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Evening star., 1948-05-08
Mrs. Truman Opens
Cathedral Flower Sale

Mrs. Truman opened the annual
flower mart at the Cathedral this
morning.
The mart was postponed from
yesterday because of rain.
Originally scheduled as part OF
the annual meeting of the National
Cathedral Association, which ended
its sessions yesterday, the mart
! features 33 booths, all but one of
which sell flowers. One of them is
collecting clothing for European
relief.
Mrs. Truman was greeted at the
Cathedral by Bishop Angus Dun,
Dean John W. Suter. Mrs. James l..
Ritchie, chairman of the sale, and
Mrs. Albert H. Lucas, president of
All HalloWs Guild, sponsor of the
mart.
The associations board Of trustees
yesterday held its final meeting Of
the year.
Mrs. Montgomery Blair, "a Kalo-
rama circle NV, was elected to the
associations Board of Trustees. Mrs
Edward Griffith of Charlotte, N. c.,
also was named to the board and
two reelected members were Miss
Mary Johnston of Glendale, Ohio,
and Mrs Allan Forbes of Boston.
Mrs. Even c. MacVeagh of New
York City was named chairman of
a standing Committee on Publica-
tons. On her committee will be
TWO Washington women, Mrs. A. S.
Monroney and Mrs. James Barnes.
Other members of the committee
will be announced later.
A standing Committee on the An
nual Meeting was also set up by
the board, with Mrs. Irving Warner
of Washington as chairman. Mrs.
Warner is to appoint the other
members of her group.
Mrs. Carroll Perry of Washington
heads a standing Committee on the
Association Bylaws. She also will
appoint her own committee men,
berS.
Joseph c. Grew, former Under
secretary of State is association
preSident
Evening star., 1948-05-08
u Saw, Once Burma Premier,
Hanged for7 Cabinet SIoyings
Five Henchmen Also
Executed for Port in
notwithstanding
BY the Associated Press !.

RANGOON, Burma, May 81
Saw, prewar Burmese Premier. ano
five of his henchmen were hanged
at dawn today for the machine-gur
murders last July 19 of seven cabi-
net ministers.
U Saw, convicted ringleader in
the assassinations and attempted
coup, was hanged at Sis am. BY
$50 the gallows trap had been
sprung beneath the others.
The dapper. Westernized U Saw
was granted a final request-to be
hanged alone. He had complained
that the original plan to hang the
six in pairs was not dignified.
While government motion picture
cameras whirred, U Saw, wearing a
yellow shirt and baggy Chinese
trousers, walked into the courtyard
He knelt briefly in Buddhist prayer
at the foot of the gallows. Then he
walked firmly up the dirt ramp.
Hands Manacled at Back.
A witness said he smiled and mur-
INJURED another prayer. He put on
the traditional white tunic worn by
persons convicted of murder in
Burma and stood at attention for a
moment. Then his hands were
manacled behind him and the white
death cap was slipped over his head
The Moose was put around his
neck and seconds later the trap few
open beneath him. Witnesses said
he died without a struggle.
The chief victim of the July kill
ings was U Aung San, Burma S
strong man.
The three condemned as the ac-
tual trigger men died on the Insein
jail gallows after the 47-year- old U
Saw. They were Thet Hnin, Hmon
Cyl and Maung Soc. Two others
Maung Sein and Yangyi Aung, con-
victed as conspirators, were hanged
at Rangoon Jail.
Sees Wife and Daughter.
All six spent their last hours ir
Buddhist prayer. U Saw interrupted
his devotions for IS minutes with his
wife and 18-year-old daughter. HL
three sentires said he ate normally
and appeared unafraid to die.
1t was not Immediately known
Evening star., 1948-05-08
Ex-GFs Wife Wins
$4,000 Jackpot
In Radio Riddle

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May s.
The latest radio jackpot winner Is
Mrs. Ward S. George. wife of dis
abled Oregon war veteran.
Mrs. George, 80, of Lebanon, Greg.
took the $4,000 prize offered by
MISS People Are Funny" program
last night for the correct answer
Cairo. Egypt-to riddle that hao
withstood guesses for eight weeks
She won a three-bedroom house
$4,000 in furnishings, 1948 sedan
a $4,000 lot in Los Angeles County
and a pick of a job here.
Victory was particularly welcome
to Mrs. George, she said, because
her husband has needed to come to
California for his health. They hao
been working in a Lebanon nursery
The programs riddle read: "Olo
Chief Wind Bag, gloomy and gay;
I'm one over others that lie IN de-
cay. Where can be found? Upon
low ground. That's all, that's all /
will say"
Mrs. George said she knew Cairo
lies on low ground.
Evening star., 1948-05-08
Kaiser Stock Hearing
Recessed Till Monday;
Court Test Wednesday
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, May "a Securities
and Exchange Commission inquiry
into the fate of a $1o000,000 Febru.
ary stock issue by Kaiser-Frasel
Corp, was in week end recess today
The SEC will resume its hearings
Monday, but chief interest in the
case centers about hearing sched-
uled in Federal Court here Wednes
day.
Then Judge Arthur F. Lederle will
rule whether two Cleveland lawyers
will have to answer questions put to
them by the SEC examiners.
The SEC filed a Federal Court
complaint against Marvin G. 1arri-
son and Allan Hull yesterday. They
are ssociates in a Cleveland law
firm.
The two were directed by Judge
Lederle to show cause May IL why
they should not be required to sup
ply ally
the case to the SEC. The court
could order them to do so, and they
would be subject to contempt oil
court proceedings if they refused.
Both lawyers have refused to
answer some of the SEC questions
tOntending converse tions between
an attorney and his clients are
secret.
Several witnesses before the SEC
yesterday repeated testimony pre-
viously given by brokers and others
involved in the case.
They told how Kaiser Frazier
made secret plans to float the $10,-
100000 issue February 3 and re-
lated how many brokers and others
close to the stock market were
tipped off hours in advance of the
official time for the sale
Evening star., 1948-05-08

U SAW.
Picture taken during his
Disit to British Embassy here
in 1941. Star Staff Photo.
whether the government would
grant a request by U Saws wife that
his grave in the convict cemetery
be marked. This usually is not al
lowed.
U Saw was Burma's premier in
1910 and 1941 and was a leader in
the independence movement. He
wanted dominion status and visited
the United States and Great Britain
to plead his case.
u Saw was in Washington
briefly in November, 1941)
Seized as Jap Collaboration.
When he returned to Burma in
1912, the British arrested him for
collabora ton with the Japanese.
They sent him to internment in
Uganda. Africa.
He came back to Burma in 1916
and emerged as the head Of the
strong Myochit Party. He renewed
his demands for dominion status
When the British refused to set a
date he withdrew his party's men,
bers from the Executive and Legis-
lative Councils. Burma finally be-
came free last January 6.
Last July gunner burst into the
Burmese cabinet room. A blaze OF
machine-gun fire cut down Aung
San, who was to have been first
Premier under the republic. Six OF
his Ministers fell, too.
Immediately U Saw and his Myo-
chit men were accused. U Saw had
been bitter about the British atti-
tude, terming it a sellout.
He pleaded innocent, but was
sentenced to death last December.
Evening star., 1948-05-08

about a month ago in a restau-
rant near the Eastman Kodak
Co. laboratory, 1850 Okie street
NE, where she was employed.
When she failed to return, MI
Powell said, he started checking and
found the youth worked in the
Washington Terminal at Ivy City.
Through Terminal officials, Mr..
Powell learned the youth lived with
his mother in the 200 block OF E
street NE. '->.'e~ -,
He said the youths mother told
him she had not heard from her son
since Thursday night.
He said his daughter had told her
parents of meeting the young man
in the restaurant and had described
him as about 81, tall and slender" "
The girls mother has been Ill for
some time.
Patsy is about feet 6 inches tall
with brown hair and brown eyes.
Mr.. Powell said she was wearing a
white blouse, black skirt, white coat
and black shoes when she left
Thursday.
Evening star., 1948-05-08

with a youth
whom she had
met in a restau-
rant.
The girl IS
P a sy Powell,
daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur
G. Powell, 1000
Thirty - eighth
street.
Mr.. Powell, a
taxicab driver,
said his daugh-
ter left home
about 9 pm.
Thursday. She
met the youth
Evening star., 1948-05-08
Police Search for Girl
Missing in Brentwood

Police today broadcast a lookout
for a 17-year-old Brentwood girl
missing since Thursday night when
she left her home to "go for a ride
Evening star., 1948-05-08
FOUND.

POLICE DOG, not pure bred, male very
large; white with brown brindle markings,
tail curls right over back: found In So
Arlington. Call Gil. 1929.
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50
MILLION Will
CAST BALLOTS

Continued from Page One,
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TRACY, TURNER
ARE STARRED AT
CAPITOL THEATRE

The Queen of Sheba" is back in
pictures Betty Blythe, famous
Icharmer of the silent days, returns
to the screen to portray vixenish
society woman in "Cass Timber
lane" starring Spencer Tracy and
Lana Turner at the Capitol The
atre.
Instead of the handful of beads
which made her "Sheba" costumes
the talk OF the world. Miss Blythe
now is swathed in satins and furs
for her role in the M-G-M filmiza-
ton of Sinclair Lewis best-seller
novel,
AS one Of the wealthy women in
a group which tries to wreck the
marriage between Tracy and Miss
Turner, Miss Blythe wears several
outstanding costumes designed es-
pecially for her by Irene. Each
was created to emphasize M IS S
Blythe's striking brunette beauty
The distinguished cast of "Cass
Timberlane" also features Zachary
Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Aston and
Albert Decker
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JAY(EE5 TO WATCH
PRACTICE SESSION
FOR ROLLER SHOW

Junior Chamber Of Commerce
members will be on hand at the
skating rink tonight to get pre-
view of the amateur roller skating
show Rhythm on Rollers, to be
given at the Town Hall Recreation
Center November 20, 81 and %.
Jaycees, as sponsoring organiza-
ton for the show, will have
chance to see young skaters work
out il a practice session.
More than 80 skaters Will take
part in the roller skating show
which will include free style skat-
ing and dance groups. Climax of the
program will be free style dance
by Mary and Jim Meyers, the couple
who won Washington State Novice
pairs championship at the Renton
Rink in Renton, Wash, last spring
A special unannounced act will be
on the program, too, Tor plenty OF
laughs.
Skaters who are hard at work
practicing for the big show are:
Jack Lee, Judy Tremble, Dale Hill
lerman, Marge Burgh, Joyce Hope,
Frances Paul, Mary Meyers and
Shirley Casperson. al! in the free
style group.
Advanced dance couples are Don
Wingerson and Sandra McCrea, Don
Males and Marguerite Burgh, Jack
Lee and Frances Paul. Participants
in the group elementary dances will
be Jack Boldly, Jim Sofoulis, Dale
Hillernan, Kenneth Hildreth, Bruce
Casperson, Bobby Hildre, Jerry
Godkins, Ted Mayo, Stan Beadle,
Shirley Casperson, Sylvia Mcintyre,
Darlene Adzero, LaVonne Moore,
Arlene Parsons, Ann Parsons, Erna
Slender, Irene Mckinley, Beverly
Earl
Public skating sessions have been
cut to four days a week at the
Recreation Center, to allow time
for skaters to practice, Red Mayo
announces.
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MISS CAROL BRICE
WILL RE- APPEAR
IN CONCERT HERE

Miss Carol brice, contralto, who
appeared in concert in Juneau
last month, sent word yesterday
to the Juneau Concert Association
that she will return to Juneau on
November 10 to present the last
half of her program. Miss Brice
caught cold on her way north for
her Alaskan tour and was able to
present only half of her concert in
Juneau.
Miss Brice remained in Juneau
for several days trying to recover
from her cold SO she could con-
tinue to Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Unable to get rid of her cold, Miss
Brice returned to San Francisco
and has been under physicians
care.
On her second tour, Miss Brice
will fly directly to Anchorage and
will appear in Juneau following
| her Fairbanks engagement.
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THREE STARS IN
desert JURY"
AT 10Th CENTURY

Three exciting stars are seen in
Paramount's Technicolor dram
Desert Fury at the Goth Century
theatre for the last two showings
tonight.
They are L!zabeth Scott, the love-
ly blonde who recently scored in
The Strange Love of Martha w.
ers' and Dead Reckoning" John
Kodiak, handsome hero of Life
boat" and "A Bell for Adano' and
Burt Lancaster, sensation OF The
Killers"
In Desert Fury" they portray
people trapped by emotions as ele-
mental and overpowering as the
desert itself. Love, hate and muir
der are said to be blended into as
exciting a motion picture as has
been seen in long time. 1t is a
Hal Wallis production.
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WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
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mond led with his States Rights
party seems likely to cost Truman
Alabama. Mississippi and South
Carolina-and possibly help give
Dewey one or two states in the
once solid Democratic South.
Wallace's Progressive party is
accorded a scattering vote that
could influence the presidential
result in New York state. But
even Wallaces friends aren't count
ing privately ON single electoral
college vote FOR him.
Senate Race Hot
The Senate race was the hot
test article Of the day nationally.
Some other issues birth control
in Massachusetts, proposal to
permit divorces in South Carolina
and a wet-dry fight in Kansas
popped up local campaigns.
But it is in states with critical
oClidtC idCCb tAidt tAlC bdilOI1ile
is expected to be heavy.
These include toss-up contests
in New Mexico, Minnesota, Mon
tana. Wyoming, and West Virginia
Republicans now hold three Of
these and Democrats two.
Others where upsets would have
a bearing on Senate control in
clude Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ten
nessee, Iowa, Illinois and Colorado
Republicans hold four of these, the
Democrats two.
Thirty-two Senators In all are
being elected today, but in most
cases it is no-contest, for all prac-
teal purposes.
In 80 states, governors are be-
ing elected. Republicans. confident
OF a Dewey victory, forecast that
when the counting is over they will
have majority instead of the "a
to "a tie that now prevails.
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ARRIVE AND DEPART
AGA MONDAY FLIGHTS

Passengers arriving and leaving
from here yesterday aboard Alaska
Coastal Airlines were the following:
From Sitka. c. E. tombstone, Rev.
r. Kearns, Miss l.. Singer, Mrs. C.
E. tombstone, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs.
Wakefield. Rubye Rottluff.
From Tenakee: Matt Nevala, Bill
Oakson.
To Tenakee: Joe Ruddago.
To Hoonah: Emma Mercer, David
Perrin.
To Sitka: Thomas Harris, Eleanor
Williams, s. D. Mills, M. Saley.
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THIS NEW COMMEMORATIVE
THREE CENT POSTAGE STAMP
bearing the picture of VIII Rog-
ers, cowboy and humorist, will be
placed on sale at Claremore. Okla,
on November d, Below the por-
trait of the late Will Rogers is the
statement which typefied the
great American. international
Soundphoto)
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Mr., MRS. A. THOMAS
PARENTS OF DAUGHTER

Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Thomas
are being congratulated on their
new, daughter, Anita Teresa, who
was born in st. AIMS Hospital
early this morning. The new ar
rival tipped the scales at six
pounds seven ounces. Anita Joins
brother, joey, who is two and
a half years old.
Mr.. Thomas is craftsman with
the U. S. Forest Service and is
also a welknown mountain climber.
WANT ADS BRING RESULTS!
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ELECTION RETURNS TONIGHT
Election returns from the States.
will be announced at The Country
Club all night long, as they are
received. 80 1t
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ATTENTION ALL

Members Of the Filipino Com
munity and Auxiliary, there will be
joint meeting at Smailey's Re-
creation Center Wednesday, Nov.
3, at p. m. Urgently request
ed all members attend.
(32 it, Pres. A. v. Credo.
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VFW AUXILIARY MEETS
The auxiliary OF the WV will
meet tomorrow night at o'clock
in the WV headquarters.
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ELECTION RETURNS TONIGHT

Election returns from the States
will be announced at The Country
Club all night long, as they are
received. 81 1t
Evening star., 1948-08-20
August in Washington

August-the imperial month, named for
the greatest of the rulers of ancient Rome
is pleasant month is Washington. The
temperature yesterday at noon was IS,
and a check of the files of The Star for
other August 19s shows that at the same
hour of that date in 1898 it was 78, in
1903 it was 81 in 1918 it was 72, in 1928
it was 78 and in 1888 it was 80. This indi-
Gates an average of about II for what
generally is considered the warmest mo-
ment of the day. and the Weather Bureau
says that the mean for August 10 during
the same half century actually was rs
the highest recordings being "a and the
lowest IS.
July, 1t seems is hotter. And so, occa-
sonally, is September in the District of
Columbia Concerning the possibility that
the eighth month gradually is moderating,
the official view is that thus far there has
been no change of scientific significance.
People remember Augusts that really were
blistering and sometimes think of them as
being the most uncomfortable seasons of
specific years, but the Weather Bureau
observers say that they forget the Augusts
that were not disagreeable and on that
account fail to visualize the whole picture.
In any case, Washington is cooler in
August than Louisville, Memphis, Saint
Louis, Kansas City and other towns on its
lneal as far West as Honolulu. Weather
Bureau statistics date back seventy-seven
years and Weather Bureau personnel de-
clare: August? Why, August is one OF
the incest months! 1t is warm enough to
help the harvest along, yet cool enough
at night so that people can sleep
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Purty-Line BIOLOGY

The enVlronment-heredity dispute Is
old stuff in Soviet Russia 1t has been
raging off and on for years past, with the
kremlin cracking down periodically on
the biologists. Nothing like it could hap
pen anywhere outside a totalitarian sys-
tenn. The reason for 1t is simple enough:
Under a dictatorship of the Moscow type,
the party line is not adjusted to accord
with the truths of science; instead, the
truths of science are twisted or suppressed
to accord with the party line.
Thus, in this particular instance, the
Kremlin'S politicians have once again
warned certain Russian biologists to get
it out of their heads, their lectures and
their books that heredity is basic force
in the development of human beings.
theory and hence it Is counter revolution
ary. Although it has long since been
accepted as a demonstrable fact through
out the rest of the world, the wise Soviet
scientist II he knows what Is good for
him, will reject 1t as If it were poison and
adhere to the party-line idea that the
major factor in mans growth factor
more important than his hereditary traits
is his environment.
In other parts of the world, of course,
the Importance of physical surroundings
Is not underestimate. Their influence
on an individual is generally recognized as
being about equal to that of heredity, or
not much less significant. But the Krem-
lin dictatorship, with its endless propa-
ganda and its police-state techniques
operates on the theory that a human
being-heart, mind and souls a thing
of putty that can be pounded and shaped
into the totalitarian mould by external,
government-controlled forces or environ
mental factors calculated to- make him
a kind Of gadget mechanistically run by
conditioned refiexes in q faceless, regi-
mented, accomplishing mass.
Accordingly, when a Soviet biologist
places stress on the hereditary things that
are inborn in all people, he is doing
something that could undermine the party
line. Apparently the men of the Kremlin
like to think that giraffes evolved into
long-necked creatures because their sur
roundings forced them to reach for food
in trees And If that Is the fact OF the
matter, then why should it not be pos
sible and desirable, with tricky envi-
ronmental devices like truncheons and
Evening star., 1948-08-20

promises of pie in the sky, to make Rus
slams evolve into automatically obedient
slaves of the Marx-Lenin-stalin system?
So down with heredity! Down with all
capitalistic counter revolutionary talk
about it.!
Needless to say, most Soviet biologists
will curb their tongues and pens accord
ingly. Needless to say, too, more than
few Of the very able ones among them
must be filled with intellectual disgust, and
perhaps some of them are even now wist-
fully rejecting on the fact that birds are
born with the gift of fiight-a thing Of
1eredity, not environment. How many
Russian scientists must wish they had the
same gift and could take off in freedom
from where they are!
Evening star., 1948-08-20
New Chapter in Farming

The most significant part of the story
Of the transformation of the ThraSher
farm in Frederick County, Maryland, re-
mains to be told. The opening chapters
were spectacular and full of human in
terest, but the final chapters, to be written
after the new farming methods have been
tested adequately, will be awaited eagerly
by farmers everywhere who have to be
Shown"
Mrs. Nellie v. ThraSher had the good
fortune to have her rolling acres selected
for truly remarkable one-day demon
Stration of wholesale modernizaton The
conversion of her square and sparsely
productive fields to strip, or contour, farm
ing, the construction of up-to-date build
ings and fences, the creation of pond
for fish cultivation and the other improve
mentS were accomplished in a single day,
and at no cost to her. Few farmers can
expect to achieve SO much in six months
or even six years.
But there has been enough experience
with contour ploWing and other scientific
farming techniques to convince agrono-
mists that an agricultural revolution is
AiNSSpoe@AJ
easy to convince many old-time tillers of
the soil, however Most Of them say they
could not afford to change, anyway What
the farSighted promoters of the one-day
demonstration hope to show is that farm
ers today cannot afford to continue the
Wasteful inefficient, Soil-eroding methods
OF the past. The Frederick County farm
has become laboratory where, under
national spotlight, it is expected that
increased crops and elimination of i'm
provident practices will soon pay for the
improvements and eventually put sizable
profits in the bank. The enterprising
citizens of Frederick County who sponsored
the demonstration and the State and Fed
eral authorities who co-operated have
performed an outstanding service to
agriculture generally.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Native Lucemuker

4 prinkled Donan sits on stone,
Knotttns thin thread into lace
While someone tronders that she finds
Such patterns here In the market place
So busy and cyotcded and hot and shrll
With ckafertng merchants and children
crying,
funeral passing, and all concerned
With relentless business OF Hiring and
dying:
But she ,oebs a star, fern, foDer,
For she has In her fingers an ancient art
That plucks from the past remembered
things,
The patterns child learn ed ,DeH by heart.
YETZA GTILESPU,