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Evening star., 1948-06-19
Robbery Wave Nets
$4,000 in Chicago
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, June ia series of
bold daylight robberies that netted
more than $40 900 kept police on the
Jump yesterday.
In one robbery. police car was
wrecked after q running gun battle
with five men. Three Of the fugi-
tives escaped by communicating a
taxicab. Two fed on foot. One
Of the latter two later was seized
at home. Police said he. has been
identified as one OF the holdup gang
The police chase began after five
holdup men took $4,000 from 10 en-
ployes and seven customers Of the
City Savings and Loan Association
on the Northwest side.
Another robbery holdup OF the
University of Illinois Chicago busi-
ness oface-was carried out while
Gov. Dwight H. Green spoke at cor
nerstone laying ceremonies on the
campus a half block away.
Gov. Green did not learn OF the
robbery until after the cornerstone
had been laid. Two gunmen took
between 81, 900 and $1,000 after men
acing five women employees OF the
payrofi department.
Earlier, three men robbed North
west side currency exchange en-
plove of $500 while he was cashing
checks for $50 Eversharp, Inc, en-
ployes.
Strong ANN burglars who thrust
laundry bag over q Waterman
head hauled away q safe containing
81 500 to $4,000 from the Bee Hive
Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. on
the West side.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
I Arabs and Jews Due
At Rhodes Monday 10
Talk With Bernadotte
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

CAIRO, June 19.-Arab and Israeli
delegations are expected to reach
Rhodes Monday to confer with
Count Folke Bernadotte, United
Nations mediator for Palestine.
Count Bernadotte returned to
that Greek Mediterranean island
yesterday from a flying trip to Cairo
and Tel Aviv on which he invited
them to Rhodes for peace talks.
Both sides agreed to send expert
consultants. but the Swedish count
said he did not know yet whether
these would get together in round
table conferences.
He said also it was too early to
tell whether high Arab and Jewish
officials would come to Rhodes later.
In any event, he expected to take
at least q week in framing con-
crete proposal.
Count Bernadotte is seeking to
build a lasting settlement of the
Holy Land question on the base OF
a four-week truce now in its ninth
day. He said some minor incidents
might mar the truce in the next few
weeks.
An American French U. N. truce
team today reported violation out
side Arab held Nazareth.
Evening star., 1948-06-19

areas was won by Lou Difazo of
Upper Darby. Pa. He received the
Night Of Thrills Trophy, presented
for the first time. If he wins 1t
again next year he will retain it
His time was IS min
utes 81 seconds.
Second place. which also brought
a trophy, was won by 1t. George
Cole Of the Navy Olympic team at
Annapolis, with a time of 56 min
utes 18 seconds. Third honors went
to Johnny Leiss, 1886 Sixteenth
street NV. He won trophy pre-
sented by Temple-Noyes Masonic
Lodge, No. 80, to the high District
placer In the race. His time was
81 minutes 81 seconds.
Ball Game Results.
Results of the afternoon ball
games were: Alexandria DeMolay
s; Silver Spring DeMolay. S, and
Quantico Marines, /; Martin Bomb
ers, 0, when the game was called al
the end Of the eighth inning
Tonight's program will include q
parade led by Brig. Gen. Harry R
Kutz, U. 8. A.. retired, grand mar
shal, with many bands. units ol
Army. Navy, Marine Corps. District
National Guard and marching an.
drilling units Of the Shrine, Tai
Cedars, Ladies Oriental Shrine ano
Grotto.
A four-ring circus will follow and
the program will wind up with q
modef plane formation-night exhi-
bitton and e9hreworks display.
Proceeds OF the Night of Thrills
will go to the Eastern Star Masonic
Home.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
SwindIer in Coffins
For War Dead Sentenced
Nv the A,soeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, June 19-Carl Joseffy
81, who worked q 100000 swindle
by pretending to trafiic In lumber
for coffins of American war dead
has been sentenced to a prison term
OF three to six years.
The sentence was meted out yes
terday by General Sessions Judge
John A. Mullen, who called him
"one Of the most despicable. con-
scienceless swindlers ever heard Of.
ANY one who trifles with such a
serious thing as our war dead" said
Judge Mullen. must be a pretty
low down creature"
Josef1y pleaded guilty to grand
larceny. He was accused Of repre-
senting he had a Government con-
tract to supply lumber fol, cofiins,
and of obtaining the money from
David Hirsch, 81, by promising him
big profits,
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Romney Begins Sentence
In House Bank Fraud Case

Kenneth Romney, 81. former
sergeant-at-arms of the House, to-
day began serving a sentence Of
from one to three years for falsi-
flying Government accounts and con-
cealing shortages Of funds in the
House bank" In 1916.
District Court Justice Alexander
Holtzof1. who committed Romney
yesterday, said he would recommend
that the former congressional ON
Ger be sent to the Federal Peni.
tentiary at Lewisburg. Pa, on re-
quest of his Attorney, william Il.
Collins.
Romney was sentenced in May,
l947, for concealing shortages Of
more than $4,000 in the House
bank" He had been free under
S2,50o bond. pending appeals. The
United States Court of Appeals af-
firmed his conviction in March. Re-
Gently the supreme Court refused
to review the case.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Prince Peter in Town
Preparing Expedition

Prince Peter, first cousin of King
Paul I Of Greece, explained at a
press conference yesterday in the
Shoreham Hotel that his visit to
this country is wholly non-poljti-
cal"
The Prince is here to obtain cam
eras and personal equipment, pre-
paratory to journeying early next
year to the interior of Tibet as the
cultural anthropologist Of Danish
expedition which is already In the
area.
The Prince. who will remain until
Sunday. came here to consult with
members Of the National Geo.
graphic Society and the Smith
sonian Institution.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
3 Presidential Guards
Arrested in Panama
By the Assoeiotsd Press

PANAMA CITY. June ia
court action has disclosed the arrest
of three policemen in the presi-
dental guard on charges Of taking
part in a plot to overthrow the
administration.
A district attorneys report said
the charges were filed Monday
against Everardo Broce. Jose Sa-
maniego and Jose Delacruz, men,
bers of the guard, and Humberto
Chavarria. former captain of the
guard.
The report was made public yes
terday in a Supreme Court opinion
freeing Chavarria on . writ Of
habeas corpus.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Ching Plea Wins
.A|coa Strike DELAY
By the Assoeieisd Press

PITTSBURGH. June ia strike
called for midnight tomorrow BY
1880 production workers at nine
plants of the Aluminium Co. OF
America has been postponed one
week.
The postponement was announced
last night by Philip Murray, pres
ident OF both the CIO and the
United Steel Workers.
! Mr.. Murray said he was acting at
the request of Cyrus S. Ching, head
Of the Federal Mediation and Con-
ciliation Service. The Government
stepped into the dispute after wage
negotiations between the steelwork-
ers and Alcoa broke down.
The union is seeking a fiat l3-
cent-an- hour across the board In.
crease with improved insurance and
pension plans and correction, of
what it terms wage inequities,"
The company has offered TO boost
wages 8 per cent. A spokesman says
the average increase would be about
'10ls cents an hour. Current wages
rsportedly average u an hour.
Mr.. Murray said notices of the
strike postponement went out to
locals at New Kensington, Pa; AL
Goa, Tenn; Edgewater, N. j.: Mo-
bile. Ala; Baden. N. c.; Detroit;
Richmond. Ind: Bridgeport, Conn.
and Bauxite, Ark.
Meanwhile, the AFL Aluminium
Workers Union which represents
about 5000 workers at four other
Alcoa plants went forward with
plans to strike June %. They have
been offered the same 8 per cent
increase which the CIO has refused
to take. Three of the locals are
reported to have rejected the offer
with the fourth to take a vote
tOdoV
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Minnesota Otters Take Swim
At Zoo on Owners Annual Tour

ton of the wild species. The Min
nesota Game Commission gave Mr.
Liers the otters they brought here
Yesterday. That was year ago
when the animals were tiny cubs,
abandoned after hunter shot their
mother.
Although relatives of the wide
spread and very unpopular weasel
family, the river otters are easily
tanned, intelligent and playful, Mr.
Liers said. He has taught young
otters to retrieve ducks and grouse
to stalk pheasants and flush them
for the gunner and to come to heel
on order, he said. But he refuses to
teach them tricks because that leads
TO forced training which breaks their
spirit.
When the otters got bored with
their water games, they swan out
of the pool together, ran over to
the bars, stood up on their hind
legs and grunted or barked at Mr..
Liers.
"Okay, kids" said Mr.. Liers. pick
ing them up by the scuff of their
necks and hoisting them over the
fence. They've travelled so much, "
he said to spectators. that they've
got the habit"
Evening star., 1948-06-19
7 Hurt in ManhoIe as Bus
Knocks In Battery

Two telephone company employees
working in manhole were injured
Yesterday when a Capital Transit
bus struck a battery in the street,
knocking 1t into the hole.
The freak accident occurred at
Minnesota avenue and Eighteenth
street Sc. One of the workmen.
Henry 'Eslin, Is, of the 1900 block
K street Sc, was struck on the
head. and was treated at Casualty
Hospital for scalp cuts and acid
burns on the body. The other man,
Thomas Mason. 20, of 753 Twelfth
street Sc, was treated at the Ches-
apeake g. Potomac Telephone Co.
clinic for burns on the arms.
Driver Of the bus was Minor E.
Puffenberger, Al, of the 1900 block
of K street Sc.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Housing Bills Fate
.r. - -
Uncertain as House.,
7 Votes i of !; 'Wolc,,o,Hfi {, II Plan IN '.
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

Republicans rammed housing
bill through the House yesterday
minus sany provision for 4spendiag
Government money OH public nous
ing projects. - - -.
A 317-to-9O vote put through the
measure, which President Truman
called the real estate lobby's' bill
Backers Of the legislation replied
that 1t would help spur homebuild-
ing without promoting socialism.
What will happen now on housing
is uncertain. The Senate has passed
the long range Taft -Ellender- -Wag-
ner bill which contains the public
housing feature.
Taft Might Yield.
Some Senators have indicated they
won't accept the House bill, but
Senator Taft. Republican, of Ohio
hinted he might yield to the House
rather than have no bill at all. If
the measure that gets to the White
House resembles the House bill
President Truman could be expected
to veto it.
The House bill provides for:
Renewal of Government mortgage
insurance on new houses up to 90
per cent of value.
Priorities for veterans in buying
war-built Government housing.
A speeded-up system OF figuring
allowances on new
dwelling units. This would
mean tax reductions for rental
housing investors. Mr.. Truman said
these people would be the only real
benefciaries of the bill.
No Subsidies in House Bill.
Taft bill provisions for construc-
ton of 100000 Government financed
housing units. subsidies for slum
clearance and farm housing aids
are omitted from the House bill.
Critics called the Government
financed public housing projects
socialistic.
The 317-to-90 vote by which the
bill sailed through the House was
as more than needed under the two
thirds rule under which the House
was operating. The Republican
leadership invoked this rule to block
any amendments from the floor.
Taft bill hackers in the House thus
had to take the modified bill or
none.
Eighty-eight Democrats joined
with 229 Republicans TO give the
bill the votes 1t needed. Against
the bill were IS Democrats, 8 Re-
publicans and American-Laborites.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Mayflower Guest Injured
In Two-Story Fall

A lumberman from Portland
Greg, was in Emergency Hospital
today with a fractured left leg and
other injuries received last night
when he fell from a fourth-flooI
window of the Maytiower Hotel to
second floor roof. police reported
The victim, Joseph j. Connally
40, who was taken to the hospital
by Fire Rescue Squad No. l. was
quoted as saying the fall was an
accident.
The accident occurred on the De
Sales street side of the hotel. Mr.
Connally suffered injuries to his left
wrist and forehead, as well as to
his leg, police reported.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Bargaining Ing Resumed !li!l ed
Today on Contracts
OF 7 Maritime Unions
BY The Assosiatsd Press

NEW YORK, June 1s.-Bargain-
ing was to be resumed again today
in the East and Gulf Coast maritime
dispute on orders from a Federal
judge.
Both sides in the dispute were or
dered yesterday by Judge John w.
Clancy to resume their contract
talks pending the end Of a Today
restraining order which prevents a
union strike until next Thursday.
Judge Clancy told both sides to
report next Thursday on any prog
ress made In their talks.
The Judge yesterday heard oppos-
ing arguments over whether the 10
day order should be extended into
the S0-day cooling-of period pro-
vided by the Taft Hartley Act and
requested by the Federal Govern
ment. He is expected to rule on the
extension Thursday.
Threatened Walkout Stopped.
A threatened walkout of seven
maritime unions-which would have
resulted in a Nationwide shipping
tieup-was averted June Is, when
Federal injlnctions were obtained
here, In San Francisco and In
Cleveland.
The contracts of the seven unions
expired June Is.
Yesterday, while attorneys pre-
sented their arguments before Judge
Clancy, pickets walked in front OF
the Federal Court Building.
Joseph Curran, president OF the
CIO National Maritime Union,
largest union in the dispute. said
the pickets were led by the Com
munist Party.
Lee Pressman, counsel for CIO
Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso-
citation, argued in the court hearing
yesterday that the ship owners were
responsible for the breakdown of
collective bargaining which led to
the strike threat.
He said operators did not want
an agreement until they had
reached a settlement on their own
terms over the hiring hall question.
John j. Burns, speaking for East
Coast and Gulf owners. said they
did not oppose the restraining order
Hiring Hall Is Main Issue.
The hiring hall issue is the prin-
cipal contention in the dispute.
The operators claim the halls
through which ship workers are
processed for job vacancies-are IL
legal under the Taft-Hartley Act.
The unions are also asking i'm
proved wages and working condi-
tons.
Unions involved include the C1O
American Radio Association on the
East and Gulf coasts, along with the
MEBA and NMU.
On the West Coast, they are the
CIO International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union. the
CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards,
the AFL International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers and the Fire
man and Oilers, an Independent.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Miami Students Here
On Geographical Tour

Ten students from the University
Of Miami arrived here today to
study the geography of the city over
the week end. They are staying
at the Harrington Hotel.
The geography class. under the
direction of DR.. j. Riley Stats,
chairman of the university's ge-
ography department, is beginning a
39-day tour of the Eastern United
States and Canada.
The group will study steel mills in
Pittsburgh. fish canneries in Glou-
cester, Mass, paper mills in Canada
and automobile factories in De-
troit
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Half Of Philippines Shops
To Boycott Jap Goods
By the Assoeiotcd Press

MANILA, June ia rigid boy
colt Of Japanese goods throughout
the Philippines was voted today by
Chinese representing more than so
per cent of retail trade and 40 per
cent of wholesale business in the
islands.
The Philippines Chamber of Com
merce is expected to take similar
steps. Its leaders already have
spoken against resuming trade rela-
tions with Japan.
More than 5000 Chinese-owned
stores in Manila alone will take part
in the boycott.
Members of "a Chinese business
associations. headed by the Chinese
Chamber Of Commerce, agreed to
refrain voluntarily from buying or
selling anything made in occupied
Japan.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Girl Nisei on Jury
To Try Kawakita on
Charges Of Treason
RY the Assoeiotsd Rrsss

LOS ANGELES, June ia Japa-
nese-American girl will be among
the Jurors who try 26-year-old
Tomoya tMeatbalD Kawakita, Cal.
exico, Calf, Nisei, on charges Of
treason against the United States.
Miss Susan Suzuko Nagumo. Nisei
chosen for jury duty yesterday with
eight other women and three men.
told the court she could give Ka.
wakita . fair. impartial trial. She
said neither her family's removal
to Colorado during the war nor
years visit to Japan in 1910 would
prejudice her She was born in
Fresno.
Kawakita is accused Of brutalities
and indignities against American
prisoners of war at Jap internment
camp on Northern Honshu.
His lawyers. arguing that he could
not get fair trial In this country.
asked that it be transferred to
Japan. but Federal Judge william
c. Mathes denied the request. Ka-
wakita, denying the allegations Of
brutality, contends he relinquished
his American citizenship.
The bespectacled Kawakita was
attending the University Of Tokyo
when war broke out. He got a job in
Honshu's nickel mines. and there.
the indictment alleges, he gloated
over American prisoners. slapped
and beat them, and boasted that
some day he would return as
victor to the United States.
He returned and re-entered Cali
fornia on an American passport
issued In Yokohama. In October.
1916. q former American prisoner
at the Honshu nickel mine intern
ment camp saw Kawakita in q Los
Angeles department store.
The American, William L. Bruce
Of San Luis Obispo, Calf, accosted
Kawakita, who fled. Mr.. Bruce got
the license number Of his automo-
bile. The FBI arrested him seven
months later at his Los Angeles
home.
Testimony is scheduled to begin
in the trial Tuesday. Witnesses
brought from Japan are to be called
early. followed by GIs who were
prisoners Of war at Honshu and who
gave Kawakita the nickname Of
"Meatball."
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Debris Hides Identity
..MnAmong BDead
--..---,- 20 >tl'r ,LNt
In DC:6 Plane Crash
By the Assoeiotsd Press

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. June IA
Search crews dug deeper Yesterday
into the charred debris OF a ,DC-6
sStrlfner. to uncover clues for 70 uni-
Identified bodies among the 43 vic
tins OF a crash near here two days
ago.
Twenty-one others, including Act
ress Beryl Wallace and two infants,
already have been positively iden-
tined.
But the mangled remains of Miss
Wallace's employer, Earl Carroll. the
Broadway and Hollywood producer,
still lay in a mound of smashed hu-
manlty in an emergency morgue.
Several of the identified bodies
there wasn't single one intact
were shipped out to their families
during the night in Theoretically
sealed collins Relatives agreed that
the remains were of their kin after
viewing some personal belongings or
other identifying items found with
the body.
Meanwhile, investigators contin-
ued another day Of attempting to
reconstruct the circumstances
which surrounded the disaster in
this anthracite region.
In addition to Miss Wallace the
following have been Identified:
1t. Comdr. C. S. Avery, San Fran
cisco: Nathan Berke, Brooklyn, N.
Y; Rowland Brown, New York:
Mrs Joy Marcus and her infant
child, Chicago; Mrs. L. o. Weiser
and her infant child, Chicago: Hans
Joachim. San Francisco; H. L.
Slater, New York; Miss Kay Thorpe,
Chicago: G. w. Rogers, New York:
DR.. Y. Lecorre, Paris, France; r. B.
Stewart, New York G. Harries,
BoyertoWn. Pa: william Casmer
New York; Albert w. Stempel
Stratford, Conn: Richard Schem-
ber. Elgin, ILL.,. first officer of the
plane; L. Dieringer. New York;
Lorena r. Berg, I26. Woodstock. ILL.,,
and Nancy L. Brown. "a, Fort Myers,
Fla. both stewardesses.
Evening star., 1948-06-19
Mrs. Whitney Is Wed
To New York Surgeon;
Many al Reception
BY J. V. Horner
S'or S'off Correspondent

o.. UPPERVILLE, Va, June 10
Farm folk mingled with Philadelphia
Main Line and Long Island society
yesterday as Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
,ocLiz") Whitney, the noted horse
woman, was married to DR.. E.
Cooper Person, jr, SO. New York
surgeon.
u. The ceremony at Llangollen Farms,
the 2,000-acre Whitney estate in the
fertile, rolling country near here,
was performed on the brides 42d
birthday.
:, Both the wedding and a reception
which followed were marked by
1.-The easy informality for which
Llangollen long has been known.
Fewer than rs relatives and close
friends Of the couple heard them
exchange VOWS before the fireplace
of a spacious paneled living room,
but guests from the surrounding
countryside arrived in large num-
,bers to toast them at the reception.
Wears Flowered Print Dress.
The bride, who changed from
'blue dungarees to flowered print
wedding dress only few minutes
before the marriage. overlooked no
detail in extending the hospitality
OF Llangollen. She was still calling
, greetings to the wedding guests as
she walked to the altar
Her husband, the son of Mrs. E.
Cooper Person of New York and
North Carolina, and the late Dr..
Person, Is assistant professor OF
surgery at Cornell University and
attendant at New York Hospital.
Mrs. Person was attended by Mrs.
Ogden Phipps of New York, as ma
tron OF honor, and the groom's best
man was DR.. Robert Hastings Mel
chionna of New York. The bride
was given in marriage by William
Harding Jackson of New York,
close friend of the family.
Two Ministers At Ceremony.
The officiating ministers were the
Rev. C. c. Bush Of the Upperville
Methodist Church, and the Rev.
c. J. S. Ryley, rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church, Upperyille. Mrs.
Person is an Episcopalian, but be-
cause she had been divorced, the
actual pronouncement of marriage
came from the Methodist pastor.
The brides first husband was
John Hay (Jock) Whitney.
DR.. and Mrs. Person said they
planned to establish residence in
New York, but will pay frequent
visits to Llangollen. where MS. Per-
son stables some of the finest thor
oughbred horses in the country.
They announced tentative plans
to leave soon for cruise but did
not disclose the honeymoon timer
ary.