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COMMUNITY YULE PROGRAM READY President and Mrs. Roose- velt Will Attend Lighting of Christmas Tree. President and Mrs. Roosevelt and a group of high Government officials will attend the lighting of the com- munity Christmas tree in Lafayette Park on Christmas eve, which will be the signal for illumination of e'.ailar trees throughout the country. Final arrangements were com- pleted yesterday at a meting of the Executive Committee in charge of ar- rangements, headed by Mrs. Eliza- beth K. Peoples. Marine Band Concert. | The lighting ceremony will be pre- ceded by a concert by the Marine Band, starting at 4:30 pm. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt and the | White House party will arrive at 5 pm,, surrounded by official guests, in- | cluding Secretary of State and Mrs,; Hull, Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Roper, the District Commissioners, | Justices of the District Supreme Court, members of the National Committee for the Lighting of the Community Christmas Tree, members of the Com- munity Center Council, the Board of Education and other civic organiza- | tions. They will be introduced to| the Nation over a Nation-wide radio | hook-up by Theodore A. Walters, As- | sistant Secretary of the Interior. ! At 9 Minutes After 5. The President will press a button setting the living spruce tree aglow with colored lights, and wish the Nation a “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.” At the same time, chimes will peal out the news that the holi- day season has begun. 1 The American Automobile Associa- tion will follow its custom, inaugu- rated several years ago, of placing greeting cards in hotels, clubs and | restaurants where strangers in the city may be on Christmas eve, invit- ing them to attend the lighting cere- | mony. Stands Near Completion. Erection of the President’s stand, as | well as those for the Marine Band | and the singers, will be completed w-l morrow. The American Forestry A: sociation will furnish holiday pr | grams and a loud-speaker system is being installed to facilitate broadcast- | ing. John A. Remon is in charge of the broadcasting, and John S. Bart- lett of lighting the tree. The 50 members of the choir will be transported from the Franciscan Mon- | astery and Catholic University by spe- cial busses provided by the Capital Transit Co. They will be directed by | Rev. Bonaventure Simon. The Lincoln | Cathedral Choir of the University of Nebraska will arrive here Tuesday from New York to participate. i o | HAYES IS DIVORCED i Former Trainer of Jack Dempsey‘ Charged With Cruelty. | LOS ANGELES, December 20 (P).— | Lina Basquette, dancer and actress, won a divorce yesterday from Theo- dore Hayes, former trainer of Jack | Dempsey. Hayes. she testified, threatened her‘ . —__THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935. Indicted in Army Lobbying JOSEPH SILVERMAN. BRIG. GEN. WILLIAMS. THOMAS J. RYAN. w e Silverman (Continued From First Page.) Changing World British Public Forces Il Duce to Go It Alone in Ethiopia. tion was thought necessary in a case involving a congressional witness, Four overt acts were recited. These consisted in telephone conversations between Silverman in Washington and Speicher in New York City on March | 15, April 1, April 15 and May 1, of 1934. During this period Justice De- partment agents were conducting a | Nation-wide search for the missing | witness. They finally located him the HEALTH MENAGE ON CARS CHARGED Utilities Commission Hears of Germ-Laden Straps for Passengers. ‘The contribution of the germ-laden straphandle to the health menace of street cars and busses was discussed today by Willlam McKinley Clayton, veteran chairman of the Public Util- ities Committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, at the hearing before the Public Utilities Commission on Washington’s transportation serv- ice. Questioned about the standard of cleanliness in cars and busses bv Peo- ple's Counsel William A. Roberts, Clayton said sanitary conditions are not what they should be; that floors and windows are dirty; that windows on some of the cars are wedged and will not open; that sunshades are missing on some of the Capital Transit Co.s equipment and that some fastidious men wash their hands after holding a strap. Clayton also declared that in his many years of bus and street car riding he had never seen a discourte- ous employe, although he had wit- | BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. F MUSSOLINI wants his Ethiopian | Christmas bird, he has now to go and get it himself. British public | opinion has prevented the logical, but immoral, shift of Laval and Hoare | to get out of a critical situation which | may—some say will—plunge the world | in another general war by partitioning Abyssinia. | Cas It was with a heavy heart that Premier Baldwin yielded to the popu- | lar demand to bury without honor the | Franco-British peace proposals. He spoke about the lack of liaison | between the government and its for- eign secretary, who gave up Ethiopia to Mussolini in Paris between two cups of tea which Laval offered him at the | Quai d'Orsay. The truth appears to be that when Sir Samuel went to skate in Switzerland and told his associates in the government that he would stop over in Paris and see what could be done to have peace before Christmas, Baldwin and the other cabinet members replied: “Go ahead and do your best to settle this matter.” Neither Hoare mor Laval imag- ined for a moment that public opinion counted much in this busi- ness. % & % % Neither did they imagine the reac- tion in Great Britain of the indigna- tion of the smaller nation members of | the League. They thought that since only Britain and France were bearing the real burden of sanctions and the consequences of a possible war in the Mediterranean, the silent partners at Geneva would leave the whole matter to the discretion of the British and French governments. * x % % pOTY MOM / and once became so angry that she| . fled her home with her sister and | 4-month-old baby. Judge Harry R. Archbald was in- formed a settlement was effected out | of court, with Hayes paying one-| fourth of his income to support their | son, nov 20 months old. : The couple was married October 19, 931. | | —_— ! SOON TO LEAVE HOSPITAL Physician's Report Senator Mc- Carran Much Improved. CHICAGO, December 20 (#).—Sen- ator Patrick A. McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, will leave the Presbyteriaa | Hospital, where he is under treatment for a stomach ailment, within the next few days, according to Dr. John Foster, his physician. “His condition con- tinues to show improvement,” Dr. Foster said. &0 SPECIAL NOTICES, I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts other than those made by myself T. BAINBRIDGE. 534 Irving st. n.w. 21° 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR debts contracted by any other than myself, JOHN G. HAZELL, 523 11th st. s.e. NEXT EXAMINATION IN OPTOM etry, in the District of Columbia, will be held on February 1936, All ap- plications must be he Secretary. on or before January 15, 1936. For further cetails write Secretary. The District of | Columiia Board of Obptometry, Dr. M. LUTHER DICUS. Secretary. 1319 F St.| N.W.. Washington. D. C. = THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the Kane Transfer Company will be held at the office of the company. 2116 Fifth St. N.E. 3 o'clock P.M.. Monday. January 20. 1915, for the election of of- ficers for the ensuing year and the trans- action of such other business that may come_before the meeting KANE E| WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINON RAILROAD hereby gives notice that on the | bth day of December. 1933, it filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington. D. C.. its application for a certificate that the bresent and future pub- lic convenience and necessity require the acquisition and operation by it_of that pa t of the Washington and Old Dominion Railway extending from Rosslyn to Blue- mont Junction. a distance of five (5) miles, all in Arlington County, Virginia WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINION RAILROAD. NOTICE. G C_ BAGGETT. RECEIVER OF THE WASHINGTON 'AND OLD DOMINION RAILWAY. hereby gives notice that on the day of December. 1935. he filed with interstate 'Commierce Commission at ngton. D. 'C.. hiz application for a certificate that the present and future bublic convenience and necessity permit the abandonment by him (a) of the railroad of the Washington and Old Dominion Ralway which extends from Rosslyn to Bluemont Junction. a distance of 5 miles, and (b) of operation over a line of the Southern Railway Company which extends from Alcyandria to Bluemont, a distance 8 all in Arlingt Loudgun Counties Vireima Feirfax and e ETT. RECEIVER OF F THE WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINION RAILWAY. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE - holders of the Lincoln “National g.rx?flgl ‘Washington. D. C.. will be held on Tues- day, January 14, 1036_st 12 o'clock noon, st ihe Main Office. 7th and D Streets N.W., for the “election of directors and such other business as_may properly come before the meeting. Polls from 13 o’'clock noon to 1 o'clock p.m. Books for transter of stock Will be closed from De- cember 20. 1935, to January 14, 1036. both inclusive, JAMES A. SOPER. 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N, Y. ave. » | premier, was the power behind the | .| once, read with eagerness by their That they were mistaken is now obvious. The small nations want Italy | disciplined. They believe Mussolini | | is bluffing, and if he isn't they are not worried over the consequences of a war. Yugoslavia replied to the criti- cism of the British that no other na- tion has been making war prepara- tions to meet a possible conflict with Italy with the suggestion that the Yugoslav armies were ready to attack | Italy by land as soon as Italy attacked Great Britain in the Mediterranean. Similar assurances were given in London by the Ministers of the other Little Entente nations. Their arguments were all the same: “If you yield to Italy now, there is no saying when Germany or any other power will do the same thing to us. We shall have to fight then for our freedom. We might just as well fight now, if necessary. But we believe that if you maintain an adamant attitude toward Musso- lini at present there will be no war with Italy and the sanctity of treaties in Europe will be main- tained.” ok Thus for the second time in Eu- rope’s modern history small nations have been leading the big ones. The first time such a thing hap- pened was during the 1919 peace con- | ference when Venizelos, the Greek | scenes at Versailles and was followed blindly by Lloyd George Clemenceau and President Wilson. King Feisal of Iraq was in Paris at that time following the antics of the Western Statesmen. When asked one day by this writer what he thought about all that business the wise Arab replied: “My friend, I have often seen in the desert a donkey leading a string of camels.” And that crisp judgment goes for the present Euro- pean affairs too. * k % % Unless some unforseen incident oc- curs, there is little likelihood that hos- tilities between Italy and the League of Nations will occur before the end of the year. The much feared oil sanc- tions have been postponed until later— sometime in January or Febrhary. The League is waiting to see what kind of a neutrality law the United States Congress will pass at the next session and will conform its further sanctionist activities with those of America. Now that the League of Na- tions has vindicated—temporarily, at least—its ezistence, there are quite a few optimists in Europe who believe that this country might still decide to join the Geneva club. This optimistic viewpoint is based on the administration’s sym- pathy with that organization and on the growing belief that a con- flict between Japan and the United States is inevitable, “If a general war cannot be avoided,” say these observers, “let the dance of death be general.” * % * % Foreign diplomats in Washington, whose main job in the last two years has been to send literary reports about the New Deal and discuss the innoc- uous reciprocal trade agreements, have a real job on their hands at present. They are instructed to find out what the Cohgress will do about the new neutrality act and what the trend of thought regarding a real collabora- tion with the League is now in the United States. Their reports are, for foreign ministers and are not filed by some absent-minded underling after a percusory glance over the carefully typed pages. following September and brought him before the Military Affairs Committee. It is charged that the four de- fendants, pursuant to their “dishonest arrangement,” conspired “to entice, | induce and coerce” Speicher “to se- clude and secrets himself.” Received Cash Is Charge. The Government claims Joseph Sil- verman, jr., the central figure in the conspiracy case, paid Speicher to re- | main in hiding in New York City so as to protect Gen. Williams. Gen. Williams at that time was head of the Army’s transportation di- vision and had charge of letting con- tracts necessary for the Army motor- ization then in progress. That was about the time also that Silverman is said to have branched out from the surplus materials business into the truck-selling field. Testimony before the House Mili- tary Affairs Committee last year brought sensational assertions about Silverman’s alleged influence on War Department officials. Expensive en- tertainments and parties were de- scribed to the committee. According to the Government's theory of the case, Ryan figures mere- ly as Silverman's attorney and his agent in his dealings with Speicher. Nathan Silverman is alicged to have been implicated in a similar manner, Williams May Be in South, Goldstein said today he did not know whether Silverman and Ryan were still in Washington, foilowing their grand jury appearance yesterday, or whether they had returned to New York, where Nathan Silverman also lives. Williams is thought to be on a Carolina farm, which he owns. The indictment reviewed consider- able of the history of the investiga- tion into War Department contracts ! Before the House investigation be- gan in March, 1934, the grand jury here had conducted a long, drawn-out inquiry, but failed to find a basis for criminal prosecution. Speicher was said to have left Washington when the first grand jury | investigation was impending and to have gone into hiding. He was the principle witness, however, during the current investigation, resulting in today’s indictment. The charge entered by the grand jury today states it is a “valuable right and privilege” of the House “to have such hearings conducted in an honest, fair and impartial manner, without unlawful interference by any person, and without the unlawful ob- struction, perversion. contravention or defeat” of its purposes announced in the resolutions authorizing the investigation. Prosecutors Heard Probe. Testimony by Speicher, Joseph Silverman, jr.; Ryan and other wit- nesses early this year at the Capitol was heard by two assistant United | States attorneys, invited to sit in the | hearings by Chairman McSwain of | the House Military Affairs Committee. McSwain at the time predicted that a grand jury investigation would fol- low the hearings. The House committee was told by Harold Schnure, a New York att.r- neys, that Ryan gave him a numboer of “little blue envelopes” containing money for Speicher, but which were described cryptically as “circus tick- ets.” Speicher was in hiding in New York City and in need of money, it was testified. Schnure told the committee he knew the envelopes contained money for Speicher and that he knew the money came from “the Silvermans,” who, he taid, wented the salesman to “stay away from Washington.” The attor- ney said the brothers warned Speicher to stay in hiding “because it would be foolish to get the old man in trouble.” Speicher Attitude Described. The committee was advised that by “the old man” the Silvermans meant Gen. Williams. Speicher, the witness declared, remained in New York re-| luctantly, as he always insisted he wanted to come to Washington and make Williams pay up on the loan. Schnure identified himself as Speich- er's lawyer and said he used the fic- titious name, “Dr. O'Brien,” in the money ransactions between Ryan and Speicher. Ryan admitted to the House Com- mittee that he had turned the sealed envelopes of money over to Speicher’s lawyer and he also said he had con- versed with Speicher on the telephone while the Department of Justice search for Speicher was under way. Ryan told the committee the en- velopes contained “about $100 apiece” and that he thought Speicher received about $600 or $700 in all. Joseph Silverman, jr., was subjected to heated quizzing by members of the committee, who charged he had spent half a million dollars “around Wash- ington” in his efforts to get Govern- ment contracts. DOG HELD WITH MASTER With Numbers in Pouch on Harness. By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. J., December 20. —Emil Cerco, 20, and his dog Renee, a white spitz, were seized by police yesterday, Cerco on a charge of aiding and abetting a lottery, Renee as evi- dence. Cerco, arrested last week on the same charge and freed in $10,000 bail to await grand jury action, was ar- rested again by Detective Joseph Gantner. The dog fled. Gantner caught it, and sald he found 187 num- AS AIDE IN LOTTERY Pet Caught Attempting to Escape | nessed conductors and motormen suf- fer embarrassment from quarrelsome | passengers. | Trade Board Views Presented. Roberts read into the record a let- | ter from S. D. Ashford, chairman of the traffic sub-committee of the Wash- ington Board of Trade, listing a num- ber of complaints against the Transit Co. He said bus drivers failed to ob- serve traffic signs and some of those on the Conecticut avenue line exceeded 30 miles per hour on Taft Bridge, | where the speed limit is 22 miles. He also condemned the wooden, poorly | lighted car loading platforms and | safety zones and urged erection of per- | manent loading platforms suitably | lighted and marked. Brig. Gen. O. B. Rosenbaum of Pel- ham Courts presented two petitions| | containing the signatures of 188 resi- | | dents in the vicinity of Twenty-first | | and P streets, urging adequate bus service on P street and improved trans- | fer facilities at Dupont Circle. | | A resolution asking for extensinn | of the Eleventh street car line to| 1Georgm avenue, adopted by the Pet- worth Citizens’ Association, was read to the commission by W. Y. Boyd, a | member of that organization. | Southeast Plea Heard. | A plea for transportation service | for the outlying sections of outheast | Washington was made to the Com- | mission earlier today by George H. | Ganaway of the Marshall Heights | Citizens’ Assoctation. | Ganaway, the thirty-second of 150 | civic representatives who asked for | an opportunity to discuss Washing- ton's street car and bus service, told the commission the residents of Mar- | shall Heights have to walk a mile to the nearest transportation line. | “We are all working people out| | there,” he declared, “and are entitled | to some convenience.” Seeks to Drop Subsidiaries. ! The resumption of the hearings on | ! public® transportation service was de- | layed for more than an hour while the commission considered an appli- cation of the Capital Transit Co. to dissolve four subsidiaries which it ac- | quired after the time of the trans- | portation merger. These are the Wash- |ington & Maryland Railroad Co., | | Which operates a rail line from Four- | teenth and Kennedy streets to Ta- koma Park, Md.: the Washington In- terurban Co., which formerly operated a rail line on Bladensburg road north- east; the Washington Coach Co which operated a chartered bus serv ice, and the Washington Suburban Coach Co., which never operated. | The liquidation of these four com- | panies was urged by the transit com- pany on the ground that they now have no particular function. The transit company itself will bear the cost of dissolution. Subway Again Discussed. Street car subways were discussed | for the second time during the afters noon session yesterday when W. E. Hoffheins, chairman of the Utilities Committee of the District Federation of Federal Employes, said sentiment in favor of such a project had grown to such an extent that “it is the opinion of many that the only solu- tion of our future transportation diffi- culties lies in construction of adequate underground transportation. Seatless busses for passengers who are unaccustomed to sitting in over- loaded vehicles were suggested by Edna Rankin McKinnon of Kew Gar- dens in the 2700 block of Q street. Just before she took the witness stand, Harry L. Keebler, representing both the Columbia Heights Business Men’s Association and the Citizens’ Forum of Columbia Heights, declared that it is impossible to prevent com- municable diseases in crowded cars and busses. Keebler also said some of the busses on which he had ridden were “foul” from gasoline fumes and | advocated raising the exhaust pipes to the top of the vehicles. Wants Dividends Held Up. H. C. Clark, 2021 Hillard place, urged that the transit company be prohibited from paying any further dividends on its stock until it has provided improved service. He said satisfactory public transportation had been an objective in Washington for years, but it had not yet been reached. Improvements in transportation service in the Le Droit Park section were urged by Frederick B. Pelham of the Howard Park Citizens’ Association. | He said there had been a tendency to “slur” that area. —— MRS. CARAWAY HERE Lone Woman Senator Anticipates “Hard-Fought” Session. Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, only woman Senator, ar- rived in the Capital yesterday for the coming session of Congress, convinced it would be a “hard-fought one with plenty of fireworks.” “I think we will be here until May or June despite the fact that it will be an election year,” she said. She added the length of the session de- pended to some extent on what the Bupreme Court decided on various New Deal asts. THE CORNER IN MEN’S WEAR Will remain open every evening up to Christmas until 9 P.M. SOL HERZOG ¢ Corner F St. at Sth Is There a Santa Clau ? L4 Mother of Five Fatherless Childrén Wonders in Plight. Mrs. John Lewis, mother of five, % most of the food in her home. BY BILL BELL, JR. N A manger long ago a Child was I born to a young mother. In a four-room house, bare as that manger, another child will soon be born to Mrs. John Lewis, young mother of five. Men came from the East bearing gifts to the Child of Bethlehem, and ever since the civilized world has celebrated Christmas with representa- tions of mutual good will. But who will come to the five chil- dren in the little yellow house with the red tar paper roof two doors above | the church on Fifth street, near the Cabin John, Md., post office? Lewis doesn't know. Husband Died Last Month. Her husband, a World War veteran, died November 13. It was all right when he was alive. He got $66 a| month retired pay from the Veterans | Administration and was a guard in| the State Department Building. But | the retired pay and the guard salary | stopped with his death, and he left no money. Esther Lewis and her five children— it will be six next month—now must | depend on their $4¢ weekly relief al- lowance. It's a little more than that —four gallons of oil for cooking, a quart of milk daily, the charity of a few friends, neighbors and a veterans' organization. | ruce, the baby. 14 months old, is the only one who can get milk. Mar- | garet, 3, needs it badly—the doctor says she is inclined toward tuber-! culosis. But a quart of milk a day is| just enough for the baby. Margaret has to get along on canned goods nnd‘, an occasional frankfurter. Can't even | have cereal. There’s not enough milk. Girl in Sanitarium. Then there is John, 9; Esther, 8, and Noela, 7. Noela is in the Mount Wilson Sanitarium. She has tuber- | culosis. They are going to let her come home for Christmas, “but I don't | know why.” said Mrs. Lewis. “There isn't going to be much Christmas| here.” | Esther | John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Transit Co., shown during an informal conference with Miss Edna Rankin McKinnon, who testified at the transit hearing of the Public as a representative of the “straphangers” of the city. After Miss Mc- Kinnon told the commission she rode busses every day, but hadn't gotten a seat yet, Hanna began his informal chat with her.—Star Staff Photo. NEW INSURANCE RATES GIVEN AIR TRAVELERS Employers Able to Insure Em- ployes at Annual Premium of $1 Per $1,000. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20—C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines Inc., said yesterday recognition by in- surance actuaries of the increasing safety of air travel was the reason for scheduled issuance of a new form of air travel policy by six large casualty companies. The new policy rates were BIGGEST Typewriter Ever offered for, NEW REMINGTON HOME PORTABLE SOLUTELY the biggest machine $3450 ever bought! type on it yourself. It's the IDEAL FREE Christmas Gift! GARRYING Others Models in All Makes CASE MONTHS 12 v OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL XMAS is shown with her two youngest and —Star Staff Photo. John almost had to stop school re- cently. His one pair of pants was worn to paper thinness and ragged. Esther needs a coat. Mrs. Lewis has to wear coarse, cotton stockings and a soiled dress pierced with holes. Sleeping is better at the Lewises’| now. They were given a few blankets from the Walter Reed Hospital. It | wasn't so long ago that the five of | them—the mother and the four chil- | dren at home with her—were sleeping | “like sardines,” to quote Mrs. Lewis, | in an old iron double bed. They had | to do it to keep warm. It wasn't wise | with Margaret with a trace of tuber- | culosis and the baby so young, but a | chill wind came up from the river al quarter of a mile below and sneaked | through cracks in windows and floor. | { There is a gaping hole in one window pane, covered by a piece of cardboard packing box. The ton of coal given by the relief agency is getting low. | Mrs. Lewis is chopping up the chicken | || coop for firewood. Cares Erase Beauty. Esther Lewis was pretty once. "She is a Spaniard of Cuban birth with dark eyes. jet hair and finely cMiseled features. The bitter problem of pro- viding for five fatherless children has erased her beauty, dulled the eyes that once flashed with hope for her young. Then there is the approaching birth | of her sixth. Whence will come | money for the expense of her con- finement? Who is to chop firewood; who to take care of 14-month-old | Bruce? “I could get work,” Mrs. Lewis said. | “I want to get work. But these two | (Margaret and Bruce) are too young for me to leave. I don't want to put the kiddies in a home, but if there’s nothing else to do—-" From an open quart bottle on a table, Mrs. Lewis poured milk for the | beby into a battered tin cup. The} baby grabbed it, sloshing milk on his | chin. Esther Lewis smiled. “Well,” she said, “it could be a ot | worse. It could be a lot worse.” Utilities Commission this afternoon said to compare favorably in cost with | other travel insurance. Smith sald he had been informed | by United States Aviation Underwrit- | ers, Inc., that effective January 1, the | new insurance will be available as an employers' voluntary contractual lia- | bility policy. An employer thus will be able to obtain up to $10,000 insur- ance for each employe named for an annual premium rate of $1 per thou- | sand with a minimum premium of $50 | covering five or more persons as the | employer may designate. Clock-Making Taught. Watch and clock making is to be taught in London public schools. Come in and From $34.50 to $102.50 {WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER CO. 738 13th St N W NAt. 2310 FIRE THREATENS ROOMING HOUSE NOW 1 EAT Cabbage Upset Stomach Goes \‘i.n Jiffy with Bellans Two Young Women Led to‘,BE“.'ANS | FOR INDIGESTION Safety as Blaze Is Checked. Blinded by smoke, two young women were led to safety early today, when a two-alarm fire threatened a rooming house at 1729 Q street. Fourteen other persons in the house mads their way to the street unassisted, and clad only | in night clothes and hastily donned | robes, watched firemen check the| flames. | The fire broke out in & basement | apartment of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Miller, who operate | the lodging house. Mrs. Miller was| awakened by smoke and flames and, | with her husband, aroused the other occupants. | With the electric lights put out of | commission by burnt wires and the | house filled with smoke, roomers had difficulty groping their way out. | Mrs. Telitha Whitfleld, Federal | Housing Administration employe, and Mrs. Harold Minor, who works at the ‘War Department, were helped from the house by firemen as they stumbled about in the smoke on the third floor. The fire, which police said started in a coal bin when hot ashes were dumped near a trash heap, was con- | fined to the basement. Furniture in the Miller apartment wag destroyed. | Piremen were summoned by Richard Weiss, & roomer, who ran to the corner | and turned in an alarm. He tried to telephone an alarm, but the wires were burned. for LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS Christmas Needs at Low Prices $1 Men’s Shaving Sets, special . 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