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Lincoln
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Dumbarton Oaks proposals for the
United Nations, would vastly ex-
pedite the task, Dr. Evatt believes
He does not look with favor on the
Russian plan which calls for two
separate committees. the first fol-
exchange on scientific information
On atomic developments and the
second to be concerned solely with
atomic control
The bitter attack contained In
he Russian newspaper Pravda on
The United States atomic energy
proposal, caused concern in United
Nations circles. Unless confidence
in the goodwill of the powers con-
sidering the atomic control ques-
ZION can be re-established the out
look will be dark, observers said.
Seek Unity on Spain.
While the Atomic Energy Com
mission continues with its discus
sions. q subcommittee of the Secur-
ity Council is engaged today in try
ing to draft program that will
bring semblance of unanimity on
the Franco Spain issue.
Having rejected by vote of 7. to
Poland's original resolution, call
ing for immediate severance of
diplomatic relations with the Franco
government by all members of the
United Nations, the Council agreed
to the appointment of subcommit
tee to try to bring into acceptable
form second Polish proposal. Of
fered late yesterday, designed to
keep the Spanish question on the
Councils agenda.
This second Polish resolution also
calls for the Council to take uE
the Spanish issue not later thar
September l, two days before the
General Assembly meets here. DR.
Evatt, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Brit
ish delegate. and Herschel V. John
son. United States delegate, ex.
pressed fears that if this plan were
pursued, it would be impossible
under the terms of the U. N
charter, for the General Assembly
to tackle the Spanish issue-sinct
the charter provides that the as.
sembly cannot act on matter
which is before the Security Council
Wants Council Jurisdiction.
DR.. Lange insisted he had NJ
intention of denying the assembly
The right to discuss and act or
the Spanish issue, but that he die
demand that the council retair
jurisdiction and the power to dis.
cuss and act, If necessary, on tn,
Spanish issue.
When it appeared that the Council
would fall into another unendin,
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Greater u. S. Share, 'BeorobIe'
Tax Rise Key oD.C. Financing
By John W. Thompson, Jr
Last OF a SerieS.)

Engineer Commissioner Gordon
R. Young said today the cost OF
his $228,000, 900 expansion of city
services and buildings during the
next six years can be met by a
'bearable" increase in taxes plus
a reasonable and equitable" in
crease in the now "grotesque''
Federal payment towal1 District
expenses.
But it cannot be raised by local
taxes alone" Brig. Gen. Young
binations of these two methods are
possible. I am not yet prepared to
make final selection among them. "
The plan is to be studied during
the summer by committee of Off
cials and citizens for submission in
final form to the next session of
Congress. together with program
of financing.
Although the Engineer Commis-
Sioner said a study of the pre-
liminary figures makes it clear the
additional amount can be raised
readily by taxes and an increased
Federal payment, District building
observers predicted that any eX-
traordinary construction would have
to be financed by borrowing. In
creases in the Federal payment and
new taxes will be required simply
to meet increased operating expenses
imposed by salary boots, due to 60
into effect beginning July /, plus
those resulting from putting the new
buildings into service. it was felt.
If the plan is approved as it
stands. including $4,000, 900 charge
able to the District for downtown
subway, observers foreSaW city
debt at the end of five years ex-
ceeding 100000, 900.
Gen. Young said it was ''unthink-
able" that the city should borrow
money to meet current expenses .
A program of new and increased
taxes to raise about $1,000, ,00O
more than is now coming in to city
Golfers annually is being prepared
for the Commissioners by a special
tax committee headed by Corpora
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ton Counsel Vernon West. Details
have not yet been announced.
Were this program enacted II
would still fall far short of the
s30. 100000 in building and operat-
ing costs needed annually for five
years. beginning with the fiscal yeal
1948. to pay for general fund items
alone recommended by Gen. Young
This would not include the highway
and water system Improvements
financed by their own funds.
The Engineer Commissioner s
criticism of the small Federal an
nual payment came as House and
Senate confereeS are discussing q
proposed Senate increase of $4,000
900 in the payment designed to
bring it to $10,000,000.
Gen. Young referred to justifica
tons for the increase presented to
the Senate Appropriations Subcom-
mittee last December and in q
speech by Representative Stefan
Republican, of Nebraska last Janu-
ary in the House. These included
the large amount of federally owned
land removed from city taxation
the few persons paying taxes and
the free water provided the United
States.
Payment Under 3 Per Cent.
Showing by table the decrease in
percentage in the Federal payment
ratio to total city expenses, Gen.
Young said 5000, 900 payment in
1s47 would be less than Q per cent
of the total expenses. whereas in
1920 the United States paid nearly
so per cent.
THE inequiy Of the whole rela-
tionship is SO glaring," he said, that
I cannot but believe that Congress
will take some faction in the near
future"
A loose end in the financial pic
ture was the Recommendation for q
$50 900 900 subway. Gen. Young sug-
gested the Federal Government pay
the cost initially and that the Dis
trict repay half the cost, but did not
say whether it should be charged to
the highway or general fund. No
provision for payment has been
made in either.
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meeting. but he refused to COM
ment, saying he did not want to be-
come involved in a controversial
subject"
Meanwhile. hospitals here were
feeling the pinch on meat supplies
like nearly every one else in the
city.
Gallinger Hospital said 1t was
/ making do with meat substitutes
until meats come out of hiding. u
An ofncial said the hospital had .
promise of some poultry.
Emergency Hospital said it was
serving meat only once q day, such
as stews and canned meat, but had
no promise Of any relief soon.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
$3.50 Spain LoyoIists
Still Held in Prison
BY tire Associotsd Press

MADRID, June 24-Raimundo
Fernandez, Minister of Justice in
the cabinet of Generalissimo Franco,
yesterday said only $3.50 of the
hundreds of thousands" of 10y
alists imprisoned as a result of the
Spanish civil war still are in prison.
Fernandez reported to prison Off
cials that $4,000 prisoners had been
released since last September, leav-
ing Spain's present prison popula-
ton about the same as it was just
before the civil war.
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last nlSnC lnuO
the automobile
of James M. Ra-
gen, W e a l t h v
racing news pub
Usher, seriously
wounding him.
After firing at
the 65-year-old
publisher. W h o
has boldly defied
efforts of a gang
of hoodlurns to
muscle into his
business, t h e
Would-be killers,
hiding in a cam
nIAnnad t,.,1olr
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Racing Publisher ShoI
In Running Gun Fight
On Chicago Street
BY The As.oeioted Press

CHICAGO, June 25.-The rem
nants Of the old Capone gang were
hunted today as police sought the
assaSsins who fired shotgun blasts
Evening star., 1946-06-25

units, technicians. newsmen and OBJ
servers and additional crewmen re-
turning to the target ships after the
area has been declared safe.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Gas on Stomach
Relieved in 5 minutes or

WA s.esss stomsch asid causes painful, sHGssa<s
~ oss. sour stomach and heartburn doctors AsuailS
Dfeseribs the fastest scting medicines known for
Umptomstic rsief-medicines like those in Bsu -sus
Tablets. No laxative Bslf ans brnes eosnfoft IN Q
tiHy or double your monsy back On return Of bsel3s
- Us. IL 1t al druggtsta
Evening star., 1946-06-25
FOUND.

FOR LOST DOGS and dogs for adoption
csn MONTGOMERY COUNTY ANIMAL
SHELTER. Sligo 1888. to I: Saturdays
70 IL.
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Circulation, May, 1916
(AVeraRe net paid

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Evening star., 1946-07-25
LOS

BILLFOLD, letter size, pieskin, engraved
Capt. James I. Birchett' on inside
contains $500; vic. Fort Belvoir Commits
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Marking Atrocities
Described 10 Court
BY the Associotsd Press

TOKYO, July z5.-Six weeks of
criminal attacks. bayonet attacks
and burning of gasoline covered
Chinese after the Japanese seized
Marking December II, 1887, were
described in all their horror today
by a prosecution witness in Tokyo's
war crimes trial.
"A man came to the hospital with
IA bullet in the jaw and two-t thirds
of his body burned" said DR.. Robert
20. Wilson, surgeon at Markings S
University Hospital
He had been seized by japanese
soldiers, shot, covered with gasoline
and set afire. He died two days
later. Another man, severely burned
about the head and shoulders. was
the only survivor of a large group
bound together, drenched with
gasoline and set atire."
His testimony marked the first
prosecution move to bring atrocities
into the case against Hideki TOTO
and 26 other accused top flight war
criminals.
The international tribunal today
sharply squelched defense attempt
to blame American and commercial
interests for the start of the war.
Sir William Webb, president OF
the tribunal. quickly interrupted
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Allies Ban Demonstration
BY Pro- -YugosIavs in Trieste
BY the Assceiaied Press

The Italian news service Ansa
said in Trieste dispatch that the
Allied Military Government had
banned demonstration scheduled
for today by the Italo-Slav Anti
Fascist Union, a pro-Yugoslav or
ganization, because of present dis
turbed conditions" in the Adriatic
city.
The news service said the AMG
had explained that all demonstra-
tions would be prohibited until
conditions became more settled. The
ban was criticized bitterly by the
left wing press.
AMG policies in Trieste also were
criticized in Rome last night. when
Palmiro Togliatti. leader of the
Italian Communist party. told the
Constituent Assembly that Allied
seizure of locked-out shipyards at
Monfalcone did not help Italo-
Yugoslav relations"
A dispatch to II Messagero said
police at Gorilla used tear gas
bombs and clubs yesterday to break
up an unauthorized demonstration
there of approximately 1000 Slavs
who gathered for a sendoff to a
delegation entraining for Ljubljana
Twenty persons were treated for
slight injuries, the dispatch said
while 10 were arrested.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
President Gets Bill
Ordering Army 10 Buy
Home Near Airfie|d

Over strenuous objection by the
War Department, the House today
passed and sent to the White House
bill to authorize the purchase OF
property at 1879 Chesapeake street
S.W, near Boiling Field, following
long time complaints that frequent
flights from the field directly over
the home on the property were haz-
ardous.
The home is owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph L. Bockovac. A retired
tool maker at the Navy Yard, Mr.
Bockovac has appealed to Congress
for more than six years to buy the
property. The bill authorizes the
Secretary OF War to negotiate for
the purchase.
In letters to Senator McCarran,
Democrat, Of Nevada, Mr.. Bockovac
has explained that he bought his
home before the field was extended
almost to his front door, and he
complained of constant vibration and
noise, pieces of metal falling on his
property from time to time and the
danger of plane crash.
To War Department protests that
the property was not needed by Boil
ing Field, Secretary of War Patterson
added the fear that "a precedent will
be established which will be used as
a basis of innumerable requests for
Gil ln,. rfw ~,
In a letter to Chairman May of
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee Mr.. Patterson wrote that the
affordlng of such relief would en-
tail the expenditures of many mil
lions cf dollars by the United States
Government and would have a very
serious effect on the cost of airfield
construction and operation
The Secretary of War also told
committee members that the Budget
Bureau advised there was mo OBJ
lection to the submission of this
report"
A report favoring purchase of the
property was reported by sub
committee of the Senate District
Committee last March. The meas
ure was introduced by Senator Nc
Carran
Included in the hazardous area
in addition to the Bockovac home
was temporary building which
finally was abandoned for school
purposes by the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Bridge Leup
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said he slammed on his brakes when
he heard the door open. The WAVE
officer, who was wearing civilian
clothes, was thrown to the floor oil
the cab by the abrupt halt. the cab
driver said, but struggled to her feet
and got out before he could re-
strain her.
Mr.. Collins said she ran to the
5-foot parapet, climbed over it and
leaped into the river.
Collins jumped back into the cab
and speeded to Thirty fourth and
M streets NV. where he found
Policeman Pasquale D'Ambrosio
The policeman called the Seventh
Precinct and three other policemen
Raymond S. Evans, George W.
Sebastian and Paul C. Perry, hurried
to the bridge.
While Policeman Perry and on
lockers shined lights into the river
in an effort to sight the WAVE
officer, Policemen D'AmbroSio, Evans
and Sebastian went to Jacks Boat
house near the bridge and obtained
rowboat.
The policemen said perhaps half
an hour had elapsed before they
finally reached midstream. There
they found Comdr. Boner swimming
around in large circle.
The rescuers said they talked with
her for several minutes, attempting
to persuade her to climb into the
rowboat. They said they told her
they were poor swimmers and she
refused to get in because she said
she did not want to capsize the boat
In her pocketbook, police said
they found drivers license issued
to Comdr. Boner by the city of New
Rochelle, ~ Y. Her mother. Mrs
Catherine B. Lehman, lives in In
dianapolis.
Police rushed Comdr. Boner to
Georgetown Hospital, where DR.
John Adams treated her for body
bruises. Later she was transferred
to the Naval Medical Center at
Bethesda, Md.
Comdr. Boner was graduated from
the University of Illinois in 1927
with bachelor of arts degree, the
Navy Department said. She was
appointed an ensign in October
1912, and has been stationed in
Washington ever since. She was q
kdiVOrcee
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Martha Scott Married
IS Minutes After Divorce
BY the kssocioisd Press

LAS VEGAS. New, July 25,-
Actress Martha Scott, 80, and Mel
Powell. %, pianist in Benny Good
mans Band, were married Tuesday
IS minutes after she divorced Carle-
ton Alsop, movie producer, it was
disclosed yesterday
The Las Vegas Review journal
said that. at Miss SCOTS request
the license had been withheld from
public records at the county clerk S
office until a search by a reporter
for the newspaper unearthed it yes
terday. 1t quoted the county clerk
as saying Miss Scott asked that il
not be announced until after she had
left the country.
She flew to New York last night
with Mr.. Powell Her studio said
she was en- route to England to
make picture, and that Mr.. Powell
would rejoin the band in New York
Evening star., 1946-07-25

Alfred w. Brooks, defense attorney
from Kansas City, when he argued
there was a growing apprehension
among Japanese and other Asiatics
over the economic aggression of
these commercial interests"
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Price Discussion Planned

THE Price Outlook and What We
Can Do About 1t" will be discussed
at meeting to be sponsored by the
Washington Chapter of the Union
for Democratic Action at 8 o'clock
tonight at Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and
Harvard streets NV. The speaker
will be David Ginsberg, former gen.
eral counsel for OPA and until re-
Gently director of the economics di-
vision of the Military Government
in Germany.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Auxiliary Donates S158
To Suburban HospituI

The Women's Auxiliary of the
Suburban Hospital has donated S158
to the hospital, proceeds of a play
recently presented at the Bethesda
Women's Club, it was announced to-
day.
At the same time it was announced
that DR.. Walter Boyd, chief of the
obstetrical service at the hospital
has donated a dictaphone set.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
FOUND.

MOTHER CAT, multi-colored, gray. white
yellow; has six toes on both front paws;
vic. Of Silver Spring, Schuyler rd Since
found Saturday has addition OF kittens
Owner call SH. Q345,
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Church PIuns Luwn Purty

The Del Ray Methodist Church,
l08 Windsor avenue, Alexandria, will
hold a lawn party tomorrow after
noon. A plate supper will be served
by the Young Adult Fellowship Glass
from to pm.
Evening star., 1946-07-25

A muskrat can travel so yards
| under water without coming up for
Evening star., 1946-07-25
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Evening star., 1946-08-11

him at the gate with the caretaker.
The latter, probably in self
defense, told him a story about
Washington's ghost" backed it up
with a picture showing the first
president framed between two twist
ed trees. OF course, the photo was
touched up" but Wally talked the
caretaker into giving it to him.
A few years later he ran away to
sea, and he's been on the run ever
since. He's worked as sailor, cow
boy, lumberman and advertising
photographer But wherever he was,
or whatever his job. he was always
on the lookout for something odd
and different.
A wiry. almost-bald little man,
he's tremendously energetic, thinks
nothing of travelling thousands OF
miles for an oddity. Once he raced
across the U. S. for a glass float
from Japanese fish net. The glass
had become porous, absorbed
water, lost the weights and three
years later had drifted across
the Pacific into Puget Sound.
Any time Wally can't pack up an
oddity and take it home with him,
he'll snap a picture of it. He strug-
gled up a mountain in Texas to
photograph a cactus that was grow
ing out of solid rock In Houston.
Texas, he walked into a cage for a
picture of the only albino wildcat
in captivity. Il only took one shot,"
he says. The darn thing was get
ting set to jump"
A few years ago he was wander
ing casually through the old home of
John Howard Payne in Easthampton,
Long Island, when he discovered an
unusual beer mug Twice the size
Evening star., 1946-08-11

of coffee cup. it had a porcelain
frog cemented to the bottom The
story was that when drinker could
see the frog it was time for refill.
Otherwise the frog would jump
down his throat. This may have led
to the common expression for
hoarseness: "A frog in my throat
At any rate. Wally soon added the
mug to his collection.
Jinxod Holster
HE ALSO picked up a gun holster
that belonged to an old-time Texas
Ranger. The Ranger was shot in
gun fight, and the holster passed to
another western lawenforcer, He,
too, was killed shortly thereafter.
The next man IN line resigned imme-
diately and gave the holster toWally.
But of all his oddities, Wally likes
most to talk about his collection of
historic flags. made out of wood IN
stead Of fiber. He gathered the wood
from the homes OF patriots and pres
idents, from forts and ships. And his
display showing the evolution of the
Stars and Stripes has appeared IN
department-store windows through
out the country.
Wally. who was born in North
Dakota, never settles down long
enough to call any place home.
Nearest thing to it is his museum
near Richmond. There IN house
once occupied by Patrick Henry he
keeps many of his curios and photo
graphs. The rest he carries with HIM.
Although travel restrictions IN the
past few years have cut him down
a bit. he's flying high now - off on
another odyssey. There's no telling
what he'll show up with next.
Evening star., 1946-08-11

TVS S-1l-46
Evening star., 1946-08-11
But Wally Smith gathers
moss. Clobe-trotting for
oddities is his business

THvERYTHINC happens to Wally
~ Smith-and if it doesn't he'll
make it happen He's that kind Of a
guy.
Like the time he opened an oyster
in a Richmond. Va, hotel and live
catfish jumped out Or the time he
was heading for Turkey and was
shipwrecked in the Mediterranean.
Wally takes things like that right
in stride. He had the exuberant cat
fish mounted, still carries it around
in the shell. When his ship went
down, he was rescued by the Italian
Navy. Wally took advantage of
the change in schedule to de-
scend into the crater of Ncsuvius
during a minor eruption.
Wally is a 55-year-old globe-trot-
ting photographer who has piled up
enough mileage to circle the earth
about 10 times and enough adven-
lures to fill couple of books.
He offended group of stlletto-
throwing Gauchos in South America
and was lucky to escape with his
life. Then he went trout fishing
in Canada and was attacked by a
bear. He escaped from the supersti-
tious Gauchos on a motorcycle and
shot the bear with % caliber rife.
Found in Africa
On HIS travels Wally has made
business of collecting oddities. Among
his outstanding items is the worlds
tiniest elephant" Carved from
ivory. it's about the size of two PIN
heads, so small you have to look at
it through magnifying glass. Wally
carries it around in the top of his
fountain pen. Il found it in Africa"
he says. 1T must have been carved
with needles" But Wally went the
Africans one better. He had his
name printed on grains of rice, uses
them as business cards.
Another prize is stone partly
filled with water which the Smith
sonian Institution estimated to be
about 100000 years old. Wally's
a bit nervous about letting anyone
handle the rock. I'D be a long time
replacing it," he says.
He started collecting at the age
of IA. That was when his parents
took him to Mount Vernon. They
didn't want to be bothered by his
continual questions, so they left
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-27
Vet support, PAC
drive build JAW Local

the local was conducting an ex-
tensive organizi, . drive.
"Our concentration areas
are Cicero, the Southwest sec
ton, Melrose Park, Bellwood
and haywood. These are the
areas which have the most
workers in our jurisdiction
who are not organized, have
the lowest wages, nd are
subject to the most reaction
airy discrimination"
Mariani mentioned ce r. n
key plants in the drive. They
included Taylor Forge, Kropp
Forge, Chicago Rivet Machine,
Allen Foundry, and others.
All the leaders of the local
are proud of its educational pro-
gram. Regular stewards classes,
educational films, and similar
activities are customary in Lo-
cal 453.
This will be nothing, how
ever, compared to what we'll
have when our new headquar-
tiers are ready" said Anderson.
eve will have, in addition to
offices and meeting halls, Ii
brary, a credit union office, and
recreation facilities. And every
thing else we can swing that
will be useful to our members. :"
The new headquarters, to be
located in Cicero, will be named
after Carl Lieber, an early lead
er of the local who was killed
in France two years ago.