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Evening star., 1946-07-06
Debut Party
IsCanceIed

The debut party for Miss Mira
P. Noyes, daughter of Mrs. Lau-
renee H. Green and the late Mr.
Theodore Prentice Noyes, has
been Cancelled due to the death
of her grandfather, Mr.. Theodore
w. Noyes.
The party was to have been
given by Miss Moves uncle and
aunt, Capt Smith Hempstone,
U. S. N, retired. and Mrs. Hemp
stone this afternoon and was to
have been followed by a dinner
at which another uncle and aunt
of the debutante, Rear Admiral
Luther Sheldon, jr.. U. S. NJ, re-
tired, and Mrs. Sheldon were to
have been hosts.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Conference Gets Flood Bill
Providing for 18th St. Cate

The Senate passed and sent to
conference yesterday food control
and rivers and harbors oils which
authorize $4,000 100000 worth of
postwar water projects, including
a $500 900 flood gate for Seventeenth
street NV. near the Navy Depart
ment
The gate would complete the
food defenses of the Capital. It's
preliminary design calls for slid
ing structure which could be thrown
across the street-now Washington s
f1oodtime Achilles heel.
Levees in West Potomac Park al
ready are in place and block off
water from low downtoWn areas
Seventeenth street at present would
have to be temporarily sandbagged
during a severe flood.
The bills also call for local food
control projects at Cumberland
Md; Ridgely, w. Va, and Waynes-
boro, Va, and for completion of
the Savage River Dam at Cum
berland.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
| Minority Report Asks
Specific Changes in
Naval Justice System

A minority report, dealing with
a more modern and efficient system
of justice for the Navy, has been
laid before Secretary Forrestal in
addition to the majority report
which the Navy Department made
public on Sunday, The Star learned
today
The majority report was made
by special board appointed by
Secretary Forrestal and headed by
Arthur A. Ballentine, prominent
New York attorney. Three Wash
ingtonians-Justice Matthew F. Nc
Guire of District Court, 1t. Comdr.
Richard l.. Tedrow, N. S. N. R.,
recorder of the board, and the alter
nate recorder. 1t. John j. Finn,
U. S. N. R.-dissented in part from
the majority views.
Justice Mcclure, who investigated
the subject earlier for Secretary For
restal. filed a report then and later
was made a member of the Ballan-
tine board. He wrote to Secretary
Forrestal that he concurred gen
orally" in the report and recon-
mendations, but said it docs not go
quite far enough" He said there
was no specific plan for carrying
out its provisions.
The jurist declared that the ar
ticles for the government of the
Navy should be condensed and re-
vised now; that rules of procedure
should be adopted and that the
power of boards of review of courts
martial, as outlined in the previous
report. dated November 81 last,
should be adopted
The official minority report, signed
by MI. Tedrow and Mr.. Finn, listed
recommendations, as well as Sug-
gested rules of procedure: urged
that bread and water punishment
be abolished; advocated revised ar
ticles for the government of the
Navy; more clearly defined punish
ments and protection Of officers
from arbitrary dismissal, and pro-
lection of those officially connected
with courts martial or their review
against undue influence, coercion or
intimidation.
In 1943, due to innumersble let
ters of complaint from relatives and
friends of naval personnel. the late
Secretary of the Navy Knox brought
in Mr.. Ballantine to form board.
which later made report. Later
Secretary Forrestal asked Mr.. Bal
lantine to head new board, which
has just reported. In 1943, the then
Judge Advocate General of the
Navy, Rear Admiral Thomas l..
Catch. United States Navy, brought
in Capt. Myron G. Ehrlich. U. S. N.
R., Washington attorney, to speed up
the hearing of cases. Capt. Ehrlich
was Inspector General Of Navy
Courts and Legal Offices in the Office
of the Judge Advocate General.
Mr.. Ehrlich and Mr.. TedroW are
now together in the private practice
of law in the Columbian Building,
416 Fifth street NV, while Mr..
Finn is a lawyer in the Department
of Justice.
Recent reforms in naval justice in
clude decentraliZing authority to
convene general courts martial. a
speed-up program for disposing of
courts martial of all types and estab-
fishing in the Bureau of Naval Per-
sonnel of a Corrective Service Divi-
sion.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Engagement old

The engagement of Miss Barbara
Catherine Manning. to Mr.. Walter
Bastedo jr.. son of Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Bastedo of Princeton, N. j..
has been announced by her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ralph Man
ming of this city.
The bride-elect was graduated
last year from Wilson Teachers
College and is a member of the
Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority and
the Gamma Theta Upsilon Fra
ternity. She has been teaching
mathematics and social studies at
Stuart Junior High School for the
past year.
Mr.. Bastedo was graduated from
Princeton University in 1914 with
highest honors in aeronautical en-
gineering and is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa Society. At present
he is an aeronautical research en-
gineer at Langley Memorial Aer.
onautical Laboratory, N. A. C. A.
Langley Field, Va.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1946-07-06

Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros;
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Rafael Oreamuno
Mr.. Julio E. Heurtematte, Coun-
selor of the Panamanian Embassy
and Mrs. William T. Mann.
Other guests at the reception in
cluded the Ambassador of Hon
duras and Senor de Caceres, rhe
Ambassador of Colombia, Senor
Don Carlos SAM de Santamaria
Sonora de Luti, wife Of the Charge
d'Affaires of Argentina; the Com
mercial Counselor of the Venezue-
Ian Embassy and Sonora de Urda-
meta; DR.. and Mrs. Hugh Cum.
mings, Mr.. Henry Hadow. Mrs
Charles H. McEnerney, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Eldon King, Miss Lynn Court.
ney, Mr.. James Reid, Mr.. Thomas
Burke, Miss Emily French Myers
Mr.. Kent Ives, Miss Romona North
Signor Corrado Orlando -Contucci
Miss Patricia Parker, and Signol
Paolo PanSa.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
In the Bridal Procession

In candlelight ceremony against
background of-White flowers and
palms, Miss Betty Lou Rice and
Mr.. Wallace Eason were united in
marriage on Monday In Lewis Me-
mortal Church. Mrs. Eason is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin
Rice, and her husband is the son
of Mrs. James F. Adams of Be
thesda
Given in marriage by her father
the bride wore a white nylon gown
fashioned with sweetheart neckline
Her only ornament was a string OF
pearls. a gift of the bridegroom
Her shower bouquet consisted Of
white roses and baby's breath cen
tered with white orchid
Miss Jeanne Caller was maid OF
honor, and the bridesmaids were
Miss Mary McLachlen and Mrs
Kenneth Ball. Mr.. J. Clay Adams
brother of the bridegroom, was bes,
man. and the ushers were Mr.
Charles Baker, Mr. Paul Cromwell
and Mr.. Jerry Adams.
Thomas Teale
Mr.. Grover C. Oglesby of Milan
Ga, has announced the marriage
of his niece, Mrs, Clifford Merle
Veale, TO John LIE Roy Thomas, jr.
chief petty officer. u S. N. son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Thomas OF
Washington. The double-ring cere-
mony took place in the Naval
Chapel. with Chaplain Robert F
McComas, u S. N, officiating.
The bride was given in marriage
by her cousin, Mr.. Edward R. Hill
Her maid of honor was Miss Mary
Campbell, and the bridesmaids were
Miss Dora Hayden, Miss Mary
Murphy, Miss Patsy Adkins and
Miss Dorothea Veale. Kenneth
Luckenbach, chief petty officer, U
S. N, acted as best man.
Gray-L ynch
Miss June NJ. Lynch and Mr.
Alexander w. Gray were united ir
marriage in recent ceremony held
in st. Peters Church, New Brighton
Staten Island. Mrs. Gray is the
granddaughter of Mrs. Peter Bereton
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Z Men Buried Five Minutes
IN Dirt Fall Are Rescued

Two Washington construction
workers were buried under 18 inches
# dirt for nearly five minutes yes
erday in a ditch cave-in in Alex
ndria before being rescued by fell
Ow workers.
The men, Frank Stone, 81, 622 I
,treet S.W., plumber and Alfred
Ruffn. q, colored, Third and H
streets Sc, laborer, were working
m a sewer pipe in a 16-inch ditch
aading to the new addition to St.
\gnes Episcopal School on Russell
Dad when the ditch walls collapsed.
They were examined at Alexan-
ria Hospital and released after
Trays revealed no broken bones
9th are employees of the Mehring
Hanson Construction Co., IL H
.treet NE.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Anderson Plans Visit
To Cuba TO Bargain
For Sugar Purchase
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of Agriculture Ander-
son is scheduled to leave for Havana
by plane next Tuesday to try to set
tie the 10-month-old negotia tions
for the United States purchase OF
Cuba's 1916 and 1947 sugar crops.
Informants who refused to be
identified said Mr.. Anderson decided
to intervene personally in the sit
uation after the talks reached a
deadlock. Heretofore the negoria-
tions had been carried on by the
Agriculture Departments sugar
branch.
While sugar from the 1916 sugar
crop has been moving to the United
States since February. the Cuban
Sugar Sterilization Institute served
notice early this week to the Com
modify Credit Corp. not to send any
more ships to load Cuban sugar.
Cuban Demands Rejected.
The institute reported that the
CCC had refused to agree on some
Cuban demands and had repeatedly
postponed the signing of the sugar
purchase contract
Cuban Ambassador Guillermo
Belt, who is accompanying Mr.. An
derson to Havana, intervened when
sugar shipments were stopped He
told a reporter two days ago that
shipments would continue and that
he was absolutely sure an agree
ment beneficial both to the United
States and Cuba would be worked
out within the next several days"
Differences between the two
countries on the United States
proposed purchase of the 1916 and
1947 Cuban sugar crops, are said to
be:
/. The United States is willing to
buy the two crops at price of 3675
cents a pound, together with consid-
erable quantities of blackstrap mo-
lasses and industrial alcohol.
Would Delay Price-Fixing.
Cuba, however, is unwilling to sell
the 1947 crop at that price and has
said that the price for next years
crop should be fixed by negotiations
next December.
2. The United States claims that
it cannot sign a purchase contract
for one crop. The reason: The
offer to purchase 280,O00,000 gallons
of molasses at 1876 cents a gallon
and 100000 gallons of industrial
alcohol at IS cents a gallon from
both crops, is conditioned to a joint
contract for two years. .-.-..
3. Cuba is asking that the price
for next years crop be fixed on
the basis of the cost of those food
stuffs she will be buying from the
United States at that time.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Nurse Jumps to Death
From New York Tower
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, July GA 31-year.
old registered nurse yesterday
plunged to her death from the 54tf
floor observation tower of the
Chanin Building - exactly five
months after the birth of her sec
ond son.
She was identified as Mrs. Edith
Monden. Police quoted her hus.
band, Peter. 43, as saying the birth
of the baby had left her in a state Of
deep mental depression and that sht
had spoken of suicide several times
She fell onto an 18th-f1oor set.
back of the building, which is al
Forty-second street and Lexington
Avenue.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Bishop OMAN Urges
u. ). 10 Use IFS ENERGY
To Save Democracy
BY the Associated Press

BUFFALO, N. Y, July &C
Bromley Oman. New York Meth
odist Bishop, declared last night
that energy expended in fighting
Communism, if devoted to preserv-
ing democracy, would make totali-
tarianism undesirable and democ-
racy impregnable."
In addressing the National Educa-
tion Associations annual conven-
ton. Bishop Oman said:
The most certain way to destroy
dictatorship abroad is to establish
democracy at home. Americans who
repudiate the whole conceptznf dic-
tatorship and insist upon the pres
ervation of liberty must be wise
enough to see that liberty alone is
not enough.
Democracy includes liberty, equal
itv and fraternity. Free men must
discover the means to establish the
equality that roots in economic JUS
tice and racial brotherhood"
Declaring that men who sum-
mon US to holy war against Com
munism are not only declaring war
on Russia, but are diverting our at
tention from the primary obligation
to demOcratlze our own - life"
Bishop Oman said:
"All organization must derive its
power from the consent of the gov
erned. No matter how cleverly
men seek TO masquerade autocracv
no steamstresS of tyranny can cut q
brown shirt, a black shirt. a REQ
shirt, or silver shirt, and so dress
an autocrat that he looks like q
democrat
Willard E. Givens, executive sec
retary of the NEA who was mem
Der of the United States education
mission to Japan, asserted that ma
tlons industry is paralyzed; its
shipping gone; its 60 largest cities
with the exception of Kyota, de-
stroyed," and added:
with primitive agriculture as its
chief means Of support, it's people
are existing in hope amidst hunger
and ruins, Japan cannot advance
educationally unless she is able to
re-establish herself economicallyss'
Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, super
lntendent of public instruction for
the State of Washington, was elect
ed association president to succeed
Frank L. Schlagle, superintendent
OF schools IN Kansas City, Kans.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Won Book S Daughter
Seized in u. S. Zone
By the Associo'sd Pres.

FRANKFURT. July 6.-Tamara
Won Book, 25-year-old daughter Of
the late Field Marshal .Fedor vor
Book, has been arrested in the
American zone after escaping from
a Russian internment camp, the
American-sponsored Dana New:
Agency said today.
She was seized Wednesday II
Starnberg and will be tried by &
military court on charge of forging
a passport. Dana said.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
eugene Cannon, so, Dies;
Director Of Textile Mills
BY the Assoeioied Press

CHARLOTTE, N. c., July 6-Eu-
rene Thomas Cannon. so, son of the
founder of the Cannon textile EN-.
nire, died in hospital here yes.
terday.
Mr.. Cannon, who had been i'll fol-
several months. was director of
the Cannon Mills at Kannapolis and
Imperial Cotton Mills at Eatonton
Ga.
He Is survived by his widow, two
brothers, c. A Cannon, Concord
head of the Cannon Mills, and M. L
Cannon, Charlotte, and four sisters
Mrs. David H. Blair. Washington
Mrs. Clark Howell. Highlands: Mrs
Charles Hill, winston Salem, and
Mrs. Edward c. Mates, New York
Evening star., 1946-07-06

of Staten Island, and Mr. Gray is
the son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
J. Gray of Washington.
The Right Rev. Joseph A. Farrell.
pastor of the church and dean Of
the island Catholic clergy. cele-
brated the nuptial mass. A we'd
ding breakfast followed in the Me-
not Club, st. George.
The bride was given in marriage
by her uncle, Mr. John Bereton OF
Brooklyn. Miss Betty Baeszler was
maid of honor and Miss Virginia
Mckinley was bridesmaid. Mr. Law
renee Beck served as best man and
the ushers were Mr. Gregory Coco
ran, Mr.. Peter Bereton and Mr..
John McCormac.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
In the Ne1Vs

The director general and the as
sistant director of the Pan Ameri-
can Union have issued invitations
to concert of music of the Ameri-
cas- by the Army Air Forces Band
to be given on Tuesday at 9 o'clock
Maj George S. Howard will conduct
the band.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Mont
gomery entertained yesterday after
noon in a private suite at the May
flower Hotel at cocktail party
that had a decided Capitol Hill
flavor. Mr.. Montgomery was re-
Gently released from Navy duty.
Miss Meredith Howard will be
hostess at a reception at the United
Nations Club in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred de Liagre, jr., on July
10 from until 8 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs B. A. Coe of Chevy
Chase and their daughter. Mrs
James L. Erwin, jr., are spending
some time in Atlantic City, where
they are stopping at the Traymore
Hotel
Mrs. Florence Eisinger Dawson
accompanied by Mrs. Cora Morrison
OF Flint, Mich, is spending some
time in New York City.
Mrs. Henry Alvin Strong is spend
ing the summer with Mr.. and Mrs
Wilson Compton in Pullman, Wash
Mr.. Compton is president of Wash.
ington State College.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Newspaper Executive Dies

SOUTH BEND, Ind, July 6 (P).-
Charles E. Crockett, So, secretary of
the South Bend Tribune since 1898
and treasurer of the newspaper
since 1901, died yesterday in Memo
rial Hospital here. He suffered a
heart attack June %.
Evening star., 1946-07-06

sudden seizure
attributed a d to
thrombosis.
Since e 1884
when he became
K in G S County
leader for his
party, Mr.. Kelly
had been one OF
the most power
full figures In
New York State
politics.
A freq e n t
w h | t e House
visitor during
the tenancy~-@f
tbe late preri-
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Miss HalIOran
Becomes Bride

The Church of the Annunciatior
was the scene of the recent wedding
of Miss Roberta Lee Halloran ano
Mr.. Franklin Roy Navarro. Mrs
Navarro is the daughter of Mrs
Roy Dennis Halloran of Boston ano
Washington and the late Col Hal
loran, M. c., A. U. S., former chief OF
the Division of Neuropsychiatry OF
Evening star., 1946-07-06
MARYLAND BRIDGE Traffic Up

BALTIMORE, July tP-Traffic
on the Susouehanna River bridge
during June showed a 6168 in
crease over June 1945, and Potomac
River traffic rose. e0.68 per cent,
William A. Codd, chief Of the State
Roads Commission, announced.
Evening star., 1946-07-06
Frank Kelly, Brooklyn
Democratic Chief Dies
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, July 6.-Frank V.
Kelly, 81, Brooklyn Democratic
leader for the past decade, died yes
terday.
Mr.. Kelly was admitted to Long
Island Hospital June 8 following a
Evening star., 1946-07-06

dent Roosevelt, Mr.. Kelly was a
steadfast> supporter of Mr.. Roose-
velt and returned large pluralities
for him in the 1886, 1910 and 1914
campaigns.
Evening star., 1946-07-06

Mrs. Jefferson Wilcox of Atlanta
is the guest Of her daughter, Mrs.
Anna Belle Greil.
Evening star., 1946-09-13

port. A Macedonian army" composed
OF former Bulgar and Yugoslav guerril-
las, to which have been added a number
Of Greek Communists, has been trained
and equipped by Red Army general
for at least eight months. That force
Is said to be In good fighting trim and
will spearhead Slav offensive as soon
as Marshal Tito is ordered by Moscow
to give the signal to advance.
A newly organized Bulgarian army
also is reliably reported to be concen-
trated on the Greek borders. The Slav
bloc already has put forward Bulgarias
claim at Paris for an outlet to the
Aegean Sea.
In the west the little Albanian re-
public is reported to have been trans
formed into an armed camp. Russian
officers have been sent to drill the new
army and acquaint it with modern war
implements such as tanks and artillery
OF heavy caliber. Large quantities Of
war material are being rushed to the
country from the large Russian stock
piles.
Although the total population of that
new SOVIET satellite Is under 1000,0O0
and despite the drastic purge of Col.
>A' NAA'SA AAoAd, uSSldD-l1QDOSeQ
leader, the Albanians have managed to
raise military force Of at least l5O,-
600 men. They are reported by eve
witnesses to be well equipped and pro-
vided with good winter and summer
uniforms. Considering the dearth of cloth
In Europe. the question has been raised
IN some official quarters in Washington
as to whether these new uniforms have
been made out of lease-lend supplies.
In Greece, the Communists, who are
part and parcel of the general con-
spiracy. are biding their time. They
are expected to stage major domestic
troubles in synchronization with the
march Of the Slav forces toward their
obJectives in Macedonia and Epirus.
The presence of some 10000 British
troops in Greece is hardly handicap to
these plans. The British and Greek
forces are probably sufficient to frus-
trate the civil war and could possibly
defend Macedonia. But the fact that the
entire might of the u s. S r. Is behind
all these movements makes the picture
even gloomier.
Evening star., 1946-09-13
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,rn

Unless there Is q complete change Of
heart among the leaders in Moscow, 1t
looks as II the present debates at the
Peace Conference" in Paris and at the
Security Council In New York will serve
only one purpose-to gain sufiicient time
to complete the Slav military prepara-
tions in the Balkans and set the match
to that powder keg again.
While modern diplomats are calling
each other names which Just miss being
unprintable. military preparations be-
hind the iron curtain are proceeding at
a feverish pace.
Latest reports indicate that King
George Of Greece, when he finally de-
cides to return to his homeland, may
step into a hotter situation than he
has bargained for.
Greece is the only Balkan country
which is not in the Pan-Slav bloc
formed soon after We day. Yet Greece
is of great Importance to the U. S. S. r.
as the key to the Eastern Mediterranean.
BY brilliant diplomatic manuevers Rus
sia has managed to obtain control over
the Adriatic through the creation OF
the two puppet states of Yugoslavia and
Albania.
buC 81 lOilS SJIcctS IL IlOb III L0S
fold, the control over the Eastern Medi-
terranean can not be complete even il
Moscow were to accomplish her aims
in regard to the Dardanelles.
This explains the violent outbursts
and unfounded charges brought by Rus
sia directly and through her satellites
at the Security Council sessions in New
York. The Russians are not opposed to
royalty in principle. They still main
tain King Michael in Romania. But
they do object to the refusal of the
Greek people to dance to Moscows tune.
According to high officials in Wash
ington, the Slav bloc, supported by the
U. S. S. R., will not confine its activi-
ties to mere name calling, but is ex-
pected to change from words to deeds
IN the near future.
A Yugoslav force estimated at between
10000 and 10000 men is reliably re-
ported to be concentrated in the Vardar
Valley, ready to march on Salonika to
support the claims of the new Macedo-
nian republic against that vital Greek