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Evening star., 1948-09-21
3 Persons, 1000 Bottles Seized
In Raid on After-Hours Club
set for November !

set for November II. AL were re-
leased on $500 bond.
About Is of those who were In the
club at the time of the raid also
appeared In court and were warned
by Judge Raedy to be ready to
appear at the trials as witnesses.
Capt. Howard Covell and Pvt.
Manthos went into the club early
Monday and purchased drink and
then did it again several hours be-
fore the raid. Pvt. Manthos, the
captain pointed out, is not mem
Der of the club.
with Detective Clarence Wine
miller, Pvt. Manthos obtained q
warrant and was In on the raid,
along with Inspector John Il. Jen-
ries and 1t. Roy Blick.
Police said only five OF the per-
sons in the club at the time OF the
raid were able to prove member
ship.
The breakdown came as the Dis
trict prepared to sound the death
knell of the Spotlight Club, one Of
the pioneers in the city's after
hours bottle spots. Equipment and
fixtures of the Spotlight, Seven
teenth and NJ streets NV. are to
be sold September 20 for delinquent
taxes.
II was raided August 20 along
with the Allies Club, 1925 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. and the F1ve
O'Clock Club, 62l Pennsylvania ave
nue. NV.
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Death Of Betty Hynes Ruled
Due 10 Natural Causes

Miss Elizabeth Kenney Betty
Hynes, former society editor of the
washington Times-Herald, died of
natural causes as a result Of a
chronic heart disease, Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald announced
today after an autopsy.
Miss Hynes was found dead in her
home at 1877 Thirty-fifth street
NV. on September IA. Pending
the autopsy, DR.. Macdonald issued
a temporary certificate of death by
heart failure. Today he issued a
certificate of death from natural
causes.
The autopsy report showed a
slight trace of the drug from Sleep
ing pills Miss Hynes had been tax
ing, but the amount was not suff1-
cient to have caused death, DR..
Macdonald said. He attributed
death to congestive heart failure.
Miss Hynes, who was so, had been
under a doctors care for sometime.
Evening star., 1948-09-21
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

The Army has notified school
officials that the high school
cadet program is unsatisfactory
and has indicated Army support
may be withdrawn from six
high schools unless something
is done about low cadet enroll
ment, 1t was learned today.
Low enrollments in the Cadet
Corps, inadequate instruction pc
RODS and slipshod maintenance OF
Government property were cited by
Maj. Gen. Hobart r. Gay, COM
manding officer of the Military Dis
trict of Washington, in letter to
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the Board of Education.
The six high schools which may
lose the Army support are Eastern
Coolidge, Roosevelt, Mckinley, Bel
Vocational and Chamberlain voca'
tional.
The Army furnishes the rifles ant
some ammunition for target prac'
tice on ranges. Other than that i
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Army Warns 1t May Withdraw
Support From Cadet Corps
Low Enrolment in Six D. c. High Schools
And Luxity in Maintenance Are Cited

has no control over the High School
Cadet Corps.
Norman j. Nelson, assistant school
superintendent in charge of high
schools, said that if the Army
withdrew from the program 1t
would mean the boys would have to
drill with wooden rifles.
The six schools are not main
tanning a minimum enrolment Of
100, the Army contended, as re-
quired if the Army is to furnish the
weapons. Last years cadet enroll
ments at the schools were: Eastern,
St; Coolidge, Al; Roosevelt, 20; Nc
Kinley, rs; Bell, SO, and Chamber
lain, 80.
One other high school, Woodrow
Wilson, reported today that the
peak enrolment in its cadet corps
last year was only 95. It had two
companies.
Cadet corps enrollments in other
high schools last year were Gen.
|tral, 149, with four companies, Ana
costa, 1872, with two companies, and
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Gen, Marshall Backs
Bernadotte Proposals
For Palestine Peace
Compromises Are Termed
Best Possible Basis for
Accord in Holy Lund
Rv Gornett D. Horner

The United States today urged
acceptance of compromises pro-
posed to the United Nations by
the late Count Folke Bernadotte
as "the best possible basis for
peace in Palestine.
The American position was made
known in a statement by Secretary
of State Marshall at the General
Assembly meeting in Paris, released
simultaneously by the State Depart
ment here.
'It is our. sincere hope" Gen.
Marshall said, that the parties
concerned will realize that their
best interests and the interests OF
the world community will be served
by accepting in spirit of fair COM
promise the judgment of Count
Rernadotte.
IS Count Bernadotte, United Nations
mediator, who had succeeded IN es-
tablishing an uneasy truce between
warning Jews and Arabs in Pales-
tine, was assassinated in Jerusalem
last week at about the time his re-
port was being sent to the United
Nations.
The posthumous report was dis
tributed to United Nations members
yesterday.
It called for internationalizing the
Holy City OF Jerusalem under United
Nations control and for some
changes in the original United Ma
tions partition plan for dividing
Palestine into Jewish and Arab
states
The text of Gen. Marshall's state
ment follows:
"The United States considers that
the conclusions contained in the
final report of Count Bernadotte
offer generally fair basis for settle
ment of the Palestine question.
MY Government is of the opinion
that the conclusions are sound and
strongly urges the parties (Jews
and Arabs and the General Assem-
bly, to accept them in their entirety
as the best possible basis for bring
ing peace to distracted land.
mo plan could be proposed which
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Hearing SET for Nov. |
On New Regulations
For Money Lenders
Rules Drawn to End
Extro-Choree Abuses
In Small Loans Here

Public hearings will be held at
the District Building November
/ on new regulations to take
fantastic profits" out of the
$25, 600, ,0oo-a-year gross automo-
bile loan business and other
neon sign" money-lending en-
terprises here. the Commission
ers announced today.
The proposed regulations, which
cover every phase of the money
lending business from the fixing OF
interest rates to the charge for in
surance and Imaginary" service
charges are the result of 10 months
work by Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Chester H. Gray, Supt. of Insur-
ance Thomas L. Jordan and a COM
mittee of the District Bar Associa-
tion.
Specifically, the regulations would
take the gravy" out of the auto
mobile loan business, estimated by
Mr.. Gray at s25, 100000 year, gross,
by prohibiting inclusion of anything
but interest under charges listed as
interest" but frequently including
other items as well. BY defining
Interest" as the difference, between
the amount loaned and tha amount
repaid, the new regulations would
eliminate all varieties OF service
charges"
Distinction On Licenses.
The types of insurance a loan
company may require to protect
its money also would be restricted
severely under the regulations. For
instance, no life insurance could be
forced on a borrower when a lend
ing company required collateral.
The regulations would permit
payment of interest in advance.
The Districts "loan-shark" act
of 1918 requires no license for
loans on which interest no higher
than 6 per cent is charged, but re-
ouires a license for persons making
loans on which interest up to 8
pcr cent is charged. A special pro-
vision allows l per cent per month
interest on loans under 5000.
Mr.. Gray said the new regula-
tions draw a sharp line of distinc-
ton between licensed and unlicensed
lenders. The regulations would af-
feet rs licensed companies, includ-
ing great number of note brokers,
he said,
Limitations on Insurance.
The new regulations include these
provisions calculated to prevent ex-
lcessive insurance charges:
l. When property is used as col
lateral security for loan, the bor-
rover may not be required to further
guarantee the loan by life in
surance policy.
2. Loan companies may require
fire and extended coverage insur-
|ance when household furnishings
are used as security and $50, SIS or
500 deductible collision and fire
and extended coverage insurance
when household furnishings are
used as security and $50, SIS or
500 deductible collision and fire
and theft insurance when an auto
mobile is used as security. In neither
1See LOANS, Page A-61
Evening star., 1948-09-21
House Probers
claim Evidence
On 7 Scientists
Mcdowell to Seek
Spy Prosecution
Of Third Person
BULLETIN

Representative Mcdowell,
Republican, of Pennsylvania
said today the House Commit
tee on Un-American Activities
has enough evidence to war
rant espionage indictments
against two American scien-
fists who worked on the atomic
bomb, and a third person who
was employed on the project,
but was involved In an atomic
espionage ring. Mr.. Mcdowell
said he will ask the committee
to recommend prosecution. All
three persons, he said, have
been questioned by the COM
mittee.
Evening star., 1948-09-21
| 3 Western ENJOYS
In Berlin on Way
To Paris PorIey
By the kssoeiofed Press

BERLIN, Sept. 81. ENJOYS of
the United States, Britain and
France arrived here by air from
Moscow today en- route to Paris
for consultations with their for
eign ministers on the Berlin
blockade.
American Ambassador w. Be-
dell Smith, Frank Roberts, spe-
cial representative of Britain,
and French Ambassador M. Yves
Chataigneau will leave Berlin
tomorrow morning for Paris on
Gen. Smiths personal plane.
With a grin, the American
Ambassador suggested that re-
porters simply pick up the mo
comment" statement he has
made daily during the Moscow
conferences.
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Late News
Bulletin
T1roIino Bank Robbed

COLUMBIA, N. C. R-The
State Highway Patrol said
bandits robbed the Bank OF
Columbia in this coastal town
ofapproximateIy $50, 600 today.
Scores of highway patrolmen,
equipped with two-way radio,
were alerted. A helic0pter
from the Elizabeth City Coast
Guard station Joined the
search for the bandits.
Evening star., 1948-09-21

flowing with people from many
lands. Exotic costumes mingled with
formal western dress.
Arrival Welcomes U. N.
The lic'galleries were crammed.
President Vincent Auriol of
France spoke of the worlds anxiety
in his speech of welcome.
"Anxiously, we see fires being Lit
and violence and fanaticism strik-
ing down the most equitable of men
at the very moment when they are
accomplishing with such noble de-
votion their high missions of paci-
fication and justice" Mr.. Auriol
said.
He was referring to Count Folke
Bernadotte, U. NJ Palestine mediator
assassinated Friday in Jerusalem,
but he did not mention Count Ber-
nadotte by name.
Demands End of Division.
Mr.. Bramuglia demanded an end
to the division of the world into two
blocs because of what he called
the antagonism of two nations. OBJ
viously he referred to Russia and
the United States.
THE world cannot be dialogue
between two nations, nor can it be
monologue by one of them" the
Argentine Foreign Minister said.
He asked an end to the use of
force in the world, saying that, I'm
the establishment of a legal system
of peacemaking, we must shun
force"
In different countries and in vary
ing tones" Mr.. Bramuglia said. "the
masses are commenting upon the
indecision, the absence of solutions,
the outbreaks of conflicts. the reign
of mistrust, the distressing dishar-
mony in the midst of which this
vast organization that the nations
have set up to achieve and organize
sincere and permanent peace has
met here to solve the difficulties
which already exist or those which
may arise"
The Soviet blockade of Berlin and
the issues involved with it were the
chief topics of conversation among
the delegates, although Berlin is not
on the Assemblys agenda yet.
On the eve of the f1t meeting
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Hunt for Murderer
OF Glen Burnie Pair
Centers Near Town
Man, Girl Shot in Heods;
Six Held for Questioning
Discounted as Suspects
Pictures on Page BIZ

Search for the slayer OF a
young Glen Burnie couple was
| focused on an area surrounding
the Anne Arundel County town
today on the theory that the
assailant lived nearby.
Although police held six persons
for questioning in the brutal deaths
of John Mahlan, 25-year-old postal
clerk, and Miss Mary Christine
Kline, 18-year-old secretary, none
was regarded as likely suspect.
Both victims were shot through
the head, it was established at an
autopsy conducted today by DR..
Howard j. Maldeis, chief medical
examiner in Baltimore.
It also was learned that a bullet,
believed to be from a .38-caliber
pistol was found in Miss Kline's
head. Tests will be made to deter
mine If it and another slug found
in Mr.. Mahlan's automobile were
fired from the same weapon.
Bodies Found OF Road.
The beaten and bruised bodies OF
the young couple were found yes
terday afternoon near a seldom used
road a half mile off Defense high
way and miles west of Annapolis.
The scene was some % miles from
the spot where Mr.. Mahlan's blood
stained and bullet-punctured auto
mobile was found Saturday, 5 miles
southeast of Glen Burnie.
Location of the bodies led to the
assumption that the killer, after
leaving them, drove back toward
Glen Burnie because he lived in that
vicinity.
The gas tank, which was full
when Mr.. Mahlan and Miss Kline
left their homes Friday evening for
drive, was three-quarters empty
when the car was found. A bullet
had shattered the right front VIM
dow and blood stains were found IN
the front and rear seats.
Discovery of the bodies by coun-
try road worker ended three-day
search by hundreds of citizens.
Both Bodies Bruised.
Both bodies were bruised and part
of Miss Kline's right forefnger was
missing, indicating she possibly had
thrown up her hand as defense
measure.
Tests to determine whether the
girl had been raped are incomplete
in Baltimore, where both bodies
were taken.
Police were holding three white
and three colored men at the Fern
dale headquarters for questioning.
Several other persons questioned
throughout the day were later re-
leased.
Police Chief John H. Souers of
Anne Arundel County called it a
planned murder" by an assailant
who knew what he was doing"
States Attorney James c. Morton,
jr., of the same county said it was
an "atrocious sex crime" and that
no effort would be spared in track
ing down the murderer.
Tire Marks Show Route.
In the clearing where the bodies
lay about 40 yards of the Chester
field road there were tire marks at
testing that the murderer had
driven the couple to the spot,
| 1C.. aETI1prD ne. N
Evening star., 1948-09-21
CrossIey Poll Gives Dewey $40,
Truman 42% of Total Votes

New York Governor could be elect
ed by less than a majority Of the
total vote.
Much still depends, however,
upon the availability Of the parties
in individual States. AS this is
written, the States Rights Party is
represented in a very few States,
and a considerable number of States
have not yet placed the Progressive
Party on the ballot. In few cases
party representation may be settled
late in the law courts. In several
States the Truman-Barkley ticket
is not on the ballot, either by name
or by electors. The Wallace ticket
has been kept of In key States like
Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska
Where a ticket is not specifically
on the ballot, there may be volun-
tary write-ins, the extent OF which
is almost impossible to predict.
It would seem likely that Mr.
Wallace's vote will be somewhat
less than indicated above, because
the figure gives him credit for all
cases Of ballot listing still in doubt
1see CRossLEY, Page A-60
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Dewey Takes Over in Denver
|As Truman Moves On to Utah
President Will Make
Third Major Talk Of
Campaign Tonight
(Te-t of Trumdn's De1sDer
Address, Page A-6.)
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoff Correspondent

ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU-
MANS TRAIN, Sept. 21.-Presi-
dent Truman chalked up a
heart-warming welcome from
the people of Colorado today as
he ended a 24-hour stay in the
State still banging away at Con-
gress and calling for Demo-
cratic votes in November.
The 17-car presidential train to-
day was crossing into Utah, where
Mr.. Truman will make the third
major speech of his Western cam
paign tour in Mormon Tabernacle,
Salt Lake City, at 8 o'clock tonight
I'll pm. ED.T).
In terms of turnout the President
could rate his entrance into the
Rocky Mountain region a success.
In Denver yesterday it was esti-
mated that $4,000 people saw Mr..
Truman when he came into town
and rode nine miles to Fitzsimons
General Hospital to chat with war
wounded at noon.
When he spoke on the grounds OF
See TRTJMAN Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Nominees Theme
Is Only 6. o. P.
Can Achieve Unity
(Tert OF DeWeys Des Moines
Address, Page A-S.)
By J. A. o'Leay
Star Stoff CORRESPONDENT

ABOARD THE DEWEY SPE-
CIAL, Sept. 21.-Gov. Dewey's
campaign technique stood out
clearly today as an effort to con-
vince the American people that
only with a new administration
can they achieve the national
unity these troubled times re-
quire.
The Republican presidential nomi-
nee headed into Colorado today
after an opening speech at Des
Moines last night that was replete
with expressions of good will to all.
In Denver tonight, Gov. Dewey
will discuss the need to conserve
natural resources, his secretary, Paul
E. Lockwood, announced.
He will pledge an administration
that understands our land and water
problems and that will keep our
country strong as it works earnestly
for peace in the world" Mr.. Lock
wood said.
Gov. Dewey's Des Moines speech
was in sharp contrast to the hard
Evening star., 1948-09-21
By Miriom Gutenberg

The House Committee on Un-
American Activities today found
itself in the uncomfortable spot
of having plenty to say and
afraid to say it in its usual full
dress public hearings.
Representative Mcdowell, Repub.
lican, of Pennsylvania told reporters
the committee is afraid to hold pub
lie hearings on It's atomic espionage
case for fear 1t will inadvertently
spill some atomic secrets itself.
As soon as er rough committee
members reach here, he said, they
will decide whether to go ahead
with public hearings or prepare q
report similar to that Of the Ca
madam Royal Commission in its
atomic espionage case. A decision
is expected later this week.
grosuised Revelations.
The committee, in a statement re-
plying to attacks made by President
Truman and a number of scientist
announced late last week that -
the next few days, we shall reveal .
shocking chapter in Communist es-
pionage in the atomic Held"
Committee members insist that
they have a case. although public
have been postponed three
times-the last time indefinitely.
The committee is known to be
concerned about the difficulties OF
steering straight course between
compelling witnesses to testify on
one hand and granting them inn
munity from prosecution on the
other. The group has sought legal
advice to keep from being accused
of blocking the prosecution OF
espionage agents.
Fear Endangering Security.
Committee members also have no
desire to put themselves in the posi-
ton of doing exactly what they
have accused others of having done
revealing atomic secrets.
Mr.. Mcdowell said that after
reading testimony taken. so far in
closed sessions the committee is un-
certain as to whether 1t might en-
danger the security of atomic secrsS
by questions which we as laymsn
might ask"
The committee, he said, Is NOS
concerned about the atom bomb
itself but about efforts to get the
bomb secrets. Since the committee
they don't know what they should
and should not say.
Silenced by Witness.
II asked one witness what I
thought was a perfectly innocuous
question" Mr.. Mcdowell recalled,
"and he said he was sure I didn't
want him to answer that"
In closed sessions, he pointed out,
dangerous questions and answers
can be stricken from the record.
but that can't be done in a crowded
hearing room with television and
newsreels on the scene.
In some cases, he said, even the
fact that the question could not
be answered safely would reveal
something to scientists working on
atomic projects in other countries.
In Canada, the Royal Commission
members are not scientists, he said,
|
Evening star., 1948-09-21
BY the Associoted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 21.-WindS
OF 11O miles an, hour lashed Key
West today as a big and growing
tropical hurricane brushed near
or over the island city ITS miles
south of Miami.
All weather stations along the long
narrow stretch of Florida Keys re-
ported hurricane force winds OF Is
miles an hour or better. Torrentlal
rains accompanied the winds.
The hurricane was short dis
tance south of Key West at 11:3o
an. and moving north-northeast-
ward at about 10 miles an hour.
Key West reported 110-mile-an-
hour winds at II: 20 am. Red Cross
officials at the island city, where
President Truman had his Little
White House., said no casualties mac
been reported. Shelters were
crowded.
60-Mile Winds at Miami.
In Miami, sustained wind reached
60 miles an hour and visibility was
almost wiped out by the blowing rain
The storm has enlarged and hur-
ricane winds and strong gales now
cover an area about 300 miles in
diameter, the Weather Bureau re-
ported.
The slow movement Of the storm
will keep the center over South
Florida for longer period and de-
lay the arrival of hurricane winds
somewhat, forecasters said.
The storm grew rapidly in size
after crossing Cuba, Chief Forecaster
Grady Norton SAID.
Blow Due in Miami at Nightfali.
Winds of hurricane force will be-
gin to sweep Miami between pm.
and nightfall, it was predicted.
A freakish development was re-
ported by Weather Observer Ed
Lowe at Tavernier, an island OF the
Florida Keys, who said a flve-min-
ute dead calm suddenly interrupted
8o-mile-an-hour winds there about
9 am. The wind sprang up again
at about half that velocity. Mr.,
Norton said the storm may have
developed a secondary center 100
miles north of the true center as
the storm moved in.
The storm came to a halt SIS miles
south of Key West during the night,
i.egan moving forward again after
few hours.
The barometer was falling rapidly
ut Miami. Firemen battled a stub
rorn blaze in the Bali night club on
vindswept Biscayne boulevard.
Many Stores Close.
Palm fronds were beginning to
be blown from trees and the break
age of foliage was dlscernlple IL
some parts of the city.
Many stores were closed for the
day in Miami. Persons forced te
come out fought against stiff winds
The Weather Bureau said the
hurricane reformed northeast OF
Havana during the night. THE eye
of the storm became distorted while
passing over the hills Of Cuba, ano
apparently the hurricane paused In
the Florida Straits for regeneration
before continuing its march on
Florida" the Weather Bureau stated
The eye of the storm was horse
shoe shaped for awhile after mid
night forecasters said. but regained
its circular shape during the early
morning hours.
Radar planes watched the hurri-
cane throughout the night.
The Red Cross reported $40 per-
(See HURRICANE, Page A-5D