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Evening star., 1947-12-11
Man Charged With Burning
Wounded Nephew 10 Death
By the Assoeioted Pres.

sAUSALITO, Calf, Dec. IL
George Kasolas, 6S, today was
charged with shooting his nephew
then cremating the wounded man
on gasoline-fed pyre.
Kasolas, who lived on houseboat
In San Francisco Bay, was arrested
yesterday after a Commute stand
against some rs policemen. sheriff s
deputies, State highway ratrolmen
and guards from nealSy San
Quentin Prison.
The officers methodically fired 40
tear gas shells and three magazines
of machine-gun bullets, then
chopped holes in the roof and
hacked down door of Kasolas' boat
before routing him out.
They said he fired only once, a
homemade shotgun slug, in return.
The nephew, Pete Hadzes. Sc, was
wounded two hours earlier with a
homemade shotgun slug, then
burned to death on the water front
near the houseboat.
Police Chief James Doyle quoted
Kasolas:
Pete owed me money. He no
would pay. What would you do?"
He said police found six wallets
containing 81, $50 in Kasolas' pockets.
He reported the leather-faced, aging
Greek and his nephew had been
feuding five years. He said Hadzes
owned the boat.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Col. Charles Brown,
Veteran Marine, Dies

Funeral services for Marine Col
Charles c. Brown, 48, on duty at
the inspection division Of Marine
Corps headquarters here for the last
several months, will be held at pm
tomorrow at Fort Myer Chapel
Burial will be in Arlington Gene
terry.
He died Tuesday at the Naval
Hospital at Camp LIE Jeune, N. c.
His late home was at AHA Dover
road, Brookdale, Md.
A native of White County, ILL.,,
Col. Brown attended schools in
Marion, ILL.,, and Marion Military
Institute in Marion, Ala. He was
graduated from the Naval Academy
in 1922 and commissioned in the
Marine Corps the same year.
About half of Col. Browns rs
years in the Marine Corps were
spent in China. He spoke and
wrote Chinese fuently and had
served at the American Embassy in
China.
During World War II he was on
the staff of Battleship Division 8
and saw duty on the U. S. S. Idaho
and New Mexico. Later he was
naval attache for air at Chungking
for 19 months.
Col. Brown had attended the
Army-Navy Staff College here and
was in the Okinawa campaign and
the occupation of China.
He had, received the Legion
OF Merit, Commendation Ribbon
Bronze Star and the Collar Order OF
Yum Hui, a Chinese medal.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs
1rma r. Brown of the Brookdale
address.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
; Nations Ask Poles
To Explain Arrests
By the Asseeioisd Press

WARSAW, Dec. 1.-THE envoys
Of three nations called on the Polish
government yesterday to explain the
arrests of three Of their employees
as gradual restrictions of privileges
especially of Anglo-Saxons, ap-
peared to gain headway.
American Ambassador Stanton
Grift1s said he was making repre-
sentations to the government on
the arrest Saturday OF Miss Zofia
Michalowska, 36, who has been en-
ployed as clerk in American Con-
sulates in Warsaw and Krakow.
Belgian Minister Harold Eeman
and the Swedish Charge d'Affairs
demanded reasons for the detention
OF two OF their employees.
Charges against the three were
NOT Immediately disclosed.
Meantime, the Polish Health Min
istry has closed Warsaws leading
hospitals to further admission OF
American and British patients. The
ministry, however, has offered an
other hospital which is not as ade-
quately equipped.
The American Embassy physician
Capt. Walter Bullock, Milwaukee
Wis, has been denied further access
to the clinic of the University of
Warsaw without special permit.
Americans attached to the Uni
versity of Warsaw in student or
teaching capacity said they were
told they cannot invite Anglo
Saxons to Christmas parties this
year,
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Rites for Comdr. Hastings
AT ARLINGTON Tomorrow

Burial services for Comdr. Warren
R. Hastings, U. S. N, 81, who died
February II, 1914, while on duty at
the naval base at Hamilton. Ber-
muda, will be held at pm. tomor-
row at Arlington Cemetery.
A native of Boston, Comdr. Hast
ings was detached to the Naval
Academy under training in 1918, a
year after his enlistment. He was a
graduate of the naval submarine
school at New London, Conn, and
was commander of submarine R-19
from 1925 to 1927. He had served on
the U. S. S. Kentucky, Salt Lake City
and destroyers Bernadou and
George E. Badger and in 1899 the
Affair, an auxiliary ship.
His shore duty was at the Boston
and Portsmouth IN. H) Navy Yards
and. at the Naval Ammunition
Depot, Iona Island, N. Y.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs
Vida GLENN Hastings, and two
daughters, the Misses Jean L. and
jeanne M. Hastings, all of Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Chalmers Local Yields
To JAW Administrator
BY the Associated Press

MILWAUKEE,, Dec. 11-Oficers
of the Allis-C Chalmers Local 248
UAW-CIO, agreed yesterday to turn
full control of the local over to the
international UAW, ending a week
long legal dispute over an admins
tratorship imposed by the parent
body.
The settlement was reached dur
ing two-and-one-half-ho con-
ference in the chambers of Circuit
Judge Otto H. Breidenbach as Local
officers agreed to recognize the in
ternationals appointment of an
administrator and to turn over tc
the administrator $11,15O in union
funds on deposit with the clerk OF
the Circuit Court.
Local officers had refused last
week to recognize the administrator
ship.
Regional Director Duane (Pat>
Greathouse Of Chicago, the admin
istrator, said that in return for the
settlement, the local had asked that
the international union agree to con-
tinue the salary of the locals hon.
orary president, Harold Christoffel
in the event that Mr.. Christoffel
should be convicted and sentenced
on a Federal perjury charge now
pending against him.
Mr.. Great house said he rejected
this offer because he lacked au-
thority.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
New York Drops Course
On Soviet for Teachers
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Board
of Superintendents Of New York City
schools has decided to discontinue a
course on "The Soviet Union: It's
Economic and Cultural Develop
ment," which was organized and
sponsored by the Americana Russian
Institute.
For the last few years the course
has been part of the lecture program
offered to teachers, who received
credit for attending.
Associate Supt. Jacob Greenberg
supervisor of the teachers in-study
program, said today that not only
had the course been discontinued
effective next February, but that
the board was re-examining all
intercultural courses for teachers.
Regarding the decision to drop the
course, Mr.. Greenberg said:
Certain charges and criticisms
have been made in recent months
of the background and activities OF
the American-Russian Institute. We
requested officers of the institute to
answer these charges and they
promised to do so. To date we have
not heard from them"
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Red Cross 70 Open
Blood Center Here

Establishment Of Red Cross re-
gional blood centers in Washington
and four other cities will follow the
opening of the first unit in Roches-
ter, N. Y, January II, Basil O'Con-
nor, president of the American Ma
tional Red Cross, announced today.
The centers will be part of q ma
tional network designed to furnish
whole blood and blood derivatives
needed for the fields Of medicine
and surgery, both military and civil
ian. Operated by the Red Gross in
cooperation with doctors and hos.
p1tals, the program seeks to bring
to the civilian population benefits Of
wartime experience in the use Of
blood. Medical authorities estimate
that about 100000 annual dona.
tions will be needed to meet national
medical needs in treating the Ill
and injured, the Red Cross said.
The overall program Is long,
range and will take from three to
five years before all communities
are reached, the Red Cross said.
The plans call for approximately
140 metropolitan centers, $50 sec.
ondary centers in smaller communi.
ties and several hundred mobile
units to serve rural and suburban
areas.
The Red Cross, which Is to bear
the cost Of blood collection, process
/ ing and distribution, calls the pro.
gram the most far-reaching under
taking in the health field In its
peacetime history.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Bishop Oman Urges
Methodist Activity
In Foreign Policy
BY the Associoted Pres,

BUCK HILL FALLS, Pa, Dec. II
The Methodist Church should take
more active part in formulating
United States foreign policy, Bishop
G. Bromley Oman of New York
said today.
The church should provide "com-
petent men to represent the moral
opinion of the world at the places
where decisions are made" Bishop
Oman told delegates to the annual
session of the Board of Missions and
Church Extension.
A vigorous program by Meth
odists and other Protestant Churches
to counteract communism, fascism
and atheism in Latin America was
recommended to the board yester-
day.
The proposals for Latin America
are part of a four-year program to
double the foreign missionary staff
of the Methodist church as well as
the present financial aid of the
church for missionary purposes in
all foreign fields.
They were made by DR.. Ralph
E. Diffendorfer of New York,
executive secretary on the board S
Division on Foreign Missions and for
"a years head of the denominations
overseas service.
Dr. Diffendorfer asked for 595 new
missionaries and a total budget Of
SIG, TAI, 1865 for the next four years.
OF the grand total he recommended
SIS, 100000 be allocated for Latin
American projects.
Lending strong support to the pro-
posals for the Latin American coun-
tries was DR.. Hugo G. Tucker, Wig
orous, blue-eyed 90-year-old mis-
sionary who went to Brazil in 1886
and spent 81 years there.
DR.. Tucker declared, "The rise of
communism and spiritualism in
Brazil as well as the industrializa-
ton of the country have created
problems which are much greater
in number and variety than when
went to Brazil. They will require
the greatest skill and ability to
solve"
DR.. Diffendorfer noted as an ex-
ample of the influence of commu-
nism in the Latin American re-
publics the fact that some labor
unions require all connection with
any religious body to be severed as
a condition of membership.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Ia Returned War Dead
To Be Buried at ARLINGTON

Fourteen returned World War Il
dead, two Of those next of kin reside
in the District, will be buried at q
mass funeral at Arlington National
Cemetery at pm. tomorrow, Brig
Gen. Hobart R. Gay, commanding
the Military District of Washington
announced today.
Included will be Pfc. Thomas E.
Lynn, whose next of kin is Mrs
Willie v. Lynn, 216 Eighth street
S.W., and Pfc. Lawrence P. Leonard
jr., whose next of kin is Lawrence
P. Leonard, ST., 1921 Thirty-fourth
street NV.
This will be the third mass mill
tary funeral held at Arlington In
three days. Fourteen returned war
dead were buried yesterday and II
today with full military honors.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
In Mrtnnriattt
RoRAN. JosEpH WINFIEI,n,

BORAN, JOSEPH WINFIELD. In SAT
but loving remembranee Of our IT., devoted
BORAN, who departed this life three year
ago today, December IL. 1914.
December brings sad memories
OF loved one gone to rest,
Who will never be forgotten
BY the ones who loved him best.
God is good, He gives us strength
To bear heavy crost;
He is the only one who knows
How bitter Is our loss
RAY, ROSE MARY. In loving memor,
MARY RAY. who departed this life two
years ago today, December II, 1945. Mas,
at st. Aloysius Church.
OF happy hours we spent together;
Silent thoughts bring many . tear '
For one We miss and loved 30 dear.
1t is only those who have lost can tell
The sorrow Of parting without farewell
What happy hours We once enjoyed
When we three were together,
But, oh, how changed 1t all Is now
Since you have gone forever.
Our hearts still ache with sadness,
Our eg eyes knasa snsd many man tss5s mis-.
DEVoTED MoTHER. MARY F. RAY, AMI
SISTER. MARGARET RAY EWALD.
REDDEN. EVELYN MAY. In sad bu
sister, EVELYN MAY REDDEN, who de
parted this life sixteen years ago today
December IL. 1881.
Today recalls memory of one we loved S,
well,
We often sit and think of you and al
those yesterdays;
'Tis sad but true. we wonder why We hat
Softly at night the stars are shining
On her sad and lonely grave,
Where lies our dear Evelyn,
Whom We loved, but could not save.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Temple B mai Jacob 10 End
BUILDING Drive With Dance

Temple B'nai Jacob, 2504 Naylol
road Sc, will conclude its building
fund campaign Saturday with q
Chanukah dance at the Hamilton
Hotel at pm. The Embarrassing
campaign is for a new temple and
community center In the Southeast
section. Mrs. Dora Fox and Mrs
Dorothy Waghelstein are co-chair-
man of the dance sponsored by the
Social Committee of the temple.
A Chanukah party and Joint in
|stallation of officers of the congre-
cation and sisterhood of the North
east Hebrew Congregation will be
held Sunday at pm. at Odd Eel
lows Hall, 202 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE.
Rabbi Ephraim Greenberg will be
guest speaker and install the off,
GERS. Congregation officers are A. B
Kapplin, president; Howard L
Hirsch, vice president; Abraham
Rockmore, recording secretary; Mrs
Bertha G. Sherman, corresponding
secretary, and James B. Rome
treasurer. Sisterhood officers are
Mrs. Mathilda Lunch, president;
Mrs. Emma Lebowitz, vice president;
Mrs. Lillian Davidson, financial Sec
retary; Mrs. Helen Kaye, treasurer
Mrs. Celia Robbins, recording secre-
tary, and Mrs. Jenny Gerber, CORE
spending secretary.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
New York City College Bans
Howard Fast Address
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Howard
Fast, novelist, awaiting sentence on
a contempt citation for refusal to
produce records for the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities,
has been barred from speaking en-
gagements at two more New York
City colleges.
City College and Brooklyn College
yesterday ruled he could not address
scheduled for next Wednes-
day on both campuses. Columbia
University prevented him from full
filling a speaking engagement be-
fore campus chapter of the Pro-
gressive Citizens of America last
Thursday.
Fast is one Of five members Of the
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Commit
tee cited for contempt for failure
to produce organization books before
the House committee.
. Spokesman for both City College
and Brooklyn College said Fast had
been barred because his conduct was
under judicial consideration.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Doctor Sues, Charging
Coal Blocks GARAGE

Damages of $4,000 are being
sought in District Court by q local
physician from a coal company
whose employees, he charges, repeat
edly have blocked his garage by
dumping coal in front Of it.
The suit was filed yesterday in
behalf Of DR.. S. A. T. Austin, 2105
N street NV, colored, and names
as defendant w. H. Hessick & Son,
Inc, coal dealers, Fourteenth street
and Maine avenue S.W.
The suit charges that, on "nu-
merous occasions" DR.. Austin has
received emergency calls which he
was unable to answer because coal
had been dumped in front of his
garage, making it impossible to get
his car out.
DR.. Austin is represented by At
torney G. D. Arts. T.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Mrs. Ivy Baldwin, Wife
OF Noted Stunt Man, Dies
By the Associated Press

Denver, Dec. 10-Mrs. Bertha
Baldwin, 10, who once said she had
died hundred deaths watching her
stunt man husband, died In Presby-
terian Hospital yesterday.
Mrs. Baldwin and her husband,
Ivy. now 81, had lived for the last
IL years in the mountains west of
Denver.
At the turn of the century when
balloon ascensions were the feature
of every carnival and fair, Mrs.
Baldwin sewed together her hus-
bands balloons on her sewing ma
chine.
Mr.. Baldwin made a daring bal
loon ascension at the Elitch Gar
dens amusement park in 1890 and is
credited. with being the only man
to walk a tightwire across Boulder
Canyon near Eldorado Springs, Colo
-612 feet from rim to rim and 587
feet above the ground. He still
practices on the wire in a small
way at his home.
The Baldwins were married In
1892. She Is survived by three chill
dren.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Rites SET Tomorrow
For George 6. Junior

Requiem mass for George G.
Junior, So, administrative assistant
in the education division of the In
stitute of American Affairs,
will be held at 9:30 am. tomorrow in
st. Aloysuis Church, I and North
Capitol streets. Burial will be in
Arlington Cemetery.
Mr.. Junior suffered a heart attack
Tuesday night while attending a
Knights of Columbus meeting at
1901 R street NV. He was pro-
nounced dead at Emergency Hos
pital few minutes later. He lived
at 5403 Second street NV.
A native of Taunton, Mass, he
attended high school in Plymouth,
Mass, and was graduated from
Burdette Business College, Boston,
in 1912. He worked at the Plymouth
Mills until 1917, when he joined
the Army Quartermaster Corps.
Mr.. Junior attended the George
town University School of Foreign
Service from 1919 until 1921. After
working as sales manager for the
American Automobile Association
mere, he was floor manager and later
floor uperintendent at Woodward &
Lothrops. In 1925 he went to Florida
and was assistant manager Of a
store in Tampa.
He was supervisor at the Census
Bureau from 1885 until November,
1912, when he began work as ad-
ministrative officer in the basic
economy division of the Institute Of
Inter-American Affairs.
Besides the Knights of Columbus,
Washington Council No. 224, Mr..
Junior was a member of American
Legion Post No. 40 in Plymouth.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Mary Chamblin Junior; his father,
John Junior, also of the Second
street address, and a brother,
Francis E. Junior, Springfield, Pa.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Tests Planned for Issuance
Of Hiqh School Certificates

Examinations for persons inter-
ested in obtaining high school
equivalent certificates have been
scheduled by the District public
school officials.
The tests for white students will
be held on December 18 and 10 at
Wilson Teachers College, with the
deadline for filing of applications
next Tuesday. For colored students,
the tests will be held at Dunbar
High School on December % and %,
with the deadline for applications
next Wednesday.
These certificates are awarded to
persons who have not completed
their high school course but who are
able to pass the examinations, re-
quiring an equivalent amount of
knowledge.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
State Officials, Unionists
Table Civil Rights Proposal
BY the Associated Press

State labor commissioners and
union leaders representing more
than 40 States yesterday shelved q
CIO resolution proposing indorse-
ment by the group of recommends
tions recently made by the Presi-
dents Committee on Civil Rights.
The resolution by Barney Hopkins
Of the Michigan State CIO Indus
trial Council met prompt and spir-
tied opposition from Southerners
and finally was tabled by voice vote.
The tabling motion was presented
by j. David Cordle of the Mary
land branch of the AFL Brotherhood
Of Railway Clerks.
Mr.. Hopkins said he wanted the
group, gathered at an annual meet
ing sponsored by the Labor De-
partment, to pledge to work to
effectuate the Civil Rights Com
mittee's ideas in their States.
THAT is not properly before this
meeting, which was called to talk
about labor legislation" Mr.. Cordle
contended.
The group did pass a resolution
urging expansion of the Federal
wage-hour law to include a 75-cent
hourly minimum wage Git is now 40
cent0 and to take in workers under
the law who are now exempt.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Dr.. John McNoughter,
TheoIoqiun, Dies at 80
By the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 11.-Dr. John
Mcaugher, 80, widely known theolo-
gian, died today in Allegheny Cen
eral Hospital.
DR.. Mcaughter was president of
the Pittsburgh Xenia Theological
Seminary for "a years until his
retirement in 1943 and had served
on the seminary faculty for 56
years.
A former moderator of the United
Presbyterian Church, he served as
president of the World Alliance OF
Churches of the Presbyterian sys-
tenn and presided at the quarren-
nial council at Cardiff, Wales, in
1925.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Ralph Arcaro, EmpIoye
OF Western Electric, Dies

Ralph Arcaro, GA, Western Elec.
trio Co. maintenance man for the
last "a years, died today at his home
4l16 Thirteenth street NV, after an
illness of more than three months.
Mr.. Arcaro was born in Italy and
came to Washington 26 years ago.
He was a member of the Alex
ander Graham Bell Chapter of Tel
ephone Pioneers and the Arkansas
Avenue Community Citizens Asso-
citation.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs
Michelina Arcaro; four sons, Peter
James, Robert and Ralph, jr., and
five daughters, the Misses Antoin-
cite, Jenny, Dorothy, Carmela and
Eleanor Arcaro, all of the Thir-
teenth street address.
Requiem mass will be sung at 1C
am. Saturday at Sacred Heart
Church, Sixteenth and Park road
NV
Evening star., 1947-12-11
Santa to Visit Neptune
At Swimming Club Porty

Santa will take trip by water to-
night, and his reindeer will be SWIM
ming as they pull his raft.
He will visit the throne of King
Neptune during the Christmas water
pageant being given at $3.50 pm. by
the Dolphin Swimming Club of the
Marjorie Webster Junior College at
the school pool, TITS Seventeenth
street NV.
Other holiday activities planned
by the college are a Christmas party
at $50 pm. Monday for SO under
privileged children. A play "The
Messiah" written by the students
at 8 pm. Tuesday, and student
faculty banquet at pm. Wednes-
day, all at the school.
Evening star., 1947-12-11

office, G.. Douglas Stengel, GINS
Washington public relations man,
wrote her biography and distributed
it to newspapers. He did not find
out what Mrs. Kraft had written
about her job and why she liked it.
He did find out that she is from
Butte, Mont, that she left the Pat
ent Office in 1914 for her present
job, that her favorite sports are
skiing and trout fishing and that
she has 5-year-old son.
Mrs. Kraft will go to Detroit to-
morrow. On Saturday night the
prize-winning letters will be scored
to determine who gets the Cadillac
convertible, the 8 Bucks, the
6 Oldsmobiles, the 10 Pontiacs and
20 Chevrolets She will get one.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
John Gibbons, SIS, Dies;
Veteran Newsmun
By the Associated Press

OCEAN GROVE, N. j., Dec. IL
John Gibbons, SIS, news editor OF
the New York Post and a veteran
newspaperman of IS years, died last
night at his home here. He had
been i'll for two years.
Surviving are his widow Alice,
three sons, John A. of the Whining
ton News Journal, Milo ", on the
faculty of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, and Richard F. of the
Asbury Park Press; two daughters,
Mrs. Mary Jane Hoffman of Ocean
Grove, radio news writer, and Mrs.
Patrick F. Tierney, jr., of Neptune,
and nine grandchildren.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
New Recreation Center
To Hold Teen-Aqe Niqht

TeeN-Agers' Night will be observed
at $50 pm. tomorrow at the newly
opened Community Recreation Gen.
ter in the Patterson School audi
toriu!n, South Capitol and Daring
ton streets.
The program will start with table
tennis, checkers and chess. Danc-
ing will begin at 8 pm.
The center is being conducted by
the District Recreation Department,
the Washington Highlands Citizens
Association, and the Walter B. Pat
tersou pTA.
Evening star., 1947-12-11
J. Edgar Hoover Gets
Award From Britain
BY the Associofed Press

The British Embassy announced
yesterday that King George vi has
appointed j. Edgar Hoover, direc-
tor of the Federal Bureau Of In
vestigation, as an honorary knight
commander Of the civil division Of
the Most Excellent Order Of the
British Empire.
The award recognized Mr.
Hoover's Outstanding contribution
to the Allied victory in the field OF
intelligence and security"
Evening star., 1947-12-11

Car. Sle WORKS
in t h e G M
Washington Of
flee. She was one
of 174,854 GIN
employees eligible
to enter a con-
test by writing a
letter on my
Job and Why I
Like It." She
was one Of the
40 whose letters
rated an auto
mobile.
AS soon as the
word came to
thu yTJocI,ix,~14~
Evening star., 1947-12-11
2O-Ounce Infant Dies

MASON CITY, Iowa, Dec. II (R.-
The 20-ounce son born Monday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Osslund of
Clear Lake, Iowa, died at a hospital
here last night SO hours after his
birth. The baby, only 10 inches long,
was born three and a half months
prematurely.