davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Several Clues
Point Same WAY
In May Killing
Funeral Services
For AIexondriuns
Scheduled Today

Two or three clues pointing the
same way" gave Nebraska investi-
gators hope today Of solving the
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L.
May II. of Parkfairfax, but not be-
fore "long, tough pull"
Chief Deputy Sheriff Hugh Cut
Ter of Douglas County. Nebr., would
not divulge the developments for
fear 1t would retard the investiga-
ton. All suspects arrested earlier
in the case have been freed.
Funeral services for the young
couple, shot to death II miles west
of Omaha last Thursday, were
scheduled this morning at the De-
maine chapel in Alexandria, with
burial in Mount Comfort Cemetery.
Theory Changing.
The Nebraska authorities ap-
peared to be veering away from the
assumption that the Mays we're
slain by two men dressed in Army
uniforms whom they were believed
to have given ride at Grand Is
land, Nebr., $50 miles west of Omaha.
Detective Chief Fred Franks of
the Omaha police said he thought 1t
unlikely the couple had completed
400-mile trip from Englewood,
Colo, where they left at 9:3o.am
Wednesday, by pm. the same day.
the time filling station attendant
thought. he saw the hitchhikers
climb into their car.
Another theory was discounted by
an autopsy performed on the bodies
in Alexandria, The proprietor and
a waitress at an Omaha restaurant
thought they had seen the Mays
having chicken dinner with an
other man about 1890 pm. We'd
nesday. Douglas County Attorney
James J. Fitzgerald said he had
been informed by Commonwealth
Attorney Thomas Moncure of Alex
andria that the autopsy failed to
reveal any trace of chicken.
Boys Comb Area.
Deputy Sheriff Cutler placed
little credence in still another
theory that the killer boarded a
Chicago bus. The driver described
the suspected passenger as wearing
a blood stained Army shirt.
About so boys from Father F1an-
agan's Boys Town, two miles from
the spot where the bodies were
found in clump Of bushes, have
combed the area for clues without
success.
A member of the family owning
and operating the Alexandria, Bar
croft & Washington Transit Co.,
Mr.. May was returning to Alex
andria with his bride of 10 months.
They we're shot in the head with a
.38-caliber revolver and their car
abandoned in an Omaha alley.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Two Overcome by Smoke
In 7th-FIoor Hotel Fire

Two persons were overcome by
smoke early yesterday in a fire
which caused damage estimated at
$3.50 on the seventh floor of the
Raleigh Hotel.
J. B. Ward, jr, SO, of Asheboro,
N. c., occupant of the room in
which the fire occurred, was treated
at Emergency Hospital. Miss Wini-
fred Davis, 1S. of Hazelton, Pa, who
occupied a. nearby room, was par
italy overcome when she opened
her door: She was treated at the
scene by firemen Firemen said
the fire apparently was started by
a cigarette.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
WAA to Speed Service
To Veterans at Sales :
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 1.-The
War Assets Administration has
slashed through. red tape to give
veterans faster service at WAA sales
centers.
Regional Director j. M. Armstrong
said WAA had changed its sales pro-
cedure and that veterans of World
War II may now buy surplus prop
erty without a presale ccrtification.
Under the new setup, veterans
simply will be asked for proof of
honorable service in the armed
forces and to attest to statement
concerning the use of the property.
Under old regulations. veterans
were required to be certified at a
regional or district Office before at
tending a WAA sale.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Two DeraiIed Cars Wreck
SWitchman's Quarters

A Potomac Yards switchman mar
rowly escaped death yesterday when
Two cars of a freight train jumped
the rails and crushed his quarters.
Tine switchman, Charles Melton,
6S, a yard employe for almost 80
years, had stepped from his quar-
ters only a few minutes before a
Pennsylvania Railroad freight
reached the switch in front of it.
Most of the train had passed over
the switch when the two freight
cars jumped the track and toppled
over, yard officials said. They re-
ported nothing was left" of the
living quarters.
The accident was believed caused
by a defective switch. The cars
also knocked down pole support
Ing electric lines. Train traffic was
tied up for several hours.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Four AT VMI Graduates
Get Army Commissions
BY Tire Assoeiafed Press

LEXINGTON, Va, Sept. 1.-The
Secretary of War and the Chief of
Staff have announced the first honor
graduate appointments rendered by
the War Department since the end
of the war to four Virginia Military
Institute graduates of the class of
1947.
Recess appointments in the Reg
ular Army were received by Allan
T. Sylvester II, South Norwalk,
Conn, and James L. Morrison, jr.,
Richmond, as second lieutenants.
On reaching their 21st birthdays,
Paul l.. Applin, jr., Tallahassee, Fla,
and w. w. Bercaw, jr. Fluvanna,
. will be appointed second lieutenantS.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
SO, 900 Expected at Opening
OfMuryIund State Fair I oduy

$4,000 early visitors arrived for a
Sunday preview.
Chief attraction for race fans was
the annual To-day meeting at the
Timonuim half-mie track, which
opened today with post time set for
Q pm.
H. c. Allnutt's Meetmenow was
listed as an early favorite in the
days feature, the $1,000 Labor Day
purse, run as the fifth race at 61s
furlongs. .>-
Mr.. Dalger said the fair, one Of
the largest in the East, has at
tracted a. record number of exhibits.
He said 1855 animals are entered in
the livestock division and 2,124 fowl
registered in the poultry seftion.
Evening star., 1947-09-01

aluminium castings for this equip
ment. The, mirror then is coated
with aluminium to give it reflect
ing surface. This is a compare
lively modern development and an
improvement over the old silvering
method.
The society was founded August
81, 1887, when group of strangers
with an interest in astronomy met
in the Naval Observatory after read
ing newspaper announcement that
a meeting would be held there. The
National Capital Astronomers held
its first lecture meeting in the Ma
tional Museum on October /, 1887,
and ever since there has been a
monthly lecture meeting with pro-
fessional speaker during all but two
summer months of each year.
Junior Contingent Added.
In addition to the telescope max
ing class, weekly sessions are held
in various sections of. the city for
telescope observation and constella-
ton study. Several meetings are
held annually in cooperation with
the National Park Service to which
the public is invited. Members
bring their own telescopes and pro-
vide instruction in constellation
study, all under guidance of U. Sher-
man Lyons, an astronomer at the
Naval Observatory. There also are
discussion groups.
Since January, 1916, the society
has had Junior contingent. 1t also
has its own five-inch telescope,
which often is used in another
activity-meteor counting in selected
portions of the sky. These counts
then are correlated with the radar
meteor counting program of the
National Bureau of Standards.
At a forthcoming lecture, to be
held at 8 pm. September 6 in the
National Museum, the speaker will
be DR.. Irvine c. Gardner, chief,
Optical instruments Section of the
Bureau of Standards. His subject
will be "The Development of Astro-
nomical Telescopes"
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Women Turn Interest in Stars
Into TeIescope-Moking Hobby

women who would rather
design and make telescopes than
discuss routine household affairs
are leading members of the Ma
tioral Capital Astronomers, which
celebrated its 10th anniversary this
week.
At a meeting of the amateur
groups telescope-making class in
Central High School, the conversa-
ton was studded with such astro-
nomical terms as nebulae, galaxies,
novae, comets, clusters, double and
variable stars. There was not even
mention of the current sale Of
cretonne curtains in a local depart
ment store.
The society's 80 members includes
about 80 women. There also are
several boys. Miss Margaret Clock,
2701 Fourteenth street NV, who
joined last year and is one of about
20 members making telescopes.
voiced an important reason why
the telescope making class is so
popular.
Wants Stars Close.
"I like astronomy" she said. I'm
not just satisfied to see the stars.
I want to bring them close to me.
1 can do that with a telescope" ..
That's just about the way feel
about it," added Miss Irene War
then, 626 Silver Spring avenue, Sill
yer Spring, Md 1--WE been inter-
ested in astronomy since I was a
child It's terrible for pretty thing
like Saturns rings to be in the SKY
and not to be able to see it with the
eye. There's the advantage of hav-
ing telescope"
Miss Warthen already has COM
pleted a 6-inch telescope and now
is working on a 4-incher. With the
others in the class she is instructed
by Robert M. Mcclellan, who has
20 years experience in precision
machine work. From 1884 to 1941
he was a tool and instrument maker
in the Naval Gun Factory.
Grinding Involves Work.
He gave a brief outline of the
many steps necessary in making al
telescope. The mirror, he seid, is
made from pyrex glass cut in circu-
lar blanks. Then comes short
period Of real elbow work. for
there is plenty of grinding to be
done on the mirror.
This is accomplished by using an
other piece of circular glass, amply
".sprinkled" with abrasive, as the
grinding instrument.
Next step is the design of the
mounting and the machining Of the
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Dr.. w. <. Wickenden Dies

PETERBORO, N. H., Sept. (R.-
DR.. william E. Wickenden, "a, pres
ident emeritus Of Case Institute Of
Technology, Cleveland, died early
today at Monadnock Community
Hospital. DR.. Wickenden, a noted
engineer and educator. had beep
hospitalized since August 20, when
he suffered a heart attack while on
vacation in nearby Jaffrey.
Evening star., 1947-09-01

will be held in st. Paul's Lutheran
Church, Strasburg, at 2 pm. to-
morrow. Burial will be in River
view Cemetery there.
Mr.. Enfmart is survived by his
father, George Emmart, 6203 New
Hampshire avenue NE; a sister,
Mrs. Irwin Orndorff, Strasburg, and
two brothers, Clyde Emmart, 1850
Erie street Sc, and Harry En-
mart, Strasburg.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Common Glory Plays
To Capacity Audience
BY The Associcted Press

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Sept. l.
The Common Glory" played to
capacity crowd last night to mark
the first Sunday performance with
all seats taken.
With the closing date, September
IA, just two weeks away the SYM
phonic drama written by Paul Green
will be presented tonight. 1t will
be the only Monday showing Of the
season.
Next Monday, however, the am
phitheater by Lake Matoaka will be
in use again. Then the choir which
takes part in the play will give
concert.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
3 Held in BIudensburg
In Gosh Reqister Theft

Three men were charged with
breaking and entering in connec-
ton with the theft Saturday night
of a cash register and adding ma
chine from the Consolidated Ice
Co., Bladensburg, town police re-
ported today. y.
They were William B. Anderson,
47O0 block of Edmondston road,
Rogers Heights, Md; Joseph w.
Goodwin, 80, and Edward Regan,
of the Lily Ponds Government
housing project. Bond was set at
$4,000 each, pending a hearing in
Hyattsville Police Court September
18. police said.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
.Etchison Heads
Bible Society
For 17th Term
Howard Stuckhouse
To Succeed Harris
As Vice President
" SOS" NVHHSs
Stor SfoH CORRESPONDENT

WESTMINSTER, Nd, Sept. 1
DR.. Page NICK. Etchison, religious
work director of the Central YMCA
of Washington, today was elected
president of the Organized Bible
Glass Association for his 17th con-
secutive term.
The election took place this
morning as the 26th annual confer
ence moved into its final day.
DR.. Etchison, founder, has been
president since 1881. He succeeded
the late Homer ]. Councillor, presi-
dent from 1922 to 1881. The associa-
uion was formed at Leesburg, Va,
in 1922 by % men representing IL
Washington area Bible classes.
Howard M. Stackhouse, a men,
ber of Emory Methodist Church, was
chosen executive vice president. He
succeeds George E. Harris, who had
to relinquish the post because of the
pressure of business.
Watson Again Treasurer.
Mr.. Stackhouse has served as
chairman of the associations Easter
sunrise service for three years.
The association reelected George
A. Watson of National Baptist Me-
mortal Church as treasurer for the
fourth successive time.
Mr.. Harris is member of Chevy
Chase Methodist Church. Mr.. Har.
ris previously served for seven years
as association executive secretary
and for two years as treasurer.
DR.. Etichison yesterday pr73ented
book to Mr.. Harris, on behalf of
the association in appreciation of
his work last year.
The Bible furnishes practical
guide towards solving the economic,
social and polictical questions of our
day, DR.. Edgar Cordell Powers, exc
cutive secretary of the Maryland
Bible Society. told the gathering.
The session this afternoon will
hear the final sermon of the confer
ence by DIR. Paul c. Warren. minis
ter of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Baltimore. He will talk
on loyalty"
Glasses Receive Gift Bibles.
New Testaments were presented
yesterday to four District Bible
classes in recognition of their
leadership during the American
Bible Society fund drive this year
The classes honored were the
Golden Page Glass of Anacostia
Methodist Church; the Rainbow
Glass of Mount Vernon Place Meth
odist Church; the Mems Glass of
Mount Rainier Christian Church and
the Box Glass of Emory Methodist
Church. The Washington Quota
for the drive was $500, total of
$1,942 was raised.
Miss Laura Lindley and Mrs
Gertrude M. Donovan, both mem
bers of Waugh Methodist Church,
were presented yesterday with
framed pictures of themselves for
their % years of service to the as
ISOLATION. Miss Lindley has served
as conference reporter and Mrs
Donovan has been in charge of the
conference reports during these
years. The presentation was made
by Mr.. Harris.
Discussion groups on various as
poets of Bible Glass work, which
started yesterday, will continue to-
day. Leaders and their subjects
are Miss Margaret E. Ringrese OF
Calvary Baptist Church, Social and
Recreational Program; Mr.. Stack
house, Leadership and Glass Or
ganization, and Alden w. Hoage
of Eldbrooke Methodist Church
Membership and Publicity"
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Sheriffs, City Sereeonts
Elect Martin in Virginia
By the Associated Press

ROANOKE, Va. Sept. 1.-Vir-
ginia sheriffs and city sergeants
closed their annual convention here
Friday by electing E. j., Martin,
city sergeant of Charlottesville, as
their president.
Officers elected we're: J. P. Kerlin,
sheriff of Prince William County.
first vice president; R. B. Thompson,
sheriff of Tazewell County, second
vice president; E. L. Winstead, city
sergeant of Roanoke, secretary, and
j. Frank Culpepper, sheriff OF
Nansemond County, treasurer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
Mother Checks Up
On U.N. Journalist
vaw.%wl-%.I $50

COPENHAGEN.-(AP).-Chief
of United Nations press section
former Danish journalist Paul
Vejby Johansen, is going to make
a-l5-minute speech to his mother
in Denmark, but she will not be
present and will not even know
when he makes the speech.
Recently Vejby Johansen was
interviewed by the Danish Broad
casting Systems Washington cor
respondent, Niels Grunnet, and
the interview was broadcast in
Denmark. Unfortunately johann
sens aged mother, who has not
seen her son for, IL years, did not
hear the broadcast, and now the
breadcasting studio has invited
her to the studio to hear the re-
cording played again for her.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
.JEEPERS!
JACUARS,
HAUNTING

AP Nwsfeatures
NEW ORLEANS.-Residents
IN of New Orleans French
Quarter. Bohemian enough new
er to show surprise. don't even
toke q second look when they
see q spotted jungle unimol
Looping eerily. They just COLL
Cliff Burnhom and tell him his
joguor's loose.
Jaguars are a breed Of partic-
ularly nasty, panther-sized fe-
lines, but Cliff is confident he
can raise Duchess" into a pet.
Cliff found Duchess in Dutch
Guina while he was on duty
there with the Navy. He says
she is fine pet but a tease.
81 take off my socks at night
and two seconds later they're on
the chandelier" Cliff explains.
On her occasional airings, she
sinks tigerwise, straining at the
end of her leash.
Cliff says he and the Duchess
are going into show business
when she reaches full growth.
He plans to spar with his fifty
pound partner while unsuspect-
ing spectators hold their breath.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
LAUGH AWHILE!
Triumph Of
Education

A certain needless reporter so
far forgot himself recently as to
speak very harshly to big dumb
prizefighter with a hair-trigger
temper.
you called me a fool,' yelled
the fighter. and for that I'm
going to whale the daylights out
of youi"
'"Yes, I said it," replied the
foolhardy reporter, land l reit-
crate it,"
Well" said the boxer, sud-
denly, quite Modified, that's diff
ferent. Then I'll overlook it,"
Then, clouding up slightly
again, he added. But don't
think an apology will do you any
good next time!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
Famed Singapore Yacht
Goes To Philippines

SINGAPORE. - (AP). = The
Singapore governors yacht, Sea-
belle II, has been sold to p. Nor
rison, director of the PINT Ship
ping Company of Cebu, Philip
pines, for $4,000. 1t will be used
in the Philippines inter-island
trade.
Built in 1923, at a cost of $4,000
pounds sterling, the Seabelle was
used by the governor of the
Straits Settlements and federated
Malay states.
Doris Duke chartered the YES
sci for her honeymoon cruise in
the South Seas following her mar
riage to James Cromwell. The
British navy requisitioned the
yacht at the outbreak of the wal
and the Seabelle II spent the wal
years.in navy service in Indian
waters. 1t returned to Singapore
with the liberation fleet. The
royal navy paid the Singapore
government the equivalent OF
$250,000 for its war use.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
LAUGH ~sAWHfLE,!s.xe.,s, s..s q.
Fowl Employment

Charles had just returned from
visit to the country where he
had assisted in the performance
of the farm chores. One respon-
sibility of the youngster was to
gather the eggs and mark each
with the date it had been laid.
well, Charles" father inquir-
ed, chow did you like the FARM"
Every well, father" the boy
replied, except didn't care very
much about being secretary to a
| bunch of old hens"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
Life In Western World
Has Increased Is Years
During Last Century
PREHISTORIC MAN LIV.,
Ed, ONLY AVERAGE
OF ID YEARS, RE.
A. u n rs < a. a.
PORT REVEALS
tsprcInl 10 THE srtsxee,

NEW YORK, N. Y, Nov. 81
TheASerages length of life in the
western world has increased
about rs years in the past cen
tury, more, than. in all prior cen
turtles together since the dawn
of civilization, according to the
statisticians of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company.
For prehistoric man the length
of life, estimated from the char
acteristics of fossil remains,
probably averaged about Is
years. BY the middle of the last
century, the average had risen
to about 40 years, and it is now
more than 65 years. The statisti-
clans expect that within the
next decade or two, the average
length of life for the population
of the United States will be ex-
tended to. the biblical three score
and ten. 80 &a
"The lease of life for prehis-
torff man was pitifully small as
measured by modern standards, y
the statisticians comment. ''This
does not mean that there were
SOME surviving to mature life,
but that the number of deaths
in infancy and childhood were
terIfyingly high. To judge by
thes large. proportion of preserv-
ed skulls that show traces of
heavy blows, death by, violence
seems to have been a common
occurrence at that period.
with the advance of early
civilization, there appears to
have been a very gradual in
crease in longevity" the aver
age for this period being some
where around IS years.
'The rise in standard. of liv-
ing. and the development of sci
entific knowledge early in the
nineteenth century evidently
had beneficial effect upon hon.
gevty. BY the middle Of the cen
tury the average length of life
advanced to 40 years, and
around the end of the century
thetaverage was nearly so years.
The great advances in the con-
troll 1of"disease SO far this CEN
tury have brought the average
length of life in this country to
almost sc years, an increase of
is years i'm less than five de-
cades. This record is undoubted-
y without parallel in the whole
range of human existence, and
may never again be equalled,"
the: statisticians comment.
Further progress is to be ex-
pected as present knowledge in
medical and sanitary. science is
more fully utilized and as new
weapons to fight disease are de-
veloped. According to the sta
tisticians, within the course of
thenext decade or two, it should
be possible to extend the aver
agetlength of life for the popula-
ton of the United States to at
least 20 years"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
WISE OLD BULL

HIGHMORE, S. D.-A recent
prairie fire threatened the farm
of Elmer Folstich, on which, he
had two purebred bulls, one of
which had to be saved.
Folstich decided to leave the
old and crippled bull to die in the
flames and brought the young
bull along with him. However,
the old bull thought otherwise.
He found refuge in a green weed
patch and the young bull died of
exhaustion and suffocation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
THE Man Who
Took A Walk!

MURPHYSBORO, Ill.-(AP).-
Leonard Williamson, retiring as q
postal letter carrier, claims he
wore out 100 pairs of shoes and
walked the equivalent of six
times around the world during
his 33-year tour of duty on a l6-
mile daily route.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
IA WOMAN'S LUCK

CHICAGO,-(AP).-Any man
wing says$a woman is a terrible
driver can get an argument from
Wafer Patterson. He cites the
record of. his wife, Minna, who
has driven $4,000 miles in so
years without an accident.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-22
How To Make
A Goose Out
OF Any Hunter

BISMARCK. N. D.-tAp).-
Guy Larson is grateful to a
hunter for a goose. but he has
no idea which one to thank.
Larson followed his bark
ing dog into the backyard the