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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12

his wife saw the vehicle bearing
down upon her and tried to evade
it.
There was a loud crash as the
car hit her." he related. 1T
dragged her IS feet before 1t
stopped"
Miss Mitchell started out to be
a newspaper feature writer and
wound up by penning romantic
novel of the War Between the
States. Gone With the Wind"
her only book, has been translated
into a dozen foreign languages
and has sold nearly 100000
copies.
1t came out in 1896. II years
after she went to work as a girl
on the Atlanta Journal and II
after she married Marsh. It
drew immedmiate acclaim and in
1887 was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for the years best novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
7 GIs Get Jail Terms
After. Invading Lawn
And Starting Fight

Two Fort Myer soldiers today
were fined and given jail sentences
after having precipitated a fight
with a family gathered on an
Arlington lawn to escape last
nights heat. A third soldier for
feited collateral.
Pvt. Lawrence William Stuckey,
%, was fined a total of $50 and
costs and sentenced to 80 days in
jail for drunkenness, disorderly
conduct and three charges of as
sault, one involving policeman.
Pvt. George Warren Seames, 20,
was fined a total of $50 and costs
and sentenced to 60 days for dis
orderly conduct and assault.
Pvt. Thomas Eugene Brookover,
10, forfeited $13.75 collateral for
disorderly conduct.
According to testimony before
Judge Harry r. Thomas in County
Court, the trio. carrying a bottle,
stopped in the driveway at the
home of Mrs. Margaret s. Yates,
81, 1860 South Monroe street last
night. With her was her son, r.
Windsor Yates. %, his wife and
17-month-old daughter and the
elder Mrs. Yates daughter and her
family. Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest M.
Kelley and their 5-year-old son
of Gainesville, Fla.
When the soldiers talked loudly
and extensively, Mr.. Yates and
Mr.. Kelley spoke to them and q
fight ensued in which the elder
Mrs. Yates was knocked to the
ground. The younger Mrs. Yates
fled screaming after one Of the
soldiers grabbed for her child, and
Mr.. Yates also was knocked to
the ground. Rocks were thrown in
the melee and neighbors called
police.
Police obtained description of
the men and arrested them few
blocks away. On the way to jail.
Stuckey. in the front seat. started
assaulting Policeman James Man
gan. Sergt. j. H. Marcy, driv-
ing the cruiser, halted and sub
dued Stuckey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Airport Temperatures Average
ForD:C., Weather Bureau Says

! During the closing days of July
when the temperature at the air.
port hit SO degrees on five days
out of six, it was SO in Alexandria
81 at Twenty fourth and M; SO in
Brookside Manor, Md, SO at the
National Aboretum and So at Sol
dier's Home.
THE Airport temperature read
ing is as good an everage as we
can get for Washington" the
Bureau chief declares.
If you would take the sum
total of the population and have
each one observe the temperature
at the same hour at his location
| it would be closer to that obtained
at the airport than any other
figure"
Yesterday saw appearance OF
the monthly Genealogical sum-
mary for July. Under miScellan-
eous phenomena, it lists:
Freeze: Light killing O.
But to prove Mr.. Reichelderfer's
point. here are some maximum
July averages from the vicinity:
Airport Station 1871 degrees;
Twenty-fourth and M streets N
w., 90.1; Alexandria. 1922; Bright
wood, 81.6; Delecarlia, D. c., 80.4;
National Arboretum 500; Soldier
Home 1872; District Heights. 1913
degrees.
The official Airport station
showed IA days with temperatures
over 30 degrees and 81 nights
with temperatures over 20. "r'
An average of the day and
night temperatures at Twenty
fourth and M streets shows 81.4
degrees-the hottest July on rec
ord. Previous record was ,81.l, de-
grees set in 1871. 81 :, s,.siz
The official station at the Air
port, however, showed an even 81
degrees average for the month.
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Bradley
Continued From First Page.)

mander in Europe and his COL
legues had accomplished on the
1851 defense budget, a task that
Gen. Eisenhower will continue.
Mr.. Truman said that. he was
not yet ready to announce the
new Army chief Of staff. Gen.
j. Lawton Collins, the vice chief
has been prominently mentioned
for the appointment. .x
In his new job Gen. Bradley,
l56, who has been chief Of stafl
since February Z, 1913, will not
have any command authority or
even a vote with the joint chiefs
operating heads Of the Army
Navy and Air Force-but he will
have vast prestige.
Admiral Denfeld, So. succeeded
Admiral Nimitz as operations
chief December is, 1947, when
the latter retired after a two
year term. Previously the term
of that Office had been for four
years, the same as those Of the
Army and Air Force chiefs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Congress 10 Try Again
Today for Agreement
On FOREIGN Aid Bill
By the Asseeiofed Press

: The battered Foreign Recovery
program was snarled today in an
other dispute among the Nations
lawmakers.
Senate and House members
failed to come even close to agree
ment yesterday on the big money
measure which already Is six
weeks behind schedule. They did
agree to make another try this
afternoon.
The multibillion-dollar program
was taken into conference after
both houses approved slightly diff
ferent versions.
Senate Cut Starts Wrangle.
The Senate made a 10 per cent
cut in the money total voted by
the House. Then it tackled on a
few amendments of its own. This
started the wrangle.
Conferees came out of the first
meeting without having agreed
even tentatively on a single item
in the measure.
The House members, one Sena-
tor said, refused even to discuss a
Senate amendment providing
$4,000 for a congressional
: watchdog committee to make a
check on foreign spending.
Insists on No Funds.
, The House earlier had voted to
insist on no funds for the watch
dog group headed by Senator Nc
Carran, Democrat, of Nevada.
The House acted at the request
Of Chairman Cannon of the House
. Appropriations Committee - and
one of the conferees.
!. When House members baked
at the watchdog amendment. it
/ was said, then the Senate men,
bers angrily said nothing should
be discussed.
But after long argument they
went on to an informal discussion
of other sections of the bill.
In the money sections of the
measure, these are the differences:
The House voted SO ,568, 100000 for
the Economic Cooperation Ad-
ministration-to be spent in 1012
months if necessary. But the
Senate put the program back on
a fiat 12-month basis. voting So
628, $3.50, 900 in cash plus $150,000.-
900 in contract authority.
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as much as 70 hours before x-rays
could be taken.
Police charged the taxi driver
28-year-old Hugh D. Gravett-
with drunken driving, speeding
and driving on the wrong side
of the street.
They quoted him as saying he
tried to avoid striking Miss Mitch
ell and would have missed her
if she had not run back toward
the curb"
The vehicle struck the author
in front of the Peachtree Arts
Theater, not far from their Peach
tree street home.
Mr.. Marsh, advertising manager
for the Georgia Power Co., said
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Town Council 10 Study
Pantheist Seating After.
Oath Law Is Held Void

The Brentwood (Md) Town
Council must decide Thursday
night whether to seat j. Milton
Stanford as a Council member as
ordered by Circuit Judge Charles
C. Marbury yesterday or to appeal
the decision to the Maryland
Court of Appeals.
Mr.. Stanford, a 40-year-old in
vestigator for the Civil Service
Commission, was unoppoSed for
reelection june 81. But on July
z when he was to be sworn in for
his new term, he told the Coun-
Gil he could not take the oath of
Office because of his religious
views as a pantheist.
When the Council refused to
seat him, Mr.. Stanford asked the
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court to order the Council to dc
so. It was on his petition that
Judge Marbury ruled.
In his ruling, Judge Marbury
declared unconstitutional a 95-
year-old Maryland law requiring
public officials to swear to a be-
lief in Christianity.
A pantheist is one who believes
the universe is God, but who
does, not accept the doctrine of a
future state of rewards and pun
ishments.
The Town Council refused to
seat Mr.. Stanford when he re-
fused to take the oath of Office
after learning it contained a sent
ence, II believe in the Christian
religion"
Judge Marbury found that the
1854 law requiring a public official
to swear to belief in the Christian
religion and a hereafter was
superseded by the State Constitu-
ton Of 1867.
The 1867 Constitution estab-
lished the oath to be taken by
public officials and it mentions
neither God nor religion.
In addition, Judge Marbury
quoted Article 81 of the Constitu-
tons Declaration Of Rights, which
says:
THAT no religious test ought
ever to be required as a qualifica-
ton for any Office or profit or trust
in this State other than a decla-
ration Of belief in the existence
of God: nor shall the Legislature
prescribe any other oath of Office
other than the oath prescribed in
this Constitution.
Judge Marbury concluded by
saying that Mr.. Stanford is en-
titled to be seated in the Town
Council on taking the official oath
Of Office as found in the State
Constitution.
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Son Finds Baltimore Man
Hanged, Wife StranqIed
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. IA IT.
year-old boy came home last
night and found his mother stran-
! gled and his father hanging from
a water pipe in the basement OF
their home. Police said 1t ap-
parently was murder and suicide.
The man, Walter B. Myers, was
Ia 57-year-old contractor. His wife.
Mrs. Irma Myers, IS, was found
sprawled on the kitchen floor, her
head crushed and rope twisted
about her neck. A shattered.
blood-stained bottle was found
near the body.
Authorities said Myers throat
had been slashed with a straight
razor.
The bodies were found by their
son, Charles Lee Myers.
The geographic center Of North
America is at Winnipeg, Canada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
By Charles. Yorbrouqh

If you think it has been hotter
here than the Weather Bureau
announces, you're right.
But for what cooling influence
it may have on the hot weather
fighters who wrap themselves ur
In self-pity and suffer accordingly
the bureau has an answer-"av-
erages."
The official weather station in
Washington is at National Airport
because of economic necessity, but
it is close enough ito be repre-
sentative of Washington even
under the present abnormal con-
ditions."
This comes from the head man
Francis w. Reiche1derfer. CHIEF
of the United States Weather Blu
reau, who admitted, in passing
that the heat got him yesterday
afternoon. too.
He freely admits there will be
places in Washington which show
higher temperatures than those at
the official station at the airport
There are also cooler ones in
Washington he added.
For instance, on July 5, when
the Airport station registered So
degree to tie the years maximum,
the Weather Bureaus recording
thermometer at Twenty-fourth
and NJ streets, NV. was showing
100 degrees. -,,--, 4tf.7 & old
!. Sat the same time, twas 93s at
Soldiers Home, 80 in Alexandria,
90 in Annandale and 50 at Wav-
erly Hills. ...
Yesterday. when the new heat
mark Of the season jumped to 81
degrees on the official thermon-
eter at the airport, it was SO de-
grees at the Bureaus Twenty
fourth and M street Offices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Kolorumu Playground
Will Open Tonight

Dedication of a new field house
and official opening Of the Kalo-
rama Playground by the Recrea.
ton Department. viii be held at
1880 o'clock tonight at Columbia
and Kalorama roads, NV.
Mrs. Harvey Wiley. Of the Kalo-
rama Citizens Association, viii
raise q flag. Talks will be given
by Fletcher 8. Tilton, president
Iof the association, and Harry s.
Wender, chairman Of the Recre-
alton Board.
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as result OF GQe COIIlulIttec III
quiry.
But later on Mr.. Flanagan pro-
duced memorandums from Mr..
Hunts files showing that Mr.. Hunt
had personally introduced DR.,
Armitage to both officers.
Mr.. Rogers, reading from Miss
Ortmeyer's testimony, built up
this picture of the matter Of Gen
Watts comments on his possible
successors:
Gen. Watt came to Mr.. Hunts
Office and dictated the memos to
Miss Ortmeyer. Later, he corrected
and revised a memorandum on
himself. Miss Ortmeyer Subse-
quently took the memorandum on
the officers to Gen. Vaughan's
Office.
She was asked why she delivered
the memorandum to the White
House. q
Knew He Had Appointment.
IT knew Gen. Watt had an ap-
pointment with Gen. Vaughan
and I knew this was information
Gen. Watt wanted Gen. Vaughan
to have before the appointment,
Miss Ortmeyer was quoted as
testifying.
Under repeated questioning
Miss Ortmeyer said she didn't
know whether she got her in
structions from Mr.. Hunt or Gen.
Watt.
Mr.. Rogers in the questioning
said, II gather it must have been
one of the two"
1T must have BEEN" Miss Ort-
meyer replied. s -
She said she did not recall how
she learned there was to be a
White House appointments
She did testify, ho&evaks that
the conference. between Gen.
WGitt land Gen. Vaughan was
held on the day the papers were
delivered and that this Vas the
only. time she delivered papers to
Gem Vaughan. II
Senator Mundt, Repub1 ean, Of
South Dakota, after studying the
Watt reports on his fellow Of
f1cers, said with a smile that max
ing public the memorandum
might be dangerous to the ma
tional defense. It will give the
Russians the idea we only have
one good general. and he is
suspended"
Mccarthy Raps "Combination."
Mr.. Rogers reminded him that
the official fitness reports made
by Gen. Watt "are in no way
comparable to the information he
submitted to Gen. Vaughan" The
Russians, Mr.. Rogers said, should
not be too impressed with the
memorandum.
On an angrier note, Senator
Mccarthy, Republican, of Wis
consin commented that "the
combination Of Hunt and Vaughan
was almost invincible. Between
them they appointed the housing
sxpediter and now they were go
ing to decide which Army general
should be chief of the Chemical
Corps"
This was a reference to testi-
mony given earlier by Housing
Expediter Tighe Woods that Mr..
Hunt introduced him to the for
mer housing expediter which led
to his joining the housing agency.
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Miss Mitchell and her husband
were en- route to a neighborhood
movie theater. Mr.. Marsh said
he was about a step behind his
wife. Otherwise he, too, would
have been injured.
Mr.. Marsh has had a heart
ailment for several years and was
advised by a physician to leave
the hospital and go home and
rest.
One inferno said it might be
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sign OF a Skull
fracture. A deer
cash was in
hicted alon 8
the base Of her
skull.
After nearly
four hours OF
unconS c lou S :
ness, the 49,
year-old novel
ISL was able tC
n1utter, though
in c o h erently,
W h e n in =
terneS quer1ec
"PepgVo"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12

Haiti and Liberia are the only
Negro republics in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Watt

Continued From First Page.)
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23

luncheon Sunday noon, according
to an official announcement.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23
News From BAYOU cAsoTTE
Sister Brother
Reunited After
27-Year Lapse
BY Mrs. Louis Linder

At a family reunion in Louis
vile, Mrs. w. T. Wood met for
the first time in 81 years her
brother, Henry Kennedy, Seattle.
Wash. The reunion was at the
home of OF Mrs. Woods mother.
Jesse Tillman, Irby and Ben
Tillman, Beaumont, Tex, spent
the weekend with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Tillman.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Evans Wis
tied Jackson Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bosarge
and Mrs. Lee D. Clouder, Bayou
La Batre, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.. Under.
Felix Walker, Gulfport, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. William Waller last
week.
Miss Mary Jean Vice, Pasca-
goula, visited Misses Shirley Wise
and Nora Wilkerson.
Returns To Bling School
Monroe Ugas has returned to
the school for the blind in Jack
son.
Mrs. Council Myriek, Ellisville.
visited her daughter, Mrs. A. H.
Under, Jr.
E. A. Brown, employed in Blu
ras, La, visited his family over
the weekend.
Mrs. A. X. Under returned
from a visit with her son and
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Under
Gulfport.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. King are
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23

the speaker drew graphic word
pictures of them all. He conclud-
ed by commenting the club on
its work towards world-unifica-
ton and possible avoidance Of an
other world war.
Miss Wright Guest
Miss Katherine Wright, recent
ly home from Atlantic City where
she was runner up in the Miss
America contest recited "Hagar"
which she gave at the pageant a.
the close of the contest.
Mrs. Hermes Gautier, first pres
ident of the club which she did
much to organize, and now presi-
dent of the MFWC, and to whom
the yearbook is dedicated, gave
a short talk AS did Thomas r..
Wells, superintendent of city
schools and Mrs, Helen White
Gentry, teacher of Spanish at the
high school. A group of her stu
dents. Misses Joan Cox, Gather
inc Lockard, Mary Seabrook and
Carol Fox, were introduced.
Other guests we're Mesdames
r. c. Callahan, Marvin Colmer
and Ida Granger.
Mrs. Bacot Presides
Mrs. L. II. Bacot occupied the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23
Clay Shaw Of New Orleans Is Guest
Speaker Before Woman's Club Meet

Clay Shaw, managing director
of the international Trade Mart
at New Orleans was speaker be-
fore the Pascagoula Woman's
club at its first l949-50 meeting
at the Community Activities
building last Thursday.
Mr.. Shaw gave a colorful and
delightfully."- informal talk on the
several Latin-American countries
that he recently visited with
Mario Bermudez, director of In
ternational House at New Orleans.
Cuba, he finds, while still dis
tinctly Spanish, is in danger of
losing its atmosphere by becom-
ing too Americanized. Haiti, on
the contrary. will have none of
foreign innovations and it is still
possible to witness voodoo dances
at an inn high up in the noun
tains.
Puerto Rico looks like a
crumpled piece of green parch-
ment paper carelessly thrown on
a very blue sea. until one starts
down to the airport,
Venezuela is the most prosper
Gus because of its oil and Column
bia has one of the most beautiful
cities he has ever seen, said Nj.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23
Mrs. ]. E. Presnell.
Former Huzel Rolls.
Dies In Birmingham

Mrs. John E. Presnell, Of Ems
ley, Ala. died at West End Bap-
fist hospital in Birmingham FRI
day.
Mrs. Presnell, the former Hazel
Rolls, was daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Orie Rolls of Pasca-
Roula and granddaughter of the
late R. B. Grant. She spent part
Of her girlhood in Moss Point.
She is survived by her husband
and one daughter. Mrs. A. O..
Brentz and two grandchildren Of
San Marco, Tex, and a sister,
Mrs. II. H. Hasten, Birmingham.
Funeral services were held
from Luquine chapel. Birming-
ham, Saturday afternoon, with in
terment in Oakland cemetery.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23
Red Cross Groups
Sew Disoster Flags

Red Cross committees are at
work in Ocean Springs. Moss
Point and Pascagoula making 10
disaster flags.
The flags, 4 by 6 feet, will be
used to mark places of safety and
where Red Cross work is carried
on during disasters.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Robert Fl
Chain has been named chairman
of home service for the county
chapter.
Chairman Of the flag commit
tee in Ocean Springs is Mrs. G.
j. Steelman. Her group will make
six of the flags, as will the groups
in Moss Point and. Pascagoula.
Working with Mrs. ]. F. Taylor,
Moss Point chairman, are six
members of the Baptist WMU -
Mesdames K. w. Burnham, M. c.
Stevenson, Joe DeAngelo, w. II.
Nelson, Jr., and Will Allen, and
Miss Adah Head.
Pascagoula chairman is Mrs. r.
c. Johnson with Mrs. S. B. Me
Twain vice chairman. Workers
are Mesdames Tom Gallaspy,
Homer Miller, w. j. Hill and J.
T. Hill.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23
Mesdumes Seely
And Coulter Will
Attend BGPW Meet

Mrs. Warren Seeiy, president
of the Business and Professional
Women's club, will attend the ex-
ecutive committee meeting of the
organization in Jackson tomor-
row and Sunday.
Mrs. Josie Gautier has been in
vited by Mrs. Mary D. Cain, state
president of the B&PW, to bring
a display of her shell jeWelry and
make a talk at the meeting.
The meeting will end with a
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chair for the first time since her
installation as president at the
closing meeting in the spring.
She gave a short address of well
come and introduced the special
guests after which she turned
the meeting over to Mrs. r. S.
Chain, program chairman, who
explained the aim of the club for
this year and outlined its program.
Both Mrs. Chain and Mrs. Ba-
cot expressed gratitude for the
assistance given the club by the
International Mart and Interna-
tional House officials, which prac-
tically assured a well rounded
program of study.
They spoke of the flags of the
81 Spanish American nations
which made colorful the back
ground of the speakers desk as
having been secured from the
same source, as we're the maps,
posters and other wall adorn-
ments. During the business period
it was voted to buy an oxygen
tent for the children's ward at the
county hospital.
Following the program, the
~hostesses, Mesdames John Cole,
Harold Lee, Elizabeth Latady, N.
l.. Hatten. Travis Avara and j. H.
Simpson, served trays of refresh
ments with menus written in
Spanish.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23
I'LL TAKE THREE
I LOVE RADISHES

Casino, N. S. W, Australia -
(AP)-A radish which sounds as
if il should have come from the
celebrated Mowbray Swamp, Tas-
mania = where they grow tur-
nips up to four feet long and still
edible - has been reported here.
1t weighed "A lbs, and was one
of Is, the others nearly as big. j.
Goldsmith produced these mon
sters in his backyard garden.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23

visiting their son, Lester King.
in California.
Herman Under visited his
mother, Mrs. A. II. Under Sunday
Mrs. Under now is visiting her
son, Leo Under in Kreole.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23
New Orleans
Symphony Orchestra
Msssimo Freccia. Conductor
Tuesday. February 9. 1850
All Attractions In
Murphy Auditorium
Mobile
A. 0:lS q. m.

Tickets for all three attractions.
orchestra and balcony. $3.50. all
all taxes included. at lly's Music
Store. 3cn Dauphin Street. or
Jesse Franch Company. IL s.
Joachim Street. Mobile. or by mail
order from Theatre Associates.
p. o. Box 1891. Mobile 6. Ala
bama. When ordering by mail.
please enclose self addressed
stamped envelope for return of
tickets. All seats reserved.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23

The u. s. population increased
20 per cent between 1924 and
1919.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-23

Frozen sea water loses its salt
through crystalization.