for the Roland Park Co.. Baltimore
real estate development concern.
From 1924 to 1929 he was landscape
architect for st. Johns College,
Annapolis, Md.
Mr.. Parce was an associate MEM
ber of the Washington Chapter OF
the American Society of Landscape
Architects.
He leaves his wife. Mrs. Josephine
A. Parce; a daughter. Miss Frances
L. Parce, and a son, John r. Parce,
all of this city.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Monday at the Chambers
funeral home, 1400 Chaplin street
NV. Burial in Fort Lincoln Gene
terry will be private.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Prow|er Fatally Shot
Entering Apartment
Identified After Error
Mixup Discovered by
Checking fineerprints;
Householder Cleared

A prowler, fatally shot Christmas
eve as he entered an apartment,
was identified by relatives yester-
day as Samuel Richardson, jr, 18,
after previously having been identi-
fed as Robert w. Hill by the lat
ter's father and brother.
The n.ixup in Identification was
discovered before an inquest into
the shooting yesterday when police
checked the fingerprints of the body
against records at police headquar-
ters. The prints were found not to
agree. James Richardson, 20, COL
ored, of the 4500 block of Eads street
NE, later identified the dead man
as his brother.
The coroner's jury meanwhile
held an inquest over the body of
John Doe" and absolved Robert C.
Campbell of responsibility in the
shooting. holding that he had acted
in the defense of his home and
person.
Mr. Campbell testified he discov-
cred the intruder entering a first
floor bedroom window of his apart
ment at 4043 Grant street NE. He
said he fired one shot from a %
caliber pistol, but the man came
through the window. grabbed a
visitors purse from the bed and
then fled. Mr.. Campbell fired sew
eral more shots, three of which took
effect, it was testified. The prowler
later was found dead in : clump of
woods behind the apartment.
Police and Mr.. Campbell testified
that residents of the neighborhood
had been asked by police to leave
their rear rooms lighted with the
windows unlocked in an attempt to
catch the prowler known to be op-
Grating in the area.
Victims of several robberies al
ready had identified the dead man
as the man who had held them up.
A loaded so caliber pistol was found
on his body.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Autopsy Is Ordered
In CoIored Girls Death

An autopsy was ordered today on
the body OF a 19-year-old colored
girl, who was found dead on va
can't lot yesterday. several days after
she had disappeared from home.
A scarf was knotted around her
throat and it appeared she had been
strangled. The body was found by
children on a lot near the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad track and Kenil-
worth avenue.
The victim was identified as Ce-
celia Ford, 1900 block Of Meade
street NV, who disappeared Mon
day after leaving home to attend
choir practice.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Funeral Rites Monday
For William {. Williams

Funeral services for William E..
Williams, 81, well-known advertis-
ing solicitor of The Star, will be
held Monday at pm.
The services will be conducted in
the chapel of the Ives funeral
home, 2847 Wilson boulevard, Ar
lington, ny John Palmer, reader Of
the Thir9 Church of Christ Scientist
Of Washington. Burial will be in
Congressional emetery, with
Masonic rites at the grave.
Mr.. Williams died early yesterday
en- route to Emergency Hospital
after having been run over by his
own car at Lee boulevard and Glebe
road in Arlington.
Mr.. Williams lived at 822 North
Irving street, Arlington.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
The Other Wise Man.
To Be Repeated Tonioht

Last performance of the Christ
mas play, "The Other Wise Man."
will be presented tonight at $50
o'clock at the Luther Place Mem
orial Church, Fourteenth and N
streets NV. The play opened
Thursday night under the direction
Of Bess Davis Schreiner and Dennis
Connel, who also plays the lead.
The music for Henry Van Dykes
religious drama has been arranged
and is played by Katherine Riggs,
harpist.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Refugee Children
And Underprivi|eged
See Maeter|inck PLAY
Crippled Boys and
Girls Also in Audience
At Benefit

A group of child war refugees now
living in Washington joined with
300 underprivileged Capital young
sters yesterday to view a special
benefit performance in the National
Theater of new play by a fellow
fugitive from the terrors of total
war, the eXiled Belgian playwright,
Maurice Maeterlinck.
Crippled children and number
of the production groups regular
young patrons also were in the
audience of approximately 1900
which watched THE Seven Wishes
as offered by the Children's Thea
ter of New York.
The afternoon performance, which
followed a morning presentation,
was sponsored for child refugee re-
lief by the Washington Wellesley
Club.
The 800 youngsters from local set.
tlement houses and other welfare
agencies were admitted on pleasure
fund" tickets bought by persons in
terested in contributing 80 cents to
refugee aid money and letting a
poor child see a play on the re-
naming 20 cents of the 81 subscrip-
tion.
A group of 100 children were
guests of the British Embassy staf
and others who bought tickets
through the British War Relief So
ciety.
Handicapped young people from
Capital Health House for Crippled
Children ard Children's Hospital
were among those given places of
honor in the first row.
In addition to settlement house
Clients" the guests included 20
children from a list of those caught
attempting to sneak into local thea
ters without paying.
Mrs. Roosevelt headed the list of
sponsors for the performance.
Director Harriet Nash of the Dis
trict Work Projects Administration
music education program led the
audience in Community sing"
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Spring|ike Weather Expected
To Continue Throughout Day

found on scattered cherry trees, for
sythia and jasmine bushes.
What effect this will have on the
normal spring budding no one
seemed prepared to say.
On the basis of Weather Bureau
reports, a southwest storm, which
was moving over the cotton fields
of Alabama last night, has brought
both rain and warmth with it. It
has caused storm warnings to be
posted at various points along the
Atlantic Coast in anticipation of
winds Of gale force"
In its wake. the forecaster said,
will come sharp temperature drop
at least by New Year Day.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
{. {. {. Gives District
Quota Of 1856 Men

The District has been given a
quota of 1876 in the enrolment
planned by the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps to begin January 2, it
was announced today.
James j. McEntee, director of the
c. C.. c., said the enrolment of
1887 youths between the ages of
II and % and of 4,601 war veterans
in all parts of the country would
start Immediately after the New
Year holiday.
The District will be allowed to
furnish 162 Juniors and "a war
veterans, it wes stated.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Hit-Run Auto Victim
Reported improved

Albert Van Court, jr., 21-year-old
press agent for. the Princeton Tri-
angle Club, was reported better"
today at Emergency Hospital, where
he was taken after being knocked
down by a hit-run driver Christmas
morning.
Police were still searching for the
automobile which hit the youth and
Miss Betty Dunbar Drayton, 4625
Garfield street NV, as they left
the Washington Cathedral following
Christmas Eve services,
Evening star., 1940-12-28

A small piece of glass was the clue
on which police pinned their hopes
today of catching the hit-run driver
who last night was responsible for
the death of 19-year-old radio re-
pairman here.
The glass was knocked out of the
headlight of an automobile which
struck Thomas Strohecker, 502 Ran
dolph street NV, as he crossed
Fourteenth street at T street NV.
about o'clock last night. The
youth died two hours later at Emer-
gency Hospital
Witnesses gave police description
of the car, which sped on after the
accident They said it was a two
toned sedan. The piece Of head
light glass was found at the scene
and all police were on the lookout
for the car today.
Mr.. Strohecker, who was married
only recently, died of a broken neck
and fractured skull, it was said at
the hospital. He was the 80th traffic
victim OF the year, compared to 85
at this time last year
Two Killed in Collision.
Two men died in the wreckage of
a car which crashed into truck
on U. S. Route No. /, 2 miles south
of Triangle, Va, last night. and
several other persons were seriously
hurt In accidents in the metropolitan
area.
The two men were killed when
their car crashed head-on into the
truck The truck turned over on
top of the car and caught fire. Both
vehicles were demolished.
One of the victims had been mar
ried Christmas Day and the other.
his friends said, was to have been
married on New Year Day. Herold
Oran Johns. %, was the bridegroom
who was killed, while Dewey Millard
Woods was the other victim
They were on their way to Guam
tico, where they were employed on
construction job. after a visit to
their homes in Cowen. w. Va, over
the Christmas holiday. The bodies
were removed to Halls funeral home
at Occoquan
Two Others Are Injured.
The truck driver and his assistant,
Guy Morrison. and Harvey Mann,
both Of Burlington, N. c., were
taken to Alexandria Hospital for
treatment of bruises and shock.
In the District Mrs. Mary Lewis,
81, POLL Kalorama road N. w, was
seriously injured when struck by an
automobile as she crossed the street
in the 1900 block of Connecticut
avenue NV She was taken to
Emergency Hospital, where her con-
dltion is undetermined.
Julia Schornops, 10, of 725 Park
road NV. is being treated at Cas-
ualty Hospital for injuries received
when struck by a truck in the 600
block of Michigan avenue NE.
James st. Clair, g. of 1106 Virginia
avenue S.W, was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital yesterday for injuries
in an accident in the 1900 block of
Independence avenue S.W.
Bicycle Injuries Woman.
Lucy Parker, 25, colored, HOO block
OF Nlntn street NV, Is IN serious
condition at Freedmens Hospital
with injuries received when hit in
the 700 block of Fairmont street
NV.
A bicycle-which police said was
carrying two youths and which al
legedly went through a red light at
Fourteenth street and Columbia
road N.W.-was responsible for Sc
riously injuring Vina Opdycke, 68.
1880 Seventeenth street NV. She
Is under treatment at Emergency
Hospital.
William J. Strickland, %, of GIG
E street Sc, is being treated at
Providence Hospital for a possible
skull fracture, received when his
automobile was forced from the road
last night near Floral Park, Md.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

Springlike weather which has
started trees and shrubbery blos-
soming in Potomac Park and gen.
orally twisted Washingtons normal
way of winter living, will continue
through today, with the tempera-
ture remaining about the same as
Yesterdays So degrees, according to
the Weather Bureau.
Rain Is expected to continue
throughout the day and probably
tonight. For tomorrow, however,
cloudy and colder is the forecast.
In Potomac Park and about the
Tidal Basin ground attendants have
that blossoms are to be
Evening star., 1940-12-28
bit Of Glass Held
Clue toDriiver
Of Death Car
D. c. Youth Is Victim
Of Hit-ond-Run Auto:
2 Killed in Virginia
Traffic Record

The traffic record as revealed
at police headquarters, for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, l, a pedestrian.
Accidents, SO.
Motorists injured, 6.
Motorists arrested, 235.
Pedestrians injured, 20.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, /.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right of way to pedes-
trians, !.
Killed in 1910 traffic, 80; by
December % in 1889, IS.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

Of Washington's Birthday, 1941-as
an occasion when that indebtedness
may be flttingly acknowledged"
It Is planned to have Brotherhood
Week observed in more than 1000
communities under auspices of the
conference. The theme Of the OBJ
servance will be National Unity"
with the slogan zone Nation, in
divisible. with liberty and justice
for ALL"
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Fire Yields Love Bricks

MILfyTAS. Calf. R).--A ware
house fire CONCEALED bricks. hay and
earth into q lava-like formation.
Mrs. Joe Rose, intrigued by It's pat
tern. used II for the inside walls
of O shrine TO Saint Buenavcntura.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Delegation Satisfied
On Labor Union Mission

Satisfaction with the manner in
which a delegation protesting use
of the Sherman Antitrust Act
against labor unions was received
by Senators and Justice Depart
ment officials was expressed by DR..
Bella V. Dodd, legislative represent
ative of the American Federation
of Teachers, late yesterday as the
delegation, representing the Joint
Committee for Trade Union Rights,
prepared to leave the Capital.
DR.. Dndd said the group would
conside- Us Llme we'll spent if "all
promises are kept" She said a full
hearing OF the delegations views
had been accorded by Assistant At
torney General Thurman w. Ar
mold, in charge o. antitrust prose-
cutions for the Justice Department.
The delegation presented its
views at the White House and also
conferred with Chairman Thomas
of the Senate Labor Committee,
Chairman Norton of the House La
Dor Committee and Senator Wagner
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Births Reported

Nathaniel and Alice Barker. boy.
Arthur and Eugenla Brew; eLtl.
watson snd Lucille ,qSL; ndl Sandil1' BOY; 10Y
BENJAMIN and Mary Fleet. girl.
Francis and Margaret Gardiner. boy
Kenneth and Martha Haagenson' boy.
Hugh and Rose Hancock. girl.
Thomas and Winifred Hickey, boy.
Edward and Louise Hollander, boy.
Richard and Matte Mason, boy.
Lewis and Thelma Morgan, boy.
Thomas and Mary Mcclure. boy.
Earle and Lillian Perry. boy;
Henry and Cecilia SaluS, girl,
Albln and Frances Taylor, girl.
Carl and Ivy Toronto, girl.
John and Adelaide Waterfleld, girl.
Samuel and WinIfred Winstead, boy.
Albert and Bertha Braund boy.
George and Margaret Bromley, girl.
Albert and Mary Davis, girl.
George and Ruth Evanshaw, girl.
Edward and Catherine FuhS. boy.
Harry and Rosie Gardner. girl.
Richard and Margaret Hall, girl.
Hugh and Margaret Harris, boy.
Earl and Mary Hillstrand, boy;
VirRil and Mary Johnson, girl
Thomas and Matilda Miller. girl.
Walter and Marie McEntee, girl.
Charles and Annie Parker, girl.
Louis and Dorothy Reed. girl.
George and Nora Samen, boy.
Telford and Mary Taylor. girl.
Thomas and Mary Wacker, boy.
Paul and Helen Whittington. girl.
Gilbert and Helen Woodward, girl.
John and Mary Ashby. girl.
Thomas and Elsie Gill, girl.
Frank and Mary Hayes. boy.
Robert and Mabel Kimbrough, girl.
James and Naomi McCray, girl.
William and Ruth Queen, boy.
David and Rose Ransom. girl.
Samuel and ConnSuella Gaines. sirl.
Fred and Sadie Green, boy
Robert and Elsie Jackson, girl:
Leonard and Bertha Mccain. boy.
Everett and Gertrude Payne. boy.
Baxter and Minnie Quick, girl
John and Ethel Washington, boy.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Deaths Reported

Mary E Yeo, IS. 62 New York ave. n.
joseph H. Barnes. -, 260s Dana pl, n, ".
Alvin NJ McNish IS, 1411 Holly St n W.
Catherine Slater, rs, st. Eli5abeth's Hos
n.H pital sa,denbers, y, Veterans Admins
tration Hospital
John R. Dale, IS, 314 18th nl ne
Tallie Childress, 60, Soldiers Home Hos
Roy j, Early, 60, St; Elizabeth's Hospital.
Harry e PyWell. 54, A Charming st. NV.
Raymond J. Wood. As st. Elizabeths Hos
Blanche Gilmore, 43. 25 st ne
Nell L. Kay. "A, 1928 Rhode Island ave.
Infant VICAR, Children's Hospital,
infant Schiefer, Columbia Hospital.
Infant CASTILLO, s5bleSS SSos Hospital S|stlt
William Brent, IS, Gallinger Hospital.
Robert E Syphax, 65, 1905, ST. NV
Octavia E Yates. 40, Freedmens Hospltal'
Mary Ford, 81 Gallinger Hospital
Ethel D williams, 81, Freedmens Hospital.
Infant Jones. Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1940-08-14

English Sheraton Group
expression Of this fomous designers Technique Con-
strueton Honduras mahogany, with genuine morquetry
noys done in floral potens and lockwood inlay lines around
fronts and bed pones Eight pieces, including Twin
Beds.
Regularly $325--------August Special S2u5
Chinese ChippendoIe Group
SIoone Mostereroftsmon rendition in genuine Amozon
mahogany with figured crotch mahogany bed pones and
fronts. pieces with uIIsize poster panel
bed.
Regularly S25O-------August Special Ax
The SIoone New Regency Group
Executed genuine Cubon mohosony with its rich noturo
figure. Eight pieces including Twin Beds Vonity, Bureau
ond Chest.
Regularly S498----August Special ScteAE
Amerieon HeppIewhite Group
In Honduras mohosony with swirl figure The curved front
Bureou ond Chest finely proporioned. Vanity hos
front. Sleigh type Twin Beds. Complete with eight
pieces.
Regularly S4I5--------August Special S:SSSH
The New French Group
Pointed eIozed and hand decorated Background French
sroy with drawers ond bed pones bordered in dorker
shode with decorations and oro designs done in OIL
Eight pieces, including Twin Beds.
Regularly s565--------August Special S4HO
Evening star., 1940-08-14


illustrated
Fine adaptations Of Eory Colonial Sheraton, HePplewhle
and American Empire seoed TO sizes tho will consistently
furnish the smaller Dining Room Construction genuine Hon
duros mahogany Group comprises sdebood Corner Cobnet
Extension Dining Tobe Arm Chairs and two Side Chors
Regularly s28O--------4ugust Special scScSSD
American HeppIewhite Group
Genuine Honduras mahogany with exceptionally attractive
detos Of moIdns and panel work Drawer and cabinet
we'll planned Ten pieces
Regularly s435--------August Special se29x
Amercon-Sheroton-H n-HeppIewhite Group
Another ensemble in genuine Honduras mahogany. Side
board Heppewhite the hondsome shield back ehos
Tobe Server and Chino Cobinet Of the Sheraton motif
Complete in ten pieces.
Regularly S4OO--------August Special
French Provincial Group
This hos been especially scaled for the smoer dining
Wonu and beeehwood construction, finished in the
soft French woInut tone Seven pieces.
Regularly s225-------August Special s 20
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Rockville.

Andrew Paul Mckay. jr. -. and Katherine
Louise McGinn, 30, both of Silver Sprins'
Nd
Lawrence. IS. both of Sandy Spring. Md.
Robert Louis Maier 26. Washington. end
Rebecca snowden Keagle, 26, Silver
Louis F Watkins, jr., -. and Janet L.
Plummer, 20, both OF Gaithersburg Nd;
Denman n. Scudder, 81 Washington. and
Margaret E. Stout. %. Chevy Chase. Nd,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-09
Crown Champions
Here on Tuesday

Champions in nine different pas
times will be crowned at the va
rious city playfields in tourna-
ments to be held each Tuesday dur
ing the rest of the summer.
Winners names at each playfield
will be inscribed on plaque, which
will be kept at the field permanent
ly. Any boy or girl more than II
years old and less than Is may
participate in the events.
Events include volleyball. horse
shoes, paddle badminton, paddle
tennis, softball throw for accuracy,
barrel basketball throw, ping pong,
soccer goal kicking and checkers.
Additional information may be
obtained from directors at any city
playfield.