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Evening star., 1946-05-19


over acre; home surrounded by ige
& shade trees trees on main hwy, only mi
DEWEY M FREEMAN. FRI MAN. aaf4 ,s2a Branch heils ans
SILVER SPRING. near indian sprins
ses nished attic Gss Sooded dnq iot o4i 56xi5l ts
June /. SANDY SPRINGS REALTY CO
IMMEpIATE 4 SIa $3.50
transferred to California. 5rm., bath
spse to m
Gail WILLIAM l. PRIMROSE, WA s4s4
RYATTsvILLE-Imm occupancy, g
det. garage full basement. automati
domestiics NV. heater: hot7air coal heat
gaynsnSs s$s ss' Cali WILLIAM sSfH L |s PS5M
VACANT. immediate possession-open to
Ryerdae say TO- AttrsetTe fso ST
bungalow on lge: lot; hye lovely; well-ar
ransed rms. and bath. h:-w.h:, full base
S5rs sDprecated e % Only $3.50 &C on S1sa reasonab
terms. oWNER: EA NI1, Ioes Z or Or NA; ~, 5lse
E.rss ssn and bath home GsmR Rth onsf
acres Of fine land several outbuldinss
suitable, as an estate, nursery business
$4,000. LEIGH c. KELSEY, Jr., 500 Pa
ave: Sc LU. 1914 or FIR. 4030.
SUITLAND, MD-Large, modern 5-rn
and bath bungalow; large rms, fireplace
full basement, oil h.-w.h.. large attic; suf
ficient for ? extra rooms; elec. range an
refrig.: 2-car garage; almost l acre. O
ground: beautiful lawn: city water; clos
to Suitland Govt. bldgs; excellent bu
service: Sl1, 800 terms DEWEY N
FREEMAN, :9215 Branch ave. Sc. SP
O767 Closed Sunday go
CAMP SPRINGS, MD-4-rm and bat
bungalow, about, j acre: excellent plac
for garden and chickens: bus service
!4.75O: terms. DEWEY M FREEMAN
1914 Branch ave. Sc, SP. 0767. Close
TEMPLE HILLS. Mp.-Beautiful 7;rm an
bath home. bedrms, oil INV h.. elet
range and refris: over half acre: bus serv
Ice: 81 800: terms. DEWEY N. FREE
MAN. 3214 Branch ave. Sc, SP. 0167
Closed Sunday
BETHESDA, owner leaving town: 6-roor
brick; large fenced yard. saraee. full base
ment, freplace: convenient to schools. bu
and, stores: price, 81 5.150. Call Nj
Smith, OIL. o67s. with THOMES F. HAL
LEY, -21
Evening star., 1946-05-19

located 6-room
,om, fireplace. dining
;. refrigerator. 8 bed
ID porch. yard fenced,
water, oil a.-c. heat.
terms. COLLINS d.
HE. 1886 Wilson blvd,
Evening star., 1946-05-06
1850 on Trial in Bucharest
On War Crimes CHARGES
By the A,.oeioted Pres.

BUCHAREST, May 6-Sixteen
of Romania's major war criminal
defendants, including the former
Marshal Ion Antonescu, 81, the
country's wartime dictator, went or
trial for their lives today before g
special peoples tribunal.
Antonescu, known as the con.
ductor" because he is generally helc
chiefly responsible for leading Ro.
mania into the war on Germany's
side, answered routine question
by, saving he once was tried fol
bigamy.
Eight other defendants are beine
tried in absentia. They are former
Iron Guardists who fled to Ger
many in 194l and 1912, after ar
abortive revolt, in which they triec
to take power from Antonescu They
are believed to be in a camp neal
Rome.
ROME. May 6 lP,.-Marshal Ro
dolfo GRAHAM, War Minister il
Mussolini's puppet Fascist govern
ment and former Italian commando
in North Africa, will be brought t.
trial May "a on a charge of col
laboratlng with the Germans.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Group 10 Be Formed
To Ship Food Parcels

A Washington committee of the
Co-opera tive for American Remit
tances to Europe. nonprofit cor
poration designed to help feed per-
sons abroad, will be formed at a
meeting of religious, civic and labor
leaders Thursday at 1915 pm. at
the YWCA, GA E street NV.
David H. Scull of the Co-opera tive
League Of the United States of
America will preside.
Plans call for individual collec-
tions of SIS which buys an Army
food package known by the service
as 10-in-1-enough food to supply
10 persons for one day. Under the
program, donor may designate de-
livery of the package to relatives,
friends, cooperative group or other
organizations in Europe, Mr.. Scull
said.
Packages may be shipped to
Poland France. the Netherlands
Norway, Finland, Italy. Czecho-
slovakia, Austria, Belgium and
Greece.
Donald NJ Nelson, former chair
man Of the War Production Board
is honorary president of the CO.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Read Admiral MacNair, ,
Veteran Chaplain, Dies
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, May 6-Rear
Admiral James Duncan MacNair,
II, retired Navy chaplain who was
active in military and religious or
ganizations, died Saturday at his
home.
Admiral MacNair held the Navy
Cross, awarded for heroism while
chaplain of the 9th Marine Regi-
ment at Belleau Wood during the
First World War.
A native of Trout River, Quebec,
he was graduated from Boston Uni
versity School of Theology in 1905.
preached in Maine and New York
and then entered naval service in
1909. He served as chaplain aboard
navy vessels for % years, being
commissioned rear admiral in 1896.
Evening star., 1946-05-06

knife which Carnes had taken from
prison kitchen.
Mr.. Burch said that when he re-
gained consciousness in the gun gal
lery Coy took two shots at him and
called out: I'll kill you if you try
TO reach that phone!'
BY Thursday night, hours after
the battle began, guards under a
hot covering fire pushed inside the
cell wing and brought out the hos
tages. BY Friday. Marine fragmen-
tation grenades were being hurled
into the wing through its roof Both
Cretzer and Hubbard were wounded
by some of the $50 explosives, but
rifle bullets killed them. A pistol
bullet finished Coy.
By Saturday, firing from inside
the cell-block citadel ceased. Sur
viving prisoners had skunk back to
! their cells.
Not one had even broken out into
| the prison ward,
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Mother's S Trial in Staying
Of Daughter DELAYED

Trial of Mrs, Maude o. Summers,
So, of the $500 block of Alabama
avenue Sc, on charge of second
degree murder in the shooting of
her daughter, Annie M. Summers,
II, at their home last February
was postponed today by Justice
Alexander Holtzoff of District Court
until May Is.
Mrs. Summers was scheduled to
go On trial today but Defense At
torney Charles E. Ford asked for a
Evening star., 1946-05-06

touchable in the heavily barred gun
gallery (Which is patrol area, not
an arsenaD was Guard Burch.
armed with .3OO6 Springfield rifle,
AS automatic pistol and several
gas ''billies"
The gun gallery has no doors
! opening into any cell block. Guards
enter it only through two armored
doors from outside the cell blocks.
These are opened separately by the
lieutenant of the guard when the
guard is being changed. No weapons
are kept there.
/ 1t was considered impossible to
! get into the gun gallery from a cell
block until the Kentucky bank rob-
Der proved the Nations best peno-
logist wrong.
Mr.. Burch went through a door
leading into that part of the gal
lery overlooking cell block D. Barred
doors and a concrete wall separate
block D from block c. About 80
convicts were in each block.
Coy, alone on the floor below the
gun gallery in block C, stood on a
radiator. leaped. caught the lower
bars of the gun gallery, and climbed
up them.
Found Achilles Heel"
At the top of the gallery he found
Alcatraz's Achilles heel" as War;
den Johnston admitted.
There the bars curve to the wall
to form the barred roof of the gun
gallery, and there Coy inserted a
prison-made Spreader.
This device was made of at least
10 pieces of connections stolen from
prison toilets and screwed together
Coy also had stolen somewhere a
heavy pair of prison pliers. With
these he turned the threads of the
plumbing connections, extending
them. This spread the 5-inch gap
between the bars to 7 inches. The
cross bars we're 18 inches apart.
This left a hole 7 by 1S inches.
1t seemed improbable that even a
runty, Wiry convict like Coy could
get through such an aperture. but
Warden Johnson said Coy made it,
squirmed inside the gun gallery floor
and slugged Mr.. Burch as he came
back through the door.
Gave CretZer Pistol.
Selling Mr. Burch's weapons, coat
and keys, Coy went back out
| through the opening he had made
in the bars, stuck up the floor
guards in block c and locked them
into cells, then with Mr.. Burch's
keys he entered the upper tier of
| block D.
First Coy freed Cretzer and gave
him the pistol. Coy kept the rifle.
Next came Carnes, Shockley and
the others.
Coy opened fire with the rife on
! two guard towers which command
ed the yard.
Mr. Burch still lay in the gun GAL
terry and Warden Johnson sent six
guards to storm it, fearing the con-
victs were inside. Cretzer's deadly
| fire met them and Guard Sites was
killed. Three of the other guards
| were wounded.
The armed felons had locked three
guards in cell block C and easily
captured four more who rushed in
at the first alarm.
The felons turned their guns on
the guards locked in the cells. 1t
was at this time that Mr.. Miller was
wounded fatally. Only one guard
escaped being wounded.
Took Guards Wallet.
This guard was C. w. Sundstrum.
who said Cretzer ordered him to
strip, took his wallet containing $92
and said: You can call this high
Way robbery"
= One guard was stabbed with q
Evening star., 1946-05-06
PTA TO Hear McPeek

The Rev. Francis J. McPeek, di-
rector of the Washington Federation
of Churches, will address the Lang
don Elementary School PARENT
Teachers Associations child study
group at 7:45 o'clock tonight at the
home of Mrs. Brook L. Haines, 26l3
Twenty second street NE. DO Our
Children Have Prejudices?" will be
his subject.
Evening star., 1946-05-06

continuance and Justice Holtzoff
set the date.
Mr.. Ford announced he would
have as a defense witness psychia-
trist who will testify that at the
time of the shooting Mrs. Summers
was of unsound mind
Mrs. Summers, indicted March 4
was quoted by police as saying she
knelt by her daughters bed and
shot her while she was asleep. Mrs.
Summers said she meant to take her
own life but after shooting her
daughter she did not have strength
to raise the pistol to her own head.
Evening star., 1946-05-06

operative, and 1t. Gen. William N.
Haskell, U. S. A., retired, executive
director. The organization was
formed last year with the support
and approval of the Presidents War
Relief Control Board.
Thursdays meeting also will in
clude a coordination Of, various
groups here now active in food
relief.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
librorions Elect Mrs. Scott

Mrs. James Scott, director of the
Alexandria Public Library. was elect
ed vice president of the Virginia Lii
brary Association at the close of its
tWo-day annual meeting at Rich
mond Saturday. Foster Mohrhardt,
Washington and Lee University
librarian, was named president.
Evening star., 1946-05-06

Inability to locate Franklin,
serving life for killing a guard
during a 1886 attempt to flee
The Rock" was given as one
major reason the break failed.
The convictS were dependent
on his daring and knowledge
of the prison layout.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
HyuttsviIIe OES TO Dine

Ruth Chapter No. 7. Order of the
Eastern Star, will give dinner at
the Masonic Hall. Hyattsville, at
S 80 pm Thursday.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
FOUND.

DOG, black, small, male, short haired, tan
Feet. GE. R1S4
BOG, Airedale type, about months old,
Eale. brown and black, wearing collar; in
kldian Spring Village. WI S90S.
BOG, rescued; Manchester terrier male,
hit BY car Nichols ave-. near w Sc
Owner call ANIMAL PROTECTIVE AS
SOCIATION, 5000 Wheeler rd. s.e AT
142.
KEY FOLDER, containing 4 keys, found
tonn. at 18th. Monday am. Bradley 0152
KEYS Bunch of KEYS al the intersec-
tion- Of 4tia and r. !. ave. ne Call DU
962o Owner may claim at Truck co
f5. at 18th and r. I. ave. ne.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
LOST

BEADED BAG, lost on CrosStown or 9th
M,o St; bus 5ato t1 Hotel 24oO Sat, May 4 Call
BLACK ,1l FOUNTAIN PEN, Waterman, prob
Friday. Reward. Call RA. 1861 IS
COCKER SPANIEL, not thoroughbred; taft
~ colored, female; tag No. 1860, with har-
Reward Ress yi'inty RH Ct ST. lh and Decatur sts
from the vicinity of Nevada ave and Mill
tary I'd. Reward. EN-. 1880 -
DOG. St. Bernard, brown and white, name
csp1nb asSfon SfG seen Gd vicinity Ebenezer
Ashton gss6 or sH. 1923. .
DRESS, lost i'll G. C. Murphy's F st. store,
Return to the store. -
EYEGLASSES. light-rimmed, in black
leather Ga Gase ,p p9ssbly in Hyattsville. Re
EA3rs EA,9. S;Lht CLASSES in case, pale blue rims
lao. Ext 1s5: ewes. AD. o5iss ss ''lne' s.
kEYHOLDER. dark brown leather, con,
1.aalning 20 keys I lost & on 18th @ S. nv bet
lost in front of Logan Motors, on l4th NV
Finder please call WI. 9513. -6
POCKETBOOK, ladys, black cloth; Friday
eve: vicinity llth and Fairmont contain
cIAUDiA c. HUDsoN, AD. 9o6a. 'eNs wa u
PURSE, black patent, containing money
key, glasses; in taxi late Sat. night, Airing.
ton to Wash'g 'gton. After pm, Ii. 1922.
SIAMESE CAT. male, brown, crossed blue
eyes. Friday 1907 Que ST. NV. MI
1918 Reward. -S
SCOTTY, male, strayed from home, April
IS; no tag. S25 reward. WO. ABB. Il!
SMALL BLACK POUCH BAG, in Rock
Greek Park behind Shoreham Hotel around
4:30 pm. Sunday. Call NO. 1913. Reward
WALLET, containing sum of money May
2, at or in vicinity OF Nedicks, 14ta and
F SITS. NV. Reward. MI. 6653. Is
WRIST WATCH, lady's, Hamilton, yellow
gold, engraved; link bracelet; vicinity st
between 9Th and 7th, Saturday LEWIS
ME. 5000. Ext. 2172. 7'
$40 REWARD if wallet lost by PETER
CHIST is returned Address: 1916 Conn
ave. NV. --6
REWARD for return of Manila envelope
containing building contracts and CORE
spondence, dropped in Ga Alaska bus or
on F st. between 11th and Hechts. Box
256-E. Star. 81
Evening star., 1946-05-06

COCKER SPANIEL. male. all black; lost
from the vicinity of Nevada ave. and Mill
tary I'd. Reward. EN- nSSn -
Evening star., 1946-05-06

BEADED BAG, lost on Crosstown or 9th
Wo' VIC Du 2a51 q no'e' soo sat- May 4 Call
BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN, Waterman, prob
ably near 9TH and Illinois ave NV, la ST
Friday. Reward. Call RA 1851 #
Evening star., 1946-05-06

DOG, st. Bernard, brown and white. name
Bruno; last seen vicinity Ebenezer
Church, Ashton, Md; reward. Phone
Ashton ESS6 or SH 1923 g
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
Petting Russia

Word comes from London that the
British are being urged to have patti
ence with and gain understanding of
The campaign, az reported
by the Christian Science Monitor, is
not coming from crypto-communists,
but has the support Of Walter Nash,
New Zealand deputy premier, Mrs.
Winston Churchill and other conser-
vatives, as we'll as labor spokesman.
Large sections Of the British press, too,
are reported doing their share.
This represents a reversal of opinion
in high British places since the Teheran
and Yalta conferences, when Mrs.
ChurchilPs husband Winston, then Brit
ish premier, opposed President Roose-
velt's policy of offering Russia excep-
tional and secret concessions.
In the last issue Of the Saturday
Evening Post, Demaree Bess, associate
editor, who writes extensively on Euro
pean subjects with a political tinge, has
an article in which he describes the then
President Roosevelt as taking a gamble
on Russia and insisting that the Soviet
Union be given almost a free hand in a
large part of Europe and parts of Asia,
on the assumption that the Moscow
regime would cooperate with the West
ern Allies in restoring world peace on
an equitable basis.
In light of Mr.. Bess' article it is
possible to trace Russia's postwar policy
of interference, heckling, intolerance
and intentional delays largely to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's gamble and his failure
to recognize that Russian interest, and
not world peace, would dominate Mos
cows course, once the war ended.
1t is not for us to say that Britain
is wrong in deciding to pet the Russian
bear, but it is not amiss to note that
bears have sharp claws and a habit of
using them when opportunity comes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
Quits In Emergency

Most men of courage fight the hard
err when the odds against them are
greatest. Not so, Mr.. Chester Bowles,
director of the Office of Economic
Sterilization and formerly head of the
Office of Price Administration.
With a bill extending the life of OPA
handicapped by amendments which he
claims would lead directly to greater
than ever initiation about to be passed
by the Senate and sent to President
Truman for signing or veto, Mr.. Bowles
resigned, as of July 10.
He declares that most of the Ameri-
can people have been with him through
out his official career but that Gin
~evitably' his "efforts in behalf of all
the people have antagonized those mi
nority groups which seek special con-
cessions." This, in itself, would seem
to be a sufficient reason for him to con-
tinue his "efforts for all the people,
but he quits when the fight grows
hottest.
We have no means of knowing
whether the legislation he wanted or
the bill as finally enacted and vetoed
by Mr.. Truman would be best for the
people, but if Mr.. Bowles has been the
earnest soul he declares himself to have
been he certainly would not surrender
when the breaks turned against him.
Personal pique, as much as any
thing else, seems to have led up to his
final bow. At least he has made the
threat to quit every time there were
signs that Congress did not intend to
do as he wished.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

Albert A. OstroW has written a
new book entitled The, Complete
Card Player" that is both complete
and easy to understand. Natural
ly Mr.. OstroW knows a great many
bridge players, and he says, "The
majority play just an average
game, and they get a lot of fun
out of little tricks that fool the
opponents" He gave me today's
hand as a demonstration.
The opponents cashed the first
two club tricks and led the third
club, which was ruffed in dummy
with the six-spot. Now the queen
of spades was led. East refused
to cover and played the seven
spot. Declarer took the finesse
and Vests deuce dropped.
The play of the seven-spot by
East was a puzzler for the declar-
er. If East had held the king-ten-
sever originally, he would have
covered in order to insure a trump
trick. So d%eclarer, reading East
for the king-seven blank, led the
elght-spot from dummy. When
East played the four, there was
no way for the declarer to keep
the opponents from getting a trump
trick. With a diamond trick lat
err, the contract was set.
False-carding of this type is a
defensive art. If East had played
the four on the first spade trick,
oeclarer would have led the jack
from dummy. If East covered, the
ace would win and the ten would
drop, saving declarer the loss Of
a trump trick
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
Offset For Advances

With the OPA to die in a few hours,
the Agriculture Department announced
on Sunday that meat and wheat would
be thrown on the open market. At the
same time the department declared it's
subsidy program would end with the
death of price control.
The consumer cannot we'll estimate
the effect Of removing government IN
trolls from meat, which he has for the
most part been without at his family
table for some time, or what will hap
pen to his breakfast cereals, but as a
taxpayer he will welcome the news that
subsidies are to be lifted, even though
this means some increase in prices
Mr.. and Mrs. Consumer have been
overloaded with taxes for a long time
with a fair part of their payments go.
ing to meet the cost of subsidies. They
will balance the advanced price of these
and other commodities against the
money they have had to put up fol
subsidies and consider themselves for
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
Atomic Bomb Test

Generally speaking, the world was
more disturbed over the approaching
atomic bomb test at Bikini than the
fleet on which the test was made.
To be sure, three ships 1.-TWO trans
ports and one destroyer) were sunk,
another destroyer so badly damaged it
is expected to sink and thirty-two other
ships in the captive fleet are reported
damaged in varying degrees. But the
fleet was not wiped out. There was no
tidal wave and no earthquake.
So disappointing was the experiment
that correspondents near the scene with
a poetical turn devoted paragraphs to
the beauties of the plumes that rose sky
ward when the bomb exploded.
1t will be some time before the full
effect of the experiment can be known.
There is some significance, however, in
Admiral Blandy's report that some of
the livestock on several ships was alive
after the explosion, although the par
ticular ships involved were not very
close to the bomb when it burst.
Whether this indicates that human be-
ings might be as fortunate under SINH
lar circumstances is a moot question.
Certainly it was not the case at Hiros-
hima and Nagasaki where the after eff
fects of radioactivity are said to have
ended many lives.
This test on Sunday is now consider
ed rather a failure. The opinion may be
revised when all the ship targets are
thoroughly examined. One vital piece
Of information will never be available.
It concerns the destruction of human
life if full crews had been aboard the
target ships. Because this data is lack
ing, thank God! the puzzle of the atomic
bomb remains unsolved.