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Evening star., 1946-11-02
Boat Operator
Forfeits $40 on
Speed Charge

Howard w. Scott, 40, of the First
block of Wilson road, Alexandria,
forfeited $40 in Municipal Court yes
terday on a motorboat speeding
charge.
Scott was arrested yesterday on
the Potomac River near Memorial
Bridge by Harbor Policeman j. w.
Sheppard. The officer said Scott paid
no attention to warning the police
men gave him Sunday. Yesterday,
Officer Sheppard said, he didn't try
to catch the speeder but estimated
the small boat was travelling 80 or
40 miles an hour" Scott was picked
up when he tied up the boat to a
dock.
In Judge Ellen K. Raedy's court
yesterday, the case of Osborne M.
Phillips, 40, of the 1000 block Of H
street NE. was continued until No
vember %. Osborne is charged with
reckless operation of motorboat
last June 20.
Evening star., 1946-11-02

Mrs. Harry E. Hamilton, wife OF
the detective killed yesterday while
trying to stop stolen car, gathered
her children about her.
'I didn't want to have their pic
lures taken" she said, "but Capt
Truscott Capt. Floyd Truscott OF
the 18th precinct, her late husbands s
commanding oficer) said it might
help the next widow Of policeman
killed on duty"
Mrs. Hamilton will receive 81 500
from the Policeman's Relief Associa-
ton plus $500 from other benefit
associations which altogether took
about 81 a month out of Pvt. Hamil-
tons pay.
"They will have to do something
Mrs. Hamilton said. -Four dollars
is all policeman with children can
pay, unless his wife is working
The situation recently was called
to public attention when Pvt. DON
aid w. Downs. father of four, was
run down and killed by a soldier
driving a stolen car. More than
$2S 900 was contributed to a fund
for his widow. Contributions are
already coming in to the police de-
partment and the newspapers for
the Hamilton family.
Mrs. Hamilton looks far younger
than a woman married 20 years with
full grown son. Despite her
distress she was crisp and fresh In
a yellow blouse and skirt.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Woman Is Assaulted ,
Robbed by Intruder
In Apartment Here

A 24-year-o mother of two small
children told police she was GRIM
inally assaulted and robbed by a
colored man in her apartment in
the 100 block of Trinidad avenue
NE. this morning.
The woman, who was taken to
Gallinger Hospital for examination.
said the attack occurred about $3.50
am, shortly after her husband, a
bus company employe, had left for
work. She said she heard noise
in the hall and opened the door to
investigate.
A light-skinned colored man,
wearing a sports coat, was in the
corridor, she said. The young moth
er, an attractive blond, said she
asked if he was the man who was
expected to clean the hall and he
replied that he was.
She said the man followed her
into the apartment and assaulted
her.
A man answering the description
given by the woman was seen
leaving the apartment house.
Police said the woman's two
daughters, one a babe in arms and
the other about 21a years old. were
in the apartment during the attack.
The woman told police the colored
man took about Sc from her pocket
book before leaving the apartment.
Police cars toured the neighbor-
hood for several hours seeking the
asSailant.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Questions and Answers
National Representation
For the District of Columbia
(Sepenth of Series.)
Why Not Demand State of Columbia?

Question: II you are entitled
to full statehood, ,ohy do you not
ask for admission as a full
fedged State?
Answer: Because there Is not
the slightest possibility of secur-
ing it. Because it is not for the
welfare either of the District or
the Nation to propose it, unless
national representation for the
District cannot be obtained In
any other way.
The mere suggestion of state
hood for the District and sur
render by the Nation of munich
pal and State control of its
Capital brings upon us threats
of reputation by the Nation OF
financial equity in dealing with
Ia self-governing Capital and
even of removal from Washing
ton of the seat of Government.
We assume that national con-
troll of the Capital through
Congress will not be surrendered,
and as long as this control is
retained the District cannot be
a sovereign State. We do not
seek to wrest control OF the
Capital from Congress or to re-
duce the powers of Congress in
any particular. We ask only to
be made a small fractional part
of the National Government.
which represents the whole Ma
ton, the District included, in
exercising power of exclusive
legislation over the 10 miles
square.
Evening star., 1946-11-02

Our present attitude Is unas-
sailable. We show convincingly
the conditions which entitle us
to all the rights, privileges and
powers of the citizens of a State.
In order, however, that in the
national interest the Nation may
retain full control of its Capital
we waive those rights and powers
which are inconsistent with that
control. And we petition Con-
gress to empower itself to grant
to us when we are fit such of
those rights and powers of the
citizens of a State as are con-
siStent with national control of
the seat of Government.
: Not a vote in either house of
Congress should deny this de-
gree of Americanization to the
people of the District of Colum-
bia.
Question: What is the first
step required to obtain aD1Gt you
seek?
Answer: Here is the required
enabling amendment proposed
to add to the Constitution:
"The Congress shall have power to
provide that there shall be in the
Congress and among the electors OF
President and Vice President MEM
bers elected by the people of the
District constituting the seat Of the
Government of the United States,
in such numbers and with such
powers rs the Congress shall de-
termine. All legislation hereunder
shall be subject to amendment and
repeal"
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Political Signs Over Highways
Stir Dispute in Maryland

taken by all county political parties
and the Charter Committee.
Members of the board are all
Democrats and are appointed by the
county commissioners.
E. G.. Duncan, district engineer of
the State Roads Commission at
Laurel, pointed out, however, the
commission generally requests that
application for hanging banners
over State roads be made first to
that body.
He said he has received no appli-
cation concerning hanging banners
in Montgomery County but ex-
planned it probably was handled by
the commissions main Office in
Baltimore. Commission officials in
Baltimore could not be reached.
Mr.. Lee said as far as he knows,
the Democratic organization has
not applied to the commission.
swine have the local permit and
we think that's all we need. he
asserted.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
London Paper Says Jews
Plan TO Fight in Britain
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. 2.-The London
Evening News said today that Jew
ish terrorists are planning to carry
their underground war into the
heart of Britain"
The bombing of the British En-
bassy in Rome, it said, was "the first
blow"
There was no confirmation here
for the story.
The Foreign Office said it knew
nothing of such plans and that there
was so far no connection" between
the Rome explosion and any Jews.
The Colonial Office likewise depre-
Gated the story.
The News said the purported Jew
ish plan was evolved at a secret
Palestine conference recently and
involved issuing "an 'ultimatum' to
the British government that if the
full Jewish demands in Palestine are
not acceded to, the war against
Britain will be carried into Europe
and thence into London
The paper said tactics will in
clude assassination of public men
blowing up government buildings
and sabotage of industrial installa-
tions."
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Former US. Correspondent
Sentenced by YugosIays
BY the Assaeioied Press

BELGRADE. Yugaslavia, Nov. 2.
Naumovic, formerly 10
cal correspondent of the United
Press, has been sentenced to six
months at forced labor after plead
ing guilty to a charge of sending
false reports on the situation in the
country
Naumovic. a Yugoslav citizen, was
charged with having sent dispatch
full of sensations" saying proc
lamations calling up troops had been
posted in Belgrade streets following
the American airplane incidents and
the United States note on the sub
ject to the Yugoslav government.
The United Press Office in New
York said Naumovic was Yugoslav
who formerly filed some stories on
string" basis, but had not served
in that capacity since the assign
ment of a regular staff member TO
Belgrade. The United Press said
Naumovic sent two or three dis
patches to the London Office during
the August crisis in United States
Yugoslav relations, and it was as
sumed that one of them contained
matter to which the YugoslaVs OBJ
jected. A
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Democrats Report
Good Response in
Fund Drive Here
By the Associoted Press

Democrats today reported a fairly
good response to appeals for cam
paign funds from $4,000 Government
officials in the Capital.
But Michael j. Keane, in charge
of the drive, said very few" have
contributed more than $25. This
entities donors to silver embossed
membership card in the Democratic
Party signed by Chairman Robert
E. Hannegan.
One hundred dollar contributors
get gold embossed card, but Mr..
Keane said you could count those
on your fingers.
The form letter asking for funds
which also went to 1000 non-Gov-
ernment people about town-was
followed up by telephone calls.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
War Brides Trial Due
To Reach Jury Today
By the Assoeioted Press

LAS VEGAS, New. Nov. q
The trial of Bridget Waters, Irish
war bride, on a charge that she shot
to death her husband, Frank Waters,
former United States Army tech
nician,. was expected to reach a jury
late today, as opposing attorneys
prepared final summations.
"A letter written BY Mr.. Waters,
3s, charging that his wife insisted
on an operation when she became
pregnant, centered the closing days
testimony
The letter, dated October 6, 1914,
in England. to his mother, Mrs.
Martha Waters of Los Angeles, was
a long recital of marital troubles.
"Our real trouble started when
she became pregnant" the letter
said, adding that Mrs. Waters ragged
and refused to have a child.
"She said if I wanted child
would have to adopt one" This
contradicted the defendants earlier
testimony, in which she declared
Mr.. Waters insisted that she have
an operation.
The letter was introduced over
tSharp objections of Defense Coun-
Gel l.. o. Hawkins. After its reading
was completed, District Judge A. S.
Henderson ordered stricken all mat
ter excepting that referring to an
illegal operation.
The prosecution completed its re-
buttal yesterday with testimony of
10 witnesses, chiefly to Mr.. Waters
character. One of them, Lola White
Eagle, a nurses aide, testified she
heard Mrs. Waters declare: "I am
going to try and get all can out
of him and then he can have the
baby" The baby, Frank, jr., is now
IA months old.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Commander Of Jap Camp
Praised by Ex-Prisoners
BY the Assoeiofed Press

YOKOHAMA, Nov. 2.-Supreme
headquarters inserted white
page" today into the black record
of japanese atrocities and brutali-
ties at Allied prisoner-of-war camps.
The report was submitted at the
trials of minor war criminals here
and it carried concentrations from
former prisoners for 1t. Col. Shigeo
Emoto. These said "he frightened
our lives" and ''he stood out like a
beacon"
Emoto relieved Col. Toshio Ha-
takayama, war crimes defendant.
who commanded a northern prison
camp at Hakodate, where deaths OF
238 out of 1,400 American, British
and Dutch prisoners alarmed even
Hatakayama's superiors.
For the IA months after Emoto
took over, the report says, beatings
were banned, food allotments were
increased, and prisoners were
worked only the required hours.
In that period, former prisoners
said, only three of their number
died all from natural causes-and
all were buried with full military
honors which all prisoners were al
lowed to attend.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
JET Plane Carries Cargo
IS Miles in 81 Minutes
BY the As.oeioted Press

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Nov. 2.-The
Army Air Forces accomplished the
first jet plane commercial cargo
flight yesterday in minutes and
As seconds over the same route COW
cred by the first aerial commercial
hop which took Sc minutes back
in 1910.
First 1t. Robert Hoover of Nash
vile, Tenn, plotting a P-80 Shoot
ing Star marked "AAF Jet Air Ex-
press" made the 65-mile hop from
Wright Field at Dayton to Port
Columbus as a feature of National
Air Mail Week.
He carried a bolt of silk for a
Columbus department store, the
same type cargo Phil Parmalee
brought here in a Wright biplane
on the initial aerial commercial
flight.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Service in Hotels
Returns 10 Normal;
Rooms Are Available

Few reminders remained today of
the hotel strike, settled Thursday,
which virtually paralyzed operations
in 18 leading Washington hotels for
three weeks.
With the exception of scattered
food service departments, reports to
the Hotel Association of Washing
ton were that operations have re-
turned practically to normal.
"You couldn't tell from looking at
our lobby that there ever had been
a strike" was a typical managerial
comment.
Hotels were filling. but they aren't
full and, with occasional exceptions,
aren't expected to be until the
middle of next week.
Best Opportunity in Months.
Surveys today indicated that week.
end visitors to the city will have a
better chance of obtaining accom-
modations than in any week end in
months, if not in years.
Managers cautioned that guests
may not be able to obtain exactly
the accommodations they want in
the hotel of their first preference
unless they have reservations.
But visitors should be able to find
excellent accommodations either in
one of the hotels which was struck
or in one of the many not hit by
the strike, but swamped by the over
flow resulting from the walkout.
Lobbies of many of those places have
settled down to their normal pace.
80 to 80 Per Cent Full.
While conditions varied, estimates
were that available rooms in all, the
better places will be 80 to 80 per
cent occupied over the week end.
Some will be. full. Occupancy Of
others may fall short Of 80 per cent.
Managers agreed that advance
reservations still are advisable, and
in many cases necessary, to insure
that accommodations will be OBJ
tanned. In most hotels, rooms were
not being assigned to persons with
out reservations until those with
reservations have been accom-
modated. Those planning visits to
Washington are being advised to
make their reservations as far in
advance as possible.
Most Employees Returning.
Although no exact figures had
been compiled, reports to union
spokesmen indicated that practi-
cally all the 5000 service workers
who went on strike have returned
to their former duties. A few found
other employment during the strike
and will remain there. But the ratio
of those returning was described as
much higher than in most prolonged
strikes
Spokesman for both management
and workers commented on the al
most total absence of bitterness
growing out of the strike.
To this friendly feeling between
management and workers was given
much of the credit for reports that
services on the whole have returned
to normal standards.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Charter Fight Takes On
Free-for-AI| Aspect
With Election Near

The Montgomery County political
campaign today took on the aspect
of a free-for-all with a barrage of
charges, countercharges and denials
by charterites, Democrats and Re-
|publicans.
The County Charter Committee
led off in today's battle of words
with a charge that the county ad-
ministration permits the use of pub
lie property and county employees
for private work.
In addition, the committee ac-
cused A. A. Moxley, county inspector
of weights and measures, Of using a
county owned truck on his farm.
The committee also charged the
Veterans Better Government Group
with obtaining under false pre-
lenses signatures on a paid adver-
tisement opposing creation of a
board.
Declaring it has interviewed a
ma jority of the veterans who signed
the anticharter statement, the COM
mittee said:
Many Of the signers told the
charter interviewer they signed be-
cause they were told the charter was
communistic or would mean Fascist
dictatorship. Others said they we're
instructed by the boss to sign"
Ballots Called Illegal.
From Alfred D. Noyes, chairman
of the Democratic County Congress,
came the charge that the Charter
Committees sample ballots appear
illegal in form and contrary to
law"
He pointed out that under Mary
land law, sample ballots can be
printed only as guides or aids to
voters and cannot include any other
subject matter. '''
He also said Republicans sample
ballots are not marked for charter,
although COP candidates In Be-
thesda and Chevy Chase are for
charter. He added that the Charter
Committees sample ballots are not
marked for the Republicans.
Mr.. Noyes came in for criticism
from r. Duncan Clark, Republican
candidate for the House of Dele
gates.
Mr.. Clark said the county con-
gress chairman, who was appointed
Juvenile Court judge several months
ago, has violated the American
tradition of political impartiality of
the judiciary by continuing to en-
gage in partisan politics for the
Lee machine"
Shaw Target of Attack.
Also attacked by Mr.. Clark was
Lacy Shaw, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee for
the county and a member of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission.
Mr.. Clark declared Mr.. Shaw and
Mr.. Noyes are among appointive
Office holders who issue statements
against the Republicans and Inde-
pendents. while the Democratic can
didates are strangely silent"
Les Aries, chairman of the
County Republican Campaign Com
mittee, predicted that Republicans
and Independents will win a ma
jority of the positions at stake in
Tuesdays election.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Candidates Offer
OF Football Tickets
Stompedes Rally
By the Associo,ed Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. flames
j. Lacy, Democratic candidate
for State controller, stampeded
a rally last night by announcing
from the platform that he had
five tickets to today's Navy
Notre Dame football game, be-
ing played in the Baltimore
Municipal Stadium.
The rush for the tickets was
so great Mr.. Lacy posed an ex-
animation to weed out some of
the applicants: In what year
and with how many home runs
did Babe Ruth establish the
major league home-run record?
Even that didn't stump many
applicants (60 home runs in
1927, not counting the two hit
in that years World Series so
the names of the successful
examines were drawn out of a
hat,
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Some Sugar Reaches
ID. {. Stores; Shortage
I'm Bakeries Eased

Sugar began appearing today In
some retail stores but the supply
was still small Bakers, however,
were receiving larger amounts and
getting back into production of cake
and other sweet goods.
The Giant Food Stores reported a
shipment yesterday Of "a, ,780 pounds,
and it was put on immediate sale.
District Grocery Stores, still with
out a major shipment in month,
did not expect shipment until
late next week.
The Charles Schneider Baking Co.
resumed distribution of cakes yes
terday and an official reported OPP
erations were fairly normal" This
concern received a sugar shipment
Thursday and called back employees
laid of during the worst Of the
shortage.
An official of the Franklin Sugar
Refining Co. also reported deliveries
of packaged sugar but no bulk
sugar.
The industry estimated 1t would
take several weeks 10 meet all de-
mands for sugar in the District.
However, Wayne Clarke Of Walter
Leaman Co., large sugar brokers
here, said almost all groceries will
have a supply in limited quantities
by Monday or Tuesday.
He explained that no fresh sup
ply of sugar had come to Washing
ton since the first week in October
and that the supply of grocers and
confectioners was exhausted several
weeks ago.>
The maritime strike was blamed
for the acute shortage here. It's
termination cleared the way for off
shore sugar tied up in East Coast
ports to move to refineries.
Agriculture Department experts
see no end to the shortage this
year and say it may continue
through most of 1947.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Three Out in Front
To Succeed Curran
As u. 5. ATTORNEY

Unless President Truman nomi-
mates new United States attorney
when Edward M. Curran steps out
of that office Monday, District Court
will Immediately name temporary
successor. MIR. Curran will become
an associate justice of District Court.
Meanwhile, it is reliably under
stood that these three candidates
are out in front in the race for
United States attorney: F. Joseph
Donohue, member of the law firm
of Donohue, Kaufman & Kron-
helm; Assistant United States At
torney Daniel B. Maher and Assist
ant United States Attorney George
E. Mcneil.
Justice Harold M. Stephens of the
Court of Appeals will swear in Mr..
Curran as a District Court jurist.
Justice Stephens also off1ciated at
the swearing in of Mr.. Curran as
a Police Court judge, as well as on
both occasions when he took the
oath as United States attorney.
Committee to Visit Clark.
The Committee on Judicial Selec-
ton of the District Bar Association
Is expected shortly to visit Attorney
General Clark to present its recon-
mendations for the new United
States attorney. Mr.. Clark will
make a recommendation to Presi-
dent Truman. Inasmuch as Con-
gress is not in session, confirmation
of the nominee by the Senate will
wait until January. Mr.. Curran's
four-year-term has two years more
to run.
Chief Justice Bolitha j. Laws of
District Court and his associates on
the bench are expected to name a
temporary district attorney, unless
President Truman fills the post
without delay. Inasmuch as indict-
ments and informations are signed
by the district attorney, a successor
to Mr.. Curran will be named i'm
mediately.
This will be done to offset any
attack by defendants against the
legality of indictments and informa-
tions.
Mr.. Mcneil has been acting United
States attorney in the absence of
Mr.. Curran from the city.
Smith Heads Bar Group.
The Bar Committee, composed of
seven past presidents of the asso-
citation, is headed by John Lewis
Smith. The committee met yester-
day to consider large number of
suggestions for United States attor-
ney and made recommendations
which were not made public. The
sealed report was turned over to
Austin F. Garfield, association pres
ident, last night.
Mr.. Garfield plans to obtain an
early appointment with Attorney
General Clark to present the recon-
mendations. Mr.. Garfield, Mr..
Smith and Godfrey L. Munter, the
committees secretary, expect to call |
upon the Attorney General.
In addition to Mr.. Smith and Mr.
Hunter, other members of the COM
mittee are Paul B. Cromelin, H.
Winship Wheatley, ST.: John J. Car
mody, Hugh H. Obear and Milton
w. King.
Association Poll Tabulated.
A letter was sent by the Bar Asso-
ciation to its members inviting
nominees The committee received
a large number of replies and these
have been tabulated Attorney Gen
eral Clark will be advised about this.
It is understood that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has during
the past two or three days, been
Investigating the three leading can
didates.
Friends of Mr.. Donohue placed his
name before Mr. Clark and President
Truman
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Boys Guilty of Murder
In -DoubIe-SIoying Cose
BY the Associafed Press

YUBA CITY, Calf, Nov. 1.-Two
young high school boys were con-
victed yesterday of the ambush
murders of the parents of one Of
them.
Next Monday the two boys. Billy
Anderson, 16, and Nathern James,
IS, will hear Superior Court Judge
Arthur Goats pronounce the man
datory Sentences of life imprison-
ment.
Guilty of murder in the first de-
gree was the verdict of jury Of
five women and seven men who had
listened for four days to details of
the killing September 8 Of Billy's
father and stepmother, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Anderson. The verdict,
which came after an hour of delib-
Grafton, was the same on each Of
two counts.