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Evening star., 1942-12-05
Mrs. Payne Guilty
OF MansIaughter in
MattingIy Staying
Indionu Women Faces
Two-to-2l-yeor Term;
Sentence Is Deferred
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. S.
Mrs Caroline c. Payne. As, former
business manager of Bloomington
newspaper, was convicted OF volun-
tary manslaughter by jury last
night in her second trial for the
Staying of Attorney Charles o. Mat
tingly, Al, her one-time protege.
Special Judge Charles 6. Staff
granted a defense motion to defer
sentence. The conviction carries a
term of to 81 years in the State
Prison for Women. She was charged
with first-degree murder in the slay-
ing of Mr. Mattingly, an attorney
examiner for the Indiana Public
Service Commission.
The all-male jury at Mrs. Paynes
second trial deliberated six hours
and five minutes before reporting its
verdict. At her first trial last spring
the jury. after celebrating 48 hours,
was discharged when it failed to
reach decision.
Mr.. Mattingly was shot to death
on the night of July 5, l94l, as he
sat with his bride in the home of
friend here. The State charged Mrs.
Payne killed him because of jealousy
over his marriage. The defense con-
tended she had become temporarily
deranged and one of the contrib
uting causes was because Mattingly
had left her and married another
woman.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Sailing Schooner,
Once Coming Ship,
Sunk by Torpedo
BY the Associated Press.


SANTA MONICA, Calf. Dec.
5.-The rattle of dice. the clank
of silver, the rustic of folding
money all these were well
known to the Star of Scotland.
The Navy said yesterday that
the graceful sailing schooner
had been torpedoed in the At
lantic last month. Thus ended
the career of a ship which once
was a garish. brilliantly Lighted
gambling palace anchored three
miles of Santa Monica Bay.
Hundreds of thousands of
dollars changed hands in the
Scotland's salons. 1t was known
as the Rex then, and it finally
took a State Supreme Court
order to close it.
Stripped of her flnery, the
schooner lay in the waterfront
mud fats until February, 1941,
when the wartime scarcity of
shipping space brought her from
retirement.
The 55-year-old ship 'Os in
the lumber business when a
torpedo found her.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Reports by Retailers
Essential, 0PA Says
In Answer 10 Critics
CoIifornion's Testimony
In Congressional Probe
Draws Aeency's Fire
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Office of Price Administra-
tion, replying to critics, yesterday
said the reports it requires retailers
to file are essential in the enforce
ment of wartime price controls.
OPA devoted most of its rebuttal
to testimony Thursday by Fred A.
Baughan, president of the Retail
Food Dealers Association of Cali
fornia, before the Joint Committee
on Nom essential Federal Expendi-
lures. One of Mr.. Baughan's COM
plants concerned the report form
required under maximum price reg
ulation No. 233,
This is the regulation which re-
lleved the squeeze on the retailers
margin for number of key food
products" OPA said. The use of
this regulation is optional with the
retailers for all except two prod
ucts. OPA asks no more than that
those who use the regulation to raise
their prices report the increases to
their rationing boards
Perhaps better indication of the
sort of thing Mr. Baughan is shoot
ing at appears in a statement he
sent to Congress asking that retail
ers be permitted to tear down the
ceiling price tags which are as es-
sential as the reports to local ra-
tioning boards in enforcing the
ceiling on key cost-of living COM
More revealing still, Mr.. Baughan
said:
I'VE have no objection to the
freezing of our margins of profit,
and this can be done very simply
and effectually by the issuance of an
order prohibiting any merchant
from realizing an increase of more
than 25 per cent on his 1941 per-
centage of profit on any service or
commodity
Evening star., 1942-12-05
French Soma|iIand
Expected 10 Join
De GauIIist Forces
Stormy Session Reported
Held in Jibuti Over
Shift to Allied Comp
r, :he Associated Press.

~ ne Associated PRESS.
CAIRO, Dec. 5.-Fighting French
quarters here believed today that
the coming week may see decision
on the fate of French Somaliland
which until now has remained for
mally loyal to Vichy
Reports received in Cairo said
superior officers and officials held a
stormy meeting at Jibuti last week
and agreed that with Allied occupa-
ton of Madagascar and Reunion
Islands a desperate situation faces
the colony and that it is necessary
now to join the Allied camp. Until
now the colony has been receiving
some supplies from Madagascar and
Reunion.
Gen. Truffertz, who presided in
the absence of Gov Nouaihetes, who
has been in Vichy since October II,
disagreed with the other officers.
however, on joining the Fighting
French.
The majority favored joining the
Fighting French. it was said because
they believed they would be put
under the command of Gen. Paul lie
Gentilhomme, former governor of
Jibuti who is now in charge at Mad
agascar, 1t is rumored here, how
ever, that Gen. Truffertz's objections
we're based on personal animosity
toward Gen. LIE Gentilhomme
Practically all native Somali
troops have left the colony, crossing
into adjoining British territory, and
military control is maintained by
only two Senegalese battalions.
These are reported to have fired re-
Gently on bread rioters.
Reports received here said many
natives are existing on wild roots
scratched from the desert, while
Army rations have been cut 25 per
cent. The only whites remaining
in the colony are officers and officials
whose families have been evacuated.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Maryland Bor Backs
Clark for Judgeship
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
\ ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 5.-The Mary
land State Bar Association recon-
mended to Gov. OConor yesterday
that the president Of the State bar.
James Clark of Ellicott City. be
named to I'LL the unexpired term OF
Judge Ridgley P. Melvin in the fifth
judicial circuit.
Judge Melvin, who had been an
associate Judge. was elected chief
Judge Of the fifth circuit In the No
vember election. His unexpired term
runs until 1853.
Judge william H. Forsythe, IT,,
who was defeated by Judge Melvin
for the chief judgeship in November,
refused to accept any recommends
tion for the vacancy.
Gov. OConor is in Florida and
will not return until Monday. He is
not expected to act on the recon-
mendations for at least 10 days.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
New Demands Reported
For Japanese Workers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. 5.-Re-
quests for employment of Japanese
Americans outside the Nations 10
relocation centers exceed what the
War Relocation Authority expected
because of the growing manpower
shortage, WRA Director Dillon S.
Myer said.
The manpower situation right
now is getting tough" Mr.. Myer as
serted. Consequently inquiries are
coming from many sources we never
anticipated-in industry. agricul-
ture. Offices, hospitals and other
sources"
Mr.. Myer. who stopped here on an
inspection trip of the two Arkansas
centers, said about 1000 Japanese
Americans had been granted in
definite leaves to take outside jobs;
another 5000 or 5000 had been given
group leaves for work in Western
States and an increasing number
of others soon would leave for out
side employment.
Mr.. Myer commented that there
was definite improvement in COM
munity attitude toward the jap
anese- Americans because residents
adjacent to relocation centers were
learning that two-thirds of the COL
onists are American citizens.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Recheck Shows Former
Beut Orme for Sheriff

Charles M. Orme of Gaithersburg
Md, was defeated by Robert w
Farmer of Derwood In the contest
for sheriff of Montgomery County
last month, a recheck of the voting
machines disclosed yesterday.
The recheck confirmed Mr.. Farm
er's official majority of 273 votes
Mr.. Orme, candidate of the indie
pendent party, was represented in
his petition for a recheck by At
torney F. Barnard Welsh of Rock
vile. The newly elected sheriff is a
Democrat.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Fuel Oil
Continued From First Page.)

will be sent to those who have not
furnished satisfactory proof"
The burden of proof that it is
impossible to convert will rest with
the consumers, the OPA pointed
out. Those who do not take the
steps required to show that it is
impossible to convert will be auto
matically cut of from rations.
Ration coupons issued to these
users during the first two heating
periods will not be affected by the
order. The third heating period
begins here January 4.
Marylanders Get Orders.
Similar orders have been issued
to consumers in Maryland, through
the OPA Office in Baltimore-except
that in Maryland conversion, or
proof that It is impossible. must be
in hand by January 4.
The orders grow out of a gen.
eral directive issued last month
from Federal OPA headquarters,
directing local boards to force con-
version by commercial and large
scale users. Success in forcing the
large users to switch over to coal
1t is felt. would go long way
toward easing the serious oil crisis
in the 30 rationed States.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Benes Sees Victory Near,
Urqes Armistice Plans

BY The Associated Press
MANCHESTER, England, Dec. S.
-Eduard Benes, President of the
provisional Czech government, de-
clared today the Allied war effort
had entered its final victorious
phase and urged immediate consid-
Grafton of the terms on which an
armistice ultimately may be signed.
Speaking at Manchester Univer-
sity, DR.. Benes predicted that
France would fully re-enter the war
on the side of the Allies" and de-
clared I'VE shall welcome this re-
generation of France at the council
table of Europe at the earliest pos
sible moment"
In a discussion of the postwar
world, Dr. Benes said he believed
the United States would "agree to
abandon her traditional policy of
isolation" but only after consider
able internal controversy.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Night Mail Collections
Reduced in ARLINGTON

Night collections of mail in Ar
lington County have been curtailed
becaused of a manpower shortage
and to conserve tires and gasoline,
it was announced today by William
A. Coates, county postmaster.
The curtailment amounts to about
so per cent of the previous night
collection, Mr.. Coates said. The
night collections now are confined
to arterial highways, including Lee
highway, Wilson boulevard, Wash
ington boulevard, Columbia pike and
Glebe road. There is to be a coun-
ty-wide collection, however, each
Saturday, Sunday and holiday, be-
ginning at tbs in the evening, it
was announced.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
College Association
Defers Decision on
Readmitting Georgia
Executive Committee
Will Act Luter if
System Is Changed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 5.-The
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools left to
Georgia today the question of how
soon that States colleges and uni
versity could be readmitted to men,
bership.
Departing from it's custom of TAX
ing final action on readmissions only
at annual meetings, the association
empowered it's Executive Committee
to restore the schools Immediately
on correction of conditions leading
to the suspension Of these institu-
tions."
Gov.-elect Ellis Arnall told the
association earlier this week that
when the Georgia legislature meets
in January he will seek passage of
r ogram which among other things
would remove the Governors con-
troll of the State Board of Regents.
The schools were dropped last year
after Gov. Eugene Talmadge ousted
various members of the Board of
Regents and the educational sys-
tenn to effect removal of several
faculty members.
Memphis State College was
dropped from membership; another
college, which has suspended oper-
ations, was removed from the list;
four colleges were adde- and four
reinstated; three were puv on or con-
tinued on probation, and four were
put on or continued on conditional
membership.
DR.. Shelton Phelps. president Of
Winthrop College. Rock Hill. S. c.,
and secretary treasurer of the asso-
ciation, read the body's long report
which included placing his own
school on probation and ended with
recommendation that he be re-
elected treasurer. The re-
port passed unanimously.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Alabama Coke Strike Ends

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec. 5 (P).-
Normal operations we're expected to
be reached today at the coke ovens
of the Alabama By-Product Corp,
where strike of $50 employees yes
terday curtailed production at
number of industrial plants in this
area. The strikers. members of the
United Mine Workers of America
GndD, returned to work last night
following settlement of the dispute
over the discharge of a union mem
ber. President J. w. Porter of the
corporation said the man would be
reinstated.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Lawyers in Army
Will Advise Soldiers
On Legal Problems
Morris, Head Of U. S. Bur,
Reveals PIuns for
Clinics at All Comps
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-Wars are won
by men whose minds are free to
concentrate on winning them, says
the president Of the American Bar
Association, and the organization
newest war effort is aimed to relieve
men in the service from worry over
any legal problems.
President George Maurice Morris
OF Washington said at meeting
last night that the association and
the adjutant generals Office was
working out a plan for establishing
at all Army posts clinics where SOL
d1ers could obtain advice on mat
ters requiring services of lawyers.
The clinics, he said, would be
manned by Army officers who were
lawyers in civilian life, and would
dispose of problems which required
informal advice.
But, he added, should real legal
opinion or litigation seem in pros
pect, the Serviceman's case would be
referred to a member of the War
Work Committee of the local bar
association. He said committee
members would come to camps at
regular intervals for interviews with
soldiers having legal matters to set
tie. The civilian lawyer, Mr.. Morris
said, takes the case for better or
worse as he would any other mat
ter"
Mr.. Morris related an example of
the work that already is being done,
as reported from one camp COM
mander who said a private in his
outfit wanted to get divorce. The
letter was referred to a member OF
the War Work Committee in the
mans home State.
The lawyer undertook the matter
but not expeditiously," Mr.. Morris
continued. The colonel complained
The lawyer replied by asking, What's
all the rush? This war is going to
last some time The colonel an
swered, Yes, we know that. But in
the meantime my mans wife is get
ting, by law, $22 out of his $50
monthly pay. She is using that al
lowance to support a man with
whom she is living. My soldiers en-
thusiasm for a continuance OF this
arrangement Is limited.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Pennsylvania Rector
Accepts Fuirfux Call

The Rev. Albert K. Hayward. rec
tor of ST. Paul's Episcopal Church
Wellsboro, Pa, has accepted a call
as rector of Truro Episcopal Church,
Fairfax, Va, and Good Shepherd
Church, Burke. He enters his new
work on December Is.
Mr.. Hayward is a graduate Of Will
liam and Mary College and of Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary, Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
lmpersonoted Wurdens,
Two Get Year Term

by tne Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va. Dec s.
Police Justice John w. Rice, jr., yes
terday sentenced Stanley Elliott, "a,
and Charles A. Thomas, 18, colored,
of Middletown, to IL months in Jail
on conviction of charges of imper-
sonating AFRAID Wardens.
Elliott and Thomas were arrested
after several motorists complained
they were stopped for driving with
lights during a blackout The motor
lists said they were told that they
must pay IS or be taken to court
where they would be fined SO and
costs.
Chief of Police c. w. Hollis said
that Elliott, private on leave from
Fort Benning, Ga, was dressed in
his uniform and that Thomas wore
Elliott's overcoat and a Boy Scout
hat.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Ensign Stephen Jones
Buried in ARLINGTON

Burial services for Ensign Stephen
H. Jones Of Leonardtown, Md, who
was killed in the Boston night club
fire last week end, were held yes
terday in Arlington National Gene
terry. The Navy said his parents,
Mr., and Mrs. Stephen Mckinney
Jones, requested that military
honors be omitted. 1t. r. w. Faux
of the Chaplains' Corps officiated.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
e-Sitting Champion
Dies in 3-Story Fall

Ey the Associated Press
BRYAN, Ohio, Dec 5-Charles R.
Leichty, 81, who once claimed the
worlds flagpole sitting champion
ship, was killed today in an acci-
dental fall from a third-story win
dow.
Mr.. Leichty claimed the title in
1927 after perching 81 days on a
175-foot tower atop the Williams
County Court House.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Second Coogon Marriage
Goes to Divorce Court
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.-Jackie
Coogan's second marriage is on the
rocks, too.
The former juvenile screen star,
now in the Army, whose first mar
riage with Actress Betty Cradle was
unsuccessful. was named yesterday
in a divorce suit by the former
Flower Parry, dancer.
She charged cruelty and asked
s13l.50 monthly support for their g.
month-old son John Anthony,
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Radcliffe Heads Drive

BALTIMORE, Dec. S tP).-Miss
Catherine c. Gaule, assistant Mary
land chairman of the infantile par
alysis campaign, announced that
Senator Radcliffe has been chosen
State chairman for the 10th con-
Secutive time.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
Wife Wills 100000
To ScmueI D. Riddle
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEDIA, Pa, Dec. 5.-Samuel D.
Riddle, Philadelphia turfman, re-
ceives 100000 under the will of his
wife, Elizabeth Dobson Riddle, who
died November %.
The will was filed for probate yes
terday. A niece, Sarah D. JefIords.
receives sl50,0O0 and other bequests
ranging from $500 to $4,000 are
made to relatives, employees and
charities. The total value of the
estate was not listed.
Mrs. Riddle was a daughter Of
John Dobson, textile manufacturer.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
British Brokers See End
Of War by June, lo43
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 5.-The vast i'm
provement in Allied positions in
November brought betting in
crease as to the wars duration with
some brokers wagering even money
it would end by June, 1943, the News
Chronicle reported today.
Lloyds, however, is refusing to lay
any odds or take any wagers.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
This HoIdup Blew Up
As Police Mere Called

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash-"This is a
holdup," said a man entering
women's clothing store.
Il don't believe it," replied Mrs.
Arthur H. Bewell, an employe.
She calmly walked to the tele-
phone and called police.
Her visitor left.
Evening star., 1942-12-05

Domestic help is hard to find
but you may find 1t through Want
Ad" in The Star.
Evening star., 1942-12-05
FOUND.

/ HAVE A STRAY STEER owner cali
and identify. S. w. KRUHM, Spencerville.
Md
DOG, black and white Collie, in vicinity
of Union Station, Call WO. 1881.
REPORT ABANDONED, STRAY ANIMALS
to the Animal Protective Association for
Humane Disposition, Atlantic T142 or Hill
side 107S. Present facilities limited TO
TFRRIER-SmaI female, short legs, black
narked face and black ears. GE. 6ls4.
Evening star., 1942-02-25

dreds of doctors In tropical medi-
cine. At Tulane University Schoo
Of Medicine, which for years has
been the foremost tropical medicine
center in the United States, DR.. C.
E. Faust, acting head Of the depart.
ment Of tropical medicine and presi-
dent OF the American Society OF
Tropical Medicine, gives this out
line:
The four most common Of these
diseases are bacillary dysentery
amebiaSis, malaria and hookworrn
Humans Are Carriers.
The first two are not uncommon
in the North, for the carriers are
humans and contaminated food and
drink. Surveys in the North have
shown 3 to per cent of the people
are carriers OF amebiasis.
Amebiasis is the disease which
took a sensational surge in Chicago
during the Century Of Progress, and
numbered Texas Guinan among its
victims.
Difficulties with both diseases in
the North are anticipated If the
more virulent types are imported.
Hookworm would probably be con-
fined to the South. where the same
threat of virulent types holds.
Malaria might be largely confined
to the South. But there are con-
siderable risks in the North. One
of the tropical types. falciparum, is
often fatal. The Northern United
States has been free of this type.
Cases Appear in Trinidad.
But falciparum already has ap-
peared among American soldiers in
Trinidad, and cases have been sent
back to United States hospitals for
treatment. Troops from the North,
in the maneuvers in Western Louisi-
ana and East Texas last fall ac-
quired considerable amount of
malaria of those regions. Residents
of the same regions are partially
immune.
The most feared plaques are bu-
bonic, or black death, and epidemic
typhus. the European fever which
killed 100000 to 100000 in and
after World War I.
Bubonic plague is carried by rats
and other animals. But 1t spreads
to man mainly from rat f1ess. This
plague now exists among ground
squirrels in the Western United
Evening star., 1942-02-25

States. It has not spread to the
domestic rats. and American deaths
have been only a few year from
contact with wild rodents.
However, the so-called tropical
rat fieas that are the main carriers
have been found on American rats
as far north as Central New York
and Wisconsin.
Epidemic typhus Is louise born.
American sanitation may offer ade-
quate protection.
Other diseases which can spread
easily in the United States are ie-
lapsing fever, yellow fever and
cholera. But cholera probably would
not get far because Of sanitary pre-
cautions. There are also some blood
fluke diseases.
The fiukes are parasites that have
to live In snails for part Of their
life cycles. Soldiers pick them up
bathing or wading. They may come
home still carrying the flukes. If
they live in regions lacking the
right kind of snails, the disease will
not spread, since the flukes require
certain species Of snails.
The best that can be said OF the
United States is that no one knows
whether we possess any of the
serious tropical fluke type of snails
In World War I Australian soldiers
carried home a serious fluke disease
from Africa. African slaves long
ago carried another one to South
America, but this fluke disease never
got a foothold in North America.
War is not all destructive in a
medical sense In guarding against
the potential tropical disease inva-
sions, medical advances are expected,
such as better treatments. better
controls and possibly recognition OF
carriers not now considered.
Evening star., 1942-02-25
American Scientists
Prepare for Invasion
Of Disease Germs
Troinine in Tropical
Medicine Rushed
As Defense Move
By HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,
Wide World Science Editor.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25.-Poten-
tial invasion of the United States by
the disease germs of the whole world
is causing concern in the medical
profession.
Japanese guns at Pearl Harbor
we're the signal that literally opened
Americas long-guarded doors, and
already the first microbe enemies
have begun infiltration
The danger is subtle. Many of the
diseases our soldiers will encounter
and bring back are well known here,
and not much feared
But in the tropical areas these
same diseases include more virulent
types. The microbes themselves are
a little different, and these virulent
types are rarely found in the United
States.
Natives Little Affected.
The virulent strains hide behind
the fact that native peoples are
little affected. But our soldiers and
our people have little resistance to
these strains.
Lurking behind these germs are
the great plaques, which long ago
were banished from the American
way of life. Most of them are en-
demic in the areas where American
troops are now on guard or in battle
The germ foes are Jumped under
the name tropical diseases. This is
a misleading name, since some are
tropical only in the sense that they
have long been under control in the
snowy northlands, where they once
f1ourished.
Military medical men are doing
rush job of defense by training hun