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Evening star., 1949-09-25
Actress Who Helped
Capture Ho|dup Men
Tries 10 End Life
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK. Sept. PA
vivacious brunette who lured two
holdup men into the arms of the
law after allegedly being robbed
and assaulted tried to commit
suicide tonight, police reported.
The 22-year-old actreSs-divor-
Gee. police said, took an overdose
of sleeping pills after writing a
note that said:
MY nerves have left me and I
am tired of being kicked from
pillar to post"
Police said the woman, Mrs.
Eleanor jolly. was found uncon-
scious tonight in her West 64th
street apartment-where she al
legedly was the victim Thursday
night OF holdup men.
Asked for Dates.
She was not in serious con-
dittion after treatment at Roose-
velt Hospital and was removed
later-to Bellevue Hospital for
further examination.
Police said two of the three
robbers who broke into her apart
ment Thursday night were so
smltten by her charms that they
telephoned her the next day. asked
for dates. and offered to give back
the loot.
The men all allegedly took $158
and $50 worth of jeWelry, and
one of the trio purportedly at
tackled her.
Arrived with Detectives.
Police said the woman, known
professionally as Donna Lee Law
renee, agreed to meet the two
men who called her and then
showed up for the dates with
plenty of detectives in tow.
The men, identified as Sabato
Giannotti, 27. and John Gar
fagino. 81. both ex-convicts on
parole. were booked for assault,
robbery and illegal possession of
weapons.
Giannotti also was charged with
rape.
Police said the note written by
Mrs. jolly referred to the death
of a daughter and to an accident
that fractured the skull of a six
year-old son now in New Orleans.
Even my family has turned
against me" police quoted the note
as saying.
It asked forgiveness "for what I
did," and added:
II am getting sleep now."
Evening star., 1949-09-25
Stote Broudcusters to Meet

ROANOKE. Va, Sept. "a IT,
Virginia Associated Press broad
casters, representing % radio sta
tions in the State holding men,
bership in the Associated Press,
will hold their semi-annual buSi-
ness meeting at the Hotel Roa-
noke here Monday.
Evening star., 1949-09-25

Egypt expects to complete work
on it's Edfna and Esna dams, near
Rosetta, in 1850.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
Congress Approves
l-Year Suspension
Assessment Work

WASHINGTON. (P)-The Sen
ate and House have approved
conference committee report un-
der which mining assessment
work would be suspended for one
year.
The House supported a three
months suspension. 1t yielded to
the Senate'S one-year proposal af-
ter Senator O'Mahoney D.-WyoD
promised he will seek early ac-
ton by the President so that if the
legislation is disapprOved, Con-
gresS may enact a new bill to.
meet his objections.
Law requires 500 worth of de
velopment work on mining
claim each year. The deadline is
June 30.
The bill, which now goes to the
White House, provides that min
ers who already have done their
work for this year will receive
credit on next years work.
To take advantage of the suS-
pension provision, the claim own
err must give notice to the interior
department not later than Aug. !.
The House also approved a con-
ference report on a bill by Rep.
Engle D.-CalifD to authorize the
secretary Of the interior to post
pone assessment work on mining
claims in certain unavoidable
contingencies.
The Senate has not yet acted
on this report.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
"Un-American
Activities Probe
Spreads Out
CBy The Associated Press

by The Associated Press
A hint that the FBI ran an in
formation pipeline into the Rus
sian embassy was given yesterday
to the jury trying Judith CoplOn
on espionage charges in Washing
ton.
It came during the reading by
Miss Coplon's lawyer of the sec
ond heretofore secret FBI report
brought into the open on inSistent
defense demands.
This long and detailed docu-
ment, based on data from nearly a
score Of confidential informants, "
included the text of an applica-
ton filed by one Leona Saron for
a job on the Soviet Information
Bulletin.
The information bulletin is
published by the Russian embas-
sy here.
So voluminouS were the reports
read to the jury that trial OBJ
servers speculated much of the
information must have come from
within the embassy itself.
Yesterday Miss Coplon's de-
tense diverted attention from the
direct issue of the espionage trial
with a report that named Freder-
ic March and other Hollywood
headlinerS as communists.
The Hollywood file-also quot
ing secret informers and without
any clue as to how much of it the
FBI believes-drew ridicule and
condemnation from March and
Continued on Page Six)
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
Ask Military Check
On Atomic Materi-
ais Sent Abroad
tBY Jack Bell

WASHINGTON, (P) - Senator
Vandenberg R.-MichD called to-
day for a close military check be-
fore atomic materials are sent
abroad, "even to the friendliest of
countries"
The Michigan Senator said he
wants to be sure that the military
liaison committee approves in adj
vance atomic energy commission
decisions such as that which sent
radioactive isotopes to a research
division of the Norwegian military
establishment.
"The point is not whether a
country is friendly to u.s." he told
Continued on Page Six)
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
NEWS In BRIEF

WASHINGTON, up - Silver
production in the United States in
April was 3,388,l98 fine ounces, a
decrease from the 0,237 ounces
mined in March but a slight in
crease in daily production due to
the shorter work month, the bur
eau of mines reports.
Production during April in
Guided: Washington, 1920 ounces
and Alaska, 962 ounces.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
CONGRESS
HICHLICHTS
tBY Jack Rutledge)

WASHINGTON, (P) - Demo-
cratic Senators trying to push
through the administration labor
bill said yesterday their cause has
been seriously hurt by the mine
shutdown ordered by John L.
Lewis.
Nevertheless, Senate d e b e
continued on the labor program.
The administration wants to re-
peal the Taft-Hartley act and re-
place it with one easier on unions.
A substitute offered by opponents
would retain most of the TIL pro-
visions.
One provision the administra.
Continued on Page Three)
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
Plans Made For
5Oth Anniversary
Entertainment

Wesley Welsh, industrious pres
ident of the Walrus Club presided
as temporary chairman last eve
ming at a meeting of a group Of
local business men and other in
terested persons at the City Hall
Continued on Page Four)
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10

JUNEAU, CP)-Carrying seven
tons Of equipment mad two tons of
food, the largest prospecting party
in recent years left here yesterday
for the Wrangell Mountains in
search of base metals, principally
copper.
The five-man expedition is led
by Fred Mann, mining engineer.
His wife is also making the jour
ney. The party will proceed to
Haines, thence to the ore fields by
way of the Alaska Highway.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
News of the World
At A Glance --
Thursday. June g. l949
CBy The Associated Press

ny Inc Associated Press
Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky is
expected to reject today an Amer
ican suggestion that the little
blockade" of Berlin be ended by
Monday
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Acheson made the proposal yes
terday at the foreign ministers
conference in Paris. Il is part of
the bargaining and counter-p play
between Russia and the west in an
effort to reach an economic and
political agreement on Berlin and
all Germany.
The "little blockade" is d stop
page of rail service. The Russians
blame the stoppage on a strike of
West Berlin workers who want
payment in West marks worth
about four times the value of East
marks. Western authorities have
suggested the Russians settle the
strike by ordering the Soviet-con-
trolled railway to meet the work.
ers demands.
The West has bargaining club.
Russia desperately wants an East
West trade agreement tor Ger
many. 1t is about to be signed.
But Western authorities have said
they will NOT sign until the Berlin
rail strike is settled.
In Berlin the strike has caused
some tense scenes. Russian Off
GERS chased a mob of 200 strikers
out of the railways American sec
tor headquarters today. The Rus
SLAMS sent out an SOS for Western
sector police to guard the build
ing. The mob had invaded the
building and was looting when
the Russians arrived. The SOviets
swung into action when some of
the strikers started tearing pic
lures of Stain and Lenin from the
walls.
In Marking, communist-held
former nationalist capital of Chi
ma, the Chinese communists are
said the be watching the moves at
the Paris conference with great
interest. It will be their guide for
relations with the western powers.
Foreign observers say that COM
munist China more and more is
following Russia in foreign policy.
If the Paris conference fails to
find a way for East and West to
work together. Communist Chi
mas relations with the west will
be further strained.
Observers see a deepening fric-
ton already between the United
States and the Chinese Reds. It is
partly over the treatment of the
American consulate general and
his staff in Mukden, deep in Red
territory. The Mukden u. S. Off
Gals have been marooned and no
American contact has been made
Continued on Page Seven)
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10

SEATTLE, (P) = The Coas t
Guard Bering Sea patrol cutter
Northwind has rescued 80 King
Island natives from a drifting ice
floe north of Nome.
Coast guard headquarters here
reported the Northwind picked up
the group yesterday afternoon and
is returning to King Island, in the
Little Diomede group.
The natives were carried to sea
by heavy currents.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
DIR. Buchanan
Opens World MIRA
Assembly AT Caux

CAUX. Switzerland - Change
in both East and West" is the key
to world unity, DR.. Frank Buch-
man, initiator of Moral Re-Arma-
ment, told the opening session of
a special World Assembly at
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10

Caux-sur- Montreux, Switzerland,
last Saturday. In this "tremen-
dous uniting power" lies the hope
of the future, he said.
DR.. Buchman's address, titled
SIS There An Answer? There Is"
was heard by minister president
and leaders of Western Germany
and delegates from the cabinets
Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10

JUNEAU, (P)-Brig. Gen. A. B.
Connally, head of the northwest
highway system in the Yukon ter
ritory, reports the Haines cutoff
opened for traffic yesterday.
Crews have been working stead
lily on the highway ever since the
Alaska road commission completed
work on the road to boundary.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
SEATTLE, (P)-G. w. Skinner

president of Alaska Steamship
company, is en- route north on a
business trip to Alaska on his
yacht Leonore. He plans to trans
fer to plane at Seward to COM
plete a swing from Sand Point,
Alaska, to Bristol Bay and back
through Southwestern and South
eastern ports.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
VANCOUVER, B. c. (P), 10000

VANCOUVER, B. c. (H), 10000
leaflets were dropped by plane
Wednesday on Graham Island of
the Queen Charlotte group to In
dor Ulmer that ground and air
crews are looking for him.
Timer and a partner became
separated while trekking overland
from their disabled fish boat II
days ago and only the partner
made safety. The search con-
tinueS.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10
WASHINGTON, Up - &C

WASHINGTON, Up - Col. J
Monroe Johnson announced yes
terday that President Truman will
address the annual American Lee
gion convention in Philadelphia
in August.
Johnson, a member of the inter-
state commerce commission, said
Mr.. Truman will attend the con-
vention as a delegate and will be
presented with the American Lee
g;on distinguished service medal.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10

OSLO, Norway (P-Sigrid I'm
dset, Nobel prize winning author,
died today at Lillehammer, Nor
way.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-10

With gifts such these the University of Alaska
repository for the complete history the Norhand
said Charles E. Bunne President the University Alaska
thanking A Gillian, Fairbanks the SO
and books presented the University Library.
the valuable papers Minority reports ooDO5-
Alaska U. S. claiming %
those who paid off
the of Capt l. A Beardeq
the U.SS jamestown, who The Law in Alaska
the purchase The report vegetable
possibilities Alaska cop
Harper Weekly the Klondike among
collection presented by Gillian.
The University grateful for This invaluable contbu
AS each day goes becomes increasingly
letters documents books
the formation the history Of the Northand Dr.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
1hree-Day Heart Tag Sale
Will Start Tomorrow

More than 700 pretty young
women will sell lapel heart tags
tomorrow during the first of three
heart tag days being held as part
of the Washington Heart Associa-
tiop's $4,000 fund drive.
Nurses, models. bobby -soxers
and other members of the femi-
nine sex will be stationed on street
corners throughout the shopping
and market areas of the Washing
ton area. including Montgomery
and Arlington Counties. The tags
also will be sold on the streets
Sunday and Monday.
On Monday some man volunteer
workers for the association will
Join the girls and offer the tags
for sale.
w. Robert Probey is chairman
of the three-day tag sales. Mrs.
Julius Cohen is supervising heart
fund booths set up in hotels and
stores.
John H. Wilkins, jr.. and Will
liam E. Leahy. general co-chair-
men of the campaign, said contri-
buttons received so far total $9,308
while additional pledges would
bring that amount to $10,208. The
association will use the money for
a continuing fight" against heart
disease.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Truman to Lead Observance
OfLincoIn Birthday Tomorrow

Gen. Robert B. Langry. the Presi-
dents naval and Air Force aides.
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III, chair
man of the National Park and
Planning Commission, will be in
charge of the ceremonies, assisted
by Slocum Kingsberry of the Loyal
Legion. Col. L. c. Crawford of
the legion is chairman of the
committee for the Lincoln birth
day ceremony.
After the Marine Band concert,
which starts at noon. there will
be a massing of the colors. Mr..
Kingsberry will read the Gettys-
burg Address and the band will
play the national anthem, end
ing the ceremony.
The Loyal Legion, which has
had charge of these ceremonies
for many years, was organized the
night of Lincoln's assassination to
protect future PresidentS
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Legality Of Rezoning
Action Challenged

The Montgomery County Circuit
Court was asked yesterday to null
lily the recent rezoning of prop
erty on the Old GEORGETOWN and
Greentree roads for shopping
center.
Seventeen plaintiffs declared in
a suit that the old Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners acted Illegally
by approving the application of
Samuel E. Bogley because only
three of the five commissioners
voted for resoning. They said a
little known State law requires
four -f1fths vote when 20 per cent
of the Immediately adjacent prop
erty owners object.
The plaintiffs said 242 residents
of the area signed petitions pro-
testing the change from residen-
tial to commercial.
A hearing has been set for
Wednesday at Rockville.
Named as defendants are the
County Council, successors to the
commissioners; Mr.. Bogley and
johnson S. Eaton. building in
spector at Bethesda.
The plaintiffs are Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen w. Dallas, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leight F.. Barber, Mr. and Mrs.
Wirtley P. Scruggs. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Mortimer Inlay, Mr.. and Mrs.
William c. Holland, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer R. SmallWood, DR.. Paula E.
Mailer. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Armen-
trout and Mr.. and Mrs. John M.
Ellis.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Mrs. Won Richter Denies
Broodcosts Were Political

TUCSON. Ariz., Feb. II (P).-
American-born Georgia James Won
Richter, whose husband is a wit
ness in the Axis Sally trial in
Washington. said yesterday she
had broadcast non-political Red
Cross messages from Berlin during
the war
She added, however:
ITO compare my broadcasts with
those made by Mildred Gillars
(Axis Sally would be ridiculous. -
Mrs. Won Richter told reporters
my broadcasts contained no po-
litical references or tinges. I
interspersed no commentary. I
was only concerned with getting
the messages of the boys who
were prisoners to their parents in
the United States as soon as pos
xible."
A Vassar graduate, native of
Evening star., 1949-02-11

Several months ago he was offered
the position of superintendent at
the hospital. but refused, telling
District health officials he had no
experience in the administration
of a hospital.
However. he says he is interested
in the position of chief of medl-
cine.
Answer to Be Given in Week.
DR.. Jensen spent yesterday at
Gallinger and plans to remain
here another week before he gives
an answer to Health Officer
George C. Rutland as to whether
he will accept the position. If he
refuses, he said, he will make
recommendations for improve
ment of conditions of the hospital
Gallinger Hospital, 1,600-bed
institution, could be made one of
the finest hospitals in the country,
DR.. Jensen said. All the resources
of the hospital are not being used,
he said. but they are doing good
Graduated from Columbia Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in
New York in 1887. Dr.. Jensen was
admitted to practice in 1889. The
40-year-old physician has been
associated with DR.. H. G. Weiskot-
ten, dean of Syracuse University,
was a medical officer in World
War II and at present is director
of the office of graduate and post
graduate education at the Univer-
sity of Colorado Medical School.
Surveyed Syracuse Hospitals.
While in Syracuse he made a
survey of hospitals with principal
attention to the University hos
pital at Syracuse. and set up a
program for patients after dis
charge from hospitals to receive
clinical treatments at their homes
or in clinics. This reduced the
number of patients in hospi-
tails materially because they could
be discharged earlier.
The salary of Admiral Rossiter
is paid by the medical schools of
Georgetown and George Washing
ton universities, but DR.. Rutland
hopes to change this system to
payment by the District. He has
asked the commissioners for a
salary of $4,000 a year for the
post.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Polish Groups 10 Observe
Kosciuszko Anniversary

Members of Polish American or
CARNATIONS here will commemo-
rate the 203d birthday of Gen.
Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Poland's S
patriot and American Revolution
ary War hero. at noon tomorrow
at his monument in Lafayette
Park.
Speakers will be StanislaW Mi
kolajczyk, president of the Polish
Peasant Party and former prime
minister of the Polish government
in London: Representatives Ches-
ney. Democrat, of Illinois, and
zablocki, Democrat, of Wisconsin.
and Simon P. Jarosinski. presi-
dent of the Maryland Division of
the Polish American Congress.
Edward C. Sokolowski will be
master of ceremonies and the fol-
lowing organizations will particl-
pate: Polish American Congress
of Washington. the Polish Club OF
Washington, Group 848 of the
Polish National Alliance: Polish
Women's Alliance, Group 634;
Polonaise Cultural Society OF
Washington and the National
Guard of Honor of the American
Legion.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Interstate Buses Face
Maryland Tit|ing Tax
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS. Feb. II. - The
Court of Appeals ruled yesterday
that interstate buslines must pay
the State titling tax on buses op-
Grating through Maryland.
Reversing lower court decision
and upholding w. Lee Elgin, motor
vehicles commissioner, the high
court ordered three buslines to pay
the 2 per cent excise tax on the
value of each vehicle.
This will cost Red Star Motor
Coaches 1912. Capitol Greyhound
$5O5 and Pennsylvania Greyhound
$3.50 to title their three through
buses.
Estimating that each bus would
last five years. the court said: "We
cannot say that tax of $116 a
year on a vehicle whose value is
$4,000 is unreasonable or dis
criminatory.
Evening star., 1949-02-11

Maryland Diocese since 1926.
DR.. Lucas, who also is canon of
Washington Cathedral, will serve
as an administrative assistant to
the bishop.
The new archdeacon, who is 54,
has been headmaster of St. Al
bans since 1929. At the time Of
his appointment he said he would
serve only 20 years. and he re-
Gently announced plans for his re-
tirement from that post, effective
June 30.
The new appointment. approved
by the Executive Council Of the
Maryland diocese yesterday. will
take effect July l.
The late Right Rev. Edward T.
Helfenstein was the last arch
deacon of Maryland and the post
never was filled after he was
named coadjutor bishop. The
diocesan convention last year au-
thorized appointment of an arch
deacon because it said Bishop
Powell was overloaded with ad-
ministrative duties.
Bishop Powell said he deferred
the appointment until he was able
to name man of great distinc-
ton. loved by all who know him"
DR.. Lucas. he said. has been my
own intimate friend for many
years" and will certainly make a
great contribution to the diocese
Bishop Powell was dean of
Washington Cathedral from 1887
to 194l.
Evening star., 1949-02-11

President Truman will lead the
Nation tomorrow in paying tribute
to the memory of Abraham Lincoln
on the 140th anniversary of his
birth.
Sponsored by the National Park
Service and the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United
States, ceremonies will be con-
Quoted at the Lincoln Memorial
at noon, when wreaths from Mr..
Truman and 81 patriotic organi-
cations will be placed before the
Lincoln statue.
The Marine Band will give a
concert preceding the ceremony,
at which Mr.. Truman will stand
at attention while the White
House wreath is placed. 1t will
be presented by Rear Admiral
Robert L, Dennison aHf Brig.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Police Investigate Fall
Of Woman From Hotel

The fall of a New York City
woman from a third-foor window
at the Dodge Hotel here was be-
ing investigated by police who
were questioning her soldier COM
panion today.
Detective Sergt. Frank Ashley of
the sex squad said Miss Sally
Warner, 38, fell from the window
last night to a roof about Is feet
below. She was taken to Casual
ty Hospital for head injuries and
possible internal injuries.
Hospital physicians said her
condition was not regarded as Sc
riouS.
The soldier is 33 years old and
is stationed at Fort Dix. N. j. He
was in the hotel room at the time
of the fall. the detective said.
Evening star., 1949-02-11

Philadelphia, Mrs. Won Richter is
staying here at the winter home
of her father, Frank G.. James.
She went to Germany with her
husband, a member of the Ger
man consular service, when he was
forced to leave Brazil in 1912.
In 1914 she was given the choice
of broadcasting American mes
sages via short-wave to the United
States or working in a munitions
factory, she said.
She did broadcast for about six
months, but refused extra rations
promised if she would insert Ger
man propaganda.
1T is a nightmare I have been
trying to forget for two years"
Mrs. Won Richter said. Il believe
this is an effort to discredit the
testimony of my husband In
Washington" 4