davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1949-03-08
miss TrumonGets
Hosty Pudding
CLUB Singing Bid
BY the Associofed Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Mar. g.
Miss Margaret Truman, daughter
of the President, was acclaimed
Our Woman of the Year" today
by the Harvard Hasty Pudding
Club.
The old social and dramatic
club invited her to be "the first
woman in 101 years to sing in a
Hasty Pudding SHOW"
In the letter, signed by Alan
Winslow, club president, Miss
Truman was informed she could
sing anything at all except Yale
song. The clubs 1948 musical. ITO
morrow Is Manana," opens Friday
at the Hasty Pudding Theater
and runs through March 26.
In making public it's invitation
to Miss Truman to sing in at
least one performance, the club
pointed out that for a century
scions of nationally famous fam
lilies have appeared in Hasty Pud-
ding shows.
I'VE feel you are a kindred
spirit" the letter to Miss Truman
said in explaining her choice as
Woman of the Year"
Evening star., 1949-03-08
FIGHTER Biff Jones Held
On Non.Support Charge

Brindley Temple Jones, Wash
ington lightweight boxer who uses
the name Herbert Biff Jones pro-
fessionally. has been charged by
his wife Shirley with nonsupport
Jones, %, surrendered to the
Washington fugitive squad today
on being notified warrant has
been issued by Prince Georges
County Trial Magistrate Alan
Bowie charging him with non
support.
Jones' wife gave her address as
1908 R street. Bradley Heights
The warrant indicated they were
married March 10, 1948. in Seat
Pleasant, Md, and separated sew
eral months later.
After posting bond for appear
ance at a hearing in Municipal
Court tomorrow, Jones said he
planned to fight extradition to
Prince Georges County.
Jones started boxing profess
sionally in 1945 and during the
early part of his career was noted
for his knockout record.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Three White Men CHARGED
With kidnapping Negro
By ths As,eeiotsd Pre,,

OPELOUSAS, La., Mar. g.
Three white men have beer
charged with kidnapping a Negro
who told officers he broke away
after they snatched him from 8
jail and tipped coin to see who
would lynch him.
Sheriff Clayton Guilbeau said
the charges were filed yesterday
against the three "a hours after
the abduction. which brought
swarms of deputies speeding to the
scene.
He said the charges were fled
against Maxile Savoy, Ariel Ledouz
and Edward Miller of near Eunice
La. in this northern fringe o1
the French Cajun' country.
The Negro, Edward Honeycut
%, has been placed in jail al
Baton Rouge, about 40 miles tt
the east Of Opelousas, for safe
keeping.
Honeycut is charged with rape
in a case involving a white woman
District Attorney j. Y. Fontenot
said.
Honeycut gave himself up to q
marshal in Krotz Springs, La.
after he escaped from the white
men on the banks of a river 81
miles away.
Sheriff Guilbeau eaid he be.
lieved only the three men were
involved. Each Is held under
IS. 900 bond.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Sitdown Strike Continued
By 80 Of so Coal Miners
By the Associotsd Press

GALLITZEN, Pa, Mar. g.
Thirty soft coal miners refused
today to leave the mine where
they staged "a sitdown strike.
The sitdown began yesterday
with total of 60 miners partici-
pating. Thirty came to the sur
face last night, but Thomas Knee
committeeman of Local No. 1856
United Mine Workers, said the
others intended Ito stay down
there until this thing is settled.
Mr.. Knee said the miners, en-
ployed by the Argyle Coal Co..
want a more equitable distribu-
ton of work"
The union official said the sit
down resulted from the fact the
company failed to follow a turn
about" system under which two
groups of miners would alternate
working hours every other week
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Extradition HEARING
Due Today for Pair in
Lonely Hearts Staying
Dy the Associated Press

LANSING, Mich, Mar. 8.-The
hour drew near today for Michi-
gan and New York to decide which
shall prosecute in the lonely
hearts" murder drama.
An extradition hearing was
scheduled for this afternoon in
the State Capitol here.
Awaiting the verdict were Ray
mond M. Fernandez. "a. alleged
mail order Romeo, and Mrs. Mar
tina Beck. 20. his companion in
what police called scheme to
blk trusting women.
Three Murders Charged.
Three murderS-two in Michi-
gan and one in New York-are
charged to the pair. New York S
extreme penalty is the electric
chair, Michigan's life imprison-
ment.
Early today it remained to be
determined whether Fernandez
and Mrs. Beck were to be present
at the hearing.
Since last Tuesday they have
been in Jail at Grand Rapids,
near where a cement filled grave
yielded the bodies Of Mrs. Del
phine Downing. 20, and her baby
daughter. Rainell.
In addition, Fernandez and Mrs.
Beck are accused of numbering
Mrs. Janet Fay. so. at Valley
Stream, N. Y.
Fernandez has said he PERSONAL
ly will fight extradition. To Mrs.
Back it made no difference. she
said.
New Evidence Reported.
Police in Mineola, N. Y, claimed
evidence, meanwhile, in support
of stories attributed to the two
defendants regarding Mrs. Fays
killing.
Detectives reported that on an
automobile found in Manhattan
they discovered microscopic mark
ings which matched scrapings
found on . trunk earlier in
Queens.
Fernandez and Mrs. Beck were
said to have told of taking Mrs.
Fay's body in trunk from Valley
Stream to a house in South Ozone
Park. Queens, and burying it in
a basement grave.
Police said information from
Fernandez and Mrs. Beck led to
discovery of the car and trunk.
Previously, the body was found,
also on directions from the two.
police said.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
5 Americans to Leave
Bottle Area in Burmu
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

RANGOON. Burma. Mar. g.
American Baptist mission head.
quarters here announced today
that five Americans are beine
evacuated from the North Burns
town of Maymyo. Heavy fight.
ing is reported there between
government troops and Karer
rebels.
The persons who will be flowr
to Rangoon are Mrs. Eva Kaiser
and her 13-year-old son from
Pennsylvania; Miss Ecco Hunt o1
Iowa, Miss Julia Craft of New Jer.
sey and Miss Julia Parrott Of Los
Angeles.
The British Embassy said 12(
civilians and 40 members of 9
British service mission make VI
the party leaving Maymyo.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
China S Premier Sun
Quits, Smoothing Way
For Talks With Reds
BY the Associated Press

NANKING, Mar. 8.-Premiel
Sun Fo, carryover from the Ma
tionalist regime of retired Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek, quit
today. His resignation opened the
way for a premier more accep-
table to the Communist in peace
talks to end China's civil war.
Gen. Ho Ying-chin, former min
lister of defense, emerged imme-
diately as the most likely to sue
ceed rotund DR.. Sun. The gen.
eral, like Sun, is on the Com
munists' war criminals list, but
is regarded as far more acceptable
to the Reds.
Official government circles gave
Ho the nod as Acting President Ii
Tsung -jen's probable choice. He
would be a compromise among
various Nationalist political fac
tions and would be able to influ-
ence the powerful Whampoa mill
tary clique. (Whampoa is the old
Chinese military academy
Chang Weight Still Felt.
Selection of Ho, it was pointed
out. would weaken the control
over the cabinet by Chang and
other ra-conservative elements
of the Kuomintang Government
Party. Chiang's weight has been
felt in the government despite his
retirement since January 81 at his
ancestral home in Fenghwa.
Ho is said to be closer to Acting
President Ii than to Chang. He
and the Geperalissimo have had
an uneasy truce in recent years.
Suns announcement that he
and his cabinet had resigned came
suddenly at a meeting of the
Legislative Yuan. which has had
his policies under fire. The legis-
lators cheered Suns announce
ment.
Members of the Legislative Yuan
had accused Sun of irregularities
in selling his Marking home to the
Central Bank. Legislators re-
portedly were prepared to level
charges of corruption at Sun if
he had not stepped down.
Took Office November 26.
Sun-whose father was DR.. Sun
Yat-sen, father of the Chinese
Republic stepped into the pre-
miership as Chiang's choice last
November 26. That was during
the. battle of Suchow. Chang S
regime was falling apart under
the cumulative weight of Com
munist victories that gave them
all China north of the Yangtze
River.
Sun and Acting President Ii
had not seen eye to eye. Ii has
been seeking to end China's three
year civil war at almost any price.
Sun had baked at stiff Commu-
mist demands.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Shopowners in Italy
Close in Tax Protest
BY the Associated Press

ROME, Mar. 8-Shopowners
throughout Italy closed their
doors today in a one-day protest
against government taxes, which
they say are too high.
Food stores, restaurants, bars,
coffee houses and barber shops
joined the shutdown at varying
hours throughout the day.
Communicated Italian women
held peace" demonstrations
throughout the country, but the
winters coolest weather kept
many would be demonstrators in
doors and no incidents were re-
ported. The demonstrations were
held to mark international
Women's Day"
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Murder Suspect Asks
Writ Against Paper
By the Assoeiotsd Press

LONDON, Mar. 8.-Attorneys
for John George Haigh, under ar
rest on a charge of murder, asked
the Kings Bench Divisional Court
today for permission to apply for
a writ of attachment against the
editor of the London Daily Mirror
The court announced at the
close of a four-minute hearing
that the motion would be heard
formally next Monday. A writ
of attachment may be used tc
attach the person of any one
against whom contempt Of court
proceedings may later be taken
thus insuring his appearance be-
fore the court.
Haigh is charged with murder
ing Mrs. Olive Roberts Durand-
Deacon, a well-to-do, 69-year-old
widow who disappeared from her
London residential hotel February
1S. Haigh. a manufacturing
executive, was one of her ac-
QualOCanCeS.
Haigh's lawyer, c. r. F. Morris
told the court his application was
made in respect to certain mate
rial published in the Daily Mirror
on March 4. He did not identify
the material.
Mirror editions of March 4 did
not publish the name of Haigh in
any connection. They did report
aspects of Scotland Yards in
vestigation into the disappear
ances of several London residents
These Investigations began al
most simultaneously with the in
vestigation of Mrs. Durand-
Deacon's disappearance.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Seizure Of Newsprint
Begun in Argentina
BY the Assoeioted Press

BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 8.-The
governments threatened seizure
of newsprint was put into effect
here yesterday.
A decree appropriated an esti-
mated 10000 tons, of which $4,000
tons were held by the independent
dailies La Prensa and La Nacion
The decree gave the government
complete control of the importa-
ton and distribution of newsprint
The government said the step was
taken to save scarce foreign ex-
change.
The administration further de-
creed March 10 as the date for q
reduction in the number of pages
of Argentine newspapers. Chiefly
affected will be La Prensa and La
Nacion, which will be limited to
IL pages daily. They have been
printing 16 pages since October.
Previously the two independent
papers, which do not support the
government, averaged so : pages
a day.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Guaranteed Annual Wage
Worth Trying Taft Says
By the Assooioted Press

Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio says the guaranteed annual
wage for labor is worth trying
in some Industries as an aid in
stabilizing the economy.
The co-author of the Taft
Hartley labor law said the idea of
a years guarantee of work for
workers might wreck" some in
dustries but it is worth trying in
more stable ones.
The guaranteed annual wage
contemplates a pledge in busi-
ness or industry to keep operating
the year around. It's proponents
claim it would reassure workers
and hence inspire them to great
er output, and would tend to
stabilize purchasing power.
Opponents of the ioea maintain
such a guarantee in seasonal in
dustries might commit employers
to payroll costs their business
could not sustain. Periods Of
guaranteed work shorter than q
year are sometimes suggested.
Senator Taft's comment came
during his participation in Mu-
tuals American Forum Of the Air
with Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
-WaI|gren Team
Reported in Senate;
Hard Fight Forecast
BY the Associated Press

A Republican Southern Demo-
crat team was reported forming
today to bottle up the appoint
ment of Mon c. Wallgren as
chairman of the National Re-
sources Security Board.
If the coalition jells as expected.
Mr.. Wallgren may face Senate
fight rivaling the 1916 battle over
President Truman's nomination.
later withdrawn-of Edwin w.
Pauley for Undersecretary Of the
Navy.
Associates said Mr.. Truman isn't
likely to take lying down that
sort of fight against his former
senatorial colleague and fishing
trip friend.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee takes up the Wallgren
matter again today with clear
signs that Southern Democratic
members hold the balance OF
power.
Meanwhile, Senator Cain. Re-
publican, of Washington, Mr..
Wallgren's chief Senate foe, is ex-
pected to take the Senate floor for
lengthy attack on the nomina-
ton. Southern Senators, fighting
an anti i-fillbuster rules change,
agreed to yield the floor to Sena-
tor Cain.
The Southerners on the Armed
Services Committee are expected
to ask for a postponement despite
pleas by administration leaders
from Vice President Barkley down
the line-for early approval of the
appointment.
Six Republican committee men,
bers are understood to have
agreed to vote not only for re-
lection of the nomination, but to
put it in committee cold storage.
This could be done by motion
to table the nomination.
Because of the 7-to-6 division
on the committee between Demo-
Gratis and Republicans, Mr.. Wall
gren's foes need only one more
vote to table the nomination.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Tax-Batt|ing Jeweler
And Wife Kill Selves
In Canadian Home
By the Associated Press

PEMBROKE, Ontario. Mar. g.
The case of Pembroke's tax
battling jeweler came to a tragic
end yesterday when George j.
Simpson and his wife were found
shot to death in their apartment.
Police said it was double suicide
Mr.. Simpson. 48, who had staged
a one man fight with the Federal
Revenue Department since he
opened q new store here last No.
vember, was found dead in bed
with his wife Rachel.
Both had been shot through the
head by a .22-caliber rifle which
police found clutched in Mr..
Simpsons hand.
Police Find Note.
Police Chief Dan Carnegie pro-
duced note found in the couple S
apartment. 1t read:
Thanks to those who have be-
friended us. May those I have
hurt forgive me. Good by and
God bless the righteous"
Mr.. Simpson, a former Baptist
preacher who came to Pembroke
several years ago. recently paid
heavy fines to the Revenue De-
partment for failure to collect the
federal Is per cent luxury tax on
his merchandise.
Throughout the trials in De-
cember and January on charges
brought by the department, he
volubly conducted his own de-
fense, insisting. that he refused to
be an unpaid tax collector for the
federal government.
Sold Tax-Free Jewelry.
At the same time windows in
his shop were plastered with signs
advertising tax-free jewelry, which
he continued to sell until the
final sentence was brought down
early last month. He was fined
S2,777 and S100 costs and ordered
to pay the government $3.50 in
back taxes.
Since then, he had abandoned
his tax-free policy. Vernon C..
Naumon, assistant deputy revenue
minister, said the tax and fines
had been paid up within a few
dollars" Mr.. Simpson said he
planned to appeal to the Supreme
Court.
DR.. j. D. Cotram, the Simpsons
physician, said Mr.. and Mrs.
Simpson had been "in a state
bordering on nervous breakdown"
for some weeks.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Recently PoroIed Suspect Held,
Admits Staying Virginia Farmer

staggered and fell on the mattress
blood flowing from his chest.
Mrs. Brown heard voice from
outside the window:
Cut out the lights and come
out here"
Tells of Trying to Escape.
She saw shadowy figure
standing at one end of the porch
She went to the other end, bu,
the man grabbed her arm and
she broke away and fled.
Il was wearing white Slip
she said, land I tried to tear ii
off so I wouldn't show up so much
in the dark. But I tripped at a
woodpile behind the house, and
he grabbed me again"
The man raped her. after which
she broke away and, clad only
in a brassiere. ran quarter Of
mile to the home of her
brother -in-law, Clarence Brown.
Two panes of glass in a window
near the door of the farmhouse
was broken by the assailant,
either with bullets or his fist.
Injury Laid to Splinter.
Mrs. Brown was treated for the
head injury by DR.. Stringfellow.
who believed the wound was not
made by a bullet. but possibly by
a flying splinter.
The slain mans wife told her
story while resting at the home of
her father, John Fincham. who
lives three miles from Culpeper
on the Sperryville road. She ap-
peared to be groggy and dazed as
she talked to newsmen.
Her husband, a native Of Gull
peper County. was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lafayette Brown. Friends
said he served in the Navy during
the war.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Mrs. Newton Weathersby
Granted Limited Divorce

A limited divorce on grounds
of cruelty was granted to Mrs.
Ruby I. Weathersby, beauty par
lor owner, by Judge Edward A..
Tamm in District Court today.
Her husband, Newton P.
Weathersby, is secretary treasurer
and assistant to the president Of
District Lodge No. A, Interna-
tional Association Of Machinists.
Mrs. Weathersby, who lives at
1101 West Virginia avenue NE.
testified last Thursday that her
husband had beaten her. Mr..
Weathersby denied the charge,
and witnesses yesterday testified
in his behalf.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Continued From First Page)

in England while serving in the
Army's Transportation Corps
Sentenced to serve 20 years. he
was paroled last October l from
Atlanta Penitentiary. He told
police he also shot a man at the
time of the attack in England.
One of a family of II, Brown was
described as 5 feet 6 inches tall,
weighing about 140 pounds.
The fugitive's home is about 6
miles from that of the slain man.
a tenant farmer on the 600-acre
dairy farm of William Smith on
route 8, S miles east of Culpeper.
After first reporting Mrs. Brown
had been raped, police would not
comment on that aspect of the
crime. County Coroner James L.
Stringfellow said his examination
was inconclusive.
Victim Tells of Attack.
But Mrs. Brown told this story
to reporters:
She was lying on the bed with
her two children, Nancy, 3. and
Bobby, 8 months, and her husband
was sleeping on a mattress near
the stove.
About 2::30 m. she was awak-
ened by what sounded like a shot.
Her head was hurting, and she
felt blood running from a wound
in the back of it.
When she called to her husband,
he crossed the room to turn on
the lights. There was a shot.
which apparently missed, then
there was another and Mr.. Brown
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Cruiser Milwaukee
Returns Home After
Soviet Naval Service
By ChorIes J. Yorbroueh
ca c.-SS r~~>J~..

LEWES, Del, Mar. 8.-The
Navy's honorary exile-the cruiser
Observation-Disclosures from Rus
sia today after five years under
the Soviet flag.
Sent to the Red Navy in 1914
as a gesture of amity, the 1000
ton cruiser arrived at Overfalls
Lightship this morning.
The lightship is about 10 miles
east of here.
Russian Transport Awaited.
Actual and official return OF
the vessel to United States Gus
tody is predicated on the arrival
of the Russian transport Molotov
which will take off the Russian
crew.
Whereabouts of the Molotov
have not been disclosed. The only
man here who has those answers
Rear Admiral E. G. Glink pv
Soviet naval attache in Washing
TOMS saying nothing.
1t appears likely that an Ameri.
can crew will not go aboard tt
take the ship on to Philadelphia
until at least Thursday or Friday
Until then, Capt. Joseph Lademar
of the United States Navy, will be
the only American to set foo
aboard her.
Meanwhile, this historic town
which was old when the British
fleet bombarded it in the War o1
1872, is impatiently awaiting the
sight of the stranger"
800 Russian Crewmen.
! Capt. Lademan said that NJ
request has been received from
Soviet officials to permit the esti.
mated 800 Russian crewmen tt
come ashore during the possible
three-day wait at sea. He said il
such a request is made, it viii
be granted.
The vessel was turned over tt
the Soviet Navy in April, 1914
and for a brief time served as 6
classroom for the Russian officer.
and men who took over the ship
Whether she ever fired a shot
during the war while in Russian
possession is not known.
The old Milwaukee is the frs,
of 586 American naval vessels
loaned the Russians during the
war to come back to the United
States.
AS the vessel reached Ameri-
can waters the State Depart
ment was reported putting the
final touches to a new note tc
Moscow demanding return of al
least 81 other veSsels-28 frig-
ates and 3 ice breakers.
The Soviet government prom
ised in writing last December tc
return these 81 ships-after si1
vigorously Worded American de.
mands-but thus far has failed tt
keep this promise.
After the cruiser is inspected
she probably will be officially re.
tired from active duty because
modern advances in warship con
struction have far outdated it.
Renamed Murmansk by tn,
Russians, it was mainly used tt
guard the vital sea lanes to thu
key Russian port of the same
name. Navy Department officials
understand it was used also tt
hunt down German sea raiders.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Pope Plus Appoints Belgian
Apostolic Delegate 10 Japs
By the Assoeioisd Prsss

VATICAN CITY, Mar. 8.-Pope
Plus XII has appointed Msgr
Massimiano de Furstemberg to be
apostolic delegate to Japan.
Msgr. de Furstemberg will be
proposed by the Pope in secret
consistory next Monday as titulal
Archbishop of Patio.
Bern in Heerlem, Belgium, Oc-
tober % 1904, Msgr. de ,Furstem-
berg was rector of the Pontiflcal
Belgian College in Rome. He was
ordained a priest August 8, 1881
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Lines Busy With Antlers

BOZEMAN, Mont. (P.-Snow
go SO deep in the Three Forks
area this winter that buck deer
got his antlerS tangled in tele-
phone wires. After a struggle he
broke free, dragging several hun
dred yards of wire up a hillside
and disrupting service over a
wide area.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
U. N. Group Will Confer
with Indonesiun Chiefs
BY the Associofsd Press

BATAVIA, Java, Mar. ga
United Nations commission will
confer Thursday with Indonesiar
Republican leaders on Bangka
Island, a spokesman said today
The Republicans, including
President Soekarno and Premier
Mohammed Hatta, have been de-
tanned there since shortly after
the Dutch seized their capital OF
Jogjakarta December 10 in what
was called q police action"
Evening star., 1949-03-08
Shells in Oven Futul

HAMBURG, Germany (P.-A
housewife in Helmstedt found her
cake form was too light, so
weighted 1t down with two shells.
She then pushed it into the hot
oven. In the ensuing explosion
her 10-year-old son was killed
and she lost q leg.
Evening star., 1949-03-08
FOUND.

KEYS, 8. in brown leather holder; near
Baptist Church, 18th and z. Capitol. Call
at 13 18th St Sc.
RETRIEVER. Call PRINCE GEORGES
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE. WA. 1879.
ST. BERNARD DOG. Please call THE
RESCUE LEAGUE, WA. 3479.
SILVER RING; name Of country, date and
Initial engraved. North 1927.
ONE HAND DRILL, between 9th and 7th
sts. NV. GEORGE M. DAVIS. 2261 18th
a. NV