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Evening star., 1948-07-11
University Student
Admits Staying Of
Seattle Waitress, u
By the Assoeioted Press

SEATTLE, July 10.-The nude,
mutilated body of a young drive-in
carhop, gagged with her black bras
siere, was found in a vacant lot to-
day and police said a Seattle uni
versity student had confessed the
Staying.
Detective Don Sprinkle said a tip
from a Marine, who had tried to
date the girl, Donna Woodcock, q,
resulted in the arrest of John Rus
sell Gasser, 20. Gasser, Mr.. Sprin-
kle said, made a statement admit
ing the Staying while he was being
booked on an open charge at police
headquarters.
Mr.. Sprinkle said marine called
them after seeing pictures of the
slain girl in the papers.
Went to School With Suspect.
He told officers he had gone to
high school with Gasser. He said
Gasser pulled into the drive-in
after the marine had unsuccessfully
tried to get date with the girl.
The marine told officers that when
he left shortly before closing of the
drive-in at am, the girl was talk
ing to Gasser.
Mr.. Sprinkle said Gasser was ar
rested as he was eating dinner with
his parents.
The youth related, the detective
said, that he drove the girl to va
cant lot and that they quarreled.
Police Capt. Arthur Chaffee said
the girls body had been gashed
deeply with knife or with broken
beer bottle found beneath her.
Automobile Is Found.
Capt. Chaffee said an abandoned
automobile, reported stolen pre-
viously, was found some 20 blocks
away. He said it answered the
description of a car in which Donna
and young man drove away from
the drive-in last night.
The car, said Mr.. Chaffee, was
bloodstained.
The Staying was Seattle's second
in week. Nine-year-o Ellen Jane
F'ulwiler was strangled in North
end park last Sunday.
DR.. Gale l.. Wilson said after an
autopsy the girl had been criminaIly
attacked, strangled and apparently
beaten over the head with the beer
bottle.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
| Smart Worker Ant
Goes Crazy in
His Glass Maze
Nv the Associated Press

LONDON, July 10.-The case of
the neurotic ant which went crazy
was reported in the scientific maga-
zine Nature today.
The ant was the cleverest Of %
worker ants used by Derek Wragge
Morley 27, a scientist at Edinburgh
Institute of Animal Genetics, in an
training experiment.
This ant quickly learned to follow
the right path through glass maze.
but one day he turned into Guide
sac. After failing to find hole he
began to show rising physical ex-
citement and an increasing jerking
of the limbs and antennae," Mr..
Morley wrote. He crawled backward
with a staggering motion" and
finally circled drunkenly.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
Ban on Washed Eggs
.Irks Australia Formers

Australian farmers are angry over
"the stupid ban" placed by Agricul-
ture Minister Pollard on washed
eggs, after Great Britain refused to
accept other than unwashed eggs
Sydney reports.
Poultry farmers must learn TO
produce clean eggs, says Pollard.
It's the hen, not the farmer, VINO
produces the eggs," farmers remark
Dirty eggs are a worldwide prob
lem. Nobody has yet discovered how
to teach hens not to walk over new
laid eggs with dirty feet. Washing
does destroy natural oils on shell
surfaces, however, so eggs will not
keep for long periods"
Evening star., 1948-07-11
Tommy Missing 5 Years
Returns Home to Wales

Five years after being reported
killed in Africa, John Ellis, gra!
haired at 26, returned recently te
his home in Rhyl, Wales.
He walked into a Manchester
police station and said: II think my
name is John Ellis. I think my
parents live at Rhyl. I last remem-
ber being with the army in North
Africa. Can you identify me?"
A scar and birthmark did the
trick. His father, SIS, joined the
army in 1914, went to North Africa
and searched thousands Of miles un-
successfully for his missing son.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
Building Boom Hits
East African Cupitul

An unprecedented building boom
has hit Laurence Marques, Mo-
zambique, and the Portuguese East
African capital is about to have two
particular additions.
One is an eight-story building IN
the center of town, housing de-
partment store, air-condltioneo
Evening star., 1948-07-11
By the Associoted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.-Mrs
Josefina Guerrero, Philippine wal
heroine, arrived in America today
to receive a strange reward.
After bands played her national
anthem and Army officers and civic
dignitaries stood at attention, she
walked down the gangplank-to be
sent in a special plane to Louisi-
ana hospital for treatment for
leprosy.
About 300 people saw the 30-year-
old winner of the United States
Medal of Freedom almost over
whelmed by her greetings. AS flash
bulbs popped and Army officers
came forward saluting and bowing
all she could say was This more
than I expected
Her arms were full of flowers
and gifts.
Some of those who met her were
soldiers she had aided when they
were imprisoned by the japanese in
Evening star., 1948-07-11
Soviet Order 10 Purge
Bourgeois Is Blow
|ToFrench Communists

PARIS, July 10. (CDN)-The
French Communist Party has just
had bad blow, a blow which may
mean its knockout in the October
elections.
The Communist parties of West
ern Europe are to be trimmed. They
are to be purged of their "bour-
geois nonconformist elements,
under what appears to be direct
orders from the Moscow-led Comm
form.
Nobody seems to have any clue
as vet as to the marked" French
men. Nor is it known what methods
will be used, however, it has long
been an open secret that Moscow
considers French Communism bour-
geois tainted.
No Heads Have Fallen.
No heads actually have fallen,
although the trimming" process
really started three months ago.
Last April, for example, party leader
Maurice Thorez was called to Mos
COW for severe dressing down.
Apparently, the power he had WELD
ed for a year and a half was con-
sidered to have gone to his head.
He has been a rigid prosecutor OF
weak bourgeois Communists since
Another limited purge was effect
ed this spring when three luke
warm" members of the party were
ordered to resign from their jobs
as parliamentary deputies.
Rochet May Be Victim.
Undoubtedly, one of the first VIC
tins of the imminent all-out purge
will be Waldeck Rochet, party ex-
pert on the French peasant. Mr.
Rochet has had thankless job
He has been persuading the French
farmer that the Communist Party
allows private property and even
increases it through the partition
of large bourgeois estates.
But the Cominform now con-
demns Marshal Tito because OF his
refusal to apply collective farming
in Yugoslavia.
Admittedly, the Communist face
is red over Marshal Tito. But such
contamination is certainly not 60
ing to be allowed to spread II the
Cominform can help it.
Evening star., 1948-07-11

the Philippines. Others were men,
bers of lay and religious groups who
helped her gain a curious distinc-
tion-the first foreign victim of lep-
rosy ever allowed to enter this coun-
try for treatment. She is here by
special order of Attorney General
Clark.
Mrs. Guerrero was known as
Joey" to the CTS for whom she
smuggled food through Japanese
lines, carried messages and drew
charts of japanese gun emplace-
ments and mine fields.
An Air Force plane was waiting
at nearby Hamilton Field today to
take her to Carville, La, site of the
National Leprosarium.
DR.. J. C. Geiger, San Francisco
health director, examined her
shortly after the landing. He said
she had an advanced" case of the
disease but that it should show
much improvement" in six months
of treatment with modern drugs at
/ the hospital.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
Modern Masters Fuked

Paris police recently uncovered
a factory" for painting modern
masters" in villa owned by
Jacques Goldschmidt, an amateur
painter of considerable talent.
They discovered three faxed Utril-
los, several Picassos and other
faxed paintings signed with the
names Of Deges, Matisse, Boldini
and others.
Evening star., 1948-07-11

business offces and fats, amuss-
ment rooms. restaurants. q ballroom
and a great theater.
The second. described as mag.
niflcent," wilkbe a Lido" planned
for various water sports, and in.
Guiding an open-air cinema. dance
floor and restaurant. The 'Lido's"
principal swimming pool will bs
built according to international
dimensions for swimming races and
water sports.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
Admission to UNESCO
To Be Sought by Siam
By the Associated Press

BANGKOK.-S Ministry OF
Education has instructed the SIAM
ese Ambassador in Washington to
seek admission of the little Asian
kingdom to UNESCO. the United
Nations Educational. Scientific and
Cultural Organization.
Slams chief of adult education
attended the last meeting of UNES-
cos general council in Mexico City
ox an observer
Evening star., 1948-07-11
U. 5. Military Experts
Study Spanish Army as
Possible War Ally
By Fred Sporks
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stor ond
Ia cnirnna Ne,iIu kaMks


The Sncoso Dolly News
MADRID, July 10-Most Ameri-
can military masterminds-at pres
ent shopping for fighting allies
think the Spanish Army is the best
available buy at the moment. This,
despite corrupt leadership. knock
kneed training and archaic gear.
There are 100000 warm bodies in
Gen. Francois forces-and another
100000 young veterans on the call
up list. This gives Spain the only
armed organization in Western Eu-
rope capable of opposing a Russian
drive.
What makes the Spanish army
look even bigger is Spain's natural
frontier-the Pyrenees. In the
mountain crags, the Spaniards might
be able to delay big push while the
might of America and Britain fam
ned across the Straits of Gibraltar.
Hitler Error Recalled.
1t must be remembered that many
second-guessers think Hitler made
fatal error when he failed to move
through Spain to wack the rear of
the Allied North African push and
seal the Straits.
Buying or supporting the Span
ism Army with conveys of American
dollars and knoW-how would be like
acquiring a Model-T ford. 1t would
cost fabulous fortune-maybe half
a billion-to get it running; plus
vast quantities of surplus war tackle.
But a Model-T Ford is better than
fat feet-when it's the only mode of
transport.
Everybody knows that there are
big political problems to be solved
before our military can start squar-
ing off the Spanish Army. The last
time the Spaniards fought a foreign
war was against the United States.
Since then they've been busy fight
ing other Spaniards.
Soldier Poorly Paid.
While Gen. Franco doesn't pay his
soldiers living wage, he gives them
tremendous food rations which
they promptly peddle on the black
market. It's like paying the office
boy $40 a week and letting him steal
al the stamps ne needs.
Americans fear that our equip.
ment would wind up in second hand
shops. Looting comes before shoot
ing with the Spanish Army.
The Air Force flies 300 saggir.g
planes, in fact, for want Of better
tools, the Air Force is still manu-
featuring a few Junker-52's, which
belong in the Smithsonian Institu-
ton.
The Navy-which would help us
keep the Russians from making an
end run around the Pyrenees-S in
fair shape. 1t has 6 cruisers Is
destroyers, 7 gunboats, submarines
and some PIT boats. But no radar!
This means a destroyer could knock
off a cruiser any dark night.
Training Is Sloppy.
The huge army is sloppily trained
in everything but basic essentials;
they do squads right as neat as
Roxy ushers. But their communi-
cations Outside of some left
over German tiger tanks and
wheeling trucks they travel by
donkey. To make the Pyrenees a
fortress they would need acres of
mountain guns.
The average Spanish soldier is
short. But mes as solid as light
weight slugger. He tucks his olive
drabs in his shoes like American
paratroopers. His overseas cap is
similar to an Americans, but has
tassel on it that fops around like
bell on a cows neck. He's had
practically no schooling so the army
gives him a grade-school education.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
Birds Beer Held Up

A Kookaburra, laughing jack
ass" bird of Australia, built a nest
this season in an opening left fol
a girder on the top floor of brew
cry in Brisbane. The two noisy
baby jackasses get plenty of fooo
from the employees So far, the
youngsters are strictly temper
ance."
Evening star., 1948-07-11

hang a Windshield on the poor ami
NAL and install a cigarette lighter" ="
His advice for producing a fine
seat is:
Never forget the person you're
building it for. The saddle ought to
fit the man. 1t oughtn't beat the
man out of shape until the man fits
the saddle"
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-07-24

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@uropaertllm begriffen: fosnopoli,
tiid, liberal, religios-inoifferent.
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-07-24
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Bon 6. S. &ei6enberger

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leine 3elte a6gebro9en. Ser glefant
lit ld)on nor5eitig 5uiammengebro9en.
Ser @iel, Der ben &opf ihiittelt, oie
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felt, aus ben Mugen fltnfelt, itebt
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nuB, in SEEM Oorf ettpo MingIine
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politiihe &unogebungen, bon oenen
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-07-24
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Evening star., 1948-07-03
Woman in Good Condition
After Rescue From Channel

Mrs. Ruth Sutton, 2S, OF 502 I
street s.W.. today was reported in
good condition at Gallinger Hospital,
where she was admitted late yester-
day after being rescued from the
Washington Channel just south Of
the 500 block of Maine avenue,
police reported.
Mrs. Sutton, police said, jumped
into the water in the presence OF
her step-daughter. Sue. IL, who had
followed her to the channel. Mrs.
Sutton was saved by three deck.
hands Of the excursion steamer
Robert e. Lee who jumped from the
wharf.
The rescuers were Lorenzo John.
son, 81, of 1914 Union street S.W.;
Robert Nelson. 10, of 80 I street
NE, and Duke T. Nelson, 27, Of IS
@ street S.W. ALI are colored.
Police returned the child to her
father. Obie Sutton, at the street
address.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Horan 10 Seek Election
For Fourth House Term

Representative Horan, Republi-
can. of Washington. chairman OF
the House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee handling the District supply
bill. will seek reelection, the Asso-
ciated Press reported today.
He will file his declaration in the
5th washington district within a
few days. He has served three
terms in the HOUSE since his elec-
ton in November, 1912.
Mr.. Horan has urged per cent
general sales tax for the District
and has advocated sufficient funds
to carry on civic Improvements. He
has been a key figure in District
money matters and has gone on
record for an equitable Federal con-
tribution in running the city. He
has asked for closer coordination
of city welfare groups and praised
the work of the police.
A native of Wenatchee, Wash,
where he was born october Is,
1898, Mr.. Koran enlisted in the
Navy in World War I, and in recent
years has peen engaged in fruit
growing, packing, storing and ship
ping. He has five children.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Delay in Congress Led Citizens
ToStortMonument c century Ago

The present treasurer Is Charles
c. Glover, jr.
At this years meeting of the
society, the members proposed that
the Monuments exterior for the
lower $50 feet be resurfaced with
new stone. This Oldest part of the
Monument, all constructed in pre-
Civil War days, has deteriorated and
discolored, despite numerous at
tempts at repair. Estimated cost of
the project is $350,000.
The resurfacing project approved
by the society would involve cutting
away about 8 inches of the marble
blocks and replacing it with new
marble or granite slabs.
In today's observance of the
Monuments centennial, the Monu-
ment society is in charge OF the
program at the reviewing stand.
Gen. Grant, who heads the commit
tee for that part of the program, is
to speak on the society's history as
well as that of the Monument.
Thus the Washington National
Monument Society fittingly rounds
out century of service in the public
interest,
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Barrett Will Attend .
Civil Defense ParIey

Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett
will take part in a meeting Of law
enforcement officials from over the
Nation here next Thursday and
Friday to discuss the role OF the
police in the event of an enemy
attack.
The conference is being called by
Russell J. Hopley, director OF the
Office of Civil Defense Planning
Mai Barrett is member Of the
Advisory Committee which will take
part in the meeting. Another COM
mittee member is Col. Beverley Ober,
superintendent of the Maryland
State Police
Yesterday, Maj. Barrett received
a message of congratulations for
outstanding accomplishments dur
ing his first year as head Of the
city's Polics Department from a
group of more than go civic and
business leaders.
John A. Remon. vice president
of the" Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co.. said he and other
District residents who have been
working with the police chief
particularly the Police Boys Club
and the Criminal Justice Association
felt he had done an outstanding
job and wanted to let him know 1t.
Mr.. Remon is past president of the
Police Boys Club.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Charge Of Drunk Driving
OF Waqon Set for Trial

The driver of a horse-draWn ice
wagon, accused of drunken driving
after his horse wandered into the
side of an automobile on Constitu-
ton avenue Thursday, was held in
Municipal Court yesterday under
$500 bond for a jury trial on July
27.
The driver, Charles Brown, o.,
colored, of the first block of Myrtle
street NE, was charged under a
rarely used Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board regulation which states
that no one shall operate loco
motive, streetcar, elevator, water
craft or horse-drawn vehicle while
intoxicated.
He faces a maximum penalty of
$500 and 80 days.
Browns wagon crashed into a
rear fender of car driven by Mrs.
Margaret Afford, 3109 Nichols ave-
nue. Sc, while she was waiting for
the light to change.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
4 Charged in Robbery Freed
As Police Fail 10 Find Victim

Four persons charged with the
assault and robbery of a man on
the Public Library grounds June %
were freed in, Municipal Court yes
terday, when police failed to locate
the alleged victim.
They are Benjamin r. Harrison,
80, and Otis Moberley, 80, both of
the 900 block of New York avenue
NV; Lorraine Aronstein, 80, Of
no fixed address. and Sharon Mar
tel, IS, of the 900 block of I street
NV.
The four were arrested in the
vicinity of New York avenue and
Ninth street NV. and accused of
having beaten man identified as
John G. Crockett, Al, of Glenside,
Pa, and robbed him of So. Held
under $4,000 bond, the prisoners
were released when police reported
they were unable to locate Mr..
Crockett.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
|Chonce in Million
Causes Fire
| At Standards

officials at the National Bureau
of Standards today are marvellng
over how a chance in a million
caused a fire in the scientific estab-
ishment late yesterday.
The fire, of a minor nature, broke
out when a short circuit apparently
occurred simultaneously with a leak
in insulation on an all-metal Ga
foot high distilling column.
Located in the materials testing
laboratory, the column contained
petroleum, but there was no danger
of explosion because forced draft
ventilation prevents accumulation
of vapors, according to officials.
In terming the incident almost
"one in a million" they pointed to
the column being in use for five
years without incident Damage was
described as negligible, and the Fire
Department was summoned as a
precautionary measure.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Prince Georges DeadIine
For Police Jobs Announced

The deadline for filing applica-
tions for examinations for the
Prince Georges County police force
is midnight next Saturday, Mrs.
Betty Tayman of Cheverly, clerk
to the county police commissioners,
announced today.
The applications may be filed at
the Hyattsville or Upper Marlboro
police stations. Mrs. Tayman said.
The examinations will be held at
the County Service Building. Hy-
attsville, at 7:30 pm. July Is. she
added.
Applicants must be between the
ages of 81 and IS and must be coun-
ty voters. Each applicant must In
clude references from five county
property owners, Mrs. Tayman said.
Two police will be selected inn
mediately from the successful ap-
plicants to replace Pvt. Charles F.
Caldwell, who was slain. and to fill
one other vacancy. Others will be
selected as soon as legislation au-
thorizing new appointments is OBJ
tanned.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Delay Seen in Report
I0n Work Of Society
For Crippled Children

A report on operations of the
dissension-torn District Society for
Crippled Children probably will not
be ready by July II, deadline set by
the parent national society for the
District group to reorganize or face
expulsion.
Mrs. Beulah Drake, District presi-
dent, said it might require the rest
of the month for a five-member
committee to complete the "analy-
sis and formulate its report.
Mrs. Drake said Col. E. W. Pal
mer, president OF the National So
ciety for Crippled Children. had
indicated the committees survey
might satisfy the national society's
demand for a reorganization.
Explains Delay.
The committee, appointed by her
at the direction of the District So
ciety's Board of Directors this month,
has not functioned effectively so
fSr because some members have
been otherwise committed, Mrs
Drake said.
She added that it may be neces-
sary to make some changes on the
committee, but that once the per-
manent group is established she will
announce their names. She indi-
Gated, however, she would respect
the wishes. of any who agreed to
serve only if their names were
withheld.
Demands for a reorganization OF
the District society, supported By
the sale of Easter seals, erupted
last April when five employees re-
signed IN protest against the So
ciety's operating methods. This
month two directors resigned and
a third announced she will follow
them if the society fails to reor-
ganize.
Wants Thorough Study.
Mrs. Drake said she wants the
study of the society's machinery 10
be thorough covering all it's serv-
ices and administration. AS to
charges the society's financial
structure was ineficiently operated,
Mrs. Drake said the books were
handled by a part-time bookkeeper
whose work had been satisfactorily
audited, but that the report will
cover that, too.
Asked whether she will ask the
national society for an extension of
it's reorganization ultimatum, Mrs.
Drake said she expects to confer
with the national officers on that
action.