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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Draths
WASHINGTON, MAMIE

WASHINGTON. MAMIE E.. Departed
MAJ e 0 MAs fh{Sdafo M 5eio7ed wife s4o
Isaiah Washington and sister OF Edward
losnds. She also is survived by a host O,
ing al the John T. Rhines & Co funera
home. Ord and Eye SITS. sw. Notice OF
funeral later.
WERDIG, JOHN MARTIN. On Wednes.
Irving ST. ne, JOHN MARTIN We WERD DC
beloved husband OF Elizabeth Werdig
tather OF Nettie. Charles and Franz
at the Huntemann funeral home, 513.
Georgia ave. NV, Saturday, March .. al
10 am Interment Prospect Hill Cemetery
Please omit flowers
WILLIAMS MAGGIE NJ. On Tuesday
BTysns s I.,,5 nv, Ms MAGGIE " VII
W AMs dey Trs n %s7s R 81 MRS Jgdds
Ernestine Williams: sister OF Mrs. Junia
wynn Also, surviving are three grand.
children and many other relatives anc
Brooks funeral home, 1900 Florida ave
NV After pm. Thursday friends may
where funeral services Will be held Friday
March :. at pm, Rev C. T Murray
ofnciatlns Interment Hamilton, N. c. s
WHIToN IDA EDITH sPIELMAN. Sud
WILTON Beloved Wife Of the late htE ArthaS
Ii "h n,oT,, ana mother Of Walter and Har
Iowa 'Webster City papers please copy. ]
YOUNG, ALBERT d. On Tuesday
March .. 1916, ALBERT D. YOUNG, be-
loved son OF Edward and the late Margaret
young Stepson of Dixie r. Young. brother
Young Services at Chambers funeral
home, 81 nth st. Sc, on Friday March
:. at 30 pm. 1nterment Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
YOUNG, HELEN soMMERS. Suddenly
on Thursday. March {. 1916, al Suburban
Hospital, HELEN SOMMERS YOUNG, be.
loved wife Of Walter H. Young, II Spruce
ave. Bethesda, Nd. Remains resting al
Bethesda Chevy Chase funeral home Of
VIM. Reuben Humphrey. Funeral services
at All Saints Episcopal Church, Chevy
Chase Circle, Saturday, March q. at IL 80
a m. Interment Rock Creek Cemetery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
395 New Firms Get
Charters in Maryland
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 8.-New cor
porationS are being formed in Mary
land at record breaking rate, with
1895 charters granted since the
beginning of 1915, Albert W. Ward
secretary of the State Tax Commits
sion. disclosed today.
In the years first month POS
charters were granted, with Febru-
airy, shorter by three days. account
ing for 1913 new corporations, he
said.
Although no monthly figures were
available for other years, Mr. Ward
pointed out that only 1,l05 charters
were granted in the entire year
1915, and that marked an increase
of nearly 100 per cent over the
preceding year
The trend started with the END
of the war he reported In
October of last year applications
doubled the September figure.
Almost all the applications re-
ceived this year have been from
small enterprises, by which I mean
those with an authorized capitaliza-
ton of 100000 or less"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Mrs. Nellie Augusta SisIer
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Mrs. Nellie Augusta Sisler, Sc
wife OF V. Ambrose Sisler, who L
associated with the British Mer-
chant Shipping Mission, died yes
terday at her home, Bill Adams Mil
road NV. She was a native of Up.
per Marlboro, Md.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by two sons, Comdr v. A
Slsler, jr., U. S N, and Donald G
SiSler, civilian employee of the Navy
Department, who has served al
United States Embassies in South
America; her mother. Mrs. Martha
Brown; a sister, Mrs. Charles Lam
ham, and three brothers, John P.
Bernard G. and Rowland A. Love-
less.
Funeral services will be held al
$50 am. tomorrow at the Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV, and will be followed by
mass at 9 am. at St. Paul's Cath
Ole Church, Fifteenth and V streets
NV. Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
'StammIer's Mother
Accepts Verdict Of
Murder and Suicide

Mrs. Clara Stammler. who came
here today to press an investiga ton
into the deaths of her son and an
airplane pilot. departed after an
interview with Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald. satisfied it was a case
Of murder and suicide.
Distraught and weeping, Mrs.
Stammler rushed from the District
Morgue to waiting automobile
She was to leave with her daughter
Mrs. Rosalie Burns. on a 5 pm.
train for Chelsea, Mich, where the
daughter lives.
Her son, Wilbur Stammler, 80, and
George Leist, 25. the pilot, were
found shot to death early Tuesday
in their suite in the Wardman Park
Hotel. Mr.. Stammler had adopted
Mr.. Leist February in court
proceedings in Shreveport. La. Mr..
LelSt's wife, Ruth, told police the
shooting followed an argument over
terms Of the adoption.
Doubts Cleared Up.
Before her conference with the
coroner, Mrs. Stammler told re-
porterS she would fight until the
day of my death to clear the name
Of my dead SON" She said oues-
lions unanswered by the police led
her to believe it was possible that
her son shot Mr.. Leist in self-de-
Tense
Otis Beall Kent. Washington at
torney and friend of Mrs. Stammler
SAID she now is satisfied with the
investigation conducted by the po-
lice and the coroner, who issued the
certificates of murder and suicide.
DR.. Macdonald said he reviewed
the facts in the case for Mrs
Stammler and was able to clear uu
her doubts.
All Facts in Record.
No new facts we're developed ex-
cept what was contained in the
original investigation. She has
accepted them DR.. Macdonald
said.
The coroner asserted all the facts
which led police to decide that the
case was murder and not self defense
are in police records available to the
public.
Mrs. Leist, the only witness to
the shooting, told police that Mr..
Stammler left the room after a
violent argument with her husband.
returned with the gun. shot Mr..
Lelst and then turned the gun on
himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Mrs. Mary De Simone,
70, Dies at Bethesda

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Virginia De Simone, %, lifelong
resident of Takoma Park, Nd, will
be held at Our Lady of Sorrows
Church, Ethan Allen avenue,
Takoma Park at 9 am. tomorrow
followed by burial in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Mrs. De Simone died Tuesday AZ
the Naval Hospital. Bethesda, after
an illness of seven months. She
formerly was employed by the War
Department.
Besides her husband. Ralph Frank
De Simone, she is survived by a
son, Richard Francis De Simone;
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. George
Phelps, Takoma Park: two brothers.
Richard J. Phelps. overseas with the
Navy. and Clayton A. Phelps.
Takoma Park, and two sisters, Mrs.
Lorraine Lion, Washington, and
Mrs. Marion Murray ,Takoma Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Persuasive Picketinq
Upheld in Pennsylvania
BY the Associated Prass


PHILADELPHIA, Mar. s.-Picket-
ing is legal when 1t only attempts
TO persuade workers to join" a
strike and Ito urge the public not
to patronize the employers" the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
ruled.
When picket line becomes a
picket fence" Chief Justice George
w. Maxey asserted yesterday, st
Is time for the Government to act.
Collective coercion is not a light
mate Cpart of collective bargain
ing"
The torceable seizure (by mass
plcketlng) of an employers prop
erty,' the jurist wrote in amending
a previous court opinion banning
mass picketing, lis the very essence
of Communism.
The court opinion had upheld an
injunction against mass picketinp
at the Pittsburgh Carnegie- Illinois
Steel Co. plan during the recent
Nationwide steel strike
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Col. McGugin, Former
House Member, Dies

1t Col. Harold McGugin, So, OF
Coffeyville, Kans., who served In
the House of Representatives from
1881 to 1885, died last night at Hot
Springs, Ark, according to tbs
Associated Press.
Col. McGugin, who served In
Europe in both World Wars, had
been i'll for a year in the Army
and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs.
After the World War he organized
soldier bloc in the Kansas Legisla-
ture and defeated the States anti
cigarette law. He was opposed to
any change in the dry law, however.
He was born November %, 1898,
on farm near Liberty, Montgom-
cry County, Kans. He attended law
school at Washburn College, To-
peka, and at the Inns of Court,
London. He married Miss Nell Bird.
Waldron. Ark, in 1921. While in
Washington he lived at the Fairfax
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Charles f. Hayden, 50,
Retired Farmer, Dies

Charles F. Hayden, SO. retired
farmer, died Wednesday at his
home, 1909 A street NE. where he
! had lived for the last six years.
A native of ST. Marys County
Nd, Mr.. Hayden farmed in Charles
County, Md, until he moved to
Washington.
He is survived by three sons
Walter B.. John L. and Thomas w
Hayden; a daughter, Miss Magda
lene Hayden, and a granddaughter
Requiem mass will be said at 8
am. tomorrow at Holy Comforter
Church, Fourteenth and East Capt.
toll streets. Burial viii be in St
Mary's Cemetery, Newport, Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Fraternity Pays Tribute
To Late Justice Holmes

A wreath concentrating the
birthday of the late Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes was placed on his
grave in Arlington Cemetery today
by the Oliver Wendell Holmes Chap
ter of Sigma Mu Phi Fraternity al
the Washington College of Law.
James C. Peacock, president OF
the college, delivered the address
Justice Holmes was founder of the
chapter which bears his name.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Food
led From First Page.

school program of contributing saw
ings derived through acts of morti-
fication and self-denial during Lent
to alleviate suffering in Europe.
The newly organized Washington
Protestant Emergency Committee
on Overseas Relief urged every
pastor to stress to his congregation
Sunday the need for food overseas
Each church was asked to appoint
a committee to take charge of food
donations to be shipped abroad.
Yesterdays meeting here of repre-
sentatives of the Nations food in
dustries, called to map out a con-
servation program for stores, bakeries
and eating places, ended with
pledges of support and general
agreement on steps to be taken.
Specific recommendations were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
New Post for DiIIer
Created by Macarthur

TOKYO, Mar Brig. Gen. LIE
Grande A. Diller. who has been on
leave of absence as Gen. Mac
Arthur's public relations officer. to-
day was named secretary to the gen.
eral staff of the supreme COM
mander, Allied powers and Army
Forces in the Pacific.
The position, newly created, is
that of secretary to the heads of
various sections who, in turn, are
under chief of staff. The position
Is not that of military secretary
to Gen. Macarthur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08

airy 19 at his
billet in Paris,
where he was
S t a t i on e d at
headquarters of
the E n g i n e e r
Corps, his fam
lily here has
learned.
Sergt. CHS
wells death was
d'i S Gov cred by
C O m r a d IS on
January % after
they had be-
come concerned
over his absence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Kensington Women to Elect

The Woman's Community Club of
kensington will meet at 1890 pm.
Monday at the Kensington Town
Hall, Officers will be elected and
entertainment featuring Colonial
music and costumes will be pre-
Sented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Emerson futile Dies;
Noted Yale Artist
BY the Associated Press

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Mar. g.
Emerson Tuttle, S., distinguished
American artist and Yale faculty
member, died today at New Haver
Hospital.
His boyhood home was Lake For
est. ILL.,, where a sister, Mrs. Ken1
Chandler, lives.
Mr.. futile, after working in the
advertising department of a Chi.
cago newspaper, was preparatory
school teacher for many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Food Market Burglar
Falls Into Pickle BurreI

TULSA, Okla.-Police were called
to a food market in answer to ar
alarm.
They found the intruder haC
opened skylight, stepped onto a
false ceiling which gave way and
dropped into a 60-gallon barrel OF
dill pickles. $3.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
1nurilittn

TRIGGER. JOSEPH, The unveiling Will
B'nsi Israel Cemetery. Oxon Hill, Md
leaving from 1927 WslbrioRe place NV,
at 1880 am Relatives and friends in
vited to attend. Eve q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08

Chiswell is survived by a brother
Edgar B. Chiswell. jr., of Berkeley
Calf. and sister, Mrs. w. w
Sweeney. jr., who lives with her
parents here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
Sergt. ChisweI| Dies
OF Accidental Gas
Poisoning in Paris

M ISergt. Thomas H. Chiswell, IS,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar B. CHS
well, 43ll Argyle terrace NV, died
of accidental gas poisoning Janu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08
: Darn nf Tlranks

PHILLIPS. ALBERTA MUNDELL The
family Of the late ALBERTA MUNDELL
PHILLIPS wishes. to thank the pastor,
doSences, floral tributes and other express
sit>s of sympathy during our recent be-
reavement,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-08


BROTHER EMORY B. SMITH.
LEE CAMPBELL, Secretary
TATE. LEONARD A. Banneker Relief
Association announces the death of LEON
g, 1946. from McGuire's funeral home
L. DE REEF HoLToN, President.
ALFRED H F. SELBY, Secretary.
vIRNSTEIN, RAYMOND c. RooNEY).
WednsSday v MTsh 1919 q
3. virnstein, father of Patricia and Grace
Virnstein and brother OF Robert C. Virn-
day, March 8, at 10 am. Interment Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
VERNSTEIN, RAYMOND c. (ROoNEY)
>yalhx. Colmar Manor Post. No. 13l
A6k American Legion, Department
sN1&8s of Maryland, requests the pres.
!; s: %;":j; :: .:i5;;:
3eral hcme. 2901 14th ST. NV, on Friday
March s, 1916. at SIS pm
CARL WALzL. Commander
March 8, ieis. st the residcMneseo n of 81.
a KRBY Mrs WAfr6 5Sowb be OF d01 HF
band Of Lula W. Walton. father of Mrs
H Sne son. B Boyd r. He Walton fS 81 Tsdo ;,
n. j.: one sister. Mrs. Daniel Kibler. ane
two brothers; Charles and William Wal.
ton OF y, Tomsbrook. Va. Remains resting
ices at pm at the Lee chapei NJ. Z
Church. Fairfax County. Va. Interment
Lee Chapel Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-06-11

the robbery. The prisoners share
of the loot was only $12, he said.
The two men fed the scene in q
taxicab and after splitting the
money taken from two cash regis
ters in the drugstore, Patton told
the jury, he and Wheeler separated
He said he had not seen Wheeler
since but told of a telephone con-
versation they had when papers
first carried news of the Staying.
wheeler told me on the phone
he had to shoot the man. Patton
stated. Patton said Wheeler told
him not to worry because nobody
knows u.s."
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
asked the prisoner If he and the
fugitive had ever gone out to make
some money before" Patton ad-
mitted that they had collaborated
in robbery once before and said
he knew "in a way" that they were
going to hold up somebody when
they started out last Wednesday
morning.
Inspector Barrett had revealed
before the inquest that Patton, who
lives in the 1900 block of Corcoran
street NV, was charged with MUIR
der and robbery last night after wit
identified him as one of the
8(See BERNSTEIN. page A-60
Evening star., 1946-06-11
d. c. to Buy Rock Outside City
Unless Smoot Strike Is Ended

and the contractors obtain virtually
all of 1t from the company.
Capt. Whitehurst said that seven
paving jobs now under contract
could not be started and six addi-
tional were ready to advertise for
bids. In two of the latter instances
the streets are torn up, he added.
Also being delayed, it was indi-
Gated, is work on the Klingle road
and South Capitol street bridges.
In the case of several jobs under
way when the strike. began, Capt.
Whitehurst said contractors were
able to obtain some material from
nearby Maryland.
Approximately $50 Smoot en-
ployes struck May after union and
company officials had failed to
agree on terms of a new contract.
Involved are Local II of the In
ternational Union of Operating En-
gineers and Local 639 of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Team
sters, both AFL. The unions seek
wage increases ranging between So
and Is cents an hour, among other
things.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
July 5 Holiday Bill Gets
House Unit Approval

A House civil service subcom.
mittee approved legislation which
would grant Government employees
four-day holiday over the Fourth
of July week end.
The bill would make Friday, July
S, a holiday, thus permitting Fed.
eral employees to have a Thursday
through Sunday vacation. Chair.
man Downey and Randolph of the
Senate and House civil service CON-
mittees have announced their in
dorsement of the bill.
Chairman Miller of the subcom-
mittee said he is considering intro
ducing permanent legislation which
would grant Government employees
a four-day holiday whenever q legal
holiday falls within one day of the
week end.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Reorganization Bill
Faces House Battle
After Senate PASSAGE
Measure Increases
Pay Of Congressman,
Cuts Committees
ByJ. A. O'Leor

The Senate-approved bill to
modernize Congress faces an up
hill fight in the House, but Rep
resentative Monroney, Demo-
crat, of Oklahoma was prepared
today to make every effort to get
it through before adjournment
Passed by the Senate late yester-
day, 40 to Is, the measure merges
80 Senate committees into Is. seeks
to bring the Federal budget into
closer balance, requires lobbyists to
register and raises the pay of men,
bers of Congress.
Mr.. Monroney's first move in the
House probably will be to ask the
Rules Committee to let the bill &c
to a special committee to expedite
its consideration, as was done in the
Senate. With Congress planning tc
adjourn by mid-July, however, this
first attempt in many years tc
enable the law-making machinery
to operate more efficiently will have
to compete with the last-minute
rush Of other important legislation
Senate passage came suddenly
and unexpectedly after Senator La
Toilette, Progressive Republican, OF
Wisconsin sacrificed plans to enc
most Of the patronage jobs at the
Capitol by setting up a director OF
personnel to supervise the hiring OF
employees who operates the legisla-
tive buildings. This provision had
encountered strong opposition.
Even without this feature, how
ever, the bill makes many changes
in the traditional setup Of Congress
Continued IN PAGE Ali CoIIIrnn 1
Evening star., 1946-06-11
High Court Errs, Will Rule
On Second Trip 10 Chair
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

The Supreme Court today ad-
mitted it erred yesterday and said
it will rule on whether Willie Francis,
18-year-old Louisiana Negro, should
be sent to the electric chair a Sec
ond time.
A court official announced to re.
porters an error was made In the
listing of the courts order in the
case yesterday. That order said the
petition filed on behalf of Francis
had been denied.
Actually the court will hear argu.
ment in the new term next October
on the plea of Francis that he should
not be placed in jeopardy of his life
a second time for the same offense.
The plea said this would be cruel
and unusual punishment.
Francis went to a portable electric
chair last month, but he escaped
death through mechanical failure OF
the chair.
The Supreme Court has issued q
stay. OF execution which will remain
IN effect until it rules finally in the
case.
Francis was convicted of killing
Andrew Thomas. a st. Martinville,
La, druggist, during a robbery.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
HOUSE UPHOLDS CASE BILL VETO BY 5 VOTES
Druggist Killing Suspect Seized,
OrderedH by Coroner|s Jury
Police Announce Confession to Port
In Staying; Trggermon Is Sought.

Jesse James Patton, 81, colored
whose capture and confession
were announced this morning
by police, was ordered held this
afternoon for action of the grand
jury on charge of murder in the
Staying of Maurice L. Bernstein
last Wednesday.
The coroner's panel deliberated
only five minutes before returning
the verdict.
The second man involved in the
holdup was still at large, but In
spector Robert j. Barrett had an
nounced earlier that Patton had re-
vealed his accomplice was Reginald
J. Wheeler, colored, 26, known
holdup man. Patton was quoted as
saying Wheeler was the trigger man.
Just before the case went to the
coroner's jury; Patton took the stand
to make a voluntary statement about
his activity on the day of the mur-
der. He said the plan to rob Mr..
Bernstein's drugstore was devised
by Wheeler, VINO he said called him
earlier in the day and said, lets go
out and make some money" The
drugstore is at 1876 Florida avenue
NV.
Patton declared Wheeler gave
him the pistol Patton held during
Evening star., 1946-06-11

The Commissioners today threat
ened to go into the nearby States
for crushed rock for Is stalled Dis
trict paving and construction jobs to
break the virtual stranglehold on
sand and gravel of the Smoot Sand
and Gravel Co., now strikebound for
six weeks.
They said they would go into
Maryland and West Virginia and
import the material by rail to be
unloaded by District employees if the
strike is not over one week from
today.
In addition, Engineer Commits
sioner Gordon r. Young said that If
the strike continues beyond that
time he will recommend to the Com
missioners legislation for the Dis
trict to acquire land along the Po-
tomac River from which it could
extract its own sand and gravel.
Municipal jobs require approxi-
mately 100000 cubic yards Of this
material a month, according to
Highway Director H. G. Whitehurst,
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Stain Reneged on Warsaw Aid
Promise, Gen. Bor Charges
Leader of Poles in III-Storred Revolt
Loys Failure to Soviet Politics
By NewboId Moves, Jr.

Prime Minister Stain prom
ised to send Red troops to the
aid of the Poles in the Warsaw
uprising of August, 1914, and his
failure to do so resulted in the
destruction of the city and much
of its populace, according to Gen.
Bor, leader of that ill-starred
revolt.
The underground fighter, whose
real name is Tadeusz Komorowski,
arrived yesterday in Washington. He
has given The Star his side of the
answer to some hitherto obscure
historical questions as to what
happened when Warsaw, under his
direction, fought the Nazis So days
and lost, while the Russians marked
time, a few miles away.
Did Gen. Bor, whose rightist per-
suasion cannot be doubted, actually