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Evening star., 1947-09-06
Public Subseribes $50
For FamiIy's Wafer Bill

The Unangst family Of 1l13 South
Carolina avenue Sc, which has
been buying water from neighbors
this summer at IS cents bucket,
today was assured of a steady supply.
The water had been cut of be-
cause of an unpaid water bill of
$62l4 left by q previous occupant.
John J. Unangst, head Of the family,
suffered fractured spine this sum-
mer and could not pay.
The family's plight was described
on radio program today and $50
was raised.
Mrs. Unangst said she would pay
the bill Monday. but would also seek
legal advice as to whether she would
be justified in withholding the
money from future rent payments
until the 1924 has been deducted.
According to Mrs. Unangst, the
water bill was accumulated before
her family rented the house in April.
The owner refuses to pay the water
bill, she said, because 1t was left
unpaid by a previous owner.
With no other source available,
the Unangsts had been forced to get
neighbors to haul them buckets of
water for their washing and cooking
needs.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Prairie Fire
Continued From First Page.)

have burned. Some homes saved
by blowing around them to turn
up a protective strip of earth.
Scores Of persons probably owed
their lives to members Of the motor
patrol who raced ahead of the
fire, warning families to evacuate.
The fire started at two spots
several miles apart about 40 miles
east of Pierre. Sparks from q COM
bine were blamed for one blaze,
cigar for the other.
Famed by a southwest wind, the
fire spread northward over a thinly
settled section from 20 to IS miles
along q line ~ miles long.
Late in the day the wind shifted.
driving the flames back toward
Holabird, Harold and Highmore,
the three villages near where the
fire began. The villages have COM
bined population of about 1000.
The fact that the fire was return
ing over lands partially burned gave
weary fire fighters time to set up q
20-mile backfire along the United
States Highway "A and halt the IRE
before it reafhed the three towns.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Jewish Children Shipped
To- Palestine, British Say
~ fhs A,soe;oted Press

i LONDON, Sept. GA Foreign
Once spokesman declared yesterday
that Jewish children were being
shipped" to Palestine as illegal i'm
migrants without their parents con-
sent and that Britain was preparing
to take international steps to stop
the "inhuman" traf1c.
He said parents in Hungary Of Is
children of the Exodus 1947, now
awaiting Decentralization at Ham,
burg, had declared their children
were shipped without their consent.
He said the parents had asked for
repatriation of their children.
The spokesman added that there
was reason to believe that as many
as 200 of the TOO children among
the 4, 400 passengers of the immigra-
ton ship Exodus may have been
embarked without the prior consent
of their parents. He said the organ
ization responsible for this inhunaan
traffic in young children" was
Hasomeir Hagair, a Marxist Jewish
youth group.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Socialists May Withdraw
From Hungarian Coalition
by the kssocioted Press


BUDAPEST, Sept. 6.-Members Of
the Social Democrat Party say the
national Executive Committee may
decide in a meeting Monday to
withdraw from the Communist
dominated coalition government.
They declared yesterday that this
might be the result of dissension
within the party over last Sundays S
parliamentary election, in which
some Social Democrats accused the
Communists of vote fraud.
The coalition-Communists, Social
Democrats, Smallhohers and Ma
tional Peasants-won the election
The Communists led in the balloting
With better than a fifth of the popu-
lar vote.
iSome Social Democrats have de-
nbunced pro- Communists in their
party, led by Deputy Premier Arpad
SEakasits. Mr.. Szakasits yesterday
denied that he had been pulled out
OF the post of party secretary-gen-
efal.
1.-The Party Congress elected me, u
he said, land only the Party Con-
gtess can remove me. a"
The Communists planned "vc-
tory demonstration" In Millennium
Square here today.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Teamsters Will Submit
Taft.HartIey Affidavits
By the Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 6-The
international Brotherhood of Team
sters. AFL, will submit afidavits
afdrming that none of its officers or
Executive Board members are Com
nfunists, Daniel J. Tobin, interna-
tional president, said last night.
Mr. Tobin said the afidavits
would be submitted to the National
Labor Relations Board, in compli-
ance with the Taft-Hartley Act.
Mr.. Tobin said in a statement:
The International Brotherhood
of teamsters was the first union in
America to deny membership tc
Communists. This was done in ar
amendment to our constitution
adopted in 1910. 1t has been rig
Idly enforced.
t'At our convention In San Fran
cisco last month it strengthened this
section of the constitution to in
clude all other subversive elements
50 far as the teamsters are con-
eerned. there is no need for this
section Of theATaft-Hatley Act"
Evening star., 1947-09-06
3 Women SIugged in HoIdups;
Robbery of 2 More Reported
Screams Frighten Off
Bandit Empty-Honded
At Shop in Northeast

Three women were slugged, but
not seriously injured, by holdup men
late yesterday, while two other
women also reported to police that
they had been robbed.
The screams Of Miss Dora Lee
May. 80. frightened of one robber
empty-handed. police reported. but
not before he had bruised her face
and loogened q tooth. Miss May,
who lives at 1921 Oates street NE,
was alone in Pages Dress Shop,
1900 H street NE, which she man
ages, when the bandit entered.
She said the man, described as 81
years old and colored, lured her to
the rear of the store on the pretext
Of making purchase when he
forced her into a dressing room
Miss May told police she screamed
her head off," The bandit struck
her in the face and fed.
Miss May said the man missed a
considerable amount Of money in
the cash register.
Less than an hour later, police
said, a man answering the same de-
scription escaped with $27 in the
holdup Of an Aristo Cleaners shop
2l22 Eighteenth street NV.
An employe, Ruth Robinson, 1881
Benning road NE, said the mar
asked for laundry, but then put his
hand in his pocket as If carrying 8
pistol and demanded money. He
took the money and fled. she said.
The third woman victim, Mrs
Anna Baker, so, said a bandit strucl
her on the head with his fist II
Peoples Bakery, 90 Fourth stree
S.W., before escaping with $40.
Mrs. Bakers husband, Tony, whit
was in the back of the store, said h
heard his wife scream. He told po
lice he found her lying on the floor
The bandit was gone, he said.
Three colored men beat a fourth
woman and knocked her down neal
midnight last night and stole hel
purse containing only 10 cents
Virginia Jones, 2519 Universit!
place NV, told police the mer
struck her as she walked in the l40t
block of Euclid street NV.
Marguerite Riquier, an employe O.
the French Embassy. reported thief
of two brooches which she said were
valued at $4,000. She told police sh,
discovered yesterday that a THE
had broken into her apartment, il
the 1700 block of r street NV, tt
steal the jeWelry.
Evening star., 1947-09-06

of the most essential measurements
in astronomy but in the past has
been subject to great individual
errors in Judgment. The new de-
vice not only replaces the human
eye but the Photographic plate in
some of the most vital work Of
astronomers.
A device for measuring the
brightness of stars in full daylight
was described by John S. Hall OF
Amherst College. While it has
been possible in the past to see
stars in daylight through special
telescope attachments, it has been
impossible to estimate their bright
ness. The new device, based on a
very sensitive photo-electric cell,
makes possible many hitherto i'm
possible astronomical observations
in daytime.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Henry
CONTINUED From First Page.)

tance traversed in a year by light
moving at about 10000 miles a
second.
If such an object were much
smaller, it probably would be con-
sidered a planet, the astronomers
explained, since it would have no
light of its own. Jupiter, largest
of the suns planets, is only a hun
dredth the size of the sun.
Two Siamese-twin stars, revolving
around each other so close that
they are actually in physical con-
tact, we're reported by DR.. Olin j.
Eggen of the University of Wiscon-
sin. The universe is filled with
double stars, each Of which whirls
around the other, but members OF
such pairs usually are many millions
of miles apart. The close proximity
OF this pair was determined by DR..
Eggen through study Of the light
variations as one eclipsed the other.
Found in Northern Heavens.
This strange double star was
found in the constellation of Boetes
in the northern heavens. 1t ap-
parently constitutes, as did the
tiny star discovered by DR.. Alden,
part of a triple-star system, the
two stars not only whirling around
each other. but around q third and
much larger celestial body separated
from them by about 1000, ,ooo, 900
miles.
A remarkable new instrument by
which 1t is possible to take the
pulse" of faint stars and which will
20 far to bring about the mechani-
zation of astronomy was reported
by Drs. William Blitzstein and l..
M. Levitt of the Flower Observatory,
Philadelphia.
This is a pulse counting photo
electric photometer" based on ex-
tremely delicate radio equipment
developed during the war. Light
from any luminous object, it was
explained, Is emitted in minute
pulses, known as photons.
Set Up Electric Current.
From such body as the sun,
countless billions of these would
fall on anybody exposed to its light
in fraction of a second. With a
very faint star, however, very few
are able to get through. When
they fan on a very delicate photo
electric cell, they set up minute
electric currents. In the device
described today, these currents are
amplified 100000 times and as
many as 100000 pulses can be
counted in q second.
The device makes possible an &C
curate estimate Of the brightness
| of . very fint star. Thn 10 one
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Carnival Worker Gets
Five Years in Staying
~ the Asse .iassd Press

BEAUMONT, Tex, Sept. g.
John Francis Tammany, carnival
worker arrested last month in Sui
Ivan, Ill.,, after q 4-year-old girl
recognized his picture in 3 de-
tective magazine, pleaded guilty to
murder without malice yesterday
and was sentenced to five years In
prison.
He was charged with murder In
the fatal beating Of Eugene Weav-
er, another carnival worker, here
q year ago. The charge was re-
duced On motion Of the State.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Jews
CONTINUED From First Page.

get those concerned into the dis
embarkation area.
Correspondents and photograph
ers will be confined by the authori-
ties to two Enclosures to watch the
Decentralization.
Vaughan Berry, British regional
commissioner for Hamburg, will IN
vite the Jews to come ashore peace
ably. His appeal will be relayed by
loudspeakers and translated into
several languages, including Ger
man and Yiddish.
If the appeal fails, Mr.. Berry said,
he will very reluctantly hand over
to the military commander, who
will take steps to enforce disem-
barkation."
He added: I'VE are not going to
hurry this. The Jews will be given
plenty of time to make up their
minds what they want to do"
Minimum Force" to Be Used.
He said they would have the sit
uation explained to them while the
ships were travelling down the Elbe
as we'll as on arrival.
The minimum of force will be used
by the soldiers, who will be unarmed
Mr.. Berry said, but truncheons, flre
hoses and tear gas will be "on hand.
IT the landing is peaceable, the
first shipload of about $500 Jews
would be in their camps near Lue-
beck by noon. But If there Is re-
sistance. the time table was planned
to get them housed before nightfall.
Stripped hospital trains, each
coach holding 80 passengers, will be
used to carry the Jews from the
quayside to the camps. A hot drink
and some food would be provided
on the train and q hot meal would
be ready one hour after arrival in
camp.
Screening" Of the immigrants by
British intelligence and representa-
tives of the International Refugee
Organization would begin as soon az
possible, said Air Vice Marshal
Champion de Crespigny. who as re-
gional commissioner Of Schleswig-
Holstein is responsible for the camps
He said the immigrants would be
released progressively as screen.
ings" were completed until by the
end Of two weeks the camps would
be empty, the Jews having been dis
persed according to their classifica-
ton in the screening" Those o1
German origin would be classed al
refugees and settled in the German
economy. receiving German ration
scales and liable to direction Of
labor under German law.
Those IRO officials classed as dis
placed persons will come under IRC
care. be put In DIP. camps and be
eligible In due course for migration
to various countries, including Pal
estine.
In addition to having to watch
the debarkation from enclosures,
correspondents will not be permit
ted to board the ships till all the
are OF, Mr.. Berry told
them yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-09-06

Oh MS ulc, Will
be held at 2 pm.
M o n d y. Mr..
Med Dowell died
early yesterday
at his home, 1900
Thirty = six h
street NV.
The Rev. DIR.
Selwyn K. Cock
rell will omciate
at the services
at Ga W lie RS
c h pc /, 1756
Penns VI v a n ! a
av ue N. w.
Burial will be
in Rock Greek
Cennetery.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Report Of 1idul Wave
Called FuIse Alarm
By is,s Assoeiotsd Press

MANILA, Sept. 6.-The United
States Navy fleet weather station
said today that . report by Royal
Air Force pilot that q huge tidal
wave was moving northeastward
between Luzon and Formosa ZAP
parently was false alarm"
The station said . search Of the
area by Navy weather reconnais-
sance planes disclosed no sign OF an
ocean\ disturbance.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Double Fall Is Fotol

MERGED, Calf. R.-Mariposa
County officers pieced together this
story Of the fatal double fall Of Ed
ward Scott, 81. He fell from hay
wagon, fractured his skull. but didn't
realize the gravity Of his injury. 30
he climbed back on the wagon-and
fell again, breaking his neck.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Curs Drop in Hurbor

BALTIMORE, Sept. 6 R.-There
was a sticky mess at the bottom Of
the harbor opposite Clinton street
yesterday because two box cars
loaded with flour broke loose from
q switch engine, smashed through
the rail- stops. csreened across the
street and dropped into 20 feet Of
wateA
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Miss VoeIker Resigns Post

Miss Anna M. Voelker. director OF
the Alexandra Visiting Nurse Serv-
ice, has resigned her post to become
director of the new Lehigh county,
Pa, Public Health Nursing Service.
She has been with the Alexandra
service since June, 1916.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Miss Canada Chosen
AS FinaIist for Title
OF Miss America
Ry the Assoeictsd Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. g.
Miss America, 1947, will be crowned
tonight, concluding a five-day con-
test with 81 lovely entries compet-
ing for the title of most beautiful
girl.
The preliminary contests ended
last night with Miss Canada, Mar
garet Marshall Of Toronto. winning
the bathing suit division and Min
neapolis' Elaine Mary Campbell,
Miss Minnesota, the talent contest.
Both these beauties, the former a
honey blond and the latter brown
haired. are expected to qualify for
the seminal round Of IS today,
along with Wednesday and Thurs
days bathing suit and talent win
ners. The semifinalists' names will
be announced tonight.
Five finalist will be selected from
this group, and from the final five
will come the winner of the Miss
America title and the S. 900 scholar
ship that goes with it. The balance
of $4,000 worth of scholarships Is
to be split up among the semi
flnalists.
The victories last night of Miss
Canada-first nonresident of the
United States to enter the contests
and Miss Minnesota broke the vir-
tual stranglehold which Southern
bellies had held on first places in
the first two nights of bathing suit
and talent preliminaries.
Miss Marshall, the only blond to
win a preliminary contest, took
bathing suit honors with the follow
ing statistics: Five feet, six inches,
weight 100 pounds, blue eyes and
35-inch bust.
Miss Campbell won the talent
test by singing an aria from the
opera, Romeo and Juliet" A voice
student for six years, she sobbed
when told OF her victory and was
unable to speak for several minutes.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Weather Report

District of Columbia - Rather
cloudy today and tonight with scat
tered thundershowers likely late
this afternoon and early tonight.
Highest about 80. Lowest tonight,
SO. Tomorrow fair, warm and dry,
with highest in middle S0s.
Virginia - Rather cloudy with
showers and a few thunderstorms
this afternoon and early tonight.
Tomorrow fair, warm and dry, ex-
cept a few afternoon thunderstorm
ers near the coast.
Maryland-Rather cloudy, show
ers and a few thunderstorms this
afternoon and early tonight. To-
morrow, fair, warm and dry.
Wind velocity, m.p.h.; direction,
east northeast.
District Medical Society ragweed
pollen count for "a hours ending
$50 am. September 6-7s grains per
cubic yard of air; incomplete due
to rain.
River Report.
prom United States Ensineers)
Potomac River clear At Hsrpers Ferry
and at Great Fails; shenandoah clear At
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Washington Entront Winner
In Mrs. America Division
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

FORT LEE. N. j., Sept. 6.-Mrs.
Connie Sprad1in Ballowe of Wash
ington and Mrs. Kay Kiefer of
South Ozone Park, Long Island, are
the regional winners in the Mrs.
America beauty contest.
Mrs. Ballowe, Il, of 1903 Biltmore
street NV, was crowned Mrs. South
Atlantic States at Palisades Amuse-
ment Park last night, and Mrs.
Kiefer, also 81, named Mrs. North
Atlantic States.
Both will compete in the national
finals of the contest for married
beauties next winter.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
A. Lynn Mcdowell Rites
To Be Conducted Monday
AY the Asseeiotsd Press

Funeral services for A. Lynn Nc
Dowell, So, vice president OF the
Washington Petroleum Products,
Inc, and q District merchant most
Evening star., 1947-09-06

Moscow has established . naunici.
pel barber school, with tuition freA
Evening star., 1947-09-06

Mr.. Mcdowell was president OF
Mcdowell Bros, Inc, gasoline
dealers.
Evening star., 1947-09-06

HiFh and Low for Last "A Hoafs.
High, 81, at ! "a pm.
Low. 70, at $50 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, Q6. on August Il.
Lowest, z, on February b.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United states Coast and
Evening star., 1947-09-06

RfeciDItatf0n.
Monthly precipitation In inches In tbs
apttaI (current month 10 date):
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time had surged into town from
all sections of the state. Princi-
pal "A. A. Alexander and Coach
j. M. E. Turner expressed keen
disappointment at the postpon-
ment that may seriously alter the
Panthers conference sanding.
Amos Wright, poular bandmas-
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Fredericksburg
Service At
Jackson College

At 400 pm. Sunday, November
%, 2re-Thanksgiving service
will be held during the regular
Vesper Service hour in Paul B.
johnson Hall at Jackson College
There will be special Thanks
giving message. Music will be rem
dered by the Vesper Choir whihc
will consist of fifty-two voices
The public is invited to attend
this service.
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ter Of the Crack BrOokhaven Unit this writing Painters are
in unofficial statement sadsnappng through drills IN prspar
that the homecoming wOudaton game with the La
be played December 5th. Atnier Bulldogs Jackson
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caused officials of the Brookhav The game meet
and Meridian High Shoowas been home coming for
cancel their High Schools many
clash students grads who y game
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BY James RundIes

Brookhaven, Miss. - A driving
rain that fell throughout the day
and continued falling until the
bame time here Friday night
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ATTENTION
Special Announcement OF Special Opportunity!

ALL MINISTERS AND CHRISTIAN WORKERS: FREE SCHOLAR
SHIPS WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL STUDENTS WHO ENROLL IN DAY
OR NIGHT SCHOOL AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT WHO ENROLL BE-
FORE THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, FRIDAY DEC
EMBER 19 1947
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Brookhaven-
Meridian Game
Cancelled

HOMECOMING SET FOR
DECEMBER 5th
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ENROLL NOW!

The Mississippi Baptist Seminary offers standard Theology
and Christian Tronng Combination literary subjects
leading to certificates, diplomas degrees
Evening star., 1947-09-24
SzYmezak Calls Ruhr Coal
Key 70 Europe's Recovery

Increased coal production by Ger
many from the Ruhr mines is the
key to Europe's recovery, M. S.
Szynaezak, member OF the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, told Washington members
Of the Controllers Institute of Amer
lea in the Carlton Hotel last night.
Reconstruction Of the German
economy, said Mr.. Szymczak, Is es-
sentiaI for rehabilitation of the dem
ocratic countries in Western Europe
During the past month, two de-
cisions have been reached which
refer to the Anglo-American zones
in Germany and may become of
great Importance for economic
progress in Europe.
The first of these discarded the
old level-of-industry plan adopted
in March, 1916, in so far as 1t ap-
piled to the western zones and sub
stituted new and higher production
goals which are intended to restore
German industrial activity in many
fields to about the level of 1896.
The second decision gave the
United States joint responsibility
with Britain for supervising coal
mining in the Ruhr and provided
that actual management of the
mines should be a responsibility of
the Germans.
Evening star., 1947-09-24
Tax Lawyer Indicted
In EmbezzIementCas

Bernard Nimro. Washington tax
lawyer, was indicted yesterday on
charges of embezzlement and lar
ceny after trust on charges pre-
sented to the grand jury by 10y w.
Henderson, chief of the State De-
partment's Office Of Near Eastern
and African Affairs, who had sought
Mr.. Nimro's advice on income taxes.
Nimro was specifically charged
with converting to his own use
$2,628.26, which had been intrusted
to him by Mr.. Henderson.
Mr.. Henderson told the jury he
had gone to Nimro on the advice of
friends to file his 1945 income tax.
In August, 1916, he said, he received
refund of $2,628. He was assured
that the refund was legal, he said
but since he was about to leave
the country, he insisted on giving
Nimro the refund to be held in
case Of further action by the In
ternal Revenue Bureau.
Mr.. Henderson said that on Au-
gust II, 1947, he learned that Nimro
had deposited the Government
check under his own name. He
said he attempted to reach Nimro
Evening star., 1947-09-24
Author Of Religious Text Leaves
Mental Hospital After 20 Years

finement, walked calmly out the
main gate of the institution, kissed
his 83-year- old mother who had OBJ
tanned the court order for his free
dom, and told reporters that his
only feeling concerning his confne-
ment was that of hating a great
evil, like Abe Lincoln hated slavery"
His release from the institution
had been ordered last week by Vice
Chancellor Wilfred H. Jayne, who
had described Mr.. Reid as mot a
patient, but a prisoner" in the State
mental hospital. The chancery Judge
said Mr.. Reid had suffered mot the
delusion, but the actuality that he
is deprived of his liberty"
Mr.. Reid had been committed to
the hospital in 1927 as "paranoiac'
after. being arrested for writing
what the prosecution described as a
series of threatening letters to 125
State officials. Throughout the pc
riod of his confinement, he sent
other letters to State officials and
the press protesting that he was
being prosecuted for his beliefs.
Evening star., 1947-09-24

by telephone and mail, but was
unsuccessful. Nimro has Offices at
1914 K street NV.
The grand jury also indicted
Wash Ford, 20, colored, 329 Virginia
avenue S.W., for assault with in
tent to commit carnal knowledge
on an 8-year-old colored girl who
lived in the house where he boarded