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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
Ex-District Policeman
Denies He Attacked
Macon (Ga.) Girl
By the Associated Press

MACON, Ga, Sept. 10.-Capt
Herbert C. Hebb, 38, an Army Air
Forces officer, told from Superior
Court witness stand here yesterday
of roadside petting party with a
pretty young woman employe of the
Robins Field Officers Club, but de-
MED charges that he attacked her.
Capt. Hebb, a former Washington
policeman, in an unsworn statement,
permitted an accused person under
Georgia law, said he and the young
woman ''pinched each other and
acted like kids" as they sat in a
parked automobile on lonely, dark
road.
Earlier the woman, Emmie Odom
Bowen, 20, testified that the officer
choked and attacked her. She said
the two of them were en- route back
to Robins Field after date in Ma
con last April g. Capt Hebb was
stationed at the field at the time.
| The prosecution offered in EVIL
dence clothes and hose which she
claimed Capt Hebb had torn.
A statement which Capt. Hebb
made and signed before the trial
was introduced Yesterday. In it
he said he kissed the woman, but
that she resisted further advances
Later he said he took her home
and in getting 'out of the car she
caught her heel on the running
board and fell, Capt. Hebb said he
apologized for his previous actions,
and when she forgave him he kissed
her hand and left
DR.. Leo J. Blum, a physician,
testified that he examined the
woman after the alleged attack and
found her body bruised.
Joseph Bohanan. a member of the
Washington police force, testified
as a. character Witness for Capt.
Hebb
The trial Is expected to continue
into tomorrow.
Herbert c. Hebb joined the
Metropolitan Police in September,
1884, the department records show,
and is now carried on the depart
ment rolls as on military leave. He
left on Otober 3, 1912.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
British Cabinet Debate
On P aIestine Likely
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Sept. 10.-Authorita
tive government sources said today
that a cabinet debate on the Pales-
tine question was expected within
a fortnight, with official British
opinion swinging to the view that
Britain's mandate over the Holy
Land must end
qualified informantS said the
Foreign, War and Colonial Offices
the three departments most con-
cerned with Palestine-already were
preparing briefs for their ministerial
heads with the recommendation
prevailing that the mandate be
ended
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech
Jones was designated to handle the
Palestine case when it comes before
the U. N. Assembly this fall.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 10 (P).-
Fifty-tWo shiekhs and chiefs, rep
resenting every Arab tribe in Syria.
sent a message today to the United
Nations, declaring that partition OF
Palestine would stimulate Arabs to
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other rooming house in the 400
block of Ninth street NV. They re-
leased him after questioning.
Mcclure had what appeared to be
a little blood on his shirt and
trousers when he appeared at the
precinct station this morning, Sergt.
Talbot said. Two washcloths found
at the I street apartment will be
tested to see if they were blood
stained. A little blood also was
found on the woman's body, Sergt.
Talbot added.
Police were checking state
ment by Mcclure that he took Mrs
RoWell to a doctor about month
ago for treatment for a heart con-
oition. r.,
Mrs. Jewell Whey. Is, former
resident manager of the I street
rooming house, told police that both
Mrs. Rowell and MCGUIRE had been
living there for Az months and
that they identified themselves as
husband and wife.
They were seen at the place about
2 pm. yesterday by r. F. Dett-
weller, SO, of 5704 East Pine drive,
East Riverdale, Md, who went there
to repair a stove, he said. Mr..
Detvweiler also is employed by the
Railway Express Agency.
At II pm, Mrs. Ethel Bolac, A.
present resident manager, said she
saw MCGUIRE in the hall. He start
e6 to use the telephone directory
then turned away and said his dog
Phoebe was missing. He sat with
her on the porch a while after.
that, Mrs. Bolac said.
Mrs Rowell had been employed
at the Shoreham as regular tele-
phone operator on the to II pm,
shift since May l. She had worked
Monday, but yesterday was her
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to install bases and man them with
French Union troops to assure the
defense of the French Union and
satisfy international obligation"
With regard to foreign policy, he
declared that the French Union was
a political unit and that it would
be inadmissible" for any of its men,
Der states to renounce any of its
treaties.
Mr.. Bollaert proclaimed also that
a policy of economic collaboration
between the Indo-Chinese states
and France was necessary.
He said he regarded the high
commissioners and the commission
ers of the various states as defend
ers of the French economic and Gull
tural interests
The Viet-Nam republic claims
jurisdiction over Tonkin, AMMAN
and Cochin China, but the French
dispute its sway over the last OF
those three Indo-Chinese states.
In Hong Kong today, a 30-dele-
gate group rivaling the republican
government and styling itself the
"Viet-Nam National Assembly
unanimously invited Bao Dai, "a
year old former Emperor of AMMAN,
to- assume power and negotiate peace
with the French.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10

transports from which the refugees
were disembarked peaceably. The
bomb was found. removed and de-
tonated by British forces after the
Jews left the ship.
A spokesman for the British mil
itary government said in Klel a
high-level decision was imminent
on arrangements to implement the
French government offer of asylum
to those of the refugees volunteering
to go to France.
Prior to the arrival of the three
transport ships in Hamburg, the
military government had announced
that trains would be provided for
those who accepted the French
offer.
The screening process, being
carried out both by security officers
and representatives of the IRO, was
expected to take several days.
Offcials said the Jews who came
under the IRO category would be
eligible for emigration schemes
available to displaced persons. and
that those returned to the German
economy would receive German ra-
ton cards and be liable to direction
to work under German labor laws.
Scattered Among Camps.
Reports from various sources in
dictated that The refugees forcibly
unloaded from the transport convoy
were scattered among the Poppen-
dorf and Am Stau displaced persons
camps near Lubbock and in a Ham
burg Jail.
Poppendorf camp attendants re-
ported that about 100 of the some
5000 inmates there had started a
hunger strike by turning down the
meal offered them last night. A
British officer told correspondents
a cage had been set up there for
confinement of those deemed dan
gerous
The Jews numbered 1,4O6 from the
transport Ocean Vigour, 1920 from
the Empire Rival and 1885 from
the Runnymede Park. Yesterdays
unloading of the Empire Rival was
peaceful, but British troops SUISSE
quently fought Runnymede Park
passengers for two hours before that
vessel was emptied. They also used
force Monday in unloading the
Ocean Vigour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
Zionist Group Wanted
Real Bomb Raid on
London, Flyer Says
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Sept. 1O.-Reginald
Gilbert, 25-year-old American flyer
whip said he refused to carry out a
ont -plane raid on London at the
direction of alleged Zionist terror
istS, declared last night he believed
responsible Jews the world over
would be grateful to him..
sWhat a terrible reaction there
would have been against decent
jewish aspirations in Palestine if
this mad plan had been carried
out" Mr.. Gilbert told newsmen.
Nine persons, including an Amer
lean rabbi, are being held in Paris
in q security police investigation Of
an alleged plot to bomb" London
with leaflets of the Stern gang, a
Palestine underground group, Mr..
Gilbert told Scotland Yard officials
yesterday the Stern gang hired him
in Paris first to drop the leaflets
assailing British policies in Pales-
tine and then to release few home
made bombs over the Foreign Office.
Worked With French Police.
Mr.. Gilbert, who was understood
to have worked with French police
to foil the plot. said last night:
THE men. behind this crazy
scheme in Paris were in deadly
earnest, I was drawn into it be-
cause I am an aviator. l am sure
that II I had not entered their
plans, they would have found some
other flyer who might actually have
carried out some sort of an attack
on London"
In Paris, the rabbi, Baruch Korff,
80, who is charged with possession
of dangerous pamphlets, told news
men last night:
Tell America that I have been
made a new Christi
Asked whether he meant that
police had beaten him, Korff re-
piled, Worse than that. I've been
made to sleep on Q concrete floor
without blankets
The rabbi now is on hunger
strike and was examined yesterday
by doctors after he complained of
chest pains. The doctors found no
malady
No Offer of Payment.
Mr.. Gilbert said that in his nego-
tiations in Paris. there were frequent
references to the Stern Gang and
that he was confident he was dealing
with that organization. He said
there was no offer of definite pay
ment for the part he was to play in
the air assault on London, but that
he was promised lucrative Jobs after
successful completion of the mission.
He was advised, he said, that
Paris at the moment isn't healthy
place" for him and that he had
heard reports that undercover work
ers in the French capital might try
to avenge the betrayal of the plot.
Mr.. Gilbert indicated he would re-
turn to the United States soon and
was asked whether agents or terror
list groups might attempt to harm
him there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
Paper Appeals to Germans
To Give Refugees Home

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. II
/ LP).-The newspaper WieSbadenel
Kurier published today an appeal tc
Germans to offer the Jewish refugees
of the Exodus 1947 new and rea.
home" in Germany
The paper opened relief funo
with an initial sum of $500 ano
invited Germans who have main
tanned their feelings of sympathy
and understanding for the plight OF
the Jews to join in voluntary con-
tributionS.
The appeal, which noted that
anti Semitism never has been con-
fined to Germany alone said that
it should be possible in the western
zones of the country to accept 4,30C
homeless persons voluntarily anC
added that there was certainly suffi-
Gent work for them in destroyed
Germany.
MOSCOW. Sept. 10 [P).-The So
Wet periodical New Times attacked
the British yesterday for their
handling of the case of the Exodus
1947, saying their methods adopted
toward the refugees arouse resent
ment in the broadcast circles of DEM
tocrstic society"
BERLIN, Sept. 10 up. "A spokes-
man for the Jewish community OF
Berlin announced today that in pro-
test against the return of the Ex-
odus 1947 Jews to Germany all jew
ish Offices in the city would be blessed
throughout Thursday.
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lieveds the Jews aboard the Empire
Rival, second of the three trans
ports to be emptied of refugees here,
knew of the existence of the bomb
planted aboard the ship. He said
this might explain why the Empire
Rival was the only one of the three
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1fberate her finally by arms ana red


BAGHDAD, Sept. 10 R>.-Thou-
sands of protests are pouring into
Baghdad daily and throughout all
Iraq there is evidence of mounting
anger at the report of the United
Nations Special Committee on Pal
estine which recommended partition
of the Holy Land between Arabs and
Jews.
Arab tribal and religious leaders,
joining in the protests, are organ
izing tribal conference to "mobil-
iZe Iraqui warriors"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
Christmas
Entertainments

Come All Ye Faithful, dramatic
presentation in pantomime and song
will be presented at Emmanuel's
Reformed church, Sunday night at
5 o'clock.
A Christmas cantata From the
Realms of Glory" will be given at
the Ebenezer Mennonite church Sun
day night at 7:45 o'clock. Mrs. Milo
Lora is director of the production
and Mrs. VIM. Althaus, pianist. Solo
lists are: soprano, Treva Althaus;
alto, Mrs. Vinton Bucher: tenors,
Waldo Hofstetter, Robert Gratz;
baritone, Evan sommers.
A pageant Christmas, depicting
the nativity in colorful pantomime
and carols of many countries will be
presented at the high school auditor
ium Monday night at 7:30 by 15O
high and grade school pupils. Miss
Alma Alter, director of music is in
charge. The high school chorus, boys
and girls glee clubs and several in
strumental numbers will be featured.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18

world would be extnguished
Not believe in Sdnto Claus you might as we
not believe in foiries You might get your pdpo
TO hire men to wotch oil the chimneYs on Christ
mas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even If the
did not see Sontu Claus coming down who
would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus
but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus
The most reel things in the world ore those tho
neither children nor men can see. Did you eve
see fdiries dancing on the lawn? OF course not
but thdts no proof that they Gre not there Nc
body con conceive or imagine all the wonder
there Gre unseen and unseedble in the world
You ted apart the bdbY's rattle ond see who
makes the noise inside. but there IS veil Gov
ering fhe unseen world which not the stronges
man. nor even the united strength OF oil the
strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart
Only. foith. fancy, poetry. love. romonce cor
push aside that curtain and view dnd picture
supernd beauty and glory beyond. Is it al
reol2 ALL Virginia. in oil this world there |:
nothing else real and dbiding,
No Santo Claus! Thank God! he lives. enc
he lives forever. A thousond years from now
Vrginia, ndY, ten times ten thousand yeor'
from now he will continue to make glad tht
heut Of childhood.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
NeIU NKP Signal
System Operating

Central traffic control of trains
operating through Bluffton over the
Nickel Plate railroad was started
Monday, as the concluding phase of
an improvement program launched
in September, 1946.
Cutting in the new control sys-
tenn of a 40-mile stretch of the
railroad between Lima and Arcadia
was started last week, but Bluffton
was not included on the automatic
control basis until last Monday. The
system between Arcadia and Lima is
expected to completely be in opera
ton by the end of this week.
In the new system signalling is
almost entirely automatic and is
said to represent the highest pos
sible degree of safety.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
Bonus To Employees
Of GLOUe Factory

Employees of the Boss Manufactur-
ing company will receive a Christ
mas bonus of FIVE per cent of their
ears earnings, it was announced
tuesday by Charles Lloyd, manager
# the plant here.
Lloyd said that all who were in
smploy of the company November 80
will be paid an additional compensa-
ton amounting to five per cent of
their total wages within the period
December l, 1916 to November 30,
1947, exclusive of the five per cent
paid December 27, 1916.
This payment will be included in
the amount of the pay check to be
naid December 10. f. 4.t..z.z-z
Whether similar action can be tax
n next year depends entirely upon
reduction and business conditions,
Lloyd said. @
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
Retiring Mayor Has Not Miss
ed Council Meeting Since
First Elected
Mayor And Councilman For II
Years Serves Longer Than
Anyone In History

An unparalleled record of public
service to Bluffton municipality en-
tered its final act Monday night
when Mayor w. 4. Howe presided
for the last time at a meeting of
the town council, and made ready
to turn over the reins of government
to new hands on January /.
For II consecutive years, Mayor
Howe has attended every council
meeting, first as a member of that
body, later as council president, and
for the last nine years and two
months as mayor.
His consecutive record of municipal
service over more than a decade is
longer than that of any other cleo
tive official in the history Of the
town. 1t is made all the more re-
markable by his unbroken record of
attendance at council meetings, held
at least twice every month over the
12-year period.
Elected In 1895
Elected to council in the fall of
1885, Mayor Howe served his first
term beginning in January, 1886.
Reelected to his second term in
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Santa No Longer Is The Ill
Kempt, Scraggly Indivi-
dual of Yesterday
Today's Impersonators Must
Measure Up To Rigid
Requirements

Style in Santa Clauses has changed
over the years in commercial estab-
lishments who have Saint Nicholas
in their stores at the Yuletide, and
the jolly, rotund, well-coached indi-
viduals who greet the kiddies these
days represent a far cry from the
straggly characters who formerly
played the part.
TO prevent eager young minds
from unfavorably comparing imag-
mary Santas with the real life i'm
personators they meet in stores, re-
quirements for those who take the
part have become more strict over
the years.
Today's Santa must meet rigid
physical measurements. Fl Hei 6 h
ranges must be from five feet, nine
inches, to six feet; and weight can
be no less than $50 pounds. His
girth, with padding at the right
places, must measure 4s inches by
the tape in most cases.
After physical requirements, Santa
is considered on the basis of having
jolly, deep-seated laugh.
Other individual problems depart
ment store Santas face includes Civ
ing individual attention to each
child. Most good Santas can handle
four children a minute, and they
must be careful not to devote more
attention to some kiddies, else bring
on the wrath of mothers of others.
Parents also are likely to complain
if store Santas are too quick to
promise a shiny new $50 bicycle to
youngster whose folks already
have decided on a less costly gift,
A Santa also must know which toys
appeal to which age groups.
Santa's costume also has come in
for careful study. Stringy, dirty
whiskers and wear-wrinkled, poorly
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
HIGHWAY PATROL
IS CHECKING MAIN
STREET SPEEDING
Patrol of Street Is Being
Made On Intermittent
Basis Here
Jackson Street In Front OF
Grade School viii Be
Blocked This Week

State highway patrolmen have
started an intermittent check of
speeding on Bluffton's Main street,
in opening a campaign against un-
safe traffic conditions here, Mayor
w A. Howe announced at Mondays
meeting of the municipal council.
Acting on a request from a
citizens group, Mayor Howe on
Nov. Is asked highway patrol CO.
operation in helping to control the
operation of cars over the Dixie
highway in Bluffton.
Altho there is an insufficient num-
ber of patrolmen to assign a car
permanently, intermittent checking
of cars travelling over Main street is
being made, and four arrests already
have been reported.
Highway patrol officials also have
recommended the erection of signs
at the city limits cautioning motor
lists to watch their speed, the mayor
said.
A letter to the Greyhound bus
protesting the speed of
buses thru the town, also produced
results, with survey being made
here by the district traffic superin-
tendent of the lines.
Mayor Howe also told councilmen
that signs have been completed to
be used in closing Jackson street in
front Of the grade school building
over the noon hour, and that pro-
gram will be put into effect this
week. Closing of the street for
the protection of grade school pupils
also had been requested by a
citizens group.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
100 Acre Augsburger
Farm Brings S23,I80

Farm of 100 acres belonging to
the late Eli Augsburger southwest
of Bluffton brought s23, 3,1s0 when
put up at auction at an administra-
or's sale Friday afternoon.
The land was bought by Kenneth
Chidester in two tracts, One of 80
acres with buildings was bid in at
$3.50 an acre and the other without
buildings brought $239 an acre. Bid
ding was lively among several
prospective purchasers. 1t was ap-
praised at S14,500 -.
Chidester will occupy the place
before March l, moving from the
former Santschi farm on the Dixie
highway. Alvin Augsburger, now
living on the place will move TO
Pandora where he has bought a
property.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
Funeral Rites Held
For Alfred SdH,ner

Funeral services were held last
Sunday afternoon in the Basinger
funeral home for Alfred Sanner, lon"
resident of Bluffton, who died last
Thursday afternoon in a To'ed'
hospital. He had been seriously i'll
one week.
A native of Switzerland, Sanner is
survived by his wife, Laduskav; E
brother, Harnan Sanner, of Lima
and several neices and nephews.
Rev. E. N. Bigelow, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, off'ciate@
at the last rites. Burial was in
Maple Grove cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
TWO FIRES BREAK
OUT TUESDAY IN
BUSINESS BLOCK
$4,000 Damage Sustained by
Mrs. Edith Mann Building
on North Main Street
Occupants of Second Floor
Apartments Routed from
Bed by Morning Blaze

Two fires of undetermined origin
in the Mrs. Edith Mann building in
the North Main street business sec
tion Tuesday morning kept the Bluff
ton fire department busy from long
before daylight until noon.
Three occupants of second floor
apartments were routed out in their
night clothes by the first outbreak
which resulted in damage to the
building and contents estimated at
more than $4,000.
The fire was reported at a. m.
by Harry Beals, semi-invalid, who
was awakened by smoke and found
furnishings of his room ablaze. Beals
who occupied the rear apartment of
the building aroused Carl Long and
the latter's elderly aunt, Mrs. Rosa
Bowsher and then called to Merle
Duffman, a passing pedestrian, who
gave the alarm.
Call For Aid
Fears that the fire would imperil
the North Main street business sec
ton and the stubborn character of
the blaze resulted in Mayor w. A.