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Evening star., 1946-02-17
News Of District Area Men
In the Armed Forces
Dead

1t. Comdr. Daniel Sparks Baugh-
man, USN, whose wife, Mrs. Mary
H. Baughman, lives at 310O Connec-
ticut avenue NV, is now listed as
presumed to be dead, the Navy De-
partment announced yesterday
Comdr. Baughman was listed as
missing in action late last May.
Graduated from the Naval Acad-
emy in 1899, Comdr. Baughman had
been on duty in the Pacific about
a year when he was lost in action.
He had won two Silver Star awards
for gallantry.
Ensign William Joseph Allen, 81
USNR, torpedo bomber pilot who
was reported missing after failing
to return from an air mission over
Formosa last March, now is pre-
sumed to be dead, the Navy has in
formed his wife, Mrs. Dolores Allen
1928 Dale drive, Silver Spring.
The young naval airman was q
native of Manhattan, Kans He
was a graduate of Montgomery
Blair High School in Silver Spring
class of 1941, and attended the Uni
versity of Maryland until he en-
listed in October, 1943.
Mrs. Allen is an employe in the
Navy Department Bureau of Ships
He is also survived by his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Allen, 10407
Amherst avenue, Silver Spring.
Frank Priest Browning, jr., 81,
Aviation machinist's mate 1lc,
U. S. N. r., gunner aboard Gaum-
based Navy patrol plane which fail
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Mrs. Monkin Won Congress
Race by Own Effort, Writer Says

covered" her work during her
several terms in the Georgia Legis-
lature, she is not radical on the
race question" or on labor issues.
No admirer of the ladies in politics,
he portrays her as an intelligent,
middle-class. outspoken woman,
fifty-ish and at home in any
woman's club or sodality.' 2
Mrs Mankin will fill the unexpired
term of an able Congressman named
Ramspeck, an authority on civil
service, who has resigned to take a
well-paying job in aviation. Mr..
Ramspeck by Southern standards
was liberal. Mr.. Camp was his
secretary for many years.
But Mr.. Camp had recently been
employed by the Georgia Associa-
ton of Railroads and Mrs. Mankin
made the most of it; harping con-
tinualy upon the iniquity of the
|differential freight rates imposed by
the railroads on the South. She
|smartly aligned herself with popu-
lar Gov. Arnall, who has fought this
issue to the Supreme Court, and
promised to battle for the Arnall
program in Washington.
1t was suggested that Mrs. Man
kin owed her victory in part to
her name of Douglas. She will join
two Douglases in the House: Emily
Taft Of Illinois and Helen Gahagan
of California. She joins, in fact, a
superior collection of Congress
woman members who, whatever
their party, have set high stand
ard of comradeship.
Mrs. Mankin's husband is a busi-
nessman. Her brother Is head of
the Atlanta Law School. Her only
son is merchant seaman.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Wilson College Plans Talks
For School Secretaries

A series of IS lectures on the quail
ity of a good school secretary will
begin at $50 pm. Tuesday at Wilson
Teachers College.
Secretaries other than school en-
ployes will be admitted, the Secre-
tarial Association of the District
Public Schools announced. The fee
for the Is weekly lectures is IS,
and for individual lectures, 81.
Some of the subjects to be dis
cussed include the secretary and
human relations" personality ad-
justments' and personal appear
ance
Hugh Smith, principal of Jeffer-
son Junior High School, and Miss
Grace Robinson of the association
will speak at the open session
Tuesday on what the employer and
secretary expect from each other.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
KiIian Faces Charges.
For Failure 10 Answer
Question al Trial |
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Feb. 16.-Col. James
A. Kilian of Highland Park, Ill,
was charged today with conduct
ito the prejudice of good order
and military discipline" for fail
ure to answer a question during
a court-martial which convicted
a soldier of mistreating prison.
erS at the Lichfield detention
camp.
The charge was filed after Col.
Kilian, appearing as witness, re-
piled that he could not remember
when ordered by the court president
TO answer a prosecution question.
Headed LichfieId Camp.
Col. Kilian was commanding Off
Ger of the 10th Replacement Depot
at Lichfield when the events took
place for which Sergt. Judson H.
smith OF Cumberland, KY, yester-
day Was sentenced to three years at
hard labor and dishonorable dis
charge.
The charge now goes to Col. Claude
Thiele, London area commanding
officer, who can either dismiss it
summarily or order an investigation
to determine whether Col. Kilian
should be tried by court martial.
Col, Thiele also will review the
sentence against Smith.
The court-martial also forwarded
to Col. Thiele an undisclosed recon-
mendation.
New Charges Asked.
Capt. Earl J. Carroll, prosecuting
Smith, asked the court yesterday to
recommend to the authorities that
charges be preferred against off,
GERS properly responsible for acts of
mistreatment" at the Lichfield
camp.
Eight other enlisted men and two
junior officers still await trial.
The charge against Col. Kilian
was brought under the Goth Article
"a w oA oiANt " 40 oi6IACo NY bllC
dent OF the court-martial, Col Louis
P. Leone.
Col. Kilian had been asked on
February by Prosecutor Carroll
what steps he (Kilian) took to see
that prison officer was appointed
in accordance with Army regula-
tions.
Scott Charges Dropped.
The United States Army said it
had dropped charges against Sergt.
Robert e. Scott of Columbus, Ohio,
who had been accused of mistreat-
ing prisoners at the Lichfield camp
The Judge Advocate Generals Of
fee in London said the action was
taken last December because of
lack of evidence.
An Associated Press dispatch yes
terday, reporting the conviction of
Smith, enormously included Sergt.
Scott among list of defendants
awaiting trial.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
by Doris EIeesou

For the first time the South is
sending a woman to Congress who
got in under her own steam and not
because she was the widow of an
esteemed politician.
How Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin
an Atlanta lawyer, wreSted her vic
tory from her II male opponents In
the 5th Georgia District is still a
matter OF debate among the stunned
Southerners here. Atlanta fell be-
fore: it has fallen again." mourned
Representative Rankin of Missis-
sippi, die-hard, white supremacy re-
dictionary known to his detractors as
the one-man white trash bloc"
Even before she can begin her
term, an attempt is. being made to
hang around Mrs. Mankin's neck
an albatross in the form of Box 3-B
the election returns from Precinct
B in the Sd ward, Atlanta, which
is predominantly Negro. Thomas
L. Camp led Mrs. Mankin by 147
votes until Box 3-B, near the end
OF the count, yielded her e56 ballots
and Camp only seven. Her total
plurality was ITO.
The Atlanta Daily World, a con-
servative Negro newspaper, quickly
claimed that the Negro vote elected
her. OF course, ITO white persons
who voted for her also might claim
it was their franchise that did the
work.
1ndubitably she was backed by the
C1O and indubitably somebody did
fine job of electioneering for her.
Georg1ans q profess themselves
puzzled about where to assign credit
or blame.
According to reporter who
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Union Resumes ParIeys
With Movie Producers
BY the Associated PrAsx

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. l6.-Negotia-
tions between the AFL Conference
of Studio Unions and the Motion
Picture Producers were resumed to-
day with announcement of another
meeting of representatives of both
sides.
Herbert K. Sorrell, head of the
Conference, who had threatened a
strike in the movie studios Monday,
said, There will be no work stop
page as long as negotiations are
continued by the producers in good
faith" and added: There is a dis
position on the part Of the pro-
ducers to settle our differences over
the conference table"
Mr.. Sorrell has called a mass
meeting of studio workers for to-
morrow night He declared the IS
unions comprising the conference
would ignore an announcement by
the AFL Los Angeles Central Labor
Council and the AFL Los Angeles
Building and Construction Trades
Council that their unions would 'op-
pose walkout by conference unions.
The Conference of Studio Unions
is demanding 36hour week with
out reduction in the pay now re-
ceived for 48 hours, or a wage rate
of s270 an hour instead OF the pres
ent 81 30.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
$4,000 Fire DESTROYS
Dormitory Building
At Stuyvesant School
Speeiol Dispotch to The stor

WARRENTON, Va, Feb. 1e.-The
dormitory and classroom building
OF the Stuyvesant School, a private
secondary school for boys here. was
destroyed by fire this afternoon.
Damage was estimated at more than
$4,000.
The two-story stucco building was
burned to the ground, but none of
the 26 students housed in the build
ing was injured. The owners, DON
old A. Williamson and Clark c. Copp
were unable to estimate the exact
damage Immediately but said the
building cost, without the equip
ment, between $4,000 and $50 ,OO(
when it was constructed several
years ago.
E. B. King, who formerly oper-
ated the school, and lives across the
street from the building, said the
fire appeared to have started in a
corner room in the basement and
spread quickly through the entire
building. He said the Warrenton
Volunteer Fire Department kept the
fire from spreading to buildings
close by
Mr.. King said the owners of the
school were planning to send the
boys home for few days until plans
could be made for continuing classes.
School officials said about six boys
from Washington were students at
the school.
Stuyvesant, a college preparatory
school, was founded in 1912. It is
located on Winchester street Just
beyond the city limits.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Jury Will Receive
Trailer Murder Case
Some Time tomorrow

The case of Raymond Connors
charged with the murders of Ed
ward Barker and Pany Casbarian
will be placed in the hands of a
District Court jury tomorrow. The
Government will ask the death
penalty.
The two men were found dead in
a trailer in parking lot at Four
teenth and N streets NV. last
February %. Both had been bound
hand and foot and shot through
the head.
The Governments case centers
around a diamond which Joseph
uittle Joe) Vinci, Connors' alleged
accomplice, has testified for the
Government that his companion
showed him on traian while they
were en- route from Washington to
New York after the murders and
which Connors allegedly told him
was taken from the hand of "the
old man." meaning Mr.. Barker
The stone has not been produced
in court but testimony regarding it
has become the principal corrobora-
ton OF Vinci's testimony.
Testimony of an accomplice need
not be corroborated for a jury to
convict in the Federal Jurisdiction
However, Supreme Court opinions
have said contradictory that it
is the. better practice" for judges
to instruct juries to require it.
Before giving the case to the jury
tomorrow. Justice David A. Pine
is expected to give two charges
one at the request of the defense
the other at the request of the
prosecution.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Three Schools Here Added
In Legion 0rafory Contest

Three additional schools here have
joined the II originally listed in the
American Legion oratory contest
which began February 6.
The Capitol Page School, one Of
the three which recently decided to
enter contestants in the National
High School Oratorical Contest, will
have Representatives and Senators
as judges in the preliminaries held
at the school. The two other new
entries are Holy Trinity and Priory
School.
Students orationS must be written
by the contestant and must not re-
quire less than 10 minutes or more
than II minutes for delivery. Par
ticipants have a choice of II sub
jects concerning the Constitution
and citizenship.
The American Legion estimates
100000 high school students in A
States participated in the oratorical
last year. 1t believes that this
number will be greatly exceeded this
year.
District department finals will be
held in the Commerce Department
auditorium March 20
Evening star., 1946-02-17
IS Injured in Battle
Between Reich Police
And Displaced Poles
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Feb. 49, Gen.
Joseph T. McNarney, chief of Ameri-
can occupation forces in Germany,
is studying an of1icial but unpub-
llshed report of riot between Ger
man police and Polish displaced
persons near Mannheim in which
Is persons were injured and
American Military Government and
UNRRA officials we're involved.
No one was seriously injured in
the riot, but a German policeman
was hit over the head with his own
carbine when more than $50 per-
sons clashed in a series of fist
fights at Lampertheim, suburb OF
Mannheim, February 6.
In Frankfurt. where the Official
report was sent, Col. Clarence E.
Lovejoy, American public relations
chief, refused to give any details of
the riot.
1t was learned, however, that the
riot apparently started when a dis
possessed German woman was re-
fused entry to her former home by
a Jewish displaced person occupy
ing the house under UNRRA super
vision. The German woman was
reported to have summoned two
German Police, who were attacked
by displaced persons A local mill
tary government officer, an army
lieutenant, was then summoned.
Two blocks from the house, this
account continued, the officer met
an UNRRA official in charge of the
persons area and the
chief of police Of the camp, him.
self a displaced person. A crowd
gathered, and in the course of the
shouting, the lieutenant was re-
ported to have pushed aside a
Jewish displaced person.
Reports said the crowd became
incensed and that
which had been going on
near the house, broke out again
and involved several American SOL
diers.
American military police were
called and drove the displaced per-
sons back to their houses, ending
the 30-minute disturbance.
1t was reported unof1cially that
military government officials in
vestigating the incident exonerated
the lieutenant and described the
disturbance as case OF over
excitement.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
374 British Wives, Children
Met by Husbands on Pier
BY the AsSoeioied Press


NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-The United
States Army transport Santa Paula
docked here today with 25l British
war wives and 123 children-and for
the first time the Army permitted
husbands to greet wives on the pier.
Seventy-five husbands, many with
bouquets of flowers and candy, were
on hand to welcome the wives to
America. Some had paced the
windy dock for hours.
Seventy-five wives and 80 chill
dren left the ship tonight. Others
we're to Begin debarking at 10 am
tomorrow.
The Santa Paula had been 10 days
crossing from Southampton, Eng
land. She was the third such ship
to arrive here from England, the
others being the Argentina and the
Queen Mary.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Kilgore Wants Argentina
To Surrender Nazi Assets
BY the A.seeioisd Press

Senator Kilgore. Democrat, of
West Virginia. suggested yesterday
that demand be made on Argen-
tina to hand over all German owned
or controlled assets in that country
If the South American nation r.
fused tos do SO, the West Virginisn
said in statement, the four powers
occupying Germany could apply
strict sanctions" against the Ar
gentine government, and bring up
the possible expulsion of Argentina
from the United Nations.
Il have no sympathy with the
doctrine: To the neutrals belong
the spoils,'" he said.
Senator Kilgore is chairman of a
Senate Military Affairs subcommit-
tee which is making a detailed
study of the methods used by the
Nazis in launching their attempt
at world conquest.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Holdup Man Assaults
Woman Clerk in Store
After S42 Robbery

A young woman clerk was crimi-
nally assaulted last night by holdup
man who vaulted the counter and
forced her to the rear of store
In the 1400 block of Park road
NV, police reported. They said
the bandit also was believed re-
Sponsible for another holdup and
purse-snatching later in the same
general area.
The assault victim, 25, and mar
ried, was treated at Gallinger Hos
pital and released. Her husband
was understood to be serving in the
Navy overseas.
According to police, mustached
colored man, 35 to 40 years old. wear
ing a light tan gabardine raincoat,
entered the store about pm, pro-
duced a revolver and said:
This is stickup. Give me the
money
Gave Him Money from Register.
Police said the employe told them
she turned over about $42 in bills
and change from the cash register,
after which the bandit jumped over
the counter, showed her to the rear
of the store and assaulted her.
He then left, warning he would
wait outside and kill her If she
attempted to call police within 10
minutes. The clerk waited the speci-
fled time and then summoned police
by telephone.
Police said they were told the clerk
had lived in Washington only seven
weeks. They did not learn her home
town.
Youth Robbed at Laundry.
At 9:15 pm, a eoiored man an
swering the same description, except
for a strip of adhesive tape on his
upper lip, entered the Jim Coon
laundry, 1914 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV, showed a pistol and de-
manded money.
When occupants of the store were
slow in obeying his orders the man
came behind the counter in search
of cash register and, not finding
it, turned on Richard Long, II, of
1902 U street NV, who was in the
store. Police said he forced the
youth outside and took his wrist
watch and wallet containing $40.
Young Long returned to the store
and called police
Helen Coon, Is, ran to living
quarters in the rear of the premises
when the holdup man entered to
release her German Shepherd dog
Smokey" hoping the animal would
attack the intruder Smokey" ran
under a bed. Also'in the establish
ment at the time were the propri-
etor, Jim Coon, IS; his wife, two
sons, and three daughters beside
Helen.
The purse-snatching, netting 81
in cash, took place at TAO pm. in
the 1900 block of Nineteenth street
NV. The description furnished by
the victim. Mrs. Barbara M. Edie,
1470 Harvard street NV, tailed in
general. police said, with the de-
scriptions given in the other cases
Mrs. =Edie told them it was dark
and she did not notice whether the
man had mustache, they reported.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Twin Spinster Sisters, 7S,
Found Beaten 10 Death
By the Asseeioisd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Two 78-
year-old spinster twins were found
dead on the kitchen floor of their
Staten Island home today, their
heads battered and their bodies
wrapped in rugs. ar
Police identified the sisters as May
and Viola de Hart, members of one
of Staten Islands oldest families.
Neighbors said they saw Viola go
shopping nearly a week ago, but
that neither had been seen since.
Police expressed belief they had
been dead many hours" but said
they had no clues as to the killer or
his motives.
The bodies were discovered by IL
year-old Dolores Schottman, who
said she noticed the kitchen window
panes broken and looked in out of
curiosity.
Police said they found no evidence
OF the house being ransacked.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
American U. Offering
Course on Short Stories

American University will open a
series of six weekly lectures on short
story writing at 7 pm. Tuesday at
514 Nineteenth street, it was an
nounced yesterday.
- The first speaker will be Gorham
Munson, editor of Prentice Hall,
New York publishing house, who will
speak on The Psychology of the
Reader: Why He Hates to Read
But Loves to Be Compelled to Read. 4"
Other speakers in the series will
be Bernard v. Dryer, fiction writer
for Golfers magazine; Geraldine E.
Rhoads, editor of Today's Woman;
Don Congdon, editor of Simon &
Schuster; Phyllis Moore Gallagher,
fiction writer for Cosmopolitan
magazine. and Helen Orr Watson,
juvenile fiction writer.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Johnson and Wheeler
Attack Loan 10 British
AS Playing Favorites'
By the A,soeiofed Press

Senator johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado contended last night that
playing favorites" by granting
Britain a projected $3.50 ,000, 600
loan would lead to international
Jealousy and eventually to war"
He and Senator Wheeler, Demo-
crat, of Montana, both prewar non
interventionists, joined in vitriolic
opposition to the loan in a Nation
wide broadcast over NBC. They
urged substitution of plan to
raise the money by sale of bonds
to private investors as a test OF
American opinion.
Their broadcast was sponsored by
the State Department in response,
it said. TO request and in accord
ance with our practice of present.
ing both sides of controversial ques-
tions." The State Department has
gone to bat for the loan.
List New Conditions.
Both Senators johnson and
Wheeler, in a preview of the mega
tive side of the coming congressional
debate on the issue, argued that:
l. 1t will not pass Congress unless
present sentiment changes.
2. Disarmament should be insisted
upon as a condition to future loans.
3. Acquisition of defense bases
should be made a condition Of the
loan if it is granted.
Terming the proposed loan "a
mighty bad precedent" Senator
johnson said applications for loans
from all nations should be consid-
cred by us at one time. To grant
loan to one nation and deny it
to another is very serious business
which would involve us in a bitter
international crisis"
Sees More Requests Coming.
Senator Wheeler said during his
recent visit to Europe not only Brit
tain, but France, Italy, Greece,
Turkey, almost every country in Eu-
rope and Asia, indicated that they
would insist upon loan, in order,
as they say, to build up world trade
and to free the economy of the
world"
I'VE are asked" chimed in Sen
ator johnson, ito loan Socialist
Britain $4,000, 100000 and national-
istic China 100000 900 and Social
ist-Communist France So SOC, 900 900,
plus l to billions for Communist
RUSSIA grand total of 10 to IS
billions to finance nations that pub
licly and officially denounce Amer
ican capitalism"
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Average of 416 Persons Daily
Seek Rooms at Housing Center

An average OF 416 persons day
are applying for rooms and other
Accommodations ut the Washington
Housing Center, l400 Pennsylvania
avenue, Mrs. Ellen Harper, man
ager, revealed last night as she
appealed for additional listings of
rooms, apartments and houses.
Hundreds of people formerly
renting to war workers have dis
continued renting rooms and other
Accommodations, in the belief there
is no longer an urgent need" she
said.
THE truth is, the need has never
been more desperate"
Mrs. Harper said the center needs
listings of thousands" of rooms to
keep abreast of demand" Right
now there is a large backlog of un-
Evening star., 1946-02-17

eu W TeJuTn
from a South
W e S t Pacific
mission March
7, 1914, is pre-
sumed to b e
dead, the Navy
h a S informed
his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. P.
Browning, 227
East M nr e
avenue, a Alexan-
dria.
Mate Brown
ing had been on
overseas d u t y
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Norlander. Sergt. William G. Saladino, Pfc
Leonard jameson T/5 Meyer Dolinskey.
Pvt. George Lawrence. TI5 Ellsworth
Wheeler. Sergt. Ralph w. Dowdee. Sergt.
corpl Jerome A. Tyre. T/5 Lorenzo Fow-
ler TIA William Jones. T/5 Thomas
Moody. T/5 Richard L. Younger. Pvt.
George Palmer Pvt Melvin L. Wilkerson.
Sergt. Luther Logan, jr., and Pfc. Earl T.
Holman.
Names of additional nearby Mary
land and Virginia veterans who re-
turned on Friday at New York
aboard the Gen. Howse include:
T/5 Philip w. Young, Arlington: Pfc
William J. Richards, Alexandria: T/5 An
drew J, Spouse. Alexandria; TIA Frank L.
Dove, Mount Rainier; M /Sergt. Robert s.
Stone Frederick; Sergt Daniel l.. Vanors-
dale, Berwyn: T rs Harry p Jordan, Gath
ersburs: and Pfc. william Z. cissell, tr..
Chevy Chase
Evening star., 1946-02-17


the officer in charge and, subse-
quently, acting officer in charge. He
has held his present position since
January l, 1914.
During the last five years. the
accompanying citation states, Capt.
Bennett served with distinction" in
developing the laboratory's small
technical group to staff of over
TOO scientists. including some of the
countrys ablest men.
Capt. and Mrs. Bennett live at
2909 N street Sc.
COmdr. Donald Waters Seller, 43,
U. S. N. R., 1924 Ridge place Sc,
received the Legion of Merit in a
ceremony Friday at headquarters of