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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-17
Park Church
To Show Picture,
Child OF Bethlehem

A motion picture will be shown
at the Winter Park Presbyterian
church Wednesday at 800 p. m.
'"The Child OF Bethlehem, is the
title of the picture and the Christ
mas story will be fully presented.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the showing of. this motion
picture.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-17
SEASONAL TILT

The crescent moon always has
its horns turned upward at sunset
in Spring, but more horizontally in
Autumn. The tilt is seasonal, and
has nothing to do with rain or
drouth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-17

Every newly born female baby
has an expectation of life four
years longer than that Of a male
child,
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Five Prisoners Flee
In Virginia, | Caught
BY the Associoied Press

ROCKY MOUNT, Va, June 90
One of five prisoners who escaped
from the Franklin County Jail here
shortly before midnight last night
was captured early today near Lam
ahan on Route 40 between here and
Ferrum. He is Curtis Goings, II,
Mount Airy, N. c., according to
Sheriff Grady Gregory. The officer
added that from information given
by Goings it is believed the other
four men headed north.
j. L. Doughton, night jailer, was
slightly mauled in the break,
The four men still at large are
listed as Richard Patterson. 26: J.
M. McCray, 16; Emmett Gillespie,
81. and Cecil G.. Mitchell, o.
The sheriff said the jailer gave
this account of the break:
Gillespie, who was being used as a
cook. persuaded the jailer to go up
stairs on word that one of the others
was i'll. He showed Mr. Doughton
against the bars where the others
knocked him unconscious. They
took his keys, bound and gagged
him and told him they would leave
his keys at the front door.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
81 Jews Are Convicted
In Palestine Arms Trial

JERASULEM, June ga Jeru-
salem military court today con-
victed all 81 Jewish defendants
members of the illegal Irgun Zvai
Leumi resistance organization, OF
carrying firearms and explosives
after a riotous morning in which
the defendants leaped to their feet
and kept shouting in Hebrew.
Benjamin Kaplan. one of the de-
PENDANTS, was convicted also OF
shooting British soldier. Sen
tences were not announced imme-
diately.
The 81 were arrested in the
Southern Palestine desert area on
April 3.
After being convicted, the defend
ants made a number of statements
which were interrupted repeatedly
or cut off by the court president
who insisted that political speeches
were irrelevant.
Police and troops were called tc
quell their earlier uproars.
The noisy scene developed when
one OF the accused. Hahn Luster
28-year-old spokesman for the
group, refused to obey an order to
take his seat.
AS guards moved to enforce the
courts order the remaining defend
ants leaped to their feet, shouting
Relatives in the back of the room
Joined the chorus.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Laboratory
Continued From First Page.

and in the period since the closing
of the laboratory the District has
paid to the bureau more than $780,
900 for tests. Testimony at Congress
sional hearings indicated the Dis
trict could have saved about $780,
900 if these tests had been per-
formed in its own laboratory.
The Districts laboratory has
equipment worth about S45 900 but
because part of that figure includes
installation costs it is doubted the
full sum could be realized unless
prices of such equipment have risen
substantially since the equipment
was installed.
A fight over the new move was
assured today when Representative
Stefan, Republican, of Nebraska
announced he would offer a motion
from the House floor to strike the
prohibition from the deficiency bill,
when it is called up later in the
week.
However, he and others were
taken by surprise by the new move
to do away with the testing labora-
tory, Tor it was not discussed at this
mornings closed-door meeting of
the Appropriations Committee.
Furthermore, search of the
hearings on the deficiency bill and
the printed report on the measure,
made public today,s failed to dis
close any testimony or comments on
the issue
Sponsor Not Identified.
Mr.. Cannon, who heads the Ap-
preparations Committee and has
been an arch foe of operation of the
laboratory, was asked if he had sug-
gested the new move. He replied,
NO. but added that he had voted
for it, Asked who had suggested
the new move, he said he could not
say because it was an action taken
in an executive session.
The ban was made complete, ap-
parently, because it applies not only
to the use of appropriations made
in the third deficiency bill, but also
those in ANY other act"
Inc section reads:
mo appropriation in this or any
other act shall be used for the oper-
alton of testing laboratory of the
Highway Department for making
tests of materials in connection with
any activity of the District govern
ment, and the equipment of the ex-
isting laboratory, not adaptable to
other uses, shall be declared surplus
to the War Assets Administration
and such administration shall un-
dertake the disposal thereof in ac-
cordance with surplus property dis
posal procedures established by or
in pursuance of law, the net pro-
ceeds of sale to be deposited in the
Treasury of the United States to the
credit of the general fund of the
District of Columbia"
Though they had testified on the
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Merger
Continued From First Page.)

tions so that full advantage may be
taken of its experience in this field
and of the lessons learned in the
late war. Admiral Nimitz joins me
In this expression"
The Forrestal letter was released
amid reports from Capitol Hill that
the Navy still hoped to get better
deal out of any merger than Mr.
Truman proposed for it.
Senators interested in the pending
uniflcation move reported that the
Navy has made a direct appeal to
the President to modify his decision
giving the air forces control Of vir-
tually all land-based planes.
This plea was made, the Senators
said they were informed, despite
the fact that Mr.. Truman already
has resolved the issue and has in
structed all naval as well as military
officials to support his decision.
Chairman Walsh of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee told re-
porters he expects the President s
decision, II it stands. to be a focal
point for congressional opposition to
the merger plan.
Senator Hart, Republican, of Con-
necticut, who commanded the Asiatic
Fleet at the start of the war with
Japan. said he and other opponents
expect to discuss not only that point
but the decision to give the air force
co-equal status with the Army and
NAVY.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Liberty Ship Due Here
Tomorrow for 2-Day Visit

The first Liberty ship to visit
Washington, the United States Mar
itime Service training ship, Amer
lean Mariner. will arrive at the
Coast Guard dock, Seventh street
and Maine avenue S.W., tomorrow
and the public will. be permitted
aboard to inspect her Sunday and
Monday.
The Mariner is en- route to her
new base at st. Petersburg, Fla.
She was converted from a cargo
carrier to become a training ship
for future merchant sailors at the
beginning of the war, and was based
at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y.
OF about 1000 District men en-
rolled in the Maritime Service for
training as merchant seaman, many
received their initial training
aboard the Mariner.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Boys Leg Is Fractured
AS Bicycle Hits Truck

James Redmond, IL, Of 3716
Thirty-sixth street, Mount Rainier,
Md, suffered a fractured right leg
yesterday afternoon when the bicycle
he was riding collided with a NOV
ing van at Eastern and Rhode Is
land avenues NE, throwing the
youth to the pavement.
He was taken to Leland Memorial
Hospital for emergency treatment
and later was transferred to Sibley
Hospital where his condition was
described as fair. Police listed the
truck driver as Howard M. Ban
mister, colored, SO, of 1545 Fourth
street NV.
In a second traffic mishap, Motor
cycle Policeman Valdean Wham, IS,
of 1871 Alabama avenue Sc, suf-
fered possible collarbone fracture
at $3.50 pm. yesterday when his
motorcycle was struck by Treasury
Department truck at Twenty fourth
street and Virginia avenue NV.
Police charged the driver of the
truck, Talmadge Sturgis. Is, COL
ored, 3400 Warder street NV, with
failing to yield the right Of way.
Evening star., 1946-06-26

deficiency bill on other matters,
District officials were unaware OF
the new move.
S81.715 for District Services.
The deficiency bill carries $751;.
715.55 for District services. The
committee slashed s70,l6O from
budget requests submitted by the
Commissioners, totaling $l5l ,875. IS
Al lof the cut was made in a re-
quested outlay for the National
Guard, which was reduced from
$105,240 to $35, ,080.
The committee recommended ap-
proval of $13, ,463 tor the collectors
office, $2l ,944 for the United States
Court, $l,9l0 for District patients at
st. Elizabeths Hospital and minor
sums for payment of judgments ano
claims.
The bill also carries s2.6O0 600 to-
ward completion of the West Gen.
tral Heating Plant here.
The measure also carries $282, ,00(
for implementing the function oi
space survey and utilization, in
order to achieve the most econom-
ical use of Office and other building
space both in and outside of Wash
ington.
The committee said this was a
fertile field for effecting economies
and that the appropriation, properly
employed, should be repaid through
manifold savings.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Treated Like a Dog,
.LichfieId G| Declares
BY the Assoeioted Press

BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, June
ga wounded veteran of the Nor
mandy invasion today told the mil
itary court trying Col James A.
Kilian, former commandant of the
United States Army's Lichfield de-
tention camp that he was thrown
into the camp guardhouse for seven
weeks without trial and treated
like dog" for coming back five
hours late from 24-hour leave
The witness, Sergt. James B. Gal
lardy of Summerhill, Pa. scornfully
refused to wear into the courtroom
numerous decorations. including the
Bronze Star. which he won during
seven months of combat in France
and Germany.
Gallardy gave detailed descrip-
ton of Lichfield prisoners being
beaten by guards with clubs and
fists, forced to stand hours with
their noses and toes pressed against
wall and to hold their arms rigidly
outstretched for 20 minutes at a
time.
Kilian. 54-year-old cavalry officer
from Highland Park, Ill, is accused
of aiding and authorizing cruel and
unusual punishment while COM
mandant at the camp in England.
Pfc Thomas E. Warren of Plain
view. Tex. was convicted by a court
martial today of striking a Lichfeld
prisoner with his fist and was fined
S100.
Warren. %, a combat veteran who
fought in Africa and Sicily and
was wounded at Omaha Beach on
D day, was the sixth former Lich-
field guard convicted of striking
soldier prisoners. He was convicted
of hitting only one prisoner and
acquitted of IA other charges, al
though he admitted on the witness
stand that he struck two prisoners
with his fists and "poked" another
with his billy club.
His defense was that Lichfield
officers ordered guards to strike
prisoners.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Townsend Is Nominated
For Senate in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS June 26 R.-
Former Gov. M. Clifford Townsend,
81, Hartford City, yesterday won the
nomination for the Senate on the
first ballot in the Indiana Democ-
cratic Convention. Mr.. Towpsend's S
only opponent, publisher John A.
Watkins of Bloomfield. withdrew
when nearly one-half the counties
had voted.
The convention had only one con-
test-that for the Senate-and the
1,949 delegates, after nominating
Mr.. Townsend by acclamation, did
the same for 10 minor state office
candidates and adopted a 1916
platform without dissent.
Mr.. Townsend. Indiana's chief ex-
ecutive from 1897 to 194l, was the
pre-convention favorite and Mr..
Watkins entered the race Monday
night with backing of the Demo-
cratic Editorial Association and a
group of veterans of the First World
War.
Mr.. Townsend will oppose former
Senator William E. Jenner of Bed
ford, who won the Republican sena-
torial nomination June 18.
The delegates heard Senator Pep
per of Florida, the keynoter, lambast
Republican national leadership and
invite "all liberals outside the Dem
ocratic Party" to join that organ
ization.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
U. 5. Opens Spy Case
AGAINST Red Officer
Before Seattle Jury
By the Assee;otsd Press

SEATTLE, June 26.-The United
States opens its espionage case to-
day against Russian Naval It. Nico-
lai G. Redin, Soviet Purchasing
Commission representative.
A Federal Court jury OF seven men
and five women must decide the
30-year-old officers fate on charges
Of inducing and attempting to in
duce a shipyard engineer to give
him plans of the new destroyer ten
der Yellowstone and its equipment.
One of the questions asked by the
Government attorney yesterday was
whether prospective jurors had
scruples against finding a person
guilty of a crime punishable by
DEATH"
Allan Pomeroy, assistant district
attorney, refused to comment on
whether the Government would ask
for the death penalty under con-
spiracy charge in the indictment.
Jurors Locked Up Overnight.
The jurors were locked up for
their first night and United States
District Judge Lloyd L. Black will
decide today whether accommoda-
tions are adequate to keep them to-
gether until the trials end, as asked
by the Government attorney.
Judge Black admonished the
jurors that these indictments
against Mr.. Redin are merely
charges and are not proof of any
thing. In an American court every
person charged with an offense is
presumed to be innocent. The
jury is not to allow sympathy or
prejudice to affect its decision"
Redin's attorneys questioned the
jurors closely during the selection
procedure as to whether they had
read anti-Soviet books of recent
years or magazine articles.
One Juror Dismissed.
The books they mentioned spe-
cifically were "Out of the Night" "
by Jan Valtin: Report on the Rus
sians," by William L. White; "One
Who Survived" by Alexander Bar
mine, and Il Choose Freedom" by
Victor Kravchenko. Most of the
jurors disclaimed having read the
books.
One member of the jury panel was
dismissed when he declared:
I'D be prejudiced against the
United States Government. because
of my feelings now that there
should be better understanding
between Russia and the United
States. I am satisfied I could not
vote Mr.. Redin guilty."
Evening star., 1946-06-26

group that even If the O'Mahoney
formula were adopted, additional
revenues would have to be found,
through taxation in some form or
another.
He suggested amendment Of the
District Income Tax Act 80 it will
be clearly applicable to all who
earn their living in Washington
rather than to only those who are
unable to establish domiciles else
where under liberal court interpre-
tation"
The tax on real and personal
property, he said, should not be
increased, in the almost unanimous
opinion of most Washingtonians. To
increase it he warned would further
accelerate movement from the Dis
trict into nearby States.
Mr.. McGarraghy reiterated the
trade boards approval of sales
tax for the District, which he esti-
mated, on the basis of per cent
rate would bring in between $8,000,-
900 and $12,000,000 annually. AL
other sources of revenues proposed
he predicted, would only yield small
amounts"
Reilly Heads Committee.
The resolution was presented by
John F. Hillyard, member of the
board of directors of the Board of
Trade.
The Steering Committee appoint
ed to present the resolution to the
House consists of James A. Reilly
president of the Second National
Bank, and first vice president of the
Board of Trade, chairman; James
S. Beattie of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce; Kenneth Armstrong
Federation of Citizens Associations
C. F. Preller, president of the Gen.
trail Labor Union (AFL). Huber
Brown, Federation of Civic Associa-
tions; Gertrude Evans, Washington
Industrial Union Council (CIO) :
Mrs w. Buell., District Congress of
Parents and Teachers, and Ed-"in
Luther, American Legion.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
AIibi in Store Staying
Not Told 10 Police,
Defense Witness Says

A defense alibi witness in the
first-degree murder trial growing
out of the killing of John Paul
knight, "a, Safeway Grocery en-
ploye on April 13, conceded today in
District Court that she had not
mentioned the alibi to police when
questioned at police headquarters.
United States Attorney Edward M.
Curran, one of the prosecutors,
asked the witness. Edna M. Prout,
colored school teacher of Bowie,
Md, why she did not tell police
that on the evening Of April 13,
when Mr.. Knight was killed, her
nephew. Lawrence I. Prout, 20, COL
ored. was playing records = at her
home. 8
The Prout youth and > Alfred
Hawkins, %, colored, are being tried
for the murder.
No One Asked Alibi.
Il did not tell any one at police
headquarters that Lawrence was in
my company that evening"" she
conceded on cross-examination. II
had no occasion to tell the police
and nobody asked me-"
On direct examination by defense
counsel, Robert I. Miller, she had
told the court and jury that her
nephew was in her company from
6:25 pm, when she returned from
the Bowie races, until II pm. the
night of the murder. The Govern
ment contends that Mr.. Knight was
killed around 8 pm. at a store in
the 1900 block of First street NV.
and that money was stolen from
the safe there by two colored men.
The Government completed its
case shortly before noon. but the
defense did not make any move for
a directed verdict of .acquittal at
that time.
The defense produced a number
of coiored people from Maryland,
who testified to Prout's honesty,
truth, peace and good order"
Store Manager Testifies.
William C. Davis. store manager,
under cross examination by Mr. Mil
Ter, denied saying to police that both
men who had held up the store were
light skinned. The defense contends
that a police incidental described
both men as light-skinned, whereas
Hawkins Is dark.
A confession by Hawkins to police
was read before the jury this morn
ing in which the defendant conceded
that he shot Mr. Knight, but said
he was under the influence of
"reefer" cigarettes and contended
that the shooting was an accident.
in the confession, attrib-
uted the shooting to my not know
ing the operation of the gun" and
said it all added up to "a very un-
fortunate and unpleasant accident" +"
Evening star., 1946-06-26
North Dakota
Continued From First Page.)

War II veterans. With 543 pre-
cincts in. Representative Lemke had
1873 votes; Mr.. Robertson, 1853;
John Hjellum. 1859; DR.. George
Schatz, 8,6l0, and Lynn C. Paul.
son, 1902. Representative Lemke
and Representative Hjellum were
indorsed by the committee, Mr..
Robertson and Mr.. Schatz by the
league, and Mr.. Paulson campaigned
as an Independent.
Gov. Fred G. Aandahl, backed by
the Organizing Committee, took a
commanding lead for the Republi-
can nomination to succeed himself
With 574 precincts reported, Gov.
Aandahl had 25,852 votes to 6,O2l
for Elmert Cart, league nominee,
and 3,740 for former Senator Lynn
j. Frazier, independent.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Lincoln
Continued From First Page.>

France, the Netherlands, Egypt and
Australia.
The Security Council takes over
today, with further attempt to
take some kind of action on the
Franco Spain problem.
A subcommittee consisting of DR..
Evatt, DR.. Oscar Lange, Poland del
egate, and DR.. Parodi. France dele
gate, is working-With success, it is
said-to have the latest Polish reso-
luton whipped into acceptable
shape by 2 pm. today, when the
Council meets.
May Underline Assembly Rights.
Broadly, the subcommittee resolu-
ton will follow the lines of the
Polish resolution, offered Monday,
which provides for keeping the
Spanish issue on the Security Coun-
Gil agenda and for its consideration
again by September l. 1t is prob
able that language will be written
into the resolution which will pro-
tect the right of the General As
semby to consider the Spanish prob
lem, even though it remains on the
Council agenda.
Dr.. Lange of Poland, in supporting
the Soviet plan for atomic energy
said:
In the name of the government
OF Poland. Il want to give my full
support to the draft convention pro-
posed (by Russia. 1t contains all
the basic ideas which were brought
forward in the name of our govern
ment by Mr.. Modzelewski at the
January meeting of the General
Assembly"
DR.. Lange, before concluding his
statement, delivered a biting warn
ing TO those who do believe that
they can profit from the martial
use of atomic energy for their own
narrow and selfish purposes.
There was group of people who
thought that they could dominate
the world through the ruthless use
of the most advanced means of de-
struction, of which they had a tenn
porary monopoly. They thought
that by quick tightening warfare
they could achieve their ends. They
started by overrunning Poland and
they were not successful. Today
Hitler is dead, but Poland is very
much alive Others are being tried
at Nurenburg," he said.
mo temporary advantage. by
whomever held, will prevail against
the will of the people to preserve
their freedom and against the con-
science of mankind"
Evening star., 1946-06-26
Slaughter Of ; Towns
Charged 10 Chetniks
BY the Associoied Press

BELGRADE, June ga group of
Serb peasants took the witness stand
today at the trial of Gen. Draja
Mihailovich and told with gruesome
detail how men they identified as
Chetniks slaughtered the inhabi-
tants of three villages near Belgrade
in l943 and 1914.
Four Serbs from Bolech testified
that Chetniks raided the village one
winters night in 1943. plundered the
residents and carried out mass
slaughters. They said the raiders
announced they were fighting for
King and country against the Com
muniStS."
One gray-haired peasant, lila
Ilich, exhibited in the courtroom
red-stained cradle in which he said
he had seen a 4-month-old baby
lying with its throat slit the day
after Christmas. Six men in the
household-all friends of his-were
slain, Ilich testified.
~ "do eeiiAulc, 1lC ucCldl Gu.
How do you know the Chetniks
did it?" the witness was asked by the
president Of the court.
Because I saw them Ilich re-
piled. While I was burying them
the Chetniks were roasting a COW
in nearby field"
The prosecution indictment charges
that total of 70 residents of Bolech
were killed by the raiders.
Gen. Mihailovich, directed by the
court to confront the Bolech wit
nesses, denied that the men We're
acting under his orders. When the
babys cradle was exhibited in the
courtroom, the Chetnik leader was
told to look at it and was asked:
rs this the execution of your Or
der to purge the Communists?
mo, never replied Gen. Mihailo-
vich.
Evening star., 1946-06-26
BidauIt Calls for Truce
By French Political Parties
By the Associated Press

PARIS. June 26. President
Georges Bidault called today for a
truce among French political parties
and promised France would main
tain our friendships and alliances
with the great peoples who were
our allies in the war and in the
victory"
Speaking to the Constituent As
sembly, the new President urged
unity while important international
conferences were being held in
Paris and the new French constitu-
ton was still to be written.
I'VE will maintain Frances pres
ence in all the territories grouped
in her brotherhood, he declared.