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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-02-08
Kongresnik kupuje puncochy

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nevyznacujl zadnou statnickou
moudrostf, ale "a to sc mohou
jinym zpdsobem stat uzitecny-
mi. Jedn1m z takovych je kon-
gresnik Wickersham z Oklaho-
my. Jedna obcanka S jeho dis
triktu mu psala, re v celem je-
Jim mestecku nem1ze koupiti
par dost velkych puncoch ma
jeff pT1lis tucne nohy. Proto
prosf kongresnfka, ably il neja-
Ike koupil We Washingtone, kde
snad mali lepsf vyber. Wicker
sham nelenil a ~navstfvil vsech-
ny obchody al nasel puncochy
zadane velikosti. PAX postal
panicce tucet part.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-02-08
Gdansky biskup ma 8 let do
vSzeni.

Poole zpravy z Varsavy Wy
jfmecny soud Gdansku odsou-
dill nemeckeho biskupa Karla
Spletta ma 8 let do zalaTe pro
spolupraci S majesty. Splett po-
tlacoval zurive polsky jazyk
behem nemecke okupace.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
E|ecironic Safety Device
Tests Coal Mine Roofs
Bythe Associated Press

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The tradi-
tional miners bar" with which
mine shaft roofs are tapped to test
their strength, soon will be retained
by new electronic tester developed
by the Lehigh University Institute
of Research,
Using the theory that sound
waves travel more readily through
solid structures, the Lehigh scien-
lists perfected a portable geophone
operating with a constant-blow
hammer. Energy indicated by the
device measures the tightness or
looseness of the roof being tested.
Warning that the new instrument
is not a panacea for detecting every
roof, the scientists said
the geophone can be employed to
make periodic tests of shifting coal
structures and thereby reveal inn
pending danger.
The geophone was developed by
DR.. Robert T. Gallagher, OF Lehigh.
and DR.. Cornelius G. Brennecke,
now head of the Department OF
Electrical Engineering at North
Carolina State College. The equip
ment was tested first by the Lehigh
Valley Coal Co., Wilkes-Barre, and
subjected to field trial throughout
the Pennsylvania soft and hard
coal fields.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Bondit Comes Cropper
In Robbinq Man Twice
BY the Associoted Press

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. 21.
-Therman Kanouse, paroled from
the Ionia Reformatory, today faced
q 15-to-30-year prison sentence be-
cause he couldn't be satisfied with a
So holdup loot and tried to rob the
same man 10 minutes later.
Circuit Judge Morris K. Davis i'm
posed the penalty yesterday after
Burton Sibley of Ionia reported that
Kanouse tried to hold him up twice
Tuesday night.
The first holdup, Mr.. Sibley told
police, occurred in a tavern. Ka-
mouse walked up, indicated he had a
gun in his left pocket and demand
ed and received Sc.
Mr.. Sibley then headed for 9
nearby police station to report the
robbery AS he left the station he
was accosted by Kanouse again.
He grappled with the robber ane
police rushed out to arrest Kanouse
Evening star., 1946-12-21
g. 0. P. Hopes 10 Draft
Labor Law Revisions
For Senate by Feb. IS
By the Assoeioted Press

Republicans hope to have COM
pact labor bill ready for Senate con.
sideration by February Is, according
to Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
Senator Taft, who is chairman Of
the Senate Republican Steering
Committee and is expected to head
the Labor Committee, told reporters
yesterday he favors Jumping pro-
posed changes in the labor laws into
one bill in order to speed Senate
action.
1--WE will work closely with House
members in an effort to get some
action on this pressing question
early in the new Congress- the Ohio
Senator said.
He indicated he hopes the Repub-
licans will deal first with pressing
problems on the management Labor
front, with possible expansion later
of alterations the party hopes to
make in existing laws. He generally
has favored action on bill some
what similar to the Case labor dis
putes measure which was killed by
President Truman's veto In the last
session of Congress.
Representative Smith, Democrat
of Virginia outlined broad strike
control program containing several
of the Case bill provisions.
Although there we're indications
that some Democrats would go along
with the Republicans for changes in
existing laws, Senator Murray, DEM
ocrat, Of Montana told reporter he
and others Of like views will resist
any radical revisions.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
34O,7OO Units Completed
Under HOUSING Program

The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
today reported that $40, 700 new
permanent dwellings had been COM
pleted by the end of October under
the Veterans Emergency Housing
program, in addition to temporary,
reuse and converted housing pro-
vided by the Government and pri-
vate industry.
Another 366, 400 new permanent
dwellings, were under construction
by the end Of October.
New permanent dwellings account
for about two of every three of all
units, including temporary, Reuse
and conversions completed SO far.
Houses started in October totaled
$1,000, which was 4.500 more than in
the previous month, BIS said.
At the same time, the bureau
pointed out the public organizations
and colleges had financed construc-
ton of $500 family units and 80, 700
dormitory units this year.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
AustroIion Girl With Nail
In Lung Is Flying Here

A 15-year-old Melbourne, Aus
tralia, girl who has had a nail
lodged In her lung since she was 2
years old, viii arrive in Washing
ton Christmas Day on her way to
Philadelphia to have it removed.
The girl, Shirley Skinner, and her
mother are being given the trip by
the. Australian National Airways and
the United States Navy. Shirley will
be operated on by DR.. Chevalier
Jaskson, jr. Australian physicians
say the operation now is necessary
to save her life.
Shirley and her mother will be
taken from Washington to Phila-
delphia by j. B. Hartranft, jr., of the
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Associa-
ton here.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Mother Cdbrini Given Credit
When Child PuruIytic Walks

ton from birth. Her husband
Charles, agreed to try.
I'VE carried him on his fourth
birthday, October IS, to the shrine
Of Mother Cabrini at the chapel
where all three of us knelt before
her in her crystal casket anc
prayed"
On December 10, less than two
months later, Mrs. Unish said, hel
son, confidently saying, "Eddie's 60
ing to walk" took his first step. He
has been walking ever since. with
no relapse.
"All we know is that he was car
ried in here few weeks ago, unable
to walk. and he is walking today
said nuns at the chapel. "It is not
for us to Judge these things"
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Divorce Awarded Wife
Of Federal Reserve Aide

Mrs. Margaret Tucker Thurston
.4414 @ street NV. was awarded an
absolute divorce from Elliott Ladd
Thurston, assistant to the chairman
of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, by Justice
Edward M. Curran in District Court
yesterday. Ground for the divorce
was more than five years voluntary
separation.
In granting the decree, Justice
Curran Incorporated terms of a
property settlement agreed on by
the couple March Is, 1912 Accord
ing to its terms, Mrs. Thurston was
to receive $4,000 a year, $1,000 in
cash, a $4,000 life insurance policy
of her husbands and custody of
their three children.
The Thurstons were married in
Providence, r. T., November 8, 1919.
Mr.. Thurston is former newspaper
COrreSpondent here go
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Choking ChiIds Life Is Saved
BY kitchen-knife Operation
Uncle, q Surgeon,
Sits Windpipe, Using
Couch as TobIe
BY the Asseeioisd Press

EAST ORANGE. N. j., Dec. 2i.--
A young physician, taking . post
graduate course in surgery, yester-
day saved his 4la-year-old nephew
from choking to death by perform
ing an emergency operation with a
9-inch kitchen carving knife while
the boy was held firmly on living
room couch.
The little boy, Thomas Stanley,
was reported In satisfactory condi-
ton today in Presbyterian Hospital,
Newark, recovering from an incision
made in his windpipe to allow him
to resume breathing after he swal-
lowed an orange seed and pulp.
DR.. Thomas A. Stanley performed
the operation, without anaesthetic,
while the boys father, Charles P.
Stanley, held Tommy on the couch.
The boy had taken half an orange
his mother was preparing for break
fast, and the pulp and seed lodged
in his throat, making him gasp for
breath. When his parents were un-
able to dislodge the obstruction
they called DR.. Stanley from his
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Rhymes Last Line Wins S., ,79O
For Pilot and Wife in Radio Quiz

weeks, when contestants missed
crucial questions.
Mr.. Rogers, TWA pilot on the
New York-to-Kansas City run, said
he closed out his bank account yes
terday morning to buy Christmas
gifts and pay OF mortgage. The
flyer joined TWA last October, after
serving as a first lieutenant with
the Army Air Forces during the
war and participating in more than
100 combat missions.
MIR. and Mrs. Rogers lived here
for a number of years before the
war and still consider Washington
their home. Their last address here
was 1900 North Pershing drive, Ar
lington, Va. They have a daughter.
Judith, 3.
The $3.50 last line, by the way,
which Mrs. Rogers so fortunately
recalled, happens to be. Happy
Christmas to all, and to all good
night"
Evening star., 1946-12-21
New Freedmen's Officials
| To Be Sworn In Monday

Charles r. Burbridge, new super
intendent in charge of administers
ton, and DR.. Charles r. Drew, med
ical director, will be sworn in at
Freedmen's Hospital at 10 am. Mon
day. 1t was announced today.
They will occupy positions for
merly filled by DR.. James L. Hall,
who resigned as superintendent to
return to the private practice OF
medicine in Chicago.
In making public the changes,
Federal Security Administrator
Watson B. Miller expressed deep
regret" at DR.. Halls departure, add
ing his confidence that DR.. Halls
work will be ably carried forward
| by his successors"
In accepting DR.. Halls resigna-
ton, Mr.. Miller wrote that the Fed
eral Security Agency, under which
Freedmen's operates, would con-
tinue to count on your help in
making Freedmen's Hospital, with
the Howard University Medical
School a medical center whose in
f1uence will be more and more
widely felt"
| Mr.. Burbridge now is assistant
superintendent Of the hospital. Dr.
Drew will assume a newly created
position.
They will be sworn in by DR..
Otis Anderson, chief of the hos
pital division Of the United States
Public Health Service. The cere-
mony will take place In the hos
pital auditorium. 5a
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Streetcur Crew
Of Carol Singers
Cheers SHOPPERS

Filled with youthful carolers,
gaily decorated streetcar moved Up
F street last night singing for wet
and cold shoppers.
The trolley displayed lighted
Christmas wreath in each side win
dow, and the children sang the
music of Christmas, led by Mrs
Josephine Byers. Their accompan-
ist, Mrs. Vera Robertshaw, played
a red piano.
The prewar yuletide custom was
revived this year by the District OF
Columbia Recreation Department
and the Capital Transit Co. Though
many persons were kept off the
streets last night by the cold rain,
the young carolers didn't mind. They
were singing for their own pleasure.
too.
Monday night. children from
North Washington Fairgrounds will
carol aboard streetcar which will
travel from Fourteenth and Decatur
streets to Sixth and C streets NV,
and return.
Last nights carolers-ages 5 to II
were from Hine, Sherwood, Gar
field, Virginia Avenue and Rosedale
Playgrounds.
Evening star., 1946-12-21

An airline pilot and his wife, both
former Washington area residents,
were ready to open a new bank ac-
count in New York today with a
cool $5,7so-all because the wife
happened to know the last line Of
the poem which begins Twas the
night before Christmas ."
Charles w. Rogers, 80, and his
wife, Gertrude, 20, won that amount
when they appeared as a team on a
radio program called Break the
Bank" broadcast over the American
Broadcasting Co. network from New
York last night and heard here
over Station WMAL.
Network officials said it was the
greatest sum ever paid on the pro-
gram and probably the largest cash
amount handed out to studio par
ticipants in any radio show. The
total had piled up during previous
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Pottery Plant Owner,
Broke in 1882, Pays
S705,666 YuIe Bonus
BY the Assoeiated Press

SCIO, Ohio, Dec. 2l.-Inis VII
laee of 1.400 was a potential Doom
town" TODAY as 827 Scio (Ohlo) pot
terry employees pondeeaaeea eae now 70
spend-or save-$705, ,686 in Christ
mas bonus checks from their boss,
L. p Reese, SO, a relief recipient IA
years ago.
The Scio bank was ready for a
rush of business, and Cashier VIII
liam Hughes observed happily:
"This will play the dickens with the
notes of our bank"
The money was handed out at a
pre-holiday surprise party last night.
Interviews with many who re-
ceived the maximum bonus of So 500
indicated that much of the money
would be used to pay debts, increase
savings and buy bonds.
Mr.. Reese, who was penniless in
1882 when he began building an
abandoned pottery into a $4,000, 1000
plant explained his gifts thus:
1--WE got all the money I need,
and my ambition is to keep my
employees the highest paid pottery
workers in the world"
Along with the bonus, he an
nounced a 20-cent-an-h n-hour increase
in wages, with 81 hourly minimum
for unskilled workers.
To 88 men and women who had
been with his pottery for at least
10 Of it's 14-year existence, Mr.. Reese
gave bonuses of $500. The average
bonus was $852.50, and the smallest,
$40 for new employees.
The bonus money was accumulated
during the war years when pay in
creases were restricted.
Most of the 10-year employees
glanced at the checks and were
dazed. Some walked away with
rubbery legs, but recovered and ran
back to thank Reese and shake his
hand.
Mr.. Reese, machine gunner in
World War I, had another surprise
for his community-a new home for
the American Legion, which had
been raising funds for that purpose.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
g. W. Student Rally
Seeks Hospital Fund

A George Washington University
student rally to help launch a drive
for funds to equip the institutions
new hospital will be sponsored jan
uary 8 by the Students Committee,
it was announced today.
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III. equip
ment fund campaign chairman, will
speak briefly at the gathering,
which will be held in front of the
library at Twenty-first and G streets
NV, at noon.
The committee plans three day
campus" campaign to raise its $11,-
600 share of the overall goal OF
1926, 900. Il will overlap the major
campaign, scheduled from January
8 to February %. ey
Miss Virginia Kirkbridge and Max
Harrington, directors, respectively, of
women's and mems activities, will
head up the campus drive. Funds
will be collected at booths to be
erected near university buildings.
A huge barometer will record
progress.
Lawrence Strickland, president of
the Student Council, will be master
of ceremonies of the Pan Hellenic
and Interfraternity Council.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Russian Secret Police
Operate in America,
IBudenz Charges
NJ al. Ae.o~;oped prass

CHICAGO, Dec. 2l.-Louis F..
Budenz, former editor of the Daily
Worker, turned anti Communist,
said yesterday the Soviet police
system exists on American soil ana
forwards q war of nerves against
the United States"
In an address before the Exec
utives' Club Of Chicago, Mr.. Budenz,
now professor OF economics at Ford
ham University, said that to onset
this we must make peace OF
Justice and reality"
"Appeasement means war, and q
lust and firm attitude in regard
to the rights of small nations means
peace" Mr.. Budenz, who has re-
turned to the Roman Catnoiic
Church, said.
Tells Of Conferences.
FOR three years I was assigned
to confer with the NKVD, Soviet
secret police in the United States.
From this experience L can state
that the apparatus for espionage
exists in this country on a rather
generous scale" Mr.. Budenz SAID
that when called on he would "un-
der oath reveal the nature OF these
conferences"
The Communist movement IN the
United States "has no other will, no
other wish than Moscow's" Mr.. Bu-
denz declared in describing what ne
called "the subservience OF the par
ty" here to the Soviet Union.
"The Soviet Union under the Sta
Unite dictatorship is proceeding in
the same manner as did Germany
under Hitler with certain small
differences"
Communist Aims Cited.
He said the aims of the Commu-
mist Party in the United States had
two general detectives:
81. Complete destruction OF the
CRoman) Catholic Church.
80. World domination aimed at
the peace and dignity and safety Of
the American Nation"
Mr.. Budenz said that the maga-
zine New Times is the modern ver-
sion of the Communist Interna-
tional in new guise."
He declared that the Soviets re-
garded the Teheran pact as "a piece
of paper" and that it did not mean
generation Of peace" as it seemed
on the surface.
He said the Soviet Union was US
ing war of nerves in the U. N. in
the case of Argentina and Franco
Spain in order to turn attention
from the Balkans
Evening star., 1946-12-21
November Production Up
Despite Coal WaIkout
BY the Asseeioted Press

The Federal Reserve Board said
last night that the Nations indus
trial production during November
matched Oetober's peacetime record
high level despite the coal strike.
The Federal Reserve index, adjust
ed for seasonal factors, registered
November production as 80 per cent
above the prewar average, and /
per cent higher than October.
Leaving out seasonal considera-
tions, November production declined
2 per cent from October but was still
50 per cent above prewar.
The board said dollar volume Of
department store sales for Novem-
Der and early December exceeded
last year, when Christmas buying
set record, but that the gain re-
f1ected mainly increased prices"
It reported nonresidential con-
struction at the lowest level since
the wars end and home building
contract awards far below the peak
rate reached last spring, although
still well above last years level.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Board Decides Ownership
.0f Indifferent Doq
BY the Assoeiotsd Pres.

PLAlNVILLE, Gonna court-ap-
pointed board of arbiters came up
with the answer Of who owned the
brown and white collie which had
hidden its identity in a cloak of inn
partial affection.
Two persons claimed the dog. But
the board finally ruled that two
hairless spots on the animals nose
had won the case for Mrs. Karanza
Liwen.
The decision carried with it the
implication that the dogs name
was Laddie as claimed by Mrs.
Liwen and not Prince as claimed by
Gino Artibani, the second disput-
ant in the case.
What had complicated the boards
job was that the collie responded
with equal affection to both names.
A woman witness told the board
about the hairless spots which A.
nally decided the case. She testi-
fed that she had sold puppy with
those characteristics to Mrs. Liwen.
The controversy began when the
dog warden picked UP the collie.
Just about that time, both Mrs.
Liwen and Mr.. Artibani lost their
brown and white collies, and both
claimed the waif as theirs.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Virginia Judge May Place
Runaway in Foster Home
BY the A..eeiufsd Press

WARRENTON, Va, Dec. 21.-Of-
ficials of Warrenton today are con-
templating whether to place John
Henry Wood, 13-year-old Baltimore
runaway, in a foster home some-
where in Virginia or to return him
to his home.
The boy has been enjoying the
hospitality Of the town while author
tiles ponder what to do with him.
He left his home about Is days ago.
Trial Justice Richard H. Marriott,
in whose jurisdiction the boy has
been placed, has talked with the
father, Arthur Frederick Wood, q
Baltimore truck driver, but said q
recommendation to put the boy in q
foster home was made after a report
on conditions in the Wood home by
public welfare authorities.
The boy said he had run away
because Of ian unhappy home life =
He said he did not wish to return
to Baltimore, adding 1t was the
ninth time he had run away from
his parents.
The Rev. William p. Burns, pas
tor of the Second Presbyterian
Church in Warrenton, and former
Army chaplain, is assisting Judge
Marriott in the disposition OF the
case.
Evening star., 1946-12-21

leave her Dixon home with him aftel
he was frightened in an attempted
robbery yesterday.
The sheriff said Sickles led the
woman aimlessly through the coun.
tryside after tying with a clothes
line two of the Stackhouse children
Lynda 9, and Dianne, 7. and leaving
them in a closet of the home.
Brother Frees Children.
The children were released when
an older brother returned home
found them and told police his
mother was missing.
Until Mrs. Stackhouse was re-
leased by Sickles and telephoned her
home, sheriff's posse of 100 men
combed this North Central Illinois
city of 11,000 for clues to her dis
appearance and State police had
blocked all roads.
Sheriff Finch gave this account:
Sickles picked the home Of DR..
Stirling Stackhouse at random from
a telephone directory as likely
prospect for robbery, and gained
entrance by posing as newspaper re-
porter.
Demands Money.
Once inside he revealed pistol
and said he wanted money. He tied
the woman's wrists with clothes line
and put adhesive tape on her mouth
and trussed up the two children on
their arrival home from school.
Sickles became frightened wher
the telephone rang and ordered Mrs
Stackhouse to leave with him. After
fleeing through fields and brush anc
over fences, he released Mrs. Stack
house at a farmhouse from where
she called her home
Authorities arrived and seizec
Sickles, a married man and former
employe in a gas burner factory:
Mrs. Stackhouse suffered only
from shock and exhaustion.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
|S15O,OO0 Set as Bail
For Suspect Held on
Narcotics Charges
BY the Associcted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Joseph
fPip the Blind Gagliano, charged
with selling and conspiring to sell
narcotics and named by District At
torney Frank s. Hogan as leader Of
an East Harlem narcotics syndicate,
was held in $50, 900 bail today.
Four other defendants were held
In $4,000 bail each while the sixth
man arrested, Charles Oittle Bull
lets) Albero, identified by Mr.. Hogan
as leader in a second East Harlem
syndicate is in a hospital. Bail for
him will be filed later.
In fixing the $50, 900 bail, General
Sessions Court Judge Francis L. Va
lente said:
"In view of the extensive opera
tions in which the defendant Gag
lano) appears to be implicated in
the illicit traffic in drugs, the inter-
national ramifications of his opera
tions and the financial means of the
defendant which might lead him to
leave the jurisdiction, I believe that
the interest of the people require
IAAo1 tllS oCACAf0dAlt, od6Ald1iO, NC
held In bail as substantial amount" :"
The four men held in $4,000 bail
are Angelo (Puggy) Loiacano, An
thony Lucente, Armand Piragnoi
and Nicholas Gnazzo.
Gagliano and Alberto were de-
|scribed by Col Garland williams.
district supervisor of the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics, as members Of
the Young Malta, or Black Hand
group, which Col. Williams declared
was conducting Nationwide mar
cotics traffic and also making "tre-
mendous sums" in gambling and
hijacking.
Col. Williams also described Frank
Costello, selfstyled slot machine
operator, as dominant character
in the italian underworld of the
United States"
Costello denied he was involved in
the drug traffic or connected with
the Malta.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
MoIotov Thonks Byrnes
For New York CordiuIity
BY the Assosiofsd Press

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov
has thanked Secretary of State
Byrnes for the warm reception
given Soviet delegates to recen,
international meetings in New York
In . letter to Mr.. Byrnes dated
December IA, made public by the
State Department yesterday. Mr..
Molotov also said:
THE great work carried out In
New York by the Council Of For
eign Ministers and the General AS
sembly for the strengthening OF
peace and international co-opera-
ton will find, I am convinced. q
favorable response from the peoples
of the whole world"