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Evening star., 1947-08-05
Academies 10 Practice
landings in Lower Bay
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 5.-Naval
Academy Midshipmen and Military
Academy cadets will join forces near
Norfolk next Tuesday for Operation
Camid "a combined amphibious
operation.
Designed to familiarize future
officers Of both services with combat
landings, the operation was inaugu-
rated last year in the same lower
Chesapeake Bay area.
About 780 Midshipmen of the sec
ond class will participate, along with
West Point second classmen.
The Middies are now at Guam
tanamo, Cuba, for gunnery exercises
as part Of their annual summer
training cruise.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
$1,000 Legionnaires
Stream 10 Baltimore
For State Convention
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 5.-Delegates
from 1872 posts streamed into Balti-
more today for the opening of the
Goth annual convention of the Amer
lean Legion, Department of Mary
land.
Downtown hotel managers re-
ported they were hard pressed to
accommodate delegates and guests
More than $4,000 Legionnaires were
expected to arrive by pm. when
the first formal session of the five
day convention will be held.
Meeting simultaneously with the
Legion will be its Ladies Auxiliaries,
composed of 78 units in Maryland.
Tonight's inaugural ceremonies
will include brief messages of well
come from Gov. Lane, Senators Tyd-
ings and O'Conor, and Baltimore's
Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro. Me-
mortal services for the American
dead of World Wars I and II will
be held.
Principal speaker will be DR..
Valentine de Balla, recently ap-
pointed member of the Loyola Col
lege faculty, who will discuss his ex-
periences in Hungary during the
Soviet occupation.
He is a former member of the
Hungarian Diplomatic Corps.
Convention Chairman John w.
Jennings, B. & 0. Post, No. 81, is
scheduled to preside over the daily
sessions at the armory.
Highlights of the convention will
be the parade on Friday evening of
Legionnaires, units of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps, and repre-
sentatives of various Baltimore civic
and fraternal organizations, and
Sundays election of State officers.
Candidates already in the field
include Samuel J. Cohen, Hagers-
town; Harry S. Allen, Laurel, and H.
Winship Wheatley, jr., Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
Firehouse BIust Trial
Scheduled for Monday

A Fire Department Trial Board
is scheduled to hear charges against
suspended Fire Capt. w. V. James
next Monday.
Fire Chief Clement Murphy
suspended Capt. James on July 18
after q preliminary investigation of
ag explosion at No. 18 Engine Com
pany, which injured four firemen,
said to have been cleaning a boiler
Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed
ward A. Beard will be in charge of
the prosecution. Capt. James said
today that he had not yet selected
counsel.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
FPegeyWilsen Wins Beauty Title
Here; to Go to Atlantic CITY
Mexican Hot Dance
Performance Gers
judges Approval

Nineteen-year-old Peggy Wilson
whos today holds the crown of Miss
Washington, 1947, and the right to
compete for the Miss America title
next month, owes it all to her
friends who urged her to enter the
local competition.
The blue-eyed blonde, who lives
at 2721 Blaine drive, Chevy Chase
Nd, said as much last night, after
she placed first among nine pretty
flnahsts in the Capitol Theater. And
after paying tribute to her friends
she talked about her tan.
II got it at Ocean City, Md, early
this summer" she said happily as
the crown of gardenias was placed
upon her head.
Miss Wilson's measurements are
bust, "a inches; hips, SO inches;
weight, ITO pounds, and height, S
feet, 3 inches.
Not Her First Contest.
Her speciality last night, which
won the applause of the audience
and the approval Of the nine judges,
was her enactment of the Mexican
hat dance in native costume. Miss
Wilson has studied ballet with a
Washington group and was the last
flnalist to appear on the stage.
The daughter of Navy Comdr. and
Mrs. F. Stirling Wilson, she is a
former bank clerk. She was born
in New York, attended Leland
Junior High School here, has gone
to school in Florida, and also has
attended the Academy of Holy
Names in Silver Spring, Md. She
said she came out second in an
other beauty contest in Ocean City
last year.
Miss Wilson will remain in Wash
ington until September l, when she
leaves for Atlantic City, N. j., for
the Miss America competition, which
will be held starting September g.
She will have her wardrobe, trans
portation and accommodations at
Atlantic City taken care of by Sta
tion WWDC, sponsors of the local
contest.
At Atlantic City she will be elig-
ible to win one of 16 scholarships
offered by the Miss America Pag-
cant Committee. The highest schol-
arship will be for $4,000. It will go
to Miss America. The last prize will
be a 81 900 scholarship. For the first
time, the winner of the the Miss
America title this year will visit
Mexico on a goodwill tour.
Girl Pilot Places Second.
Runner up in last nights compe-
tition was Miss Patricia Brill, 81, of
1912 K street NV, scientific aid in
the Bureau of Standards and pri-
vate pilot She is graduate of
Mckinley High School.
The judges last night were Harry
Macarthur of The Star; Herman
Lowe, Philadelphia Inquirer and Va
riety Magazine; Mary Stewart john
son, fashion designer; Ethel Fistere
Gomez, director of Arthur Murray
Evening star., 1947-08-05
Gospel Crusade to Meet

Work of the Far Eastern Gospel
Crusade will be presented at 8 pm.
today at the Full Gospel Tabernacle,
9l5 Massachusetts avenue NV,
through songs Of an ex-serviceman
quartet and the showing of moving
pictures Of war devastation in the
Philippines and Japan.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
l9 Die as Bus Jumps Cliff

SANTA MARIA, Azores, Aug.
(P.-Nineteen Portuguese workmen
were killed and 20 were injured seri-
ously yesterday when a bus carrying
them to their jobs slid of 100-foot
cliff. The men were employed in
improvement of the Santa Maria
airfield.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
Drive PIonned to Aid Jews

Oscar Chapman, undersecretary
OF the Interior, will outline plans to
solicit the zoo, 900 Government work.
ers in Washington for the United
Jewish Appeal at luncheon tomor-
row In the Hotel Statler. Mr.. Chap
man is chairman of the Federal
workers division of the Christian
committee of the appeal.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
Virginia Part of Network
Already in 2O-Yeur Plan

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 5 (P.-
The Virginia State Highway De-
partment said yesterday that the
Old Dominion's part of the Public
Roads Administrations proposed
super East-West highway already
had been Incorporated in the de-
partment's 20-year plan of road
building.
A spokesman for the department
said the two sthrough highways in
Virginia which would be part of
the plan are U. S. Routes IL and l.
Connecting roads include Routes
so east to Old Point Comfort, S.
and 211 between Washington and
Route II, $50 west between Rich
mond and Staunton, 301 south be-
tween Petersburg and through
North Carolina, and so from Lexing-
ton west through Wset Virginia.
Evening star., 1947-08-05

Studios of Washington; James Fish
er, New Yorker Studios; Sally War
rem Steele, fashion adviser; Burton
Hawkins, The Star; Pearl Atkinson,
of the Pearl Atkinson School of
Modelling, and Mrs. Kay Ford, stage
actress.
The allowed 40 per cent for talent,
Is per cent for beauty of face, Is
percent for beauty of figure and 10
per cent for personality.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
Let The Star Follow
You on Vacation!

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the Business Office Counter,
18th street and Pennsylvania
avenue, or mail your vacation
address. In all cases payment
must be made in advance.
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Evening star., 1947-11-28
Miko|ajclk Calls
Poland TotaIitarian
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Stanislaw
Mikolajczyk, self-exiled leader OF
the Polish Peasant Party, yesterday
described the country which he fled
last month as "a pure totalitarian
state" but said that the Communists
will never get the souls of the Polish
people"
The former vice premier Of the
Polish government, declaring at a
news conference that he could best
serve his country by telling the
truth" about 1t, said:
THE Communists are deciding
their physical lives, but they can
never control their hearts and souls. y
Mr.. Mikolajczyk expressed pes
simism regarding the possibilities Of
unseating the present Polish govern
ment. He said he opposed armed
revolt which, he declared, would play
into the hands of the Communists.
II think we should use everything
possible to bring the case before the
United Nations" he said.
He estimated that there are 10000
Russian troops in Poland, most Of
them guarding supply lines to Ger
many. Poland's security police total
$50 900 in addition to 100000 other
police, he asserted.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Radcliffe College Girl.
Found Dead in Woods.
with Bullet in Head
BY the Assoeioisd Press

WAYLAND, Mass, Nov. 28.-The
nude and frozen body of a brilliant
22-year-old graduate student at
Radcliffe College was found in a
lonely wooded glen here last night
with rifle shot through the head
Associate Medical Examiner ].
Harry McCann said the young
woman, Miss Frances C. Flint, an
honor graduate of Vassar College,
apparently was a suicide but that
he couldn't be certain until an
autopsy was performed.
Finding of the body ended a
search which began Tuesday when
the gril's mother, Mrs. William Flint
of Cambridge, widow of a former
instructor at fashionable st. Paul's
School in Concord, N. H., reported
her missing.
Small Rifle Found.
Police Chief Ernest Damon said
a .22-caliber rifle was found about
10 or Is feet from the body and
that the girls clothing was scat
tered several feet away.
State detectives said they were
trying to determine If it would
have been possible for the young
woman to move after the bullet had
entered her head.
They also were mystified at the
manner in which her clothing was
scattered along the trail, some on
the ground and some on the
branches of bushes.
An automobile, which the girl had
been reported driving earlier In the
week, was discovered in nearby
lane. Chief Damon said rifle box
and bill of sale for rifle from a
greater Boston store were found IN
the car which bore New Hampshire
registration plates.
The girls mother is a former
president of the New Hampshire
League of Women Voters and is a
house mother at Eliot Hall, Rad
cliffe.
Happy, Normal Girl.
Mrs. Leonard w. Cronkhite, dean
of the Radcliffe Graduate School,
described Miss Flint as "a happy,
normal girl" College friends re-
ported she had no particular boy
friend although she dated often.
A graduate of Vassar in 1945, Miss
Flint worked at the Radcliffe Ap-
pointment Bureau before entering
the Graduate School this fall. She
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Industry Leader Condemns
Proposed Ban on Cans
Special Dispatch TO The Stor

CHICAGO, Nov. 28.-The pro-
posed ban by the Department Of
Commerce on metal cans for pack
aging Of beer. coffee, pet foods and
motor oils would be an unnecessary
and unjust hardship on many small
businesses and would accomplish
negligible results, according to a
statement made here today by r. s..
So.insky, president OF the Can
Manufacturers Institute.
The order would seriously affect
the businesses Of many small manu-
facturers and professors, as well as
wholesalers and retailers, he said,
and add q greater burden to the
country's already overtaxed trans
portation system.
The can manufacturing industry,
which will be the most directly and
seriously affected, has had no formal
notice of the departments intentions
nor has it been given any oppor-
tunity to participate in the planning
or to present its story" Mr.. Solinsky
declared, although press reports
from Washington, some Of them
quoting Secretary Hartman and
others merely quoting authoritative
sources, indicate that such q re-
stricting order Is In the making and
shortly to be announced.
Complete banning OF all cans
for the coffee, beer, pet food and
motor oil industries and the conse-
quent disruption Of these businesses
said Mr.. Solinsky, would result In
a saving OF only per cent Of the
country's 1948 steel production. BY
the same token, the total saving in
tin consumption through such an
order would be less than ~ per
cent"
Evening star., 1947-11-28
u. n. Unit Postpones
Action on Indies Bids
By the Assosiotsd Press

BAGUIO, P. l., Nov. 28.-The
United Nations Economic Commis-
sion for Asia and the Far East
(ECAFE) voted, to 4, today to
postpone consideration of rival ap-
plications from the Indonesian Re-
public and Dutch-sponsored East
Indonesia for associate membership
on the commission.
The vote followed an unsuccessful
attempt by 1ndia's r. r. Saksena to
obtain a reconciliation between the
Dutch and Republicans.
Favoring postponement of the is
sue were the Netherlands, United
Kingdom, France, the United States,
China and Australia. Opposed were
the Philippines, Russia, India and
Pakistan.
Prof. H. c. J. H. Gelissen, Neither
lands delegate, said postponement
meant that non-Republican areas of
the Indies would continue to be
represented through the Dutch and
that Indonesians would have nc
voice.
The commission voted 5 to to
permit DR.. Sharfruddin Prawirane-
CARA, Indonesian representative, te
present his case. India, Pakistan
Russia, the Philippines and Aus
tralia voted permission and the
United States, United Kingdom
France and the Netherlands opposed
China abstained.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
$780, 900 Error 10 Leave
indianapolis Broke
BY the Associoted Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2s. - The
bookkeeper who made an error In
the Indianapolis city accounts was
no piker. The mistake was for
$4,000.
AS a result of the error, Mayor
elect AL Feeney, a Democrat, will
take over a city that is broke" on
January l when the Republican re-
gime goes out.
C. S. Ober, city controller, who
announced the error, said Indian
apolis has $330,O00 less cash on
hand than the books show. He
blamed sloppy, haphazard book
keeping" and said no money was
missing.
Mr.. Ober said the city could pay
it's bills up to the end of the year
but would have no cash to start
l948.
Mr.. Feeney. who will investigate,
said he was surprised"
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Couple in Parked Auto
Died Accidentally Of
Fumes, Coroner Finds
SpeeiaI Dispatch to The Stor

MANASSAS, Va, Nov. 28.-Cer-
tificates of accidental asphyxiation
due to carbon monoxide have been
issued in the deaths of Prince
William County couple whose bodies
were found in a parked automobile
yesterday, County Coroner E. H.
Marsteller said today.
The victims were Miss Mary Ida
Wright, 20, of near Nokesville, and
Paul Edward Lion, %, of Manassas
DR.. Marsteller said.
The bodies were discovered by two
Alexandrians who stopped about 9
am. to investigate an automobile
which was parked near Brentville
the lights on and the motor running
according to State Trooper P. P
Herndon.
Mr.. Herndon said the car windows
were closed and the carbon mon
oxide came from either leaking
gas heater or from exhaust seeping
into the car.
David Wright, father OF the deao
girl, said Mr.. Lion and his daughter
had been going together for more
than a year. He said they had a
date" Wednesday night but he did
not know where they went.
The Alexandrians were Albert r
Neuman, jr., TOT Pendleton street
and John w. Padget, 212 North Fair
fax street, Mr.. Herndon said.
Miss Wright was an employe
Of the Peoples National Bank here
Mr.. Lion; son of Mr.. and Mrs
Comfort Lion, Manassas, worked in
an Arlington garage. He was a
grandson of Thomas Lion, former
Prince William County Common
wealth's attorney.
Bodies of both victims were taken
to the Baker 81 Sons funeral home
here. Funeral services will be held
Sunday for both. Miss Wright's will
be from the United Brethren Church
Alden, with interment in the Valley
Church Cemetery, near Alden, and
Mr.. Lions from the funeral home
chapel, with burial in Memorial
Park, Falls Church.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Rites for George Rector
| Held in New York
BY the Associotsd Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 28-Funeral
services for George Rector, restau-
rateur who died Wednesday, were
to be held today at the New York
Funeral Service, 148 East Seventy
fourth street.
The Rev. DR.. Stanley Hensely
Episcopal clergyman of Stamford,
Conn. = where Mr.. Rector made his
home, will officiate
After the service, Mr., Rector's
widow, Mrs. Mabelle Rector, will
leave with the body for Chicago and
will be met at the Hotel Blackstone
tomorrow by her sister-in-law, Mrs
Donald Fraser Of Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Another service will be held at 3
pm. Monday in Chicago in st.
Chrysostom's Church, which Mr..
Rector attended in his youth. Burial
will be in the family vault in Rose
hill Cemetery, Chicago.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Miss Bonnie Hockensmith
Services Scheduled Today

Funeral services for Miss Bonnie
L. Hockensmith. u, of 4709 Eighth
street NV, who died yesterday at
Washington Sanitarium, were to be
held at pm. today at Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will be at Frankfort, KY.
A native of Frankfort. Miss Hook
ensmith came to Washington about
IS years ago. She was employed at
the United States Tariff Commits
sion until about four years ago
when she retired. She was men,
ber of St. Gabriels Church, &c
Grant Circle NV.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs
Charles M. Martin, Frankfort, and
four brothers, Taylor, John, Kirtley
and Hogue Hockensmith, all OF
Frankfort. A niece, Miss Camilla
James, who made her home with
Miss Hockensmith, also survives.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Thermometers rap
Come Law Violutors
BY the Associated Press

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are the
latest threat to game law Uolators
in Colorado.
A warden checking three deer at
night recently was told by the hunt
ers that the animals had been killed
before sundown. But the body tenn
Aperature indicated the bucks had
been felled within the hour.
So the warden did some back
tracking, found empty shells and
fresh entrails on the trail-and Sc
cured convictions and 500 fines for
"spotlighting."
Similar methods will be used on
duck hunters who have eight ducks
and claim four were killed one day,
four another.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
George Curry, IS, Dies;
Governed New Mexico
By the Associotsd Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, Nov.
28.-George Curry. IS, former New
Mexico Territorial Governor, died
here yesterday.
Mr.. Curry came to Fort Stanton,
N. Mex, in 1880 and started his
political career as sheriff in the area
inhabited by the famed outlaw,
Billy the Kid.
He served with Theodore Roose-
velt's Rough Riders. After the
Spanish American War he was sent
to the Philippines. where he be-
came chief of police in Manila and
later Governor of the middle islands.
In 1907 he was recalled by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and named Terri
torial Governor Of New Mexico. He
served until 1910. He was a men,
ber of Congress in 1911-13.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Canadian Seamen Walk OF
II Ships as Strike Nears
By the Associated Press

MONTREAL, Que, Nov. 28.-
Members of the Canadian Seamen's
Union walked of II ocean-going
Canadian ships last night as the
deadline neared for CSU strike ac-
ton at midnight tonight to back
a demand for shorter working hours
and higher pay.
The Shipping Federation of Can
ada and the CSU have failed to con-
clude 1948 contract negotiations.
The CSU charged in telegram to
the Dominion Labor Department
yesterday that the shipowners re-
fused to bargain lin good faith
A strike, If prolonged, would him
der the shipment of food to Britain,
Europeand China.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
Blind Veteran Is Hired
By Paper as CoIumnist
By the Associated Press

TRINIDAD, Colo.-A blind vet
eran of the Pacific war, Monroe L.
Fox, has taken a job as a FULL -f1edged
member of the editorial staff Of the
Trinidad Chronicle-New
Mr.. Fox, who wrote a book, Blind
Adventure" will write a column on
local veteran activities and, his en-
ployers say, will handle other news
assignments from time to time"
Evening star., 1947-11-28

"A. r. WHepfLOLO.
would have received her master OF
arts degree in history and the phi
losophy of religion in June, 1948.
The body was discovered by a
special police officer and his nephew
after passerby reported an auto
mobile had been parked in the
nearbx lane since Tuesday.
Evening star., 1947-11-28
z Jops Killed, 26 Hurt
TNinq to See Emperor
Rx fhs As,eeiutsd Pres,

TOKYO, Nov. rs. - A surging
crowd in Tottori. anxious for a
glimpse Of touring Emperor Hiro-
hito, fell 80 feet when q f1imsy
wooden overpass at the railway sta
ton collapsed. Two died and 26
others were seriously injured.
Arkansas State press., 1947-10-31

Lena Carter of Little Rock is WIS.,
iting her mother, Miss Lille Da-
Wis and her aunt, Mrs, Sawyers
..... Mrs. Lille Ford spent the
18th with her sister, Mrs. Nam
ME Porter Of Junction City ,,.ss.,
MIR. and Mrs, Lloyd Davis were
here shopping October 18th .....,
The high school has organized a
improvement cl Il b ..-... SOME
GOSSIP, Love days are back a.
gain with M. L, and J. f, ..-..- 7,
M. Nj has fallen for bus-riding
student and he is really hand
some .....=. A certain chick got lost
at singing Thursday night and
hasn't been found yet .--... Two
chicks are wondering when the
Hogan boys are going to start to
school.
Arkansas State press., 1947-10-31
PARKDALE
Mrs, Iavenia Maxwell

Mrs. Ella Thornton spent the
week end in THAR with her cousin,
Mrs. Roxie Callum ---. Mrs. En-
ma Lee Carter was taken to the
hospital in GreenVille, Miss. Sat
urday ..=.... October Goth is the
closing day of the First AnnlVer-
sary of the Rev. c. S, Seals as
pastor of St. Paul M, B Church
...... Miss Rhode spent Saturday
evening with Miss Louise Dun
ming. -....... Miss Irene Maxwell re-
turned to Pine Bluff Thursday
night .....-.. Sidney Haynes left last
week for St. Louis, Mo. Mrs.
Clauzell Gray stopped in Wllmot
Saturday .z.... Miss Ruby Mae
Maxwell spent the day with Miss
Betty Jean Washington Sunday
........ Mr.. and Mrs. Willie d, Pace
dllenOcQ services 1T H1c NlIuI I'll
of God in Christ Sunday $500. We
are glad to report that Miss Betty
Jean Washington is recuperating
from pneumonia ...a5.. There's a
home town newspaper that | al
ways like to get There's lot of
information to be gained in read
ing it; and a lot of wit and wis
dom and a lot of good advice, so
| never put it by me, TIL | read
it over twice, The PRESS viii
tell you about the churches and
the work the preachers do, and
the kindly deeds of mercy the
whole religious crew. In coAciu-
sion. l am wishing, l am hoping
that therell be my old home town
newspaper on the doorsteps there
for me ..5 Read the PRESS and
keep up with the news
Arkansas State press., 1947-10-31
e. DORADO
&. Brown

Deacon F. J Avery was injured
in a truck-wagon collision on Oct
4th. Visiting him from California
was his sister, Mrs. Thresa Wilk.
ms and husband ...... Dose Avery
of Camden visited his brothc.' last
Sunday. Deacon Avery is lmproy-
ing rapidly 49,. The carpenters are
doing nicely on Mt. Olive Church.
Expecting to finish il soon -. Mrs.
Gertrude Browlng, daughter Of
Deacon Tavlo4 is visiting her mo-
Their who is i'll Mrs. Browning is
now residing in Buffalo, N. Y. Her
mother has been improving for
the past month -. Mrs. Fannie
Robertson has been on the sick lis
three weeks. She is now up and
recovering. Mrs Mamie Re 5cfson
has fine boy who is three weeks
old. Mother and son are doia4
fine.