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Evening star., 1947-03-08
House Unit Asks Congress
To Define Official Papers

The House Appropriations Com
mittee yesterday recommended that
Congress define more clearly what
constitutes the public and private
papers of a retiring Government
official.
Its action was prompted by re-
cent discussion of q diary being
written by former Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau. The COM
mittee disclosed it questioned Sec
retary Snyder and his staff on two
occasions, in connection with next
years appropriation bill for infor-
nation on the Morgenthau contro-
versy.
The committee said its inquiry
uncovered several ill-defined and
moot questions" concerning the en-
tire subject of what constitutes off,
cial papers. 1t recommended that
an appropriate committee OF the
House study the need for q clearer
law.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Illegal Arrest by Guard
Brinqs Dismissal Of Case

Because q United States building
guard does not have jurisdiction
over law violations on public streets
criminal charges against a Govern
ment messenger were dismissed yes
terday In Municipal Court.
Judge Armond Scott directed q
verdict of not guilty on q defense
motion claiming unlawful arrest.
George Trinton Smith. 23, colored
Of the 800 block Of Sixteenth street
Sc, testified he was on an oficial
trip for the Veterans Administra-
ton to branch ofiice at 801 Chan
ming place NE. The Government
car in which he was riding wa.
parked in q prohibited zone in front
Of the building, he said, and when
the building guard, Theodore p
Tatum, told him to move on an ar
gument followed.
The guard charged Smith with
assault and disorderly conduct, bui
the charges were dropped summarily
when Corporation Counsel CLARK
King informed the court that turis-
diction Of Federal building guards
does not extend to the public streets
Evening star., 1947-03-08
|Ty Cobb S Wife Asks
Decree and AIimony
BY the As.oeiofed Press

REDWOOD CITY, Calf, Mar
|8.-Ty Cobb, baseball immortal, i.
being sued for divorce after 80 years
of marriage. So.
I Mrs. Cobb, giving extreme cruelty
as grounds, filed suit yesterday, ask
ing half the community property
which she valued at $1,000, ,000.- She
also asked 5000 monthly alimony
$4,000 attorneys fees and $4,000
costs.
Mr.. Cobb, now 60, told reporters
the 100000 figure was "too big
but said the divorce action came as
mo surprise" The Cobbs have beer
separated since August Is, 1889.
Il have tried to settle things de-
GENTLY" Mr.. Cobb said. "Of course
I knew this might happen, but I'm
afraid it will be a shock to oul
children and grandchildren"
The Cobbs were married August 8
1908, while Ty was a youthful sta1
with the Detroit Tigers. They have
five grown children.
The suit claimed the baseball vet
eran had shown extreme cruelty
toward the plaintiff from the date
of marriage to the present time"
Superior Judge Aylett r. Cotton
signed an order directing Cobb te
appear for deposition March Is.
Mrs. Cobb's petition did not state
her Christian name. When a news
man asked Mr.. Cobb to supply it
he said he didn't know it." She
sometimes used &C. NJ" sometimes
just &C." he said.
But what did you call her?" the
questioner persisted.
II wouldn't like to say" answered
MIR. Cobb wryly.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Legion Asks for Voice
In Fund Cuts Affectinq
Disabled Veterans

The American Legion rehabilita-
ton conference, closing It's four-day
session here yesterday, asked that
Legion representatives be permitted
to testify before congressional COM
mittees considering any budget cuts
which may affect disabled veterans.
A resolution approved by the con-
ference. held at the Hotel Statler,
asked that the Legion's national
commander be notified of any such
cuts contemplated in Veterans Ad-
ministration funds, and that the
Legion be represented at hearings
on the matters.
The Legion, the resolution said,
has for ~ years fought for ade-
quate care of the disabled veterans" I"
1t added that reported reductions
to be made In the Veterans Admin
istration budget are "of such mag
nitude that there is a great posi-
bility that the services rendered to
the men and women who have been
disabled in the service of their coun-
try may be severely curtailed."
The resolution asserted further
the Legion "is traditionally opposed
to waste in Government"
Would Expand Facilities.
Recommendations of the Legion's
National Rehabilitation Committee
approved yesterday and scheduled
for submission to the National Ex-
ecutive Committee included an ef-
fort to expand existing facilities to
care for veterans now In "dire"
need Of disqualification.
The committees report, submitted
by James F. Burns, Milwaukee,
chairman, also recommended action
In conenction with discharge review
boards consideration of changes in
undesirable discharges given aliens"
and those guilty of un-American
activities dangerous to the Ameri-
can Government in time of war"
The report said it had been
brought to the attention of the
conference that undue pressure has
been and is being brought on the
boards in this connection.
''It is felt by this conference that
this matter should be brought
forcibly to the attention of the
Americanism Commission of the
Legion for immediate action, with
the recommendation it take what
ever steps may be necessary to re-
heve this pressure from the boards
so that none of this type Of dis
charges should be acted on favor
ably" the report added.
Job "Stupendous."
John Thomas Taylor, Legion
legislative chief, in outlining the
organizations legislative program
at the conference, described the
Legfon's job as 80 stupendous that
1t Is almost frightening"
In a discussion of provisions for
the return of American war dead
to this country, Brig. Gen. George
A. Horkan, director of the War
Departments Memorial Division,
assured the group that I'VE realize
the seriousness and sacredness of
this responsibility, and we are going
to see that it is done right"
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Greek Guerrilla Chief
Is Reported Killed
BY fhs Asseeioisd Press

ATHENS, Mar. 8.-An uncon-
f1rmed press dispatch said today
that the self-styled leader of the
antigovernment guerrilla forces in
Greece. identified only as Capt.
Markos," had been killed in action.
Only q week ago, the United Ma
tions Balkan Investigating Commits
sion now sitting at Salonika estab-
lished field teams to visit various
parts of Northern Grece In An effort
to find Markos. The commission is
investigating Greek complaints that
guerrilla forces in Greece received
aid from Albania, Bulgaria and
Yugoslavia.
Pericles Eliades, member Of the
Greek Parliament, whose daughter
was slain recently by guerrillas, in
formed Premier Demetrios Maximos
on February ~ that he personally
would execute" Markos If he ap-
peared before the commission rs
mad been suggested.
Other press reports said 50 guer-
rillas had been slain and AZ cap
tured when Sd Mountain Brigade
units surprised and attacked q large
insurgent band at Spilia on Mount
Kissavos, south Of Olympus. An
other strong band was reported
routed by gunfire on Mount YER
mion, where a large munition dump
containing machine guns, mortars
and antitank rifles was discovered.
Another press report said 70 Left
lists charged with helping the guer-
rillas had been rounded up in Volos,
where q midnight-to-dawn curfew
was imposed, An unspecified num-
Der Of persons also was reported
arrested in Larisa on the same
charges
Evening star., 1947-03-08

in the absence of a general refer
endum.
Objects to AAA Speaker.
He objected to the appearance OF
Washington I. Cleveland, manager
of the District Division of the
American Automobile Association
in favor Of daylight saving time.
I'm member of the AAA, and
I never was asked about It," Mr..
Folk said. s ,c
Mr.. Cleveland had pointed out
his organization was interested be-
cause the number of accidents would
be reduced with more driving being
done before dark. This view was
shared by Mr.. Emmons.
Others speaking in favor of the
change were G. L. Zuch, represent
ing the Federal Recreation Com
mittee: Harlan Wood, representing
the District Department of the
American Legion; Clifford H. New
ell, president of the Federation of
Citizens Associations, and Merle
S. Jones, general manager of Radio
Station VOL.
Mr.. McGarraghy also was notified
OF the continued support of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation, Automobile Dealers Asso-
citation and the Federation OF Busi-
ness Mems Associations.
He read kilograms from Chair
man Buck of the Senate District
Committee and Chairman Dirksen
of the House District Committee,
promising their support of daylight
saving time and expressing regret
at their inability to attend the
meeting.
Maynard De Witt, representing
Chapter Of the American Veterans
Committee, suggested the mass
meeting be made a regular COM
munity feature to determine public
opinion on issues important to Dis
trict residents.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Mrs. Howard Smith, Jr.,
Dies al Is in Alexandra

Mrs. Marion Cook Smith. Is, wife
Of Alexandria's Assistant Common
wealth's Attorney, Howard w. Smith,
jr., and daughter -in-law of Repre-
sentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, died Unexpectedly today at
her home, 210 West Walnut street,
Alexandria. She recently gave birth
to a second daughter.
Mrs. Smiths parents are Mr.. and
Mrs. James Wesley Foreman of
Elizabeth City, N. c., where she was
born. She was married November
8, 1910. Besides her husband, she
is survived by her daughters,
Lucinda Lewis and Anne Woodley
Funeral arrangements have not been
completed.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Chilean Labor Fuction
Leaves Lutin Group
by The Assoeiofed Press

SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar. 8.-The
rift within the Chilean Confedera-
tion Of Workers widened today fol-
lowing an announcement that the
faction headed by Socialist leader
Bernardo Ibanez was quitting the
Latin American Federation of
Workers (CTAL) on the ground that
the latter has identified itself with
political interests of world Com
munism."
Communist Bernardo Araya heads
the other branch of the Chilean
Confederation, which remains q
member of CTAL. Araya's faction,
which claims the larger membership,
split recently with Ibanez' branch.
Each still retains the title Of the
Chilean National Confederation.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Swunk New AAA Head
In New Hampshire

John c. Swank, jr., 28, who served
as copy boy on The Star just be-
fore World War II. has been ap-
pointed manager Of the New Hamp-
shire Division of the American Auto
mobile Association, officials said to-
day. He will take up his new as
signment in about two weeks and
will have headquarters at Man
chester.
Mr.. Swank lives with his wife and
three children at 1916 Gunston
road, alexandria, Va. He is a son of
the late Col. John c. Swank, who
was a copy editor on The Star be-
fore the war and died in active
service soon after his return from
overseas.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Marine Is Sentenced
In Chinese Assault
By the Assoeioted Press

PEIPING, Mar. 8.-Pvt. Warren
T. Pritchard has been sentenced to
10 months Imprisonment with bad
conduct discharge for assault and
failure to report an assault on a
Chinese girl by a fellow Marine at
Peiping last Christmas, it was an
nounced today.
Maj. Gen. Samuel Howard, COM
mandant Of Marines in China, ap-
proved the findings and sentence OF
the court-martial, the official state
ment said. The sentence Is subject
to review in Washington.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Weather Report

District OF Columbia-Moderate
snow, cold and windy this after
noon, with snow ending early to-
night. Total depth, four or five
inches. Lowest temperature about
rs degrees tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow with highest temperature
about 40 degrees.
Virginia and Maryland-C Cloudy
continued cold and windy tonight
Snow ending this afternoon, or early
tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy
and somewhat warmer.
Wind velocity, IA miles per hour;
direction, North Northeast.
River Report,
(From the United States EnFineers,l
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferr,
and At Great Falls; Shenandoah clear a
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Mount Etno Subsidies;
New Eruptions Feared
BY The Asseeiafsd Press

ROME, Mar. 8.-Dispatches from
Sicily today said Mount Etna ap-
peared to have subsidized once again
after its second spectacular erup-
ton lasting nearly two days.
The dispatches said the lava had
ceased flowing from new craters
which burst open late Wednesday
but that rumbling sounds emerging
from the volcano warned that new
outbreaks might come at any mo-
ment.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Fur Theft From Store
Brinos 33O-Duy Term

A jail term totaling $50 days began
today for william Bullard Wootten,
20, on two charges growing out Of a
fur coat theft from the show win
dow of downtown store.
Woottep pleaded guilty to charges
OF larceny and unlawful entry last
month before Judge Nathan Mar
gold, who sentenced him yesterday
According to police, Wootten
smashed the window OF Baskin's Fur
Store, TIC g street NV, with q
whisky bottle and removed the coat
and several fur pieces.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
50 Apartments Sold

jess Fisher & Co. reported today
it had handled the sale of the CO.
unit Euclid Apartments, 1740 Euclid
street NV, transferred this week
from Frank d. Phillips to Harry A.
Layne. The price was reported to
be about $250,000.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Podiotry Society to Meet

Dr.. B. G. Egerter Of Pittsburgh
will address the Podiatry Society
at $50 am. tomorrow In the Raleigh
Hotel. His talk will deal with the
economics Of office practice and the
training Of secretaries and assist
ants
Evening star., 1947-03-08
OYSTER Roust Arranged

The Cooley-McCu Cullough Post Of
the American Legion will give an
oyster roast, for the benefit of its
relief work. from 3 to pm. tomor-
row at the Potomac Boat Club,
Thirty sixth and K streets NV.
There vii be dancing from 3 to 8
Ppm. Charles Kohen is chaipnan Of
the arrangements, The pdblic u
invited.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Newsprint Sharing
Urged by Capehart
BY the Assoeiutsd Press

Big users of newsprint would share
their supplies with paper-short
smaller publishers under a proposal
advanced yesterday by Chairman
Capehart Of q Senate Small Busi-
ness subcommittee.
The subcommittee, which has
been studying the plight of pub
fishers who can't get enough paper,
decided ITO seek the cooperation
of the larger users and producers
|of newsprint In concerted shar-
ing effort" Senate Capehart said.
A meeting was set for next
Thursday at which the subcommit-
tee will discuss the idea with repre-
sentatives Of newsprint producers,
publishing firms, paper associations
and leading newspapers.
Attorney General Clark, Secre-
tary Of the Interior Krug, Secretary
of Commerce Hartman and Secre-
tary of Agriculture Anderson have
been invited to attend.
Senator Capehart said the COM
mittee has found that "appreciable
quantities" of newsprint have been
diverted from usual channels and
sold at prices smaller publishers
cannot pay.
In another approach, Senator
Capehart prOpOSed that Russia re-
pay some of her $1l 900 900 900 lend
lease aid by shipping newsprint.
But he predicted that this idea
might be "to simple for international
affairs-it probably wouldn't have
enough complications and con-
fusion" to appeal to diplomats.
Alaskan Resources Studied.
NEW YORK, Mar. 8 (P.-When
a special House committee begins q
survey Monday into the newsprint
situation, close attention will be
given to the possibility Of tapping
the vast potential newsprint re-
sources of Alaska, Representative
Brown, Republican, of Ohio says.
Mr.. Brown, chairman of the spe-
cial committee, told the annual ad-
'vertising awards presentation dinner
last night that the groups i'm
mediate concern would be the "two-
year period it will require to step up
newsprint production in this country,
Canada and possibly Alaska"
Evening star., 1947-03-08

A gas engine works better u. the
intake mixture Is kept cool.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

THE PUBLIC SPEAKS IT'S MND-Senator McGrath Democrat
of Rhode Island shown speaking yesterday the
ing time by the Washington Board
OF Trade and Junior Board Of Commerce The meeting
enthusiastic support bill introduced in the Senate by Senator
McGath which would the Commissioners authority make
the time change during the months
Evening star., 1947-03-08

3l21 Sixteenth street NV. Both
were daylight saving pro-
ponents. Mr.. Jarvis said he
represents a group of Upton
street Victory gardeners.
Evening star., 1947-03-08


o. AssoiaN
Evening star., 1947-03-08

Coral snakes are members Of the
cobra family.
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Precipitation

Monthly precipitation in inches In
Capital tcurrent month to date);
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The Sun and Moon.
Evening star., 1947-07-17
Senate Approves 5
D. {. Bills, Sending
One 10 White House

Five District bills were approved
yesterday by the Senate, one minor
measure going to the White House.
Action was blocked on four others,
including the McGrath bill to au-
thorize the Commissioners to make
summer daylight saving time an
annual affair.
The Commissioners proposal to
strengthen the District license law
moved nearer to enactment. The
Senate passed the House bill but
with minor amendment which
will send the bill back to the House
for final action.
This amendment would exempt
from the license requirements of a
rooming house with fewer than five
guests.
Would Clarity Law.
The purpose Of the measure is to
clarity the present law as to licensing
public housing and places Of public
assembly and to give the Commis-
sioners specific authority to require
prelicensing inspection. 1t would
authorize them to fix license fees
commensurate with costs Of inspec-
ton and regulation. 1t also would
require that licenses be obtained for
each building owned by q single
corporation or person.
The Senate passed and sent to
the House the bill of Senators Taft,
Republican, of Ohio, and Tydings,
Democrat, of Maryland, for the
reconstruction of the historic
Georgetown home of Francis Scott
Key on a new site near the Key
Bridge.
For this purpose, the bill would
authorize an outlay of $65,000. Re-
naming portions of the old Key
mansion, just west Of Key Bridge,
will be wiped out when ramp is
built from the projected X street
elevated highway to Key Bridge.
The Senate also passed, with q
minor amendment that sends 1t
back to the House, measure to
amend the District Unemployment
Compensation Act. This Is designed
to give war veterans credit for the
lowest unemployment compensation
rates for employers they had earned
in business here before they went
into war service, to prevent higher
tax rates that might result If their
resumed business were considered
as new.
Rail Siding Approved.
Sent to the White House for sig
nature was bill to permit the con-
struction of a railroad siding in the
vicinity of Franklin street NE.
Another bill passed by the Senate
and sent to the House would relieve
the inspector general Of the Army
of the necessity of making per-
sonal inspection of the United
States Soldiers Home here. 1t
would permit him to delegate this
duty to assistants.
Objections blocked Senate action
on two bills in addition to District
rent control and making summer
daylight saving permanent. These
were the Saltonstall bills to make
the civil service retirement system
apply to employees of the Columbia
Institution for the Deaf and the
National Library for the Blind.
Evening star., 1947-07-17
Poultry Firm Sues Railroad
lin S12,974 Shipment Loss

A poultry firm yesterday brought
suit for $12,e74 in District Court
against the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad Co. on
the ground that chickens shipped by
the firm to Richmond Wa) mar
ket last October arrived unfit for
human consumption"
The Metropolitan Poultry Co.,
Inc, 425 Eleventh street S.W.,
charged the 533 boxes of chickens,
consigned to the property officer of
the Quartermaster Market Center
at Richmond, were refused when
they reached their destination.
Although frozen hard and in a
fresh condition when they were
Evening star., 1947-07-17
treatment Of two black eyes her hus-

/ treatment OF two black eyes her hus-
band said he inflicted.
The couple, John T. Sprouse, 80,
and Grace Sprouse, 36, both Of the
500 block Of F street NV, were
convicted yesterday Of disorderly
conduct and intoxication. But while
Sprouse was fined $50 with the
alternative of 80 days in Jail, Judge
Gallagher postponed sentencing the
woman until July 80, after her re-
lease from Gallinger.
Police Pvt. w. j. Gaylor Of No.
l Precinct testified he saw the
Sprouses weaving" along the side
walk in the 500 block Of Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. and then
begin fighting. Sprouse said he
hit his wife because "she refused
to stay home Tuesday" Both de-
MED cursing the policeman after
their arrest,
Evening star., 1947-07-17

delivered to the railroad car, the
suit said, the chickens had a sour
smell" and were unfit to eat when
they reached Richmond. It was
asserted the temperature in the car
was only 36 degrees and the bunkers
were only half full Of ice.
A claim for damages from the
railroad company was not paid, the
suit said. The papers were filed
through Attorney Stanley H. Fisher.
Evening star., 1947-07-17
Plea That Wife Be Given
Concurrent Term Denied

A husbands request that his wife
be given the same term as himself
80 we can get out of Jail together
could not be granted by Judge
Nadine Gallagher, who felt the wife
should be hoSpitaliZed first for
Evening star., 1947-01-14

reconciled, but called the attention
of a considerable new public to his
greater range.
" n n u
Even the studio was forced to ad-
init that the actor had something.
It was shortly afterward that, of
its own free will, it purchased Rage
in Heaven" as a. vehicle for Mont
gomery. In a further burst of gen.
erosity, it hired Ingrid Bergman as
his leading lady. The picture turned
out to be not only a wise assignment
for Montgomery, but gave Miss
Bergman her first firm grip upon
the great film career she has made
for herself since.
All this led naturally to Lady
in the Lake" which, screened last
week for critics, instantly estab-
lished itself as the new picture most
likely to be talked about in the
first semester of 1947.
The most interesting single detail
of Montgomery's direction of the
new picture is his resort to the
subjective camera, that is to say,
the camera used as the eyes of the
story teller who uses the first per-
son singular.
The eyes for which the camera
serves as substitute are those of
Montgomery as the leading charac-
ter, Philip Maflowe.
They see what Montgomery was
seeing back in the old fighting days
when he was going berserk with
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Mother Is loans Best Friend
By SheiIoh Grohom

wife of Larry Parks, will snag the
role of Jean in "The Hucksters." "
But Marilyn Maxwell has not yet
given up. She now says she will be
as tough as can be in her character
ization of Jean. The reason she
failed the first test for the part was
because she acted too sympathe-
tically. {. ;. Lilli Palmer is definite for
John Garfield in Body and Soul"
She hopes she will finish the picture
in time to go to England this sum-
mer with Husband Rex Harrison.
:. Three oldies are getting reissued,
Stanley and Livingstone" starring
Richard Greene and Spencer Tracy;
the Alice Faye success, "Alexander's
Ragtime Band" with Tyrone Power
and Don Ameche, and How Green
Was My Valley" with Walter Pid-
geon and Maureen O'Hara. Mark
Hellinger's next, Brute Force" with
Burt Lancaster, has very different
type of Jail story, plus a subject not
usually mentioned on the screen. It
has all the earmarks of a fine pro-
duction.
Released by the North American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc.