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Evening star., 1948-03-03

acknowledged repeatedly" that
they were secretly married.
Went to Michigan.
She added, in the suit, that he
found accommodations for her at
Nashville and expressed great sat
isfaction" when advised Of the birth
of the boy.
After her confinement, the suit
continued, Mrs. Johnston and her
son went to Michigan until after
the run-oh primary. Gov. Folsom
1'in person telephoned" her the news
of "his victory and had her meet
him in Florida, with their son." the
suit charges.
It was after this time, she states,
that Folsom had a change of heart
and, under pressure from political
advisers, disclaimed his previously
acknowledged paternity of their
son" and their marital relationship.
Mrs. Johnston asked no money in
the suit.
She is the daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. p. L. Putnam of Hanceville,
Ala, IL miles south of Cullman. Her
father is a farmer.
Gov. Folsom was candidate for
Governor of Alabama in 1912, when
he ran second to former Gov.
Chauncey Sparks. He campaigned
with a mop and a bucket in 1916,
and was accompanied on his stump
ing tours by hillbilly band known
as the Strawberry Pickers."
Gov. Folsom's wife died in 1914.
She left two daughters Rachael, 8,
and Melissa, S, who accompanied
him on some of his stumping cam
paigns in the race for Governor.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
II you don't enjoy your Sleep sipa
Rest-WeII Bed Board

under mattress for backaches and other pains
by oversof beds saggy springs Ito many people soft
beds curseo Fine for sacroiliacs. The extra firm
gives you proper sleeping posture heahfu
relaxing Sleep Made of ply fibre Prices $685. S495 and
S595 depending the bed sze Sold by The Hecht
pany, S. Kann & Sens Woodward Lothrop, Gibson Co.
Hechnger Company all four branches 18th Streets
NE, 1905 Nichols Ave. Sc, 1925 Georgia. Ave. NV
Falls Church. Va.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Forcing Of Race Issue
By Truman Will Make
Blood Flow, KIan Says.
BY fhs Asseeio,sd Press

WRIGHTSvnLE, Ga, Mar. s.
The grand dragon of the Georgia Ku
Klux Klan last night told robed and
hooded members of the organization
that "blood will flow" In the South
If the Negro takes a place at the side
of white men through the force Of
Federal bayonets.
DR.. Samuel Green Of Atlanta ad-
dressed the Klansmen as they pa
raded around the square Of this
johnson County seat on the eve Of
a Democratic primary to name 10
county officials.
About 800 Ku Kluxers participated
in the orderly demonstration. After
their parade they burned a 15-foot
cross on the courthouse lawn.
400 Negroes Eligible to Vote.
About 400 Negroes are eligible to
join $500 white persons in todays
voting, In which nomination is tan
tamount to election. The county
has a population of 14,500, includ-
ing about $500 Negroes.
Negroes stayed away from the
voting booths, however. Oficials
said 241 were eligible to vote at
polling places at the county court
house. None had appeared two
hours after the polls opened.
DR.. Green attacked President
Truman's civil rights program, and
said 1.-THE Klan will not permit the
people of this country to become a
mongrel race"
He was the only unhooded KlanS-
man at the demonstration. He was
dressed in the green regalia of
grand dragon of the Georgia Klan.
Sees Defeat for Truman.
There are people in this country"
he declared, who would deny you
your very lives in order to get the
Negro vote. I call on you to write
your Congressman to protect your
rights
He told his masked listeners,
which included several women, that
President Truman faced certain de-
feat unless he retracts some of his
statements" and added:
IF he wants to take the Negro as
his equal, that's his business"
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Soviet Troop Movements
Believed Only Routine
By the Associoted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar. 8
United States Army officers sale
today 10000 or more Russian troops
had moved in the last month to ar
area near the borders Of Czecho-
slovakia and the American zone o1
Germany.
They said, however, these move.
ments within the Soviet zone o1
Germany seemed to be in connec.
ton with routine spring maneuvers
The officers were commenting on q
report in the German newspaper
Hessische Nachrichten that the
Russian troop movements conceded
with the Communist rise in power in
Czechoslovakia.
"It is true," United States Army
agent told newsmen, that the Rus
slams moved troops into the general
area below Leipzig. In one case
there were 10000 men in six train
loads. They hoped out and started
digging trenches.
Our evaluation is that there is
no cause for alarm. That Is the
same general area where the Rus
slams held their maneuvers last
spring. Spring came early this year,
and they probably started their
earlier" pe~es E
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Gov. Folsom Charges Politics
Motivotes Paternity Suits
Divorce Asks Court
To Declare Her as
AIubumun's S Wife

Gov. James E. Folsom of Alabama
today blamed politics for the filing
of court suits naming him as the
father of a 30-year-old divorcee's
22-month-old son.
The Governor arrived by auto
mobile at the Hotel Statler and gave
this statement to group of waiting
reporters.
II am in a political campaign in
Alabama. I have had to face these
tactics in other political campaigns.
That Is all I have to say on this
subject"
Two suits were filed against Mr..
Folsom yesterday at Cullman, Ala.
Both charge he is the common law
husband of Christine Putnam Fol-
som and the father of her son,
James Douglas.
The court was asked to declare
Gov. Folsom the woman's lawful
husband and the father of the baby.
Reporters failed to draw any fur
ther information from Gov. Folsom
by asking if he knew the young
woman. However, the 6 foot 8 Ala
baman's good nature never deserted
him in the press conference in his
hotel suite.
The campaign Gov. Folsom re-
ferred to is the 1948 presidential
campaign. He is a candidate at
large for delegate to the Democratic
National Convention and Pitt Tyson
Maner, one of his advisers who &C
companied him, said his hackers
plan to make him a favorite son
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation.
Going to Hearing.
The Governor drove here from
Alabama to testify on a tidelands
oil bill before Senate Judiciary
subcommittee. -
The Governor was dressed in
vestless salt-and-pepper suit. He
wore a brown polka-dot tie and
rolled down socks.
Immediately after making his
statement, he chirped to a girl re-
porter, Honey, are you married?"
The young woman, obviously
said she was not.
Gov. Folsom answered only one
other question. When asked his age,
he said he was 80.
Suit Filed for Child.
One petition in the Alabama
court actions was filed by the
who said she also is known
as Mrs. Christine Johnston. Friends
said she divorced Floyd E. john
ston several years ago.
The other suit was by the child,
acting through a next FRIEND"
Carter E. Putnam. He is Mrs.
Johnston's brother.
Gov. Folsom, 6-foot-8-inch
widower with two children. was en-
route to Washington when the suits
were filed.
Mrs. Johnston formerly was en-
ployed in a Birmingham hotel.
Friends described her as an attrac-
tive redhead.
Mrs. Johnston's suit asked the
court for three specific DEGREES:
/. To declare James E. Folsom
and Christine Putnam Johnston
lawfully intermarried by q COM
mon law marriage"
2. To declare the child born "as
a result of that lawful wedlock.
3. To declare the child the son
of Gov. Folsom.
Mrs. Johnston in her suit alleged
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Truman Seeking Power
To Reuppoint Acheson
, the Associofed Press

President Truman asked Cong.
ress yesterday for legislation en-
abling him to reappoint Dean
Acheson as civilian member anc
chairman Of the American section
Joint United States-Canadian De-
fense Board.
Present law forbids any one tt
hold a Government job, even par
time, who is connected with a
private firm that may prosecute
claims against the Government.
Mr.. Acheson has practiced law
since he resigned as Undersecretary
of State on June 80, 1947. He
recently gave up the defense board
post because of what the President
described as the technical bear
ing" of the statutes on Federal
private employment.
Evening star., 1948-03-03

heart" after his election in 1916
The child was born in Nashville
Tenn, on April II, 1916, and later
was taken to Michigan until the
Democratic primaries were over, the
petition states.
Gov. Folsom was nominated In
primary elections in May and June
Of 1916.
Mrs. Johnston charged that Gov
Folsom assumed full marital con-
troll" over her movements and occu-
patton. He contributed repeatedly
to her expenses" she asserted, and
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Baltimore 81 browns
In Jupun; Family Saved
By the Associated Press

NAGOYA, Japan, Mar. 3.-F1ftf
Air Force headquarters announced
today that S/Sergt. Edward j. Jack.
son, 26, of Baltimore was drowned
Sunday when an amphibious jeeI
sank in a lake at the foot of Mount
Fuji.
Sergt. Jackson's wife and hi
daughter Ann, 8, were rescued by
S/Sergt. Mathew L. Knight OF Mas.
cote, Fla, another passenger. The
Army said a plug came out of the
vehicle and it sank almost immedi-
atelV
Evening star., 1948-03-03

that she and Gov. Folsom had
lived as man and wife in Alabama,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida.
She charged further that Gov. Fol-
som introduced her to his mother
and others as the next first lady
of Alabama" >-.a-
The Governor, she asserted In
the suit, underwent Change of
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Football Player Is Shot
By Parking Lot Thief
BY the Associoted Press

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Mar. s.
Earl E. CBob) Sang, quarterback for
Marshall College in the Tangerine
Bowl game at Orlando, Fla, last
New Years day, was shot last night.
Hospital officials said his condi-
ton was critical.
Police said the 27-year- -old stu
dent was wounded in the stomach
by a man who attempted to break
into a car on parking lot. where
Mr.. Sang is employed as a night
Watchman,
Evening star., 1948-06-13

If r. C. Pan Of the Farmers Bank
Of Kiangsu at Tsungming. China
wants a months subscription to The
Star. he will have to send along an
additional "s3,650 ,000."
The 100000 in Chinese stamps re-
ceived by The Star is not enough.
That's the way it appeared last
night after consultation. over rates
of exchange with the Chinese En-
bassy. Hamilton National Bank and
the National Security g. Trust co.
The s100,0 900 in Chinese postage,
clipped to a subscription form, ar
rived from Mr.. Pan Thursday. Mr..
Pan sent the money in payment OF
a $3.50 monthly subscription at for
eign rates.
Unversed as the circulation de-
partment admittedly was in inter-
national exchange, it didn't know
whether Mr.. Pan should get change.
Evening star., 1948-06-13

reckless driving and decided to go
back to the older models"
Last year when he reported for
two weeks duty at he air station,
he was driving 1924 Rolls Royce.
He also owned a 1918 Stanley
Steamer at that time. He traded
both Of them off for his present
Ford plus $3.50 cash.
The ensign is a member of the
Antique Auto Club of America,
which has headquarters in Phila-
eelphia. His present car came from
collector of antique cars in York
lyn, Del. 1t was towed to the Uni
versity of Virginia from Randolph,
Mass.
He said his Ford would do 80
miles an hour if you push her"
He pushed it around the airfield
with a reporter in the back seat,
holding on to the door. The speed,
however, could not be checked as the
speedometer was not working.
If anyone wants to buy the car,
the price is 81 1900, he said.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Phillips Gallery Lists
Piano and Voice RecjfaIs

Four recitals at the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery will be presented this
month and three next month.
At $50 pm. tomorrow, Helen
Brainard will give a piano recital
in the gallery and on June 20 at
5 pm. there will be a piano concert
by Carol Finch. At $3.50 pm. June
q Genevieve Hughes, mezzo So
prano. will be accompanied by
Dorothy Radde Emery pianist Sally
West will play at $50 pm. June %.
The three July concerts will be:
Janet Babigan and Marian Eberson.
piano, July II; Russell Kulorud and
Donald Goldstein. piano. July 10,
and Willard Day, piano, July 26. All
will be at $50 pm.
Recent paintings by Marjorie
Phillips are now on display at the
gallery. 1900 Twenty-f1rst street
NV, and will remain through June
Is.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Chinese Falls So, ,65O,OOO' Shy
In Paving for Star Subscription

A circulation man asked the news
room. A reporter phoned the Chi
nese Embassy and was told a dollar
in American currency is worth ST.
030 900 in Chinese today. Appar-
entity, Mr. Pan didn't get change.
The two banks. after looking up
the checking charge on foreign
banks and the value OF Chinese
money, came up with the fact that
s1O.0 in Chinese money is worth
.Ol195 cent in American.
Intensive calculation resulted IN
decision that Mr.. Pan had sent
stamps totaling just little less than
IL cents in value.
At current rates. it developed, he
would have to send s3,750,000 for
the $3.50 subscription he wanted.
The 500. 900 in hand will give Mr..
Pan a copy of today's Star--vith
two cents to spare. They will be
used for mailing costs.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
By WiIIiom A. MiIIen

Bad weather and slow deliveries
of materials have combined to delay
construction of the K street motor
"skyway" in Georgetown. @" ''
District Director of Highways
H. c. Whitehurst said yesterday it
may be March before 1t is completed
Previous estimates had fixed the
date in January.
The project is now one-third fin
ished, Capt. Whitehurst said. 1t
soon will be necessary to cut of
Rock Creek valley traffic at K street
to permit building of new arches,
the director said. Plans call for a
detour along Twenty-seventh street,
using the existing ramp, to Virginia
avenue Or K street.
Stone facing must be set before
concrete for the new arches over
the valley can be poured, Capt.
WhitehurSt said. A Salisbury, N. c..
quarry. after some delay. now eX-
poets to ship the stone next Friday.
This stone will match that on the
existing arch over Rock Greek at X
street and surrounding stone work.
Piling for the concrete footings for
the steel superstructure also has
been slow in arriving.
Bids To Be Asked.
Meanwhile Capt. Whitehurst
hopes to call for bids next month
for widening Canal road, from the
end of Key Bridge to Foxhall road.
Condemnation proceedings to get
the necessary additional land are
now pending in District Court. he
said. The project will be four
lane highway, with concrete strip
separating the two directions. The
program calls for 90-foot right of
way, running beside the old Chesa-
peake g. Ohio Canal into which
water will be restored about July
/.
The new Canal road eventually
will tie in with the Arizona avenue
parkway, Capt. Whitehurst said.
The Capital Transit Co. recently
tore down the old Falls car storage
barn, between Macarthur Boulevard
and Thirty-sixth street NV, near
which a retaining wall will be built
for the new highway project there.
Carl A. Wilson. resident engineer,
bridge division of the District Gov
ernment. VINO is directly responsible
70 Capt. Whitehurst for the K street
project, explained recent rains have
held up progress. Last winters
severe weather likewise retarded the
lob, he said.
Cars Bring in Steel.
The Bethlehem Steel Co. is erect
ing the steel, brought on railroad
cars to a siding near the job from
Pottstown, Pa. A special railroad
steel erection car is aiding in the
work. Steel for the "skyway" has
now been erected from near the foot
of Thirty-fourth street to near Wis
consin avenue NV.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Fisherman Is Drowned
In Georgetown Channel

A fisherman who slipped on a
rock and fell into water over his
head yesterday drowned in the
Georgetown Channel about 200
yards from Fletcher's Boat House
Police said Wilbur Ferguson. 38
colored. 9l3 Sixth street NE, was
fishing with his wife, Alberta. at a
place called Swimming Cove. They
said he walked about Is feet out
into the water when he slipped and
sank where the depth was IL feet
Mr.. Ferguson. who is said to be
the father of seven children, never
came to the surface A harbor pa
troll boat cruising nearby grappled
for the man and took him from the
water about II minutes later.
Members of Fire Rescue Squad
worked over him for an hour before
he was pronounced dead by an
Emergency Hospital physician. Dep
uty Coroner Richard Rosenberg
said he would issue a certificate Of
accidental death.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Cut in Funds Reopens
Hunt for Building 10
House Alcohol Clinic

! District officials will have to re-
sumo their search for a location
for a municipal alcoholic clinic, it
appeared last night. after Senate
and House conferees knocked an
item out of the appropriation bill to
finance plans for new psychiatric
building at Gallinger Hospital.
The $4,000 item providing money
for planning construction Of the
new psychiatric building was elini-
mated few hours after Commits
sioner Guy Mason announced tenta-
tive plans to set up the alcoholic
clinic in the old psychiatric build
ing. The move sets the time table
for the new psychistric building
back one year.
When Mr.. Mason disclosed the
plan for moving the alcoholic clinic
into the old Gallinger building, he
was confident Congress would au-
thorize appropriat ation of the 10000
item-first step in establishing a
new psychiatric building and vacat-
ing the old.
Selection Far From Final.
He emphasized, however, that Sc
( lection of the old pSychiatric build
ing was far from final. One of the
most inaccessible places in Wash
ington, it is not considered ideal
either by location or interior setup
for the alcoholic clinic.
Under the Hebert Act. the Com
missioners are authorized to estab-
lish the clinic and select a director.
The location of the clinic is left up
to the Commissioners, but the Citi-
zens' Advisory Committee recon-
mended that it would be undesirable
to put it in any hospital or associate
it with any clinic or correctional
institution.
, The committee recommended that
for the present, 1000 square feet in
central location would be adequate
for housing the clinic headquarters.
$4,000 Salary Urged.
/ Mr.. Mason said yesterday that
specifications for the directors job
are being prepared now. He said he
would attempt to have the salary for
the job set at $4,000 a year in order
to attract the best possible man.
AS to the location, Mr.. Mason
said he would permit the yet un-
named director to take large part
in the selection but had just about
decided the old psychiatric build
ing was the only location likely to
be available soon.
The District has $4,000, col
lected in liquor taxes, for obtaining
personnel and equipment and PLAN
ming for the clinic, but no funds
are available for construction.
Il don't want to wait on this
project any longer than necessary.
Mr.. Mason said. The clinic Will
Go no one any good in its paper
stage"
Mr.. Mason could not be reached
last night for comment on the
action of the Senate and House
conferees in killing the $50 900 item
Evening star., 1948-06-13

Ensign James Keith is what the
Navy calls hot pilot" but he
thinks the new automobiles are too
fast and refuses to drive any car
less than 80 years old.
His latest acquisition is 1911
Ford. 1t was in this ancient vehicle
that he arrived at the Naval Air
Station yesterday for his two weeks
training with the Naval Air Reserve
Training Unit.
A University of Virginia student
the 25-year-old pilot said his hobby
was to buy-or trade-an old car for
another one. preferably older, fix it
up and buy or trade again. When
ne was l3 years old. he was owner
of 1926 Model T and later bought
1908 REQ.
He explained that his aversion to
new cars started about two years
ago when he got out Of active serv-
ice in the Navy.
Il was in the money so I bought
a new Mercury" he said. But, I
found it too fast. I got ticket for
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Weather, Slow Deliveries Delay
Work on K Street |Skywoy'

The entire "skyway' project, cost
ing s3,338,829, runs from Twenty.
seventh to Thirty sixth streets NV
along K street. 1t is designed te
speed traffic between downtown
Washington and Maryland and Vir.
ginia.
Capt. Whitehurst observed that K
street is destined to be one OF thu
city's major thoroughfares. There
will be an underpass at Washington
Circle in the line of K street. The
director said plans for this have
been completed and contract draw.
ings made, but his Office is not YET
ready to call for bids. These will
call for improvements between
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-f1rs'
streets NV.
Another phase of improvements at
Key Bridge is the restoration of the
Francis Scott Key home and law
office. H. P. Caemmerer, executive
secretary of the Fine Arts Commits
sion and past president OF the Co.
lumbia Historical Society, pointed
out a Senate-passed bill is now
pending on the House calendar, te
authorize $65,0O0 for this project
He explained this was favorably re.
ported by the House Public Land:
Committee.
Remnants Of Home Preserved.
The remnants of the old home hac
to be torn down to make way fol
the semi-clover leaf construction t
link up trafic from the X stree'
"skyway" with Key Bridge. Mr.
Caemmerer said the pieces have
been preserved for re-erection. Thi!
is planned just east of Key Bridge
on land already owned by the Gov
ernment, he said. His society, othe1
Government groups and numbel
of patriotic organizations hav'
backed the project, he declared.
| Mr.. Caemmerer said the projec
is planned as a memorial to th'
War of 1912, inasmuch as there i
now no building in Washington de
voted to this historic event. Franci
Scott Key, author of The Sta
Spangled Banner lived for mum
ber of years in Georgetown ant
served three terms as United State
Attorney for the District.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Rev. M. B. Crist Elected
Americana .AIumniHeod

The Rev. Milton B. Crist. pastor
Of the Potomac Heights Community
Church, has been elected president
OF the newly reorganized Alumni
Association OF American University
Other officers elected included
Wayne c. Grover, vice president
Hazel Feagans, secretary; Gladys
Cowsill Tufts. assistant secretary
and Worthington B. Houghton,
treasurer. Previously the university
has three separate alumni organi-
cations which now have been COM
hiued in this one.