davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona sun., 1948-07-02

color. All the material needs Is
finishing at both ends, for it can
be draped suitably around the shoul-
derS.
II you would choose demurely
different touch for your basic dress
select a smart and practical cape
let collar Of pique, sharkskin or
one of the lovely crisp whites.
These are entirely separate and can
be kept Immediately fresh very
easily. Select style with Cavalier
points or neckband, according to
the needs Of your basic dress.
A dark bolero is very good to
use on a print dress if you want to
make it more sophisticated. Black
is a good color to use with pink,
aqua or soft green prints. If you
like, select a wide black belt to put
on the dress to carry out the dark
motif in the bolero.
# you have made the print your
self, you may have enough ma
terial to make cuffs Of the print on
the bolero. Wide cuffs are very
popular.
If you don't want either capelet
or bolero, make up a jacket In
brilliant color to give your basic
dress a real lift. Light blue, pink
or red goes well with navy; beige
or pink go nicely with brown, and
green looks well with black.
Freshen Hats
With Flowers
Open crowned hats are especially
easy to freshen if they have flowers
or ribbon because either Of them
can be changed.
II the hat is a pastel shade and
you want to clean it, dip soft brush
or cloth in cleaning fluid and rub
over the hat gently. You then may
decorate with new ribbon or flow
ers to match, perhaps, another suit
or dress you are wearing.
These half hats will look especial
ly refreshing and pretty if the
flowers are enclosed in yelling. A
stunning hat which saw recently
was navy blue taffeta decorated
with soft pink rosebuds enclosed in
very sheer navy blue yelling.
If you are the type for a pretty
picture hat, you may want to wrap
some yelling over the top that
comes down underneath the chin to
tie as bonnet. Most of the large
picture hats now are being shown
with some sort of fastening under
the chin.
Straw hats may have their flow
ers freshened; or you may want
to have several sets Of flowers that
can be snapped on to change with
whatever dress or suit you are
wearing.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-02
Womon's World
Give Summer Clothes Fresh
Touches With Simple Tricks
By Ertta Haley

xxyOMEN'S CLOTHES usually
Wv show infinite variety, and the
desire for this seems boundless.
However, most of us can afford
only one wardrobe, if that, for
season, and it's nice when we can
do something simple at home to
freshen up the dresses.
This year, particularly. women's
summer clothing is full Of tricks
to make them more feminine, more
colorful and more summer-ike. II
you need to perk up the wardrobe
a bit, any one of these sewing tricks
I'm going to tell you about will do
lots for your morale.
Gloves Can Be
Decorative
You've never seen gloves within
recent years that look like those
being shown now. Even gentle pas
tells are breaking out with a rash
of color. Sweet powder blue ones
are made more surprising and dar-
ing with a flash of cherry red at
the wrists. This is easy to do at
home even to a pair Of white gloves
for they can be tinted, and the
color added from another piece OF
fabric.
Of if you are wearing white gloves
with a summer print, piece OF
that print might be used to deco
rate the cuffs of your gloves. It
takes but a few minutes to cut and
sew on.
One of the latest things in gloves
is to have ruffles around the wrists.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-02
2] lilTSE|
Afternoon Dress

Before scaling a fish rub vinegar
over it. Scales will then come OF
easily.
Moisten the string you use to tie
up a package. It will shrink and
tighten up the knots as it dries.
One or two pans OF cold water
placed in an overheated oven win
cool It quickly.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Slayer, Married Friday
In Prison, Goes 10 Chair
BY The Associated Press

BELLEFONTE, Pa, Nov. g.
David P. Taranow, 23, convicted
slayer who was married In a. prison
ceremony last Friday, died in the
electric chair early today. 81
Taranow was driven to- the Central
Pennsylvania prison here last night
after spending 10-hour honeymoon
holding hands with his bride, au.
burn haired Stella Noto of Brook
lyn, in the warden's office at Broad
meadows Prison at Media, where
they were married.
The ceremony was performed by
a prison guard who also is justice
of the peace. Present were Tara
nows parents and his 9-month-old
daughter, child of the girl he mar
ried.
Taranow, a New Yorker, was SEN
fenced to die in the electric chair
for the holdup-slaying of Francis
L. Devon, July 9, 1947. A three
judge court said the Staying was
"coldly planned" and "coldly exc
cuted" by Taranow who had been
picked up by Mr.. Devon as hitch
hiker.
After the wedding, Taranow sat
holding his brides hand until
guards ended the strange honey
moon to drive him to Bellefonte.
In leaving his bride, Taranow
said only one word-"good-by"-as
he walked from the warden's office.
He went to the electric chair calmly.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
4 Wounded in Gun Battle
With Carolina Ex-Convict
BY the Assoeioted Press

GASTONIA, N. c., Nov. ga
skinny little ex-convict today
blamed excessive drink for a mad
212 hours in which four persons
were wounded before police sub
dued him.
Ray Aldridge, 81, twice paroled
after being convicted of robbery and
larceny, chased his parents and
visiting relatives from his house
yesterday, and barricsded himself
inside. When police arrived, he
opened fire
State, county and Gastonia
officers besieged the two-story home
with rife, pistol and machine gun
fire and tear gas. The police fire
was returned.
Wounded were Patrolman ]. D.
English, 81. and Patrolman r. H.
Smith, "a. both hit by shotgun
pellets; Henry Chastain. Al, a
neighbor, and James Ayers, Is, a
by-stander, both struck by rifle
bullets.
!, After the firing had broken
windows, china and other house
hold goods. Aldridge appeared at the
front door, his hands high above
his head. He was untouched by
police bullets.
Evening star., 1948-11-08

NEW CADILLAC ENGINE SAVES FUEL-An engine that will
accelerate from zero to 30 mph in 80 seconds straight
level will be introduced in Cadlacs model
10 years experimentation the Vtype will
from to 20 cent gasoline according to the company
Standing behind the engine be displayed here eft
to right Edward r. Cole Cadllacs chief engineer John
Gordon general manager and Harry Barr. experimental
emo
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Premier Delays Resienine
Until u. N. Ends Debate

ATHENS. Nov. 8 (P.-Premier
Themistokles Sophoulis said today
he will not resign until the Greek
debate in the United Nations has
been completed.
Mr.. Sophoulis said over the week
end that his government would re-
sign today. However, he decided to-
day on poStponement because the
U. N. debate on Greece Is almost
finished.
The postponement was the second
in 10 days. Mr.. Sophoulis originally
announced his impending resignaS
tion 10 days ago. A few days later,
he said he would wait until For
eign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris
returned from the U. N. meeting.
The Government has been threat
ened with parliamentary vote of
no confidence by adherents of
Sophocles Venizelos. deputy leader
Of Mr.. Sophoulis' Liberal Party.
The coalition government is COM
posed of Liberals and Populists, led
BY Mr.. Tsaldarfs.
Mr.. Venizelos claims enough votes
from the dissident Liberals and op-
position parties to overthrow the
government. He has charged them
with playing politics and not fight
ing the Communist rebellion ef1e-
lively.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
French
(Centinued From First Page.)


of them-were chosen October is
by the municipal councils of $4,000
French villages, towns and cities.
Though the De Gaullist victory
indicated a rightest swing, the re-
suits do not represent exactly the
strength of the various parties in
France. In selection of members
for the Council of the Republic, the
voting was weighed in favor of the
country districts, where the Con-
servatives are stronger, and against
the big cities, where the Commu-
nists and Socialists poll their great
est support.
A new electoral law was passed
earlier this year. 1t replaced proper
tional representation on the council
with the current system which allows
rural France to select about two
thirds of the members of the upper
house. as compared to a third for
the cities
This was brought about by allow
ing each town or village. no matter
how small, to have one vote. Thus
100 persons at a crossroads village
carried the same weight as 5000 or
more voters in Paris.
Clear Majority Necessary.
In the choosing of members of
the Council of the Republic, each
winner had to have a clear ma jority
in the electoral college of his district.
Communists in few cases could find
support outside their own ranks to
win seat, as other parties "ganged
up"
The Council of the Republic re-
placed the prewar French Senate.
1t has only limited powers and its
role is largely advisory.
Florimont Bonte, press chief for
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Crippled Ex.Professor
Finds Home Is on Fire,
Awaits Rescue Calmly

Alone in Chevy Chase house
which he discovered was on fire,
an ifvalided former college profess
sor yesterday telephoned firemen
from his wheelchair. then rolled
next to window and calmly
awaited the fiMfighters.
He was rescued in few minutes
by members Of the Chevy Chase
Fire Department, who confined the
fire to the kitchen of the house at
6806 Meadow lane.
DR., John J. Clarke, 50, q pro-
fessor at Catholic University for 20
years before his retirement q few
years ago because of sclerosis,
which crippled him from the waist
down, was playing photograph rec
ords in his first floor room when
he smelled smoke.
DR.. Clarke, who is confined to q
wheel chair, investigated and found
the dining room. two rooms away
from his. filled with smoke. He
wheeled himself to a window and
opened 1t, then telephoned the fire
department. s
He said he had hardly hung up
the telephone" before he heard
the fire engines approaching. Fire
men broke into the house and car
ried DR.. Clarke out, then extin-
guished the blaze. Damage was
estimated at $4,000.
DR.. Clarke, who pitched for Cath
olic University in the early 192Os,
lives at the Meadow Lane address
with DR.. Dale c. Braungart and DR.
Braungart'S mother.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
New Fog Foam Cuts Rescue
Path Through Raging Fire

A new method of cutting a rescue
channel into the heart of a raging
gasoline fire has been demonstrated
at National Airport.
Airport firemen used newly de-
Veloped type of fog foam to open
an immediate path for them through
200 gallons of high octane gas, burn
ing in puddles on the ground under
the wing of junked bomber on the
south end of the field.
The show was put on for Air Force
experts, Government technicians and
Oil company representatives by Dan
Mahaney, safety engineer at the air
port. Mr.. Mahaney has been work.
ing on the system here for the last
two years. 1t recently was adopted
at La Guardia and Idlewild Airports,
after comparative tests with other
extinguiSherS.
When the gasoline was set ablaze
in 1917 and rose through the ranks
to captain.
An insurance broker in Bergen
County, Mr.. Thomas entered poll
tics in 1925 when he was elected a
member of the borough council OF
Allendsle. his home town. He was
elected Mayor the following year
and went to Congress in 1886.
He was married in 1921 to the for
nar Miss Amelia Wilson Stiles nj
Mount Vernon, N. Y, and they have
two sons, j., Parnell Thomas, ~jrs
and Stiles Thomas,
Evening star., 1948-11-08

friends in nearby Maryland when
she testified before the grand Jury
during its Thomas investigation.
Miss Campbell'S niece, the former
Myra Midkiff, lives at 1858 Raum
street NE. She said she had no
statement to make at this time.
According to court officials, Miss
Miner lives at 1401 Fifth street NV.
Lawyers Asked Probe.
The Justice Departments investi-
cation Of the Thomas case was
prompted late in September by a
petition from II New Jersey lawyers.
They asked the department to look
into charges of payroll Irregularities
made by Columnist Drew Pearson.
Mr. Thomas comment at the
time:
Il refuse to be intimidated.
After a five-week FB1 investiga-
ton, the case was referred to the
grand jury on october %.
Mr.. Thomas then accused Attor-
ney General Clark of playing
cheap Pendergast politics The
legislator informed Mr.. Clark that
his sudden zeal to prosecute on
"baseless charges" was "the dying
gasp of reprisdl on your part against
one who stood up against the en-
emies OF this country and did not
cover before them"
AS head of the Committee on
n-American Activities. Mr.. Thomas
had been sharply critical of the
Justice Departments failure to
prosecute four persons the commit
tee believed guilty of espionage. The
department replied that 1t didn't
have sufficient evidence for prose-
cution in those cases.
When the grand jury inveStiga-
ton got under way, MIR. Thomas
insisted on being given chance
to testify. He asked, however, that
his appearance be set for Novem-
ber 4-after the election-"to keep
this free of politics"
On November Mr.. Thomas was
reelected. Two days later he kept
his date with the grand jury, but
refused to testify on the constitu-
tional ground that his answers
might incriminate him. He was the
last witness.
Many Contempt Citations.
Long member of the Un-Amer-
ican Activities Committee, the So
year-old legislator attained national
prominence when the Republican
majority in the Eightieth Congress
gave him the Craftsmanship.
His regime as committee chair
man-soon to be ended by the up
coming Democratic ma ajority in the
House-was marked by the number
of witnesses who wound up with con-
tempt-of Congress citations for re-
fusing to answer committee ques-
tions.
To the public, the names OF the
chairman and the committee were
synonymous To him came the
messages of praise from one ele-
ment, the violent criticism from
another.
Mr.. Thomas was born in Jersey
City, N. j.. in 1895. the son of
a Democratic politician named
Feeney. When his father died five
years later, his mother moved her
family few miles north into the
Republican territory of Bergen
County. Mr. Thomas has explained
that he decided he would do better
under his mothers maiden name
of Thomas.
He attended the University of
Pennsylvania, enlisted in the Army
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Facts in Phantom Case
Cast New Doubts on
.5uicide's Confession
by the Assesieaed Press

q TExARKANA, Ark, Nov. 8.-Two
developments indicated today that
H. B. TenniSon, University of Ar
kansas freshman who enjoyed comic
magazines and crime stories, may
mot have been phantom" killer j.
6 Instead. 1t appeared possible that
his suicide note duplicating himself
with wave of mysterious, unsolved
5slayings In the Texarkana area in
ss.1946 may have been bizarre action
Sof an unhappy young man.
The tall, slender, reserved l8-year-
old student from Texarkana, Ark,
took poison at Fayetteville Friday
after spending weekly hts own
admission-in meditation in movies
and his own room. During that
time, he said, he existed mostly on
candy bars.
Friend Provides Alibi.
One of the developments came
from Deputy Prosecutor Robert E.
Hall of Miller County. He an
nounced that James Freeman, l6,
told him that he spent the evening
of May 3, 1916, with Tennison In
the latter,s home listening to the
radio. This was the night Virgil
Starks was shot to death by q un-
known aSsailant. -,
Tennison's confession" note said
he slew Mr.. Starks and two high
school students-three of the Ave
victims of the so-called Phantom
Mr.. Hall said young Freeman
hxed the date this way-he recalled
hearing a radio broadcast about
Mr.. Starks' death. The prosecutor
said the Freeman youth came to
him last night after reading news
paper accounts Of Tennison's. sui
eide.
!. Earlier Notes Disclaimed.
The other development was dis
CLOSED by Sheriff Bruce Crider in
Fayetteville. He said another note
found among Tennison's effects re-
Auested Please disregard al other
messages have written
There were three principal notes,
leach typed in rambling style and
sworded in the nature of a final
message. The sheriff said he didn't
know which of the notes actually
was written last.
: Sheriff Crider and officers here.
awaited report from a laboratory
an Austin. Tex, where Tennison's
fineerprints are being checked
against some found on an automo-
bile in which Teen-Aeers Betty Jo-
Booker and Paul Martin went for
their last ride. They we're killed
the night of April ID, 1916. Another
couple was slain three weeks earlier.
Evening star., 1948-11-08

MISS WASHINGTON Is NOW RADIOS NEWEST JOCKEY!
ody Miller of
Contest embaks
Each night Monday through
conduct her WWDC
singing romantic ballads with the
ochesa Tune tonight your
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Evening star., 1948-11-08
Maj. Gen. John Piper Smith
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Maj. Gen. John Piper Smith, 65,
retired Army officer who was former
commander of the 4th Corps Area
and an adviser to the Once of Stra-
tegic Services, will be buried with
military honors in Arlington Gem.
etery tomorrow after funeral rites
at 1890 am. in Fort Myer Chapel.
Gen. Smith died Thursday in
Walter Reed Hospital. He and his
wife, Mrs. Carnelia Parmelee Saith
lived in the Wardman Park Hotel.
A native Of Hopewell, Pa, the
general was a veteran OF both World
Wars and held the Purple Heart
and Distinguished Service Medal.
During the last war he held i'm
portant administrative posts here.
Nine fellow officers and close
friends will serve as honorary pail
bearers at the services: 1t. Gen.
Stanley D. Embick, 1t Gen. Charles,
Heron, Col. Earl Biscoe, Col. r. G.
Irwin, Vice Admiral William Tar
rant, Col. Roger Parrott, Maj Gen.
William Dryden, Col w. r. Nichols
and Robert Woods Bliss.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Thomas
Continued From First Page

Thomas and Miss Campbell dis
cussed the finding of a person
whose name might be placed on the
payroll of the House of Representa-
slyes as an employe" in Mr..
The same month, according to
the indictment, Miss MidkiffS name
was put on Mr.. Thomas payroll.
In October, 1910, the indictment
went on, the defendants induced
Miss Midkiff to indorse her name
on a Treasury check for 500.
The following month. Miss Camp
bell indored her name on the same
check and deposited it to her ae-
count in the City Bank branch at
Ninth and East Capitol streets, the
recital of alleged overt acts con-
tinued.
Check to Thomas Alleged.
Also in November, the indictment
said, Miss Campbell drew her per-
sonal check payable to Mr.. Thomas
for 500 and mailed 1t to the First
National Bank in Allendale, with
directions that it be deposited to
Mr.. Thomas account.
The indictment charged that two
other 500 checks went the same
way in May, is4l, and in Septem-
ber, 1912.
In December, l943, the indictment
alleged the amount of a check made
out to Miss Midkiff was sl09. 40. and
in May, 1874, there was another
check for Sl09.40. The indictment
charged these checks were handled
In the same way as the others.
During this period, according to
the indictment, Mr.. Thomas had q
check sent to the Collector Of IN
ternal Revenue at Baltimore to
cover tax due on Miss Midkiff's S
1913 income.
Maid Next, Jury Says.
The Indictment alleged that in
August, 1914, Miss Campbell and Mr..
Thomas again discussed putting
some one on the payroll and this
time Miss Campbell's maid was
listed.
Two checks in August, 1914, and
December. 1914, were turned over
by Miss Minor, according to the in
dictment. Each check, 1t was
charged. amounted to S149.50.
The total involved In the con-
spiracy charge amounted to S815 go.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay said Mr.. Thomass at
torney, William H. Collins, had
agreed to surrender his client
week fro mtomorrow at l pm. At
that time he will be arraigned.
Miss Campbell is to be arraigned
at the same time.
Mr.. Fay said the trial. under
normal procedures. could not take
place before January.
Miss Campbell, according to
friends. had been congressional
secretary for more than 20 Years
when she left Mr.. Thomas's employ
last August.
Worked for Predecessor,
Before becoming his secretary, she
worked for his predecessor. the late
Representative Rondolph Perkins of
New Jersey.
Friends said she has a father, a
brother and several sisters living in
Washington. The city directory lists
her home address as 1853 Lyman
place NE.
She was repeatedly staying with
Evening star., 1948-11-08

the airport's l8-ton. 10-wheeled fire
truck rolled up, spraying foam under
pressure from an extension pipe fitted
with nozzle and two ground sprays
set on either end of the front bumper
Firemen in regulation canvas
coats and rubber boots leaped from
the truck with hoses to smother the
fire on the right and left, while a
third man moved down the lane
cleared by the stream from the pipe
nozzle to make the rescue"
The equipment cut a path in a
few seconds through the burning
gasoline, while lesser streams were
directed along either edge The
whole blaze was extinguished under
what appeared to be a blanket OF
soap suds in five minutes.
The system developed here was
used to put out two dangerous fash
fires at New York airports recently
Mr.. Mahaney said
Evening star., 1948-11-08

the Communists, said the results
represented a "thoroughgoing rob-
berry
I'VE consider the results OF the
election do not reflect the tendency
of the French people" he said. "Of
q, 900 900 registered voters, only
about 100. 900 were consulted. And
even this tiny minority Of privileged
ipersons was not elected by univer-
sal suffrage. but by municipal coun-
lcils. The Communist Party, which
represents 40 percent of the voters,
| is just not represented"
Evening star., 1948-11-08
ISister-in-Low of Wriqhts
Flies First Time at "a
By the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8.-The sis
ter-in-laW of the Wright brothers
has made her first airplane flight
at the age of "a.
Mrs. Lulu Wright arrived here
last night from Kansas City aboard
at TWA Constellation airliner and
pronounced present-day aviation
Just wonderful"
She is the widow Of Reuchlin
Wright, accountant and elder broth
er OF the pioneer flyers, Wilbur and
Orville Wright. Mrs. Wright is here
70 spend the winter with relatives.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Dentist to Address PTA

Dr. Roy L. Bridger. Montgomery
County dentist, will speak on sodium
fiuoride treatments to help pre-
serve children's teeth before the
Clara Barton School Parent Teacher
Association at 8 pm. tomorrow at
the school.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Greece
Continued From First Page.)

NCUNVINUSU TTUH F1TSC FaEtJ
in Greece, but was instructed not
to take part In such matters.
Greece has advised the United
States that less than 1000 persons
have been legally executed since
the Communicated guerrillas be-
gan their revolt.
The figures were made public
today. with the explanation they
were compiled from records In
Athens at American request tc
counteract Communist propaganda
that some 10000 Greek civilians
were executed by the Monarcho-
FaScists."
Evening star., 1948-11-08

The larvae of the clothes moth
eat wool, fur, feathers, hair and
other animal fibers, but will not
touch cotton, linen, silk, rayon or
lylon.