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Evening star., 1948-05-28

retire, therell be serious conse-
quences," he winked knowingly. He
has suffered with a heart ailment
since before the close of the war
and was relieved of his Burma CON-
mand because of his health.
Forced Out by Bad Health.
During the early stages of the
Burma campaign he was forced to
60 to less rigorous duties. At the
time, Gen. Stillwell said he con-
sidered "it unfair 10 a valuable Of
ficer to ask further effort on his
part which might have serious, last
ing effect on his health"
Gen. Stilwell's precaution was too
light. The campaign took about
everything from Gen. Merrill but
his great humor and his will to live
and fight.
Although the battle for Mytikyina
Airport was the Marauders' greatest
exploit, it was their first engage
ment that still chngs in their
leaders mind.
1T was our first big f1ght-at a
place called Walabum," Gen. Mer-
rill recalled. Il had spent the early
part of 194l with the japanese
Army in Manchuria and was quite
impressed with the Japanese ability
and stamina to march and hike. I
knew before the Walabum fight my
people would get along all right,
but when it was over
Battalion Licked Two Regiments.
He grinned like a sophomore.
when it was over. We had $50
dead Japanese in front of us and
only three of our people killed and
II wounded. The Japs had the
Evening star., 1948-05-28
By the Associated Press

MARION, Ohio, May 28-A father
bought two bottles of soda pop for
his two little girls, made a last
telephone call to his ,estranged wife
and then drove his automobile into
the path of a 70-mile-an-hour pas
senger train yesterday.
Killed in the triple tragedy were
41-year-old Charles M. Gerstenlauer
Marion dry cleaning firm owner
and his two daughters, Sandra, 3
and Gaye, 2.
Coroner E. H. Morgan of Marion
County reserved verdict pending
receipt of reports from the State
highway patrol.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Fling said Ger
stenlauer deliberately drove his ma
chine into the path of the Erie
Railroad Lake Cities Express.
Charles N. Lowe, train engineer
of Marion, said the Gerstenlauer Car
Evening star., 1948-05-28
Father Drives in Path of rain
To Kill Self and Two Dduqhters

was parked at the crossing as the
train approached. He said it moved
into the trains path when the en-
gine was $50 feet away.
Frank Weidemann, attorney for
Gerstenlauer's wife, Elsie, 38, said
Gerstenlauer called his wife at 3
pm, half an hour before the acci-
dent, and threatened to kill himself
and the children.
That call, investigators found, was
made at filling station less than
300 yards from the fatal crossing.
They quoted Gerstenlauer as telling
his wife:
The kids and will be missing. u
Mrs. Gerstenlauer filed for di-
vorce about two weeks ago. The
court at that time issued re-
straining order to prevent the
father from seeing his family. Ger
stenlauer was called into court yes
terday to answer contempt citation
on his Wife's complaint.
Evening star., 1948-05-28

1921, at Bay Shore, Long Island, and
we're separated March IA, l947.
Mrs. Hutchins, sculptor and writer,
has been living apart from the
chancellor for more than a year.
He has been staying at a South
Side hotel, while she has lived at
the "Chancellor's House" of the
University.
DR.. Hutchins was dean Of the
Yale Law School in 1928 at % and
became president of the University
of Chicago at 80.
Mrs. Hutchins. originally Of New
York, has exhibited her work in
Chicago galleries and in the East.
She has experimental with surreal-
ist techniques.
DR.. Hutchins, in an answer to his
vifes petition, denied he had will
fully absented himself from their
home. as contended by Mrs. Hutch
ms. The petition agreed the couple
separated on March IA, 1947.
Evening star., 1948-05-28
merrill of Famed Morouders
To Retire From Army at ~
General Was Leader
Of Jungle Fighters
In Burmo Campaign
By ChorIes J. Yorbrouqh

By ChorIes }. Yorbroueh
Frank Dow Merrill becomes ex-
pendable again today.
The leader of Merrills Marauders,
who took his expendables through
100 days of hell and Burma in one
of the most celebrated short actions
of American military history. is on
today's Army retirement board
schedule
On board records he will be Brig
Gen. Frank D. Merrill, A, who tried
six times to get into West Point be-
fore he made it.
On war records and in the public
mind he is the already legendary
young general who led handful of
trained jungle fighters in the first
all-American penetration of Burma
and then held objectives until ar
rival of main Allied forces.
Faces Retirement at A.
Old beyond his years, with head
and chest tapping with pain, he was
still chipper at Walter Reed Hospital
yesterday, good humor hiding the
inevitable disappointment of ca
reer Army man who faces retire.
ment at A..
Iron gray, ruddy-faced, he is still
youthful enough to be Junior edi-
ton of the late Gen. Joseph w. Still
we'll, with whom he fled Burma in
the dark days of the swift Japa-
nese advance. His thin-rimmed,
tortoise-shell glasses make the re-
semblance even more remarkable.
He has much of Gen. Stilwell's
salty wit and easy but inoffensive
profanity: grows little grim only
when questioned on policy in the
Orient, where he had spent a num-
ber of years prior to Pearl Harbor
SOLDIERS just fight wars-politi-
clans make 'em," he snapped.
Our job is to train soldiers and
to fight them-if we have to. I
don't know a damn thing about poll
tics. I'm not supposed to-
Cheered by Amputee's Visit.
/ One of the bright spots Of his 10
month stay at Walter Reed was the
surprise appearance of one of his
Marauder sergeants who was wound
ed in the battle for Mytikyina Air
port in Burma. He Is T/Sergt.
James w. McKrell, who later lost a
Evening star., 1948-05-28
u. n. Clears Reporters
In Press Criticism
By the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, May 28.--- A
United Nations official said yester-
dav that the U. N. intended no re-
Election on working correspondents
here in a secretariat paper that says
U. N. news is generally distorted" ."
The matter came up briefly before
group of international experts on
information meeting here. They did
not get to a discussion of the state
ment but it may be debated later.
The principal task of the expert
group is to advise the u N. on public
information policy.
Wilder F'oote. an executive in the
U. N. Public Information Depart
ment. explained to the experts that
the U. N. paper cast no reflection on
reporters assigned to the U. N.
Mr.. Foote said rather that it meant
the overall picture had become dis
torted in some cases through news
papers carrying only fragmentary
accounts. He said this was due to
several factors, such as stories being
cut down or discarded by editors.
Secretary General Trygve Lie at
his weekly news conference yester-
day refused to back up the paper,
which had been prepared by one of
his Subordinates.
Il wouldn't GO so far" Mr.. Lie
said. The situation is very different
in different countries and in differ
ent newspapers.
Evening star., 1948-05-28
Mrs. Mary Turner Dies;
Mother of Speed Flyer
BY the Associated Press

CORINTH. Miss. May 28.-Mrs.
Mary Aquilla Turner, II, mother
Of Col. Roscoe Turner, famed speed
aviator, died at a hospital yester-
day. She had been i'll about two
weeks.
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete but burial will be in Corinth.
Survivors include her husband, r.
L. Turner: four other sons. Bob Of
Indianapolis, William of Baltimore.
Abe of Jackson, Miss. and Cass Of
Corinth, and one daughter. Mrs.
Mary Emma Whitaker of Indianap-
oils.
Evening star., 1948-05-28

leg from the wound and is now at
Walter Reed as an orthopedic me-
chanic.
That boy had such a fine atti-
tude." Gen. Merrill said. "He didn't
resign himself to the mental state
which many amputees had. He was
bright and CHEEKY through all Of it
and still is. His visit was good
medicine to me-"
Not many sentences later, with a
smile as though he were going back
to active duty, Gen. Merrill passed
heetingly over his own illness.
They tell me if don't just fully
Evening star., 1948-05-28
D. C.-MoryIond Hospital
Group Names Wright
by the Associoted Press


FREDERICK, Md, May 28.-Ben-
tamin w. Wright, superintendent of
Memorial Hospital at Cumberland,
was elected president Of the Mary
land-District Hospital Association
at it's spring meeting yesterday.
Mr.. Wright will become head Of
the association in the fall. He was
elected after Brady J. Dayton. ad-
ministrator of Peninsula General
Hospital at Salisbury, resigned as
president-e
j. G. Capossela. administrator of
Emergency Hospital in Washington,
current president, presided at yes
terday's sessions. They will con-
tinue today.
Evening star., 1948-05-28

OlNOlCc yCSICl
day c h a r g j n g
desertion.
She asked GUS
tody of their two
minor children,
alimony a n d
support.
T h e couples
I hire e children
are Frances, %;
jeanne, IL, and
Clarissa, 6.
Her bill, filed
In S u p e r i o r
Court, said they
ere married
ant o p1her IN
Evening star., 1948-05-28
Man With 1894 in Cash
Dies of MuInutrition
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, May 28.-Herbert
Tarbox, 62-year-old former Army
sergeant, often told the manager of
the rooming house where he lived
that he could live for a day ION
doughnut, cup of coffee and 10
cents forth of potatoes"
He collapsed on street corner
yesterday and died seven hours later
Hospital attendants found 1894 in
currency sewn into his clothing. His
handbook indicated deposits of 81,
238.
Chief cause of death was given as
mAlnutritiOn
Evening star., 1948-05-28
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c." Al
2S,

better part Of two regiments against
us. We had a battalion"
He will be going home to North
Woodstock, N. H.. soon, to his wife
and two sonS-he's sure of that.
"My father wrote me he'd be
down to see me in week or so,"
he said.
L told him not to bother-Td be
home in a week"
Evening star., 1948-05-28
ADVERTISEMENT.
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Evening star., 1948-05-28
Mexico Gets Avocado Trees

Mexico's Chapultepec Botanical
Gardens recently received a num-
Der of young avocado trees from the
UNITED States, from which it is
hoped to develop an industry.
Evening star., 1948-05-28
Dr.. Hufchins' Wife
Sues for Divorce
BY the Assoeiofed Press

CHICAGO, May 28.-Mrs. Maude
Phelps Hutchins, wife of DR.. Robert
Maynard Hutchins, chancellor of the
University of Chicago, filed suit for
Evening star., 1948-05-28
$4,000, 900 Paintings
Returned to Germany
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

BY the Associated Press
BREMERHAVEN, Germany, May
28. Fifty four German owned
paintings valued at 100000 900 were
returned from the United States
yesterday under heavy guard.
They were part of collection of
200 German paintings taken to the
United States for safe keeping.
Evening star., 1948-05-28

Supporting government bond
selling campaign. $4,000 school chill
dren recently paraded in Mexico
CITY,
Evening star., 1948-05-28
New-Type Planes Help
Research in Polar Areas

New types Of airp1anes developed
to meet Antartic conditions already
have proved themselves and will
take an increasing part in whaling
and research operations in the Polar
regions, Chilean observers report
in Santiago.
Planes accompanying the whaling
ship S. S. Balaena, which returned
some months ago from service as a
factory ship, were used for spotting
schools of whales and were in radio
communication with whaling cut
tiers. They were launched from the
factory ship by catapult and taken
aboard again bY crane.
Evening star., 1948-05-28
Z Britons Set Up Polar Base

During her winter cruise to the
Antarctic, the British warship Snipe
landed two men at Port Lockroy. on
Graham Island, to establish a re-
search base.
Evening star., 1948-11-06

Maurice and pirce Jatahy, girl.
Luther and Shirley johnson. boy.
Prank and N Nancy & Jones. girl: girl .,.,
Neuman and Edna Kerndt. boy.
George and Laura Killian, boy.
Frank and Margaret Kittelburger. girl.
Merlyn and Joan Roland. girl.
John and Lillian Kristovich, girl.
John and Regina Kyowsky, girl.
John and Joan Lancaster. boy.
Claude and Nora Leer. boy.
Theron and Mary Lemly, sirl.
Lyons and Virginia Lemon, girl.
John and Mabel Lewis, boy.
Thomas and Maria Liegel. girl.
Patrick and Evelyn Lydon, girl.
Wallace and Virginia Lyles. girl
Thomas and Antoinette. Marcellino, boy
smne ana sns saTSsfs Rats MsTtin Msrtn Boy Boy
Vincent and Jean Marvasco, boy.
William and Elsie McGinn, boy.
oris and Doris McGreFor. girl.
william and Catherine Miller, boy.
Allen and Pauline Mitchell. boy.
Park and Elizabeth Mitchell, girl
Wilism ar and MARS Marsarst tola Mons.5 girl
Richard and Edith Mullen. girl.
Verne and Catherine Nanninga, girl.
William and Marilyn Noffsinger, boy.
George and EVELYN Noord: boy.
Carl and Edith Packard, boy.
Walter and Mabel Peregory. girl.
Joel and cerd Petterson; boy.
Mack snd IL Harriett Phillps pdps; boy boy,
Robert and Anna Russell. boy.
Robert and Anna Sawyer boy.
Norman and Mildred Sawyer. girl
George and Mary Shaw. girl.
clifford and Jeanette Smith, boy.
Forrest and Effie Smith. girl.
Tilman and Matte Soil. girl
Herman and Gladys Spiegel, girl.
Thomas and Tollie Spivey, boy.
John and Teresa Starsel. boy.
Robert and Mary Stone, boy.
Thomas and Beatrice Story, boy.
EDWARD EDWARD and and Edna Edna Thomas, boy.
George and Emma Totten. boy.
Waymoth and Sarah Vestal, boy.
Edward and Reya Volland. boy.
Rene and Mildred Won Lobstein. boy.
Russell and Florence Walker; boy.
George and Elsie Weide, boy.
Evening star., 1948-11-06
a D. G. Health Officials
To Attend Boston PurIey

Four District Health Department
officials will attend the annual con-
vention of the American Public
Health Association meeting in Bos-
ton next week.
They are DR.. Ella Oppenheimer
director of the Bureau of Maternal
and Child Welfare; DR.. Carl G.
Dauer, epidemiologist of the depart
ment; DIR. A. Harry Ostrew, direc-
tor of the bureau of dental service,
and William H. Cary, director of
public health engineering.
Evening star., 1948-11-06
Births Reported

(From the D. c. Bureau of Vital Statistics
John and Dorothy Anderson; boy.
John and Willie Armstrong, boy.
Bernard and Mary Baker: girl;
6eoaid 660ffd anS and sse aSensslyn sst.9 Bal boy
aeorse and and Nsns Many ssesea' seser. siFI: 9HS:
E5M. EGank ID and a. Nieki sstts Bowen; girl
Philip and Marguerite Brotman, girl.
Pierre and Evelyn Bynum, boy.
Frank and Gladys Carau: boy.
Charles and Jacklyn Carhart, boy.
Albert and Mary Carroll, boy.
Eobert and Beulah Bing, girl.
James and Mary Cordell. girl.
Earl and Katherine Crosby, girl.
Elmer and Helen Davis. boy.
Joseph and Maebelle Davis, girl
Ray snG and Berne!sne Davis girl
Leo and Elaine Day, girl.
William and Roselle Dear, girl.
RsIDert TSaD ara and d. .E;on Roxie Dettmsn, sirl.
Harry and Mary Dorm, boy
Oliver and Isabel Dunbar. boy.
George and Catherine Eatman. boy.
Horace and Jane Faulkner boy
Far Far and porothea Fischer, girl.
Gerald and Marion Gardell. girl.
Fred and Joyce Gianiny, girl
Andrew and Helen Giguere. boy.
Gordon and Doris Gill, girl
Thomas and Mary Cough. boy.
T. j. and Catherine Halkins, girl
John and Eleanor Halpin, girl
Thomas and Grace Haring, girl,
Donald and Marguerite Harrison, boy.
John and Bertha Hendrick, girl.
Cyril and Julia Hixon, girl
Paul and Frances Hoagland. boy.
Llewellyn and Jean Hollinger, girl.
Peter and Janet Horne, sirl
John and Henriette Houghtcn girl.
Harold and Gertrude Hunsaker. boy.
Leo and Vivian Jarhoe. boy.
Evening star., 1948-11-06

John and Helen West, boy.
Robert and Annie Wilburn. boy.
Gordon and Caroline Williams, giri,
Chester and VILLA Willis, girl.
Richard and Elizabeth Wilmer, girl.
Kenneth and Charlotte Wolfangle, girl,
George and Jean Wolfsane. boy,
James and Alice Wood. girl
Raymond and Beatrice Woods, boy.
Stanley and Esther Wray. boy.
Calvin and Gladys Addison boy,
2udolph and Frances Aston, boy,
Eugene and Lille Baldwin, girl,
Clark and Ruby Beckett, boy.
James and Elener Boyd. boy.
James and Purnia Brinsor. boy.
BENJAMIN and Mildred Brown, boy.
James and Ethel Brown, girl.
Leon and Lille Bush, girl.
James and Thomastine Coley. boy.
Adrian and Marie Darnaby, girl.
James and Alma Dewitt. boy.
Alfonzo and Loretta billiard, boy.
Clarence and Laura Dudley, girl.
Norris and Louberte Etienne. girl.
William and Doris Gaines. boy.
Ulysses and Theodosia Garland. boy,
William and Margaret Hamm girl.
John and Edith Hampton. boy
Renault and Nellie Hawkins, boy.
Evening star., 1948-11-06

Bernard and Mary Henderson, girl.
Elmer and Lorraine Hill, girl.
Joseph and Mildred Kerrick, boy,
Philip and Maxine Latney, boy.
Joseph and Rose May, boy.
John and Irene Marshall. girl.
Ernest and Enola Nolan, boy.
Earl and Vernell Postell, girl,
Andrew and Christine Reams, girl.
Angerson and Frances Robertson, girl.
John and Ola Russell. boy.
Aaron and Edna Scott. boy.
Melvin and Pauline Shell, girl.
Melvin and Lucille Short, boy.
Floyd and Edna Smith, boy.
Novel and Vernell Smith, boy.
Girls and Sheila Thompson. boy
Archie and Flora Williams, girl.
Harry and Thelma Williams. boy.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
East Cote Businessmen
Name Hogon President

James w. Hagan, owner of the
Hagan Bakeries, 1912 Fourth street
NE, last night was elected presi-
dent of the East Gate Business
mems Association. Other officers
elected we're:
Joseph l.. Bateman. first vice
president; Clarence r. Harding
second vice president; Bernard T.
Dodder, secretary, and Lyle Werth,
treasurer.
An Executive Board elected in
cludes the officers and following
members: Earl Robson, E. E..
Crawn, Mrs. Marian Cord, w. I.
Peeler and Ray Fowler.
The group set the third Thursday
of each month as a regular meet
ing night. The meeting was held
at 2004 Rhode Island avenue NE.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Grant Circle Stops Stolen Car
After 75-M.P.H. Police Chase

One of Washington's traffic circles.
often maligned by motorists, was
credited with an assist early today
when police overlook a stolen auto
mobile by racing rs to 80 miles an
hour over 4-mile course.
Headed north on New Hampshire
avenue, the fugitive car had only
one obstacle to clear before getting
a straight shot into Maryland. That
was Grant Circle, and that was
where the driver played it wrong.
Instead of swerving right in the
accepted manner, he cut left and
encountered taxicab coming to-
ward him. There was tense mo-
ment of zig-zagging, screeching of
brakes and skidding and the stolen
car wound up in the circle.
Up came Pvts. William r. Shelton
and Merle E. Swope of the second
precinct in their scout car and in
time to see their racing adversary
leap from the stalled machine and
dash away. Pvt. Shelton fired one
shot at him.
The policemen arrested Fred In
man, SO, colored, l4oo block of
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Drive Reported to Capture
Districts ; G. O.P. DELEGATES

An attempt to capture control of
the Districts Republican State
Committee, and with it Washing
tons three votes at the coming ma
tional convention, was reported
today by James c. Wilkes. chairman.
Mr.. Wilkes told The Star he was
quite inclined to believe there is
movement which comes from out
side" the 43 precincts into which the
city is divided by the Republican
organization. He said the group
apparently is attempting to con-
troll the precincts by organizing on
city-wide basis"
Thus far, Mr.. Wilkes said, the
rump group has succeeded in cap
turing the job of precinct commit
teeman in mot more than sfive' of
the 80 precincts where elections
have been held. The remaining 13
elections will be held tonight and
tomorrow.
Purpose of the new groups re-
ported drive to win the precinct
elections is far from clear, however.
Reports have been current all week
that the move was backed by sup
porters Of Harold E. Stassen, but
Stassen headquarters here say 1t
has no knowledge of such move.
Other reports are that a Henry
Wallace group is behind the move
or that Communists are back Of
1t. The Communist report was
given The Star by George L. Hart.
lr.. secretary of the District Re-
publican Committee. He said, how
ever, that was his first impression
and that he doesn't think now it
is the case.
The one thing agreed on by Mr..
Wilkes, Mr.. Hart and others in the
regular Republican organization
which has remained in power here
Tor many years, is that a group of
people has been going from pre-
clnct to precinct in an effort to stack
the meetings and outvote the
usually small group on hand.
One Of the two precinct delegates
elected is Charles R. Morgan, 9l8
Quincy street NE, a Veterans Ad-
mlnlstration employe He said to-
day he is a native Washingtonian,
is not publicly backer of Mr.. Stas-
sen or any other candidate and that
he may withdraw because of the
Hatch Act ban on political activity
by Federal employees.
Mr.. Morgan said he was elected
at meeting in Precinct 6 attended
by only eight or nine persons. He
said he later was told that some
big deal is cooking" He said he did
not know the nature of the deal"
Mr.. Morgan,s own opinion is that
the Republican organization here
is dormant and that the whole
Evening star., 1948-04-29
$50 Former Strikers
Now Back in GSI Jobs

About $50 former strikers have
been reinstated in jobs in Federal
building cafeterias operated by Gov
ernment Services, Inc. since the
United Cafeteria Workers (CIOD
strike ended March %, officials said
today.
GS1 spokeSmen said the reinState-
ments represent about half of the
union workers who will be returned
to work in the 40 cafeterias. While
LOO employees were involved in
the walkout, only about TOO have
indicated ANY desire to return u
they explained.
Most of the $50 union members
have taken over jobs vacated by
normal turnover. with only about
30 dlSmissals of personnel hired
during the strike, the officials re-
ported
At the same time. however. the
ofhclalS said Miss Olevia Hollo-
well, manager of the Federal Loan
Building cafeteria at Fifteenth and
n streets NV, has resigned the
post in protest of any dismissals to
make room for the union members
Miss Hollowell told officials she had
no objections to the union workers,
but that she thought it unfair to
flre replacementS who had gone
through picket lines and worked
hard" to take their places, they
said.
A successor to Miss Hollowell has
not vet been named. GSI said
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Rimmer Sculpture Topic
OF 1omorrow's Art Talk

The Corcoran Gallery of Art S
Head of a Woman by DR.. William
Rimmer, American sculptor 1816-
1879. will be discussed at 1890
pm. tomorrow by Miss Amy Briggs
during her weekly Gallery Talk.
Miss Briggs said the granite head
is of interest not only because it
represents one of Americas finest
early sculptors, but also because DR..
Runners works are now very rare.
In honor of May Day, the Chill
drens Story Hour at II am. Satur-
day will comprise fairy stories. Mrs.
Josephine Bever will tell the fairy
tales to children to Is and illus
trate them with paintings by the
French artist. Adolphe Monticello
1924 1886. Both the Gallery Talk
and Story Hour are free to the
public.