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Evening star., 1946-01-08
Charge Against Mrs. Car|an
Changed TO Manslaughter
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CHELSEA, Mass, Jan. "a muir
der charge against Mrs. Rose Car
Ian, %, in connection with the death
of her infant son, will be dropped
and manslaughter charge Substi-
tuted, Police Capt. Cornelius p
Duggan today notified former 1t
Gov. Francis E. Kelly, her counsel
Mrs. Carlan is scheduled for hear.
ing Thursday. She is at liberty
under $4,000 bail.
The young mothers report thai
her son Ronald had been kidnapped
in November was responsible fol
one of the most widespread
searches in New England history
The infants body subsequently was
found concealed under cupboard
in the Carlan home.
The medical examiner reported
he found no evidence of violence
and Mrs. Carlan asserted she founc
Ronald dead in his crib.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Fire Marshal 10 Test
Filling Station Tanks,
Pipes in Blast Probe

Fire Marshal Raymond Roberts
today said air pressure tests would
be made on all underground gasoline
tanks and piping of the Mattingly
Bros. filling station, First and Allan
tic streets Sc, in an effort to deter
mine the origin of gas fumes be-
heved to have caused the blast
which demolished the filling station
Sunday afternoon.
The fire marshal pointed out that
1t had been definitely learned from
two of those injured by the blast
that gasoline fumes had been noted
In the basement of the filling station
a short time before the explosion.
He said no source of the fumes had
been located.
1t is believed the fumes may have
been ignited by a spark from the
motor of an air compressor as a tire
was being inflated at the time of the
accident, causing the motor to oper-
ate.
Fire Marshal Roberts said the air
pressure test would be started today
by workers of the Texaco Oil Co.
under his supervision. He pointed
out that there are 100 storage tanks
at the filling station, but that the
nearest one is % feet away from the
destroyed building. The nearest gas
oline pump is 13 feet away from the
building, he added.
Leo Mattingly, one of the brothers
who operated the station, was killed,
and the other brother, Francis Mat
tingly, who was seriously injured,
cannot yet be questioned on details.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Sounds Like 'Foolishness,'
II. S. Physicist Declares

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (P).-The Her.
aid Tribune said today that DR.. Vic
tor F. Weisskopf, theoretical physicist
who was intimately associated with
construction of the atom bomb al
Los Alamos, N. Mex, commented ir
Cambridge that the Londonderry
report of development of a new
atom bomb by Russian scientists
sounded like lot of foolishness."
He was quoted as saying it was
absolutely impossible to derive as
much enerby from a small quantity
of uranium as was suggested by DR.
Raphael E. G. Armattoe in a state
ment describing the purported new
Russian bomb.
DR.. Weisskopf said the Russians
necessarily would proceed first by
making a bomb like the one de-
veloped in this country and that
such an achievement would surprise
him. He added, however, that in
view of the fact he was not certain
how long Russian scientists had
been working on the problem, it was
not to be considered impossible.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Priest Gives News of Staying
To Parents of Kidnapped Child

Mrs. Degnan, sobbing family
raised her head slightly. Il have
faith, father, tell me-" Her husband
nodded.
The couple looked intently at the
priest. He said nothing. Another
pause, and then Mr.. Degnan, his
eyes filling with tears, whispered:
II understand, father" He placed
a comforting arm about his wife's
shoulders. I'VE understand, don't
we, mom?"
Father Kearney and Inspector
DAILY stood silent as the couple
sought bravely to compose their
emotions.
WAS she disfigured, father? Was
she badly harmed?"
The priest remained mute. He
appeared to shake his head, slowly
Inspector DAILY left the room as the
priest fingered to offer whatever
comfort he could.
Evening star., 1946-01-08

more. I cannot control myself"
The killer has not been appre-
hended.
Appealed to Kidnaper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Degnan, since the
discovery of Suzanne's kidnapping
at 7:30 am. yesterday, had main
tanned hope throughout yesterday
that they would get their child back
by paying the $4,000, as demanded
in a note left in her room.
Mr.. Degnan, 36-year-old super
visory executive of the Chicago
metropolitan Office of Price Admin
istration. had appealed by radio te
the kidnaper to return his chile
and he would pay the ransom He
pleaded with his daughter to obey
her abductor.
But his appeals and pleadings
were of no avail. Police theorized
that Suzanne, who was a first
grade pupil in the Sacred Heart
Academy, had been killed almost
Immediately after the kidnaper
snatched her from her bed at a
time estimated around 3 am.
The kidnaper in his note had
warned that he would harm his VIC
tim if police were notified of the
abduction Mr.. Degnan, in two
radio appeals, had promised the
kidnaper immunity from prosecu-
ton for Suzanne's safe return and
pledged he would pay the $4,000.
Mr.. Degnan, whose salary is
ST 500 a year. did not relate how
he would raise the amount de-
manded by the kidnaper. He came
to Chicago from Washington last
July, and his family-his wife,
,, Suzanne and another daughter
Elizabeth, 10-followed him last
September. While employed at the
OPA offices from 1941 to 1945 in
Washington he commuted to the
Capital from his home in Baltimore
Evening star., 1946-01-08
FBI Academy Glass Of 96
Is LARGEST on Record

Three officers from the police de-
partment of Manila and a Royal
Canadian Mounted Policeman were
among So men who reported here
yesterday for the opening of the
31st session of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation National Academy
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover said
one of the Filipinos was captain
in the Philippine Army who was
sent to the academy on orders OF
Gen. Macarthur. He added that
the class was the largest on record
The academy course will continue
for IL weeks, covering every phase
Of modern law enforcement pro-
cedure. The class roster includes
the name of Detective Corpl. John
P. Leahy of the Montgomery County
police,
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Demonstrations
Continued From First Page }

q million and a quarter out of
3,500,O00.
Marine Corps discharges have to-
tailed more than $4,000 out of an
aggregate strength 486, 900, he add
ed, while the Coast Guard has de-
modified more than $4,000 out of
10000.
These numbers are staggering
when you consider what they mean
in ships, inextensive stats required
to carry out processing before dis
charge and in rail transport suffi-
cient to carry these soldiers, sail
ors and Marines to their homes
once they reach our ports" the
President said.
No Reference to Demonstrations.
THE wonder is not that some OF
our soldiers, sailors and Marines
are not yet home, but that so many
are already back at their own fire.
Sides"
The President made no reference
to troop demonstrations at various
places because of dissatisfaction
with the speed of the demobiliza-
ton program.
Meanwhile, globa1 protests against
the Army's announced decrease in
rehabilitation touched off in Manila,
echoed on Capitol Hill today.
Investigation Possible.
There was strong probability
that the House Military Affairs
Committee would order an investi-
cation, or at least an informal in
quiry, although Chairman May was
said by colleagues to feel that the
Army is doing the best it can. Mr..
May is in Florida.
Letters, kilograms and petitions
demanding action have started pill
ing up in the committees quarters.
One member commented privately
that because this is congressional
election year, they are likely to re-
ceive some attention"
Representative Short, Republican
Of Missouri, another member of the
committee, insisted that 1--WE should
do something about it." and said he
wondered whether the War Depart
ment's demobilization showdown and
selective services failure to induct
more men are not part of move to
force adoption of compulsory peace
time military training.
Johnson Calls for Facts.
Citing figures on occupation needs
enlistments, inductions and Army
strength, Mr.. Short told reporters he
could not understand "why the Army
has to delay demobilizing high-point
men,"
A House inquiry was requested by
Representative Mansfield, Demo-
crat, of Montana in a letter to Mr.
May, and Representative Brown, Re.
publican, of Ohio declared to news
men 1--WE are entitled to know what
is going on"
House Democratic Whip Spark
man of Alabama said he believes the
Military Affairs Committee, Of which
he Is member, should question
Army leaders $50 all the facts Car
be laid before the public"
The Army reported, meanwhile
that voluntary enlistments were
breaking all records but that thu
numbers joining the Regular Army
nevertheless fell far short of meet.
ing current requirements.
The total for less than five month,
Is expected to reach 400, 900, with thu
complete figures not yet compiled.
oficials stressed. however. thai
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Ey the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Jan. ga parish
priest, accepting a plea by police,
related the tragic news of the slay-
ing of little Suzanne Degnan to her
Igrief-stricken parents last night.
The Rev. George G. Kearney Of
st. Gertrudes Church, accompanied
by Detective Edwin c. Daily, went to
the Degnan home shortly after the
finding of the severed head of the
child in a sewer.
Helen Degnan, 36, mother of the
6-year -old Suzanne, was lying on a
lounge, sobbing softly, hoping, pray
ing for the safety of her child.
Alongside her sat her husband,
James E. Degnan, 36, who sought
to comfort her.
Father Kearney looked at the dis
traught couple for minute, then
quietly asked: do you have strong
faith?"
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Ry the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 8.-Sources close
to the British government today ex-
pressed skepticism of reports that
Russia had developed a new atom
bomb which makes the Western
powers weapon obsolete"
The report was made last night by
DR.. Raphael E. G. Armattoe, direc-
tor of Lomeshie Research Center for
Anthropology and Human Biology at
Londonderry, Northern Ireland. DIR.
Armattoe refused to disclose the
source of his information, aside from
saying that members of the center
staff were affiliated with Russian
scientific societies.
The doctor Is a Negro.
(There was no official COM
ment in Moscow, but the best
information from other sources
in the Soviet capital appeared to
be that there was no basis for
the report)
Usually well informed British
sources said they had not seen DIR
Armattoe's statement, made in ar
interview, but when informed of its
contents said they doubted it very
much.
If the Russians have developed an
atom bomb, they said, they thought
"only small circle of people inside
Russia would know about it," They
added they did not understand how
DR.. Armattoe would know.
In addition, they said, they were
unable to understand how DR.. Ar
mattoe would have enough knowl-
edge of the Western Powers atom
bomb to know whether the purport-
ed Russian weapon renders it obso-
lete.
They said they were sure he did
not know-at least I'VE certainly
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Patterson in Yokohama
On INSPECTION Tour

YOKOHAMA, Jan. 8 lP.-Secre-
tary of War Patterson today carried
his inspection tour to this city,
where an estimated 500 soldiers met
to plan for larger demonstration
on demobilization, but the Secretary
saw no demonstration.
Mr.. Patterson and his party visited
the Army Service Command about
pm. only a few minutes after the
soldiers had held a short, orderly
meeting and called for a mass dem
onstration before 9th Army head
quarters on Thursday to protest
the War Departments showdown of
rehabilitation"
Mr.. Patterson left early this eve
ming to visit Kyoto.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Record Snow Hits Texas;
! Tornado Toll Rises 10 80
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARIA, Tex, Jan. 8.-The Big
Bend country of Southwest Texas
shoveled itself out of its biggest
snow on record today as the death
toll mounted to 80 in tornadoes
which swept through five East
Texas counties, causing property
damage Of $2,600, 900.
Snow, which began Sunday, was
10 to II inches deep here and at
nearby Alpine. Twenty-eight per-
sons, one baby, were stranded In
cars and buses for seven hours neal
here before rescuers could reacf
them.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
|Ex-SoIdier, Discharged
To Aid Family, Killed
By the Associated Press.

By the AsSoclated Press.
GLENHAM, N. Y, Jan. 8.-At the
request Of his parents, Theodore
Ichhorn. 10. was honorably dis
charged from the Army last August
because his two brothers had been
killed in action and he was needed
at home.
Last night jack handle slipped
and Theodore was crushed to death
beneath the family automobile
which he was repairing.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Paper Salvage Total
Rises 2O,920 Pounds

The Evening Star-PTA paper sal
wage drive yesterday received new
impetus when schools in the first
district turned in 20,920 pounds de-
spite the rain. This brings the total
to 81 ,585, ,672 pounds.
Collections of half ton or more
were as follows: Giddings, 2,428;
Van Ness, 2,078; Jefferson, 6,l09;
Bryan, 3,243: Beers, 1878; Orr, 1850;
Randle Highlands, 2,099, and Blu.
chanan, 3,840.
Collections tomorrow in the thirc
district, together with the leaders
will be as follows:
Total weight, pounds-Shepherd
70 COO; West, 46,943; Macfarland
$500; Mott, 1896; Gage, 29, ,639
Bancroft, 2s,483; Banneker, 2s, ,262
Adams, 29,018.
Barnard Brightwood
Bruce H. D. Cooke
Military Road Monroe
Morgan Park View
Petworth w. B. Powell
Raymond Roosevelt
Sumner-Magruder Whittier
| Wilson
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Ann Sheridun's Mother III

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 8 P).-Pro-
duction on Actress Ann Sheridan's
first movie in a year was postponed
indefinitely today after she flew to
the bedside of her mother, Mrs. G.
w. Sheridan, who is i'll in Fort
Worth, Tex.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Reports Of Superior Atom Bomb
In Russia Draw British SCOTS

hope he doesn't know"-that much
about Anglo-American military
secrets.
In Londonderry last night DR..
Armattoe said "the Russian atom
bomb" already had been tested, and
was found to have a horizontal pull
|verization range of So miles and a
vertical lift of 62 miles.
Although he declined to disclose
the source of his information, the
scientist, when pressed, said some
members of Lomeshie center's staff
were affiliated with Russian scien-
tific SOcjoties
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Circulation, November, 1sl.

(Average net paid)
The Evening Star 208. .631
The Sunday Star---------- 224,14d
lob& r in CITY and Trading Zona1
Evening star., 1946-01-08

To Finonce Labor Homes
The Chilean government will
finance construction of homes TO,
workers.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Patterson Not Misquoted,
Army Newspaper Says

HONOLULU, Jan. 8 (P.-Five re-
porters for service publications who
attended a news conference with
Secretary of War Patterson in
Guam Friday, denied yesterday that
the Secretary had been misquoted
or misunderstood in his remarks on
demoEilization, the Army newspaper
Stars and Stripes said.
Stars and Stripes published a
dispatch from its Guam correspond
ent-Corpl. Bernie Goldstein-nam-
ing these reporters as also being
present and agreeing with his orig
inal story: Marine 1t. Don Camp
bell of Navy News, Sergt. Robert
Sindars, Corpl. Ben Zinser and Pfc.
Larry Schlesinger, all of the Army
Air Forces Bombrack.
PARIS, Jan. 8 CP.-Notices ap-
peared today at a number of Amer
lean GI messes and other, gathering
places calling for a soldier mass
meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight (2:3C
pm, EST to protest delays ir
getting troops home.
Evening star., 1946-01-08
Manila

NCUHClHutU FTOm FIrSt PaRe.J
nese Commercial Bulletin decided,
lis democracy working. 1t isn't just
a word. You can smell democracy!"
Evening star., 1946-01-08

more. I cannot control myself
The killer has not been appre-
tnr1a5
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17

 Board of Trade, predicted that de- spite Kansas bumper crop, far ex- ceeding recent estimates, the amount of wheat reaching the market would be only ttckle
 Scott said farmers were "ex- tremely resentful" of the Govern- ment's wheat program. He said they regard 1t as "an attempt to de- prive them of higher prices that may be granted later"
 Reports are the same every where" he said. Farmers will not sell any appreciable amount Of their grain"
 Frank Jungewaelter, executive secretary of the Associated Retail Bakers of America, predicted that bakery shutdownS would increase sharply beginning today, He said reports indicated that l76 bakeries In Philadelphia alone would be forced to close this week,
 The board of governors of the American Bakers Association charged that bureaucratic bung- ling and mismanagement have caused intolerable bread shortages and breadlines unparalleled in his- tory"
 "The staff Of life Is now an im- portant black market item," the board said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Gen. Goffey Dies in Crash In Kentucky
 Hartford Native , Led Divisions
 Under Patton

Fort Knox, Ky, June l7. (UP)- Mai. .-Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey, Sl, com manding officer of Fort Knox, his pilot, and a post signal officer were killed late last night when their plane overshot the field here and crashed, Public Relations oftcerS announced today.
 Capt. Winship c. Wrgley, pub- lie relations officer, identified the other dead officers as It's. Robert A, Peter and Allan J. Hoenig whose ages and home addresses were not available immediately. He said one other men escaped injury. They enlisted man was injured and three were not identified.
 W1gley said the men were in BPS, returning from Fort Ben. ming. Ga, where they had attended an infantry conference. They stopped at Bowling Green. Ky. where they had their radio checked after trouble developed.
 The plane apparently had motol trouble near the field, Wrigley said and crashed soon after.
 General Gaffey, who aSSumet command at the post June Il. hae commended the Armored Fore School since Sept. 2, i946. A nativ' of Hartford, Conn, his war recor' included service as commander 9 the End Armored Division ' Africa; commander Of the 4tl Arrnored Division in the Battle Q the Bulge, and as chief of Stal with Gen. George Pattons Sd Army
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Strikes Threaten Greater Hartford

Hartford, June l7 (UP) Two new strikes threatened today in the greater Hartford area, involving about 4,70O workers.
 The A.F.L. International Associa- ton of Machinists' negotiating com- nlittee at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Division of United Aircraft Corp, East Hartford, meets tonight to set q date for the walkout. The union charges the company with 'reneging on an earlier wage of- fer" and declared the situation now appeared "hopelessiy deadlocked."
 At the Royal Typewriter Co., Hartford, a 30-day strike notice ex- pired today but was extended by agreement until Saturday to permit further negotiations on seniority provisions and paid-holiday clauses in a new contract. The plant em- ploys 350O.
 A meeting of company and union officials was slated for today in the hope of obtaining basis of settle- ment for the 14-week-old strike of 2SOO ct the Pratt GE Whitney Divi- sion of Niles-Bement-Pond co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Farmers Led
 ByMcCorey

Washington, June l7 - CUP)- Thomas Leo McCarey, director TOT Paramount Pictures, was ranked as America's highest paid person today on the Treasury's new list Of olue ribbon incomes.
 McCarey who directed Bells Of st. Marys" and other box office hits, was credited with salary, royal ties and other compensation of $l,- ll3 035 in the Treasury's partial lst- ings for the 1914 calendar year ana l945 fiscal years.
 As in the past, Hollywood's fabu- lous movie colony and the automo- bile industry dominated the list or Americans whose earnings exceed- ed $75,000.
 Carmen Miranda. the Brazilian bombshell of Century Fox, re- ceived $20l ,458 to become both the highest paid actress and the highest paid woman in the United States.
 Film Actor Fred MacMurray, re- ceived $39l ,217.92, of which $l77,- 884.59 came from 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, and $213,33S.3S from Paramount Pictures, Inc. He was the highest paid actor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Mosher Rops LoborP Policy

New York, June l7 - (Up) - Ira Mosher, chairman of the board of the National Association of Manufacturers, today called on President Truman to withdraw his demands for emergency labor legis- lation, or veto the bill when ap. proved by Congress.
 Nothing so well demonstrates the bankruptcy of the Administra- tion's labor policy as the Presidents demand for dictatorial power in peacetime to seize plants, confiScate profits, conscript labor and arbitr. rarily impose wage rates and work ing conditions" Mosl1er said.
 This is the warp and wool of Fascism and the aIltithesis of free labor, free management, and free collective bargaining" he said in 6 statement to the press.
 Mosher called for the establish ment of a permanent statutory na- tional labor policy before the ad- journment of the present Congress.
 He also criticized the Presidents veto of the Case Labor Bill and This faith in a series of patchwork makeshiftS."
 Mosher said, such legislation as the President asks Is all that an ir- responsible union leader needs to make exorbitant demands, and threaten to throw the plant under Government control unless the de- mands are met"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Eight Die Violently
 Accidents Occur
 ln Pairs in State
lBY IlnltNd PreANl

Connecticut was free of highway fatalities over the weekend, but eight persons suffered violent deaths from other causes.
 Two died in ar airplane crash, two Bristol newiyweds were asphyx- tied, there were two droWningB, one suicide and one death from burns.
 The crash Of c private plane ct Mt. Tobe Airport ct Plymouth caused the instant death Of Robert W. Haynes. i8, Terryville, and Ralph Emrnons, IS, Waterbury. The craft with Haynes ct the controls, ilose- dived from a height of 200 feet af. ter a takeof.
 John M. Plante, %, 6 war veter. an. and his four-inonths bride, Yvette. died from carbon nnonoxide poisoning in their Cedar Lake cote tage at Bristol. The medical exs aminer said that charcoal fire which they built to warm the build- ing, consumed the oxygen in the room.
 Smoking in bed started fire which caused the death of Joseph Tokarz, 5s, in his Ansonia Hotel room.
 Homer T. Munette, g. Bristol, drowned in a pond on Southing- ton Mountain. Bristol, and F'rallk Baldwin, 1T, Negro. Saybrook, lost his life while swimming in a cove with companion when his cries for help were mistaken for a prank.
 The body Of Stanley Kobak, e. was found hanging from 6 tree ct Rockville and the medical examiner sadt he committed suicide.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
India PIon Neors Doom

London, June 1T-(UP)-Viceroy Viscount Wavell's "take 1t or leave It" plan for an Indian interim gov- trnment stands only Q remote chance of acceptance, responsible Congress Party and Mosleim guar. ters here believed today.
 These quarters believed this meant the plan would be referred to the All-fndiG Congress Commit tee and not confined to the work. ing committee alone. If this hap- pens, acceptance would be lex. tremely difficult" If not altogether impossible.
 Moslem League supporters said the immediate reaction was that the plan might be accepted if there are no further notifications, but that the league would continue ad- amant on the parity question.
 Informed observers here said the viceroy's IA nominees for the inter- i'm government would comprise 6 Congress- -Moslem representative ra- tio of seven to five with two pro- fessedly independents.
 Both Sikh and depressed classes nominees have consistently favored the Congress Party politics and their portfolios in the interim gov- ernment would outbalance the Moslen parity.