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Evening star., 1947-07-22
IUse Of Clock 10 Set Off
Explosion. Shown al
0vereII Death Trial
BY the Assoeioted Press

SANTA ANA, Calf, July ga
hushed courtroom was startled yes
terday as an alarm clock rang, COM
pleting circuit from a storage
battery to a detonator wire, and a
tiny trail of fire and blue smoke
shot into the air at the Overell
yacht murder trial.
Louise Overell, 18-year-old heir
ess, and her college sweetheart.
George BUD Gollum, 81, charged
with numbering her parents, smiled
as the prosecution presented for
the jury a demonstration recon-
structing how it claims Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter E. Overelrs yacht, the
Mary E, was dynamited after the
elderly couple had been budgeoned
with a hammer or a piece of pipe.
A 12-voit battery, standard
household alarm clock and the de-
tonator wire were on a counsel
table, directly in front of the jury,
while five minutes licked away. AS
the clocks minute hand CORE
sponded with the alarm hand, bell
rang and the detonator cap set off
its fiery charge.
Explosion. Contact Proven.
The demonstration proved, Prose-
cutor Eugene D. Williams contended,
that a circuit could be completed
from battery to charge of dyna-
mite. :.
Roger Greene, criminologist for
the State Attorney General, con-
Quoted the experiment. He said the
alarm clock was identical with a
battered one found in the Mary Els
engine room, near 80 sticks of un-
exploded dynamite. Investigators
previously estimated that three
sticks of unexploded dynamite. In
vestigators previously estimated
that three sticks exploded in the
blast.
Mr.. Greene was to be cross-exam-
ined further today. He will be fol-
lowed to the stand by Ray Pinker,
Los Angeles police chemist. Mr..
Pinker is regarded as key witness
for the prosecution.
"Key" Witness Will Not Testify.
1t was he who told a grand jury
which indicted Gollum and Miss
Overell that he found bloodstains
on leather flight jacket which the
State claims Gollum was wearing
March Is shortly after the Overell
yacht blew up.
The prosecution disclosed that
Edward Louis Davis, sought for
months and finally located two
weeks ago in Wheeling, w. Va, and
returned to Los Angeles, will fot be
used as witness Special Investiga-
tor James H. Mulvey said the United
States Attorneys Office in Los An
geles had been notified that Mr..
Davis no longer is wanted as a wit
ness.
The State hunted Mr.. Davis after
receiving reports he had been seen
with Gollum in a Newport Beach
cafe before the explosion,
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Gasoline Blaze Kills )
In North Dakota CITY
By the Associated Press

MINOT, N. OAK, July 22.-Fire-
men continued fighting oil-fed
flames early today after spectac-
ular fire raced through four square
blocks of the Mlnot business dis
trict to claim three lives and de-
stroy nine business ablishme1ts.
The fire was touched off by an ex-
plosion in a bulk gasoline station
yesterday.
Victims were identified as Chester
Weston, 80; Adam Ranyan, about
so, and william Foster, all of
Minot.
PENDLETON, Greg. July % (P).
Damage was estimated at more
than $50O,000 today after flames de-
stroyed the Western Milling Co.
-four mill and warehouse, set fire
to other buildings and for two
hours threatened to sweep into the
business section.
Burning debris, showered on
nearby structures as series of
blasts set off the fire at noon yes
terday. damaged the roof of the
Umatilla County Courthouse, a
lumberyard, an apartment building
and several residences.
A spokesman for the mill said
$4,000 bushels of new crop wheat
was burned and mill property dam
age alone was more than $3.50, 1000.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
U. N. Gets Appeal 10 Save
Hunqarian Doomed in Plot
Bv the Associated Press

GENEVA, Switzerland. July o.
Hungarian Republican circles here
said today that friends OF Georges
Donath, a member of the Hungarian
Smallholders Party, had appealed to
United Nations Secretary General
Trygve Lie to save him from a death
sentence.
Donath was condemned recently
in Hungary for an alleged con-
spiracy against the government--a
conspiracy which the Communists,
now in control, alleged was inspired
by former Premier Ferenc Macy and
other members of the Smallholders
Party.
The informants here said the ap-
peal to Mr.. Lie had been forwarded
in the name of Emre Veer, an oust-
ed deputy of the Hungarian
National Assembly and chairman OF
the Republican League, who was last
reported living in exile in Austria.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Federal Divorce Law Urged
To Aid in Curbinq Crime
By the Associntsd Press

ELMIRA, N. Y, July ga New
York City criminologist urged today
that marriage, divorce and alimony
be placed under uniform Federal
laws to Strike at the roots of con-
ditions that make for criminal lives"
DR.. Carleton Simon, in an address
at the opening of the annual confer
ence of the New York State Associa-
ton of Chiefs of Police, assailed
easy" marriage, divorce and all
mony as largely contributing fac
tors to vice and crime.
He cited varying and conflicting
State laws and declared:
mo State line and no legal ouib-
bles should be permitted to daily
with fundamental principles under
lying marriage and divorce; nothing
should be permitted which affects
the moral health of our nation"
DR.. Simon recommended a longer
waiting period between granting of
a license and marriage, limiting of
marriages to the counties in which
the couples reside, virtual abolition
of alimony, and granting of divorces
only for adultery or permanent in
sanity.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Lane S Signature Needed
For Garmafz 10 Take Seat
BY the Associofed Press

ANNAPOLIS, July 22.-Edward
A. Garmatz is set to go to Wash
ington to claim the House seat he
won in last weeks special election
but just when he will leave de-
pends on the mails.
The Election Board has certified
he was winner of the Third Con-
gressional district election last Tues
day to fill the seat vacated by
Thomas D'Alesandro when he be-
came mayor Of Baltimore in May
Mr.. Garmatz, a Democrat, had
expected to be sworn in yesterday
but Is was found Gov. Lanes sigma
ture was needed on a certificate
of election.
Yesterday, Gov. Lane was some
where between Denver, where he
had attended the Governors con-
ference, and Chicago.
Maryland Secretary of State Ber-
tram Boone dispatched the certifi-
cate to Chicago by air mail. If it
arrives in time, Gov. Lane gets it.
signs it, puts it in the mail and it
gets back in time-Mr. Garmat2
will go to Washington to claim
the seat tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
0'Dwyer Offers Help
To Queens Bus Lines
Tied Up by Strike
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, July %. - Mayor
William O'Dwyer, declaring that the
city won't stand" for bus strike
such as tied up st. Louis transpor-
tation for two weeks last month, has
offered "all the protection neces-
sary" for two struck bus companies
in the populous borough of Queens.
Struck Saturday by TOO drivers
both lines had resumed token serv-
Ice last night with substitute driv-
ers. Police rode the buses and
patrolled the routes. Normally each
line collects about 100000 fares
daily and operates 120 buses.
Salvatore Fornatora, president Of
the Triborough Coach Corp, saio
six buses were put in service or
one of his lines last night, using as
drivers some of the 18 men hired
during the day. He predicted nor
NAL service by the end of the week.
Green Bus Lines was able to op-
crate 10 of its IA lines yesterday
largely using as drivers men who
became stockholders in the com.
pany when it absorbed their inde-
pendent bus lines in 1888. Some are
nonunion employees of the company
Urges New Arbitrators.
A. L. Spradling, international
president of the AFL Amalgamated
Association of Street, Electric Rail.
way and Motor Coach Employees
suggested in a telegram to Mayor
ODwyer last night that appoint
ment of new arbitration board or
board chairman would result in
an immediate resumption of work. .
Mr.. Spradling said that last
Thursday, at the opening of arbi-
tration board hearings, the union
objected to the arbitrary manner
of the chairman, former Supreme
Court Justice Isador Wasservogel
and union officers were assured by
the Mayors labor adviser, Edward
Mcguire, that Mr.. Wasservogel
would not wish to continue in
case in which he did not have the
full confidence of both sides. /" ="
This resignation did not occur or
Friday morning" Mr.. Spradling con-
tinued, adding that although "this
Office advised the men not to take
precipitate action, it was impossible
for them to follow that advice be-
cause of the outrage they felt with
regard to the arbitration"
Mayor Assails Strikers.
The Mayor. in a statement issued
after the striking drivers had voted
yesterday to continue the strike, de-
clared they had repudiated a no.
strike agreement. had treated their
international officers with con.
temptuous disregard" and were
outlaws from the labor movement.
In reply, officers of the striking
locals issued a statement saying
that responsibility for the con-
temptuous responsibility and utter
disregard of the public with which
the Mayor belabors the union lies
squarely in his Office"
The two locals had demanded a
basic wage of SITS an hour, against
the $120 paid by Green Lines and
S1.13 by Triborough.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
W. F. Harrington Retires
From Two Du Pont Posts
By the Associated Press

WILMINGTON. Del. July o.
Retirement of Willis F. Harrington
as vice president and member OF
the Executive Committee of the Du
Pont Co., effective August I, was an
nounced today. He will continue as
member of the Board of Directors.
j. Warren Kinsman, general man.
ager of the Fabrics and Finishing
Department and member of the
board, was elected vice president
and named member of the Execu-
tive Committee,
Evening star., 1947-07-22
II Million in Surplus Sold
At District WAA Center

More than $22 ,553 600 worth of
Government surplus property has
been sold through the War Assets
ADMINISTRATIONS Customer Service
Center, Fourth street and Jefferson
drive S.W., since its opening March
10, according to Director H. c.
Wentworth.
Operating under direction of the
Richmond regional Office of the ad-
ministration, the center has aver
aged more than 100000 in sales a
week, Mr.. Wentworth said.
The center's staff of 1874 persons,
he said, handles a weekly average of
more. than 500 visitors and $500
telephone calls and mail inquiries
on priorities from veterans and
other priority holders.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Mrs. John |. Prott
Dies at Stafford Home
by the Associofed Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, July
22.-Mrs. Lillian Thomas Pratt
wife of John Lee Pratt, former vice
president of the General Motors
Corp, died yesterday at Chatham
her home in Stafford County, neal
here, after a five-week illness.
A native Of Washington State
Mrs. Pratt spent her early life ir
Tacoma. but had lived in the East
since her marriage in 1917 and al
Chatham for the last IS years.
Funeral services will be held al
Chatham tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
The Great GiIdersIeeve
DiscIoses Birth of Son
BY the Associated Press

Ev rTfs NSsoCToFeU TT61k
HOLLYWOOD, July 22.-Harolc
Peary is papa.
The comedian, known to radio
fans as the Great Gildersleeve, ano
his wife, the former Gloria Holiday
radio actress, announced that their
son Page was born prematurely
March 8.
They also announced they were
married secretly at Tia Juana, Mex.
leo, July 8, 1916, and were married
again June "a, 1947. at Yerlington
New, after Mr.. Peary's divorce from
his first wife Betty became fina
June 20.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Luddie Tells All

Laddie, 4-year -old black retriever
dog belonging to Mrs. H. w. Free
man, a Danbury, England, school
teacher, knows all the answers. He
can, according to his friends, add,
subtract and divide sums up to a
total of IL. He barks off the an
SWers.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
President of Panama
Goes Back to Hospital
By the Assoeioted Press

MAMA. July 22.-President
i9uc ,-ilninez entered Gorgas
Hospital night after he suf-
fered a ;se while convalescing
from reccnt operation.
1t was reported that he was to
receive a blood TRANSMISSION, but
official sources said his condition
was not alarming.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Argentine Biust Kills Seven

BUENOS AIRES, July % P).-
Seven persons we're killed and two
others were listed as missing yes
terday after an explosion in fire.
works factory in Canuelas, Buenos
Aires suburb.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
GAR Veteran Takes
To Air.; At 706 You
Don't Scare Easily
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BY The EssocIofed Press
ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 20.
james A. Hard, 106, the Ma
tion's oldest member of the
Grand Army of the Republic,
wasn't frightened during his
first helicopter ride.
The old soldier. who has
made two flights in airplanes,
went up in a helicopter yester-
day. ...
when you get to be 106," he
said, you don't scare easily"
Evening star., 1947-07-22

LOST
person who called Ex. 61o1. EXT. eGat.
Monday, please call again or call MR..
ROSARY, silver; lost Sunday. possibly on
6s57. Jus OF f'''f f'' NV "" @es g.
UMBRELLA, black. nylon, with red lizard
Gssry oense cal sTGaRd SR as7s s sP.r e Sat fssnd
Ss.BsI b.sd 0Is eaaas f ans os q s n
Sicinity Of 18th and K, on route to
Lansbursh,s in tssi; sentimental value.
WALLET. brown morocco, initiated
ana 1sry important snanns pspsrs drzss Finder ssass pssss
phone AT. s372. as
WALLET. tan; containing vacation money.
about $75 and papers: In Yellow Cab q
corner 18th and SITS. ne, around mi'-
Rsns Psss: ds aG sssa
vic Of 10th st. and Irving. Valuable
reward. OR. O201, MRS. B. C. WRIGHT.
WILL PERSON who found package con-
tanning &C costume 5ewelry on streetcar call
in in M mems restroom. % cheveriy @ Theater. II M ~ .e-
Sentimental value to these articles Ar
ofiR sia be made by telenhSne
FOUND
CANARY, white, found near Security
aen. afsn.s' Mss SIS bEa1 Sa snd b1 45so s}s NV" on
Evening star., 1947-07-22
LOST

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BLACK PLASTIC POCKETBook; money
Rsys Reward ana Ne, % %o4ss5. IS 2s.
BRIEF CASE black zippsFT type ports contain
~ ~ reward. sSR % Box 42s-T, Star. 22.
COCKER SPANIEL, black. female, license
sssnesas; a;s sSss. Nj g. 7sss hsS.rd WI 1000 Ext
GSSham ~. Name "Biackie"; nr. 10th and Kearney
IS BOYS bqdds ,G,1 ~ r. RswaEs iEso ss cs!I
scxa 9 ..as. asd psf ssss m: .a sr.n
Va va. THURSDAY. Reward. cH. $3.50:
ENGLISH SETTER. male black and white;
Mad Ma sfs " ": 5sef ss4a' near se'hes0. Md
CLASSES. pink shell rims; vic. 3S9o blk.
!345, bet. 10 am. and 5 pm. "a
GLASSES. black leashsr case; vicinity
wsTd W0Siie7 s7oh Conn. ave. Apt. 405. CO.
TDENTIFTcATIoN BRACELET: silver;
sSas sSsf5asSsn a4ss and Wilson S'va EsEsFd ss
PIN, Jobs Daughters. set With small dis.
nond and pearls; has sentimental s1tR value;
PoCKETBoOK, white. plastic: contained
glasses, money, billfold, ETC.; lost Monday.
Reward. SKINKER, GE. 2s14. --23
PURSE, lady's, brown and white, plastic:
in Murohy's Oc Store, Mon. I'm. Reward
for return. Call NO. 9Sl9. Apt.
PURSE. brown, change: containing keys
july 81. Reward. Phone DE. 49S7.
RING, lady's, sterling silver, open design.
black onyx, set with . small diamonds;
or Sandy Point-Matapeake Ferry the
Coy; o'Conor. on July 2; reward. MI.
1924. go
-xINGS (2), 1 diamond in white-soM set
sN1g ana opal in yellowgold setting; lost
At Beverly Beach Sunday. July 10: senti-
nental value. Reward. AID. 1879 after
Evening star., 1947-07-22

lNARY, white. found near Security
orage Co, 18th and L SIS. NV. on
On. MISS BEALL DI. 404O.
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Purchase of Motor Grader

The Board of County Commission
ers of Yellowstone County, Montana
will receive sealed bids until 11:OO
o'clock a. m. Thursday, July 10,
1947, for the purpose of one Motor
Grader. This machine must be
powered by a diesel engine and
equipped with IL foot blade, scarf
fier, cab, electric lights, starter,
heater and pneumatic tires.
Bids must be accompanied by a
certified bid check in amount to ten
(10) per cent of the amount bid
and made payable to Yellowstone
County, Montana.
Envelope containing bid must be
marked "Bid for Motor Grader" and
be addressed to C. E. Wicks Chair
man, Board of County Commission
ers, Billings, Montana.
Time of delivery is ar ssence of
the bid on this machine and proposed
delivery date must be stated in the
bid.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
By order of the Board.
C.. E. WICKS, Chairman.
EARLE KNIGHT,
County Clerk.
(Date First Pub. June 1S, 1947-3t)
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
Woman Drives 400 Miles
With Body of Her Husband

SIOUX FALLS, S. D.-A CO.
year-old Wyoming ranch woman,
fulfilling a pact made with her
late husband, drove into Sioux
Falls with his blanket-wrapped
body after more than a 400-mile
trip across South Dakota from
Wyoming
The woman was Mrs. Harry
Sisson, who with her husband
operated a ranch near the re-
mote settlement of Dull Center,
30 miles northeast of Douglas,
Wyo.
She notified Sioux Falls police
that she and her husband, one
time residents Of this neighbor-
hood, had agreed that in the
event of either's death, burial
would be here.
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
Added Life Decade
Seen in Vitamin A
Extra Years Can Be Inserted at
Prime by Diet.

NEW YORK. - Experiments or
white rats which eat the same foods
as humans have shown that a nor
NAL diet plus extra vitamln A
lengthens the life span and extends
the prime of life" DR.. Henry
Clapp Sherman, Mitchell professor
emeritus of chemistry at Columbia
university, announced.
DR.. Sherman, regarded as one OF
the highest authorities on the chem
istry of food, took as the normal
diet for his experiments the vitamin
A and caloric relationship of the
recommended allowances of Ma
tional Research council, as an
nounced at the national nutrition
conference called by President
Roosevelt in 1941. According to DR..
Sherman, the experiments showed
that quadrupled allowances of vita
min A in human nutrition are de-
sirabe.
"This appears the more prob
able" DR.. Sherman said, lin view
of the fact that most people prob
ably live less protected lives than
those of experimental animals. A
certain food mixture called Diet
A was found adequate to the sup
port of normal nutrition generation
after generation for the white rats;
yet Diet B. differing only in its
proportion of protective food, has
been found to result in better life
histories.
Growth and development are
beneficially expedited, vitality is
higher and death rates lower at all
ages; full adult capacity or prime
of life is attained earlier and re-
tanned longer and the life expecta-
ton is increased not only for the
young but also for the adults. The
previous general progress of public
health has increased the life expec-
tation of the infant but not of the
grown person. Now, the nutritional
improvement of the norm raises the
life expectation Of the adult as well.
"The extra years thus offered are
not to be pictured as added to old
age. Rather it appears that some
thing like an extra decade can be
inserted at the prime or apex of the
life lived in accordance with today's
newer knowledge of nutrition. Life
becomes longer because it is lived
on a higher health level throughout.
The apex of attainment is higher,
period of the prime is longer
and, in human terms, there is a
smaller percentage of years of de-
oendence."
DR.. Sherman conducted his ex-
oeriments on a grant of $4,000 from
he nutrition foundation.
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sale of Used Power Shove


The Board of County Commits
sioners of Yellowstone County, Mon
tana, will offer for sale at Public
Auction at HOO o'clock a. m. Fri
day, July IS, 1947, at the front of
the Court House in Billings, Mon
tana, the following described prop
erty:
One C1) Gas Powered y cubic
yard Lorain Power Shovel equip
ped with crawler type track,
drag line boom and bucket and
shovel dipper and stick.
This machine is listed as No. IT
on Yellowstone County's equipment
list and may be seen at the County
Shop adjacent to the Midland En-
pire Fair Grounds northeast of Bill
lings. The Board has fixed the
minimum sale value of this ma
chine at S3,500.00.
By Order of the Board.
C. E. WICKS, Chairman.
date First Pub. June 25, 1947-4t)
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
NOTICE TO d

The Board of County Commission
ers of Yellowstone County, Montana,
will receive sealed bids until HOO
o'clock A. NJ, Monday, July ID, 1947,
for the purchase of one (1) Motor
Grader. This machine must be pow
cred by a diesel engine and equipped
with IL foot blade, scarifier, cab,
electric lights, starter, heater and
pneumatic tires.
Bids must be accompanied by a
certified bid check in amount to
ten (10) per cent of the amount
bid and made payable to Yellowstone
County, Montana.
Envelope containing bid must be
marked IBID for Motor Grader" and
be addressed to C. E. Wicks, Chair
man, Board of County Commission
ers, Billings, Montana.
Time of delivery is an essence of
the bid on this machine and pro-
posed delivery date must be stated
in the bid.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
By order of the Board,
C. E. WICKS,
Chairman
EARL KNIGHT,
County Clerk
date First Pub. June 25, 1947-3t)
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
Purchase of Motor Grader

furcndSe OF MOt0r Grader
The Board of County Commits
sioners of Yellowstone County, Mon
tana, will receive sealed bids until
II 100 o'clock a. m. Friday July IS,
1947, for the purchase of one (1)
Motor Grader. This machine must
be powered by a diesel engine and
equipped with II foot blade, scarf
fier, cab, electric lights, starter,
heater and pneumatic tires.
Bids must be accompanied by a
certified bid check in amount to
ten (10) per cent of the amount
bid and made payable to Yellow
County, Montona.
Envelope containing bid must be
marked "Bid for Motor Grader"
and be addressed to C. E. Wicks,
Chairman, Board of County Commits
Billings, Montana
Time of delivery is an essence of
the bid on this machine and pro-
posed delivery date must be stated
in the bid.
The Board reserves the right to
any or all bids.
By order of the Board.
c.. E. WICKS. Chairman
EARLE KNIGHT,
County Clerk.
date First Pub. July 2, 1947-3t)
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
Report Miracles in Cairo
Church, Paper Announces

CAIRO, EGYPT. - LIE Progress
Egyptien, Cairo newspaper, said
that a man paralyzed 10 years be-
came able to walk and that a g.
year-old child blind since birth
gained his eyesight in two st.
Georges day miracles in the Greek
Orthodox st. Georges church.
The paper added that Patriarch
Christophoros "of Alexandria and
all Africa" who officiated at a
solemn mass, later announced the
reported double miracle to a crowd
of worshippers observing the saints
anniversary, on which they believe
the church each year becomes
miraculous.
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-02
Wives of G.I.s Can Learn
To Cook on $50 a Month

IOWA CITY, IOWA. - Wives of
CT. students at Iowa university are
going to school to learn how to cook
on $50 a month.
Special classes have been set up,
under sponsorship Of the Red Cross
nutrition committee. The idea came
into being when a number of veter-
ans wives, pressed by a tight
budget and ~spiraling prices, voiced
a need for economical ways of pre-
pairing food.
cts almost impossible to live on
$50 a month, and it's worse when
you're learning to cook from a cook
book" one said.