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from surrounding bases to lead
their aid.
DR.. Samuel P. Martin of Durham,
N. c., Army captain and head Of the
rescue party and one Of its most
heroic members, refused tonight
to leave the sides of the 10 injured
who remained at the crash scene.
He has been virtually without sleep
since he and the other members
of his party went into the wilds
Thursday afternoon and admin
istered first aid to the survivors.
Two rescue parties "A 15-man
Army team and a 30-man company
of Newfoundland woodsmen-had
hacked a trail through the dense
spruce forest and over the marshy
muskeag a quarter of mile from
the scene of the crash to the
plateau.
The survivors, ID Of whom were
severely injured, had been carted
laboriously through the forest trail
on litters.
Splints, crutches, tents and medi-
cal supplies had been dropped at
the temporary rescue camp set up
by the Army team which arrived
late Thursday Plans to parachute
a small power plant and floodlights
were abadoned earlier as dangerous
Hospital Augments Staff.
An augmented staff stood by al
the Sir Frederick Banting Hospital
at Gander to take care of the sur
vivors as they arrived.
BY the time the first helicoptel
had taken off from Gander, half the
injured already had been transport.
ed to the plateau.
The helicopters had been as.
fsembled in record time-612 hour.
by technicians working at tor
speed. The operation ahead of thu
pilots was a long and arduous one
It meant taking the survivors from
the plateau one by one, flying then
to the Catalinas and then the q
miles to Gander, two at a time.
Word of the coming rescue opera.
tion was flashed to the survivors ane
cheered them greatly.
The weather appeared ideal fo
the hazardous operation. The sharp
numbing wind died down by mid
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morning and the temperature
climbed into the sos at Gander Bay
Clouds and fog disappeared.
Flying Fortress Aids.
A Coast Guard Flying Fortress
bomber especially equipped to para
chute heavy equipment was sent
to the scene, heavily wooded hill
where the big airliner plummeted
TO earth early Wednesday morning,
The fortress carried II Army tents
for the survivors and the rescue
team itself, who had no shelter
from the cold and rain.
Getting the rescuers themselves
out OF the area promised to be
no small task. The original Army
force of Is men, including Capt.
Martin. had been on the job more
than 48 hours without sleep. The
second ground rescue team, a group
of 80 Newfoundland woodsmen,
reached the scene of the crash today,
after polling upstream in a treacher-
GUS river in wooden canoe-like boats
The rescuers set up an emergency
open-air hospital some 200 yards
from the wreckage of the Sabena
airplane. Splints, crutches, medical
supplies and more axes for the
rescuers cutting a trial to the plateau
were dropped to the party.
Near the charred heap of wreck
age, the bodies of the dead were
collected.
Gn Washington the State De-
partment said George K. Donald,
American consul general at ST.
Johns, Mid, reported that 81
of the bodies were unrecognizable,
but that five could be identifledD
Rescuers Need Aid.
Many of the members of the Army
rescue team themselves, badly
needed the supplies dropped from
the circling planes. They had fallen
into icy waters of Dead Wolf Brook
repeatedly as they beat their way
toward the scene of the crash.
The small force of American per-
sonnel at the Gander Field-14 men
commanded by Capt. w. c. Nc
Connel of Denton, Tex,-has been
augmented by crews flown up from
the coast guard base at Argentia
and others from the Air Transport
Command base at Fort Towson.
Airmen who studied the crash
scene-in woods SO dense that the
ground is obscured-said there still
was no explanation for the tragedy.
The plane was directly on the south
west leg of the Gander radio range
beam when it ploughed steeply into
the side of the hill, shearing a
3O0-foot cash in the woods.
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act by preparing an authorization
of the price cut back dating it and
placing it in the files. The employe
in question has been discharged and
the contract of the agent has been
Cancelled"
Another instance cited in the re-
port concerned agents who report
edly failed to disclose that cutting
tools were Government surplus. In
some instances the agents removed
identifying markings on the tools
and charged the cost of such re-
moval to the Government, the re-
port asserted.
Good Results on Plane Parts.
The subcommittee criticized what
it called restrictive practices on the
part of industry groups which have
gained control over certain types of
surplus"
Il found that the employment and
supervision of agents in selling air
craft parts and components was on
the whole satisfactory. Especially
good results have been obtained
where agents have been used side
by side with national and regional
sales programs and other methods
of sales Of machine tools, the report
said.
Senator O'Mahoney held that vet
Grams should be given greater op-
portunity to purchase those types
of surplus goods. He announced
that the subcommittee will issue
reports on veterans problems, site
sales and plant disposals, and then
hold public hearings.
Only about 16 per cent of the
$40 900 600 in electronics declared
surplus to date has been sold, the
report said Total sales amounted
to about s85 100000 of which the
Government received $27 900 900.
Evening star., 1946-09-22
Private Funeral Rites
For Mrs. Reynolds
Set for Tomorrow

Private funeral services will be
held tomorrow for Mrs Evalyn Nc
Lean Reynolds, 24-year-old heiress,
who was found dead in bed Friday
afternoon in her mothers George
town mansion, Friendship, with an
open bottle of sleeping pills on the
night table nearby.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, Dis
trict Coroner, said chemical tests to
determine if the pills caused the
young woman's death probably will
not be completed until Tuesday or
Wednesday.
Former Senator Robert r. Rey-
nolds of North Carolina. the 6l-
year-old husband of the dead wom-
an. was reported to be too grief
stricken to answer inquiries about
funeral arrangements for her She
was his fifth wife Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean, her mother, was in
seclusion awaiting arrival of her
two sons, John Mclean from Texas
and Edward B. Mclean from Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo.
Daughter In Delaware.
Mrs. Reynolds body was at
Gawler's funeral home. Her 3-year-
old daughter, Mamie Spears Reyn-
olds, was reported to be in the care
of nurse at Rehoboth Beach, Del,
where she had spent the summer
The child is an heir to the fortunes
of her two great grandfathers,
Thomas F. Walsh who developed a
great Colorado silver mine, and John
R. Mclean, publisher of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer who purchased the
Washington Post when he moved to
the capital.
Mrs. Reynolds income from trust
fund created by John r. Mclean
was $4,000 a year in 1941 when, on
the death of her father, Edward B.
Mclean, she and her two brothers
each came into third of the pub
lisher's estate.
The tragedy in the Mclean family
recalled the stories of the supposed
curse OF the Hope diamond, the A 12-
carat gem owned by Mrs Evalyn
Walsh Mclean, that followed the
death in 1918 of her young son, Vim
son Mclean, who was struck by an
automobile at the gates of the old
Friendship, now Mclean Gardens.
Gem Brought From India.
The diamond, brought from India
by Lord Hope, an early British ad-
ministrator, was supposed to have
been removed from a temple and
to carry the curse of the temple
goddess on those who had despoiled
her
Eight years ago Mrs. Mclean
wrote: Il personally am not afraid
of the Hope diamond but I always
warn my friends not to touch it. 1t
is a strange and fearful thing how
many people have touched it have
had unnatural and, in many cases,
horrible deaths soon afterward."
Evening star., 1946-09-22
Brig. Gen. {. R. Rowland,
Retired, Dies at Cleveland
BY The Assoeioted Press

CLEVELAND. Sept. 21.- Brig
Gen. Charles r. Howland, rs, who
at his retirement in 1885 was COM
manding general of the I'd Division
Fort Sam Houston, Tex, died today
in Marine Hospital.
An 1895 graduate of West Point
he participated in the campaign
of the Philippine Insurrection,
served for a time as aide de camp
to Gen. Arthur Macarthur, father
of Gen. Douglas Macarthur and
served as editor of the first Digest
of Opinions of the Judge Advocate
General. In 1914 he served as COM
manding officer of Alcatraz and at
the close of World War 1 was as
signed to the AID (Rainbow) Divi-
sion for occupation duty in Ger
many.
Following services here Monday,
burial will be in Arlington Gene
terry Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-09-22
George F. Bromley, 53,'
Native of District, Dies

George F. Bromley. SO, native Of
Washington. died yesterday at his
home. 1904 Wisconsin avenue NV.
after a four-month illness.
Mr.. Bromley was employed at
Martins Restaurant, 1856 Wisconsin
avenue NV. A Navy veteran of the
World War, he was a member of the
hiieen Post OF the American Legion.
, He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary 2, Bromley; his mother, Mrs.
Lille V. Bromley; brother. John
F, Bromley; sister, Mrs. Kathryn
Wilhelm, and STEP daughter. Mrs.
Helen Trilling, all of Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
the Grace Episcopal Church, 1899
Wisconsin avenue NV, at 2 pm.
Tuesday. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery with military honors.
Evening star., 1946-09-22

for President in 1920 would no
succeed, Senator PoindeXter threw
his support to Warren G. Harding
then a Senator from Ohio.
Senator Poindexter was born al
Memphis, Tenn. He was a gradu-
ate of Washington and Lee Uni
versity and a graduate of its Law
school. He moved to Walla Walla
Wash, after completing his Law
studies and began the practice o1
law there.
Served as Judge.
In 1897, Mr.. PoindeXter moved tc
Spokane, Wash, and a year later
became assistant prosecuting at
torney of Spokane County, holding
that Office until 1904 He then
served as judge of the Superior
Court for four years.
He was elected to the House of
Representatives as an "insurgent'
Republican in 1908, and again in
that role won a seat in the Senate
in 1911 against the regular Repub-
lican forces. He was supporter
of Theodore Roosevelt in the presi-
Dental campaign of 1912.
Mr.. Poindexter was defeated for
his third senatorial term by Clar-
ence C. Dill, Democrat, in 1922.
After his defeat, he was appointed
Ambassador to Peru by President
Harding. He served in that post
until 1927, when he made another
unsuccessful effort to return to the
Senate. He then retired to private
life.
Wed in 1892.
Mr.. PoindeXter was married to
Elizabeth Gale Page of Walla Wal
la on June 16, 1892. In 1923 she
became the center of storm of dis
cussion after writing a series of
newspaper articles about Washing
ton social life among the political
figures. Mrs. Poindexter, among
other items, called the United States
Marine Band Mrs. Denby's pri-
vate orchestra" a reference to the
fact that the band played at the
home of the then Secretary of the
Navy, Edwin DENLY. She also
claimed the War. Department fur
nished good looking officers" for
social functions given at the home
of the Secretary of War, John w.
Weeks.
Mrs. Poindexter died December 20,
1929. The Senator'S second wife,
Mrs. Elinor Jackson Junkin Latane,
whom he married in 1896, died sew
eral years ago.
The former Senator was the
author of two books on Peru, The
Agar Incas" and The Peruvian
Sailors" He was at work on third
volume at the time of his death.
Both published books were written
after he retired from public life.
The former Senator is survived
by a son, Gale Poindexter Of Spo-
kane, and two brothers, William
Anderson Poindexter of Greenlee
and Fauntleroy Poindexter Of
Lynchburg, Va.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed. Burial will be in
the family plot at Lexington, Va.
Evening star., 1946-09-22
u. S. War Veterans
Now TotuI l7,499, 900

The number of veterans in the
United States is now 17,499 900, ac-
cording to the Veterans Admins
tration.
Veterans of World War II out
numbered all other veterans almost
four to one. The totals show 49,
538, 900 are veterans of the last war
and only 1851 900 of World War !
and other wars.
Evening star., 1946-09-22

q e n t in 1920,
died yesterday
at his home at
Greenlee, Va.
AS Senatoar,
Mr.. Poindexter
was one of the
first Republi-
cans to oppose
the entrance of
t h e U n | t e d
States into the
League of Ma
tiions. When it
became appar-
ent that his bid
for the Republi-
Evening star., 1946-09-22
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ment in May, 1945, and additional
shipments almost every month
thereafter but has sold only s5,597
of his S353,872 inventory Yet, his
expenses amounted to $8,92l, the
report asserted.
In fairness to the agents" the
report continued, lit must be stated
that this situation is not entirely
their fault. Relatively small amounts
of readily marketable electronics
equipment were received by agents.
Large quantities have been accumu-
lating and are running up the
agents average selling expense.
Since ali handling and storage
charges are betrayed by the Gov
eminent under the terms of the
agency agreements, agents have had
little or no incentive to press for
scrapping authority or low prices
which might move the surplus. In
frequent recommendations for
scrapping submitted by agents have
been acted upon by War Assets
Administration in dilatory man
ner."
The subcommittee staff told of a
Chicago agent who received an as
| signment of trucks on which elec-
tronics equipment was mounted. He
removed the equipment and sold
the trucks separately at price sub
stantially below the price at which
WAA was selling trucks, the report
stated.
Authorization Back Dated.
This caused considerable embar-
rassment to the Chicago regional
office, the report noted. When an
inquiry was instituted as to the au-
thority Of the agent to sell at the
lower price, a WAA employe at
tempted to camouflage the AGENT s
Evening star., 1946-09-22
Louis Sitter, 79, Dies

MIAMI, Sept. 81 (P.-Louis Stit-
zer, 70. former member of the MARI
time Commission in New York, died
at his home here today. He moved
TO Miami 10 wears ago.
Evening star., 1946-09-22
As THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D c.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER
Miles Poindexter, II,
Former Senator From
Washington, Dies

Miles Poindexter, 78, Senator
from Washington from 1912 to 1922
and leading candidate for the
Republican nomination for Presi-
Evening star., 1946-09-22

Paraguay is encouraging the i'm
portation of jeeps for civilian use.
Evening star., 1946-09-22

M. H. Stonestreet and r. J.
Marchette check each chart
to assure that the correct
hearing aid is being used to
At each loss. Free consul
tation service is available
for any of your hearing aid
problems. Come in to see II
your present aid is properly
fitted to your particular
loss. There is no charge for
using any of our testing
instruments as it is part of
our public service.
Several different makes Of
hearing aids to try-bone
and air conduction hearing
aids, prescription fitted to
your individual hearing
requirements.
Evening star., 1946-09-22

r. ]. Marchette, chief con-
sultant, is explaining the
difference in the hearing
you get with a poorly made
ear mold compared to the
perfectly fitted ear mold,
which is made here at the
Washington Hearing Aid
Clinic. Properly fitted ear
molds are essential to per-
feet hearing. Here trained
consultants assure you per-
feet fittings.
Bring in your present hear
ing aid If you are not hav-
ing complete satisfaction in
hearing aid comfort. There
is no charge for this testing
service.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
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A PRACTICE DRIVE.

Mrs. T. DdUid Pdrrack does
a bit OF practicing before
teeing of. Mr.. and Mrs.
Pdrrdck's attractive home is
at Manor Club Estates, and
she spends much OF her time
at the club.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
Miss Haidekober
We'd IN Garden
| 1t Hnide1Var

Huideway, the summer home of
Mrs. Reginald s. Huidekoper at Nom
quit, Mass, was the scene yesterday
of the wedding of her daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Gardner Huidekoper, and
Mr. Richard Landrum, son OF Mrs.
John Paul Landrum of Dallas.
Guests assembled in the walled
garden at Huideway for the wedding,
for which the bride wore a dress
of white dotted organdy made with
a long train. Her half-length veil
was caught with orange blossoms to
Ia Mary, Queen Of Scots headdress
and she carried a bouquet Of white
gardenias centered with white or
chids and showered with gypsophila
She was escorted by her brother,
Mr.. Peter G. Huidekoper, and her
sister, Mrs. Travis Brown, was her
matron of honor, wearingNa a flower
print dress and carrying bouquet
of delphinium matching the blue
background of the dress. Mr.. Henry
S. Huidekoper, another brother of
the bride, was best man for the
bridegroom.
Mr. Landrum is graduate of the
New Mexico Military Institute and
served three years with the Army
Air Forces. Both he and his bride
are pilots, and now are on wedding
trip by plane. They will be at home
in Green Meadows, Md, about the
first of October. when Mr.. Landrum
will enter the University Of Mary
land.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
Kanffmann-AHem
Ceremony Held
1t Fort Mver

En- route north on their wedding
trip following their marriage yester-
day are Mr.. and Mrs. John Hoy
Kaufman. The bride, formerly
Miss Laura Doan Allen, is the
daughter of Col. and Mrs. Frank
Albert Allen. jr, and her husband
Is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Hay Kaufman.
Their nuptials took place In Fort
Myer Chapel, the Rev. Arthur
OLeary, S.J, former president of
Georgetown University, offciating
at the ceremony at 4 o'clock, and
the wedding party received the
guests later in the reception hall
of the post headquarters.
Col. Allen escorted his daughter to
the Sanctuary. where she was met
by the bridegroom and his brother,
Mr.. Samuel Hay Kaufman III,
who served as best man.
The bride wore a gown of white
nylonette fashioned with a tight
bodice and full skirt with a hustle
and ending In long train. She
carried white prayerbook overlaid
with white orchids and her veil
and coronet of rose point lace had
been worn by brides in the bride
groom's family for generations.
Miss Mary Allen, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor and Miss
Betty Mockler of Holyoke, Mass,
was one of the bridesmaids. They
wore pink nnarquisette gowns with
matching picture hats and carried
bouquets of delphinium and small
white tiger lilies. Miss Joan Kauff-
mann, sister of the bridegroom, and
Miss Louise CuShwa of Williams
port, Md, were the other brides
maids, and their gowns were of
blue marquisette matching their
picture hats. They also carried del
phinium and lilies.
Mr.. Norborne Robinson. Mr.,
Charles H. Maddox jr., and Mr..
Frank Albert Allen, III, were the
ushers. '
When the newly married couple
left on their wedding trip the bride
was wearing cotton suit fashioned
with q black skirt and white tunic.
and a small black and white hat
with matching accessories. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kaufman will reside on the
campus at Princeton University
where the former will enter the
sophmore class in September.
The bride Is graduate of George
town Visitation Convent and at
tended the College Of New Rochelle
for two years. Mr.. Kaufman was
graduated from Choate School and
served for more than two years in
the Army Air Forces.
Evening star., 1946-07-28

Dr. StieOeHnbs TO Lie OlllCC VA
chief of the Bureau of Human Nu-
triton and Home Economics two
years ago climaxed long period of
notable service in the Agriculture
Department. 1t was thanks to
Hazel Stiebeling that the United
States-back in 1941-became acute
ly conscious of its nutritional needs
Out OF a welter of statistics and re-
search, she showed what kind of
foods the Nation was eating through
her publication, Are We Well Fed?"
and concluded that one-third of
the population was not. .i
Earlier, she had won recognition
for development of diet plans at four
levels of cost. These help home
makers, whatever their economic
status, obtain the best possible nu-
triton for the amount of money
they have to spend.
As a nutritionist, however, Dr.
Stiebeling is ABOUT as well known in
South America and Europe as she
is in this country. Since 1886, when
she went to Scotland to discuss the
problems of food consumption at
meeting of the International Society
of Agricultural Economists, she has
been attending one international
conference after another.
Such meetings have taken her to
Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Argentina, Mexico,
Venezuela and Canada. She at
tended the precedent making
United Nations Conference on Food
and Agriculture at Hot Springs, Va,
in 1913, as a member of the tech
nical secretariat., She was present at
subsequent sessions of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations. And only last week
she was invited to serve on the
standing Advisory Committee on Nu-
triton of the FAC. She plans to at
tend Its next meeting in Copen-
hagen in September.
When she thinks Of her early de-
Evening star., 1946-07-28

1871 uilGll lilS
death in 1899, had the good fortune
to live in that section of Europe
which literally is the crossroads
market-p place of the world. Add to
that the interesting circumstance
that each member of the family was
an ardent collector, and the sum
total is a house full of beautiful and
interesting objects from everywhere
China and. glass were the partic-
ular choice of Mrs. Gillespie who
could, and sometimes did while liv-
ing abroad, entertain representatives
from every country In the world and
serve each guest upon china made
for notables in his own land.
Plates made for the royal family
of Denmark, each one painted with
a different flower pattern: plates
made for an old Shah of Persia
plates made for Louis XIV and
Louis XIV of France hand painted
plates from Russia, each decorated
with different fruit; a handsome
blue and gold tea set from an old
Turkish palace and still another
from the same source of red and
gold, each cup inscribed in gold with
a day of the week: an Italian tea
set of sapphire blue trimmed with
gold, and Limoges, Haviland and
Dresden, of course, have their place
Then there is the glassware
handmade and intricately deco
rated, some of it etched, some of it
engraved, and one complete service
OF palace glass finely encrusted
with pin-lines OF gold.
Turkish silver also had a fasci-
nation for Mrs. Gillespie. whose
collection includes some that is his
toric, some that is useful, some
purely decorative and all of it beau
tiful. There are twin washstand
sets comprising water pitchers, wash
bowels, soap dishes and toothbrush
Evening star., 1946-07-28

sire to specialize in languages, Dr.
Stiebeling ruefully reflects that a
speaking knowledge of French and
Spanish would come in handy these
days. For 10 years she has been
planning to take time out to brush
up on her languages. But her desk
has been piled high with work and
just when she thinks that she can
arrange the time, another interna-
tional conference comes along.
DR.. Stiebeling, who is tall and
slender and wears clothes with tall
ored lines but a definitely feminine
touch, has an apartment at the
Westchester where she can indulge
her fondness for the domestic arts.
She is too busy to attempt much
housekeeping, but likes to prepare
her Sunday morning breakfast. Her
speciality just now is potato pam
cakes. They are delicious, she says,
and moreover don't require any
flour.
While 1t is easy to picture her
in a domestic setting, it is obvious
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