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Arizona sun., 1949-07-29

to town. They signed me up and the
rest was easy. Satchel and Newt
Joseph, who was catcher and man.
ager, worked with me patiently
teaching me control and change of
pace"
McDaniels joined the Kansas City
Monarchs in 1915 and in 1916 went
with lot of other players to the
Mexican League. Booker says he
liked it fine and was especially fond
of the Mexican people. But with
a lot of other players he got caught
in a squeeze. He was barred from
baseball in this country and the
Mexican league went broke. In fact
he didn't get paid last year at all.
The Kansas City Monarchs lifted
the ban on McDaniels this year and
he built up a 7-2 record with the
Arizona sun., 1949-07-29
Check the Size When
Buying Your Linens

Prices now are enticing home
makers to replace household linens,
says Grace Ryan, extension special
ist in home management for the
Agricultural Extension Service OF
the University of Arizona.
Hints given to buyers frequently
stressed quality, brand reliability,
wear, and other points in good
buymanship, but leave out a very
important item-size.
Next time you go to a sale, be
ready to look for sizes that are
"good buys" There is no economy
in skinny sheets, pillow slips, or
towels, especially bath towels.
Know the length, width, and par
ticularly the depth of your mat
tress before you buy sheets. Check
pillow sizes, too. Cases that are
forced on pillows do not wear long.
Size is important in towels, too.
Hand towels and kitchen towels too
small, use the same space over and
over. Sooner than you think, thin
worn spots appear.
Towel sizes should suit needs OF
all the family. Men like them large
and "hefty." Nom likes them
medium, and the youngsters need
them small-and many!
Arizona sun., 1949-07-29
Teenage Highlights
BY Olen Maxwell

Once again we look into the files
] of the up-to-date happenings. Con-
densed from the files of our see all
scopes. But before we give you the
lowdowns on the chatter around
town. We wish to apologize for
last weeks article for being so
short. But it is being made up this
week. We look back a few days
to the Bathing Beauty Contest.
Won by Hazel Williams and her
most charming personality. And
the runner up Miss Tommie Du-
pree, a close second. Our opinion
was that Miss Erma Webb, should
have taken a place.
The entire city was in wild up
roar Monday night when Amos
Milburn rocked the house. Truly a
great vocalist and pianist. Every
one enjoyed t h e m selves even
Charles Mills, although he didn't
know what took place. Athea Will
liams enjoyed herself to the high
est with Robert Louis until a cigar
was lighted and panic struck, which
spoiled lot of fun.
We go little further at the in
termission Earnest Walker was
seen with no other than Dorothy
Conchlor. Jimmy Wiseman was
high as a fly on a spray any day,
in other words his wig was twisted.
Mr.. Crawford Banner was strictly
on the ball with the cute chicks.
A cool kiddie from Kansas City
doesn't know if she has her boy
friend or not but will find out Sum
day night. Geraldine Johnson has
lots of objections because this guy
is Guy Williams. Speaking of the
Williams, Carney Williams won
completely over all his buddies to
take Louise Hunter to the dance.
Osborne Callahand must have lot
of influence on Rose Fay jenkins,
because she won't accept another.
Jerry Vance is singing Prisoner
of Love" now that Dollie Williams
is going steady with Eldridge Como
way but is slowly fading out. He
was seen on Twelfth Street with
Barbara O'Neal Wednesday night.
Arthur Peu, a CT Joe, has come
between Grace itfield and
jeanne Thomas. Which one will he
choose? Raymond Willis is still
trying to convince Eula Bonner
that he will be the best man. Will
liam Swain has gone steady with
Edna Walker for so long I'm begin
ming to think she is a real hep
chick.
Fannie Dunn says she isn't
grieving over the guy who left
town. I'm beginning to think it is
true. Someone else took her home
Wednesday night in '49 Oldsmo-
bile. I am not sure though. Mary
Lou McCowen and Forest Fields
are planning to get married in the
near future, about 81 I hear.
I think have run out of words
but let me tell you something
starting next week series of out
standing girls will be interviewed
and picture will be in this column.
Our first choice for next week will
be Miss Louis Tate and after that
Grace Whitfield. If you are from
the ages of ii and 19 and would
like a personal interview with us
call 4-9447 from till II P. M. and
ask for Olen Maxwell. See you
sooner than you think. See you
then.
Arizona sun., 1949-07-29


Monarchs before he was purchased
by the Chicago Cubs.
The big leagues lie ahead for
McDaniels either this year or next
and he is as happy as anyone can
be whose deepest dream has come
true.
IT figure since I wasn't allowed
to have a childhood, like the other
kids, something was coming to me.
"But I haven't forgotten that
there are still millions of my people
who are going without their child
hoods and who get hungry along
about spring every year.
II was lucky, but a man doesn't
forget"
Arizona sun., 1949-07-29
BY Hal Marks

5AO Al NA5 ASNS N.S N|s0SNSeAA'
By Hal Marks
1--WE kept ourselves clean," Book
er said, land our house was neater
than any hotel room. Naturally all
of us boys were drawn together
in close friendship. We've never
lost it. I have to buy copies of every
paper after I pitch to send to each
of them, and when I write letter
to one they insist I send them all
a copy.
Zone of my brothers, James, is
now singer with the famous
spiritual choir The Stars of Har-
mony' and it's quite a thrill to
listen to him over the radio. My
other brothers are scattered around
the middlewest-all doing well.
"But to get back, the one thing
the four of us living together never
licked was the food problem. Maybe
we wouldn't be alive today if it
hadn't been for a family living
across the way. They were white
church people and they really be-
lieved in Christianity. When all our
food was gone the four of us would
gather on the steps of our house.
Then almost without fail they
Arizona sun., 1949-07-29

About $5,OOO,O0O in cash and
merchandise was given away to
radio listeners for answering ques-
tions or identifying tunes or per-
sonages in 1913, says the World
Book Encyclopedia.
Arizona sun., 1949-07-29

The temperature in Siberia falls
even lower than it does at the
North Pole, reveals The World
Book Encyclopedia.
Arizona sun., 1949-07-29
Success Story Of
Booker Mcdaniel

This is the last installment of
the success story of another Ne
gro in big league baseball.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Secret Navy Jet Plane Crashes;
2 WeN-Known Test Pilots Die
Croft PIunges Into
Pacific After Ii
Disintegrotes
Sy the Assoeiotsd Press

Ell SEGUNDO, Calf, Feb. s.
One of the Nays latest hush-hush
Jet bombers-the XAJ-apparently
disintegrated on a test flight over
the Pacific and crashed into the
sea yesterday, killing two pilots
aboard.
The victims were Albert w. Con-
over. jr., %. Torrance, Calf, project
pilot, and Co-pilot Charles E..
Brown, Is, Hawthorne, Calf.
North American Aircraft. builder
of the highly secret, three-engine
experimental plane, was unable to
determine Immediately what hap
pened. But Walter B. Ton, private
pilot, who was in the air at the
time, said the big jet came apart.
II first glimpsed it at about 1900
feet and could see clearly that the
tail surfaces and the outer wing
panels were gone" Mr.. Ton said
"All that remained was the forward
part of the fuselage, the inner Sec
tons of the wings and the engine
nacelles."
However, it was learned the XAJ
has folding wing panels and tail
section for easy handling on car
riers.
Other witnesses said the craft
went into a steep dive and plum
meted a mile and quarter offshore
Two helmets were recovered float
ing near part of a wing, but no
bodies were found.
Mr.. Conover, credited with flying
the Navy's first jet plane, had a
long career as test pilot. Formerly
of Lake Forest, Ill, .he is survived
by his widow, Mary, and four chill
dren.
Mr. Brown, whose home was in
Billings, Mont, shot down IS planes
over Europe as an Air Forces fighter
pilot. A test pilot since the war, he
also was known as a racing pilot.
His widow. Sylvia, survives.
The XAJ was one of three expert
mental bombers built specifically for
Evening star., 1949-02-05
BY the Asseeioted Press

CLEVELAND. Feb. 5.-Five per-
sons. including Editor Louis B. Self
zer of the Cleveland Press, must ap-
pear in Common Pleas Court Tues
day on contempt charges evolving
from fake divorce case.
Reporter Leonard Hammer OBJ
tained an unwanted and uncon-
tested divorce last week for Richard
R. Campbell, Press makeup editor
and Mr.. Campbell's wife, Florence
Then he wrote story on how he did
it, and the Press ran it two-columns
wide on Page /.
Editorially. the Press commented
that the divorce fake was carried
out to show up weakness in Di-
vorce Court procedure caused by ar
overcrowded docket. The action was
well-intended, the editorial said.
Judge Samuel H. Silbert also cited
City Editor Louis Clifford in the
contempt charges. Mr.. Seltzer and
Mr.. Clifford were accused of giving
editorial praise to the published
divorce story. Mr.. Hammer was
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Australians Regret
u. 5. Envoy May Leave
or Philippine Post
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. s..
Australians expressed regret today
that they soon may lose United
States Ambassador Myron Melvin
Cowen and his wife.
Reports from Washington said the
envoy has been appointed Ambas-
sador to the Philippines.
Australia was Mr.. Cowen's first
diplomatic assignment. But in the
six months he served here he has
made a name for himself among
Australian leaders. He has become
well known in most cities and many
towns.
The 50-year-old diplomat served
as chief American delegate at the
United Nations Economic Commits.
sion for Asia and the Far East,
which met near Sydney last year.
Born in Logan, Iowa, he attended
Wofford College in Spartanburg,
S. c., and later went to Drake
University Law School in Des
Moines, Iowa.
He was admitted to the Iowa Bar
and practiced law in Des Moines
until 1926.
That year he was named COM
missioner to the United States Court
of Claims in Washington. He served
in that post until he resigned in
1888 and went back to private law
practice in Washington. He has
been admitted to the Bar of the
District of Columbia and of the
Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1949-02-05

children, all Of Baltimore. His
brother, Moses Hecht, of Baltimore,
also survives, the last living Hecht
Co. founder. Mr.. Hecht also leaves
a sister, Mrs. Tillie Raft, also of
Baltimore.
Graveside services for Mr.. Hecht
will be held at 3 pm. tomorrow in
the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
Cemetery at Blair road and North
avenue. The family has asked that
no flowers be sent.
Six nepheWs will serve as pail
bearers at the services as well as
Charles B. Dulcan, vice president
Of the corporation and general man
ager of the Washington store, and
Elliot Levi, relative by marriage.
Mr.. Hecht's nephews who will serve
at the funeral are Samuel, Harry,
Morton and Malcolm Hecht, Alfred
Schleisner and Harry Hirshberg jr.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Judge BIuntIy Warns
Reds Defense 10
Change lis Tactics
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The presid-
ing judge at the Communist con-
spiracy trial has given defense
lawyers this blunt ultimatum:
They must alter their conduct, or
take the consequences"
Federal Judge Harold r. Medina
told defense attorneys yesterday that
they have been trying for three
weeks to provoke me-" and that If
you keep that UP, there will be day
of reckoning"
It was the 18th day of the trial,
and the most explosive one yet.
Still engaged in a preliminary
move to void the indictment of the
II Communist leaders by attempting
to prove that the grand jury that
indicted them was chosen by an un-
fair system. the defense put Repre-
sentative Vito Marcantonio on the
stand.
Got in Little Testimony.
The American Labor Party House
member had little opportunity to
testify. He spent most Of the time
listening to the arguments between
the Judge and the defense battery.
Judge Medina repeatedly xepri-
manded the defense lawyers, ac-
cusing them variously Of "willful,
persistent" delaying tactics, of try
ing to wear me out of taking "a
crack at me-" Of seeking to "harass
me" and Of "impertinence."
Il must tell you to STOP" the
judge said, "or take the conse-
quences."
He did not specify any particular
action a. possible disciplinary
measure.
Marcant0nio Shakes Hands.
When Mr.. Marcantonio left the
stand, he went over and shook
hands with some of the defendants,
who to date have been spectators
at a legal battle over the Federal
jury picking system in this district.
The II, all members of the party's
national board, are accused OF con-
spiracy to advocate the overthrow
of the United States Government.
The defense, in its attempts to
show that poor people and minori-
ties are excluded from Federal jur-
les, sought to question Mr.. Marcan-
tonic about the intelligence and
literacy Of the $4,000 Puerto Ricans
in his New York City district.
Objections Sustained.
The Judge sustained prosecution
objections to such questions. This
drew a barrage of protests from de-
Tense attorneys.
In every court proceeding I have
the judge said, when the
court makes a ruling the lawyers
don't like, they take an exception
and 60 on from there.
But not so here. Perhaps this is
an endeavor to wear me out when
you make arguments as you are
doing now. That is not the proper
conduct of an attorney. 1t may
wind up by breaking me down. I
hope it doesn't. I say to you now,
stop it."
Then, one after another, Defense
Attorneys Louis F. McCabe, Harry
Sacher and George w. Crockett, jr.,
rose to protest the judges statement
and to assert they had no intention
Of harassing him.
Mr.. Marcantonio testified he had
visited the homes of persons in his
district named on three jury panels
and that one Of the veniremen was
3 toolmaker, the rest executives.
The trial was adjourned until
Monday.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Mrs. Louro K. Ridqwoy
Funeral Services Todoy

Funeral services for Mrs. Laura
K. Ridgwsy, mother of Robert H.
Ridgway, former Bureau of Mines
official, were to be held this after
noon in the Wise Funeral Home,
1900 M street NV, with burial in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Ridgway, a frequent visitor
to Washington during the last 20
years, died yesterday in White
Plains. N. Y, after an illness of a
year Her son worked for the Bureau
of Mines for 20 years until his re-
tirement few years ago. He then
moved to Scarsdale, N. Y, and Mrs.
RidgWay came to live with him from
her home in Mandan, N. Oak.
Her husband, Charles Ridgway,
died in 1910. She Is survived by the
son and three grand children, all Of
Scarsdale.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Stocks OFF Fractions
To as Much as s.
In Fresh Selling
BY the Asseeiated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-A new sell.
ing attack walloped the stock market
today following Fridays drop.
Losses of fractions to as much a.
3 points piled up for a wide variety
Of key issues. Business was unusu.
ally fast for Saturday.
Many issues scored new lows fol
1889, notably in the rail and oil
groups. Among them were STANDARD
OIL Of New Jersey, Texas Co., Pacific
Western Oil, Illinois Central, Balti.
more g. Ohio. Southern Pacific ane
New York Central.
Brokerage quarters reported that
the current steep slide in commodity
prices has created widespread defla-
tionary psychology in the financial
district.
In addition, these sources say,
many spectators in commodity fu-
lures have been forced to raise con-
siderable sums Of money to protect
their position. Much of the money
is coming from these "emergency'
sales of stock.
Reports from Wall Street indi-
Gated that buying by group funds
and investment trusts was providing
the market with a moderately COM
Portable cushion.
The bulk of trading again was
supplied mainly by professional ele-
ments. such as traders who usually
operate on a short-term basis and
make a living on quick turnover.
The general public was still on the
sidelines.
Yesterdays sudden drop was
touched of by an announcement
that Creole Petroleum had cut its
dividend. The oil industry has
coped with huge demand 50 sue
cessfully that an excess of produc-
tion has forced price cuts and it is
feared that similar overproduction
may hit other basic industries.
Among the widest losers were
United States Steel, National Steel,
General Motors, Goodrich, Mont
gomery Ward, j. I. Case, Kennecott
Copper. Skelly Oil. st. Louis South
western down 7 points but an in
active issue, Du Pont. United States
Gypsum, American Tobacco, Santa
Fe and Nickel Plate.
Lower in the curb were Cities
Service, Creole Petroleum |off
small fraction, Crosley Motors,
Electric Bond & Share, KAISER
Winnipeg Electric, Pam
coastal Oil, Niagara Hudson Power
and Pantepec Oil.
Bonds turned down with stocks,
but declines were limited.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Editor ? on Staff Face Charges
Of Contempt in Divorce Expose

charged with acting as a lawyer,
using notary stamp and preparing
journal card, a step in divorce pro-
cedure
Mr.. Campbell allegedly helped
prepare the journal entry, which
was placed on Judge Silbert's desk
and which the judge signed although
he never had seen the couple or
heard their case.
Conviction on the contempt charge
could carry $500 fine and 10 days
in Jail.
The Campbells were remarked
yesterday, because Judge Silbert re-
fused to vacate the divorce entry.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Two Bodies Sighted
After Bomber Crashes
With 3 in Louisiana
BY the Asseeioted Press

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5.-Two
bodies and bits of wreckage are all
that have been sighted after a blaz-
ing B-25 bomber with eight men
aboard crashed into Lake Pont-
chartrain.
Capt. M. r. Roth, public relations
oficer at Keesler Air Force Base,
Biloxi, Miss, said after a search at
the crash scene late yesterday:
"All eight men are presumed to
be dead"
He said the plane was from
Keesler, with base personnel and
air students abroad.
The twin-engined craft, streaking
fire, plunged into the mist-shrouded
lake a mile and a half northeast OF
the New Orleans airport.
A thickening fog last night halted
q search, which was to resume at
daybreak with diving operations.
Capt. Roth said the plane was on
q navigational training flight to
Carswell Field, Fort Worth, Tex. 1t
took of at 4:25 pm.
The air traffic control tower at
New Orleans airport said the
bomber radioed % minutes later
that all was well. When the tower
tried to call back at 4:55 pm, there
was no answer.
About that time Oliver Boe, A
year-old fisherman, said he saw
the plane burning as it flew over
near New Orleans.
1T disappeared in the fog and
then there was terrific explosion -
he said.
Nat Pedro, a pilot for the Louisi-
ana Wildlife and Fisheries Depart
ment, flew over the scene and gave
this report:
There was a big oil slick about
a block across. In the middle of
1t were two opened parachutes,
some half-inflated life RATS, two
bodies and scattered debris. It
looked like the men had tried to
jump out of the plane but didn't
have time"
Capt. Roth gave this list of those
aboard: Capt. R. M Madison, pilot,
China Lake, Calf: I'd 1t. w. D.
Vineyard, co-piloJ. Paramount,
Calf; T/Sergt. G. r. Weddle, crew
chief, Biloxi, Miss; Maj. G. w. Gist,
Manhattan, Kans.; Capt. M. M.
Schoonmaker, Hackensack, N. j.;
1st 1t. w. B. Flora, Roanoke, Va;
1st 1t. F. A. Dunphy, Albuquerque,
N. Mex, and Pfc. E. L. McManus,
Port Arthur, Tex.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Alexander Hecht, 81, oFounder'
Of Department Store Firm, Dies
Headed Corporation
II Years; Managed
Original Shop Here

Alexander Hecht, 80, q founder
and former president of The Hecht
Co. Department Store Corp. here,
in Maryland and in New York, died
last night at his home in Baltimore
after a brief Illness.
An active executive who kept in
close touch with all phases of opera
ton of the Washington store which
he helped to found in 1896, Mr..
Hecht was a regular commuter here
for 80 years.
A. partner in his family's store
since he was 81, Mr.. Hecht became
vice president when the family part
nership was dissolved in 1918 and
a corporation was formed. He served
as president from 1885 to 1s47, and
-snce that time had been vice chair
nan OF the Board of Directors. His
nephew, Samuel Hecht, succeeded
him In the presidency.
Ran e-Story Shop Here.
MIR. Hecht was born in Baltimore
January Is, 1867, the sixth of seven
children of Samuel and Babette
Hecht, who lived over their modest
clothing store on Canton avenue
(now Fleet street, in Baltimore.
With his brothers, Emanuel, Never.
Albert and Moses, he early centered
his interests about the family enter
prise.
Gradually the business expanded,
to better quarters and took
on more lines of merchandise. With
the sons as partners it began to|
branch out. Mr.. Hecht personally
the Washington store,
which started as a one-story shop
in the middle of the 500 block of
Seventh street. 1t now occupies the
entire block. The corporations lat
est expansion was the opening of a
Silver Spring store in 1947.
No front Office executive" Mr..
Hecht personally supervised the
w ooiAAAA6 toiA oCOA AC OpC1 dllOIl 4Ol %
years. He boasted that he had
missed the Baltimore-W Washington
rain only seven times. Mr.. Hecht
kept in close touch with both staff
members and customers, personally
down all complaints
brought to him. One of his pleas
Tres was attending store banquets
md presenting 10-to-50-year serv-
ce pins to store veterans, with whom
le loved to reminisce.
Services Tomorrow.
Active until recently, he had been
It the store until several weeks ago.
lie had been an ardent golfer up to
he age of 72, when he gave up the
port and took walks for exercise.
Mr.. Hecht is survived by his
widow, Selma Hellman Hecht, whom
le married in 1918; a daughter, Mrs.
2hyda H. Levi, and three grand
Evening star., 1949-02-05
First New ChrysIer Auto
Since War Put on DispIuy
BY the Assoeioied Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb. S.
The Chrysler Corp. last night un-
yelled its first new Chrysler auto
model since the war.
The company put its new silver
anniversary car on display for deal
ers and newspapermen.
Davis A. Wallace, president of
Chrysler Division of the Chrysler
Corp, said the car features new i'm
proved engine performance and
new type cushioned dashboard.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Two Die as Training Plane
Crashes Near San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. S (P).
"A student ofhcer and a flight in
s6uctor from Randolph Air Force
hase were killed yesterday in the
crash of their T-Y training plane
18 miles north of San Antonio. The
officers were on a routine training
flight.
The dead were identified by Ran
dolph authorities as 1st 1t. Joseph
z. Paqin, 81, of Willamantic, Conn
the instructor-pilot, and I'd 1t
Floyd N. Thompson, q, Renner
q. c., the student officer.
Evening star., 1949-02-05

MARY YCHESS
stroteey-bewore, sir, Of this
smooth, mellow bIend---$l0.S0
Also $3.50. $l4.4o. SIS
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Louis Ends Southern Tour

SAVANNAH, Ga, Feb. (P).-
Champion Joe Louis boxed his thir-
teenth exhibition match here last
night to bring to a close his south
ern tour. His victim was George
Fitch, a former sparring partner.
Evening star., 1949-02-05

Navy carrier use. It had one jet
and two reciprocating engines. The
Navy, which has ordered 28 XAJs
from North American, has not per-
mitted further details of the craft.
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Lankykites savo Klube! /!
Tremtinys

Americas Lietuviu Pilieciq
Klube penktadienio vakarais
gausite skaniu bulviniu bly,
nQ, sviezios zuvies, prie to
visokiu issigerimQ. Klubo
nariai prasomi dazniau prisi-
mint apie savo Kluba.
Dabar jau laikas nariams
ir isigyti naujas 1949 metu
korteles. 6835 Superior ave.
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VISU TAUTYBIU NAUJAKU'
RIU PIKNIKAS

Kataliku Ikurdinimo Taryba
(Catholic Ressttlement CounciD
81 sestadieni, liepos % diena,
rengia piknika visu tautybiu
tremtiniams, apsigyvenusiems
Clevelande, kuriame kviecia da-
lyvauti visus tokius naujaku-
rius, o taip pat ir ju pazistamus
senuosius gyventojus. Piknike
numatoma atskiru tautybiu me-
niniai pasirodymai, zaidimai,
vaises. Tremtiniams dalyvavi-
mas nemokamas.
Piknikas bus Cuyaho g a
Nights Picnic Grove, 1916 East
list St., apie ketvirti mylios j
pietus nuo East SIS gatves gat-
vekario paskutines stoties. Tai
gi East SIS gatve galima nuva-
ziuoti tiesiai j vieta.