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Evening star., 1947-11-08
Knife Victims S Deoth
Certified as Suicide

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
today issued certificate Of suicide
in the case of Eliphalet B. Hopkins,
GO, st. Elizabeths Hospital patient,
who was found dead In his bed yes
terday with his throat slashed.
Mr.. Hopkins, longtime District
resident, had been employed as a
pharmacist in Washington drug
stores for many years before enter
ing the hospital in 1910. Police said
the body was released to Mr.. Hop
kins' only survivor, a brother, John
Hopkins of the 1900 block OF G
street Sc.
Evening star., 1947-11-08

1889, TO August, 0en. Uay.
1910. and from January, 1s41, until
Gen. Patton's death.
Recalls War Incident.
He termed Gen. Patton "a very
sentimental and kindly man." and
recalled one incident as being char
acteristic of this.
1t happened in Tunisia in April,
1913, after the death by bomb of
Capt. Richard Jensen, the Army
commanders aide. On the morning
Gen. Patton was to leave Gafsa and
go back to Morocco to organize the
invasion of Sicily, he was upstairs
in bombed-out building.
Gen. Gay said he told Gen. Pat
ton cts time for us to CO." and that
the warrior asked him to wait
downstairs.
Weeps at Grave.
II later noticed Gen. Patton
go out the back way and he came
back carrying a little bunch of
flowers" related Gen. Gay. eve
got in the car and Gen. Patton di-
rected the driver to motor to the
cemetery. At the cemetery, Gen.
Patton, his orderly, Sergt. George
Meeks, and I went to Capt. Jensen's
grave. Gen. Patton placed the f1ow-
ers at the grave and we all knelt
at the grave while Gen. Patton said
a prayer, tears streaming from his
eyes,"
Gen. Ferenbaugh, who was war
time assistant division commander
of the 83rd "Thunderbolt" Infantry
Division in Europe, has been as
signed to the Army Ground Forces,
Pacific Theater, Fort Shafter, Ha-
waii. Gen. Gay is from Rockport,
ILL.,, while Gen. Ferenbaugh is from
Penn Yam, N. Y.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
Police Press Search
For Suspect in SHOOTING

Police today continued their search
for 26-year-old man who allegedly
fired two pistol shots at Jesse j.
Crawford, 48, at the latter's home,
So H street NE, yesterday.
Police said the man is a former
Army private who was arrested
about a week ago in connection with
theft of luggage from the Union
Station. He was released.
According to Crawford, the COL
ored assailant forced a rear door and
fired two shots at him through his
closed bedroom door. Crawford,
who also is colored, told police he
got under the bed and returned the
fire with two blasts from a shotgun.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
Cab Driver Is Sought
In Shooting Affruy

A man with a bullet hole in his
leg continued to walk as lively as
ever today while police sought the
man who shot him.
Joe Gartrell, A, colored, of the
1900 block of r street NV. told
police the hole was drilled into his
left leg below the knee by a colored
cab driver he knew only as Percy.
The shooting took place in the 100
block of @ street NV, he said.
What saved Gartrell from a worse
fate was the fact his left leg is
wooden, police said.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
u. S. Will Purchase
Canned Mexicun'Meut
BY the Associated Press

Secretary Anderson : announced
yesterday the Agriculture Depart
nient will buy 50,000,000 pounds OF
canned Mexican meat, but none will
be for consumption in the United
States.
The meat will either be resold fo1
export commercially or be used fol
relief in food shortage areas abroad
he said.
The purchase program is designed
to help provide an outlet for Mexi-
can cattle, barred from this country
because of foot and mouth disease
in some parts of Mexico. Mr.. An.
derson said the program will help
relieve overstocked ranges in Mex.
leo outside the area infected by the
disease.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
Flyer Killed Diving in Bay
To Miss Ocean View Homes
RY the Assncinfed Press

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 8.-The pilot
OF a Navy plane apparently chose to
plunge into Chesapeake Bay yester-
day rather than endanger civilian
lives by ripping through Ocean View
homes.
1t. q. g. Ralph Stewart Hume,
U. S. N, %, of Bedford, Mass, was
seen by witnesses to cajole the Grip
pied Corsair seaward away from the
coastline during the dive that took
his life.
Not until the aircraft was Is or
20 feet from the water did 1t. Hume
attempt to escape from the ship.
Evening star., 1947-11-08

S u / t e d IN the
warriors death,
today assumed
command of the
Military District
Of Washington.
The new COM
mander, W h os e
headquarters are
in the Pentagon
B u il di n 6, re-
places Brig. Gen.
G. B. F er e n
baugh.
Gen. Gay was
with Gen. Pat
ton from June,
1870 tn August.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
Protest PIa tanned
On Appointment
|0f CoIasanto
Petition Circulated
Seeking to Reduce
Size of Council

A movement was launched today
to overhaul election machinery Of
the Alexandria City Council sinul-
taneously with disclosure that a
delegation will protest the councils
appointment of Nicholas A. Cola
santo as city manager.
Fifty copies of petition calling
for a referendum on a proposal to
reduce the councils size from nine
to seven members, all to be elected
at large. went into circulation this
morning.
The delegation which on Tuesday
will protest Mr.. Colasanto's selec-
tion, said their objections were
based solely on question of the
appointee's fitness. The spokesman,
who asked that they not be identi-
fled at present. declared Mr.. Cola
santo Is well liked and respected in
the community but lacks quaIifica-
tions for the job.
Colasanto for Comment.
Mr.. Colasanto declined to COM
ment on the situation today.
One sponsor of the petition for q
referendum admitted that the city
manager choice was one thing that
prompted the movement. The Pc
tition, addressed to Circuit Judge
Paul E. Brown, asks that a date be
set for a referendum after sigma
lures of at least 10 per cent of the
qualified voters of Alexandria have
been obtained.
1t was estimated that 5000 per-
sons were qualified at the last gen.
eral election.
Alexandria now elects one coun-
Gilman from each of six wards and
three others at large, one of whom
becomes Mayor. Under the pro-
posed revision, only seven members
would be chosen-all of them at
large.
1914 Referendum Recalled.
The City's voters turned down a
movement for a Council at large in
1914 referendum, 1862 ballots hav-
ing been cast for the ward plan and
l ,149 for the change.
Mayor William T. wilkins, one of
three councilmen who voted against
Mr.. Colasanto's appointment as city
manager, said the appointee "has no
qualifications whatsoever"
Councilman Jack Tulloch defend
ed the appointment, however, saying
he seconded Councilman Edward
Downey's nomination of Mr.. Cola
santo because he felt Mr.. Colasan-
tos qualifications stood out over
the Others" He added that the last
two city managers Of Alexandria
had never held similar Office pre-
viously.
Mr.. Colasanto, an attorney, is past
president of the Lions Club. He
managed the Mile of Dimes cam
paigns in Alexandria for several
years and voluntarily took charge
of the recent Police Boys Club fund
drive.
Mr.. Colasanto's appointment is
effective November IS. The city
manager position became vacant
August l when Carl Budwesky re-
signed after differences with the
Council. City Attorney Joseph A.
Pancoast has been acting city man.
ager.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
HyattsviIIe Ex.Policeman
Sentenced for Forgery

Paul A. Barbour, 26. of 30o5
Bunker Hill road, Mount Rainier
Md. discharged member. of the
Hyattsville town police force, was
sentenced yesterday to serve two
years in the Maryland Reformatory
for Males, on charges of forging
checks.
Barbour, who pleaded guilty at a
hearing last week, was sentenced by
Judge John B. Gray, jr, in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court at
Upper Marlboro. The imposition of
sentence on six other charges was
suspended.
The former policeman was ac-
cused of forging checks totaling
more than $500, in the name of
Frank Coplian. who roomed in the
same house with him.
Evening star., 1947-11-08

Ashton Duffy, son of Mrs. Grace
E. Duffy, 2516 North Curtis road,
Arlington, received the Bravery
Medal from Boy Scout Commis-
sioner H. D. Locking at the Arling-
ton ceremony. The Boy Scout, a
Star newspaper carrier, is credited
with pulling the 2-year-old daugh-
ter of 1t. Col. and Mrs. Walter E.
Brinker from fish pond in the
family's back yard and applying
artificial respiration to revive her
last July.
Seven boys were made Eagle
Scouts, the highest award in the
Scout world. They are:
Evening star., 1947-11-08

A medal for bravery, presented to
a 14-year-old Arlington boy for
saving a neighbor's child from
drowning, was among the SO awards
Evening star., 1947-11-08
Gen. Gay Takes Over
FerenbaughC Command
Of Military District

Brig. Gen. Hobart r. Gay, former
chief of staff for Gen. George S.
Patton, jr., and with him at the time
of the automobile accident which re-
Evening star., 1947-11-08

made to Boy
Scouts of the
w a S h / n g ton
area last night
in two Courts of
Honor.
The Western
District Court
of Honor was
held at Wood
row wills o n
High S C h o o !
and the Arling-
ton ou n t y
Court of Honor
at the Claren-
don Methodist
Evening star., 1947-11-08

FLOWERS FOR PATIENTS AT MOUNT ALTO-For II years
Edwin 701 Sixteenth street NV has been making
weekly visits to veterans Ward to bring them flowers do
mated by District florists Mr. Sampson Oeft) who is in
the securities business of four 3ddegree
who decided that in service hospitals got
regularly The patient Robert W. Andrews Pincard
Ala. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1947-03-30
DroftNeorEnd but7O ,OOOTons
OF Records Must Be Preserved

furniture and finding depots 70,
the mountains of files.
Those files tell the story of the
draft as seen through the records
of the 10000, 900 men who went into
the armed forces and the other
"a 600, 900 who stayed home.
Recorded are the results of six
draft registrations, the lotteries, the
changes in occupational deferment
policies and age limits, the depend
ents that didn't count" and the
ones who did. The records contain
the stories of six years in the lives
of millions of men but they will be
kept confidential.
In the District, records Of 237;995
men and registration cards of 76,14s
men in the 1896 age group will be
stored at the Weightman School
which has been District Selective
Service headquarters. ..
A District draft spokesman said
the records could be transferred
within a few weeks from the Dis
trict's rs boards. How long the re-
naming Al paid District draft en-
ployes will stay on the payroll de-
pends on how much money is al
lotted the District Office to liquidate
To get more than $1,000 men into
uniform and pass on the deferment
of those who stayed home, more
than 1000 volunteers served in the
District draft,
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Mrs. MaIcoImson
Files Divorce Suit
BY the Assoeiuted Press

RENO, Mar. 29.-Mrs. Lucy NAL
colmson, 35, New York City brunei
who was Tilted here a year ago by
former Marine Ace Gregory Pappy)
Boyington for a blond actress, filed
suit for divorce today.
Mrs. Malcolmson's name then was
removed from the record book and
the case placed on secret file.
Mrs. Malcolmson's previous di-
vorce suit against Stewart Malcolm
son, General Motors production
manager in Australia, was dropped
in January 1916, after Mr.. Boying-
ton turned up in Las Vegas, New.
married to Actress Frances Baker
on the day announced for his we'd
ding to Mrs. Malcolmson here.
Neither Mrs. Malcolmson nor her
attorney, Joseph P. Haller, were
available for comment.
Mrs. Malcolmson has been oper-
ating 'Lucky's Guest House" for
divorces here.
Last August at San Diego. Calf
she was freed of grand theft
charges brought against her by Mr
Boyington. He had alleged she en-
bezzled $4,000 of nearly $4,000 he
entrusted to her care while he was
prisoner of the japanese.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

"A country converting to peace Il
due to shed one more of its wartime
powers right to draft men into
the armed forces-tomorrow at mid.
night.
Although the draft itself will end
the records of 100000 men will
be preserved.
A bill awaiting President Tru.
mans signature would put them ir
the care of an Office of Selective
Service Records, headed by a $10,-
000-a-year director.
Under the bill between 10000 and
$1,000 tons of records would gradu-
ally be transferred from county
boards to centralized Federal depots
probably one to each State and the
District. The Selective Service Sys-
tenn would be given a year to COM
plete the transfer and liquidate
itself.
With the end Of the draft, the
Army Is elnbarking on an intensive
recruiting campaign to reach its
goal of 100000 men by July /.
Gen. Eisenhower has estimated that
10000 requirements a month are
needed to reach that goal.
Recruiting officials revealed last
night that the Army plans to launch
a youth program, designed to at
tract young men graduating from
high school.
The youths will be told that the
$75 a month they earn as privates
800 If they go overseas) would
amount to $191 if they had to pay
for their own clothes, rent, food and
medical attention. Emphasis will
be put on the Army as a career, as
an opportunity to learn a skill, and
as a chance to accumulate educa-
tional benefits under the CT bill.
The end of the draft means that
men can throw away their dog
cared draft cards, that 18-year- -olds
no longer have to register, that
draft boards no longer have to be
told of a change of marital status OF
address.
For the $4,000 men who served
without pay in the Selective Serv-
ice System. the end Of the draft
puts period to volunteer service
stretching over more than six years
Gradually reduced paid stats will
spend the next months getting the
records into order, disposing OF
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Ruhr Miner Walkout
Heighfens. Tension
Over Food SHORTAGE
BY the Associoied Press

| ESSEN, Germany, Mar. pa
walkout of 1900 Dortmund coal
miners injected a new note of seri-
ousness today into Ruhr food short
age demonstrations marked SO far
by considerable sympathy on the
part of the British occupiers.
| Officials watched closely whether
the Ruhr's other 250,O00 miners
might fall into step with the Dort-
mund men who were cheered by
their wives as they left the pits
while 1000 hunger marchers pa
raded the downtown streets and
sent deputations to British and Ger
man municipal authorities.
Schumacher Speaks Today.
The Dortmund walkout was the
first instance in three days Of Ruhr
strikes and demonstrations that
miners left the jobs so essential to
German and European economy.
Attention centered on an address
scheduled tomorrow by DR.. Kurt
Schumacher, leader of the Social
Democratic Party, at Oberhausen,
a few miles north of Dusseldorf,
where 100000 demonstrators yester-
day stoned British buildings and
overturned British jeeps.
1t was generally expected that
the Schumacher speech would hold
the key to the course the Germans
will follow.
The Dortmund strike and DEM
onstration was without incident.
Four mines were affected by the
walkout of miners demanding that
the daily food ration of 1850 calo-
ries be met in full. The demon
stratorss said they had been receiv-
ing hardly two-thirds the official
ration. The miners agreed to re-
turn to work Monday, but said they
would strike again unless their
families received their full food al
lotments.
Deputations Received.
II the demonstrators expected to
be met by a display of machine
guns and military force they were
mistaken. Their deputations were
received courteously by military Off
cials.
+ So far British officials have shown
a dispositions to give the Germans
a free hand in voicing protests
over their hard living conditions,
but it was question how long this
would continue if the vital produc-
ton of coal is interrupted to any
extent.
1--WE are letting them have their
heads and sounding off in hopes
they will feel better and get on
with the job said one British otfi-
cial.
On their part the Germans too
have shown restraint. Only one
person has been injured in demon
strations estimated to have in
volved 100000 people the last three
days in Essen, Dortmund, Duessel-
dorf, Aachen, Wuppertal, Hagen
Cologne and scattered Ruhr towns.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Polish Defense Deputy
Slain by Ukrainians
To Have State Funeral
BY the Assoe;ossd Press

by me Associated PresS
WARSAW, Mar. 2e.-The body Of
assassinated Gen. Karl Swerczewski
was returned by plane today from
Sanok to his native Warsaw, where
q state funeral Is to be held.
. An official announcement said the
general, y deputy minister Of de-
fense, was killed yesterday by a
band OF Ukrainian Nationalists
while inspecting military posts in
the Sanok district OF Southwestern
Poland.
An ofncer and two soldiers also
were killed in the machinegun
attack on Gen. Swerczewski's auto
mobile, the government announce
ment said.
The Sanok region has long been
a stronghold OF Ukrainian Ma
tionalists, who have been raiding
villages and attacking Poles, officials
said, in apparent retaliation for the
expulsion of Ukrainians into Russia.
Military forces are searching for
the "Ukrainian Fascists" who
assassinated the general, the gov
ernment said, but has not yet
apprehended them.
Tributes from high government
officials published today called Gen.
Swerczewski a fighter for freedom" !"
The 50-year-old officer was one of
Poland's best known army leaders.
He fought with Loyalist Republicans
in the Spanish Civil War under the
name Gen. Walter" and, in the last
war, commanded Polish forces which
crossed the Oder and Neisse Rivers.
He was named second vice minister
Of defense last year.
Gen. Swerczewski recently visited
the United States, Canada, Mexico
and England.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
5000 Displaced in Reich
To Sail for Brazil in Nav
By the Assoeiotsd Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar. 2e
The Inter- Governmental Commit
tee Of Refugees announced today
that 5000 displaced persons will sail
for Brazil from Germany in May in
the first shipment of tens of thou
sands of Europeans expected to be
settled in South America. =
Two American ships have been
chartered to carry about 1000 fami-
lies from Bremerhaven. Maj. Gen
John F. Wood, retired, deputy chief
OF the committee, said further ship
ments to Brazil would depend on
success OF the initial experiment.
A spe:ial Venezuelan delegation
arrived in London to discuss with
committee representatives q pro-
posed agreement to transfer $4,000
displaced persons to Venezuela.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Bethany College Alumni
To Dine TuesddY Niqht

Representative Love, Republican,
Of West Virginia, will be guest of
honor at a banquet of the Bethany
College Alumni Association at pm.
Tuesday at the Lafayette Hotel.
Mr.. Love was graduated from
Bethany College, Bethany, w. Va,
In 1924. He was president of the
alumni association for 1945-46.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

ROME, Mar. 20 Up.-Dr. Mario
Tomassini, director general of i'm
migration in the Italian Foreign
Ministry, estimated today that 30
600 to 10000 italian emigrants would
leave for Argentina by the end OF
| the year,
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Spend few hours at Arthur Murroy's and
you'll be in great demond for parties!

4
Arthur Murray's cosy Mesie
Step method and the skill Of
his ehormins teachers ore the
winning seombinotien for you
You leorn the smortest
steps in on amosinsly short
time i. you dones with sroes
and confidence forever otter.
You know you look we'll done
Ing.
Why miss out on fun and
Juan and Ethel
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Change in U. S. ENJOYS
To Hungary Expected
BY the Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Mar. 29.-
Reliable informants said today that
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld would be
replaced soon as United States min
lister to Hungary, in routine State
Department change that had no
bearing on recent political affairs
in Hungary.
The report caused considerable
speculation in Hungarian political
circles. however.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
FOUND.

COIN PURSE, small: l4th and Park I'd
NV: owner may have upon proper identi-
fcation. Cal Monday. EX. $500. Ext. 6S.
DOG, male, black, large, Sunday. March
23: looks like Irish setter bird dog. Ii.
o70a -
EYEGLASSES, pair. in shell frame; found
at 18th and II stS NV, about 80 p m
March 81. Call at THE HUFFER-SHINN
OPTICAL CO., 1413 l. st. NV. 30'
FOUNTAIN PEN, Eversharp; Saturda,
afternoon. Call FM. 3014.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

invitations when it's so cosy
so surprisingly inexpensive-to
get the very finest danes In
ssruetion1 You'll enjoy every
minute Of your lessons. And
how srond you'll feel at parties
when the very best donesrs
rave about your doneins.
Don't woit Come to the
studio tomorrow or phone Ex.
400.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Kentucky Group to Meet

Kentuckians in the District will
gather at 8 pm. Tuesday in the
Willard Hotel to discuss work Of the
Committee for Kentucky, Harrison
Colson, committee member, an
nounced yesterday. The Congress
sional delegationa1 from Kentucky
have been invited, he said,
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The Answers

/. Secretary of the Treasury.
2.iJune 1945,
3. About 100000 have been
repatriated; the others have been
careh-for by the United Nations
Relik f and Rehabilitation Admin
q, THE failure of Congress to
pasS appropriation bills for the
fisc4 year beginning July LIST;
onlW one of twelve annual appro-
priation bills had been passed.
5.sA well-known woman writ
6.3Fifty-five,
IL Admiral Chester w. Nimitz.
8. The United States.
g.. Former President DeGaulle.
Id Yes; write CARE, so Broad
ST., New York 4, N. Y.
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know Au,srica)


Arthur Sweetser, chief of the
Washington office of the I'm De-
partment of Public Information,
born in Boston, SO years ago.
Ri. Rev. Henry St. George
Tucker of New York, retired pre-
siding bishop of the Episcopal
Church, born at Warsaw, Va, 70
years ago.
Kathleen Norris of Palo Alto,
Cal, novelist, born in San Fran
cisco. 81 years ago.
DR.. Bella Schick of New York,
eminent medical scientist and
pedistrician, born in Hungary, 20
years ago.
Robert J. Watt of Washington,
D. c., American Federation of
Labor's International Representa-
tive, born in Scotland, So years
ago.
Barbara Stanwyck, screen star,
born Brooklyn, N. y, 40 years
ago.
Ginger Rogers, screen star,
born at Independence, Mo-, IS
years ago.
Albert Goldman, postmaster of
New York City, born there, s.
years ago.
Bowen c. ("Sonny') Tufts, 3rd,
actor, born in Boston, IS years
I'ago.
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Ai~N 4RES0A .SAiS< aAo0H k|CSai
and even see floating teeth.
This last illusion, of his own
devising, was exhibited before
fellow members of the Society of
American Magicians in New
York. 1t proved such a hit he
demonstrated it at the Internal
tional Brotherhood of Magicians'
convention in Pittsburgh and
won first prize.
Just sit back in your dental
chair and watch DR.. Braude go
through his routine. He shows
black cloth, front and back, be-
. tween bis two outstretched
hands. Suddenly a set of false
teeth appear at the upper edge
of the cloth, and float from side
to side.
They yawn. They disappear and
show up grinning over DR..
Braude's shoulder They return
to the cloth and coyly play hide
and seek.E Then they disappear
and once again the cloth is shown
front and back.
And while you're still open
mouthed-in wonder, DR.. Braude
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Who Knows?

l. Who is John w. Snyder?
2. When did the United Ma
tons come into being?
8. What has happened to the
12,O0O,000 persons displaced in
World War II?
4. What is meant by saying
that there was an appropriation
tie-up? g.
s., Who is I. A. R. Wylie?
g.. How many members belong
to the United Nations?
T., Who is top commander OF
the u. S. Navy?
g.. What nation has the largest
proved oil resources?
g.. What French leader declared
himself anti-Communist and pro-
Western? |
10. Can one send food pack
ages to Great Britain?
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3 SISTERS DIE IN ACCIDENT

Wlkes-Barre, Pa. - Three sis
tersi were instantly killed and a
fou{th seriously injured when
theit automobile ran wild down a
steeb mountain road, plunged
down an. embankment and rip
ped into "a grove of trees. The
dead We're Mrs. Frances Dewane,
SIS, collegeville, Pa; Bessie Sti-
erlyt SO, and Margaret Stierly AZ,
of Oaks, Pa. Seriously injured
was miss Gladys Stierly, also of
Oaki T.