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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08
MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
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While no woman player on
the Pacific coast has broken in
to the Life Masters list as yet,
l believe that the eastern play
ers who will attend the regional
tournament at Coronado, Calf.
Nov. Z to II, will meet several
woman players there of equal
caliber with the eastern women
champions. During the war
years, these women did not get
an opportunity to participate IN
our major tournaments, and
thus their winning of. Master
Points was restricted.
One of the strong woman
PLAYERS on the Pacific coast is
Mary Jane Kauder, who had an
interesting situation to handle
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08

No wild animals are know.
which rese.- lie the W. .,
sheep; and few natIrAl pt@41c..
have been more modified and di.
versified by man to meet his
various needs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08

Inventor Samuel Colt con-
structed a wooden model Of a
later famous revolver in 1929
when IA years of age and on a
runaway voyage to India.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08
COMMITTEE TURNS
CONTINUED From Page One)

(OOfltilAuOu AVN
key paragraphs of the Soviet
resolution but the committee re-
iected even the preamble, % to
7.
Soviet Delegate V. A. Zorin
protested that delegates turned
down the resolution because
they Hacked sufficient courage
to express opinions" on the war
mongering charges.
Mrs. Roosevelt bristled, but
did not reply. L. R. Beaudoin Of
Canada, however, shouted back:
I'm not here to be lectured."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08

American homes contained 81
900, 900 radio sets in 1915.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08

Siderurgy is the metalllrgy d
iron and steel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08
The Weather

Weather bureau report of tenperature
md Tsinfall for the "a hours ending 9
D. m. in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08

Capt. Archie johnson, lisiso,
officer of the Reserve Officers ~
ISOLATION in Wilmington, will a.
dress Wilmington legionnairs
Thursday night at 8 O'Clock !,
Legion home when the local M,
holds its regular monthly mss,
ing. His speech will be On ~lIni.
versal Military Training An,
will be highlighted by a film a,
the subject, Larry Schneider. Ser.
vice officer of the post, said Yea.
terday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08

Mr.. and Mrs. A.. G. T'oard. .Jr.,
OF Lenoir are visiting Mrs.
lFeard's father, W.D. ColweH.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08
BIRTH
VIRGINIA ELLEN

Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Padrick of
Leland announce the birth of a
daughter, Virginia Ellen, at the
Marion Sprunt annex, September
10. Mrs. Patrick is the former
Virginia Turner of Leland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08

Bids on a portion of the Co.,.
Fear river dredging project wiz
be opened October %, it was ~
nounced yesterday by the WI
mington District Corps of En-,
neerS. ="
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-08
City Briefs

President Truman's Food r..
servation Policy was endo SOh,
Fundamentally at a mee+i11
the board of directors of thaS u
operative Building and Io w
association yesterday. '''
The members of the dirs,.
crate expressed the sinoS
hopes that the citizens of NosNe
Carolina will cooperate fuIIv
the realization of the presjdartHa
program.
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-25
7 aiIored and Cuffed
on Paris lines . g.

Leave it to the French to make lovely,
feminine thing Of even the most core
fully tailored hat. Here, in this fine
felt copy you see how they take q deep
cuffed brim and give it heart -froming
Mary Stuart dip over your pretty brow,
how they film it with starry eyed yelling
and nod it with crisp eroseroin ribbon.
In Poris Black or Louvre Brown
JeHeHs-MilIiney SoIon-street Floor
Evening star., 1947-01-21
BeIsIey 10 Head Personnel
For Atomic Commission

G. Lyle Belsley, assistant admin.
istrator of the National Housing
Agency, has been named director o1
organization and personnel for the
United States Atomic Energy Com.
mission and will start. on his new
duties next Tuesday.
He will organize and direct poll.
cies for the field offices and installa-
tons of the commission taken over
from the Army's Manhattan Engi-
neering District on New Year Day
He also will work closely with con-
tract operators of both atomic
energy research and production.
Before joining the MIA last fall
MIR. Belsley was director of the Bur-
eau of Demobilization of the Civil
ian Production Administration and
for three war years was executive
secretary of the War Production
Board.
Mr.. Belsley was given the National
Distinguished Service Award of the
United States Junior Chamber OF
Commerce in 1887. A native of ILL
nois, he was graduated from Pomona
(Calif) College in 1926 and received
his masters degree the next year
He earned a doctor Of philosophy
degree in public administration at
the Brookings Graduate School OF
Economics and Government in
Washington in 1880.
Mr.. Belsley lives at 1927 Ritten-
house street NV. i
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Condition Of Gen. Geiger
Is Reported Still Critical

1t. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, famous
wartime Marine Corps leader in the
Pacific, still was critically i'll today
at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda
hospital authorities said. His family
Is at his bedside.
He is suffering from phlebitis Gan
inflammation of the veins with pull
monary complications. He was ad-
mitted to the hospital late Friday
Gen. Geiger was relieved recently
as commanding general of the Pa
cific Fleet Marine Force and was
scheduled for retirement on Feb
ruary /. He will be 81 next Satur-
day. He has been decorated fol
service in both wars including cam
paigns in the Pacific from Guadal-
canal to Okinawa.
The Generals wife, Mrs. Eunice
r. Geiger; his son, Maj. Roy s
Geiger, jr., and his daughter, Mrs
Robert j. Johnson, were at his bed
side.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Senator's Open Probe
|0f 0'Conor Election
BY the Assoe;otsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 21.-Senators
Hickenlooper, Republican, of Iowa
and Myers, Democrat, of Pennsyl-
vania, OF the Senate Committee or
Rules and Administration, arrived
here today and formally began ar
investigation Of the disputed elec-
ton Of Senator o'Conor, Democrat
of Maryland last November.
Senator Hickenlooper Is chairman
and Senator Myers member Of
the subcommittee which is conduct
ing an on-the-spot investigation.
Brig. Gen. D. John Markey, whom
Senator O'Conor defeated in the
election, has charged that 1,20C
votes were not counted in Anne
Arundel County, of which this Is
county seat. The Governments in
vestigation will continue into four
other counties, where Gen. Markey
also has charged Irregularities took
place.
The third member of the SUBJ
committee, Senator Bricker, Repub-
lican, of Ohio was detained in
Washington today, but will join his
associates in trips to Annapolis thi;
week. Senator Hickenlooper said the
committee would not remain here
throughout the recount of ballots
but would call from time to time
to check on progress.
Approximately $4,000 votes were
cast in Anne Arundel County. Gen
Markey had a plurality Of just ovel
300.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Study Of Subsistence Ceilings
Slated by House Veterans Unit
By George Bsvesidee

trict veterans begin and end at a
higher rate than those in nearly
every other part Of the country.
In q message sent with the report,
Gen. Bradley cited cases where
trainees were making up to $500 a
month before the ceilings went into
effect.
"A course Of training on the job
became financially more attractive
than education or training in a
school, college or university" Gen.
Bradley said.
He told the committee that cell
ings were based on consideration OF
these factors:
"a Average earnings of all work
erS.
co The $138 month payable to a
totally disabled veteran
80 The 500 a month limit placed
in law affecting unemployment
compensation payment.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Salesman Is Released
In Butchery Staying
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21.-Search
for the slayer of Elizabeth Short, o.
a movie aspirant, started anew today
with the release of a red-haired
acquaintance, Robert Manley, after
police announcement of his complete
exoneration.
Capt. Jack Donahoe of the HON.
icide Bureau, who early yesterday
ordered Manley booked on suspicion
of murder, said the 25-year r-old pipe
clamp salesman's movements last
Tuesday night and early Wednesday
when Miss Short was killed and her
body severed, had been checked
out satisfactorily"
Manley submitted to two lie
detector tests before his release, and
Capt Donahoe quoted him as saying
he had not seen the girl since
January 9, when he dropped her at
a downtown hotel after an overnight
trip from San Diego. Manley's wife,
Harriet, mother of their 4-month-
. old sea, greeted him with hug as
he was freed.
capt.. DOnanOe SdlQ Lne guIS
belongings, found in a downtown
bus depot, would be minutely checked
for clues to other acquaintances
and that particular search would be
centered in San Diego, where she
had lived recently. He said Manley
told him that on one occasion when
he visited her in San Diego she dis
played scratches On her arm and
told him they were inflicted by a
Jealous srlitor.
An inquest has been set for to-
morrow in the case, after which the
girls mother, Mrs. Phoebe Short OF
Medford, Mass, said she would take
the body to Berkeley, Calf, for
burial.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Chief Machinist Mates
| Death Termed Suicide

A certificate of suicide has been
issued by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald in the death yesterday Of
William Ralph Lowe, 30, chief
aviation machinist's mate stationed
at the Anacostia Naval Air Station.
Mr.. loves body was found yes
terday afternoon In his apartment
at 233 Mississippi avenue Sc, with
a bullet wound in the chest. Beside
the body was a revolver and q
letter from his wife.
Police said Mr.. loves wife has
been in Galveston, Tex, for the
last few weeks visiting her mother.
They would not divulge the con-
tents of her letter. She is reported
en- route here.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
District Managing Editors
On TeIeyision PROGRAM

Managing editors of the Washing
ton newspapers, a Senator and a
Representative last night took part
in an informal discussion of the
Eightieth Congress in a program
that was televised over local station
WTTG.
More than 200 persons witnessed
the broadcast, which originated in
the sky room of the washington
Hotel.
Herbert F. Corn of The Evening
Star, Alexander F. Jones Of the Post,
Richard Hollander of the Daily News
and Michael w. Flynn of the Times
Herald spoke on the problems Of
newsmen covering Capitol Hill and
possible stories that might come
from Congress this year. s. 4
Senator Aiken, Republican, Of
Vermont and Representative Boy
kin, Democrat, of Alabama spoke
briefly on issues now before Con-
greSS.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
AutopsyDue Today in Death
OF State Department Aide

An autopsy was to be held this
afternoon by Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald into the death yesterday
of Raoul Gautier, go, supervisor
of construction in the Foreign Build
ing Office of the State Department,
who died shortly after he was
stricken in q, downtown restaurant.
Mr.. Gautier collapsed In the Tri-
anon Restaurant, 722 Seventeenth
street NV, a few minutes after
arriving there for lunch. He died
shortly after his arrival at Emer-
gency Hospital.
, Mr.. Gautier, who lived at 1920
Thirty-first street NV, was State
Department employe for about two
years. He recently had returned
from duty in South America and
was living temporarily with friends
at the Thirty first street address.
He Is survived by his wife and
three daughters, all of whom live
in New York. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Army Plone Missing
with Is in Chino
By the Assoeiofed Press

SHANGHAI, Jan. 21.-A United
States Army CAT transport, with
13 American passengers and crew
has been missing since Saturday,
when it left Shanghai for Canton,
the American Graves Registration
Office reported today.
Radio contact was lost one hour
after the two-engine plane de-
parted and it has not been heard
| from since. -...
Evening star., 1947-01-21
By George Kennedy

Royston Covington, jr, is 27 years
old. He is married, lives at 1911
East-West highway, Silver Spring,
Md. He is in business with his
father in an automobile agency at
Bethesda, Md.
On February 8, 1914, he was pilot
ing a Bit with two motors gone
back from raid on Frankfurt am
Main There had been sharp
change in the wind and they had
been blown far south of their course.
None of the $50 Flying Fortresses
in that operation made their home
bases but came struggling into
emergency landing fields in South
ern England.
Capt. Covingtons Fortress was at
tackled by German fighter pilots as
it reached the French coast at Cher
bourg. They further crippled it
bringing it down in the range of
the flax. He ordered his crew to
abandon ship, and their parachutes
carried them about miles inland.
He landed in a field about quarter
of a mile from where the plane
crashed. Seven French farm workers
came up to him and told him to
lie down.
cat first I didn't know whether
they were with us or with the
enemy" he said yesterday in telling
the story, "but got the drift when
they began to pitch hay over me.
Then they led cows into the field
and the cows stood in circle about
me nibbling the hay. The rest Of
the crew was captured, but when
German soldiers came through the
field several times circling the plane
in their systematic search, the
workers said they had seen no one.
They would have been shot for that,
if I had been discovered.
.,.s.ss..T That night theys,tooksa me out Of
the field and into Cherbourg. twas
hidden in the attic of a waterfront
cafe-a low dive but run by wonder
full people. After two weeks there, I
was taken to st. Lo where I WaSs put
up in one of the better houses. was
there 27 days. I used to go walking
about the city. 1t was pretty place
with cathedral, interesting shops
and Norman buildings. What hap
pened to it is too bad.
when you're with the under
ground, you don't tell them any,
thing you don't have to, and you
don't ask any questions you don't
have to. There are narrow limits as
to how much you trust them and
they trust you. But could not help
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Britain Expected to Fight
Polish Claims on Reich

LONDON, Jan. 81 R.-Authorita
tive British sources said yesterday
that Britain might oppose Poland's
claims to former German territory
and refuse to release Polish gold
deposits in England, as a result OF
Sundays Polish elections.
These informants said also that
Britain would consider the severing
of diplomatic relations with the
Russian Endorsed Polish govern
ment. They added, however, that
such drastic action was unlikely.
Britain is not expected to take any
action against Poland pending re-
port by the British Ambassador to
Warsaw, Victor Cavendish- -Bentwick,
on the conduct of yesterdays voting.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Civic Group Indorses
Report on Segregation

The Capitol View Civic Associa-
ton last night indorsed the anti
race segregation report Of the Race
Relations Committee of the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies.
The action was taken at a meet
ing held at the Capitol View Bap-
tist Church, Division avenue and
Ames street NE. The group also
voted to request 95 additional po-
lice for the 11th precinct, which
includes the Capitol View area.
E. E. Boyd of Capital Transit
told the meeting how the new ex-
press bus service going into effect
February 10 will AFFECT Northeast
residents. The meeting was con-
Quoted by w. o. Woodson, presi-
dent.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Belgium Sends New Note
On Germany to Deputies

BRUSSELS, Jan. 81. R.-Belgian
Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak
announced today second note had
been sent to the deputies of the
four-power Foreign Ministers Coun-
Gil in London detailing Belgian
claims on Germany.
Belgium, he told a news con-
ference, wants delivery for at least
40 years of $500, 900 tons of coal a
year, 75O,000,000 kilowatt hours of
power annually, 100000 tons OF
Ignite year, 100000 tons of indus
trial salt, 10000 tons of ordinary
salt, 100000 cubic meters Of wood
and about 100000 tons of chemical.
Belgium also reserved an eventual
claim on a forest territory along its
frontier with Germany.
The note, delivered through the
Belgian Ambassador to the deputies,
also proposed reorganization OF
Rhine River navigation; asked for
ships and tugs to rebuild Belgillm's
Rhine f1otilla; construction of q
Rhine-Danube channel, and extern
sion of Belgium's right under the
Versailles Treaty to establish a
Rhine-Schelde channel. Participa-
ton in the free use of German
patents likewise is sought.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Tojo's Name Omitted
Inadvertently From
2 War Crime Counts
BY fhe Associofed Press


TOKYO, Jan. 21.-The name
of war-launching Hideki Tojo
inadvertently was omitted from
two war crimes charges, the
prosecution told the Interna-
tional War Crimes Tribunal
today.
The prosecution asked to
amend the indictment. The
defense objected. Tribunal
President Sir William Webb
said the judges would ."give
serious consideration" to the
matter. The trial has been in
progress eight months.
Associate Prosecutor A. Co.
myns Carr said that only today
was it discovered that the
name of Shigenori Togo, For
eign Minister at the time Of
Pearl Harbor, inadvertently was
used instead of Hideki Tojo's
in two counts charging aggres-
sion against Russia.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Pro-Goyernnent Bloc
Wins 324 Of 4A Seats
In Polish Parliament
BY the Assoeioted Press

WARSAW, Jan. 21.-Complete
unofficial reports from Poland's
6,726 voting precincts today ap-
parently assured the Commu-
nist-backed pro-government bloc
parties a smashing victory in
Sundays parliamentary elec-
tions, giving them 324 seats out
of a total of 444, or approximate
ly 73 per cent.
Vice Premier Stanislaw Miko-
lajczyk, leader Of the opposition
Polish Peasant Party (PSL), was
himself elected to Parliament seat,
but his party took terrific beating,
winning only an indicated "a seats.
It had So seats in the so-called pre-
election provisional Parliament.
Mr.. Mikolajczyk was preparing an
appeal to the Polish Supreme Court
to declare the elections invalid on
grounds that the voting was neither
free nor unfettered, as guaranteed
at Yalta and Potsdam.
~ Elected ON National List.
Seventy-two seats were filled by
election of candidates on what was
called the national list" which in
cluded President Boleslaw Beirut
and practically every other official
now holding top government posi-
tions.
The Labor Party captured 10
seats; the new Liberation Group of
PSL-a splinter of Mr.. Mikolaj jczyk's
party-got seven, and four went to
smaller political groups.
(There was no immediate in
dication of the allotment of the
other three seats)
While Mr.. Mikolajczyk reported
that he was receiving a flood of
complaints charging Justification of
returns and irregularities during
the voting, Karol Popiel, president
of the Christian Labor Party,
charged in statement to the press
that the Warsaw regime had denied
his party opportunity to participate
in the elections.
He contended that a list of IS
Catholic candidates in the elections
was sponsored by the Communist
backed Workers Party-part of the
bloc and was not reflective of
Catholic sentiment.
Evening star., 1947-01-21

1 becoming aware of who was taking
care of me. George La Valley had
the big grocery store iof the little city
and the food-outSide of rations-
that arrived to feed me came from
his store I never saw him.
After ~ days, a man arrived with
railway tickets and passport papers
for me. I was Jean Cartigny of st.
Lo, Province of Manche. Because
could not say a word of French
without giving myself away, was
instructed to pretend to be deaf
and dumb.
1--WE went to Paris. I was kept
for 60 days in the home of a pro-
fessor. I'm afraid I was unable to
conceal my impatience. They told
me that the Germans had broken up
some Of the underground railroads.
They were going to keep me until
| it was safe.
Every few days food for me would
arrive by mail from Normandy where
food was plentiful. 1t came from
the grocery store of George La VAL
Ley, whom I had never seen.
Finally, on May "a, guide ar
rived and took me to railroad sta
ton. Allied planes had been Grip
pling the railroads in anticipation of
lD-day. It took us II hours to get
to the Pyrenees. There a guide
took us on a three-day walk over the
mountains. Frances guards i'm
|prisoned us, but after the Normandy
landings, they let us go.
1.-The other day I read that Mayor
George La Valley was coming to
the United States to raise $10O, ,0OO
to start rebuilding his city which
was wiped out by American artillery
fire and air bombardment In the ST.
Lo breakthrough In July, 1914.
wanted to do what I could for him
and thought this story OF what he
did for me might help. I went to
the Baltimore airport for his ar
nval. He was coming to Baltimore
because it was the 18th Division
maryland, District of Columbia and
Virginia National Guard that lib
Grated st. Lo. s- .r-~s .-,- r
Mayor McKeldin and other Of
ficials were introduced to him, then
some one said: And this is M'sieu
Covington.' He threw his arms
around me. I'm so glad you got
back all right he said in French.
He told me the family I stayed
with in st. Lo had another baby
this spring: that they were asking
for me. And he pulled from his
pocket a paper with my name and
address on it. He had intended to
look me up"