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Evening star., 1948-08-27
z D. {. Men Get 10 Years
In Taxi Driver Robbery

Two Washington men were SEN
fenced in. Montgomery County Cir
cult Court yesterday to serve q
total of 10 years in the Maryland
Penitentiary on charges of robbery
and assault with intent to rob.
One of the men, Avery c. Wright,
26, of the HOO block of Fourteenth
street NV, received a six-year SEN
tence while the other, Charles R.
Bucklew, As, of the 1900 block of I
street NV, was ordered to serve
four years.
Both pleaded guilty to taking a
taxicab, owned by Valentine Ray,
colored, 228 G street NE, last July
81 and forcing him to drive them
to Laurel.
Judge Charles w. Woodward said
Wright had a record of previous
convictions for larceny and burglary
and Bucklew had been convicted be-
fore on drunk charges.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
New Swedish Ambassador
Expected Here About Oct. |

Eric Bohemian. Sweden's new Am
bassador here. will arrive to assume
his duties about October /. the
Swedish Embassy said today.
Assignment to Washington Of Mr..
Bohemian, now Swedish Ambassador
to Great Britain, was announced in
Stockholm yesterday.
He succeeds Herman Ericsson,
who was made Ambassador here last
December after serving as Minis
ter since 1945.
Mr.. Ericsson was relieved Of his
duties here in April because of i'll
health and now has been made
Ambassador to Denmark.
Alexis de Aminoff heads the
Swedish Embassy here now as
Charge d'Affaires.
He recalled that Mr.. Bohemian
was secretary general of the
Swedish Foreign Office during the
war and spent a month or two in
Washington on wartime negotia-
tions. Soon after the war he was
made Minister to France and later
transferred to London.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Actress Lynn Merriek
Divorces Conrud NoqeI
Rx the Assoeiatsd Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.-It took
Actress Lynn Merrick, Is, five
months to make up her mind def
initely, but she has obtained her
final divorce decree from Conrad
Nagel, so, stage and screen actor.
She obtained an ,interlocutory de-
cree March rs. 1947, when she COM
planned that the actor had been too
long a bachelor between marriages.
She was granted her final decree
yesterday, five months after she
could have had it under California
law.
They were married in Fort Lee,
N. j., December q, 1945, more than
10 years after he had been divorced
from his former wife, Mrs. Ruth
Helms Nagel.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
SpotsyIvania Petitions
State for Phone Service
Special Dispatch to The S,or

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Aug.
27.-Spotsylvania County has petit
toned the State Corporation Com
mission to order a telephone COM
pany to service the county which
has been almost entirely without
such facilities since the middle of
this month when the franchise of
w. P. Miller's Rural Telephones be-
came void.
Commemorative Attorney T.
Stokeley Coleman filed the petition
for the County Board of Supervisors.
MIR. Miller agreed in a sec hear
ing to abandon his franchise August
Is. The next day he collected his
equipment and the county, with the
exception of the Chancellor Five
Mile Fork section, has been without
service since. That section is being
served by the Wilderness Telephone
Co.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Jury Continues DeIiberation
In Kawakita Treason Case
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.-A dead
tired jury. worn from II weeks of
trial testimony, again today argues
the case of Tomoya Kawakita,
bespectackled japanese American
charged with treason.
The jury, which went out We'd
nesday, already has deliberated
about IA hours and there was no in
dication that a verdict is imminent.
Federal authorities mentioned the
prospects of deadlocked jury. But
in view of the trials length, the
court, they said, is likely to let them
deliberate until all possibility of a
verdict seems gone.
During yesterdays deliberations,
the jury called for Kawakita's tes-
timony in his own defense, and
that of an other defense witness,
Meiji Fujizawa, an interpreter, as
Kawakita, at Japan's Oeyama prison
camp on Central Honshu Island.
Kawakita was arrested on Fed
eral charges of treason, arising from
acts of brutality and humiliation to
which he allegedly subjected Ameri-
can prisoners in the camp.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Railroads Ask Rate Rise
On Coal, Coke, Iron Ore
BY the Associoied Press

The railroads asked today for
higher freight rates on coal. coke
and iron ore. The proposed in
creases the railroads said, would
yield sl4o,oooOoo q year on the
basis Of 1947 traffic.
The carriers asked the Interstate
Commerce Commission for a nation
wide rate increase of Is cents a net
ton or 28 cents gross ton on hard
and soft coal and coke. A raise
Of 20 cents ton net or gross) was
asked for iron ore In the East and
South.
The railroads said the freight
rates on coal, coke and iron ore
have not kept pace with the rise
in rates on other commodities.
Since 1899, the railroads petition
said, rates on anthracite have ad-
vanced about 81 per cent, those on
coke Is per cent and those on iron
ore 20 per cent. On all commodities,
including coal, coke and iron ore,
rates have advanced about A per
cent.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
0'Dwyer, ,Marcantonio
Begin Name Calling
In Political Warfare
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Open
warfare between Mayor O'Dwyer
and Representative Marcantonio
has erupted into bitter name
calling and countercharges of
attempts at political deals.
+ BY order of the Democratic Mayor,
all non-civil service followers of Mr..
Marcantonio's American Labor Party
on the city payroll are going to get
the ak.
Mr.. Marcantonio said yesterday
that Mayor O'Dwyer is "a double
talking, double dealing, double =
crossing hypocrite."
Mayor O'Dwyer said: II see
nothing in the Communist Party,
including the Henry Wallaces, the
Marcantonios or the rest of them,
but an attempt to destroy the Demo-
cratic Party that gave this country
assurances that came to the people
from the New Deal.
Wallace Refuses Comment.
1T is clear at this time" the
Mayor added, that the Communist
led ALP, including Henry Wallace,
is trying to perpetuate the Eightieth
Congress which gave us the Taft
Hartley Act, did nothing about re-
ducing the cost of living and refused
to 60 along with the ft-Wagner-
Ellender (housing) Bill"
Mr.. Wallace's Office said there
would be no comment >on the
Mayors statement. Mr.. Wallace is
running for President in New York
State under ALP auspices.
Mr.. Marcantonio, assailing the
Mayors order for custer of ALP
city workers, said Mayor O'Dwyer
was attacking him because he re-
fused to make a deal with Tam
many Hall to back the Democratic
candidate for the patronage-rich
post of surrogate.
Asks Tammany Hall Aid.
The mayor, who had ALP support
when he was elected three years
ago, but who has denounced present
ALP leadership, has called on Tam
many Hall to exert every effort to
defeat Mr.. Marcantonio in the
three-cornered fight for the 18th
District congressional seat in the
November 2 election.
Mr.. Marcantonio said the mayors
declaration of war followed the
House members refusal to withdraw
o. John Rogge, ALP candidate for
surrogate, in favor of general ses-
sions Judge John A. Mullen, the
Democratic candidate.
Mr.. Marcantonio said the mayor
would have backed him for re-elec-
ton If he had agreed to support
Mr. Mullen.
Hugo E. Rogers, leader of Tam
many Hall and borough president of
Manhattan, replied that Mr.. Marc
antonio had proposed that the Dem
ocrats drop John Morrissey, their
congressional candidate against Mr..
Marcantonio, in return for ALP sup
port for Mr.. Mullen for surrogate.
Mr.. Rogers declared he turned down
the DrOpOSitiOn
Evening star., 1948-08-27
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Pioneer Texas Oil Man
BY the Asseeiotsd Press


HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 27.-The
Nations oil industry has lost an
other OF its pioneers, Harry c. Wiess,
chairman of the board of the Hum
BILE Oil & Refining Co.
The 61-year-old oil executive died
yesterday at his Houston home, six
weeks after undergoing two major
operations in a New York hospital.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow.
Mr.. Wiess was a member of the
corporation of the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology, a charter
trustee and permanent member of
the board of Princeton University.
and vice chairman of the trustees
of Rice Institute, Houston.
Within the industry, Mr.. Wiess
was a member of the National Pc
troleum Council and a director of
the American Petroleum Institute
Evening star., 1948-08-27
I,IllerndnJlla. -. "a. tic
Plan Offered by U. 5.
Studied by Britain
BY ths Assoeiafsd Press

LONDON, Aug. 27.-Brtain ON
cially acknowledged today receipt
Of an American note proposing a
future international administration
Of the Antarctic.
A Foreign ONCE spokesman said
he was unable to disclose the con-
tents OF the note, adding this was
up to the State Department.
The note, he said. is being studied
by the British Foreign once "in
consultation with the dominion gov,
ernments."
Britain Has Insisted on Rights.
Britain, which claims rights over
a large part of Antarctica, based on
discovery, occupation and, in some
cases, administration of whaling
and meteorological bases, has in the
past said she Is not ready to re-
nounce these rights in the face of
counterclaims by other countries.
notably Argentina and Chile.
Chilean and Argentine claims to
Antarctic territories, and their oc-
cupation of some bases there, led
to British protests in the past year.
Britain suggested the two South
American countries should take
their claims to the International
Court of Justice at The Hague. Both
Argentina and Chile refused. coun-
tering with reaffirmation Of their
claims.
Other Governments Approached.
Other governments the United
States Is reported to have ap-
preached are those of Argentina,
New Zealand, France, Norway and
Australia.
Dispatches from Buenos Aires
said this week the Argentine gov
ernment had rejected the plan be-
cause 1t did not include the Falk-
land Islands, which Argentina
claims against a century -old occu-
patton by Britain.
The Chilean Foreign Once an
nounced in Santiago last night that
Chile had received the information
alization plan. 1t furnished no de-
tails, but said In the main 1t was
similar to a previous United States
proposal which Chile rejected.
That proposal, presented by Cas-
per Greene, State Department
official. would have provided for
administration of the Antarctic
under the United Nations.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Potron Wants $4,000
For Hot Foot in Bur
By the Assoeiofed Press

MAYSVILLE, KY, Aug 81.
Charging he was given a "hot foot
by a bartender, j. B. Shaw sought
$4,000 damages in a suit today
against Richard c. Clifford, cafe
owner.
Mr.. Shaw's petition charged Mr.
Clifford with carelessnass because of
his bartender's alleged action. The
suit said that while Mr.. Shaw was
asleep in the cafe an employe, Newt
Dewally, poured inflammable liquid
on Mr.. Shaw's foot and "set fire to
his foot"
Mr.. Shaw asked $4,000 for per
manent injuries" and 500 for physi-
clan and hospital fees.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Admiral Wilkes to Head
Naval Forces in Reich
BY The Assoeiafsd Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. ~.
Rear Admiral John Wilkes of
Charlotte, N. c.. will assume new
duties today as commander OF
American naval forces in Germany
United States Army headquarters
said last night.
Admiral Wilkes. who during the
war commanded submarine
squadron credited with the sinking
or damaging Of 55 enemy vessels,
succeeds Rear Admiral Roscoe E.
Schuirmann, who is returning to
the United States.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
z Non-Segregated Meetings
Set by Wallace in VIRGINIA
BY the Associated Press

by WVS HSaoStuIG0 FT0St
RICHMOND, Aug. 27.-Henry A.
Wallace will make two major ap-
pearances in Virginia Sunday-here
and in Norfolk-and apparently will
address unsegregated audiences
without interference from the law.
Progressive Party officers have an
nounced that there will be no segre-
cation of races at either meeting.
Non-segregated public meetings
are unlawful in Virginia, but Police
Chief O. D. Carton of Richmond
said the Richmond meeting would be
considered private" gathering and
thus not subject to State segregation
laws.
Norfolk city officials, though with
holding formal comment, indicated
yesterday such a policy would be
followed there
Evening star., 1948-08-27

liam Booth insisted that the order
be obeyed. He contended that
resembling it would be contrary to
Salvation Army rules.
Mrs. Booth and her husband then
quit the Salvation Army and formed
the Volunteers of America. The
husband died in 1899.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Booth
leaves a son, Charles B. Booth of In
dianapolis, colonel in the Volun-
teers of America central area.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Nathaniel Duke, Retired
Railroad Executive, Dies
Nv IN. Ax.oe;o,.d pyex.

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, Aug
27.-Relatives here have received
word of the death of Nathanial
Duke, retired vice president of the
Delaware g. Lackawanna Railroad
and native of Calvert County. Mr.
Duke died at his summer home at
North Falmouth, Mass, Wednes-
day morning. He lived most of the
year at West Orange, N. j.
He was born at Sheridan's Point
Md, about IS years ago but left
here as young man to go to work
for the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad
The survivors include sister, Mrs
Charles r. Belt of Broomes Island
Md,
Evening star., 1948-08-27
District Bridge Team
Wins Negro Tourney

A Washington bridge team won
the championship Of the American
Bridge Association yesterday in At
lantic City.
The association has a membership
Of more than 1000 Negro bridge
players from throughout the coun-
try.
The final round in the match be-
tween "a teams was between Wash
ington and Brooklyn. The Wash
ington team was composed of Allen
Woolridge, Victory r. DAILY, Kermit
Ross and Dewey Carr.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Money Kelly Asks Divorce

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 up.-
Nancy Kelly, ~, movie actress, has
sued Fred H. Jackman, IS, screen
camera man, for divorce, alimony
and half their community property.
She alleged cruelty.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Uarh nf Chunks

AMOS. RALPH W.. The members of the
immediate family of the late RALPH W.
AMOS wish to express their heartfelt
thanks and deep appreciation to other
relatives. friends, neighbors and co-work-
ers for their expressions of sympathy and
hour of bereavement. THE FAMILY 27
Evening star., 1948-08-27
TeIevision License SOUGHT

The Federal Communications
Commission yesterday received an
application for new commercial
television station from the Cumber-
land Broadcasting Co.. Cumber-
land, Nd.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
'Bube Ruth PIozo' Slated
Near Yankee Studium
8v the Associotsd PrsA

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-The City
Board of Estimate appropriated $4,-
GOO yesterday to develop and land
scape an area alongside Yankee
Stadium to be known as Babe
Ruth Plaza"
Evening star., 1948-08-27
Gordon BottomIey Dies;
EnqIish Poetic Dromutist
Rx the Associotad Press

DARE, Wiltshire, England, Aug.
27-Gordon Bottomley. IA, poet and
playwright who sought to revive
English poetic drama, died at his
home here Wednesday.
Mr.. Bottomley wrote many one
act plays in verse that were popular
with community drama associations.
Among the best known we're THE
Singing Sands" "Ardvorlich's Wife"
and '"The Widow"
He was president of the Scottish
Community Drama Association and
vice president of the British Drama
League
Evening star., 1948-08-27

Many Polish technicians now are
studying in the Czech Film Institute
in Prague.
Evening star., 1948-08-27

In the years between 1910 and
1850, more than 100000 immigrants
annually entered New York Harbor.
Evening star., 1948-08-27
CEMETERY LOTS.

4 CHOICE SITES. Fort Lincoln. great dis
count: leaving city, cash or terms. Phone
TO. 5612. rs
FOUR BURIAL cemetary lots; value S400,
sell for S275; located at Washington Ma
tional Tele. AK. 607S any time. 2a'
!? DESIRABLE 5-site lots, in Fort Lincoln:
reasonable: must sell. For further informa-
tion. call WI. 1910. 30
Evening star., 1948-08-27

China is encouraging Chinese
abroad to invest in new enterprises
in China.
Evening star., 1948-08-27

August 25. 194S, in Georgetown University
Hospital. EDITH M. JAdkSON of 449
and wife of Carl Jackson She also is sur
vived by one son, one sister, Clifhe Hardy;
one aunt, Annie Phillips, and other rela-
tives and friends Remains resting with
l.. E. Murray g. Son, 1897 10th st. NV,
where funeral services will be held Satur
day, August 2S. at l pm. 1nterment in
WoodlaWn Cemetery 27s
Evening star., 1948-08-27

JANNEY, SALLIE r. On Thursday,
August %, 194s. at Montgomery County
General Hospital SALLIE r. JANNEY of
Brookeville, Md, beloved wife of the late
John H. Janney and mother of DR.. John
H Janney of San Diego Chile; Mrs. Mary
R. Shields of Brookeville, Md; Edward T.
Janney of Clayville. Va. and Richard w.
Janney of Ashton, Md. Remains resting at
the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Funeral Home
of VIM Ruben Pumphrey. Bethesda. Md.
Services Friday, August %, at 3 pm. at
St Lukes Episcopal Church, Brighton. Md.
Interment Woodside Cemetery, Brinklow,
Nd Please omit flowers. 27
Evening star., 1948-02-17
|0n|y Veterans Taking
FuI|-Time Courses
To GET New Benefits

Student veterans actually attend
inf full time classes in schools, col
leges and universities will be the
only CT bill trainees to benefit from
new subsistence allowance increases
effective April !, the Veterans Ad-
ministration ruled today.
The agency's ruling cleared ur
confusion about Just who is eligible
for the increased payments under a
bill signed by President Truman
Saturday.
The new law raises payments to
CT students without dependents
from $65 month to $75, from 800 to
sos for those with one dependent
and from $50 to $120 for those with
more than one.
Vague wording in>the law brought
up conflicting interpretations both
at the veterans agency and at the
Capitol. The new VA statement,
however, declares the new increases
will not apply to these trainees:
Those attending part time classes
at schools, colleges and universities.
Those taking farm training-even
though some of it is in colleges.
Those taking apprenticeship or
on-the-job training courses.
Those whose training is split be-
Evening star., 1948-02-17
Electric Institute Told
Production Can Hurry
Peacetime Economy

Industry's main problem today is
to sell to people who have never
known a market free from Govern
ment controls in the opinion OF
George E. Whitwell, Philadelphia
Electric Co. official.
Mr.. Whitwell, chairman of the
board of the Philadelphia Chamber
of Commerce, told the Electric Insti-
tute of Washington at its annual
dinner last night at the Mayf1ower
Hotel that majority of present and
prospective customers had no adult
experience with the year 1929 They
would not recognize most economic
pitfalls and dangers that might cause
depression, he said. Nor do most of
them know by experience of mar
ket without Government controls,
ceilings and subsidies, he added.
Calls for Greater Production.
He called for greater production,
increased efficiency and intensified
selling as means of Fastening a
"peacetime economy" and preventing
imitation.
B. M. McKelway, editor of The
Star, the other speaker, traced the
growth of Washington in terms of
population increases, territorial and
business expansion and as a result
of wars. While commercial de-
velopment is going ahead with post
war development, governmental de-
Velopment of the. city as the Capital
is yet to be resumed, he said.
Population May Be 1,950,O00.
Citing Census Bureau studies, Mr.
McKelWay said the population of
Washington'S Metropolitan Area
might total 1,95O,O0o by the year
1000, an anticipated increase of
about 100000 during the next so
years. The future of Washington,
he pointed out, depends not only on
community and business improve
ment, but on peace and the ability
ito practice the art of living to-
gether,' he said.
J. A. Mitzelfelt, manager of the
Baltimore Washington branch of
the Frigidaire Sales Corp, was in
stalled as institute president. Mem
bers of the District Public Utilities
Commission were among the 500 at
the dinner.
Evening star., 1948-02-17
Single Metropolitan Area
Defense Proposal Studied

A resolution calling for a single
civil defense organization for the
District and adjacent areas was re-
ferred to the safety committee last
night by the Interfederation Coun-
Gil
The resolution, introduced by Mrs.
F, G. Sartwell. was prompted by
Secretary Forrestals announcement
of national civil defense organi-
zation against the atomic bomb.
Herbert N. Eaton of Montgomery
County said it probably would not
be accepted by his federation. Other
members, however, agreed that de
fense cannot stop at the District
line"
1t was further pointed out that
the record of cooperation among
the suburban and District civilian
defense units during the war was
poor.
The meeting conducted by Chair
man William G. Watt of Arlington.
was held in Room ,53l of the Star
Building.
Evening star., 1948-02-17
Engine on Pennsy Flyer
Burns, Blocking Lines
BY the Associated Press

LILLY, Pa, Feb. ia two-unit
diesel engine hauling a Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad passenger train burned
three-quarters of mile east of here
last night.
The st. Louisan, New York-t st.
Louis passenger train, was delayed
nearly four hours while a new en-
gine was brought from the Cone
maugh yard.
Members of the crew halted the
train after the second power unit
of the diesel was found to be afire.
The flames spread quickly to the
fuel unit of the first unit and then
to the locomotive. The engine was
badly damaged. No one was in
jured.
Traffic was blocked on all four
lines of the railroad.
Evening star., 1948-02-17
Meet
every adverse
circumstance ].
as its master "*

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sufficient resources, INSULT
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every adverse circumstance
IS it's master.
To people in all walks of
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Evening star., 1948-02-17

tween Job training and classroom
instruction.
Those taking intern or resident
training at hospitals.
Those taking graduate training in
colleges or universities. requiring a
reduced schedule of classes.
Parkistan has drawn up mo
mentous education plan.'
Evening star., 1948-02-17
Brussels Strike Averted

BRUSSELS, Belgium. Feb. II GAP)
"A scheduled walkout of Brussels
streetcar workers failed to mate
rialize today and elsewhere in the
city strike-beset industry appeared
headed back to normal.
Evening star., 1948-02-17


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