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Evening star., 1957-12-23

He was booked on a robbery
'charge. along with Lacey" as
Ralph Lee Sims. IS, of the 100
block of Sixteenth street Sc
These two men denied being
involved in the holdup but by
this time the elaborate back
checking Of a number Of sus-
poets had yielded police the
names Of four more men. all
OF whom had been in the pool
room.
Some Money Found
Clifton c. johnson. 81, of the
1900 block OF d street Sc,
Orval Steptoe. %. OF the llOO
block Of Sumner road Sc. and
the l7-year-old juvenile were
arrested yesterday and charged
with the holdup. Early today,
police arrested and charged
Robert GLADDEN.. Is. Of the 800
block of Sixteenth street Sc.
Capt. Bonaccorsy said Glad
den. who had $l03 when seized,
led them back to Johnson's
home and showed them a loose
fioorboard. Under the board
was a pistol and four hats
two caps and two felt fedoras.
Under a mattress at Steptoe's
home. police found 1894 more.
Capt. Bonaccorsy said the four
admitted being in the holdup.
Steptoe. johnson and Glad
den were charged with the $3b
robbery December l3 Of the
Shapiro Grocery Store at sol
Fifteenth street Sc. and the
December 10 robbery OF the
Palace Tailoring Shop at 1920
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. for
500.
There IVES some confusion al
Police Headquarters today
about the charges against
Lacey" and the "Terrorizer. >
who still maintain they had nc
connection with the robbery
but Capt. Bonaccorsy said the
charges will stand until the
case goes TO the District At
torney's ONCE today.
Evening star., 1957-12-23
Indicted Man
Found Dead

A man under indictment fol-
filing fraudulent home loan ap-
plications was found dead In
bed at his Silver Spring home
today.
He was Augustus w. Knox
81. Of 905l Manchester road.
Montgomery County police
reported they believed Mr.
Knox died from an overdose oi
sleeping pills. They said hi
had obtained q supply Of such
pills on December II and that
he hsd made two attempts or
his life.
DR.. Frank j. Broschart
county m edical examiner
agreed with the police theory
but scheduled an autopsy.
Mr.. Knox was pronounced
dead a. 6:55 am. by DR.. L. B.
Snow. Silver Spring physician
Police said DR.. Snow had been
treating Mr.. Knox for some
time.
Last Tuesday Mr.. Knox was
indicted by the District grand
jury on three counts of filing
fraudulent home loan appli-
cations.
The indictment said Mr.
Knox made the applications
between April. 1885. and Oc-
tober, 1856. giving untrue in
formation about his debts in
order to get Federal Housing
Administration insurance on
the loans.
Mr.. Knox was an assistant
manager In the commercial de-
partment Of the Chesapeake &
POtOmaS Telephone Co
Evening star., 1957-12-23
The
Rambler
Cuts His Own,
Christmus Tree
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Yesterday the Rambler
was relaxed at home read
ing a paperback copy Of
Sarah Orne Jewett's THE
Country Of the Pointed FRS
and Other Stories"
Mrs. Jewett, who grew up
in Maine in a big house
within sound but not sight
Of the sea and used TO 60
riding with her doctor father
on his rounds, is one Of the
finest writer's America has
produced.
The Rambler was inter-
ested in re-reading THE
White Heron" He remem-
bered its atmosphere Of the
Maine woods from an initial
reading IS years ago.
He had gotten TO the giant
pine which is important in
the story. Her description
goes:
Half q mile from home,
at the farther edge of the
woods. where the land was
highest, q great pine tree
stood, the last Of its genera
ton.
whether IL was left for
q boundary mark, or for
what reason. no one could
say; the woodchoppers who
had felled its mates were
dead and gone long ago, and
q whole forest Of sturdy
trees. pines and oaks and
naples, had grown again.
But the stately head Of
this old pine lowered above
them all and made q land
mark for sea and shore miles
away"
Evening star., 1957-12-23
kdrrIck Views
Center
Sees Syphox School
Facilities Meoeer

Commissioner David B. Kar-
rick visited the lunchroom OF
the Syphax School today to
consider its usefulness as a
Southwest children's free lunch
center.
/ Mr.. Karrick said the Health
Departments previously an
nounced requirements for i'm
proving the lunchrooms sani-
tary facilities were quite rea-
sonable."
The lunchroom has no cook
ing. serving or washing facili-
ties. Il is now being used by
Syphax students who bring
their lunch to school and get
free milk.
A group Of volunteers at the
Barney Neighborhood House.
however. wants to use the Sy-
phax lunchroom TO serve free,
hot lunches on school days 70
children attending several
neighborhood schools.
Mr.. Karrick after his visit
today said 1t was obvious the
room needed additional doors
between the toilets and the eat
ing section. screens in the wins
dows. hand-washing facilities
for food handlers and perhaps
q Stove to keep food hot.
Il want only the essential
rules applied" the Commits
sioner said. But I don't want
any Of the essential rules re-
/ laxed. II We did that. the same
people who are jumping on u:
for insisting on sanitation
would soon be jumping on Us
for permitting unsanitary con-
ditions."
No District elementary school:
now serve hot lunches. Tht
Barney volunteers want to sci
up their program at Syphax
Half and N streets S.W.. as g
demonstration project to stimu-
late support for hot lunch pro-
grams elsewhere.
Evening star., 1957-12-23

The District Court trial OF
Daddy" Grace, Washington
Negro evangelist. is a search
for truth. not a chess game. q
Federal Judge Alexander Holt
zoF said today.
The religious leader Is
charged with deserting Mrs,
,Louvenia Royster. a retired
school teacher. after marrying
her and fathering her child In
the '20s. He has denied the
accusations.
Judge Holtzon's chess game
remark followed q verbal ex-
change between two attorneys
In the case. The. dispute arose
when an adviser to Bishop
c. NJ. Daddy" Grace walked
to the defense table to confer
with the evangelist.
Judge warns Lawyers
Mrs. Registers attorney,
Jesse Chessin, objected to the
conference because the adviser
is not an attorney. But Frank
Yazmer. the bishops attorney,
said he couldn't see anything
wrong with this.
Judge Holtzoh sided with Mr..
Yazmer. saying the attorney Is
entitled TO what knowledge the
adviser can give him. But the
Judge admonished the lawyers
to stop arguing among them
selves.
"A trial is a search for truth,
not q chess game" the Judge
said.
Evening star., 1957-12-23
JUST THEN MRS. RAM

0A AAAAN AAAAos As<s@'A
BIER came up and said:
you might be Of q little
help around here, you could
60 out and buy a Christmas
tree"
This lover Of the out-of :
doors buy a tree!
Look here" the Rambler
said. Jim Birchfield says in
his Life in the Country
column in today's Sunday
Star. Come. friends. get your
trees Do you want a cedar
or a Southern pine?"
She sighed and said: IF
you must, you must. I'd
rather have a spruce or a
balsam (she comes from
northern Minnesota). But
I'll take a pine.
only this time don't try
to get a tree larger than the
one at the White House.
Let's have a nice fat little
6-foot tree"
So OF the Rambler went
on Route Z. the old Leesburg
pike. to Jim Birchfield's 40
acres.
Several friends Of Jim's
we're at his house in response
to the same invitation. and
he was putting out. Beyond
the wide rear window was
a farm pond with an island
in 1t and a tree on the is
land.
The sun was getting low
and the time had come to
chop the tree. The Rambler
hefted an axe and Mrs.
Birchfield called 1l-year-old
Johnny Birchfield to guide
him. He was playing with
two other boys and was a
little reluctant about an
swering.
Mother" he said, "you
know I shouldn't 60 into
that north pasture. That's
where ! caught the poison
ivy. But I can take him to
the gate and show him"
And then, in an audible
aside worthy Of Iago, he
said to his playmates, "and
then we can start our game
again"
Evening star., 1957-12-23
Children Sing Corols
In Ecoov Bottom Tour

Foggy Bottom residents were
treated yesterday to Christmas
caroling by about IS children
who toured the area in horse
drawn carriages.
George McKinnon Of the
Foggy Bottom Restoration AS
sociation said the children. ali
from the neighborhood. had
never been brought together to
sing carols before. He said
Herbert Socks. association pres
ident, arranged the event which
took place from 4 to Z pm,
Evening star., 1957-12-23

canvaSSed street corners, pool
rooms. restaurants and other
hangouts from late Saturday
until early this morning round
ing up suspects.
The robbery happened Just
before closing time Saturday
in Albert's Liquor Store. 328
Kentucky avenue Sc. The VIC
tins were the co-owners. Ed
ward Smith. SO, Of 3705 Rhode
Island avenue. Mt. Rainier.
Md, and Albert Sterling. n. Of
$500 @ street NV. and an en-
ploye, Theodore d. Mack. 35.
Of 5033 Hanna place Sc.
-Four colored men. one OF
them carrying a pistol. took
81 .491 in cash and a $3.50 check
from the store and herded the
victims into a back room be-
fore fleeing. Then the investi-
cation. under Capt. Nunzio
Bonaccorsy. got under way.
Ofilcer Recalls Name
At the fifth precinct one Of
the victims said he thought one
of the robbers had been called
Lacey" by the others. That
rang a bell with Fifth Precinct
Pvt. James A. williams. He
said there was a man on his
beat with a SCARED neck named
Lacey" and Lacey" hung
around with a man called THE
Terrorizer."
Policemen famed out over
the southeast area on their
canvass and soon found a pool
room where Lacey" and "The
Terrorizer" had been seen be-
fore the holdup.
They figured the whole thing
had been hatched in the pool
room, Capt. Bonaccorsy said.
and started getting names OF
everyone who had been there
Saturday night. Finally. at 5
am. yesterday, they arrested
Lacey McCray. 20. of the 1900
block OF c street Sc. and an
hour later they arrested THE
Terrorizer" through the police
"monicker" (nickname) file.
Evening star., 1957-12-23

The Pageant Of Peace. OPEN
ing tonight on the Ellipse. has
been called a triumph of COM
munity cooperation"
Edward r. Carr. president OF
Christmas Pageant Of Peace
Inc. the non-profit organization
that sponsors the annual cele-
bration. also pointed out:
"It would take from one-halt
to one million dollars to put on
the pageant without this CO.
operation"
He said "the talent alone
for the 10 days Of programming
would cost in the tens Of thou
sands Of dollars. 1t is donated
instead bv Catholic. Protestant
and Greek Orthodox and other
religious organizations: by
schools, colleges. civic and serv-
ice clubs. the military services
and citizens associations"
Many Displays Donated
A variety of businesses and
groups are donating materials
and props = including Santa
Claus and his 40-foot mechan-
lied sleigh-for the pageant
Mr.. Carr added. The sleigh will
be available for children to ride
Immediately following opening
ceremonies.
The ceremonies start with q
Evening star., 1957-12-23
ChiIdren's Purty Set

The Fairfax County Associa-
ton for Retarded Children will
hold q post Christmas party
for retarded children and their
families at 3 pm. Sunday In
the American Legion hall
Second and Oak streets. Fair
fax.
Evening star., 1957-12-23

AT THE GATE Johnny
scrambled up an oak to a
platform that proved to be
the crows nest. With one
hand he shielded his eyes as
he gazed at the pond.
THAR she blowsl" he
shouted and then slid down
the rigging to get in a boat
and handle the harpoon.
Johnny has been reading
"Moby Dick"
The Rambler searched the
pasture. Finally. in a glade
beyond the big trees, the
Rambler saw the one he
wanted.
She had form and grace
and the rays Of the setting
sun were making her green
needles yellow-almost gold
en-. In a way, the Rambler
hated TO do II. OF all the
Hans Christian Anderson
stories, 1t was the little fir
tree-not the match girl nor
the brave tin soldier-that
had most enlisted his SYM
pathy.
However, 1t had to be
done. 1t had been a long
time since the Rambler had
used an axe and he was
pleased at the accuracy and
depth Of his first down
stroke. The little tree shiv-
cred. 1t took just three down
strokes and three cross
strokes and she was ready to
be taken home and deco
rated.
Evening star., 1957-12-23

in the face Of planes taking
OF and landing.
II. Thompson said she is no
ornithologist. She just wanted
to be sure the birds got here
all right.
Evening star., 1957-12-23
8 AIbotrosses Appear
At Zoo for First Time
Legendary Horbinsers Transported
From Midwoy for Scientific Study
BY J. A. OLEARY, Jr.

Eight albarosses the birds Of i'll for ancient mariners
and modern ayiatos eke. today display Zoo
for the first time in Washington
couple dczen alhatros eggs also arrive the
Fish and Wild Life Service refuge ct Laurel Nd where
tempt viii be made to hatch them However wild
Evening star., 1957-12-23
HoIdup Victims to View
Special Police Lineup

special lineup for recent robbery victims will be held al
police headquarters today starring four suspects arrested last
night and early today in the $1,000 holdup Of southeast
liquor store The four including l7yeaold boy ar
rested charged liquor after than "a
hours fundamental police work Detectives and patromen
Evening star., 1957-12-23
DC. RobbinicoI Council
Halls Christion Friends
Jewish Leaders Renew Practice
Of Felicitotion on Holy Season

Representatives Of Washingtons organizations
practice Of several standing today by mailing
Christmas cards to Christian clergymen and their
cations here
The greetings signed by Rabbi Simon pres
dent Of the Rabbinica Council Of Washington Rabbi
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
States Widespread Heat Wave
 Nears End After Claiming 234 Lives

broke the torrid heat wave in the midwest Tuesday.
 "Most of the hot weather now is in the Atlantic coast states" the weather bureau forecaster in Chi cago said. Temperatures will be in the sos today, but by tomor- row night that cold front should just about end the heat wave in the east
 Another day of 90-degree read ings would be the eighth straight day of mid-summerlike weather for numerous cities.
 A survey of the weather death toll was made by the Asso- ciated Press. These covered the period since Saturday, as follows:
 Heat: Arkansas 5, Connecticut 5, Georgia 4, Illinois 4, Indiana g, Kentucky 4, Louisiana 3, Maine 4, Maryland IT, Massachusetts 5, Michigan II, Minnesota 2, Missis- sippi 1, New Jersey IT, New York 25, New Hampshire 6, New Mex leo 2, North Carolina ', Ohio Is, Pennsylvania P, Rhode Island 2, South Carolina 6, Tennessee 2, Texas 8, Birgina 16, West Virgin ia 1, and Wisconsin 8.
 Floods: Illinois 10, Missouri 10, South Dakota 3, Minnesota 2, and Kansas 3.
 As temperatures rose to the sos in the vast heat belt, there was mass rush for air conditioning relief. When heat-smitten Chi cago and New York residents put air conditioning units to work, a power shortage resulted. In Chi cago, this meant that household voltage dropped from the stan dard 120 volts to 113.
 This in turn failed to turn parts of small electrical units-such as shavers and sewing machines--as fast as with full power supply.
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
Trained Pleas Perish In California Heat

LONG BEACH, Calif., R-Flea trainer Bob Matthews is looking for some new performers His last troupe was wiped out by the cur rent heat wave
 ''They carried on right to the end," he said sadly. II thought Freddy-he was the weight litter looked a little peaked after the afternoon show. And Hildegard couldn't finish her act. But did mt know how bad it Wass'
 Matthews said all "A of his fleas expired when the temperature hit 98 degrees in the amusement zone at the Long Beach pike yesterday.
 But I'll get some more," he promised, casting an eye at a passing dog. After all, the show must go on."
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
US. May Suspend Nuclear Tests
 While Negotiating for Disarmament

WASHINGTON, R-President Eisenhower said today he would be perfectly delighted to make a satisfactory agreement suspending atomic tests while negotiating with Russia for some permanet disarmament program. His words indicated possible major revision in US. policy.
 Under questioning at a news conference, Eisenhower said he believed-altho he did not want to commit himself finally at the moment-that a prohibition on the manufacture of atomic Weap ons might not necessarily have to be a part of the package for suspending tests.
 His tentative comment on this point was contrary to what State Department odfficials have been saying privately since negotia- tor Harold Stasson returned to London.
 Their line has been that the United States would only agree to suspend tests as part of a first step agreement which also pro- vided for halting manufacture of weapons under a carefully in spected program.
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
Temperamental Chimp Removed From Show

ST. LOUIS. R-Roy, long time star of the titillating chimpanzee show at the St. Louis Zoo, has been removed from the cast.
 He just became too human," explained Mike Kostial, trainer in charge of the show.
 ''He couldn't stand to see any other chimp in the limelight."
 Roy screams and rattles the bars on his cage when the show goes on now. He gets particularly excited when he hears the music used in his starring numbers.
 Roy is 12 and Kostia1 says he is the smartest and most versatile chimp ever to appear in the show. He had put on several displays of temperament and finally lost his role when he chucked an assistant trainer into the moat
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
Gov. Stepovich To Speak Here On 4th of July

SEATTLE, R-Gov. Stepovich of Alaska and his wife were in Seattle Tuesday enroute to Wash ington, D.C., and the governor's 5 conference at Williamsburg, Va, this weekend.
 The governor and Mrs. Stepo- vich planned to fly east Wednes- day morning.
 They plan to be back in Juneau July l. The governor will leave July for Nome to speak at the Fourth of July celebration.
 The seven Stepovich children stayed behind in Juneau. The governor said it was the first long trip he and his wife have taken without the children.
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
BuxOm Blond
 Invades Royal Box And Steals Show

ASCOT, England, R-The babe with the biggest bust in Britain show business gate crashed the hallowed royal enclosure at the Ascot races yesterday. It was sem sational, and the place may never be the same again.
 The girl with the bust is Sabri- na (nee Norma Sykes), known the length and breadth of the British Isles as "television' dumb blond" :"
 She has become famous by the simple process of standing in front of the cameras and breath ing. The vital statistic is 41 inches.
 Sabrina's appearance before the royal family and among the peers of the realm created a bigger shock than the victory of an g. year-old gelding named Bonhomie in the days feature race. They won't let you in the royal en- closure at all if you are divorced.
 Dressed in loW-necked flow cred organdy, Sabrina walked in to the enclosure without a ticket while the gate man was groping around the royal turf for his eye balls.
 ''Scandalousl" missed IT duch- esses, or. it may have been Is.
 '.Shocking!" muttered 6 wis countesses, or maybe it was '.
 ''Yes, m'deah," murmured their titled escorts as they kept on looking.
 Queen Elizabeth II and the oth- CT members of the royal family did not appear to notice.
 A reporter who encountered the show girl asked her what in the world she was doing in the royal enclosure
 Looking" giggled Sabrina," for the ladies powder room"
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
Los Angeles Budget
 Paves Way for Dodgers

LOS ANGELES, tR-A $2 mil lion budget item designed to smooth the way for the Brooklyn Dodgers to come. to Los Angeles has won approval of the city council
 Officially, the council was voting on Mayor Norris Poulson's $184,- 652,49 budget for 1957-58. But Council President John s. Gibson set the tone for the discussion with his opening remark:
 "Our vote is really a decision on whether we want major league baseball or not" he said.
 A majority of the councilmen went along with Gibson and beat down two attempts to strip from the budget the $2 million set aside for grading a site for a major league ball park in Chavez Ravine and building access roads to it.
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19

Eisenhower told his news con- ference three-point proposal put forward by Russia in the United Nations talks at London a week ago deserves the most earnest and sympathetic study although he could not yet say how it would work out
 The Soviets called for a two or three-year moratorium on atomic tests, for a commission to supervise the agreement, and for inspection posts within the terri tories of Russia, the United States and Britain.
 Eisenhower said this was hopeful sign for the Russians to put up such proposal but that he would want to see one thing to tails. He added it is one thing to state a generalization and another to see how it works out
 Eisenhower began his question and answer discussion of disarm- ament by stating flatly Stassen was not reprimanded when he re- turned to Washington 10 days ago.
 The allies, mainly France and Britain, had complained Stassen was working too closely with So- viet representative Valerian zo- rin.
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
Senate Approves
 US. Participation a.'' In Atomic Agency

WASHINGTON, lR-Strong, bi- partisan approval of US. mem bership in the International Atom ic Energy Agency QAEA has given President Eisenhower an- other policy victory in the Senate.
 Democrats slightly outnumbered Republicans in the 67-19 vote by which the Senate last night rati- fled the IAEA treaty and ap- proved US. participation in the plan. The proposed agency is an outgrowth of Eisenhower's tat oms for peace" proposals in 1853. No House action is necessary.
 The Senate's action, which will be implemented by legislation now pending before the Senate House Atomic Energy Committee, clears the way for the President to make agreements with the in ternational agency when it is formed later in the year.
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
By RUTH MCLEAN

At the regular weekly meeting of the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce President Jim Walsh introduced as a guest MT. John Mclean of BECK and Associates, who are building the White Alice sites in this area.
 Mir Mclean said much of the information concerning the White Alice projects and the DEW Line has been restricted but certain information is now available to the public.
 According to Mr. Mclean, the waterfrcnt will be busy for the next week or ten days unloading ships bringing in supplies and equipment The first barge ar rived Monday evening.
 The contracts call for the work at the three sites in this area to be completed by November 1st. At the peak of this summers work, BECK and Associates ex- pect to employ 100 men, MT. Me Lean said. Because the work is so close to town, the companies plan no commissary. Just essen tial needs are stocked for the workers at the other sites.
 The Federal Electric Company, subsidiary of Western Electric Company, will be in charge of
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
(By The Associated Pressl


 Thunderstroms moved into the east in advance of a cold front today signaling a breakup of the seasons most widespread heat wave.
 Five days of broiling tempera- lures in the eastern half of the nation and floods in the midcon- tinent took at least 234 lives. Most of the 206 heat casualties were drownings. Floods caused another 28 deaths.
 The cold front was expected to pass across most of the Atlantic states area today, followed by cooler and dryer air tonight
 Across the continent, however, Los Angeles braced for another scorcher after a record breaking 104 reading yesterday-the hot test June Is in the city's history.
 A mass of cool air from Canada
The Nome nugget., 1957-06-19
LAST STRAW

NORTH SACRAMENTO, Calif, R-Thieves finally made Mrs. Grace Sebastian angry.
 Police said she told them yes terday she didn't care enough to report the theft of a $1OO watch, S8O in cash, $10O worth of liquor and some gas from the car over a period of six weeks
 But when they took my seven books of trading stamps got mad" Mrs. Sebastian complained
 T licked every stamp myself"