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Evening star., 1946-05-25
.SpelIman Will Preach
Tomorrow al ARLINGTON
Memorial Service

Francis Cardinal Spellman. Arch
bishop of New York. will deliver the
sermon at the eighth annual solemn
memorial military field mass in
tribute to the Catholic war dead at
10 a m. tomorrow in the ampitheater
at Arlington National Cemetery
The mass is sponsored by the Wash
ington General Assembly. Fourth
Degree. Knights of Columbus, in
association with the National Com
mittee of Catholic Societies.
The pontifical mass will be cele-
brated by the Most Rev. William r
Arnold. military delegate of the
Army and Navy Diocese and former
Army chief of chaplains. He will
be assisted by the Rev. DR.. James
A. Magner of Catholic University
as deacon and by Col. William j
Walsh. chaplain at Boiling Field
as subdeacon.
The Rev. Walter ]. Schmitz, S. S..
of the Sulpician Seminary, will
officiate as master of ceremonies
Music will be furnished by the
Sulpician Seminary Choir, with
Russell Woollens, S. S., directing.
Representatives of more than rs
national and local Catholic organ
izations will place wreaths at the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier fol-
lowing the mass.
James j. Nolan of Washington, is
chairman of the event.
The public is invited to the mass
Buses will leave at 10 minute inter-
vals from $50 am on tomorrow al
Tenth and E streets NV.
A reception will be given fol
Cardinal Spellman, Bishop Arnolc
and other dignitaries at the Carlton
Hotel after the mass. William H
Collins, local attorney, will act a.
toastmaster at the reception.
Evening star., 1946-05-25

United States Engineer Hospital in
Les Alamos after observation
A native of Washington, Dr.
Graves was graduated from Eastern
High School and the University of
Virginia. He was a professor at
the University of Texas before
taking leave of absence to work on
the atomic bomb.
DR.. Graves mother said he tele-
phoned last night and explained he
was not seriously hurt His wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth Riddle Graves, and
their child, Marilyn Edith, 6, are
living at Los Alamos
Others exposed were:
Marion Edward Cieslicki, %. scien-
tist, Pittsburgh; Pfc. Patrick J.
Cleary, 20, of the Army's special
engineer detachment, New York; S.
Allan Kline, 26. scientist, Chicago;
Theodore Perlman. %, engineer New
Orleans: DR.. Raemer E. Schneider,
36, scientist, Lafayette, Ind, and
Dwight Smith Young, 54, scientist,
OSWegO, I'll.
Evening star., 1946-05-25

ers have been forced to extend the
run of their "Cyrano de Bergerac,' -
with three extra performances set
for Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights. Seats for all three
performances are available, but
probably not for long.
+. r X
Hollywood (also dehydrated) Bet
ty Hutton has just signed new 10
year contract with Paramount
which shows what Paramount
thinks of Miss Hutton. And
vice versa. Enrol Flynn will
play D'Artagnan in The Three
Musketeers' for Metro-Goldwin-
Mayer. . Band Leader Artie Shaw
has decided to join the ranks of
those who have decided they should
produce motion pictures on their
own. Loves of Clara Bow" the
"it' girl, written by her former sec
retary, Daisy Devoe, is selling for
cents at a Hollywood bookstore.
Evening star., 1946-05-25
Transfer Of Ovories Reported
Between Dogs Of Two Breeds

done from one guinea pig to an
other and the same with mice. : d.
The sex behavior of the recipient
is in small degree affected by the
loss of her own ovaries and the re-
ceipt of new ovaries from another
breed"
He reported two successful trans
fers in which the donors were
bloodhounds and the recipients fox
hounds. He said the bloodhcunds
were eight years old and had passed
the period of productive breeding.
The foxhounds were young animals
and each had whelped and raised
one litter previous to transfer. The
operation has to be performed at a
specific time in the sex cycle.
The operative procedure is ex-
tremely simple" said DR.. Whitney,
explaining that after incising the
capsule, the ovary is removed at the
base. The donors ovary is secured
in position in the capsule of the
recipient with several fine sutures
and the capsule closed"
Evening star., 1946-05-25

Film distribution in the whole
area of which Washington is the
center is handled entirely by special
motor carriers, trucking organiza-
ton which caters exclusively to mo-
ton picture distributors and exhibit
ors. Unless this companys feet is
reauisitioned for the hauling of
higher priority materials it is ex-
pected that distribution of films in
local exchanges will continue unin-
terrupted. The supply of prints
available in New York, according to
the best local sources, is adequate
to last through July.
The Nationals next attraction,
Laura" is at the moment in Bal
timore. Transportation of the sets
costumes. ETC., by truck to the Ma
tional Capital already has been
arranged. Buses, and if necessary
taXis, will bring the company here
in ample time for Monday night S
opening.
Baltimore next will play Laugh
ing Room Only" the Nationals at
traction for two weeks beginning
June 3. A large part of the troupe
of the Olsen-Johnson musical mad
house already is in the Maryland
metropolis, including Olsen. The
private airplane of friend is fly
ing Chick johnson down for Mon
day nights opening. Only missing
member Of the cast who is causing
any worry is Frank Libuse. Libuse,
who stopped off to visit his home in
Cicero, Ill, after the production s
Chicago engagement, is stranded at
the moment between Chicago and
Baltimore. He is rated as suffi-
ciently resourceful fellow to make
it by showtime Monday night, easily
in time for the Washington OPEN
ing the Monday following.
Transportation of the Olsen
johnson production, with its hun
dreds of props, is regarded as some
thing of fabulous project regard
less of the form of carrier used. No
one, however, is worried that a
sufficient feet OF trucks will be
available when it is time to move
the production to Washington.
Except possibly the ODTD
So far as vaudeville acts booked
for next week in Washington are
concerned no one is greatly worried
about them. Some of them are like
Neff, the magician currently at the
Capitol Theater, practical sort OF
genius who figured out long ago that
a private van is fine way to lug
himself. assistants, paraphernalia
and poltergeiSts from town to town
A cynical expert on the subject of
vaudeville performers points out that
the majority are such hams that
the notion of travelling by bicycle or
roller skates would appeal to them
enormously.
So, unless and until the fuel
shortage does something drastic to
local entertainment the transporta-
ton shortage is unlikely to do any,
thing.
Local drama groups tdehSdratedl
Crossroads Theater tryouts will be
held Monday and Tuesday nights at
the theater. at Bailey's Cross Roads
Va. Candidates are counseled
to bring their own material. enough
for not more than a 3-mjnute au-
dition. . Even that may rush Di-
rector Howard Wentworth. First
production of the theater will be
Pursuit of Happiness. opening
June 49, Mount Vernon PLAY
Evening star., 1946-05-25
Visiting Firemen Called
To Put Out Auto BIoze
By the kssociofed Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Phillip Rupp
was driving his automobile in the
business district when he discov-
cred it was on fire.
He stepped on the gas and drove
to the downtown engine house. but
all the flremen were out fighting
blaze, the telephone operator
summoned firemen from another
station six blocks away.
The visiting firemen extinguished
the blaze in Mr.. Rupps car just
as the downtown station firemen
returned.
Evening star., 1946-05-25
Red Cross Chapters Asked
To Aid Stranded Travellers

Basil O'Connor, national chair
man of the American Red Cross,
today appealed to the organization S
3,745 local chapters to offer emer-
gency services to stranded travellers
who may be ill.,
He requested chapter leaders to
alert volunteer motor corps work
ers, nurses aides and other Red
Cross groups to stand ready for
emergency assignments.
Mr.. OConnor also urged that
Red Cross chapters extend every
assistance possible to servicemen
and war veterans cut off from home
by transportation tie-up.
Evening star., 1946-05-25
No Inquest for Mrs. Niven

LOS ANGELES, May Is (P).-The
coroner's office announced that no
inquest will be held in the death of
Mrs. David Niven, wife of the Brit
ish screen star, fatally injured in
an accident at the home of Tyrone
Power Sunday night. The coroner's
report said merely that the tragedy
was accidental. Mrs Niven fell
down a basement stairway during
Q parlor game after a dinner party.
Evening star., 1946-05-25
Americans Returninu
Art Stolen by Nazis
Arrested by Poles

'" THE irriter lraS the only Amer
tcdn correspondent to accompany
the special American mission re-
turning to Poland her greatest
art tredsure-the Wit .StoUoss
altar, which the Germans stole
from CrdcolD in 1889. She had to
,Doit until she left Poland before
Driting this.)
Evening star., 1946-05-25
Police Lock Out Thieves

LAUREL, Mont. [P.-The police
station has been locked and bolted
Police Chief James Bare took the
action to keep thieves out. He re-
ported three pencils and two dime
Istore notebooks missing.
Evening star., 1946-05-25
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. CO Al


gineer Commissioner Gordon r.
Young said yesterday.
The garbage will be burned at
Thirty-first and K streets NV. and
First and o streets Sc, it was saio.
Usually 1t is transported to Cherry
Hill by the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad.
Evening star., 1946-05-25
Power, Not Transportation,
Worry of Capital Showmen
By Joy Cormody

Power refined and transportation the
major of Washington heater they
Nations strikes
order to close all places of fuel
pe schedules
Evening star., 1946-05-25
City Plants Will Burn
Garbage DURING Strike

District garbage normally sent to
Cherry Hill, Va, by rail for disposal
will be burned at the two city incin-
orators during the rail strike, En-
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Army Gri|s Suspect
In Thefts Of $1,000
From BattIe-Woundet

One soldier has been arrested and
several others are under suspicion
in connection with thefts of an
estimated $4,000 from wounded men
in Walter Reed Hospital April 6,
it was learned today.
Held without charge at the Wal
ter Reed guardhouse, an Army
spokesman said, is 25-year-old
private who was arrested Saturday
night by MPs after the man was
seen in the uniform of a captain.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents, Washington police and MPs
were questioning the prisoner about
his activities on the night of the
robberies. An officer at Walter
Reed said the soldier, from Fort
George Meade, has admitted two
automobile thefts, forgery of Coy
ernment check and several other
law violations. He was arrested in
tavern on Georgia avenue near
the hospital after several men heard
him say he was going to replace
the present provost marshal at the
post, Capt. Robert Popcke. Know
ing that Capt. Popcke was not being
transferred, the men reported the
incident and the arrest followed.
Seventeen patients have reported
missing either money or valuables
in the hospital theft case. About
$1,000 Of the losses was in cash,
officials said, and the rest in watches,
rings and jeWelry.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Dean PergIer on Way to Korea
To Reorgonize Legal System
Member of National u
Faculty to Remain
In Far East q Year

Dean Charles Pergler of the Ma
tional University School Of Law has
been chosen by Gen. Macarthur to
reorganize the legal system of
Korea, Chief Judge George P.
Barse of Municipal Court, chancel-
lor of the university, announced
today.
Now en- route to his assignment,
DR. Pergler is expected to report
to Gen. Macarthur in Tokyo within
a few days. Thereafter, he will go
to Seoul, Korea, as legal adviser
to 1t. Gen. John r. Hodge, COM
manding American forces in that
country.
His duties are expected to keep
him there year. He will endeavor
to correct evils of the legal system
imposed on Korea by the japanese
and codify the laws to be kept in
force.
DR.. Pergler, one-time Czechoslo-
vakian diplomat and Parliament
member, has been dean of the law
school since 1886. Earlier, he had
served as dean of the university S
school of economics and govern
ment and received his degree of
doctor of laws from the university
in 1928 while in that post.
In addition to his scholastic du-
ties, he has engaged in the practice
of law here and is a member of the
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Aviation Country Club
Holds PrevieW Of Season

The Washington Aviation Coun-
try Club, formerly the National
Women's Country Club in Bethesda,
Md, yesterday invited guests to a
preview of the club, which will open
Sunday.
Situated on an 180-acre site on
Bradley boulevard, the club has IA
cilities for golf, swimming, tennis
and horseback riding. and hopes
eventually to have a landing field
for flyers.
Honor guests yesterday were
Camille Chautemps. four times Pre-
mier of France, who now lives at
414 High street, Chevy Chase; his
daughter, Mrs. Edouard Guirola, and
Miss Marie Nash, singer.
The club announced that John
Shorey will be associated with it as
golf professional. Formerly he was
athletic director of Staunton Mill
tary Academy,
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Ruse Aids incapture
OF Two in HoIdup

William L. Gambrell, 40, of 1910
Thirteenth street NV, last night
tricked three colored holdup men
who threatened to kill him because
he had only 81 in his pockets. He
invited the men up to his apart
ment for more money.
Instead of going to his place, Mr.
Gambrell took the men to the apart
ment of a neighbor, Policeman Jack
Curtis, who answered the door in
paJamas, and arrested two of the
men. The third, who was waiting
in the street, escaped with the ST.
Mr.. Gambrell told police he was
held up by the men, one of whom
had a gun, near Sixth street and
Sivers court NV. After finding
only 81, they threatened to kill him.
Come up to my place and III
get some more" Mr.. Gambrell said
quickly.
One bandit hailed a cab and the
group rode to the Eighteenth street
address. Two of the men went to
the third floor with Mr.. Gambrell,
who took them to Mr.. Curtis apart
ment instead of his own.
Mr.. Curtis is a rookie policeman
now in training and temporarily
assigned to No. precinct. Mr..
Gambrell is employed at a tire firm
in the 1000 block of M street NV.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Stolen Gun Suspect Held
For Jury as Receiver

Arthur Clifton Cobb, 20, colored
of the 1900 block Of North Capitol
street was held for the grand jury
today in Municipal Court on a
charge Of receiving stolen property
in connection with the theft of four
souvenir foreign guns March ~.
Pearl Virginia Pitts, 81, former
WAVE, of the 100 block of E street
NE, is charged with larceny in con-
nection with the theft of the guns
from Francis Bradford, who said the
weapons were taken from his apart
ment at 1882 Sixteenth street NE.
The former WAVE, who pleaded
not guilty when she was arraigneo
last Wednesday, testified today she
turned the guns over to Cobb anc
his mother, janitress at the North
Capitol street address, where the
former WAVE used to live. Cobb:
mother was not charged.
The former WAVE is scheduled
to be tried on May 2,
Evening star., 1946-04-15
New Y. M. |. Head Plans
To Arrive in z Months
BY the Assocfotsd Press

HONOLULU, April 15.-Maj. Gen
Richard ]. Marshall, chief OF stat
of Army forces in the Pacific, said
yesterday he would return to the
United States in two months to be-
come superintendent of Virginia
Military Institute.
Gen. Marshall, who has been
spending two months leave on the
mainland, is en- route back to Tokyo
He was graduated from v. M. I. Ii,
1915.
Gen. Marshall was accompanied
here by Maj. Gen. Spencer B. Akin,
Pacific signal officer. who said he
was returning to Tokyo to build
up commercial communications in
Japan.
Gen. Akin will take 70 Tokyo nine
specialists from the Postmaster
Generals department at Washing
ton and 20 commercial communica-
tions men.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Crooked Nose Is Clue Leudina
ToSeizure of Young Bandits

Because q "little boy with a crooked
nose" remained in neighborhood
memories, two police detectives have
apprehended two youths on charges
Of holding up Morris Forman, A, in
his grocery at 500 Irving street NV.
last Saturday night and taking $40.
The nose later resulted in identi-
fcation of Its bearer as the boy who
held up Mrs. Veryl Martin, clerk in
a cleaning establishment at 1901
Water street NV. last January II.
Mr.. Forman told police one of
the bandits who entered his store
had crooked nose. Detectives j.
M. Meshkoff and r. w. Creel Of
No. 10 Precinct, assigned to the case,
asked the grocer yesterday If he
knew Of such a youth living in the
neighborhood. Mr.. Forman said he
did not, but that he recalled q boy
about Q years old who resided
nearby about seven years ago.
The detectives began tour. They
asked . man ound trimming q
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Tax Exemption on Houses
Bought by Veterans Urged
BY the Associated Press

Senator Murray, Democrat, Of
Montana today proposed that vet
erans' payments on purchase of a
house up to a cost of $4,000 be ex-
'empted from Federal income taxes.
Senator Murray said in a state
ment that he has prepared a bill to
carry this out and that Representa-
tive Mansfield, Democrat, of Mon
tana is introducing a companion
measure in the House.
The proposed exemption would
apply only on home occupied by
veteran of World War II.
Asserting that Congress has given
a "reconversion bonus to big busi-
ness" through tax reductions and
other measures, Senator Murray
said, II think it Is high time for the
Congress to grant a reconversion
bonus in the form Of tax relief to our
returning veterans who are strug-
Cling to acquire homes for them
selves and their families"
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Direct Air Service
With Canada Opened

Direct air transportation with
Canada began today when Colo.
NAL Airlines DC3 took off from Ma.
tional Airport 20 9 am. for Ottawa
with stops scheduled at Baltimore
Reading, Pa, and Syracuse on the
way north. It was due at Ottawa
at l pm. First passenger to make
reservation was r. P. Terrill, 174t
North Rhodes street, Arlington.
First fight for Montreal was tt
depart at 2:30 pm. This flight also
is scheduled to stop at Baltimore
Reading and Syracuse. A seconc
fight for Montreal will depart al
7:30 pm, with one stop at Syracuse
and scheduled arrival at Montreal al
1880 pm.
Colonial Airlines, which recently
received Civil Aeronautics Boarc
permission to parallel its New York.
to-Canada routes with the Wash.
ington-to-Canada service, will con-
tinue this schedule daily. There will
be two arrivals from Montreal daily
and one from Ottawa.
A reception has been arranged 70,
the arrival at 1885 pm. this after.
noon Of the first planes from Ottaws
and Montreal, with Mayor STANLEY
Lewis Of Ottawa and j. o. Asselin
chairman Of the Executive Commit.
tee, of Montreal.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
|. I. Breuninger Named
To Mission Committee

Lewis T. Breuninger, lawyer, 27o1
Foxhal road NV, has been ap-
pointed member of the Executive
Committee of the Central Union
Mission, 613 c street NV, it was
announced today. Other members
Of the Executive Committee are Ed
ward H. De Groot, jr., president OF
the mission, and William H. Ramsey
vice president.
Mr.. Breuninger has been on the
organizations Board of Trustees fol
the last three years. He succeeded
his father, Lewis E. Breuninger, to
the post on the latter's death. The
elder Mr.. Breuninger served on the
Board Of Trustees for 40 years. Mr.
Breuninger is married and has a son
Pfc. Lewis T. Breuninger, jr., 20, q
member Of the Marine Corps.
The Rev. Herbert E. Eberhardt
superintendent Of the mission, an
nounced the organization will con-
tinue its policy OF serving members
OF the armed forces as long as there
Is a need In Washington. The mis-
sion has reserved its facilities exclu-
sively for service men and women
since 1913.
Evening star., 1946-04-15

hedge. He referred them to a tailor
The tailor asked his daughter. She
remembered the boy. Further
checking led to the new home Of
the youth, now 16.
The detectives said he admitted
both holdups and named his part
ner, also 16. He said the gun he
had used on both occasions was q
toy which he had thrown in an
alley after Saturday nights holdup
After searching the alley police in
quired of a colored woman living
there. She said her husband had
found gun in a rosebush yester-
day. 1t proved to be the toy sought
"a plastic one which police said
was a remarkably realistic model OF
a .38-caliber revolver.
The youths, both Of whom left
high school without finishing, are
being held for action OF juvenile
authorities. They had spent but 81
Of the money taken from Mr.. For.
mans store, police said.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Five D. {. Soldiers Injured
In CHICAGO Plane Crash

Five Washington soldiers were in
jured yesterday when an Army BIS
plane overshot a runway at Chicago
Municipal Airport in take-of for
Boiling Field and struck a wire
fence.
Pfc. Raymond Watson, 80, Gillette,
Wyo.. stationed at Boiling Field, re-
ceived a possible arm fracture. A
sixth occupant of the plane was in
jured slightly.
Slight injuries were suffered by
Maj. Alfred G. Hayduk, 20, pilot, and
1t. Col. John M. Henscke, q, both
of 1882 Brown street NV; Capt
M. E. Naylor, 35, and M/Sergt. Rob-
ert F. Hendrickson, 81, Boiling Field
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Model Warship Maker
Scraps Obsolete Ships
To Keep Up 10 Date

In order to keep his collection of
model warships of all nations up to
date, Dave Pattee. AZ, of 1400 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc. has to follow
the policy of the United States Navy
in scrapping obsolete ships.
A number of his models are being
shown in the 18th annual exhibit
tion of the Washington Ship Model
Society, which opened yesterday in
the windows of the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad Co. at 726 Fourteenth
street NV.
Mr.. Pattee's collection, numbering
more than go ships, which range in
size from 2la inches to 81 inches
are made Of wood and represent the
major types of warships of all ma
tons. Il attempt to keep the COL
lection current and as accurate as
possible" Mr.. Pattee said. "Conse-
Quently as new data is released
have to junk models and begin over
again
Uses AlI-purpose Knife.
"The only tools I use are an all
purpose knife, familiar to all model
builders, and sandpaper. For de-
tails of construction I follow photo
graphs and engineering data avail
able on the ships"
He estimated an average of about
so hours was spent on each of the
small models, but said one of his
larger models, not in this particular
collection, required more than zoo
hours of painstaking work.
Mr.. Pattee, who was born of
American parents in France and
spent 80 years of his life there, is
now working for the Navy, making
ship models. And it was his orig
inal interest in the hobby that led
to his present job.
Modelling Is Only Hobby.
Mr.. Pattee said he has beer
making models as a hobby since he
was small boy but regards COM
mercial art as his profession. Both
his mother and father are well
known artists, his mother, Elsie
Dodge Pattee, having a miniature
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The exhibition of the ship mode,
society also features work by DR.
Reg H. Mitchell, skipper of the club
1t. James w. Barry, U. S. N. R.;
c. Bork, A. c. Wagner, w. E. Lee
and j. w. Hardin, jr.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
District FILA to Move
To Walker BuiIdino

The District of1ice of the Federal
Housing Administration is moving
Saturday from 1921 Fourteenth
street NV. to the sixth floor of the
Walker Building, 734 Fifteenth
street NV, District Director Walter
G. Cox announced today.
The Office issues permission tc
build and priorities under the Gov.
ernment's veterans housing pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Uncle Sam Says

United States Savings Bonds
which are War Bonds with peace
time name, fight a new kind of bat
tie for you. They fight insecurity
and the temptation to spend reck-
lessiy. U. S. Savings Bonds pay
you 81 for every So in 10 years.
Should any real emergency arise,
you can have your money back
quickly with my blessings and the
Sccun kIlated interest.
U. S. Treasury Department.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Legion Puper Comino

The Washington Legion News, a
monthly tabloid newspaper, will be
published for the first time Thurs
day by the District Department of
the American Legion. The first de-
partment paper in its 28-year his
tory, the News will feature news
and articles Of interest to veterans.
It will be edited by Lee l.. CARING,
James H. Brady and Edwin l..
Groome.