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Officers
Continued From First Page.)

have mo bearing" on the commit
tees plans.
Figures Published in The Star.
Gen. Vaughan'S disclosure OF Mr..
Truman's order to look into the pro-
motion records of the retired officers
followed White House request
several days ago for list of officers
retired on disability pay since the
end Of the war. The complete list
was asked for after the Army retire
ment figures had been published In
The Star
Secretary of Defense Forrestal
said yesterday he had not yet re-
ceived the Presidents directive, but
he presumed it was on the way.
The wide inquiry developed after
a Senate War Investigating Subcom-
mittee brought out that Maj. Gen.
Bennett E. Myers, retired Air Force
procurement officer, was drawing
$3.50 a month disability retirement
pay. Gen. Meyers is facing possible
prosecution by both civil and military
courts as result of his dealings
while he was deputy chief of Air
Force purchasing.
The Army ordered Gen. Meyers
disability pay stopped as result of
the hearing, and likewise stripped
him of his decorations. A District
grand jury is considering his case.
Perjury Evidence Weighed.
Government prosecutors will pre-
sent several witnesses to a District
Evening star., 1947-11-30

grand jury tomorrow. Tuesday and
"Wednesday in the Meyers case. The
grand Jury presentation began last
Tuesday. 1t is understood to center
at this time on evidence OF possible
perjury and subornation OF perjury
at the Senate hearings. including
closed sessions in October and pub
lie hearings this month.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay and Assistant United
States Attorney Edward Molenof
are In charge Of this phase of the
case. Justice Department criminal
division attorneys are to handle
other possible charges growing out
OF hearings.
Bleriot H. Lamarre and Thomas
E. ReadnoWer are expected among
the out-of town witnesses early this
week They were president and vice
president of the Aviation Electric
Corp. of Dayton, Ohio. Both testi-
fed Meyers was the real owner OF
that concern and received profits OF
more than $15O,0OO. sThey also testi-
fed he urged them to tell a con-
cocted story" to the Senate subcom-
mittee
The Army is expected to issue an
overall statement within a few
days, not only on the subject of re-
tirements generally and the Meyers
case, but also on the charge of Rep
resentative Bender. Republican, of
Ohio that House investigators have
turned up three or four more cases
of unreasonable enrichment among
wartime Army and Navy procure
ment officers.
Plane Fraud Cases.
1--WE have some fraud cases on
plane contracts ready to CO." Repre-
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Miss Truman To See Daddy
About Grandchildren Remark

Margaret Truman is going ito
see Daddy" about the remark attrib-
uted to the President that he pre-
ferred grandchildren to prima
donna in the family.
She said so during an interview
by John Adams, Columbia Broad
casting System reporter, over Sta
ton WTOP last night.
Her enthusiasm for a singing
career is still bright" the Presi-
dents daughter said. But she has
found travelling quite tiring' and
learned Il can't be party girl and
career girl, too
The public tends to treat her more
as the Presidents daughter than as
a singer "at first" she said, but
after the concerts I give in the
cities, they usually are more in
clined to accept me as a singer"
She said she wants to go into
opera and thinks perhaps she will,
but now is mainly concerned with
her coming concerts. These include
Evening star., 1947-11-30

she entertains very omcially, she and
her husband both prefer the friend
ly arrangement of chance dinner
companions.
She brought the playing cards
idea with her from North Carolina,
where, she said, entertaining is
very informal"
Mrs. Royal believes successful
dinner depends on more than the
seating arrangement. She said she
cooks every bit OF food served at
her parties.
Mrs. Mesta Uses Placecards.
The late Mrs. Edward B. Nc
Lean used to seat her top-ranking
guests according to protocol and let
the others sit where they pleased.
Mrs. Pearl Mesta, a frequent party
giver, uses the traditional place
cards.
But firm Deliver in chance seat
ing is Mrs. Nimitz, vino says her
guests like the element of sur
prise" When the Nimitzes enter
tanned in honor Of John L.. Sui
livan's appointment as Secretary OF
the Navy, the guests sat at tables
for four. All the ace-holders sat
at one table, the tWo's at the next,
ETC., with red aces for the women
and black aces for the men.
Every few people are looking for
slight. Mrs, Nimitz declared
when they come to party, the
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sentative Bender, chairman Of q
House Expenditures Subcommittee,
said.
The Air Force also is expected to
release within a few days state
ment on its plans to court-martial
Meyers.
When Air Secretary w. Stuart
Symington announced that Meyers
benefits were being cut off, he did
not explain the legal basis for his
action. He observed, however. that
Meyers would have to sue the Treas
ury to get any more money.
Disability pay is based on three
acts of Congress.
In most cases disabled officers are
eligible for three fourths of their
active duty pay. There is no re-
striction against them taking private
jobs, and many of them have done
so while drawing their tax-free al
lUWauceS.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

majority Just want to have q good
time. And they seem to have good
time at our parties-at least, they
never leave at 10 o'clock (the earli-
est you are permitted to bid hos
tess goodnight. according to the
rules"
News Club Uses Corsages.
Several hostesses have tried seat
ing by putting different brand OF
cigarettes at each table and let
ting the guests match by cigarettes
Recently, the American Newspaper
Womens Club did it with flowers
Each guest chose corsage, secretly
hoping that the flower she chose
would match the flowers at Mrs
Truman's table. The insignificant
little sweetpeas were the last to be
chosen Mrs. Truman's table was
decorated with sweet peas.
The club reports that since that
luncheon a number OF hOSteSses
have called to find out how to sub
Stitute flowers for protocol.
But Stanley Woodward. the State
Departments arbiter of protocol
isn't disturbed. Hostesses. he in
dicated, still call the State De-
partments regularly for the off the
record hints on who ranks whom.
The United States must import
almost two-thirds of the quicksil-
yer 1t uses.
Evening star., 1947-11-30
50 Scientists Meet Again
On Role Of Atomic Enerqy
BY the Assoeia.ed Press

PRINCETON, N. j.. Nov. %
Nearly so of the Nations leading
scientists met again today in the
second session of a special three-day
conference called to reformulate
their views on the role of atomic
energy in world affairs.
The scientists, research specialists
in atomic energy and its allied So
cial and scientific fields, were called
together by the Emergency Commit
tee of Atomic Scientists, which is
headed by DR.. Albert Einstein.
Edward Minett. committee secre-
tary, said that the group would
issue no statement of its findings
before the end Of the closed session
tomorrow night. A statement may
be issued within a week or SO after
that, he added.
DR.. Einstein attended the first
session yesterday but DR.. Harold
Urey who presided at a previous
conference of the committee here
last summer was not present. He is
in England.
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Young Wife Stabbed
Twice in Argument;
Police Hold Husband

Stabbed twice during an argu-
ment on q Northeast street, 49,
year-oid mother was in serious con-
dition in Casualty Hospital last
night and her estranged husband
was charged by police with assault
with a deadly weapon.
A blood TRANSMISSION was given
the victim, Mrs. Jean Davis, 10,
Of 1885 Summit place NE. who was
suffering from stab wounds in the
right breast and the back. hospital
attaches said.
Police said the husband, Roger
Davis, 20. of 220 Thirteenth street
NE who has been separated from
Mrs. Davis Tor three months, con-
trived to meet her at a drugstore
near her home about noon with
telephone ruse.
In his statement to police, the
youth said he had waited in the
neighborhood for about-thre hours,
hoping his wife would come out on
the street. Finally, he called
house near his Wife's and asked
a neighbor to inform Mrs. Davis
that her sister had been seriously
injured, police said.
Met at Drugstore.
When they met at the drugstore
at U street and Summit place Davis
admitted the trick and asked her
for a divorce, his story continued
He offered to let her keep their
1l-month-old baby, Ronald, but
she would not consent TO the di-
vorce, police said Davis told them
Leaving the store, the couple
walked to the mouth of an alley
on the 1000 block OF Summit place
where Earl c. Walker. 1877 Rhode
Island avenue NE, saw them talk
ing quietly, police said.
A minute later Mr.. Walker heard
the girl cry Mama. Mama" and
saw her running into the street
with q man in pursuit. holding a
knife, he told police. Seeing two
men on an ice truck nearby, he
yelled to them to get the man, Mr..
Walker added.
Police said Davis ran north on
OulllllllI W StlCCI dIlu utll 1lCQ cast
with one of the icemen chasing him.
There PvtS. Fredo G. Egbers and
Jesse F. Hasty Of No. II precinct,
driving by in a scout car, saw the
chase and arrested Davis.
Pvt. Egbers said Davis surrendered
a bone handled switch blade knife
with a blade 2la inches long and
= of an inch wide. He expressed
concern over the condition of Mrs
Davis and said he still loved her"
Pvt Egbers added
Davis served with the Army of Oc-
cupa ton on Okinawa. He married
Mrs. Davis shortly before he en-
tered the Army He has been en-
ployed as stockroom clerk at the
Wholesale Drug Exchange.
A native of Washington. Mrs.
Davis met her future husband when
both were attending Stuart Junior
High School.
Mrs. Davis mother, Mrs. Dorothy
Greenwood, $40 E street NE, said
a friend had brought the baby to
her home from the Summit street
address.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

The United States must import
almost two-thirds of the quicksil-
yer it uses.
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Protocol

Continued From First Page)
next to the same people all the
time. This way, more people get
a chance to know each other"
Mrs. Royal described herself as
a great respecter of protocol and
said she realized it means "a great
deal to lot of people" But unless
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Church Group PIuns Dinner

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Church of the Holy City. Sixteenth
above @ street NV. will hold its
annual turkey dinner next Friday
from to pm. A Christmas bazaar
will also be held from to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

one at Constitution Hall here De-
cember %.
AS to her fathers preference"
for grandchildren. Miss Truman said
Il am going to have to see Daddy
about that! No comment at this
point"
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TO-DAY in HISTORY
(Kncw America)

1782-United States gives her
war ally, France, a new warsnip
to replace the one lost by French
entering Boston harbor.
1789-The Treasury Depart
ment organized.
1837-Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse
demonstrates his electric tele-
graph prior to patent filing.
1907-Walter Wellman, New
York journalist, takes off from
Spitzbergen for the North Pole in
French~built balloon-airship.
1887 - President Roosevelt
signs the Stun Clearance Bill.
1942-American planes r a d
Crete in the Mediterranean.
l943-Ailies inv lie Italian
mainland soon after midnight.
1944-Amerioan forces enter
Belgium = ''~% .
1945-Last Japs in the Philip
pines surrender to 1t. Gen. Vain
wright.
1946-Musicians III New Y O r k
hotels go on strike.
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TROUBLE SHOOTER
Ap ksWsfeufvSss

the rim of the dam; instead he
scrambled back over the slippery
log thoroughly drenching him
self. His boots previously soaked
with grease were waterproof
fortunately as his only others
were steel-caulked and logger
wearing ordinary shoes at Queet's
Inlet was a rare sight and evoked
comment.
He walked fast but didn't spot
Hardin'S red and black shirt
ahead of him. Evidently the boss
logger had taken another trail
down to the Inlet for there were
no signs of him in the bunk
house when Doug reached it.
He began to change his clothes
Immediately, planning to take his
watersoaked breeches over to the
mess shack stove to let them dry.
He was struggling into his shirt
when the telephone rang Shrilly.
He picked up the receiver almost
hesitantly, thinking of the last
time he had answered it when
it summoned him to the mill
fire.
Andrews speaking"
Doug, this is Elsa. I need you
something terrible has hap
penedw
Her voice was taut with fear,
verging on panic.
ELSA, what is it," Her fright
communicated itself to Doug.
"Grandfather has had an at
tack-his heart, ! guess. He's
unconscious. Everyone's out and
the phone to the Inlet doesn't
seem TO be working"
"The trucks are all gone,
Elsa,-I'll start walking lmme-
diately."
Come to the house and take
the car. You can get Doc Ludlow
at Queets. l don't dare leave
Grandfather alone"
I'm on my way. Keep calm,
sweetheart, we'll pull him
through"
He put more confidence into
his voice than he felt. Sven Lar
son was almost eighty and in
spite of his seemingly robust ap-
pearance, a heart attack at his
age was ominous. The Larson
Luck was coming in big doses,
he reflected and now it looked
like fate was lending it a hand.
He broke into a run the mo-
ment he was through the door.
(To be continuedl
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BY CAMERON COCKERY

gestivcly at his sides. "Your spies
tell you everything, don't they?
All right, suppose l don't like
Andrews?--it isn't because he's
not a damn good logger! Beating
a man up in a fair fight is quite
different thing from scheming
to murder him and have it look
like an accident. Or wouldn't you
know about that?"
We'll don't get your temper
up, fellow. swear to you I've had
nothing to do with the Larson
Luck. ! won't deny however
that it's pleased me immensely
I've been trying to buy them out
the past year and they're toe
damned obstinate to listen to a
good proposition when they hear
II don't know whether to be-
lieve you or not, Cady, but I'm
telling you this: if anything else
happens in our outfit I'm going
to tell old Sven Larson about the
bargain you tried to drive with
me-"
You'll be very foolish if you
do, Hardin"
"Why?"
Because I'll deny it. You can
prove nothing and you'll simply
turn their suspicion toward your
self"
Hardin cursed him in one
word muttered between clenched
teeth then pivoted on his heel
and strobe back over the dam
the way he had come. Cady
chuckling, secured a fresh fly to
his fishing line and began walk
ing slowly back to the end OF
the lake. Doug waited until both
men were out of sight before
he began to move.
LIS brain was Keeling. He still
IL wasn't sure of Cady. If the
lumber man wanted the Larson
outfit badly enough and Hardin
had turned him down, it was
quite possible that some more
enterprising lumberjack had
agreed to his terms and accepted
the proposition. But it wasn't
Hardin and to his own amaze
ment, Doug found he was glad.
He loped back down the hill
hoping if he made any noise
Cady would think it a deer in the
undc brush. He didn't dare risk
silhouetting himself against the
sky by using the catwalk alone
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-03
Baylor Professor
Speaker Tonight
At First Baptist

Rev. Cecil P. Sonsom, THD,
Professor of Bible at Baylor Uni
versity, Waco, Texas, will lead
the prayer and praise services at
the First Baptist Church Wednes-
day night at 8 o'clock. DR.. San
som is former Army Chaplain.
He and Mrs. SAMSON are visiting
at the home of Mrs. James
''Muniz, at 14O9 White street.
At the Sunday School Workers
Council which meets at o'clock,
will lead "a discussion of next
Sundays lesson in the Sunday
School All teachers and depart
ment leaders are, urged to- be
present for this council meeting.
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Chapter 10

IF Hardin ard Cady were sur
prised. at each others words,
Doug, hidden in a pocket of frs
and underbrush, was almost
overcome. He sank down on the
stump of a once-giant hem,ock,
trying to assemble his jumblad
thoughts. The brief conversation
between the boss logger and the
owner of the White Rapids Com
pany had demolished his firmly
built-up convictions as effectively
as dynamite uproots a stubborn
pine stump.
The two men continued to
stare at each other incredulously,
Cady's already vivid coloring
heightening with anger.
Look here, Hardin" he ex-
postulated, "are you telling me
that you've had nothing to do
with the accidents at Larson's?"
"In words of one syllable, yes.
Not only that but I told you the
same thing year ago when you
put your dirty proposition up TO
me-"
Cady's eyes narrowed. "Then
why did you come up here to-
day."
Because when turned you
down / guessed you'd bride some
one else to carry through your
loW-down plans. And that's still
what / Think"
Cady's face was now almost
apoplectic. His curses were the
short scalding epithets of the
low-class BritiSher. you're dead
wrong, Hardin!" he said.
II wonder if / am" Hardin re-
piled coldly. Il didn't suspect al
tirst-like the others l thought
the accidents were due to care
lessness. Then the severed cable
and the mill fire removed all
doubt. Last Monday one of my
new loggers was almost killed
because someone had been mon
keying with his climbing har-
ness"
A nasty sheer twisted Cady's
lips :.
From what I hear, it would
have pleased you if he had fallen
Hardin. Wasn't he Andrews, the
one you had that drunken brawl
with a week ago."
Hardin's fists clenched sug-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-03
BPW PLANS CARNIVAL
HERE SEPTEMBER s

A gala carnival is being plan
ned by the Business and Profess
sional Women's Club for Friday
evening, September 5.
Games. dancing, contests and
booths filled with homemade
goodies and cold soft drinks will
be offered, it was announced by
Mrs. Edna Miller, chairman of
the carnival committee.
Many beautiful prizes have
been gathered to be given as
awards for jitterbug, rhumba and
ballroom dancing contests.
John Pritchard's orchestra will
play. Prizes will be awarded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-03

AP NeWsfeotures
DELE GLADE. Fla. - Big
I'D Joe, On cor of corn with
q cast iron constitution, may
prove the difference between
success and failure for beef
cottle ronchers in the muck
londs of Florido's Everglades
country.
Big Joe" is a variety of corn
developed especially for farm
ers by DR.. Roy Bair, agronomist
at the University of FlOrida's
Everglades experiment station.
Cattle ranchers in this rain
drenched country have long
needed a finishing feed for the
production of grade A beef cat
tie" but all previous attempts to
raise corn in the peat and muck
lands failed miSerably.
In summer, and frequently in
winter, the Everglades are del
uged by rain. Water seeps into
the husks of eastern varieties Of
corn and what appears to be d
fine, juicy ear turns out to be a
pulpy, rotten mass. Bugs and
worms take over.
But big Joe takes all this in
his stride, sheds of the water,
out grows the worms and emer-
ges at harvest time 10 to IL
inch husky. flint-coated field
corn. Joe's husk is long, tight
and thick.
Although worms are able to
fight their way through the silk
they have long way to travel
because of the husk's thickness
to get into the kernel. Because
Joe grows faster. by the time a
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worm has worked his way to the
kernels, the ear is too large to
damage seriously.
DR.. Bair estimates that Big Joe,
with proper fertilization, will
Weld so to IS bushels per acre.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-03
Still With Us

Hello. City bridge depart
ment?"
Yes. What can we do for
you?"
"How many points do you get
for little Slam"
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Even One Monbasan
In This Melting Pot
HOLLYWOOD


"Sinbad the Sailor" RKO Radios
special, is enacted by a cast repre-
senting more than score of ma
tionalities and races.
1t is eloquent proof that Holly
wood is Americas real melting pot
Co-stars Douglas Fairbanks, jr.;
Maureen O'Hara and Walter Slezak
are respectively American, Irish and
Austrian.
Among the featured cast, Anthony
Quinn is of Aztec-Iris extraction.
George Tobias is Jewish. Jane
Greer's father was Scotch-Irish and
her mother, English-Fren John
MILAN is Dalmatian. Mike Mazurki
is Ukrainian. Barry Mitchell is a
Serb.
Among the lesser players and ex-
tras, the following nationalities
and races are represented: Ameri-
can, Indian, Afghan, Sikh, Hindu,
English, German, Irish, Mexican,
Spanish, Hungarian, Welsh, Scotch,
Arab, Jewish, Hawaiian, Samoan,
YugoSlav, Chinese, Russian, French
and italian.
There is even giant Negro drum
mer from the Mombasa tribe of
Africa's Gold Coast.
P. S. They all got along together.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Fonda-Ford's Capitol Film
Proves West Still Dramatic
By Jay cormody

John Ford originally Of Maine the Hollywood director who
spenbound frontier But
what standpoint of moegoers that
communicate fascination spebindng screenplays
the
Evening star., 1947-01-01

really raw bars.
The latest of these. MY Darling
Clementine," opened yesterday at
the Capitol Theater. With Henry
Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Ma
ture and a class cast, his picture
is an exciting rebuttal of any no.
ton you may have that Hollywood
has exhausted the rich resources Of
the frontier. The yarn he spins Is
a thing of pictorial excitement, full
of characters who are funny, vio-
lent and picturesque.
my Darling Clementine," In
short, makes monkeys out Of those
producers who have thought, in their
sophisticated ways, to make monkeys
out of the shooting set. The latter
are Ford's favorite people and he
tolerates no suggestion that they are
not always good for another crick-
ling movie.
The carp boys, who never wanted
trouble but always seemed to be
shooting their way through it, are
the heroes of this laconic, quietly
told and, on the whole, rather peace
full story. Of the Earps, Fonda plays
Wyatt, as colorful as droll, SOM
ber man can get in this world. A
great many actors have played Wy
att carp, as quick fingered as Fed
eral marshals ever were, but none
of them with such perception of the
man as Fonda shows. Even in a
handle-bar mustache that makes
him look like one of Esquire's noun
tain boys, he reaf1rms that he Is
one of the movies best actors and
that his war service left his skill
unimpaired.
The area of the Earps' saga COW
cred in my Darling Clementine" is
the period they spent in Tombstone,
Ariz.
Tombstone was never tougher
than at that time. Doc Holiday was
there, bitter, scholarly, handsome
refugee from Boston. Docs spiritual
torment, plus worsening attack OF
tuberculosis, made him a handful
for any marshal, especially one who
was his pal as Wyatt was. Then
there was Chihuahua. the hell-cat