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Evening star., 1946-09-08
New Haven Police Chief
Vows 10 Halt Crime Wave
by the Associoied Press

HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. Cen
Abelardo Gomez, Havana's new
police chief today expressed his
determination to halt the capitals
series of unsolved major crimes
which reached a new climax last
night with the fatal shooting of
Luis Martinez, son of a cabinet
minister.
Martinez was shot to death in his
fathers car by men using sawed off
shotguns. They apparently mistook
him for Joaquin Martinez Saenz
minister without portfolio. The kill
ing brought the total of unsolyed
assaults to 40 and prompted Presi-
dent Grau San Martin to call in
an army officer to meet the situa-
tion.
A majority of the victims have
been police functionaries of the old
Batista regime, but there also have
been attacks reported on civilians.
The list includes the chief of the
presidential secret police and the
millionaire industrialist Julio Lobo.
The latter was seriously wounded
repeatedly because he refused to
turn over a sum Of money to his
assailants.
Reports are current that more
than a dozen administration figures,
including several cabinet ministers
have received threats.
Gen. Gomez is one of the few
army men who belonged to the
Batista regime who remains in
Cuba's armed forces.
Evening star., 1946-09-08

oil to which 1t is limited under the
contract.
The company's share Of the oil
in the so-called shallow zone is
estimated to be slightly more than
loo,000,000 barrels. but the current
contract limits the company to
withdrawal of 25,O00,000 barrels or
about one-fourth OF its oil. Some
modification of this limitation also
may be discussed in this weeks
hearings.
F. S. Bryant, vice president and
director of the Standard Oil Co. of
California, will be spokesman for
the company at the hearings. Rep
resentatives of the Navy also will
be heard.
Any changes to be made in the
contract must be passed on by the
Naval Committees of the House and
Senate. but do not require passage
of any new legislation. Chairman
Vinson of Georgia is expected to
preside at the House hearings.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Truck Tire Burst
Breaks Windows
In Nearby House

Conclusion from an exploding
rear tire of a gasoline truck in the
l400 block of Minnesota avenue NE.
yesterday afternoon broke two win
dows and light bulb in a nearby
house, police reported.
The tire caught fire and the Fire
Department had an exciting Is min
utes keeping the flames, which
spread to the greasy undercarriage
of the truck, from reaching the
load of gasoline.
Earl L. Watkins, 1448 Minnesota
avenue Sc, said he and most of
his neighbors dashed into the street
when they heard the explosion
which sounded like a bomb.' Mr..
Watkins said he then discovered
that two front windows and the
front porch bulb in his home had
been broken.
Police placed damage to the truck
and to Mr.. Watkins home together
at about 5000. Driver of the truck
was Robert Lawrence, 40, of Balti-
more, Md, according to police.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Russia Claims 1t Is Growinu
Red Cotton; u. S. Is SkepticoI
By Steffon Andrews
North American Newspaper Alliance

Russian farmers are seeding
thousands of acres of collective
farms and coming up with aston
ishing harvests of bright red cotton.
This phenomenon, disclosed for
the first time in Soviet scientific
journals. is throwing Agriculture
Department experts into a hue and
cry that farmers the world over will
swallow the "outlandish claims
without question.
1T sounds fantastic" says DR..
Robert w. Webb of the departments
Research Division on Cotton Pro-
duction, who makes no bones that
he thinks the new discovery is only
an attempt to propagandize a
gullible world.
Cotton of Every Color.
Specifically, the Russians claim
they are growing not only a good
brand of nationalistic red cotton
but are branching out now into six
other shades of naturally tinted
brown, bright green, dark green, ash
gray, light blue and dark blue
staples.
The Moscow Textile Institute is
quoted as saying Russian farmers
are producing cotton of all colors
of the rainbow, whose fiber is
strong, resistance to decay unusually
high, and spinning quality excellent
Above all the colnrs don't fade in
hot sun or bad weather.
The experts explain this would
mean that a Russian eventually
might be able to buy one suit oi
cotton clothes-red, brown or blue
and have that suit maintain its colol
and wearing qualities over the years
almost without change.
The American cotton experts are
not ready to accept this. They say
Americans have been growing fol-
years puny, stunted form of brown
cotton in Louisiana for the
Acadians, who prefer rough woven
cloth, but no high-blown qualities
have ever been claimed for it.
The leading cotton specialist in
the world, S. c. Harland of London
they point out, already has tenta-
lively identified the brown Russian
cotton as Peruvian crop that has
been growing for 10000 years or So
The Russians deny this, claiming
theirs is an all-Russian article. But
our experts don't believe it.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Veteran, 18, Admits Staying
In Boston Hotel in 1945
by the Assoeiofed Press

BOSTON. Sept. Police Com
missioner Thomas F. Sullivan said
tonight that an 18-year-old youth
had admitted the 13-month-old un-
solved Staying of Army It. John M.
Falloni, IS, Of Beverly, Mass, found
strangled in a downtown hotel Au-
gust 10, 1945.
The youth was held temporarily,
ss suspicious person" and pend
ing a formal charge his name was
withheld.
1t. Falloni. peacetime art
teacher at Lincoln Junior High
School. Maiden, Mass, was assigned
to Camp Edwards, Mass, as an
Army camouflage instructor when
slain.
Police Capt. Leo C. J. Masuret,
commanding the Back Bay station,
said the youth in custody, now dis
charged from the Navy. told de-
tectives he had been drinking at
the hotel, passed out" and woke
up in 1t. Falloni's room. The youth
said an argument arose. They
wrestled and he obtained a head
lock on the officer. Suddenly he
went limp" the youth said. After
ward, he related, he left the room
and returned to duty.
Police said they learned of the
youths connection with the crime
through friend to whom he mad
vertently let slip some of the details
Evening star., 1946-09-08

Here's what makes the cotton ex-
perts believe the Russians are just
a bit too enthusiastic:
The Department of Agriculture
has asked for samples of the new
Russian cotton seed, but the Soviets
have refused. An American farm
observer in Russia then tried to mail
an envelope of the seed, but the
package never reached the United
States. When inquiry was made
about it, the Russians said it must
have been lost.
Color Faded Fast.
The Division of Cotton Fiber
Crops then tried tests of its own
with colored f1bers, but the plants
hardly came up. Tests proved the
colored seed didn't germinate we'll
the yield was low, fibers came up
short and coarse and the spinning
quality proved poor.
Most important of all, the cotton
instead of being fadeproof, lost its
color so fast it was almost totally
unsatisfactory.
Under the direction of DR.. H. w
Barre and DR.. j. o. Ware, fiber crops
experts, the researchers are trying
more experiments. Plants have
been seeded at the departments ex-
perimental station in Auburn, Ala q;
Athens, Ga; Gainesville, Fla;
Florence, S. c.: Saltwater, Okla
and College Station, Tex.
But the experts aren't too hopeful
They feel the Russians may be try
ing to pull a little cotton-for q
change-over the worlds eyes.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Gen. Wait Refuses
To Refund S36 on
Carson Wedding Trip
by the Assoeiofed Press

Maj. Gen. Alden H. Watt has told
the Army Finance ONCE he has no
intention of turning back to the
Government 500 he collected as mile
age for the New York trip on which
he attended the wedding of Murray
Garsson's daughter.
He disclosed yesterday that he has
submitted letters from war contrac-
tors IN New York to support his con-
tention that the 1914 trip, which
figured prominently in the Mead
Committees inquiry into the Cars
son munitions enterprises, was "nec-
essary and important" to the war
effort.
Wedding Was Incidental
Attending the wedding was "in-
cidental" and the $36 collected from
the War Department for the WASH
ington-to-New York round trip by
rail was entirely proper" Gen.
Watt told reporter.
The Chemical Warfare chief and
Chairman May of the House Military
Affairs Committee were among
those who attended the wedding of
Natalie Carson to Maj. Louis H.
Klebenof at the Hotel Pierre in
New York on the evening of jan
uary 2, 1914. The committee has
heard that the brides father paid
the hotel expenses of General Watt
and some other guests.
Asserts Trip Was Business.
After the General Accounting
Office had observed that the trip
to be for the generals
personal convenience" Gen. Watt
sent the Army Finance Office:
l. A letter saving the primary
purpose of the trip was Army busi-
ness-and that the day after the
he called on H. P. East
man of the American Cynamid Co.
in New York to urge speed in the
Of a vital" plant the
was building for the Chem
cal Warfare Service at Azusa,
Calf.
2. A letter from Eastman which
said Watt called at his Office at 10
a I'm. accompanied by Col. Gorden
Kaufmann.
3. Another letter from Daniel
Rockford of the Standard Oil Co.,
which said Watt called the same
lay at his Office to talk on develop
nent of two types of incendiary
bombs and that 1t was impossible
% discuss research material in
1olved on the telephone.
The general was accompanied by
MS wife on the trip, but the mile
age at the rate of cents a mile,
was paid only for his travel ex-
oenses.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
New York Colleges Seek
Instructors for Veterans

DR.. Robert G. Dawes. dean of in
struction for the Associated COL
leges of Upper New York, will be In
Washington tomorrow to interview
candidates for teaching positions in
the three New York State-operated
emergency colleges for veterans.
DR.. Dawes, who Is seeking in
structors in English, economics,
chemistry. physics, business mathe-
matics and engineering drawing,
will be at the Office of the National
Roster Of Scientific and Specialized
Personnel, War Manpower Commits
sion, 1006 U street NV, from 8 m.
to 4 pm.
The three colleges, located at
Plattsburg, Sampson and Utica, N.
Y, were created by the State Legis-
lature and are designed to handle
the overflow of veterans who are
unable to enter established colleges
and universities because of crowded
conditions
Both New York and out of State
veterans ara being admitted to the
Associated Colleges. An enrolment
of more than $500 is expected In
the three schools when they open
later this fall.
Evening star., 1946-09-08

Russia's great new metallurgical
plant in the Uzbek Republic is re-
ported ready to operate, the first
section being completed.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Republicans to Discuss
Atom Control on Air

Control Of atomic energy will be
discussed on the American Forum
OF the Air program at $50 pm.
Tuesday over the Mutual Broad
casting System.
Participating will be Harold E.
Stassen, former Governor of Mime
sofa; DR.. Irving Langmuir, associate
director of research of the General
Electric Co.: Representative Glare
Boothe Luce. Republican, of
Connecticut, and Representative
Thomas, Republican, of New Jersey.
Theodore Crank will act as mod
orator. The program is being pre-
sented In cooperation with the Re-
publican Open Forums.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Sfassen Says Republicans
Miqht Crack Solid South
by the ASxoeiotsd ptsxs


DES MONIES. Sept. Harold
E. Stassen, Republican presidential
possibility, said today he believed
the Republican party, with the right
kind of program, eventually could
crack the Democratic Solid South"
1t will take long time, he told
a group OF IS Iowa editors at an in
formal luncheon. but he added he
believed the Republican party could
demonstrate that the Southern
people had something to gain from
another party.
Mr.. Stassen said the Republican
party needed to adopt a realistic
labor policy. making its appeal di-
rect to the laboring man, and must
avoid any intimation of being an
antilabor party.
The United States should retain
the military secrets of the atomic
bomb, he said, until it can be as
sured of real program of world
control.
The Federal Government should
dismiss about a third Of the civilian
employees as an economy move, he
suggested
Evening star., 1946-09-08
House eNaWUnitS Start,
ELK Hills Oil Contract
Hearings Tomorrow
By J. A. O'Leory

The House Naval Affairs Com
mittee will begin hearings at 10 am.
tomorrow on proposed change in
the contract governing the Elk
Hills naval oil reserve which would
apportion between the Navy and
the Standard Oil Co. of California
the cost of maintaining the reserve
in a state of readiness for any future
emergency.
Under the present arrangement,
the company is paying the cost of
producing oil it receives and the
full cost OF the readiness program
the latter cost amounting to about
S600,0G0 year.
The companys position is that 1t
is willing to pay the normal cost
of producing Oil 1t receives, and its
share of the readiness costs, esti-
mated at So per cent, but feels the
Navy should pay its share of the
readiness program, or "a per cent, on
the ground that keeping the re-
serve in condition for an emergency
is essentially q national defense
project.
This would mean that, in round
figures, the Navy would meet $4OO.-
600 and the company 5000 900 of the
costs attributable to readiness for
an emergency.
Navy and Company Own Land.
The Navy and Standard each
own lands within the reserve area,
and engineers have determined that
approximately 36 per cent of the oil
underlies the company land, while
81 per cent is under the Nays
land.
During the war the production
OF oil from the reserve was stepped
up from $4,000 to $1,000 barrels a
day, but as soon as hostilities were
over a cut-back to $4,000 barrels
was ordered. Last May the Sec
retary of the Navy reduced the
$1,000 barrels a day Standard was
receiving to about $3.50 barrels a
day, the amount engineers de-
termlned would be necessary to keep
the reserve in a state of military
readiness.
The number of wells in the re-
serve has been increased during the
war from about 800 to TOO. and part
OF the readiness cost consists of
seeing that all wells are kept in
good condition for use in an emer-
gency.
Willing to Take Its Share.
The company is represented as
being willing to take. and have
charged against its share of oil in
the ground, the daily amount the
engineers say is necessary to carry
out the national defense readiness
program, SO that the Navy may con-
serve its share OF oil in the ground
Standard may continue to do this
until 1t has received the amount of
Evening star., 1946-09-08

KANSAS CITY-EXTREMELY CAREFUL"-Lt Gen. Barton K
Youn retired officer and president OF newyorganized
American Institute Of Foreign Affairs pictured testified
during Fridays session of the House Surplus Property
eating Committee here Gen. Yount told the committee
extremely careful not to his rank during negotiations
which transferred at 100 discount Armys
derbird Aed in Arizona to the institute The stenogapher
Is MISS Althea Arceneaux. -AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Chinese Reported Shot
By U. S. Marine MP
BY the Associofed Press

PEIPING, Sept. THE Catholic
newspaper Social Welfare said today
that United States Marine mill
tary policeman shot 20-year-old
Chinese high school student who
was wearing Marine trousers. Ma.
rine headquarters refused comment
The paper said a sister of the
youth, who was hospitalized, re-
lated: The Chinese was watching a
chess game when the MP got out OF
a ieep and kicked the boy in the
back. The Chinese fed. One OF
four bullets fired at him struck him
in the leg.
The paper said the Marine recov-
cred the trousers.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
New Chest Broadcast
Series to Stort Todoy

A new series of Community Chest
radio programs goes on the air at
1905 pm. today over Station VOL.
Titled "A Story to TELL today's
program will present Mrs. Marian
Day as the typical businesswoman
who will tell why she supports the
125 Chest agencies; Percy Weinberg
director of the District American
Legion Welfare Department., who
will tell how his agency uses Chest
contributions, and Roland Lambert,
young member of the Boys Club of
Washington, who will describe the
benefit the club receives through
recreational agency work.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Girl, 8, Wounded Fatally
By Brother, 7, With Rifle
by the Associoied Press

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Sept. T.
Shirley Gene White, 8, of Giatto
Mercer County, died in a hospital
here today of bullet wound acci-
dentally inflicted by younger
brother at their home.
Roy L. White, the father, said
Shirley. and Bobby White. 7, were
playing in the back yard when the
BOY accidentally tripped the trigger
OF small-caliber rifle thought to
be empty. The shot struck the girl
in the head.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-27
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Daniel Is Elected
70 Blue Kew Honor
In State Group

William J. Daniel, son of MIR.
rt Mrs W. T.. Daniel OF Hendel :
..u vas initiated into The Blue Key
ii aoary leadership fraternity al n
e. State college, II was announced.
Daniel Is president OF the junior
a. .Ss It the college and has been OUT
niiug in the activities a. the col
Ie.t.
Douglas T. House, Cf Beaufort,
is incoming president of the Blue
Key which recently admitted 20 top
IA. king State College students into
tie honorary organization.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-27
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to thank our many
friends and especially the employees
of the GrevStunC Granite quarry for
,heir lovely floral tributes and kind
ness shown in the. death of Mrs
Viola Johnson
THE HAWKINS FAMILY
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Proposal on Removal of Yunks
From Iceland Called Unofficial

emphatically demanding the COM
plete evacuation of the Americans
1t also opposes loan of bases in the
strategic island The Communists
maN Nhave been the influence behind
the stand to this effect taken by
several Icelandic organizations and
some university staff members and
undergraduates.
The central committee of the
Progressive or Farmers party, how
ever, declare that Icelandic policy
should be special cooperation with
the Anglo-Saxon peoples for the
safety of Iceland without military
occupation of the country"
Jonas Jonsson. ex-Minister of JUS
tice and member of the Althing
1celandic Parliament, has pub
lished and widely distributed a
pamphlet, Iceland and Bornholm, y
demanding an agreement with the
United States for the defense of
Iceland.
The exemplary behavior of British
and American forces has won them
high regard among Icelanders.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

the topranking Communist In Latin
America, is friendly and genial
sort of guy. But he states openly
that he is out to wham the United
States wheneve- possible and string
along with the Soviets to revamp
the world.
The Communists and Socialists
of Argentina tried unsuccessfully to
use the United States to defeat Col
Juan Domingo Peron for the pres
idency. Failing this, they have be-
come bitter. Now they are cking
the United States and blaming us
for their defeat. 1t would have been
the same had they won.
The rising tide of Communism is
due, in almost every country, to local
conditions. Yet these are conditions
which have existed for 200 to 400
years.
The United States, viewed every
where in Latin America as a PROM
ised land for good living, has no al
Tentative but to allow the current
trend to run its course. The contrasts
between democracy and Commu-
nism are constantly on focus here.
South Americans are going to make
their own choice, regardless of out
side influence or pressure.
(CopyriRht 1946)
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Britain Will Lend
Art Treasures 10
New York, Chicago
By Not A. Borrows
Foreign Gorrsspondens Of The Star al

Foreign Gorrssspondens Of The Star and
LONDON, April l3.-British art
treasures, previously never permitted
away from England, will be lent to
museums in Chicago and New York
this autumn in reciprocal exchange
of Anglo-American culture.
Within the next few days the final
decision will be announced as to
choice of from As to so paintings by
three famed British artists of the
18th century: the rude, often bitter
satires of Hogarth, the rugged land
scapes of Constable and the uncon-
ventional portraits of Turner.
They will first be shown at the
Chicago Art Institute, then, about
Christmas, they will move to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York.
AS guests of the British Foreign
Office, Chauncey Mccormick, presi-
dent of the Chicago Art Institute,
and Daniel Cation Rich, director of
the same museum, are in London
completing terms of the loan which
was originally inspired by Lord Hall
fax.
The paintings now hang in the
National Gallery, the Tate Museum,
which has just reopened after ex-
tensive bomb-damage repairs, and
the Victoria and Albert Museum,
often called the South Kensington
Museum. The selection purposely
avoids the more aristocratic and
fashionable painters of the Gains
borough school. Turner, Constable
and Hogarth have been chosen be-
cause of their influence on Ameri-
can art and also because they are
not so well-known to America.
(Copyrieht l946)
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Owners Seek to Eject
Is Apartment DweIIers

Willis r. Kern, Annapolis, Md,
and Wells B. Kern. Arlington, Va,
filed suits in District Court yester-
day against is colored occupants
of apartments in a building at Ills
Ninth street NV, seeking to eject
them for alleged failure to keep
up installment payments on pur-
chase contracts for the apart
mentS.
The two Kerns, it was said, sold
the separate apartments to indi-
viduals named defendants in the
suits. The plaintiffs are repre-
sented by Attorneys John L. Laskey
and William S. Tarver. A total of
IA suits were filed, IL of them nam
ing one defendant each and two of
them naming two defendants each.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Amateur Photography
Contest JUDGES Named

Selection of judges for an amateur
photography contest among Govern
ment employees and veterans was an
nounced yesterday by the Walsh
Club.
Entries will be exhibited from 3
pm. to pm. on April % in the
club in the rear of 1923 Twenty
second street NV. Entries close
Saturday.
The judges will be DR.. George Ma
nov, Miss Jackie Martin and William
c. Beall. Miss Ethel Parker, Walsh
Club director, is in charge of ar
ranpementS.