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Evening star., 1948-11-08
Hollywood:
Battle Brews
Between Bette
And Bosses
By Sheiloh Grohom

Bette Davis is insisting that she
play the young girl in Ethan
Fronne." The studio bosses want
her to play the .middle-aged aunt,
which is the stronger role actually.
Truth to tell, the studio would pre-
fer to junk the whole picture be-
cause of its Somber theme. Sounds
like more fireworks when Bette re-
turns here this week.
Lex Barker and his wife Connie
have been dropped by the New
York social register. 1t was all right
with the blue book just as long as
Lex was a common or garden va
riety of actor. But when he played
Tarzan, that was one genealogical
branch too low!
Olivia De Havilland's great per-
formance in THE Snake Pit" may
come to you at this late hour un-
der different title, although 1t has
opened in New York with no change.
Mr.. Zanuck is afraid snake" in the
title. may scare people away from
the box office. And that would be
a crime, because 1t is, an excellent
movie and Olivia is certain to get
an Academy Award nomination for
1t.
u II
Kathryn Grayson and Johnnie
Johnston are going to separate
again, but this time on account of
Johnnie's work. I'm leaving for
New York to appear at the Copa-
cabana," Johnnie tells me. Then I
go to Chicago to sing at the Black
stone, then the Copa in Miami"
Dorothy Malone introduces me
to Capt. Philip Montgomery on the
Colorado Territory" set. The cap
tain-her Dallas beau 7 told you
about-has visited Dorothy there
every day for q month. I'VE are
going to wait for six months, then
make. a decision about marriage" !"
Dorothy tells me. The captain has
already decided. He wants to marry
now. But want to be sure, be-
cause when I marry 7 will give up
Evening star., 1948-11-08

THIS WEEK-Tind Ramirez
+aoiH appear. a0ih Federico Rey
In authentic. Flame nee,
Basque and Ibertan dances
Wednesday eUening at Con-
stitution Hall. The program
is one OF taoo, entitled Con-
trdsts In Dancing" TO be pre-
sented by the National Syna-
phony Orchestra. The first,
tomorrow night, stars Alicia
Markov and Anton Dolin in
"The Dying Stoan," the Grand
Pas de Deur from Don
Quirote" and other ballet
gems,
Evening star., 1948-11-08

wanted for extensive retakes In
their recently completed picture,
Lady Windemere's Fam" or '"The
Fan" as it is now titled.
released by North American Newspaper
Aliance)
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Hollywood Casts Shy Glance
Toward Shaw's War Fiction
By Joy Cormody

shaws "The Lions" top
hctions seller list yesterday Hollywood, which
pretending not notice such things restless twtch
Under normal circumstances Shaw's dramatic World
narrative already would be in the movies And corelatve
O big Hollywood check would be in Shaw's bank.
would negotiated critics,
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Dr.. Townsend 10 Address
Followers Here Today

DR.. Francis E. Townsend, 81-year-
old founder of the Townsend Plan
movement for pensions for all over
so, was to address the convention
of his followers today in Uline
Arena.
Senator Downey, Democrat, of
California also was to speak
The Townsendites will conclude
their convention tomorrow with an
afternoon session in the arena, at
which Senator O'Mahoney, Demo-
crat, of wyoming will speak. -
Last night the delegates chartered
a steamer for a moonlight sail on
the Potomac. They had no sessions
in the arena but spent the day at
the Capitol, asking Representatives
to sign petition that would bring
the Townsend Plan bill to the floor
for vote. 1t is now pending before
the Ways and Means Committee.
Through an error The Star yes
terday said the petition "still lacks
200 signatures. The number neces-
sary is 218." What was meant was
that the number of signatures has
not reached 200. The Office of Rep
|resentative Angel, Republican, OF
Oregon, who sponsored the bill, yes
terday reported there are 174 sigma
lures on the petition.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Lewis Reported Eager
For New Coal Pact;
Talks Begin Monday
By jones Y. Newton

John L. Lewis was represented
today as anxious to make a new
contract with the soft coal industry
despite necessity of q court order
to get him to negotiate with a siz-
able segment Of the industry.
The coal wage talks viii begin
Monday on an industry-wide basis
as q result of Mr.. Lewis acceptance
of a District Court injunction order
ing him and the United Mine Work
ers to bargain with the Southern
Coal Producers Association and its
president, Joseph E, Moody.
The order was signed late yester-
day by Justice T. Alan Goldsbor-
ough, who twice before had fined
Mr.. Lewis and the UNIV heavily
for ignoring antistrike injunctions.
Only 4 Weeks Left.
New contract talks will begin
under the gun. Less than four weeks
remain to reach agreement before
the present contract expires June 80.
Nevertheless, coal industry sources
were optimistic that agreement
could be reached in time to prevent
strike. The miners traditionally
do not work without a contract.
It was pointed out that Mr.. Lewis
this time will be under unusual
pressure to reach agreement with
the operators. That is based on the
fact that funds the UNIV has been
using to pay welfare benefits other
than pensions to the miners will be
exhausted within few weeks.
Benefits for accident and dis
ability, sickness and death are now
being paid from the fund accumu-
lated during the 13 months the Gov
eminent operated the mines, which
ended last June 30.
Because of the pension contro-
versy the new fund Is untouched. It
now is in excess of 10000, 900.
Must Reach Agreement.
Mr.. Lewis, 1t was said, must reach
some agreement with the operators
to activate the new fund In order
to meet the commitments he already
has made to his miners under the
old one.
The welfare pension issue is re-
garded by the industry as the key
to the new contract talks. But the
operators were optimistic that it can
all be Strengthened out before the
present mine contract expires.
Justice Goldsborough signed the
injunction ordering Mr.. Lewis to
bargain with the Southern Coal Pro-
ducers' Association shortly before 3
pm. yesterday. Immediately after
ward, the mine workers issued
statement saying they were ready to
comply with the order.
Mr.. Moody Immediately notified
operators from other sections Of the
country, and the first bargaining
meeting will be held at II am. Mon
day. It will include representatives
of all of the operators doing business
with the UNIV, not just the Moody
group.
The new court order is to last
until the NLRB can decide whether
Lewis and the UNIV were guilty Of
an unfair labor practice in declin-
ing to meet with Mr.. Moody.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
EPSON
Continued From First Page.l

It was the slowest time since 1882.
The track, however, was soft from
rains that did not stop until dawn.
The field of 80 was the largest in
81 years and the London Evening
Mail estimated the crowd at 750 900,
many of whom didn't see the race
at all. The King and members OF
the royal family occupied their box.
Royal Drake was held at Is to I
and Moor at % to ! in the betting.
It was the second time in the
three days of the ancient EPSON
Downs meeting that thoroughbreds
wearing the Aga Khan's colors tri-
umphed in the feature race. On
Thursday his Masaka won the Ep-
som Oaks Stakes, reserved for fillies.
The field was cut by one an hour
before post time when the Irish
owned Solar Slipper was discovered
to be lame. The colt apparently
had injured himself in his stall dur
ing the night.
My Babu, owned by the Maharaja
of Baroda and the favorite at odds
of Z to 2, was fourth. Straight Play
was fifth and Marcel Boussac's
Djeddah, on which the odds dropped
to 8 to l shortly before the race,
was fifth.
Gordon Richards, Britain's famed
jockey, was up on the Cobbler
and again was denied victory in
this famed classic.
Although he has won more races
than any other jockey in the history
of the turf, he never has triumphed
in the derby. This was his Oath try.
Backers of Black Tarquin and the
Senator II, both from the stable Of
New York's William woodward, took
the victory Of Rising Glory in the
race before the derby as a good
omen. Rising Glory is owned by
A. X. Macomber, an American with
a stable in England.
However, both finished out Of the
money, the Tarquin getting eighth
place and the Senator winding up
far back.
1t was the second straight year
that a French-bred horse has won.
A year ago Pearl Diver triumphed.
The royal party included the King
and Queen, 81-year-old Dowager
Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth.
The Princess was making her first
public appearance since the an
nouncement she was expecting an
heir.
She was accompanied by her hus-
band, the Duke of Edinburgh, who
was in naval uniform.
Also attending were United States
Ambassador and Mrs. Lewis Doug
las and their daughter Sharman.
The Ambassador was wearing q
gray topper.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
u. ). Demands Reds
Apologize in Shooting
By The Asseeiassd Press


SEOUL, June Sit. Gen. John
r. Hodge demanded full apology
from the Russians today for the
shooting Of an American Military
Government employe by North
Korean conStabularymen May 26.
The American, Karl S. Smith Of
Huntington, w. Va, was wounded
four times, but specifically, shortly
after he and two others had in
spected q dam near the 38th paral-
lei. That Is the boundary line be-
tween the Russian occupation zone
in North Korea and the United
States zone, which Gen. Hodge
commands.
Gen. Hodge, in a letter to the
Soviet occupation commander, 1t.
Gen. G. p. Korotkov, said inveSti-
CATION showed Mr.. Smith was about
80 yards south of the boundary line
when the constabularymen opened
fire without provocation. Gen.
Hodge described the incident as "a
very serious matter" and added:
II demand that you make full
and appropriate apologies and that
the offenders be apprehended and
punished"
In the past, the Soviet command
er has chosen to ignore ofncial pro-
tests from the American zone-in-
cluding repeated requests for nego-
tiations to settle the question of
North Korean electrical power for
South Korea. The power was cut
of last month, ostensibly because
Of a dispute over the method of
payment. Gen. Hodge blamed polit-
ical motives.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Transit Par|eys Fail,
LosAnqe[es Strike Due
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, June 5.-A CITY,
wide transit strike appeared pos
sible for midnight tomorrow after
1000 AFL transportation workers
rejected wage offers of major bus
and streetcar lines in Los Angeles.
Such a strike would affect 1000
600 persons.
Union President D. D. McClurg
had said in advance of the voting
that the strike would start at mid
night tomorrow if the rank-and-
file membership rejected the offers.
The lines had offered an increase
Of Z cents an hour on condition the
present 40-hour week be increased
to 48 hours or an increase Of 5 cents
an hour If the 40-hour week is re-
tained. Both offers included a pen
sion fund to which the companies
said they would contribute the
equivalent Of cents an hour.
Streetcar and bus operators now
receive top rate Of $1.35 an hour.
The union asked an increase of so
cents.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Boy, s, Playing Tag, Hurt
When Struck by Auto

A 6-year-old boy, playing tag
in the vicinity Of Thirteenth and
C streets NE, received serious in
juries when he ran in front of an
automobile yesterday afternoon,
police reported.
The child, Russell Cooper, COL
ored, of the 1900 block of B street
NE. taken to Casualty Hospital was
suffering from a fractured right
leg and shoulder and injuries to
the head and back. Police said he
was chased by another child into
the path of car driven by Leon
Garrett, 81, colored, of the 100
block of Fourth street NV. which
was being driven north on Thir-
teenth street.
In a second accident yesterday,
Doris Hodge, 13, of the 5000 block
of v street Sc, received a frac-
tured collar bone and head cuts
when her bicycle collided with a
truck on Barney circle Sc, police
reported.
They said the driver of the truck,
John j. Wilson, 26, of the 1000
block of Taylor street Sc, was
turning off the circle into Kentucky
avenue when the accident occurred.
The girl was taken to Gallinger
Hospital.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
w. H. Dammann Dies;
Was Army EmpIoye

William Henry Dammann, 68, re-
tired employe Of the reproduction
section of the War Department, died
yesterday at his home, 1922 Foxhall
road NV, after a long illness.
Mr.: Dammann was with the War
Department for 27 years until he re-
tired due to illness in 1912. The
section was then at Nineteenth and
B streets NV.
Hr. Dammann was born in Balti-
more and came to Washington when
he was 6 with his father, the late
DR.. Louis H. Dammann. He at
tended District public schools and
Holy Trinity parochial school. He
was in the painting business for
about 10 years before he went with
the War Department.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Dammann; son, Francis
w. Dammann, in charge of the
credit bureau of the Goldenberg
department store; daughter, Mrs
Helen Schreiner, and sister, Mrs
Carrie Ruhl, all of Washington.
Requiem mass will be offered at
10 am. Monday at Our Lady of
Victory Church, Macarthur bou-
levard and Reservoir road NV
Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery
Evening star., 1948-06-05

Drake and Moor was third. My Babu
was fourth.
Mr.. Cole, after prerace taciturnity
and steady refusal to talk about
what he'd do with the money If he
won it, admitted the jitters were rid
ing him as he sat before the ma
chine in the Associated Press bureau
in The Star Building. waiting for
the bulletin from England.
He chain-lighted another cigarette
and jumped when London dispatch
was advised. He settled back with a
sheepish grin as the machine typed
out a story of genealogists con-
jecturing on the sex OF Princess
Elizabeth's expected baby.
A London bulletin line brought
him to the edge of his chair. -.
aga Khan's My Love" he read.
my horse is not FIRST" he sighed.
A quick follow appeared on the
machine giving second and third.
Mr.. Cole contrived a sickly grin,
shrugged of the disappointment,
then reached for a telephone to call
his wife, who shared the Sweep
stakes ticket with him.
"At least I'll get about 1886 just
because the horse ran," he sighed
and went back to work.
Evening star., 1948-06-05

Edward Kali, 340O block of Newton
street NE; Silvio J. Damico, 1900
block of Nelson place; John Geraci,
5000 block of Nelson place; Mike
Moffet, 1900 block of Holbrook ter
race; Joe w. Helmick, 5000 block of
Bladensburg road; Thomas II. Price,
Silver Spring; Edward T. La Prairie,
200 block of North Nineteenth ave-
nue.: William A. Garner, 100 block
lof Worthington drive: Martin L..
Murphy, 1900 block Of Holbrook ter
race; Nele J. Rodich, $500 block of
Arundel road, Mount Rainier; Frank
Toulson, $500 block of North Wash
ington boulevard, Arlington: Robert
E. Meyers. Silver Hill; William C..
Ouade. Cheltenham, Md: William
B. Bellfeld, Ogden street; William
Brown, Laurel.
The II persons charged with
gambling and the addresses they
gave were: Garfield A. Street,
$500 block of Thirtieth place NV;
Raymond E. Price, 200 block of
Ninth street: Anthony P. Peppi,
4200 block of Russell avenue, Mount
Rainier: Harry Bricklin, Annapolis
Hotel, Washington; Maurice Abra-
ham. 300 block of Kennedy street
NV; Michael Goldberg, Sheraton
Hotel, Washington; Thomas P.
Dennean, 1900 block of Benning
road; James E. Rambo, $500 block
of Madison avenue, Riverdale: Miles
G. Masek, 5l00 block of Eighth
street; Joseph M. Decicco, 900 block
of E street, and George B. Wallsten,
600 block of F street NV.
A State police bus, brought along
on the raid, was used to take the
prisoners to Ellicott City to be
charged.
Some Of them returned to get
their own cars, but at noon today
three autos remained-one of them
a Washington taxicab.
Figured in Lewis Staying.
Rocway Towers figured promi-
nently in the story of the Lewis
Staying.
Even before Lewis body was
found March Baltimore police
arrested Fierst on a tip that he
had slain Lewis.
Out of the arrest came a bizarre
story of how Lewis, FierSt and
third man. believed to be the tipster,
planned to hold up Rocway Towers
on the night of January 18. Lewis
previously had obtained employment
al the roadhouse to ease" it for
quick holdup, police said.
Accused of Staying.
The story they gathered from
Fierst. who later was charged with
killing Lewis. was that the three
men were driving toward the road
house in Fierst's car when he no.
ticed another car following him.
Fearing Lewis had tipped off the
roadhouse that the holdup was
coming, Fierst drove off the high
way to lonely spot where Lewis,
perhaps fearing he was marked fol-
death, opened fire. In the gun
battle that followed. Lewis was slain
and his body dragged into this
brush.
When he was arrested Fierst
showed the scars of three bullet
wounds police believe were inflicted
in the battle.
On April "a Fierst wass sentenced
to 20 years in prison for the s3,269
payroll robbery of the Mechanical
Contractors, Inc, last year in Bal
timore. He also was indicted by q
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Miss Julia SoIomons,
Daughter Of Hospitals
Founder, Dies at IS

Miss Julia Solomons, IS, lifelong
Washington resident whose father,
Adolphus Solomons, owned book
business here and was a friend of
Charles Dickens, died yesterday in
Los Angeles. 81
For the last three months she
had been visiting a niece, Mrs.
Thomas Creighton Sellars, writer,
whose historical novel, Contrary
Winds" was published recently.
Miss Solomons lived here at 1150
Connecticut avenue NV. She was
the last of eight daughters of
.Aoolphus Solomons, philanthro-
plst, who was one of the founders
of Garfield and Providence Hos
pitfalls. 1t was in his home G z
street that the American Red Cross
was organized under the direction
of Clara Barton, according to
great-niece, Mrs. r. B. Lawrence,
Lucketts, Va, who said Mr.. Solo
mons was one of the first two vice
presidents of the organization and
the first delegate sent to the Inter-
national Red Cross Conference at
Geneva.
Mr.. Solomons started his book
business on Pennsylvania avenue
shortly after the Civil War. Dickens
was said to have visited him on a
trip to this country.
Miss Solomons and her sisters were
at one time prominent in Wash
ington social circles. They were:
Miss Aline Solomons, a Red Cross
Official who died in 1912; Mrs. Rosa
lie S., Phillips, chairman of the
Women's Democratic Committee of
New York, who died about two years
ago; the Misses Isabelle, Emma,
Alma and Zillah SolomonS, and Mrs.
D. L. M. Peixotto, the oldest, who
died in 1888.
Funeral services and burial for
Miss Solomons will be held in Long
Island.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Committee Hopes TO Clear
HOUSING Bill Next Week
BY the Associofed Press

The House Banking Committee
expects to complete hearings next
week on the Taft Ellender- Wagner
housing bill.
This legislation, already passed by
the Senate, is designed to encourage
the building of 15,00O,0 900 new homes
by 1858. At least 100000 Of those
would be public housing units.
Chairman Wolcott has predicted
that the House will pass a long
range housing bill before adjourn
ment in mid-June. But Mr.. VOL
colt said the bill probably will have
no provision for public housing.
The 100000 public housing units
would be built under direction OF
local housing authorities with the
Federal Government helping finance
them. House action on whatever
measure is finally approved by the
committee will be expedited, Mr.
Wolcott said.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Labor Briqudes for Czechs

PRAGUE = P. - More than l, ,10C
Czechoslovak students will spend
their vacations this summer as
worker brigades in Yugoslavia, Bull
garia, Albania, Romania, Poland and
Scotland. University students are
being given the choice of serving in
brigades or going to country dis
tricts to serve as explainers of the
new constitution, during one month
of the summer vacation.
Evening star., 1948-06-05
Plane Leaves ; at Bori
After Gunpoint Landing
By the Associoted Press


ROME, June 5.-A Yugoslav
civilian plane whose crew was forced
at pistol point to land at Bari
Thursday took off today for Yugo-
slavia.
Three of its passengers and the
wireless operator who forced the
plane to depart from its Belgrade
Sarajevo course were in a refugee
camp near Bari. They told italian
authorities they wished to flee
Yugoslavia for political reasons.
The italian news agency ANSA
said the plane carried 10 passengers
and five crewmen on it's homeward
flight.
Evening star., 1948-06-05


the place locked were lying on the
floor.
One Door Forced.
AS police rushed through the back
door they came to another one.
The lock clicked into place by the
men inside. but they didn't have
time to swing a bar over it,
An awful lot of beef hit that
door in rush." 1t. Weber said.
The door gave without police hav-
ing to use the battering ram they
had brought along.
There was mad scramble on the
inside for few minutes. Some of
the patrons who had not seen the
uniformed policemen heard the out
cry and thought the place was being
held up by robbers and ran to hide
their money, according to 1t. Weber.
The troopers found $4,000 con-
cealed behind radiator. In an up
stairs apartment, occupied by TO
year-old woman, they found $4,000
in closet. The elderly woman de-
MED ownership of the money.
Police said patrons of the road
house were milling around two crap
tables and a blackjack table in the
main part of the building which
police described as the gaming
room"
Others were in small room
watching television receiver. The
weapons captured were a Garand
rife, two Browning automatic shot
guns, .30-caliber winchester rifle,
8 .45-caliber pistol and three .38-
caliber pistols.
30 Persons in Building.
Around 80 persons were inside
the building when the officers en-
tered. Others came in later, pass
ing the two troopers who had re-
placed the lookout.
The patrons arrested had from
81 to $1,000 on them at the time.
1t. Weber said there was no at
tempt on the part of any of the
crowd to use the weapons. One man,
he said, came out of an adjoining
storeroom with his revolver cooked,
but dropped it when he saw the
troopers. 1t. Weber said the weap-
ons were there apparently, as a
safeguard against holdups
1t Weber said the place was a
onetime night club which was now
listed as country club. He said
several piles of membership cards
in the country club" were found.
After the Lewis murder, according
to 1t. Weber. the gambling house
was shut down. He said it had re-
opened only in the last 10 days or
two weeks. The raid, he said, was
planned as soon as word came that
it was back in business.
The 18 men charged with manag-
ing gaming tables and the ad-
dresses they gave were: Charles R.
Beers Of the first block of Colebrook
drive, Silver Hill; Alfred E. Meyers,
400 block of Hagen road, Washing
ton; William E. Downs, Silver Hill;
Evening star., 1948-06-05
National University
Awards AZ Degrees

Representative eBryson, Democrat
of South Carolina, told graduates OF
National University last night they
must believe that we can deal with
Communism and still maintain our
essential American liberties"
Degrees were awarded to 42 grad
yates at the exercises, held at the
Central High School auditorium.
Mr.. Bryson said that the United
States can not permit civil liberty
to become the sanctuary of subver-
sion, the tinderbox of treason" Nc
system of law is just, no concept OF
liberty is safe that breeds the instru-
ments of its own violent overthrow,
he added.
Honorary degrees were awarded to
Godfrey L. Munter, former president
of the District Bar Association, and
Thomas Buckman Shoemaker, dep
uty commissioner of the Immigra-
ton and Naturalization Service.
Receiving degrees were:
MASTER OF LAWS.
Chaplin Charles K Peck, FrancesV.
Condor, David F., jr. Reese, Ira F.
Harding, Wesley G. Schmuckie, Bernard
Manoogian, Charles Silver, Samuel A.
MASTER OF PATENT LAWS.
Dunn. Frank P. ReiSer, Jack H.
Jennison, e. M.
BACHELOR OF LAWS
Anderson, Douglas Golden, Jack r.
Bacon, Harold H. Harvey George A.
Belser Harvie j. Jeannotte, George L.
Benedick, Michael Lee, Luther T.
Bettendorf, L. ]. Lillard. James B.
Brown, Lloyd w Lunch, Milton r.
Burgess, Francis T. McCracken, James
Carmen Harold S. McDonough. Louis
Cowger, William H. Park. Ellen L.
Detmer John G. Saposnekoo, Sophie
Fields. Robert A. Schuler. Willie e.
Fox. James B Wigby. Bartley D.
Cannon Robert T. wilkins. Doris G.
Coffman, Meredith Wilson, George M.
Young, L. A. jr.
CERTIFICATES
II,