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Evening star., 1940-12-14
Businessmen Hold
Parade, Light Tree
In West End
Awards Made to Bands
And Floats Participating
In Christmas Event

Undaunted by the cold drizzle,
large crowds turned out last night
to see the second annual parade and
Christmas tree lighting sponsored
by the West End Bpsinessmen's
Association.
Lines of spectators cheered the
competing bands and marching
units, then gathered at the speak
ers' platform at Twenty-frst street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV. to
hear Thomas E. Lodge, chairman
of the District Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, announce the names
of the winners. Here also the tree
was lighted by M. E. Smith, treas
urer of the association.
Bowdler Speaks.
Louis L. Bowdler, president of
the Federation of Businessmen's AS
sociations, spoke in the absence of
Commissioner J. Russell Young, who
was unable to attend.
Col Leroy s. Mann, commanding
officer of the 260th Coast Artillery
OF the District National Guard, told
of the protection the National Guard
could give to maintain peace and
prosperity of the United States,
previously pictured by Charles Nor
ris, president of the West End Busi-
nessmen's Association, in his address
of greeting. COL Mann said that the
Guard is leaving the first week in
January for years training at Fort
Bliss, Tex, and asked that other re-
cruits join before their departure.
Awards Made.
Bands of the Coast Artillery, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, Chest
nut Farms Dairy, Elks' Boys Band,
Holy Comforter Band and the
Equality Walter Reed Post played
in the parade Also entered were
many floats and automobiles. Win
ners of the various cups were Chest
nut Farms Dairy, best band; Elks
Boys Band, second prize; Holy
Comforter Boys Band, third prize.
Girls of the Equality Walter Reed
Post also won cup. The Chesa-
peake Plate Glass Co. took the best
float prize, with honorable mention
going to the Laura Beauty Shoppe
and to Heurich Brewing Co.
Judges for the cups were Walter
Wasson, president Of the West End
Citizens Association; Ernest Cars
tenberg, manager of the Northwest
Branch of the Hamilton National
Bank, and Mr.. Lodge. John C.
Marceron, vice president OF the
BusineSsmen's Association, was
grand marshal, and with his
daughter, Miss Norma Marceron,
and Miss Marie Herl led the pro-
cession.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Bundled Baby,
Bottles and All,
Found at Asylum

He was found by the sisters on the
doorstep of St. Annes Infant Asylum
about 9 o'clock last night. He is
about 6 months old, a blond and.
unless the Woman's Bureau can find
his mother, probably will be called
John knight.
He came wrapped in a soiled
pink blanket in a basket-well
pinned in so he couldn't wriggle out.
His bottles, a wooden necklace and
a small wooden doll. some diapers,
nipples and a box of cereal came in
a brown paper bag with him. His
formula was written on a scrap of
paper.
Caught in the nap of the blanket
was a brown chicken feather. He
may have come from the country
Today he basks under the atten-
tive care of the sisters and nurses
of the asylum at Twenty-fourth and
K streets NV.
What grief and hardships lie be-
hind no one will know unless the
police can find out.
A nurse said, TOO bad he can't
talk to tell U.s."
Perhaps it's just as we'll he can't
and just as well he can't remember,
either.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
President 10 Give YuIe
Message al Tree Program

The full ceremony in connection
with lighting the National Com
munity Christmas Tree on the El-
lipse on December "a will last no
longer than one hour.
Starting at 4:30 pm, the Ma
rine Band will give concert for
half an hour. At 5, President Roose-
welt and his party will arrive. Then
the Rev. H. H. D. Sterrett will give
the invocation. District Commis-
sioner j. Russell Young will speak.
Boy and Girl Scouts then will
present greeting to Mr. and Mrs.
Roosevelt and the tree will be light
ed by the President, who will give
his Christmas message to the Ma
ton.
Carols by the George Washing
ton University Glee Club will be
sung at the conclusion of the ad-
dress, and then a cornet solo, Can
tique de Noel" Ceremonies will
close with benediction by the Rev.
John K. Cartwright.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Suspect in Assaults
Arruiqned in Bethesda

Frenche Lee White. %, colored,
who has been under investigation by
Montgomery County police in con-
nection with several assault cases in
the Bethesda area. was arraigned
before Trial Magistrate James C.
Christopher in Bethesda Police Court
yesterday on charges of assault, dis
orderly conduct and indecent ex-
posure.
Assistant States Attorney Alger
Y. Barbee asked for a jury trial on
the assault case, which was trans
ferred to Circuit Court. while the
other charges were placed on the
delayed docket Bond was set at
$4,000.
Mr.. Barbee said White was being
questioned in connection with the
attack last November % on a 81
year-old white woman only a short
distance from Old Georgetown road
and Wilson lane.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Band Concert

BY the Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra in Stanley Hall in the
home at $50 pm. today. John S.
M. Zimmerman. bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, Soldiers and Sweethearts."
Hall
Overture, LES PetitS RienS (TrifleS)
Mozart
Morceau, AN Eastern Romance"
Rimsky-Korsakov
Excerpts from musical comedy
Blossom Time" Romberg
Ton themes from Robert Schumann)
Popular numbers
la Rosita' Dupont
Low Down Rhythm" Greer
Valsette, Moonlight on the
Colorado" --------------K King
Finale, Sixty Miles an Hour
Hager
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-12-14
200-Year-0Id Charts
Blamed for Wreck
Of Fahnestock Ship
Skipper and Wife Back
In Capitol After Losing
Vessel OFF Australia

Navigating. the treacherous Bar
rier Reefs off Australia with charts
nearly 200 years old was blamed to-
day for the sinking of the schooner
Director II, which struck a shoal
in October, ending the American
Museum of Natural History expedi-
ton of the cruising Fahnestock
family.
Between greetings to his family
and friends who met him and his
bride at Union Station this morn
ing, Sheridan Fahnestock, 28-year.
old skipper of the sea-going schoon-
er, admitted difficulties in procuring
up-to-date charts from Australian
authorities was to blame for their
piling up on a reef.
The charts we did have of the
region were last surveyed by Capt.
Cook" the young explorer said.
Greeted by Relatives.
Because British authorities in
Australia were afraid new charts
would fall into the hands of enemy
proWlers the explorers had to sail
without proper guides.
Sheridan and his wife were greet
ed by his mother, Mrs. Mary Sheri-
dan Fahnestock. and his brother
Bruce and his wife. The party left
with friends and other relatives for
a week end at Great Mills. The
mother, Sheridan and his wife were
aboard the Director II when she
struck the shoal. Sheridan and
his wife remained in Australia after
the other shipwrecked members of
the exhibition returned home.
Bruce, the director of the eXpe-
dition, returned to the United States
several months before the tragedy
on expedition business.
In addition to the three here
today and the other members of the
crew. IA hours of recordings of
South Sea primitive music. one cat
and one dog were saved from the
ship.
Cat Floats on Table.
Siege, a Manchu spaniel, named
after the siege of Peiping in 1887,
and Omar, a Siamese cat. we're in
cluded in the baggage that arrived
with the young couple today. Omar,
Sheridan recalled, owed her life to
a special table of his Wife's. When
all hands had been accounted for
as they prepared to abandon the
Director, Omar was missing. Some
one found her, too scared to, cry,
crouched on a table that foated
about the flooded main cabin.
This was to have been the Fahne-
stocks second circling of the globe.
They went around the world several
years ago aboard a smaller schooner,
the Director l.
Both men expressed hope today of
procuring another boat and contin-
uing their work for the museum.
Director II, meanwhile, lies in 6
fathoms of water. a total loss.
Evening star., 1940-12-14

Analyses of traffic death No.
25 has not been published pend
ing completion OF official inves-
tigdtion.
The place: Massachusetts, avenue
NE, approximately Is feet south
east of an imaginary line marking
the east side of the east Tenth
street crosswalk.
The accident: A 21-year r-old man
was injured fatally when struck by
an automobile moving southeast on
Massachusetts avenue NE. as he
was attempting to cross the thor
oughfare in a northerly direction
with a woman companion outside
the east crosswalk of Tenth street.
He was picked up few feet south
east of the point of impact and
was taken to Casualty Hospital.
where he died less than four hours
later of a fractured skull and at
tendant hemorrhage and shock. His
companion, picked up several feet
farther to the southeast, was re-
leased after extended hospital treat
ment. Testimony of the driver Of
the striking car, as well as that of
an eyewitness. at an inquest indi-
Gated the pair had been struck by
the left front fender of the auto.
mobile as they stood near the imag-
mary center line of the street.
The time: About $50 pm, No
vember IA.
The weather: Raining.
The street: Wet, well lighted,
straight, level.
The vehicle: An old sedan, NOV
ing at a speed of approximately %
miles per hour, according to driver
and eyewitness. Brakes good.
Driver testified at inquest that wind
shield wiper was in good working
order but operated at retarded speed
during acceleration of vehicle.
The driver: A 49-year -old man
with 27 years driving experience.
He testified he did not see couple
until he had passed through inter-
section and was about 8 feet from
them. Then, he said, he attempted
to swerve toward curb and applied
brakes when he felt impact. Driver
expressed opinion his failure to no
tice pedestrians sooner was caused
by binding headlights Of approach
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Justice Department
Offers 10 Aid D. T..
Milk Consumers
Thurman Arnold Tells
Committee Their Contract
With Dairy Is Legal

The facilities of the Justice De-
partment are available to the Con-
sumers Milk Committee of the Dis
trict for the protection of the COM
mittee's program of quantity low
price milk purchasing, Thurman
Arnold, Assistant Attorney General
in charge of the Justice Departments
Antitrust Division, told the COM
mittee last night.
The committee. through collec-
tive bargaining agreement unusual
in cooperative ventures. has had a
contract for three months with
dairy for the home delivery of 4 per
cent butterfat milk at IL cents a
quart and 81 milk at II cents
quart. Membership in the commit
tee and participation in the milk
plan is open to all The contract
price for pasteurized skinned milk
is cents quart.
The committee, headed by Mrs.
Simon Newman. reported to Mr.
Arnold at its meeting last night
in the Friends Meeting House that
it had been suggested their program
violated the antitrust laws. Mr..
Arnold gave his assurance that the
plan was legal and named an as
sistant, Peter Hodges, to consult
with the committee.
Mr. Arnold said the cooperation
between the committee and Mr.
Hodges would be in the nature of a
trial for a plan he long had in mind
of bringing the Antitrust Divi-
sion closer to the consumer.
At the same time he urged a
national drive for the expansion Of
the ONCE of consumers counsel in
the Agriculture Department. in order
to make it better able to watch out
for consumers interests. He pro-
posed an expansion Of It's annual
appropriation from $4,000 to
81 900 900.
The milk-buying plan was de-
veloped by the Consumers Com
mittee in conjunction with the
District of Columbia Cooperative
League.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
14Are Injured
In Auto MishapS
In District Area
Weather Blamed;
Four Are Victims
Of Hit-Run Drivers

Fourteen persons were injured,
four Of them seriously and four by
hit-and-run drivers, in Washington
and nearby yesterday. Police
blamed slippery streets and hazy
visibility for most of the mishaps.
George Lewis, SO, of Denver was
struck by a taxi and knocked down
at Massachusetts, avenue and East
Capitol street. The machine sped
off, and Mr.. Lewis, who was later
taken to Emergency Hospital with
a fractured right leg, was unable to
obtain the plate number.
Hit by an unidentified auto, which
left the scene in like manner, was
Victor Galotta, So, of 1410 N street
NV. Struck near his home, he was
taken to Emergency Hospital, where
he was found to have sustained a
fractured pelvis and head injuries.
Two Other Victims.
The third hit-run victim was
Gabriel Lowery, 81, colored, of 1907
Twenty-second street NV, who was
hit at Connecticut avenue and Ban
croft place NV. He was treated at
Emergency for a fractured left leg
James Hall, 80, colored, of Nor
beck, Nd, was struck by hit-run
driver on the Georgia avenue pike
near his home early today and seri-
ously injured, Montgomery County
police reported. The Rockville res
cue squad removed him to Mont
gomery County General Hospital at
Sandy Spring suffering from a head
injury, possibly fractured skull. A
description of the truck, believed to
have been going north, was broad
cast by county police.
William H. Rhodes, 40, OF Arling-
ton, Va, was critically injured when
struck by an auto at M street and
Key Bridge while attempting to re-
pair a streetcar track. At George
town Hospital he was found to be
suffering with fractured right leg,
fractured skull and internal injuries.
Driver Charged.
Walter T. Weaver, Is, of 1919 Wis
consin avenue NV, said by police
to be the driver of the car which
struck Mr.. Rhodes, was charged
with driving while drunk
John .. Walarik, 9, of 1926 M
street NV, sustained a serious skull
fracture when struck by truck at
Twenty-first and NJ streets NV. He
was taken to Emergency Hospital.
Murphy Thomas, 35, of 1864 South
Carolina avenue Sc, was brought
to Casualty from an accident on the
Baltimore boulevard near Cottage
City, Md He sustained lacerations
and brain conclusion.
Those who were less seriously in
jured yesterday include Robert Co.
hen, 10, Silver Spring. Md: Benja-
min Boston. 8. colored. 2o7 Twelfth
street NE; billiard Burch, AZ,
Wilkes Barre, Pa: Norman Barbour,
81. 1922 Lyman place NE: Eliza
beth Sanders, "a, 1910 Twenty first
street NV: James A. pilkerton. 81,
Indian Head. Md. and Lois Will
liams, 26, Mount Rainier, Md.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Critics Get Their Chance
To Pick Fuvorite Art

Something novel in art exhibits
will be staged here next Thurs
day when a collection of $50
water colors picked by local crit
les as the best of several thousand
submitted in a Government
sponsored competition is dis
played for the public.
The exhibition will be shown in
the galleries of the Federal
Works Agency's Section of Fine
Arts, located at Seventh and D
streets S.W., and will continue
through January l.
Ten thousand water colors were
submitted when the Section Of
Fine Arts sought decorations for
the Marine Hospital at Carville.
La. OF these the Government
purchased 300 on the recommen-
dation of a jury Of nationally
known artists.
Evening star., 1940-12-14

Several thousand Of the re-
naming water colors, set aside
for their merits, now are being
studied by a group of Washington
critics-Miss Helen Buchalter,
Daily News; Miss Leila Mechlin,
The Star; Miss Rose Chatfield-
Taylor, the Post; Miss Elisabeth
Poe, the Times Herald, and Miss
Jane Watson, Magazine of Art.
Each critic will choose a group
of pictures, and each group will
be segregated in separate divi-
sions of the galleries. All the
water colors will be for sale at the
uniform price Of $50 apiece. The
critic whose selections receive
most acclaim-to be decided on
the number of sales from a single
group-will be presented with
one of the pictures by Edward
Bruce, chief of the Section of
Fine Arts.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Brightwood Citizens
|ndorse Inquiry Into
Tax-Free Property
Organization Plans to
Press Fight on Permit
For Slaughter House

The District Commissioners in
vestigation into tax-exempt property
was Endorsed last night by the
Brightwood Citizens Association at
a meeting in the Paul Junior High
School.
The association plans to. press its
fight against the renewal of permit
for the operation of slaughter
house in the rear of 812 Kennedy
street NV. Ringgold Hart, attor-
ney, told the members he filed a
protest petition signed by 54 objec-
tors, As of whom were property own
ers and nine rental residents. He
reported that the license year ended
November / and that up to recent
date no license for the current year
had been issued. DR.. George C..
Rutland, District health officer, in
formed the members that a recon-
mendation to the Commissioners op-
posed renewal of the operating per-
nit. The matter is now before the
Commissioners.
E. D. Merrill, president of the
Capital Transit Co.. expressed the
opinion that the BrightWood area
should await the decision by the
District on developing a main thor
oughfare before a crosstown bus
route is put in operation There are
certain weight limitations on the
bridges, he pointed out, and difficult
curves on Military road. 1t would
be possible, he said, to operate small
buses across the present roads,
either via Kingle road bridge or
Tilden street bridge. but establish
ment of a line should await develop
ment as a permanent thoroughfare.
A resolution to Senator King,
chairman of the Senate District
Committee, was authorized, express
ing appreciation for his interest In
District affairs and regret at his
forthcoming retirement.
New members elected included
Mrs. Page Steiner, Mrs. Ada Mae
Clements .and Walter Chadwick.
Tribute was paid to Charles w.
Ray, president, on entering his oath
term as head of the association and
of his many accomplishments dur
ing his long service in the organi-
Zation.
Elmer Johnson was appointed to
confer with the city postmaster on
improving conditions at the Bright
wood post Office for handling crowds.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Injuries Prove FotuI
To Airport Worker

Winston Miller, 409 Second street
NV, died in Providence Hospital
late yesterday OF injuries received
at the Washington National Airport
earlier in the day when he was
crushed between a bank and an
excavating machine.
Police said he was oiling a portion
Of the machine when the boom Of
the excavato9 swung back and
crushed him.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Louisiana Places
Statue of Long
In Capitol

A bronze statute of the late
Senator Long of Louisiana was
placed in Statuary Hall at the
Capitol yesterday, but will re-
main draped in an American flag
until the formal unveiling cere-
monies, probably at an early
date after the new Congress
meets.
The statue was authorized by
the Louisiana Legislature and
fills the first of that States two
places in the Hall of Fame.
Senator Longs stormy career
in the Senate ended when he
was assassinated at the State
Capitol in Baton Rouge in Sep
tember, 1885. He was elected to
the Senate in 1880.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Divorce Suit Filed

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. IA (Spe-
ciaD Mckinley Mumford of Bal
timore is named defendant in a suit
for absolute divorce filed in Circuit
Court by Mrs. Daisy C. Mumford of
this county, who charged she was
deserted in 1882. The couple was
married in Baltimore on February
10, 1927. There are no children.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Traffic Record
The traffic record, as revealed


at police headquarters. for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, So.
Motorists injured. 7.
Motorists arrested, 1868.
Pedestrians injured, 8.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 3.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right OF way to pedes-
trians. /.
Killed in 1910 traffic, 10; by
December IA, in 1899, SO.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
NAH "A h Killed in Traffic Same
why MUST n6y Lie. wv w Lost Yeor-74
One Series OF Factua ANALYSES OF c. Traffic

Analyses of traffic death No.
25 has not been published pend
ing completion OF Official inues-
tigdtion.
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q very important intersectional game
At this writing the boys are IN Ar
kansas, playing Philander Smith oo'-
lege. The latter is not expected 70
canse d serious amount OF trouble.
At Frankfort are first string guard,
George Wilson, and co-captain Hoy
Thurman. both recuperating from N
iuries received in last weeks Langs-
ton game. Both are expected to pc ~
the Kentucky lineup next SATURDAY ~
the Morehouse encounter.
The contest with Morehonse val
have 4 definite bearing on the moro
breds' national record. The hentuchs
bows are anxious to go INTO ehel'
Homecoming game against poWeflu
Florida two weeks hence with an uli
blemished record. For that reason
they want the Atlanta game, ana wan
Il badly A closely fought battle IS 4
! evidence for fans down Atlanta wa.
when the Thorobreds and Tigers clasl'
| The collowing will probably be hen
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WIDOWS CLASH
I'm COURT OVER
SWEEPSTAKES
|EST A E

CHICAGO, Oct.--tANP) A court
battle over the remainder Of the sT5,-
900 sweepstakes fortune left by Royal
E. Spurlark Sr., aged Pullman porter
who died early this year, looms be-
tween former wife and widow who
gathered in the probate court Of Judge
Charles McEween Thursday
Mrs. Cecilia Spurlark. who was ig.
nored completely in the will wants ts
break the document 'contending thai
Mrs. Albertine Spuflark, IBIS widow
whom he married few months before
his death, is not his iawfni wife. sht
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Rheumatic Happy;
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lheuld be corrected righs n0w. Ma
turally her teacher u concerned
about her for she knows sho 10 ca
pable Of doing better work. Do not
change her to another school.
G.HC.I have il m.rd e buy
out d small hotel and it Is now own
ed by woman and she is doing
pretty good Do you think that |
could take this hotel and make i'm
provements and do as good as she
il doingg
Ans:-Since she is retiring
do not think that you could dc
| just as we'll as she has been doing
She will naturally put in a good
word for you and there Is no reAsor
TO believe you can't keep a full
house. The location is exceIlen
and If you make few Improvement
you are bound to succeed. Run th'
place on the same basis she ran il.
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says she first married the deceased In
1903 and following q divorces they re-
married in 1912 and were never di-
vorced.
When hearing is resumed on Oct. "a,
much sensational testimony is ex-
pected. The will as it now stands
leaves the bulk Of the estate to the
widow, former night club enter
tainer. part to the son and smaller
amounts to other relatives.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1870.

tucky States starting lineup.
LIE. Corley; 1T, Edwards; L.G,
Trawick; c. Everett; R.G., G. Wilson;
RI. Reams; RE-. Love; @, Thur
man;L.H., Capt. O. Edwards, R.H.,
Walker; FB., Bentley.
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ky. STATE
AT ATLANTA
|SA T u r DAY

Coach Kean will take his Kentucky
State Thorobreds to Atlanta next Sat
urday, where the Kentuckians will
lock horns with Morehouse College in