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Evening star., 1948-08-03
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and on the way back stopped for a
red traffic light near the Treasury
Suddenly a man jumped in my
cab and said he'd been robbed by
two men. He wanted to 60 to a
police station, but first asked me
to circle the block
The man later was identified as
Thomas Mitchell of Bayonne, N. j.
When we returned, my passenger
said he saw the men who had
robbed him getting in a cab at Fiji
teenth street and New York ave.
nue." Mr.. Steinberg continued.
Again the signal three" was
flashed to Mr.. Gresham, and again
police were called.
Il followed the cab in which the
two suspects were riding until We
reached Tenth and D streets NV,
said Mr.. Steinberg. There a motor
cycle policeman made the arrest"
The suspects were identified a:
1COl &c 4dy1ol, 40, oAO N1SAdlS
Morris, 19, both of the first BLOCK
of Bates street NV.
They were ordered held today fol
grand jury action on a charge o1
robbery by Municipal Court Judge
Almond w. Scott. Bond was sci
at $500 apiece. Both pleaded not
guilty.
Mr.. Mitchell told the court the
defendants had taken a wallet anc
thesis from him as he sat In
Lafayette Park. He said the thesis
represented two and half years
work.
The cab driver, who served in the
Pacific, with a Navy Construction
Battalion during the war, and who
is receiving disability pay for in
juries suffered then, said he Is
going to quit working at night.
IT'S too exciting" he said.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Traffic Ticket Adjustments
Din 10 New Low for Year

The number Of traffic tickets ad-
justed last week dropped to
new low for the year, the Police
Department reported, with IS warn
ings and cancellations.
The lowest previous number was
90 during the third week of June.
The highest number was recorded
in 1948 for the week of February
Is, when 146 were reported.
All of last weeks adjustments
were warnings. except for four can
cellations by the traffic division.
A list of warnings by precincts
follows: No. precinct, 10 warn
ings; No. 2, S; No. 3, 8; No. 4, 4;
No. S, 2; No. 6, S; No. 7, 8; No. 8. 4;
No. 8, /; No. 10, 4: No. II, g; No. H.
s; No. 13, 8, and No. IA. 0. The
traffic division issued II warnings
and the four cancellations.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Moscow
Continued From First Page9

tlcnal tension might be easing. Au-
thoritative sources said progress al
ready had been made among the
four powers. The three diplomats
refused to say anything about
their conversation with Mr.. Stain.
AS they hurried to the American
Embassy. where other officials OF
their countries awaited them, cor
respondents followed. They had to
pursue Gen. Smith up the steps be-
fore they could stop him. Finally
he turned and laughed:
Wait minute. You can't 1c-
low me right into my office. We're
having a meeting there tonight, you
know.
"Generalissimo Stain and MIR
Molotov received US all at a meet
ing. There probably will be COM
munioue to that effect tonight.
don't think there will be anything
more. I'm sorry, but that's ALL"
Reds Issue COmmunique.
The communique issued by the
Soviet government said merely.
u. v. Stain, chairman OF the
Council of Ministers of the U. S., S
R., today received Gen. Bedell
Smith, Ambassador of the United
States of America; M. Yves Chatalg-
neau. the French Ambassador. and
Mr.. Frank Roberts, personal repre-
sentative of the Foreign Minister
of Great Britain, Mr.. Bevin.
"V. NJ Molotov. Foreign Minister
of the U. S. S. R., was present at
the reception"
Mr.. Chataigneau and Mr.. Rob-
erts were accompanied by inter-
prefers. Gen. Smith, in conform
ance with his usual custom, went
alone. He uses the Russian trans
lators.. So far as is known, this was
Gen. Smiths third meeting with
Mr.. Stain. 1t was Mr.. Chataig-
neau's first. Mr.. Roberts has seen
Mr.. Stain many times in company
With other British diplomats.
Morning papers in. Moscow re-
ported the meeting prominently on
their front pages under big head
lines. They made no editorial COM
ment and there was no published
speculation as to what was said.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Paul Mantz Before CAB
In Careless Flying Case
~ the Associoted Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3.-Dappier
Paul Mintz, Al, twice winner of the
Bendix race and holder of many
other air speed records, is defend
ing himself today on a charge of
careless flying.
Mantz is appearing before the
Civil Aeronautics Board on a charge
of negligence arising from fatal
airplane collision on the ground at
the Santa Ana (Calif) Airport
March IL. x.
Another pilot, Ernest n, McGuis-
ton, died In the wreck. The crash
occurred after Mr.. McGuiston had
landed his private plane and Mantz
had set his own plane down on the
runway.
A Government witness, Pilot Ed
ward Valentz, who saw the crash,
told CAB yesterday that Mr.. Nc
Guiston had made bum landing"
and that he did not remember
Mantz taxing his own ship con-
trary to airport regulations. Mantz
holds the other pilot was to blame.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Woman Found Dead
AT Home in District

A woman identified as Miss
Emma Won Toerne. about so of
1896 Kenyon street NV, was found
dead in her home early this after
noon There were indications she
had bee ndead since Sunday.
Police were called after a janitor
had noted newspapers collecting
outside her door. A Sunday paper
was found in the apartment. Miss
Won Toerne was a long time en-
ploye of the Maritime Commission
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Body Found Abandoned.
IMuryIund Girl Held

Montgomery County police an
nounced yesterday that they had
charged Miss Thelma Tibbs, 10, of
Germantown, Nd. with deserting a
minor child, a 5-day-old girl found
IN the rain-soaked weeds near
Rockville Union Cemetery Sunday.
Police said Miss Tibbs, the daugh-
ter of a laborer, and her baby were
released from Montgomery County
Hospital only few hours before the
child was found. They said Miss
Tibbs' brother discovered the baby
after he became alarmed at her
absence from their home
Maximum penalty for deserting a
child is 500 or a year in jail.
Evening star., 1948-08-03

full command of the front and also
retain his post as deputy chief OF
staff
The Americans were reported also
to have asked for shakeup in the
Air Ministry, informants said.
There also were reports that Maj.
Gen. Laios, commander of the 18th
Division, would be relieved of his
post.
Mr.. Sophoulis said he talked fol.
two hours yesterday with 1t. Gen.
James A. van Fleet, head OF the
American military mission. He said
the conference dealt chiefly with
questions relating to the combat
area,
Evening star., 1948-08-03
B,5O0 in D. {. GET
Bigger U, 5. Checks

Approximately 26,5O0 District
residents got bigger pay checks to-
day. They are Federal employees
who received their first pay check
at increased rates provided by $3.50
year raise granted just before
Congress adjourned in June.
In all, about $4,000 employees got
bigger checks. In addition to the
26,500 here, about $500 Federal
Security Agency workers in Balti-
more and 1000 employees in various
agencies throughout the country
also share in the raise.
The pay is for work from July
II to "a. The increases for most
employees range from $1l to S13 for
each two-week pay period.
Those paid today are employees OF
the Civil Service Commission, Eco
nomic Cooperation Administration
Federal Communications, Federal
Power Commission, Federal Security
Agency, General Accounting Office
Maritime Commission, Securities
and Exchange Commission, the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing and
the National Training School fol-
Boys, an agency Of the Justice De-
partment.
Yesterday was payday for about
$500 employees in the Labor Depart
ment, Budget Bureau, Fedora.
Works Agency, Office of Inter
American Affairs, United States Tax
Court and the Federal Mediation
and Cancellation Service.
Other Government workers will
be paid at the new rates on sue
ceeding paydays..
About 5000 of those paid today
receive cash, the rest checks.
Practically all the District Gov
emment's 5000 CLASSIFIED employees
will find no extra amounts on their
pay checks. Only about $50 are af-
fected by the pay increase, accord
ing to the Controller Generals rul-
ing.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Touring Club TO Begin Trip
To HOLLYWOOD Saturday

The Washington Educational
Touring Club will begin trip to
Hollywood, Calf, at 9 am. Saturday
Fifty-eight members will leave the
Garnet Patterson School in two
buses, stopping at the Capitol steps
to receive letters of introduction
from members of Congress to friends
The round trip will take 81 days
including three days in Hollywood
Among the stops en- route will be
st. Louis, Oklahoma City, Santa
Fe and the Grand Canyon. First
stop will be at West Virginia State
College, where the group will spend
the night.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
FOUND

COCKER SPANIEL. black. found vic. 43rd
ave, Hyattsville. Md. UN. 0226
COLLIE-type female pup, brown. white
and black; collar and incubation TAGS;
identify by tags SH 374a.
DOG. silky white coat, evidently a pet,
wearing tag bearing Fort Dodge Serum
Co." MI 3l66.
WRIST WATCH. ladysi at Beverly Beach,
July Is. SH. GAS.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Zouck Leaves Stute Post

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3 (P.-Peter
G. Zouck of Lutherville, director
Iof the Maryland State Aviation
Commission, has resigned to 60 on
active duty with the Air Force.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Mdorado Rovfo
to Los AnssIssI

Jamaica Havana Merida
=. Guatemala City and Mexico
City. Excursion rate is only s372zo
from Washington.
Coll Your Travel Agent es-
Republic 500
Ticket ofaes: Hos cennseiievt Ave.
All fares subject TO tar.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Coy havanse
Fly to Miami BY
connecting airline
... then on to the
= fam ous nisht

rhythms of Cuba. Return via Me-
rida, Mexico (ancient Mayan ruins
nearby and New Orleans. Only
SI65I0 rsasd Trip from WashiSefoS.s
Evening star., 1948-08-03
REDUCED FARES

on muuy rosnd-trip
Clipper flights this svmmsFi
Q Vacation at colorful, exciting
spots in the Caribbean, Mexics
and Guatemala. For example
Evening star., 1948-08-03
. Guided Trvlillol

Dominican Republic
land that Columbus
knew so well. See the 'N
Tower Of Homage, built in 1903.
Bathe at Boca Chica. Stops permit.
ted in Cuba, Jamaics, Haiti. Round
trib only s209Io from Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
Mrs. James Roosevelt is Rushed 10 Hospital

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, April 16.-tR-Mrs. James Roosevelt was taken from her home to Beverly Hills Emergency Hospital today suffering from an overdose of sleeping tablets, police reported.
 Sgt. Byron Kilgore said Roose- velt, Democratic State Chairman of California and elder son of the late President Franklin D. Roose- welt. called the police and ac- companied his wife to the emer- gency hospital
 Mrs. Roosevelt, 32, was given emergency treatment, then remov- ed to the St. Johns Hospital in nearby Santa Monica.
 Sgt. Kilgore said police investi- gators presumed Mrs. Roosevelt took the sedative overdose acci- dentally.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16

A protecting cover of decaying cornstaiks, wheat straw or leaves acts as shield. It takes the energy from the tom-tom raindrops, and the drops ooze into the soil. More water penetrates, and it goes deeper.
 In dry seasons, dead vegetation helps prevent blowing winds from picking up particles of dusty soil. Wind can sometimes be as demand ing a robber of soil wealth as run ming water.
 The fields have to be prepared for planting without burying the residue from the previouus crop. This is done by sub-surface tillage, with special kinds of V-shaped sweeps or other equipment. They undercut the soil at depths of from two to seven inches, loosening and pulverizing it. The stubble from last years crop is toppled, but not plowed under. It stays on top as the sweeps cut underneath. As 1t decays, the stubble works into the soil, adding food values for future crops.
 It isn't a lazy way of farming, for two to three tillage operations may be necessary. After the main tillage at blow depth. another is done at two inches or so to kill new weeds. Equipment also has been devised for smoothing and finishing the seedoed after tillage.
 Seeds of the new crop must be planted down through the cover ot stubble at the proper depth. Some special adjustments on machines take care of this.
 The cost of preparing the land for a new crop is about the same CT little less compared with blow ing, Duley and Russel said, but it rarely runs higher Yields are about the same as from blowing. In dry years. yields may be greater since more of the rain that does come enters the soil
 The difference in soil saving is striking. Tn tests at Lincoln, about seven tens of. soil have been lost from each acre per year under blow ing, they said. But with stubble mulching the loss was cut to 14 tons. It can be reduced further by the customary rotation of crops with occasional planting of sod crops.
 Stubble mulching is best suited for warm, dry climates, and has not expanded so much into cool, humid regions on the northern and eastern states.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
RACIAL SOCIETY
 AT X. U. CARRIED
 BODILY OUT CAFE

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 16.- lR-Twenty-si members of a racial equality organization were carried bodily from a Lawrence restaur- ant last night, the owner said, after he had refused for three hours to serve them.
 w. E. Murphy, owner of the res taurant, said ten of the group were Negroes and the remainder were white.
 The group identified themselves as students of Kansas University and members of the committee on racial equality. They said they were asking the right to eat in a public place with their friends, re- gardless of their race.
 Some of the boys on the campus heard about it." Murphy said, and came in to ask the CORE. mem bers to leave. They still refused and the boys just picked them up and carried them out
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
5 FLOATING MINES
 SEEN OFF COAST IN 15DAYS THIS MONTH

; SEATTLE, April 16.-SIR-A new and undesired-record is being set almost daily along the Oregon Washington coast, the Coast Guard revealed today in listing reports of 35 floating mines seen during the first Is days of April.
 The list already equals the num- Der of derelict explosives reported in March, the previous high month, the Coast Guard said.
 Twenty-two of these sighted dur ing April have been destroyed. Three were blasted yesterday. It. Gg) Don Winslow District Mine and Bomb Disposal Officer, blew up his seventh in four days near Westport, Wash. Two others were detonated by the cutter Bonham off Cascade Head in Oregon and by the cutter Balsam near the Columbia River
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
BLACK RAIDERS" DISCOVERED; MAN
 GIVEN STRAppING

ATLANTA, April 16.-IR-Twc with uncovering new hate organ ization, "The Black Raiders and alert policemen were credited today the rescue of a man from an unmer- ciful strapping.
 Four men are under arrest on charges of assault and battery, and Fulton Police Chief G. Neal Ellis is holding as evidence several crude black masks, pistol, a leather strap and nearly 100 cards printed with the groups name.
 The patrolmen on a routine check of the outskirts of Atlanta last night were attracted to a wooded area by the tlickering of flashlight.
 The patrolmen Q. F. Hayes and A. D. Trollinger, said they found James Charles Berry, 23, bent for ward against a tree. He had been beaten, apparently with a heavy leather strap. until blood vessels burst.
 Berry was quoted by the chief as saying the men accused him of not supporting his family properly. Chief Ellis said he believed the at tackers belonged to group simila- to the now disbanded Columbians anti-Jewish, anti-negro group
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
 FORCES TO
 COME HERE
Training Assignment An nounled in Army Slate
 menf-Units Listed
Continued from Page One,


 The B-29 which crashed on De- cember 24 did so because of pilot error. Mistaking snowy hill for a cloud. There was no indication of any damage to the plane before the crash.
 Bush pilots at Nome, who res cued six survivors of the B-29 crash last December, also denied emphati- cally the report of the plane having been hit by a shell. The Ketchikan newspaper had said that reports of the shell had originated in civilian flying circles9
 Other Military Highlights
 The military picture also had higflights elsewhere.
 Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American Commander in Europe, denied a re- port that he had ordered a sortie over Berlin by B-29's drawn from a 28-plane group which arrived in the western occupation zone yesterday.
 In Washington, the Navy allowed another glimpse at its planning. It disclosed the names of three sub marines to be converted to unusual uses.
 Orc will be converted to carry cargo, presumably weapons for use by commando troops Another will become an andersen troop trans port. And the third will be a radar picket submarine. The job of such and see what it can pick up on it's a craft is to prowl far out surface radar scope in the way of activity telling of ship and aircraft move ments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
''STUBBLE MULCH
 FARMING" LS ROW
 BEING RECOGNIZED
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter

LINCOLN, Nebr-A new idea started 10 years ago on @ few acres of Nebraska land has burgeoned in- to the biggest and fastest-growing method of saving the wealth of Americas soil.
 The new idea was stubble mulch farming. which at first glance looks like a lazy mans way of doing things. It saves and uses residue of the stubble, stalks, and even weeds left behind after harvesting of crops The trash is never removed or burned. Instead, it forms. cover to protect the soil from erosion by water and wind
 Except for land devoted to graz ing ranges, this method now is used on more U. s. farm land than any other single method of soil conservation, an official report shows.
 In 1947, stubble-nulch farming was used on 15,178,0O0 acres of land, with 9,00OD0o having been added in the last two years. At the same time, there were B million acres in contour cultivation, five in cover crops, nearly six in seeding ranges and pastures, and 3la in strip cropping. These others are older major soil conservation prac- tices.
 And farmers this year plan to use the new method on 21 million acres.
 The seeds for this giant growth were the experiments on a few test acres near Lincoln in the spring of 1888 by Dr. F. L. Duley and Prof. J. c. Russell Stubble-mulch farm ing has been a cooperative project of the University of Nebraska Agri- cultural Experiment Station and the U s Soil Conservation Service.
 Their big idea was that the left over crops residue would battle rain- drops and wind. The tom-tom beat of rain is particularly damaging on bare open land, as in cornfields or bare plowed land being prepared for planting. The raindrops cause thin, compact layer of earth to form. The rain cannot penetrate rapidly, and begins to run down. hill, carrying rich topsoil with it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF
 VESSEL NAME

Special notice is hereby given that the Commissioner of Customs, under date of April 2, 1948, gave authority for change of name of the oil screw ACQUITANIA, official mum b CT 252459, to H. F. CHANEY. Said ves- sel was built at Tacoma, Washing ton, in l943; her gross tonnage 167; net tonnage IA; home port Juneau; owner. Juneau Spruce Corporation. First publication April IA, 1948.
 Last publication, April IT, l948.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
MA PLANE CRASH WAS NOT DUE 10
 CLOUDY WEATHER

MINNEAPOLIS, April 16.-lR- Weather better than that forecast was prevalent near Mt. Sanford, Alaska, where a Northwest Airlines plane crashed March F, killing 30 persons. This report came from a meteorologist who testified today ct a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing.
 The meteorologist, D. F. Sowa, Northwest Airlines employee sta toned at Anchorage, said clouds were forecast for 6,OO0 feet, at Gull kama, radio range station 30 miles west of Mt. Sanford.
 An aftercast of the weather dis closed, Sowa testified, that the clouds were not there. The four en- gined plane, carrying "A passengers and a crew of six on charter flight from Shanghai last reported over Gulkana at 11:36 pm. PST)
 Robert w. Chrisp, chief of the CAB hearing and reports section is presiding at the hearing attended by several CAB safety board mem bers.
 Mechanics and other ground crew men reported the plane was in air worthy condition and that it car- ried sufficient gasoline to fly beyond alternate fuel stops at Great Falls, Mont, and Grand Forks, N. D. A designated fuel stop was Edmonton, Alberta.
 The bodies and the plane wreck age still are on Mt. Sanford. Army search and rescue men and other officials have deemed the wreckage unreachable without risk of life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
George Dud|eys Celebrate Their
 ttth Anniversary

MT. and Mrs. George Dudley were guests of honor last night at a midnight anniversary dinner at Mikes Place in Douglas. The Dudley's were celebrating their llth wedding anniversary.
 The table was centered with spring flowers and tall tapers. A chicken-steak dinner was the main course of the evening and dancing was also enjoyed.
 The invited guests were Miss June Gorham, Dave Mcintyre, Leigh Kerr, Greta Vinson, Paul trick and Butch" of the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
BOY SCOUT TROOP NO. g
 HAS OUTING LAST NIGHT

Boy Scout Troop No. g left last night at 6:30 o'clock from the Holy Trinity Church in several cars for the golf course at Tread well. We separated by patrols to gather wood for the fires, then we went a little off camp and played games of hard ball. We then lit our fires and ate dinner. Several tests were passed. We had taps and then came back home-EDDIE DULL, Troop Scribe
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
Death Penalty for
 Jap War Lords Is Now Den,anded;Case Ends

TOKYO, April 16-lR-The In- ternational War Crimes Tribunal late today began deliberating the fate of Hideki Tojo and "A other Japanese wartime leaders.
 Arguments in the two year old trial were completed by the prosecu- tion with a ringing declaration that all of the defendants-for whom the death penalty has been demand ed-were responsible for Japanese aggressions between 1928 and her surrender in 1945.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
DEEP SEA FISHERMEN
 HOLD DANCE TONIGHT

Both rafterg and floor piank.ng should shake tonight when deep sea fishermen and vessel owners an- swer the schottische call at the CIO Hall beginning at 10 o'clock. The Deep Sea Fishermens Union will entertain the vessel owners at the invitational dance this year.
 Milton Nyman said the hall will be well stocked with refreshments,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Matilda Johnnie has filed suit for divorce from Andrew Johnnie in U. s. Court here on grounds Of incompatibility. They have no children or property rights in- vclved. The suit, placed by At torney William L. Paul, Jr., asks for $20 per month while the plain tiff remains in a tuberculosis sanatorium and $50 per month support after that time.
 
 Metals valued at $390- million were mined in Canada last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
SAWMILL
 REMAINS pICkETED
NLRB Official Completes investigation But
 Makes No Report
Continued from Page one)

union among employees of the Per manente Cement Go. there.
 In the meantime, negotiations were continuing today between Ju- neau Spruce and Ketchikan Local M-232, of the IVA, for wage scales and working and living conditions at the companys Edna Bay Logging camp Some progress was reported but no final agreement has been reached since the company con sented to recognize the unions de- mands for bargaining rights.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
MRS. MCCORMICK RETURNS

Mrs. John Mccormick, National Deputy Chief of Staff for the Ladies Auxiliary, Veterans of For eign Wars. has returned here from a trip to Fairbanks and Nome. While at Nome. she made arrange ments to form a Ladies Auxiliary there. At Fairbanks. Mrs McCor- mick paid her official visit to the VFW Auxiliary.