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Evening star., 1946-01-17
Woman, ReportedWed4Times,
Held for Grand Jury in Bigumy

Mrs. Alice Mae Lee, 27, former
Navy Yard machine operator, whose
attorney said she had been married
four. times, was held for grand
jury action in Municipal Court to-
day on a bigamy charge alleging
that she married Pvt. Robert A.
Sullivan, 495 I street S.W., in No
vember, 1914, without first divorc-
ing Ashby L. Lee, TIT Newton place
NV.
Defense Counsel Paul Niebell
waived the right for preliminary
hearing before Judge Ellen K
Raedy and the defendant was re-
leased on $500 bond.
Mrs. Lee, also known as Dorothy
Lee De Vries, was arrested after
Pvt. Sullivan, identified as husband
No. 8. told special investigators of
the United States attorneys Office
that he learned on his recent return
home from overseas that she had
married him without benefit of a
divorce and had later acquired an
other husband.
Appearing in court with Mrs. Lee,
who lives in the 1900 block of L
street NE, were three Of the men
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Boys Injuries Bring
Child Labor Charges

The loss of four fingers in meat
grinder by a 17-year-old boy, said
to have been working his 14th con-
secutive hour, resulted yesterday in
the filing of child labor law charges
against the Giant Food Shopping
Center, Inc, at Juvenile Court.
Mrs. Alice Dolhof, child labor in
spector, said the boy, whose name
was not made public, was injured
November Is in the store at 1920
Minnesota avenue NE.
The corporation was charged
with working a child 54 hours in
each of two weeks, IA hours in one
day of another week, and failure
to keep proper or accurate records
of the hours worked by minors en-
ployed
According to the regulations no
persons between IA and 18 may work
more than six consecutive days a
week, 48 hours in one week or
eight hours in one day.
Children under IA may not hold
jobs, with the exception that boys
10 or older may have newspaper
delivery routes and boys from IL
to 16 years old may sell newspapers
on the street between the hours
of 7 am. and pm.
Miss Virginia Clary, social direc-
tor at the court. pointed out tnai
the regulations should be strictly
adhered to for safeguarding the
health and education Of children.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Death Of Ernest v. Fowler
In Traffic Ruled Accident

A coroner's jury yesterday re-
turned verdict of accident in the
death Of Ernest Vinson Fowler, 40,
of 1850 o street NV, former Dis
trict fireman, who succumbed Tues
day to injuries suffered when he was
struck by bus at Dumbarton and
Wisconsin avenues NV. Monday
night.
The driver of the bus, who was ex-
onerated, was George Chase, %, of
1755 Galen street Sc.
The coroner's jury also returned a
verdict that Milton Burgess, IS, COL
ored, of the 1900 block of Eleventh
street NV, who died Monday night
after being removed while semi-con-
scious from billiard parlor in the
1900 block of Fourteenth street NV.
was responsible for his own death.
The jury said the injury resulted
from a fall while being restrained
from an argument by Donald Cosby,
38, colored, of the 1900 block of Six
teenth street NV. Cosby was re-
leased by police after the verdict.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
National Civic League
Elects Rev. DR.. Miller

The Rev. DR.. O. B. Miller of AL
bany, N. Y, has been elected presi-
dent of the National Civic League
at the annual meeting of its board
of directors at league headquarters,
1911 G street NV, it was an
nounced.
Others elected were the Rev. DR.
Norman v. Peale of New York, vice
president; DR.. j. Raymond Schmidt
of Washington, secretary and gen.
eral superintendent, and Miss Nellie
l.. Bristol of Washington, treasurer
The Rev. Thomas E. Boorde, pastor
of AnacoStia Baptist Church was
reelected as a director.
In other business at the meeting
held Tuesday night, the group de-
nounced a reported plan of the
Navy to establish "geisha houses
in Japan for sailors on shore leave
The board also asked that brewers
and distillers be denied the further
use of sugar, or sirups made from
sugar, until the supply for home
use becomes more adequate. Mem
bers indorsed Senator Capper'S bill
to apportion Representatives among
the several States on the basis Of
citizenship instead of population
Evening star., 1946-01-17

she is reported to have married, in
cluding her most recent husband,
Millard A. Brightwell, 1006 M street
Sc, who said they were married
last April.
Mr.. Brightwell, a hospital attend
ant, told reporters he intended to
marry his wife again "after this
mess is Strengthened out"
Mr.. Lee also sat with Mrs. Lee in
court but told reporters he was
there "only as a witness"
Special Investigator John McHale
said Mrs. Lee told him she mar
ried Pvt. Sullivan in the belief she
had been divorced by Mr.. Lee. She
later applied for a divorce from him
on the grounds of desertion and a
decree was granted last month, but
the decree is not final for six months,
Mr.. McHale said.
Mrs. Lee told him she was di-
vorced from her first husband, DON
aid De Vries, in May, 1941, in Kala-
mazoo, Mich, Mr.. McHale said.
Pvt. Sullivan told reporters he
had served at Eniwetok, Saipan
Two Jina and Okinawa during II
months overseas and has recently
re-enlisted in the Army.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Dah|gren Terrace Vote
Opposes Suffrage

The Dahlgren Terrace Citizens
Association last night opposed vot-
ing privileges for the Distrist. Con-
tending that it sis not in the best
interests of the District to have it
now," the group praised the city "as
one of the cleanest run" govern
ments in the United States, and
added, mot ready for voting" In
creased taxes was given as one OBJ
lection by members.
On a resolution by Mrs. Helen
Fritz, the association instructed
George E. Dodson, delegate to the
Federation of Citizens Associations
to inform that body of its rejection
of a suffrage amendment to the
Constitution.
The association also deplored the
infrequent garbage collections in the
Dahlgren Terrace area and asked
that campaign be started to ''clean
up" to prevent infiltration of rats
from other localities. Mrs. George
E. DodSon, president, was asked tc
request Health Department action
on an abandoned wood yard in the
rear of the 2700 block of Tenth street
NE.
The groups secretary was in
structed to lodge complaints with
the District Commissioners against
smoke nuisances from the Baltimore
g. Ohio railroads westbound trains
and the Ivy City roundhouse. Other
complaints were voiced against g
laundry, an apartment house ano
straw manufacturing plant.
Use of a vacant field at Tenth
and Franklin streets NE. as a play.
ground and football field for "larg.
er" boys was also requested. Mem.
bers expressed dissatisfaction with
crowded conditions at the District
Receiving Home and asked that de-
linquents be segregated from othel
children in the home.
The meeting, attended by Il
members, was held in the home O
the president, 1908 Rhode Tslanc
avenue NE, instead of the Crosb,
Noyes School, as scheduled, due t,
a misunderstanding.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Trailer Murder
Suspect Caught
In New Jersey
Joseph Vinci Sought
Since Indictment;
Connors Now on Trial

Joseph Vinci. 31-year -old suspect
in the double Staying of Pany Cas-
barian and Edward Barker here
February %, 1915. was captured last
night in Englewood, N. j.. it was
learned today, as the trial of Ray
mond Connors, indicted with Vinci
for the murder. went on in District
Court here.
Vinci, who has been sought since
he was indicted, August %, 1945, for
completely in the murders, will be
turned over to Washington police
by New Jersey authorities imme-
diately, reliable source said.
The New Yorker's name first en-
tered the case when 1t. Robert v.
Murray of the Homicide Squad told
a coroner's jury here that Vinci
was with Connors at the time the
Staying occurred in Mr.. Barker's
trailer Office on a used-car lot at
Fourteenth and N streets NV.
Also Wanted by FBI.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation
spokesman said this morning Vinci
also was wanted by the FBI for
unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
The true bill against Connors and
Vlncl included six counts, charging
first-degree murder in perpetration
OF a felony, six charging deliberate
premeditated killing and one charg-
ing robbery.
Inspector Robert ]. Barrett, chief
OF detectives, told reporters today
he would neither confirm nor DENY"
reports that Vinci has been caught.
Inspector Barrett said a statement
would be issued at police headquar-
tiers later today. Earlier, the de-
tectiye chief had told reporters to
stand by for something hot"
1t was learned, however, that De-
tective SergtS. Nunzie Bonaccorsy
and Edgar E. Scott of the homi-
eide squad, left the city this morn
ing for Englewood, presumably to
return Vinci to Washington.
Robert A. Frazier, FBI ballistics
expert, testified in Connors' trial
today that the four bullets which
killed Mr.. Casbarian and Mr.. Barker
were fired from the same gun. He
said the gun was a .25-caliber auto
matte pistol. 1t was a foreign type
of gun, he said, adding that it might
be Mauser, made in Germany; an
Unceta, made in Spain, or a Brown
ing, made in Belgium. The gun
used in the crime has not been
found.
Identifies Slugs.
Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
Murphy paved the way yesterday
for Mr.. Frazier's appearance on the
Evening star., 1946-01-17
D. T.. Fair Trade Bill
SheIved; Backers
Plan New Measure

The hotly debated Saltonstall bill
proposing fair trade" law for the
District, under which owners of
brand names and trade marks could
stiuplate minimum resale prices for
their products, has ben pigeonholed
by Chairman Bilbo of the Senate
District Committee.
He said he had acted at the re-
quest Of three principal sponsors Of
the bill, who called at his Office
yesterday and asked that it be
indefinitely postponed"
Dead" Says Bilbo.
Senator Bilbo said he considered
the bill dead" but that the three
sponsors said that they would sub
NIT later the draft of different
measure. Senator Saltonstan, Re-
publican, of Massachusetts,, who in
troduced the measure at the request
of national drug interests, was rep
resented as being satisfied with the
turn of events.
The three sponsors who abandoned
the pending bill, Senator Bilbo said
were William Gross, Fair Trade
Committee chairman of the District
Pharmaceutical Association; John E
Donaldson, president of the associa-
ton, and George H. Fretes, Wash.
ington representative of the Ma
tional Association of Retail Drug.
gists.
Bill Drew Protests.
The bill had been reported by 9
subcommittee of the District Com.
mittee, but a flood of protests thai
it would result in sharp boosts ir
prices of many products in the Dis.
trict resulted in new hearings before
the full committee.
The bill was dealt another blow
recently in a voluminous report by
the Federal Trade Commission thai
analyzed the operation of similar
laws in many of the States.
Hearings before the Bilbo grour
also brought out that the measure
while sponsored by drug and phar.
maceutical interests, would apply tt
all trade-marked and name-brandet
products sold here in competitive
business, including liquor.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Northampton Delegate
Offers Bill 10 Repeal
Virginia Truck Tax
By ALEX r. PRESTON,
Star Staf CoTrespondent.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 17.-Dele-
gate H. H Adams, Northampton
County, today introduced legisla-
ton in the Virginia General Assem-
bly, to repeal the 2 per cent gross
receipts tax on out-of-State COM
mon and contract motor carriers.
The proposed law would rescind
the tax on freight haulers imposed
by the Assembly several years ago.
Last week the District of Colum-
bia Commissioners called confer
ence with trucking officials of Wash
ington and five States to discuss re-
taiatory action, but the matter was
held in allegiance until after Vir-
ginia had an opportunity to repeal
the law
Mr.. Adams stated that if Virginia
continued the tax, truck operators
from this State would suffer similar
taxes by other Jurisdictions through
which they pass.
At a meeting between District of
Columbia officials and Chairman
c. F. Joyner, jr., of the Virginia
Reciprocity Board it was agreed to
withhold application of the tax on
District of Columbia -owned trucks
until April l pending possible set
tlement. However, if no settlement
is reached by the Legislature Vir-
ginia has warned that enforcement
April will be retroactive to Janu-
ary /.
The District of Columbia had
planned its own program of retalia-
ton consisting of requiring Virginia
carriers operating through the city
to take out registration and title
in Washington, undergo motor ve-
hicle inspection, become subject tc
the Districts personal property taz
and make the drivers obtain District
motor vehicle operation permits.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Discussion Scheduled
On Deuf Children

The Washington Society for the
Hard of Hearing will hold a round
table discussion on the hard of hear
ing child at 7::30 pm. tomorrow at
its headquarters, 2431 Fourteenth
street NV.
DR.. Leonard Dub, psychiatrist, and
Miss M. Lorraine Amos, hearing
conservation specialist, will lead the
discussions and parents, nurses, doc
tors an dteachers are invited to at
tend
Evening star., 1946-01-17
JuiIbreuker Convicted
In HOUSEKEEPING Case

Everett R. Snyder, 36, one of five
persons who escaped District Jail on
November "a, was found guilty yes
terday by District Court jury of
housebreaking for entering Safe
way Store in the TOO block of Third
street NV, last November. Justice
Jennings Bailey, who presided at
the trial, did not set a date for
sentencing.
The charge of escaping Jail is
still pending against Snyder, who
gave himself up shortly after the
escape. Three of those who escaped
are still at large.
Trial of escaped prisoners who
were recaptured and others who
allegedly aided through smuggling
hacksaw blades into the jail, is set
for January 80.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Bamberger Granted
300-Foot Tower for
Te|evision Station

The Bamberger Broadcasting
Services, Inc., won its fight last night
for permission to erect a 300-foot
television tower, at Fortieth and
Brandywine streets NV, when the
Board of Zoning Adjustments voted
in favor of it. The firm will 60 be-
fore the Federal Communications
Commission Monday for specific
transmission frequency.
The board, which last month ap-
proved a 200-foot tower for the site,
yesterday reheard the case in the
light of new FEC regulations and
by a 3-to-1 vote, approved the 100
foot increase in tower height. One
member did not vote, it was stated.
According to Harry S. Wender, at
torney for the corporation, the tow
er will now be 500 feet above the
prevailing altitude of the area,
which is the desirable minimum for
metropolitan stations under the new
FEC rules.
Opposition Heard.
Mr.. Wender concluded argument
for the corporation with a summary
of the type of television service
planned for the District and insisted
that property values would not be
adversely affected.
Opponents raised the issue of
danger to adjacent property and
adverse effect on values. They
included D. B. Guynn of the Friend
ship Citizens Association and David
A. Hart. attorney for several prop
erty owners in the area.
Two women property holders
urged the board not to permit the
corporation to build opposite their
homes. They were Mrs. Frank
Perna, jr., of 1000 Brandywine street,
and Mrs. Ida Rossi Of 1000 Chesa-
peake street NV. Mrs. Rossi, tear
full in protesting the transmitter,
threatened to go to the White House
to block it.
Mr.. Wender referred the board to
an article in The Star on proposed
notifications of the White House,
indicating plans for television.
Engineer Testifies.
Mr.. Guynn pressed J. r. Poppele,
chief engineer of Bamberger's New
ark station WOR, as to why the tow
er could not be built in nearby
Maryland or Virginia. Mr.. Poppele
replied that the FEC wants the
transmitters located near the CEN
tiers of population served.
The proposed transmitter will cost
$500,000 to construct and a studio
downtown costing at least $3.50, 900
will have to be set up, Mr.. Poppele
indicated. He estimated cost of op-
Grafton at 5000 a month. Scope
of programs planned. 1t was indi-
Gated, will be % hours a week at the
outset.
There are seven applications for
the four frequencies and one of these
is rumored ready to drop out.
1--WE ask merely for the opportun-
ity of bringing you the best" Mr..
Wender declared in his closing state
ment yesterday. eff we did not we
would not have risked everything to
come before you in this rehearing
We would have taken the 200-foot
tower you already approved for us
and let it 60 at that"
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Willard Bought
By New Owner
Of Raleigh Hotel
Louis Berry, Detroit
Operator, to Assume
Control March !

The sale of the Willard Hotel
to Louis Berry of Detroit, oper-
ator of a chain of hotels, was
announced today by Mrs. Jo-
Seph E. Willard, chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Vir-
ginia Hotel Co., owner of the
hotel.
The purchase price was not re-
vealed. The new management is
expected to take over operation of
the Willard on March l.
Mr.. Berry, who recently purchased
the Raleigh Hotel here, also is
owner of hotels in Detroit, Madison,
Wis; Buffalo, N. Y, and Norfolk,
Va. He also owns and operates a
number of Office buildings, among
them the 35-story David Stott Build
ing in Detroit.
No Changes Expected.
In the announcement of the sale
Mrs. Willard, widow of the former
Ambassador to Spain, said that Mr..
Berry had revealed that operation
OF the hotel would be conducted
exactly as it had been in the past"
and no changes were contemplated
at the present time.
The sale of, the historic hotel
takes it out of the control of the
Willard family for the first time
since construction Of the original
hotel in 1847.
During its nearly 100 years ex-
istence, it has been the temporary
home Of many Presidents and dis
tinguished statesmen. Among its
earliest guests were the four Presi-
dents preceding Lincoln-Taylor
Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan.
Presidents Stayed There.
In later years, during the admins
tration of Woodrow Wilson, Vice
President Marshall lived at the Will
lard. President Harding stayed at
the Willard, occupying the Presiden-
tial suite the night before he was
inaugurated. Calvin Coolidge lived
at the Willard during his entire term
as Vice President, and on becoming
President, after the death of Mr..
Harding, continued to live there for
three weeks.
Representing Mr. Berry in the sale
was the law firm of Ellis, Houghton
and Ellis. Joseph w. Wyatt and
Paul F. Myers were the attorneys
representing the Virginia Hotel Co.
The F. E. Lucas Co. was the hotel
brokerage firm involved in the trans
action.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Body Of Third Victim
Of Nov. Z Crash Found

Another victim of the November IL
Navy plane crash in the Potomac
River near Indianhead. Md, has
been found.
The Potomac River Naval Com
mand said the body of Comdr. Fred
erick B. Hall, IS, of st. Louis, whose
local address was 1920 Thirty first
street NV, was found yesterday by
fisherman in the river near the In
dian Head Naval Powder Factory.
They said his body still had para
chute attached.
Two of the six passengers para
chuted to safety and the bodies of
two others have been found. 1t.
Comdr. David F. Leavitt. 48, of
Chicago, still Is missing.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
9th D. c. Lions Club Formed

The Southwest Harbor Lions
Club of Washington, 5,000th Lions
Club in Lions International, will re-
ceive it's charter at a banquet at 1880
tonight in the main ballroom of the
Mayf1ower Hotel. Secretary Cen
eral Melvin Jones, founder of the
Lions organization, will be here
from Chicago to make the presenta-
ton. This is the ninth Lions Club
to be formed In the District.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Hanging Victim Killed
Self, Coroner Reports

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
has issued a certificate of suicide in
the case of C. w. Campbell, 40, who
was found dead, hanging by the
neck from rope tied to an up
turned bed spring in his hotel room
at 935 Ninth street NV. yesterday.
Mr.. Campbell pronounced dead by
DR.. Richard NJ Rosenberg, deputy
coroner. He registered at the hotel
December S, giving Greenville, S. c.,
as his home.
Evening star., 1946-01-17

stand by identifying three slugs,
and two fragments of another. as
the bullets he took from the heads
of the two murdered men in an
autopsy.
Elias Hoffman, a matchmaker and
jeweler from Yonkers, n. Y, who
followed Mr.. Frazier on the stand,
testified that he knew Connors well,
having lived in the same house with
him for about a year. Mr.. Hoffman
said that early in March Connors
came to his place of business and
asked him to remove a diamond
from mans gold ring. The wit
ness said the diamond was very
deep and that he told Connors he
would have to file it.
He said Connors told him to go
ahead and waited around until the
job was done. Mr.. Hoffman said
Connors paid him rs cents and
asked him how much it would cost
to have the diamond put into
lady's platinum setting. The wit
ness said he told Connors that he
could not get platinum as it all
belonged to the Government.
Ring Was Old.
Mr.. Hoffman described the ring
as one of white or green gold show
ing signs of years of wear, and said
the stone, which was cut round and
fiat on top, was set flush in the ring
instead of being fastened with
prongs. He said the diamond was
"a to carats.
DR.. Murphy yesterday testified he
observed white area on the ring
finger of Mr.. Barker's left hand, in
dicating removal of a ring custom
arily worn. There is evidence in the
record that Connors pawned a large
diamond shortly after the crime
The diamond was redeemed later.
but neither the diamond nor the
ring has been recovered.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Brookmont Man CHARGED
With Assault on Girl

Louis v. May, 27, of Brookmont,
Md, was charged last night by
Montgomery County police with
criminal assault on a 16-year-old
girl near Cabin John, Md, last
Friday night, according to States
Attorney Joseph B. Simpson.
Police said May is a Washington
restaurant employe who is married
and the father of one child.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Seal Sale Group to Meet

The Seal Sale Committee of the
Montgomery County tuberculosis
Association was to hold its final
meeting at 2 pm. today at the
home of Mrs. Dexter M. Bullard,
Rockville, president of the asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Red Cross to Elect

Election of officers will be held
at meeting of the Montgomery
County Red Cross at 8 pm, jan
uary 80, at the Chevy Chase Wo-
mans Club.
The Valley settler., 1946-11-07
THE :. H EALTH COUNCIL.

The Health Council of. the Matanu ska Valley
 represents every person living in this area. Every organi izat ion in Palmer and Wasil1a sends it's dele gates to the meet ings
 Wh ich are held monthly. F.
 The Council is primarily an organization
 for the laity; it works closely with the physician, nurse and dentist.
 The Health Council has many func ions. It
 plans the general program of heal tn edu- |cation--this has nationwide as we'll as Territorial aspects. Included are: Nation |al Tuber culosis Association activiti es; lCrippled Children's 8 As sociation; Red Cross program.
 It plans specific programs to meet the problems presented in the community. Ex- enples of this are: Loan Closet for Bed- side Care to supp lement the limited hos- lp ital facilities of tho local ho ospital; dental care for children and adults; special precaut ions during epidemic dan- lgers. Sanitation is included ip' it's program.
 Each resident of the Valley is porti cular- ly interested in the work of the Health Council IS it pertains to his own family.
 Your neighbours 8 health affects you! Preventive med inc, stressed everywhere, is even more important in Alaska. Hero, facilities ere mocgre, distances between population contors gro great end as
 TO suit thoro is less control over health
 problems. Contr ibuted.