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Evening star., 1944-12-15
Defense Questions
Tentative Jury Picked
To Hear Chaplin Case
By the Associated Press.

By the ASs0ciated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.-Joan
Berry's lawyer has accepted ten
tative jury and today Charles
Chaplin's attorneys resumes inter-
rogation of eight women and four
men seated to try her charge that
the comedian fathered her baby.
Some indication of the defense
case was given in questions asked
prospective jurors late yesterday by
Charles e. Millikan. the comedians
attorney, in the process Of qualifying
q jury.
Auburn haired, 24-year-old Miss
Berry Is seeking to establish her
former drama mentor as the father
of her 14-months-o Carol Ann and
demanding $4,000 monthly support
for the child.
The 55-year-old, silyer-haired
actor made a brief witness-stand
appearance yesterday, calm, impec-
cable In double breasted blue, and
idly tugging at one ear lobe while
attorneys argued. He wore a pale
blue striped shirt and a blue polka
dot tie, the same tie, apparently
again slightly askew-that he sport
ed SO frequently during the Federal
court trial last spring In which he
Evening star., 1944-12-15
$50, 900, 900 Carrier Boxer
Launched at Newport News

BY the Associated Press
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Dec. l5.-
Miss Ruth D. Overton, daughter
of the Senator from Louisiana, yes
terday christened the Nays $780,
100000 Boxer. the 17th Essex class
aircraft carrier built since Pearl
Harbor.
Miss Overton, was assisted BY
Jane Brazelton, Kensington, Nd,
as maid of honor.
The Boxer is the fifth naval ship
to bear the name.
The ceremonies were held at the
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry
dock plant where the Boxer was
the eighth carrier launched In three
years.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
WB Orders Absenfeeism
Penalties al Virginia PIanl

By tie Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Dec. 15.-A contract
provision calling for loss of seniority
and eventual discharge for repeated
absenteeism has been ordered by
the Fourth Region War Labor
Board in a dispute case involving
Standard Lime & Stone Co., Stras-
burg, Va, and the United Cement.
Lime and Gypsum Workers Interna-
tional Union (AFL).
Chairman M. T. Van Hecke said
the RWLB ordered contract clause
which provides for a warning to the
employe for the first two-day period
of unauthorized absenteeism; loss of
three months seniority for the Sec
ond and discharge for the third such
absence during contract year.
The company was ordered to cease
its former practice of considering an
employe as having quit for his first
unauthorized absence.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
THE EVENING STAR, washington b. G.
FRIDAY, pEcEMBER is iSA

partment authorities announced she
definitely had scarlet fever
In the habeas corpus petition.
filed by Attorney Jack Bonner, Mrs.
Cameron claims she was examined
by her own physician prior to going
TO the hospital and found to be per
fectly well"
Illegal Detention Charged.
The petition alleges that she is
being held incommunicado and ef-
forts to have her examined by a
private physician have been unsuc-
cessful." She charges that she Is
being Illegally detained and her con-
flnement was not ordered "by any
one legally competent to do So"
Health Department authorities
have announced that Mrs. Cameron
will be prosecuted for quarantine
regulation violations following her
release from the hospital.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
|22 District Men Report
For Military induction

Twenty District men were to
report for induction into the armed
forces in Baltimore today. They are:
Bishop, weldon r. Payne. Floyd NJ
Dixon, James M Warren CLYDE C.
aflieary, Thomas A. Whitley John M.
JaoWin, Edgar Jackson. John
McCune, Gerald r. Jefferson. Clarence
McCracken, d. 8. Keys, Bryce W.
Smith, Jesse M. Norris, Alfone
Chatham, Thomas X. Cole, Charles
Judson. Henry H. Howard, Joseph
Faulkner, Joe r. Miner, Elijah
Minor, Donald A. Taylor, Clarence
The Sixth War Loan-no ceiling
for your purchases.
Evening star., 1944-12-15

was acquitted OF Mann Act charge
involving Miss Berry.
Chaplin was called to testify In
support OF his lawyers plea to quash
the case without trial. Mr.. Millikan
argued that prosecution was barred
by a stipulation entered into last
year by both sides whereby the suit
was to be dropped If blood tests in
dicated Chaplin was not the father.
Superior Judge Henry M. Mills
denied the lawyers plea, however,
holding that the stipulation had
delegated judicial authority to three
physicians who made the blood tests
and reported the conclusion that
Chaplin was not the parent.
Chaplin left the witness stand, in
response to objections by Joan's
attorney, after giving only his name.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
OPA Price Specialists
Sought by Civil Service

The Civil Service Commission has
announced applications for. positions
as price specialists in the Office of
Price Administration are being re-
ceived.
The jobs pay from s2,433 to s6,22s
a year. Applications should be
made. to the Regional Director,
Fourth Civil Service Region, Nissen
Building, Winston-Salem3 3, N. C.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
Seven Army Flyers Safe
After Crush of Bomber

BY the Associated Press.
HENDERSON, N. c.. Dec. 15.-All
seven members of the crew of an
Army. Liberator bomber which
crashed near here Wednesday night
after bursting into flames over Hen
derson, have been reported. safe.
Three members of the crew, in
cluding the pilot. were accounted
for some hours. after the crash. The
others reported to the Henderson
police station yesterday and the
group left Immediately for the Ra-
ieigh-Durham Army airbase fol
transportation back to their Lang
ley Field (Va.) base.
Evening star., 1944-12-15

Cne StOfe. Gfacfe Allen.
And that ex-prize fighter they
had behind the perfume counter
certainly looked strange demon
strating Forever Thine" on the lobe
Of his caulifower ear.
But, honestly, some people will
buy anything One department
store manager told me he put some
empty tin cans out on a counter,
as an experiment. Sure enough, he
sold one. With a couple of ribbons
and flower it should make me a
nice party hat.
(Released by Consolidated News Featurex)
Evening star., 1944-12-15

. - .
clerks wherever
they can.
I was waited
on this morning
a t t h e pur S e
C o u n er by a
little oy W h o
came in to see
Santa Cl a u S.
Santa promised
to bring him
what he wanted
for Christmas
a n d S. a d ay
e ira If h e
would W ork in
the store.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10

Finally, the surgeon made his decision. He
leaned across mis- desk.
MY dear woman, the is nothing I can do
for YOU" he said, .,ct ioalizing how blunt his
decision -ounded until he all color and hope
leave he. face, and her lips and hands begin
to tremblc in nervous fear.
do not ask me to destroy your greatest 9-Set
by giving you young face that would match
neither your body nor your great talents. If only
you realize it, your face at this very moment can
be your fortune II is alive with the emotional
beauty and intelligence that comes from within,
and that is your greatest treasure.
with the face of doll you would be com
pletely out of character. The only thing wrong
with you is your state of mind. For heaven sake
be willing to ACT your age. You can no longer
play the ingenue the youthful heroine.
There is great saying in your own profession.
Change your act" My dear woman, change your
act! If Broadway will not you longer in your
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10
CHAPTER "

@EVERAL years ago the receptionst in the
office of a prominent plastic surgeon handed
- him a calling card engraved with the name OF
one of Americas most famous and most success
full theatrical personalities.
AS he looked at the card-so he told me later
he suddenly realized that he had not heard OF or
seen this woman in a Broadway production in
long time AS the office nurse was usherng her
in he specuated idly the possibility that she had
retired on the millions she had earned in her hey.
day. and was now enjoying the leisure she had
most assuredy earned Certainly, she was well
past middleage
But when he looked up at the woman seated
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10

opposite MIN, he saw not lIle
usual "well-preserved" theatrical
beauty in her fifties, but an old
woman, fat, wrinkled and raw
aged by time.
He was really profoundly
shocked by her appearance, but
even more so by the tragic
little history she poured out
in his office that afternoon.
Like so many Broadway fig
ureS. she had spent every penny
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10

1t permits the portrayal of the widest range OF
human emotions, whether slapstck or pathos
Even at her zenith this woman mad not had
what call good features. They had always been
irregular. She never a standardized candy
box, chcese-cake beauty.
Always the sheer genius of her great ability
had transcribed rather plain face.
Suddenly, it seemed to the doctor that what this
, oman needed not a new and younger face,
bat a revival of hat dauntess spirit that had
no! ed her personality but which repeated in
ability TO ct job had crushed in recent years.
So ne y crately started long conversation
with her, - ringing the changes from comedy
to tragedy lie wanted TO see if the spark of her
old ndomitabe spirit still there.
At first she too depressed TO take much
interest But within IS minutes, the inherent
actress in her had triumphed. She was animated
and vivid as ever she had been. The emotional
play revealed in her features was startling.
20 December 10. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10

The Rotation Lift -
Cd Arrows Show the
Directions I'm Which
Facial Muscles Pull to
Cause (2) the Sag
ging, Wrinkled Con-
tours of Old Age. (S)
The Skin, Muscles and
Connective Tissues
Are EXperimentany
Stretched, the Excess
Removed, and the Bal
ance Stitched Along
the Dotted Line W.
(G Hair and Ia ;
Cover the Future
Scars.
Evening star., 1944-12-21
|2Cab Drivers Robbed
One Badly Beaten

Police are searching for three col.
ored men in their twenties who
robbed two cab drivers last night
beating one of the drivers so severely
he is in Casualty Hospital for treat.
ment.
The injured driver is Morris Gray.
esky, SO, of 731 Otis place NV. He
suffered loss of teeth and cuts or
the face. He told police he picked
up the three men in the 600 block
of Florida avenue NV, and, at their
direction, took them to a point neal
the eleventh precinct police station
on Nichols avenue Sc. There they
beat up the driver, knocking him
down and kicking him, he said.
Mr.. Grayesky was then pushed
back into the cab and the three
men drove to point near Clinton,
Md, where they robbed him of s23
a ring and watch and then elected
him and drove off.
Three colored men of about the
same description shortly before mid
night had hailed another cab and
robbed the driver. Harry Duvall, 26
colored, 2914 Eleventh street NV.
police were told. Mr.. Duvall picked
up the three at Fourth and M streets
NV. and drove them to the 1000
block of Sumner road Sc. There
he was robbed of $24 and wrist
watch valued at $40. He was then
forced to drive the three men to
the 100 block of r street NV, where
they left the cab
Evening star., 1944-12-21

Wink Last Night" Or for the jap
anese generals theme song: I'm
Just Wild About Harakirj"
The boys on the Jap Tin Pan Alley
are welcome to the titles All ]
hope is the winner takes his 1000
yen government prize and goes to
an admirals' college. The United
States Navy will take care OF his
future from there.
released by Consolidated News Features.
Evening star., 1944-12-21
Basis Of APP Suit
Is Unsound, Counsel
Tells Supreme Court
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Counsel for the Associated
Press asked the Supreme Court
today to dismiss the Govern
ment's antitrust suit because the
case depends upon a funda-
mental legal theory which is
patiently unSound."
The attorneys said in memo
randum that they did not consider
it necessary tor the tribunal to order
a lower court trial on the facts,
when the Government depends on
such an "unsound" theory.
This case," the AP memorandum
said, lis bottomed on theory not
yet embraced in our law. The
egalitarian philosophy espoused by
the Government has time and
again been rejected by this court" "
Amplifying this contention, AP
counsel said the Government was
advancing principle of sharing
news copy solely because it would
so the Government conceives-be Of
penent 10 competltorS.
Revolutionary Principle.
I'VE say again." attorneys for the
nonprof1t news cooperative assert
ed, that this principle Of sharing
this assertion that competitors are
not to have private property in what
they themselves have created but
are compelled to share with other
competitors-not because they ac-
quired the property Illegally or are
using it illegally-but simply because
it would benefit the latter-is revo-
lutionary in character and directly
contrary to the previous decisions of
this {Supreme) Court.
'In any event, the question whether
the adoption of such a principle
would really benefit the newspaper
industry-or the reading public-is
one of most controversial character
the burden of proof is on the Gov
eminent to establish that the adop-
ton of such principle would not
in fact destroy initiative; decrease
rather than increase competition
impair the efficiency of all news
agencies and their capacity to per-
form their functions; decrease the
number of newspapers and. news
services; and, as applied to the press,
whether it would not destroy the
right of first and exclusive publica-
tion-which is fundamental char
acteristic of property of the mind.
Reply to u. S. Brief.
THE whole history and back
ground of the industry should be
carefully considered before any such
revolutionary principle is adopted" +"
The AP memorandum was filed
in reply to Justice Department
brief which said the Supreme Court,
Evening star., 1944-12-21
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during argument Of the case earlier
this month, was given all essential
facts needed to reach decision.
The department also said there was
no need to send the case back for
a trial.
The case was appealed to the
Supreme Court by the AP, and
the Justice Department filed cross
appeal. They appealed from find-
ings Of special United States Dis
trict Court in New York which, in
a summary judgment based. on af-
fldavits and dispositions, directed
the AP to change its membership
bylaws.
APPS memorandum today dis
puted what it said was Govern
ment contention that during the
special courts hearing the co-opera-
tive had not resisted the summary
judgment method of deciding the
case.
Evening star., 1944-12-21
Oracle Aliens
Comments

One of the most touching stories
I've heard in some time came over
the Tokyo radio recently.
1t seems the Japanese government
Evening star., 1944-12-21
Merna Kennedy Dies;
Once Chaplin Protege
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. Il. - Mrs.
Merna Brayton, one time protege OF
Charlie Chaplin who made her
debut in pictures as his leading lady
in the film "The Circus" Is years
ago, died yesterday Of heart all
ment just four days after her mar
riage to an Army sergeant.
Known as Merna Kennedy on the
screen, she was married Saturday in
Las Vegas, New, to Sergt. Forrest
Brayton, for whom she had waited
three years while he was In the
South Pacific.
Her last film role was In 1892 in
Lady With q Past"
Evening star., 1944-12-21
Six Liquor Dealers
Indicted for Failure
To Record Big Sales

The District grand jury has re.
turned indictments charging pro.
prietors of six retail liquor estab.
lishments with failing to keep rec.
ords of sales made in more thar
five wine-gallon quantities and oi
making false entries Of such sales
A seventh dealer was indicted or
a charge of selling in quantities
of more than five wine-gallons with
out having wholesalers license.
The alleged false entries consist
either Of fictitious names or ad-
dresses of persons to whom sales
were said to have been made. The
indictments returned yesterday were
similar to those returned some time
ago against other dealers here, five
Of whom were renamed in indict-
ments yesterday which are to be
substituted for earlier indictments.
Named for First Time.
Those named for the first time In
yesterdays indictments were:
The Ney Distributing Co.. Inc.
Francis Lands and Israel Burka
officers of the corporation, doing
business in the 1000 block of D street
NV named in four charges OF
failure to maintain proper records
and two charges of making false
entries.
Dorothy Weinstein and Samson
N. Weinstein, trading as Sammy s
Barrel House, 1900 block of Four
teenth street NV, named in five
charges of making false entries and
16 charges Of failure to maintain
records.
Sam Fig, in business in the 54OC
block of Georgia avenue NV;
named in Is charges of making false
entries and II of failing to maintain
records.
Faces Seven Charges.
Max Miller and Meyer C. Blank
600 block of Seventh street S.W.;
named in six charges of making
faEe entries and one of failure tc
maintain records.
Maurice Milestone, trading as the
Acme Liquor Store, 900 block OF
Pennsylvania avenue NV; IL
charges Of failure to maintain rec
ords and S of making false entries
Harry Siegel, 2400 block of Eight.
zenith street NV; one charge OF
failing to maintain records and one
of making false entry.
Solomon Bane, trading as Bane's
Liquor Store, 5000 block of Four
teenth street NV, was indicted or
charge of carrying on the business
Of a wholesale dealer while failing
to pay the required tax
Under Revenue Code.
All of the alleged offenses come
under the heading of violations OF
the internal revenue code.
Assistant United States Attorney
Sylvan Schwartz, who presented the
cases to the grand jury, said the al
legged violations keep the Office OF
Price Administration from main
tanning a check on prices at which
liquor is sold.
The indictments which renamed
other dealers cover the same ground
as previous indictments against
them, Mr.. Schwartz said, the only
difference being that they are
worded differently.
Evening star., 1944-12-21

they have yet encountered. The
price on both sides is heavy"
Germans Use Many Tricks.
All along the line the Germans
were using every trick in their bag
Mr. Gallagher said there had been
several authenticated cases of Ger
mans waving white flags, only to
open fire when Americans prepared
to accept their surrender. Some
Germans were found in civilian
clothing. Others used captured
Sherman tanks to approach the
Americans.
German parachute troops dropped
deep in Allied territory at the be-
ginning of the offensive still were
giving trouble. One American COM
mander said his men were fighting
a regular Indian war-creeping
through the woods and looking be-
hind every tree.
Evening star., 1944-12-21
Nazis Drive 10 Miles
West Of NayeIoi,
Far Into luxembourg
Continued From First Page.)

mately 80 of their so tanks and
knocked out about SO of 200 supply
vehicles caught with them," the
commander there reported.
The new German attack, made on
the fourth successive day they have
attempted to rescue the trapped
tank outfit, was launched less than
2 miles southeast of Malmedy, the
funnel through which the Kaiser
poured his armies toward Liege in
August, 1914.
Others Swing Into Position.
At the same time other veteran
American units swung into position
along the northern flank of the Nazi
salient.
American troops were fighting
back in their greatest battle of the
war, giving and receiving Their
heaviest losses of the conflict. as
Won Rundstedt concentrated his di-
visions-up to 100000 men-into q
massive bid for break-through.
(The German high command
declared its spearheads had pen
etrated the Ardennes Forest and
cut the 45-mile Liege-Bastogne
highway, one of the main north
south highways binding the 1st
and Sd Armies.
(Bastogne is a Belgian town 4
miles west OF the Luxembourg
border and 40 miles northeast of
Sedan. 1t was through the Ar
dennes Forest that the Germans
made their great break-through
in 1910, smashing across the
MeuSe at Sedan.
(The Germans also asserted
they had taken 10000 prisoners
in this weeks offensive.
Gn yesterdays fighting 43
tanks and armored vehicles, as
we'll as SO guns, were captured
and 1876 tanks were knocked out,
the communique said.
tThe bulletin also declared the
German Navy had sunk six Allied
supply freighters totaling more
than 10000 tons in the mouth of
the Scheldt River, at the en-
trance to Antwerp
U. S. Units Surrounded.
American troops suffered conSid-
cradle casualties and several ele-
ments were completely surrounded
south and west of st. With.
But on the enemys southern flank
the Germans were reported surging
forward in a possible turn toward
Sedan on the Meuse, IS miles south
west of their last reported positions
at -Maspelt, south of st. With.
Air Forces Grounded.
Low gray clouds and fog for the
second day bound Allied Air Forces
to the ground and robbed the 1st
Evening star., 1944-12-21
Heavy Work for q Drink

CHICAGO P-The energetic
burglars who broke into a South
Side tavern didn't stop to open the
l,5O0-pound safe. They carted it
away, apparently planning to open
it at their leisure. But Owner Elmer
Borsmore told Englewood police the
robbers won't find any money in
the safe. The contents-six bottles
of wine.
Evening star., 1944-12-21

A1IIREDALE 1I PUPPY, female: found near
laln ana Jefferson SITS. NV GE. Ssss
MANS WRIST WATCH, LonTir1e- Can
fnra .ny oy Identifying initials. Phone or.
Evening star., 1944-12-21

HANDBAG, black leather, at 1st and Nd
ave. ne, fell from car, contained No. 4
ration book in name of Sara B Mclean
H0l 2nd st. ne, money and papers
Reward
Evening star., 1944-12-21
George F. Moy Retires
~ the Associated Pres,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.-The re.
tirment of Secretary George F. May
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
was announced yesterday by Presi.
dent Roy B. White after a meeting
of the Board of Directors.
Evening star., 1944-12-21

Is sponsoring q
S o n g . " I iting
contest in an
effort to bolster
morale and keep
up the fighting
spirit. Seeing as
how the Japs
don't MIND lift
ing an idea now
and then, my
husband George
suggests: When
It's B-29 Time in
T okyo I'll Be
Coming Back to
Y o IT," or, 81
| Didn't Sleep q
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-18
NAV / Is Designated
AS Child Health Day

WASHINGTON, March 17.-P)-
In the presence of dozen "teen-
agers'' President Roosevelt sign
ed today a proclamation designa-
ting May as Child-Health Day.
The group came to Washington
to participate in a forum on war
time problems of children which
was arranged by the Federal chill
dren's bureau.
The proclamation invited boys
and girls to gather on May in
schools, churches and community
centers ''to consider how we can
make our home and community
life contribute in full measure to
the building of buoyant health and
valiant spirit in all our boys and
girls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-18
CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON, March 17.-R-
The War Department made public
< day the names of 339 U. S. sol
diers killed in action. Six of the
number were from North Carolina.
They are:
Pfc. Hugh NJ Gambill, Mrs. Jet
tie Gambili, mother, Dockery, kill
ed in the Central Pacific area.
Pvt. Carl D Flowers, Joseph F
Flowers, father, Lumberton; Pvt
Calvin c. Jennings, Mrs. Anna B.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-18
Handyman Pleads Not
Guilty Of Washington
Cathedral Staying

WASHINGTON. March II. -lR-
Julius Fisher, 31-year-old handy.
mar. pleaded innocent today in
district court to charge of muir
der In the Washington Cathedral
siayirg of Miss Catherine Cooper
Reardon, the Cathedral's assistant
librarian.
No trial date was set. Miss
lleardon's body brutally beaten,
was found March 2 in pit in the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-18

the Navy May rs, 1913 and re-
ceived his boot training at Balm
bridge, Md. He completed am
phibious training at Little Creek,
Va. and afterwards was stationed
at Fort Pierce, Fla. He is now
stationed on a LIST. Before en-
tering the service he was employ
ed by the North Carolina Ship
building company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-18

Jennings, mother. Rt., I, Hunters
vile. Sgt. Paul P. Linville, Julius
Linvll.e, father, 9o8 Silver Ave,
Greensboro; Tech. 5th Or. Marion
L. Poovey, Homer A. Poovey, IA
ther. 1903 Second Ave-, Hickory;
and Pvt. Fred L. Potts, Mrs. Clara
A. Potts, mother 331 Ennis st.,
High Point, all killed in the Med
iterranean area.