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Evening star., 1947-03-08
11He|d After Raids
On ; Houses Here

Ten women and one man, seized
yesterday by police vice squad oper-
atives in raids on three alleged dis
orderly houses in the downtown sec
tion were to appear in Municipal
Court today to answer charges. Six
other men arrested In the houses,
police. said, forfeited collateral on
disorderly conduct charges.
1t. Roy Blick, vice squad chief,
said he used three patrol wagons
and Is policemen, including student
patrolmen from thE rookie school
in the raids, first major vice raid
since last summer. The houses, one
located in the TOO block of Mount
Vernon place NV. and the other
two in the 1000 block of Seventh
street NV, we're entered simul-
taneously at 12:45 pm, with the
raiders using synchronized watches
to preserve the surprise element.
At each of the modestly furnished
1t. Blick said, plainclothes-
men disguised as florists messen-
gers used dummy flower cartons to
gain initial admission. The places
all had been under close police
watch for three, and half weeks,
according to detectives.
Five persons were seized at the
Mount Vernon street house, includ-
ing Marie Perkins, 81. charged with
operating a disorderly house; two
men charged with disorderly con-
duct, one woman booked on a morals
charge and Robert B. Gallagher,
46, also arrested on the disorderly
house charge.
Five women were taken into GUS
tody at one Seventh street address.
Billie Cooper, 60, was charged with
operating disorderly house and
four others were. booked for va
grancy.
At the other Seventh street house
Alice Mary Anderson, 20, was booked
for operating a disorderly house
two women were charged with va
grancy and four men were charged
with diSorderly conduct,
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Workers 10 Canvass
Residential Areas in
Red Cross Fund Drive

Red Cross campaign workers to-
day planned to reach contributors
in the residential areas over the
week end while a canavassing aruong
Government and business employees
was light.
At the second report meeting
yesterday, gifts of $1O4,s75 were an
nounced for total Of $174,596, or
22.17 per cent of the area goal OF
$787,560. Contributions reported
were from 25,736 persons.
The Library of Congress, with 100
per cent Of it's quota reported, was
one Of the largest divisions which
already has exceeded its quota.
Twelve divisions OF the Treasury
Department were reported over their
quotas.
Nimitz Urges Support.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz told
the workers: 1T is my sincere
hope that all Americans will sup
port the Red Cross program. BY
doing so, we shall be providing not
only for ourselves, but for a more
prosperous, peaceful and better
world. ....
Because OF its disaster relief work,
the Red Cross will save many Ameri-
can lives during the year, he con-
tinued, and for that reason alone
deserves support.
But our dollar will pay us even
more dividends" he said. Anything
which will contribute to a better
and more peaceful world is worth
the investment. If those abroad
who are desperately in need of the
necessities of life can obtain relief
through the Red Cross, there is far
less likelihood they will endorse a
radical philosophy-one which might
mean the end of our hopes for last
ing peace. They must be helped
through this critical period of their
history"
Third Meeting Tuesday.
The third report meeting of the
drive will be held at 1890 pm
Tuesday in the United States Cham
ber Of Commerce Building. B. M
McKelway, editor of The Evening
Star, will be the guest speaker.
Nine campaign units made the
following reports yesterday: Arling-
ton, 1,577 gifts for $4033, or 22.8a
per cent; City, 204 gifts for $10,146
or PATS per cent; Montgomery, 84e
gifts for s12,764, or s.97 per cent;
Residential, 936 gifts for $17,7l5, OF
29.04 per cent; Prince Georges, 1896
for 4.8 per cent; Fairfax, 245 gifts
for $1,32s, or 1918 per cent; Gen.
eral Business, 1894 gifts. for s7O,-
1913, or 30.49 per cent; Alexandria
470 gifts for $5,576, or $37.87 per
cent, and Government, 17,707 fol-
$62,211, or 1886 per cent.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Dutch Workers Unload
|coniiscaied Cargo
From American Ship
BY The A..eeiated Prsss

TANDJoNGPRIoK, Java, Mar.
8-Dutch workmen today slowly
unloaded the confiscated cargo OF
the American Liberty ship Martin
Behrman under the eyes of armed
Dutch guards, The American crew.
men stood by and refused to help.
The crew refused to operate the
ships cranes when the workmen
began taking out bales of rubber
and quinine bark, part of the dis
puted cargo, and the Dutch were
forced to use shore cranes. Dutch
sailors, with the assistance of tugs,
had moved the Martin Behrman to
berth where cranes were available.
Ownership Is Disputed.
The Dutch claim the ships cargo,
the Netherlands Indies administra-
ton maintaining that the cargo,
loaded at the Indonesian nationalist.
port Of Cheribou, came from estates
wrested by Indonesians from the
Dutch.
Attorney James w. Ryan, repre-
senting the Isbandtsen lines. oper-
ators Of the United States Govern
ment-owned ship, said the cargo
became the property Of the operators
on receipt Of bills Of lading from
the Indonesian Import Export Corp,
which he said was "the lawful pre-
vious owner"
Informed quarters in Batavia said
British-owned Anglo-Dutch planta-
tions were claiming a considerable
part OF the Behrman's rubber cargo
on the grounds that it had similar
rubber In warehouses at the time
Of Japanese capitulation." These
sources also said British firm and
Chinese merchant had entered
claims for the quinine bark:
Is Ship Lines Protest.
In Batavia, meanwhile, represent
atives Of 10 world shipping lines
protested that their interests had
been entirely subordinated" in the
notices and asked facilities here for
Dutch lines equivalent to those
afforded ships under the Dutch
flag.
Five shippers agents-represent-
ing virtually all the British. Amer
ican, Canadian. Norwegian, Danish,
French, Australian, Hong Kong and
Singapore lines-sent a letter to the
Central Harbor Committee.
The letter said quay charges for
foreign shippers had been raised
200 per cent, effective March l, and
that foreign shippers suffered from
discrimination in storage space.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 8.-The liner
John Ericsson, swept by a spectacu-
lar $1,500,00 fire, lay crippled at
her pier today while $50 passengers
made other arrangements for pas
sage to their European destinations.
The fire, which blazed for nearly
four hours yesterday afternoon,
swept through the superstructure
between the bridge and the two
stacks Of the 20,067-ton United
States Lines vessel, engulfing the
officers quarters and badly damag-
ing the promenade deck.
The fire did not harm the British
liner Queen Elizabeth, berthed at
the other side of the same pier, but
sailing of the giant vessel, was de-
layed for more than an hour.
The pier was only a block dis
tant from the scene OF the dis
astrous blaze that left the liner Nor
mandie a charred hulk five years
ago.
Fire Commissioner Frank j.
Quayle said a short circuit caused
the fire.
Built In Germany.
The Ericsson was built for the
Swedish-American Line in HAM
burg. Germany, in 1928 and for
merly was known as the Ktngsholm.
At the outbreak of the war she
was taken over by the United States
Government for use as a troopship
and transported about 10000 troops
on 20 voyages. -.
She had been scheduled to leave
today for Cobb, Fire; Southampton
and lie Havre.
United States Lines representa-
tives said the passengers who had
booked passage on the Ericsson
would be transferred to the Marine
Marlin, which leaves Monday for
Cobb, Fire; Southampton, LIE Havre
and Bremerhaven. The Marlin
added the stop at Cobb to accom-
modate some of the Ericsson pas
sengers.
Commissioner Quayle said investi-
cation disclosed that crew members
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Pat o'Brien to Go on Air
To Aid Relief Cumpuion

Pat O'Brien, Hollywood star, will
appear in radio play to be broad
cast by the American Broadcasting
Co. network next Thursday at 1890
pm. in connection with the forth
coming Catholic Bishops Relief
Campaign for Victims of War.
Archbishop John T. McNicholas
OF Cincinnati, chairman Of the adj
ministrative board of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, will
speak on behalf of the drive, to
take place March 16 to %.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
81, 7,5OO,0O0Eire Races Liner,
InperiIs Others in New York

attempted to fight the blaze for 20
minutes after sparks were discov-
cred in the promenade alleyway for
ward.
About .two-thirds of the crew Of
40, but only a handful of passengers
were aboard when the 19-year-old
LYMAN Melamid, a steward, discov-
cred the fire. He said he grabbed a
fire extinguisher while other crew
members, responding to his shouts,
brought soda-and-acid extinguish-
ers. A little later, he said, they ran
hose line from "a" deck to the fire.
The fire spread with great speed
About 30 longshoremen stretched
gangplanks across the Ericsson's
holds and joined in the fire fighting
with. long lines OF hose from the
pier.
Crew Races Ashore.
The spreading flames and dense
smoke proved too much for the crew
and the longshoremen. who finally
raced ashore, crew members carry
ing their hastily thrown-together
baggage.
Fireboats drew dangerously close
to the burning ship, streaming water
from all sides while shore f1remen
directed their hose lines from the
roof and two levels of the pier.
As the fire ragged and smoke bill
lowed, several ambulances and police
trucks reached the scene. Two fire.
men were injured slightly by debris
and one crewman was overcome by
smoke.
An investigation Of the fire was
begun by Maritime Commission Of
ficiaIs, who seized all papers aboard
the ship.
The $1,500,OOo damage estimate
was made by Capt. Hewlett r.
Bishop, Atlantic Coast director of
the Maritime Commission, and Capt.
Martin I. Goodman, Marine super
intendent for operations. They said
repairs to the vessel would require
several months.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Baltimore Man Gets
IS Years 10 Life
In 1943 Staying

Rollins ]. Gray, Is, colored, of
Baltimore yesterday was sentenced
BY Justice Alexander Holtzof of
District Court to serve from Is years
to life for second degree murder in
the fatal stabbing of Lillian Smith,
"a, colored, in July, 1943. The VIC
tim resided in the 600 block Of w
street NV.
Justice Holtzof also gave Gray
from S to Is years on a charge of
assault with intent to kill Vivian ".
Smith, 10, the victims sister. The
two sentences, however, were ord
cred to run concurrently. Gray was
found guilty on the two charges
last month
In another sentence, Justice
Holtzof gave Lucille Dobbins, 20,
colored, from 2 to 10 years on a
n1anslaughter charge in the fatal
cutting of Ella Thompson, 40, COL
ored, last May. Both the defendant
and victim lived in the 400 block Of
E street S.W.
Charlie Scott, 26, colored, Of the
1900 block of Girard street NV,
was sentenced by Chief Justice
Bolitha j. Laws of District Court to
serve total of from "A months to
IL years on charges of robbing two
women and of housebreaking and
larceny.
One Of SCOTS robbery victims, q
42-year-old woman. was criminally
assaulted in November at church
at Thirteenth and Fairmont streets
NV. A count which also accused
Scott of the assault was dismissed
because the woman could not iden-
tify him as the one who attacked
her. according to Assistant United
States Attorney Sylvan Schwartz
The sentences were among a
number imposed yesterday at Dis
trict Court.
Among others sentenced was DON
aid E. Hasson, SO, of Kensington,
Md, who was given from two to six
years by Justice Holtzoff for rob-
bing a 65-year-old man of $1,000.
Justice Henry A. Schweinhaut
sentenced Alexander Morris, 80, COL
ored, for whom no address was
given, to serve from two to seven
years on a criminal assault charge.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

o,
nephew, Interior Minister Victor
Morinigo.
Insurgents, government reports
said, invaded police headquarters
yesterday and shot 1t out with Po-
lice Chief Rogelio Benitez, wound
ing him, before they were driven
out and the uprising quelled.
Chiefs Onice Invaded.
The government account said
about 200 revolutionaries infiltrat-
ed shopping crowds around police
headquarters and the nearby gov
eminent military academy, picked
up guns and ammunition from two
trucks and shot their way into the
headquarters and the chiefs Office,
where he refused ito surrender and
exchanged fire with them across
his desk.
Soon after, the government said,
off duty police and military acad-
emy troops won the headquarters
back.
A soldier and an officer of the
guard were reported killed in the
initial attack and four other soldiers
and civilian in the counterattack.
Benitez, hit in the abdomen and
hurt so badly in one arm that it
had to be amputated, and three
other policemen and an uncertain
number of insurgents were said to
have been wounded.
The government reported that just
before the sally into the station
Communists and Febreristas sought
an audience with the two Morinigos
in an evident ruse to get into their
offices simultaneously with that at
tack.
Plot Revealed January Is.
Paraguay, with million and q
quarter population, has been under
state Of siege since January 13. On
that day, the President said he had
unearthed conspiracy to upset his
regime, dismissed Febreristas from
his cabinet and took command Of
the armed forces.
Morinigo was named provisional
president by the cabinet September
3, 1910, after President Jose Felix
Estigarribia was killed in an airplane
accident. Soon after, he became
President and in February, 1913, as
sole candidate, was reelected to a
five-year term beginning the next
August Is.
Plots against his government have
been reported from time to time
since, some of them resulting in
armed outbreaks.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Johnston Again Heads
Cancer Society Bourd
Dy the As,eeiafed Pres,

CHICAGO, Mar. SLEric A. John
ston, president Of the Motion Pic
ture Association Of America. Inc.
last night was elected chairman OF
the board Of directors Of the Ameri-
can Cancer Society for the third
consecutive year.
DR.. Edwin P. Lehman, chief sur
geon Of the University of Virginia
Hospital, was elected president. He
succeeded DR.. Frank E. Adair of
New York, who became member
of the Executive Committee.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Man Upbraided and Fined
500 for Beating Mother

In what Judge Almond Scott
termed the most contemplate case
in long time" Charles v. Young.
30, colored, of the 900 block of L
street NE, was fined 500 or so
days for assault on his mother.
Speaking of the assault which
took place January 13 in the home
of the mother, Mrs. Mamie Jewell,
go. Judge Scott declared the man
had behaved like a blackguard. /"
A jury convicted Young last month.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
X-Ruy Society Bunouet

The District Society of X-ray
Technicians will hold it's annual
banquet at 8 o'clock tonight in the
Burlington Hotel. Frank Whit of
the Georgetown Dental School
X-ray department is in charge of
banquet arrangements.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

So2AC" oVCA AAA644V
as the govern
ment claimed to
have smashed q
short-lived re-
volt.
The govern
nent laid the
revolt to Com
m u n / S is and
members Of the
opposition Feb
ruary (Febre-
rista) Par ty''
trying to over
throw President
Higinio Morini-
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Contracts to Be Topic

The second of six weekly educa-
tional conferences sponsored by the
Washington Real Estate Board will
be held at 8 pm. Friday In the
Washington Gas Light Co. audi
torium. The subject will be "Con-
tracts.s
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Revolt IS Smashed,
I Persons KiIIed,
Paraguay Reports
By the As,oeio,ed Pres.

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Mar. g.
Seven persons were dead of gunfire
and this capital was under strict
Evening star., 1947-03-08

The cries of 'howler" monkeys
can be heard for more than 3 miles
in the jungle.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

The direction of some ocean cur
rents are periodically reversed by
strong winds.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
FOUND,

BLACK CHANGE PURSE CONTAINING ro-
sarT- keys, tokens and chang. at Little
giant Wafne Shop, 1908 Adams Mil I'd !,
March 9. Owner please call to Identity
rARI1AL IA AZ PLATE, teeth on sold mount
Evening star., 1947-03-08
LOST.

Identification; Hotel Statler; keep money
ana ar return papers. Reward. NO. 1855,
BOSTON BULL, male. "Butch," lost Thurs.
night. Anacostia. Reward. AT. 96SS. 3
March 4. between 43rd and GARFIELD and
Foxhall ALL rd' near Dexter. Reward. Can
CARD CASE, brown leather; on Monday,
and 4th and Indiana ave. NV; in a
Ysllow X yos. cab value to owner only. Reward.
n1 29s5. $40 to 4:45 pm. O.
SAr ss't sa~es5 g. ANY %puT ss
GE. 4021. g.
CHoKER, GOLD, vicinity 1927 Mass ave
NV. or In taxi between there and Com
merce Bldg: reward. DE. 61oo. Apt, 612.
CLIP. decorative yellow metal. week Of
February /; design turbaned slaye boy
InEs hsad; ssntimsntal sr nea value only. Reward.
sunday FEB as, on ; deorSe SA' Washns saii sen
University. campus; Ample reward for re-
sqFn sos Ft 9F E1 %E as ssaS to
Very liberal reward. EN-. 7029. -
EARRING a.. gold and Jade, hanging on
small al enn eeeaTs sst RsRa1 ents Of 18th h.as s
oI-o ii' ave- 1e"afo. NE ooEo'
FALSE TEETH, lower: lost vicinity upper
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COL. COLD BAR Pm, platinum top 8 dia-
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GOLD suNBURsT PIN, amber setting in
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LADY,,s BLACK CoRDE BAG, containing
drivers permit, other valuable papers:
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LOYAL LEGION PIN with ancestral bars
MISS MARTHA scoTT. DI. 35lo. -a
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Pentagon Bldg. Please call MISS MAR
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SETTER, black and white, male: age, 4;
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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

Danny ought to take another crack
at NIFTY" this time playing it
straight and wringing all the
comic and sardonic juice out of
the story. ,e}
Kaye is a mature artist who
knows and understands the COM
mon people; he ought to be able
to do a real job of portraying the
Illustrations and warped standard
of values nurtured by free enter
prise.
THIS seems to be comedy week
-ha, ha.
I saw Groucho Marx in a dull,
lifeless little stinker called "Copa-
cabana." While l wouldn't walk
step for a Camel, I'd go con-
siderably more than a mile to see
Groucho Marx in action. And in
the moments he has on the screen,
Groucho didn't disappoint me. The
boy is really funny.
sat through the whole thing,
which comes under the heading
of greater love hath no man
After all, you don't get all the
Marx brothers in this opus-jus
Groucho. And much of the time
when he isn't on the screen one
has to suffer through lousy singers
male and female, leggy dame.
with vacuous faces and all the
other trimmings that Hollywood
throws into super-dooper musicals
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has done wrong by our Danny.
''The Secret Life of Walter
NIFTY" could have been something
very special really great COM
edy in the Chaplin tradition. But
it isn't.
James Thurber's famous short
story, in case you haven't come
across it, describes the wonderful,
dashing daydreams of a timid,
harried little man who daydreams
in self-defense against a nagging
wife. ~a >. 4ae
Properly think, the story is
one Of classics Of American liter
ature. AS a movie it has ire
mendous personalities. After all,
the greatest comic artist of our
time, Charlie Chaplin, best illus
trated his talent while portraying
the little man who gets pushed
around-by society and by bigger
men.
But instead of developing and
celebrating this theme, which is
really the basis of the Thurber
short story, the movie version OF
NIFTY" makes it background
music for dull Abbott
Costello-like plot about sinister
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

Groucho should be warned that
even the patience of an inveterate
Marx brothers fan has its limits.
Please, no more like "Copaca-
bana."
If there are any admirers of
Carmen Miranda in the house
and I don't happen to be one
her presence might save this mess
for them. Miss Miranda is an I'M
known singer trying to get an en-
gagement at the night spot from
which the film takes its title.
Groucho is her agent, who gets
her not one job, but two-as a
French chanteuse, Mile. Fiji, and
as a South American singer. AS
you can readily imagine, one gets
to see plenty of Miss Miranda,
which is good or bad depending
on how you feel about the lady
BLAZE at Noon," tries to dc
for the air mail service what Dor
Ameche did for the telephone. II
has William Holden, Sonny Tufts
and Anne Baxter in the leads
But even with that cast, it,
strictly class B stuff. And I dom
use the term in derogatory sense
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
By PETER WILLIAMS

Somebody's timetable foued up at the CLIO state
convention here last weekend
When Governor Green stepped on the platform to adj
dress 10 Saturday the election OF
officers hadn't place Sam Levin still seated In the
presidents chair remained president for "a hours after
Green's speech
But copies Green's speech released to the just
before he speak, started out with four little teae
words
"Thank you, Mr. Germano."
Needless to say, Green made quick change on the
platform, and thanked-Levin
poisonous protagonis white supremacy Theo-
"The Man" Bbo died last week. doctors political
twist diagnosis Progressive
failure"
you Magazine land hope don'D maybe
beat Luces
rather belatedy
shakeup in the Chicago Hearst
staff, that reported two weeks ago
INSIDE Colonel McCormicks mad
wim n October, will political with
Macarthur Tokyo-on the '48 presidential eecion
Ondrak OSB, Abbot of st. Procopus
Abbey Lsle concilator
Council for Europe this week
participate jubilee Czechosovala
will the Bretynov abbey founded by St
nearly 1000 5sr 300 .fl.- "a .3s.
We why SOME old time movies
showngs. But the pitch
making all
justification" for British and American rule
in North are
the nervy revolving
perialism for independence
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
Movie beat
30 minutes OF
Danny Kaye
By BOB BEN NETT

AS an original, and one of the
most enthusiastic, member of the
Danny Kaye can do no :
wrong club, am grateful for any
small favorS.
Any film which gives me almost
ninety minutes of Danny Kaye,
as does "The Secret Life of Wal
ter Nifty" is right up my alley.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
crooks and crown jewels.
(. Danny Kaye, isworthy of bet

Z Danny= hayes IS worthy oi DEL
ter things
But no matter. You'll laugh
loud and long-as he dreams him
self everything from an old-school
sea captain, bringing his schooner
through typhoon in the China
sea, to a slick Mississippi river
boat gambler, who gets the girl
as we'll as the plantation.
Danny does two songs-one old
and one new. The familiar one
while he dreams himself a hal
designers "Anatole of Paris
the new one is ditty called
Symphony for Unstrung Tongue
which is up to the Kaye standard.
In couple Of years, maybe,