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Evening star., 1947-01-25
Oklahoma Family Strikes Oil,
Plans Dreomed-O -OfA|fuIfu Farm

imagine what real comfort is like ''
The Soho Oil Co. brought in the
big gusher this week and it may
make the Howards rich. Already
they have realized $21 900 in leases
and royalties, and the most coveted
possession on the place is new
tractor.
Mrs. Howard said, I'm willing to
find out what real comfort is like
It's sure going to be nice
What do they plan to do with
money from the gusher?
I'VE want a good alfalfa farm
with well-built house, we'll
furnished and with all the con-
veniences." said the Howards.
Evening star., 1947-01-25

WAC air officer
at Army Air
Forces head
quarters in the
Pentagoil.
Maj. Cornick
will head all
WACS assigned
to the Army Air
Forces, the War
Department said.
She enlisted in
July, 1912, after
leaving a posi-
ton as physica |
education in
structor In q
Norfolk Junior
Evening star., 1947-01-25
AVG Has Chapter
Operating in Moscow,
Commander Reveals

The American Veterans Com
mittee, frequently charged with
having Communist afnliations.
has a chapter in Moscow.
This was revealed at a press
conference yesterday by Charles
G. Bolte, AVG national COM
mander. .4.4.r
Mr.. Bolte added, however.
that the chapter chairman is
an American Military Attache
and that all its members are
American citizens.
Evening star., 1947-01-25

divorce" from
his parents.
I'm mad at
my folks because
they won't take
m e a n ywhere
and my hobby
Is trav cling"
Melvin told re-
porters after a
bus driver had
turned him over
to police here
yesterday.
II came here
to divorce my
parents. When
T rot tho Si-
Evening star., 1947-01-25
GIee Club PIuns Recital

The Mount Vernon Elementary
School Glee Club Of Alexandria will
give an a cappella choir recital at
services at 8 O'Clock tomorrow night
in the Del Ray Baptist Church
Mrs. Elizabeth Knight music teach
er. will lead the chorus.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Portal Suit Attorney Offer.
To Testify to His Loyalty

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, Jan. Is t4').
Edward Lamb, Toledo, Ohio, at
torney who filed the first "portal-to-
portal" pay suit, offered to testify
before any committee of Congress
to support his claim that my Amer
icanism surpasses that of any mem
Der of Congress"
Mr.. Lamb made his offer in a
telegram to Representative Thomas.
Republican. of New Jersey, who said
in House speech that Mr.. Lamb
brought the original action III the
Mount Clemens Pottery Co. case
and added that the attorney fol.
lowed the Communist Party line.
Mr.. Thomas also said that Ben
Riskin, former research director for
the Union of Mine. Mill and Smell
ter Workers (CIO), is credited in the
unions official publication with
connecting" the idea for the claims.
Mr.. Lamb denied he belonged to
"a Communist front organization
and said nor do / care to b red
baited."
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Mai. Frances Sue Cornick
Named WAC Air Officer

Mai. Frances Sue Cornick of Nor
folk, veteran of 81 months service
in Europe and holder Of the Bronze
Star Medal, has been appointed
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Bicycle Mad

"Son1ething must have come over
me like a drug" said William
McMullen, 30, married, a demobil-
lied soldier in Belfast, Northern
Ireland, when arrested for theft
Of 10 bicycles within month, which
he advertised and sold.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Portal Paw
Continued From First Pageo

tors Capehart and Wiley, Repub-
lican, Of Wisconsin would outlaw or
curb pending as well as future suits.
Senator ODaniel took the stand
that Congress cannot legally out
law suits which already have been
filed.
To prevent workers from reaping
any benefit from pendings claims,
however, Senator O'Daniel has a
bill before the Senate Finance Com
mittee which would slap a 100 per
cent Federal tax on any money
workers may receive from portal
suits.
This measure also would allow
employers to charge off against in-
come taxes any amounts they are
required to pay In back portal wages.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Weather Report

District of Columbia-MoStly sun
ny with highest temperature near
IS this afternoon. Considerable
cloudiness with mild temperature
tonight and tomorrow with occa-
sional light rain. Lowest temper
ature tonight about As degrees.
Maryland and Virginia-Mostly
cloudy and continued mild with oc-
casional light rain tonight and to-
morrow.
Wind velocity 81 miles per hour;
direction, west southwest.
River Report.
From the United States Engineers
Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
.oudy at HarperS Ferry.
ltira ,ad rHrap mildly
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Boy, 9, Blocked in Attempt
To Divorce Parents in Reno
BY the Associated Press

RENO, New, Jan. 25.-Nine-year-
old Melvin Roger Lewis, jr., has
gone home to Oakland, Calf, frus-
trated. in his plans to get a Nevada
Evening star., 1947-01-25

Britain is producing more peni-
cillin than before and Is seeking
w-rld markets.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Precipitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches In u
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1947-01-25

Furnished by United States Coast
Geodetic Survey
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Temperature and Humidity

tReadings at WASHINGTON National Alrport)
Temperature Humidity
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Industrial Thinking
Declared 0ufdated

James Carey. CIO executive Sec
retary. today told the Society for
the Advancement of Management
at the opening of its two-day con-
vention at the Hotel Washington
that American industrial thinking
must be overhauled, as it is now
in the period of 1885,"
The National Association of Man
ufacturers, on the one hand sought
to keep Government out of price
control, and on the other, now is
seeking the intrusion of Govern
ment into labor management rela-
tions, he said. Mr. Carey declared
the NAM now tells the public that
enactment of antilabor legislation
will bring about industrial peace.
A plea for.the use of simple Ian
guage in Government to bring II
closer to the people was made be-
fore the society by Norman Mac
Donald, executive director, Massa-
Ichusetts Federation of Taxpayers
Associations.
He held up a 2,500-word OPA di-
rective, cutting the price of cabbage
seed, as a horrible example" o1
Government 'gobbledegook." He
added. 1T is upon a base of such
gibberish that American distrust
and even hatred of bureaucracy is
founded and kept vigorously alive
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
was to speak this afternoon on
Facing the Challenge"
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Hickenlooper Urges
Recount oi 10000
MARYLAND Ballots

IA complete recount Of 10000
paper ballots In II additional Mary
land counties is being recom-
mended to the Senate Rules Com
mittee today by Senator Hicken-
looper, Republican, Of Iowa. chair
man OF subcommittee considering
the election Of Senator o'Conor,
Democrat, OF Maryland last fall.
Senator Hickenlooper began ex-
planning to the Rules Committee
this morning the reasons prompt-
ing him to recommend complete
recount, but the committee recessed
until later in the day without taking
action.
Senator Hickenlooper also plans
to resign as subcommittee chairman
today because Of other work, and
indications are the Rules Commit
tee will name Senator Jenner, Re-
publican, of Indiana to carry on
the inquiry.
The subcommittee has been stu-
dying 5000 ballots in five counties
to find out whether there was any
basis for going further with the
contest brought by D. John Markey,
Republican. who lost. close race
to Senator O'Conor. The committee
also has checked voting machine
areas.
Senator Hickenlooper said he was
not attempting to predict what the
final outcome. would be, but felt
that the inquiry thus far supported
Mr.. Markey's contention that he
would make gains. For that reason,
the Senator said, the only appropri-
ate course would be to recount the
IT other paper-ballot counties.
Senator Hickenlooper emphasized
he was not speaking for the other
two subcommittee members, Sena-
tors Bricker, Republican. OF Ohio
and Myers, Democrat, of Pennsyl-
vania, since formal subcommittee
action was not taken yesterday. Sem
ator Bricker said later he viii sup
port the Hickenlooper recommends
ton. Senator Myers said he will
oppose it. This will mean a 2-to-1
subcommittee report.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Mrs. Walker Elected
To Head Montgomery
Education Board

Mrs. Helen c. Walker, Bethesda,
yesterday was elected president OF
the Montgomery County Board Of
Education at its meeting in Rock
vile.
She succeeds Arthur B. Joseph, Ia
koma Park. H. Stanley Slime was
named vice president.
"A member of the board for about
eight years, Mrs. Walker is the
daughter Of DR.. p. P. Claxton, former
United States commissioner Of edu-
cation
The board ratified the sale at pub
lie auction of the abandoned Hy-
attstown School for $2,050 and fixed
May "a as the date for scholarship
examinations to fill vacancies from
Montgomery County.
Present vacancies are for boy to
Washington College, a girl to st.
Mary's Seminary and a boy or girl to
the Maryland Institute Of Art and
Design.
Evening star., 1947-05-14

to flee to Sweden in a motor boat.
The Germans caught her and in
termed her in Germany. When the
Allies occupied Germany she was
one of the displaced persons who
did not want to go home.
Ukrainian Cites Plight.
DR.. x, an Ukrainian who asked
that his name not be used because
he has relatives In Ukrainia, said:
I'VE have been liberated by the
Bolshevists and the liberation Is
slavery. The dictatorship of Hitler
and Stain is the same.
1.-THE Americans who overran the
concentration camps were as inno-
cent as children. They said in sur
prise, We came to send these people
home and here they are looking for
a good rope to hang themselves.
'T can't speak quietly if I speak
of UNRRA. We added that word to
the litany. Our phrase was Protect
us from war, plaques and UNRRA."
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Control Boord Will Crack Down
OnMisIeudino LiquorAds Here

low the price the average dealer
pays for the same brand wholesale.
When the customer calls at the
store he Is informed the dealer has
sold out that brand, but that he
has something "just as good"
One Northwest dealer advertised
recently that he wazsselling a pop
ular brand for more than 81 less
than the usual price. He advertised
the sale for two days only, but ac-
cording to a complaint to the ABC
Board when a customer tried to
buy a bottle at 8 pm. the first
day he was infomed the dealer had
sold out Of that particular brand
An ABC inspector investigated and
found the dealer had only four
cases in stock when he opened for
business that day.
Some of the wholesalers in WASH
ington are attempting to put a stop
to "cuthroat'' competition and are
refusing to sell to dealers who are
cutting prices so low that they are
refusing to sell them whisky.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Rites ioI n. Earl Better
Scheduled for Today

Funeral services for w. Earl Bet
ter. 50, president Of the w. Earl
Better Funeral Home. who died
Sunday at his home, 1908 Walter
street Sc, were to be held today
at st. Cyprian's Catholic Church.
Burial was to be In Lincoln Me-
mortal Cemetery.
Mr.. Better, q native Of Washing
ton. had carried on the business
established by his grandfather
nearly SO years ago. It was one
of the oldest colored funeral homes
In the District.
He was q member OF st. Thomas
Commandery, No. 2l8, knights Of
st. John: the Independent Funeral
Directors Association and ST. Cypri-
ans Holy Name Society.
Surviving is his mother, Mrs.
Georgia Better; two brothers,
George Better and, Ralph Better,
and a sister, Mrs. Marilyn Morris,
all of washington.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Crash Kills Boy, Injuries Father;
Mother Died in Dentist S Chair

! has not been informed of the death
of his son. Marilyn, who suffered
facial cuts and a broken collar bone,
has been discharged from the hos
Ipital and is now staying with her
aunt, Mrs. Mabel Yates, 4705 Cooper
lane, Brookdale, Md.
The boys mother died after she
had been given gas preparatory to
"a tooth extraction in an I street
dentists Office.
Also surviving the boy are his
paternal grandfather, Charles
Nicholson; two half brothers,
Charles E. Nicholson and David N.
Nicholson, and a half-sister, Miss
Dorothy L. Nicholson, all of the
Cooper lane address; his maternal
grandfather, John Cullember, Col
mar Park, Md: his maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Pearl Schandl, 612
Florence street NE; two uncles
and an aunt.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Friday at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV,
with the Rev. K. Owen White, pas
tor of the Metropolitan Baptist
Church, Sixth and A streets N. E.,
officiating. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-05-14

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board is going to crack down on
Washington nouor dealers who are
using misleading" advertising in
some newspapers, Alan w. Payne.
chairman, announced today.
"The majority of liquor dealers
in Washington are keeping within
the rules and regulations of the
board" Mr.. Payne said, "but there
is a growing number who are using
advertising that is misleading to
say the least"
The ABC Board is going to cite
several dealers this week to show
cause why their licenses should not
be suspended or revoked, because
they are using misleading state
ments In their advertisements and
also are not specifying the alco-
holic content of the beverages they
are offering for sale.
Another situation the board is
going to investigate is the advertis-
ing of certain brands of whisky be-
Evening star., 1947-05-14
ItoIy,sCrisis Not Grave /,
Envoy Tells Trumon

italian Ambassador Alberto Tar
chiani said yesterday that he told
President Truman the current cab
met crisis in Italy had been ex-
pected for some time and that 1t
was not a particularly grave one,
The Ambassador conferred with
the President at the White House
and said afterward the main pur-
pose of his call was to pay his
respects to the Chief Executive.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
IS Bethesda Cub Scouts
Spend Duy in Annapolis

Sixty-five Cub Scouts, members o1
Pack 211 of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase area, are spending today al
Annapolis, visiting the United States
Naval Academy.
The Scouts paid their own way
by selling some $4,000 lbs. OF waste
paper collected since the trip was
planned last October.
Cubmaster Leonard Humphrey
was in charge Of the pack which
left the Bethesda Recreation Center
this morning. They will inspect
installations at the Naval Academy
and watch dress parade by the
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Jury Ignores Witness
Confession of KiIIinq
BY the Assoeiated Press

LEEDS, England, May IA jury
disregarded a surprise confession"
yesterday and found Eric Charles
Briggs, 42-year-old weaver, guilty
of numbering his 49-year-old wife
Gertrude. The judge sentenced
Briggs to die.
The trial was thrown into momen-
tary confusion Monday, when a 49,
year-old soldier, Dennis Wood, went
into the witness box and said he
killed Mrs. Briggs with bayonet.
Briggs, police said, first con-
fessed attacking his wife. However,
on the witness stand Briggs said
the confession was made under
police pressure.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Refugees See Marshall Today
TO Tell Plight Under UNRRA
Soy Mony IN Comps
Abroad Fear Return
To Russiun Rule

A delegation of refugees who have
been living in the displaced persons
camps of Europe was to caU on
Secretary of State Marshall this
afternoon to acquaint him with the
plight of the internees they left
behind.
The delegation is headed by David
Martin who has charged the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration with resorting to
psychological and mSral coercion
to get DPS to move back to their
own countries despite danger OF
political punishment there.
Mr.. Martins charges against
|UNERA have been published in the
Socialist New Leader. He is sec
retary of TIE Refugee Defense COM
mittee of which Dorothy Thompson
is chairman and Charles Poletti
former Governor of New York, is
honorary chairman.
Press Conference Held.
Mr.. Martin acted as interlocutor
and translator at press conference
yesterday at the Hotel Washington
at which IA persons of various ma
tionalities who had been in tie
DIP camps spoke.
Miss Mine Kink, an Estonian, told
a story that was typical of the DPS
of the Baltic countries, Estonia
Latvia and Lithuania, which were
occupied by the U. S. s. r. in 1910
She was a law graduate, one of
the persons termed by the Russians
as "intelligentsia."
When the Germans chased the
Russians out of Estonia in 1941
she was in hiding to avoid banish-
ment to Siberia. When the Rus
slams came back in 1914 she tried
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Subcommittee Backs
Study Of Plan for Third |
House Office Building
By Harold B. Rogers

The architect Of the Capitol
would study three proposed plans
to provide needed additional space
for House Offices Including third
Once Building under q bill ap-
proved yesterday by House Public
Works Subcommittee.
Representative AuchincloSs, Re-
publican, of New Jersey. author Of
the measure, recommended, how
ever, priority consideration be given
to proposals for enlarging the Old
House Office Building.
The measure, carrying $4,000 for
the architects Office to make such
studies, will be reported favorably
to the House Public Works Com
mittee.
Meanwhile, the Subcommittee on
Public Buildings cleared the legis-
lative way for the Federal Works
Agency to sell to the highest bidder
the old Government-owned Capt.
tol Park Hotel, used during the
war as the United Nations Service
Center, but now vacant.
Bill Tabled.
AS a consequence, Maj. Gen.
Philip B. Fleming, Federal works
administrator. is making plans to
advertise for bids within q day or
two, to be opened in about 80 days.
He told the committee no new legis-
lation Is necessary to authorize him
to sell the hotel. He advised
against bill to use the structure
as a dwelling for members OF Con-
gress and said definitely he did not
want to operate such a hotel.
Both Chairman Dondero of the
House Publica Works Committee and
Representative McGregor, Repub-
lican, Of Ohio, chairman Of the sub
committee, approved the admins
traitors recommendation for sale Of
the building to private interests.
The subcommittee quickly tabled a
pending bill to use the hotel for
members of Congress.
The Senate Public Works Com
mittee already had tabled a bill to
authorize use of the hotel for an
annex to District Court.
Mr.. Auchincloss explained the
third House office building, long
range project for the future, which
he did not recommend for construc-
ton now, would go on site bound
ed by b, G and South Capitol
streets, and Delaware avenue S.W.
This now Is used as q parking lot
for House members.
Other Proposals.
Other proposals to provide needed
space for the House committees, he
said, would include lifting the roof
around the old House Once Build
Ing to make way for a new tier of
offices on the fifth floor and con-
struction of a four r-story addition
In the interior court of the building.
Mr.. McGregor and Edward Brown,
superintendent of the two House
Of1ce Buildings, said there is not
sufncient space now for the in
work Of the fewer commit
tees established by the act re-
Congress. Larger staffs
of committees have needed so much
more room, they explained. that al
ready seven new rooms had been
made by closing of space at the
end of corridors.
Present estimates on the alternate
Mr.. Auchincloss said,
we're: 81 $4,000 for lifting the roof,
Ind tier of offices; $4,000, 900 for
he :. four-story structure in the
:ourt, $4,000. 900 for the eight-story,
on t6n of ctiie four story
,ne, and $18,55o,00 for the new
House ONCE Building.
David Lynn, architect of the Capt.
the plans submitted
are subject to- further study. 81
Evening star., 1947-05-14

N. Nicholson, George Nicholson.
sr., a foreman at the Naval Mine
Base in Yorktown, Va, had spent
Mothers Day with relatives here
and were returning to their home
in Hampton, when Mr.. Nicholson's
auto crashed into a bridge. The ac-
cident occurred four miles from
the Nicholson home.
Mr.. Nicholson is in critical con-
dition at Riverside Hospital and
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Jasperi Prospects
le-iorl1ling Cabinet
|mned by Leffisis
BY III. As.eeiassd Press

ROME, May 14-Prospects that
|Alcide de Casper. the Christian
Democrat who yesterday resigned
his third postwar premiership. might
head a fourth government were
dimmed somewhat today by the vio-
lent personal abuse heaped on him
by leftist party organs.
Mr.. de Gasperi saw Provisional
President Enrico de Nicola early to-
day, but there was no indication yet
as to whom the President intended
to select to head new cabinet. He
was not expected to make any an
nouncement for about 48 hours.
N0ncommittal ON New Mandate.
Despite the persistent efforts OF
newsmen to pin him down, Mr.. de
Gasperi refused to say whether he
would accept fourth mandate in
the face of bitter leftwir1g hostility
engendered by his sudden ending
yesterday Of the shaky three party
coalition government which had
endured for 100 days.
Still, the history of postwar poll
tics In Itsly has been one long proof
of the adage that politics makes
strange bedfellows and the. very
seriousness of the economic crisis
behind the political one held some
promise that the Communists, So
cialists and Christian Democrats
would lie down together once more,
One ENCOURAGING factor was a
statement. by Ivanoe Bonomi that
the three old men" of italian
politics-Bonomi, IA; Francesca S.
Nitti, 70, and Vittorio E. Orlando,
81, all former Premiers-were pre-
pared to enter as Independents a
cabinet Sof national union which
Mr.. de Gasperi has said repeatedly
was needed to meet the threat of
inf1ation.s
Permanence Is Question.
Whether any such cabinet could
stand, however, was another ques-
ton. Both the Communists and
the Socialists maintained that any
solution must be based on party
strengths in the Constituent As
sembly, which meant presumably
that they would vote against any
ministry excluding them.
Visitors beside Mr.. de Gasperi
on the presidential list today in
cluded Umberto Terracini, speaker
of the Assembly; Mr.. Orlando, Mr..
Nitti, Mr.. Bonomi and Former Pre-
mier Ferruccio Parri.
The Socialist party organ, Avanti,
called Mr.. de Gasperi's resignation
a brutal trick played on the ma
tion," and the Communists said he
had opened Spectators crisis"
Even the anti-C Communist branch
of the Socialist party assailed Mr..
de Gasperi for quitting, calling the
resignation a flight from the As
sembly."
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Planes Used to Stir
Air Over Orchard
And Prevent Freeze
BY ihe Associcfed Press
rrrrr<,xvyHr rrA

HAGERSTOWN, Md, May
As. "A. Kelsey, q Greencastle
orchard owner, has q tip for
other operators In the event
OF another freeze threatening
crops.
Mr.. Kelsey reported he saved
rs per cent of his crop during
last week-end's frost by having
two airplanes from the Hagers-
town airport fly over his apple
and peach trees. The planes
increased the circulation Of air
and raised the temperature Q or
3 degrees, Mr.. Kelsey said.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Montgomery School Gets
Use Of u. ). BUILDINGS

An application by Montgomery
Junior College, Bethesda, for the use
of surplus Government owned build
ings has been approved, Maj. Gen.
Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works
administrator, announced today.
The structures, containing about
10000 square feet of space, will be
used for administration, student
union and Science facilities. Surplus
furniture and other necessary equip
ment also will be transferred to the
college.
Offcials said the additional build
ings will enable them to enroll about
500 students, including approximate
ly 300 veterans. This compares with
the present enrolment of 240, Of
whom 140 are veterans.
The Junior college now holds
classes in the afternoon and evening
in Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School.
Evening star., 1947-05-14

w d 5 n ] II Z I o II
dentists office,
was fatally in
jured Monday
in an automo-
b il e accident
near his home
in Hampton,
Va. He died
yesterday III
Riverside Hos
pital, Newport
News, Va.
The boy, his
sister, Marilyn
Lee, 7, and his
father, George
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Frederick School Boord
Elects G. c. Rhoderick
BY the Associated Press

FREDERICK, Md, May IA. -
George G. Rhoderick. jr.. Of Middle
town, has been elected president OF
the Frederick County Board Of Edu-
cation, to succeed Claude q. Stottle-
myer Of WolfSyille.
The board named Mrs. Kent g.
Nicodemus Of Walkersville vice
president.