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Evening star., 1947-08-15
Weather Report

District OF Columbia-Increasing
cloudiness late this afternoon with
scattered thundershowers in the
evening. Maximum temperature in
the lower 9Os. Partly cloudy tonight
with lowest temperature about 70.
Tomorrow partly cloudy with scat
tered afternoon thundershowers and
highest temperature near 80.
Maryland and Virginia - Partly
cloudy with scattered Thunderstorm
ers this evening and tomorrow after
noon. Not so warm tomorrow.
Wind velocity 10 m.p.h.; direc-
ton, south southeast.
River Nepert.
tFrom United States EnEineersl
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls. Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday: Per Cent. To-day. Per Cent.
Noon - so Midnight - 78
4 p.m.---- So 8 am. .------- 81
8 p.m.------ 55 1:30 pm. - A
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Great Salt Lake contains pound
of solid matter. for every four
hounds of water.
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The Sun and Moon
PrecipitatioB.

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital (current month to dAtel:
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nperxrurGs This Year.

Record Temper2rurGs This Year.
Highest, 96, on August ] 4.
Lowest. Z. on February 8.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Suryey1
Evening star., 1947-01-29

It was discovered by . forest ranger
several days ago. 1t. Winslow said 1t
was the 10th Japanese mine he had
detonated along the Washington
Oregon coast within a year.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Police Say Suspect
In Butcher Staying
Signed Confession
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29-Daniel
S. Voorhees,, curly-haired and husky,
was booked today in the county jail
on suspicion of murder after, police
said, he signed a confession to the
sadistic mutilation Staying of Eliza
beth Short %.
Detective Ed Barrett displayed a
sheet of paper on which was written:
IT did kill Beth Short 1t was
signed Dan Voorhees,"
Voorhees,, 33, surrendered to homi-
eide detail officers late last night
after telephoning them he would be
waiting on downtown street cor
ner. Mr. Barrett said he announced:
I'm SO sick can't stand it any
longer. I killed the Black Dahlia.'
Take me to jail. want to get it over
with"
Body Found January Is.
Miss Short was known to her
friends as the Black Dahlia" be-
cause of her penchant for flower
headdress and black clothes. She
was found dead in a vacant lot
January Is. Her nude body had
been battered and bisected.
After signing the one-sentence
confession, Mr.. Barrett reported,
Evening star., 1947-01-29
| pickefing Ban Fails 10 Stop
Kansas City Star Strike
By The Assoeiufed Press

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2s--The
Kansas City Star went into its 18th
day without publication today al
though. picketing by striking con-
tract carriers has been restrained by
court order.
Members of AFL International
PressmeE and Assistants Union.
with which the striking carriers are
afhliated. maintained the picket
lines, however.
The restraining order was granted
non-striking carriers who contended
they were being put out OF business
as independent merchants by con-
spiracy to restrain trade.
After the order was granted, Cliff
Langsdale, attorney for the striking
carriers, said he would advise the
carriers to observe the order, but
Evening star., 1947-01-29

REGARDLESS of the size of income, any
family can have more happiness and
fewer worries by planning the use of
sthe family money.
First: provide in advance for payments
coming due, such as rent, taxes, mortgage
charges. life insurance and other insurance.
The easiest way is to bank small amounts
each payday that viii add up to the totals
when due.
Second: set aside something extra each
PAYDAY in the savings account until you
build up IN emergency fund.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

voorhees, refused to discuss the case
further. saying:
I've talked too much already. ]
want to see lawyer"
Detective 1t. Charles King said
questioning would be suspended
until he RECEIVERS from his bewild-
cred and befuddled state" DR.. Paul
de River, police psychiatrist, report
ing on brief examination, said he
could come to no definite conclI-
sion"
The Staying of the young film
hopeful from Medford, Mass, has
brought police and newspapers a
deluge of crank notes. But among
the messages were some that officers
believed to be authentic. One con-
tanned the girls address book and
social security card. Another said
the slayer would give himself up at
10 o'clock this morning.
Police Check Suspects Past.
Voorhees, arrest came less than
II hours from the deadline, but Mr.
Barrett quoted him as saying he
had no part of any of the communi-
cations.
Police began an immediate check
of several hotels where Voorhees, re-
ported he had been living, and po-
lice were notified in Phoenix, Ariz.,
where Voorhees, said he has a wife
and daughter, 9.
The Phoenix police Identification
bureau reported that Dan Voor-
hees had been arrested there five
times, and in 1912 was questioned In
connection with an attempted Grim
inal assault. Phoenix records
showed no disposition. VOORHEES,
said he was released on the charge
The other arrests, Phoenix police
reported, were in 1896, when he
gave his age as %, on a charge o1
disturbing the peace, in 1899, 1910
and 1916 on drunk charges. Phoenix
records gave voorhees, home address
as Kelso. Calf.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

would file . motion for dissolution.
Hearing to make the injunction
permanent has been set for Feb
ruary 5.
The Star, which publishes the
city's only regular morning and af-
ternoon papers, contends the strik-
ing carriers are independent con-
tractors and not employees. The
carriers are seeking recognition of
their union as bargaining agent.
Composing room employees, who
have, refused to cross the picket
lines, did not work yesterday despite
instructions from the international
officers to return to their jobs.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

I'm the beginning, many of us buy too
many and too expensive playthings for our
children. This tends to focus the child's
ideas on buying instead of doing as the
source of happiness. A better idea is to give
simple things which are an invitation to
activity and ingenuity, such as checker
boards, building, sewing and craft sets.
ssBut don't forget that the happy child,
like the happy grownup, must have normal
group activities, and will have natural
Evening star., 1947-01-29
HOW TO PLAN FOR FAMILY HAPPINESS

Then you know what is left to spend on
everyday family needs such as food. cloth
ing, recreation-and what you can afford
to set aside for such future family plans as
a new home, education, travel.
Because the life insurance companies
and their agents have long helped people
to plan for family security and happi-
ness, they are conducting this program
of information as public service to the
72,OOO, 900 owners of life insurance and
to every American family.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

pride in playing his part in them. Try, for
example, to see that he has enough money
for that baseball bat or glove, those sneakers
or gvm clothes, that will enable boy or
girl to Join the team
''And, finally, as the child grows up, give
him increasing freedom of choice in the
ways his share of the family money is
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Poroguoyon Revolt
Reported Broken Up
By the Associated Press

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jan. 49,
President Higinio Morinigo's gov
ernment announced last night that
revolt among minor officers" in
the army had been broken up and
the plotters placed under arrest be-
fore the uprising got under way.
Paraguay now is completely calm,
a communique said.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

ington State beach, 1t. d. r.
Winslow, 18th Naval District bomb
disposal officer. reported today.
He said the mine probably had
been in the water two or three years.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

spent. This teaches the invaluable lesson
that some things must be foregone to get
others, and that saving for more distant
reward is often more satisfying than grasp.
ing at immediate ones"
Watch for Family Message No. II, about
t,oo ,oeeks from no,O.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Old Jap Mine Detonuted
On Pocific Coast Beech
BY the Assoeiaied Press

SEATTLE, Jan. ga Japanese
mine containing enough explosives
to destroy good sized Office building
was detonated on an isolated Wash
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
fSpivs' Poison NUNS in Plot
To Fix Flower Show Results

LONDON. - A meek English flow
er lover had two silver cups as evil
dence of his victory over the London
gamblers who poisoned his prize
chrysanthemums in an effort to
'fx'' the Macclesfield flower show.
Jim jackson, rural Macclesfield's
chrysanthemum champion, was the
first target of the fast-money boys
who have been making book on
rural flower shows during their en-
forced absence from the British
capital caused by the governments
drive to make everyone work.
One day when Jackson was away
from home, the ''spivs' crept into
his dollhouse and poisoned his SIX
best blooms. Then they sat back and
waited to rake in the bets.
Macclesfield police were baffed.
The chrysanthemum murder
ers'' are still at large.
But Jackson had dozens of flowers
in reserve. When his first team"
withered away, he entered the show
with his six next-best plants and
won two silver cups and 10 lesser
prizes.
He still has the best chrysanthe-
NUNS in town.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
Wanderlust Hits
Airline Hostesses
Glamor Girls Of SkYwaYs Like
Travel on Vacations.

CHICAGO. - Even though they
whisk across the continent in a mat
ter of hours during their working
day." airline hostesses have the
wanderlust when it comes to vaca-
tions.
The urge to travel, which origi-
nally brought many Of them to the
skyways, would take many OF the
stewardesses to the far corners OF
the globe if their vacation desires
were fulfilled, it is revealed in a re-
cent poll of United Air Lines $50
sky girls who fly on Mainliners from
coast to coast and west to Hawaii.
Asked where they would like" to
60, many indicated South America,
Bermuda, Europe and Hawaii.
Some even expressed a wish to go
to Alaska. But asked where they
would" 60, the majority indicated
they would take a trip home to e
the folks.
The typical stewardess, the poll
disclosed, is five feet five inches tall.
% years old and has brown hair
and brown eyes. She likes smooth
dancing and current popular music.
In the fall and winter she likes to
bowl and in the summer months
swimming and horseback riding are
her ~favorite sports.
Her working day. may take her
from sunny California to New Eng
land, but once she's off duty a stew
ardess' tastes in recreation and
home life are the same as those of
any other business girl. More than
one third of them like to cook, their
favorite dish being steak. Fried
chicken and apple pie take the No.
2 and 3 spots on the MENU. Further
more, almost none of the steward
esses finds it necessary to diet.
Active sports far outweigh spec
tator sports. Right now, bowling IS
the ~favorite, followed by bridge and
dancing. In the summer, swimming
leads horseback riding and sailing.
More than a third of the steward
esses play some instrument, most of
them ~preferring the piano. A ma
jority of them collects records. Mu-
steal preferences r headed by
popular tunes, but classical music
takes a close second and boogie-
woogie lands at the bottom of the
heap. AS for reading, historical nov
els are in the lead, followed in order
by love stories, biographies, mys-
teries and travel.
Oh yes, the skirt length contro-
versy was included in the POLAND
it came out nearly $3.50 for and
against the lowered hemline.
Why do they like being steward
esses? That was the easiest ques-
ton of all. The answer from n of
them covers all. 81 like being a
stewardess," she said, because of
the fun 1 get out of meeting people
and seeing the world"
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
u. S. Air Force Asks
Fund Of 300 Million
Calls 1t Cheap Insurance in Case
OF Invasion.

WASHINGTON.-U. S. air force
leaders estimate that $50 million
dollars to 300 million dollars a year
would be needed to put American
air power on top in aviation re-
search and keep it there.
They call this "cheap insurance"
against another Pearl Harbor, but
are far from certain that congress
will go along.
In 1916 when an economy wave
hit the legislature, the air force
(then the army air force) asked for
272 million dollars but received only
200 million dollars. In l947 the APP
preparation was slashed to only ITO
million dollars and, unless the law
makers have a change of heart, the
air force expects no more than l41
million dollars in 1948.
Air force leaders not only are wor-
ried over the fund shortage but they
point out that the production capacl-
ties of American aircraft industries
have been reduced so sharply it is
doubtful they could be revived
quickly in an emergency.
The United States ended the war
VIGOROUSLY but five years behind
Germany in most basic research
and 10 years tardy in some. Now the
air force, the army and navy are
trying to catch up.
In some fields they have out
stripped all other powers but their
research costs have risen and they
say they need money badly. They
are striving in addition for a work
ing partnership with science, engi-
neering and the air industry. That
also will take money.
The air force estimates it will
need at least 5000 aircraft annually
for experimental purposes-that is,
for use in keeping the United States
ahead in the field VI research.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
aid to Build Town in Italy
For Children Without Homes

ROME.-The chief of the United
States relief mission to Italy said
that 80 million lire (S228, 500, de-
rived from the sale of United States
relief goods turned ove free to the
Italian government, had been given
to an Italian religious organization
to bulid a village for homeless chill
dren.
Richard W. Bonneville, head of
the mission, said the money came
from proceeds piling up from the
sale of more than 100 shiploads of
post-UNRRA special relief.
The village, to be built by the
Piccoli Apostoli in Fossoli, will shell
ter and educate 600 children. Pro-
ceeds from the sale of United States
relief goods also supports a feeding
program for one million.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
Large Suspension Bridge
Will Be Erected in England

LONDON. - A suspension bridge
with a central span of $500 feet,
longer than any built in Europe and
exceeded only by the United States
Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco
and George Washington bridge in
New York City is to be constructed
in England.
The new super-span will be thrown
across the Severn river and together
with a series of approach roads will
provide a direct route from Bristol
to South Wales.
The new bridge together with a
subsidiary bridge across the Wye
river and an elaborate system of
approaches will cost about SO mil
lion dollars and is expected to take
five years to complete.
The new super-bridge will have
two 24-foot roadways, two 9-foot
cycle tracks and two 6-foot foot
paths.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
African Girls Called Spiritual
By Touring Yank Business Man

CAPE TOWN. - An American
business man touring South Africa
event overheard" about the girls OF
Worcester, according to local citi-
zens he met.
81 am pretty hard-headed and a
keen observer" they quote him as
saying, "but never have l seen such
healthy-looking young women as l
have seen striding your streets:
They seem naturally attractive and
friendly. I am sure if we could ship
a team of them across to the States
and provide training, they wouid
seriously challenge the Ziegfeld Fol
lies girls. They seem to have a SUD-
lime spiritual quality"
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
Army Officers Arrested FOR
Spying in Northern China

NANKING, CHINA. - More than
so persons, most of them army Off
GERS and government employees,
have been arrested in north China
and Manchuria on charges of spy
ing for the Chinese Communists,
Hollington Tong, director of infor-
nation disclosed.
He said that a quarrel over Com
munist underground funds led the
operator of a secret radio station to
inform on his associates. The radio
station was seized.
Tong said the alleged Red agents
we're arrested in Peiping and Skiing,
China, and Mukden, Manchuria.
Among those arrested in Mukden, he
said, was Maj. Gen. Wang Shai-noi,
public relations officer for garrison
headquarters there.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

~
Estate of Konrad Ostwalt, also
known as Conrad OSWALD, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, Herman OSWALD, Exc
cutor of the Estate of Konrad Ost-
walt, deceased, to the creditors OF
and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers
within four months after the first
publication of this notice, to the
said Herman OSWALD at ZIG Securi-
ties Building, Billings, in the Coun-
ty of Yellowstone, State of Mon
tana.
Dated at Billings, Montana, July
II, 1914.
HERMAN OSWALD,
Executor of the Estate of Konrad
Ostwalt, also known as Conrad
Ostwald. Deceased.
T. H. BURKE,
ZIG Securities Building.
Billings, Montana.
Attorney for Executor.
date First Pub. Dec. II. 1947-4tO
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
Death Posipones a Call
Until Old Wager Is Paid

BOSTON, MASS.-Five years
ago Allan Sharpe made a bet.
He wagered he would not live
until 65.
His doctor took the bet.
On his sixty-ffth birthday an
niversary Sharpe wrote his doc
tor a note telling him he was
never happier to lose a bet. He
enclosed a $40 bill and then
mailed it.
When he returned to his apart
ment, after climbing three flights
of stairs, he collapsed and died
of what DR.. Joseph Gregory said
was coronary thrombosis.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
Wreckers Take
Over Palaces
Death Knell for Mansions
Marks Passing Of New
York's Golden Age.

NEW YORK.-The death Of two
famous mansions - the Vanderbilt
stone palace on Fifth avenue and
the Schwab stately granite chateau
on Riverside drive-marks the final
passing Of New York's so-called
golden age.
Some antics Of the fabulous people
Of that fabulous day are recalled by
Andrew Tulley, former war CORE
spondent, in his book, ERA of Ele-
gance."
Crashing with the blows of
wrecker hammers destroying these
two great edifces are the gaudy
standards of the late 10th century
financial titans, whose fortunes
were so vast that society dandy
Ward McAllister coined this rule-of-
thumb definition of wealth:
"a fortune Of only a million IS
respectable poverty"
Mrs. AstOr's Palace.
Mrs. William Astor-"The" Mrs.
Astor-dipped into so million dollars
to spend $3.50, 900 on a renaissance
palace. Guests contributed n mil
lion dollars in gifts at the celebrated
wedding of her daughter, Carrie.
But when they auctioned off the
furniture of society's queen in 1909,
a year after her death, the gilt
chairs from her ballroom brought
only $3.50 each and a huge tapestry
that had dazed visitors for two gen.
erations went for $40.
High-living Schwab poured eight
million dollars of his steel profits
into his 75-room, 40-bath Hudson
river hideaway.
He put in a so 1000 pipe organ and
a refrigerator that could hold 20
tons of beef.
1t cost him $4O0, 900 a year to keep
UP this overgrown bungalow, and
Charlie, who had earned more
than one million dollars a year, died
cheerful-and broke. The final tally:
Assets 1889, 500, liabilities $l,727,-
1853.
Built Meat Around Him.
Isaac Brokaw, multi-millionaire
clothier, insisted that his architect
put a real moat around his Fifth
avenue castle on the ground that
''there's more robbers in this town
than all those King Louies had to
put up with" in France. All that
ever tumbled into the moat, how
ever, was a runaway horse.
The original John D. Rockefeller,
retiring at Sc, spent between 20 mil
lion dollars and 40 million dollars
on his 7,000-acre "Kijkuit" estate
overlooking the Hudson.
He lived for years on a diet of
human milk and built a $4,000 turn
table so he wouldn't have to move to
keep in the sun.
Andrew Carnegie, who kept eight
footmen in his three million dollar
Scottish castle, for the sole purpose
of pouring wine, built a two million
dollar cottage on upper Fifth av-
enue also, just to have a headquar-
tiers to give away $50 million dollars
late in life.
This so enraged his bitter enemy,
Henry Clay Prick, that Frick
vowed: "Ill make that place look
like a miners shack"
So Frick spent II million dollars
on his own marble palace, stocked
it with 30 million dollars in art
treasures and willed the whole thing
as a public museum, hoping it
would make his name outlast Car
negie's.
Income and inheritance taxes, the
high cost of servants and other fac
tors have led descendants to dis
pose of most of the moth-eaten gran
deur huts built by the American
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
New FIuorescenf Light
Kills and Deodorizes

CHICAGO.-A new fluorescent
light that kills bacteria, deodor-
ICES the kitchen and gives the
housewife a suntan while she
works was described at an Amer
lean Chemical society meeting.
Sampson Isenberg, director of
research of General Luminescent
corporation, said the light would
serve equally well in an office,
factory, gymnasium or SWIM
ming pool.
The all-purpose lamp is made
possible by a discovery of new
and more stable chemicals that
emit ultraviolet fluorescence, Is
enberg said.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-24
Twp. IS, Rye. 27E.
1 Ma, SEX IL 480 $500
Twp. IS, Rye. 28E.
2 Lots 8, 4, ShNWA
Sh 5 478.5O $500
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OF SALE

The sale will be held under the
provisions of Chapter 165 of the
Political Codes, R. C. M. 1885, and
all acts amendatory thereof. No
land shall be sold for less than the
appraised value, and in no case, ex-
cept mortgage lands, for less than
$500 per acre for grazing lands
and $1,000 per acre for agricultural
lands.
Every bidder upon State land
shall accompany his bid with a GER
titled check for not less than 1879
of the total appraised sales price as
above shown. The purchaser is re-
quired to pay in cash on the day
of sale not less than 1919 of the
total purchase price, and in case the
balance of the purchase price is not
an exact multiple of $500, then
he shall pay such additional sum
as is necessary to reduce the bal
ance to an even multiple of $500.
He may at his option pay a larger
portion Of the purchase price. He
is also required to pay the sum of
$500 as a fee for each certificate of
purchase to be issued to him.
The entire balance of the pur-
chase price draws interest at the
rate of SO per annum and will be
payable On the amortization plan in
33 annual installments. If any sue
cessful bidder at such sale refuses
or neglects to make the initial pay
ment required to be made on the
land purchased by him, he shall
forfeit to the state not less than
$4,000, nor more than 81 100000, to
be determined by the State Board of
Land Commissioners according to
the circumstances of the case. (Sec.
1S05.75, R. C. M. 1880
All sales are made subject to the
approval and confirmation of the
State Beard of Land Commissioners,
and no sale shall be deemed COM
pleted until after such approval and
the issue of the certificate of pur-
chase.
The State ser all minerals
in the lands sold. The State will
have a hen on all crops on all lands
sold for installments on principal
and interest on the unpaid balance
of the purchase price. The lands
will be sold subject to anv rights-of-
way easements obtained in the land
prior to the date of sale.
Lands located within three miles
of anv town or city which are not
laid off into blocks and lots will
he sold in alternate lots of not more
than five acres each. -.
A person holding an agricultural
or grazing lease in good standing
on State lands has the right to
purchase the land at the highest
bid made by any other person. if he
attends the sale and actually bids
while the bidding on such land is
in progress. Every purchaser must
in addition to making the other paw
ments make settlement with the
owner of the improvements on the
land as provided bv law.
In the case Of lands under lease,
the purchaser shall be given DOS
session by the State on March
next succeeding the date of sale and
not before. unless the lease expires
nrior to that date. except through
enecial agreement between the nur-
and the lessee. The Stole
will refund to the lessee any rentals
paid by him beyond March 1. 1948.
]. w. WALKER,
Commissioner of State Lands and
Investments of the State of
date First Pub. Dec. "a, 19A7-4t>