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Evening star., 1949-07-14
Special oispoteh 10 The Stor

PURCELLVILLE, Va, July IA
Mrs. Esther Clapham McGavack,
88. widow of John Thomas Nc
Gavack and a Purcellville resident
since 1925. died at her home here
yesterday after a long illness.
Mrs. McGavack, native Of
Lovettsville. Va, and former resi-
dent of Waterford, Va, was active
in the Purcellville Garden Club,
the Home Interest Club and the
Catoctin Presbyterian Church Of
Waterford.
Surviving Mrs. McGavack, whose
husband died in 1941, are a daugh-
ter, Miss Alice McGavack of WASH
ington; four sons, Henry c. Nc
Gavack, New York; DR.. John Nc
Gavack. Leonia, N. j.; DR.. Thomas
Hodge McGavack. New York, and
Louis M. McGavack. Waterford.
-Four grandchildren and one great
grandchild also survive.
Funeral services will be held in
Purcellville tomorrow. Burial will
be in Union Cemetery, Lovetts-
vile.
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Bombay Funeral Held
For 13 U, 5. Writer'S
Killed in Air Crash
By the Associotsd Press

BOMBAY, July 14.-Funeral
services for victims of the Royal
Dutch OKLM plane crash in
which IS persons perished Tues
day were held today as monsoon
rains flooded the city for the
fourth straight day.
1t was a simple ceremony at
tended by American Ambassador
10y Henderson. high Indian Off
cials and the Dutch, Chinese and
American consuls.
Services were conducted by rep
resentatives of the Catholic, Prot
eStant and Jewish faiths.
Sixty-five wreaths were placed
at one end of the town hall. They
were gifts of the Indian govern
ment.
Ambassador Henderson identi-
fed another body today-that of
Vincent Mahoney. one of the 13
American correspondents killed
The number of bodies brought to
the morgue now totals AZ. Two of
the nine bodies recovered yester-
day were those of women.
A search for three bodies still
missing continued about the foot
of Ghatkopar Hill. where the big
kim plane crashed and burned.
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Woman, 81, Facing
Eviction From Home
Found UnSanitary

Mrs. Camilla Suikerbuik. 81,
whose house at 1441 Girard
street NE, also is occupied by two
other aged people. three dogs and
five cats, today was scheduled to
receive a first notice of condemna-
ton of the property on grounds it
is unsanitary
The District Board for Condem-
nation of Unsanitary Buildings
sent her the notice yesterday. She
now will have 10 days in which to
show cause why the structure
should not be condemned. or to
ask for a hearing. Otherwise
the board will issue it's order which
will make it illegal to occupy the
one and one-half story brick
house.
A retired Veterans Administra-
ton charWoman with % years of
Government service, Mrs. Suiker-
bulk bought the house about 80
years ago. She said she receives
$68 monthly pension which started
when she left VA when 68 years
old.
Living in the place at $38
monthly rent for room and board
are Joseph Bury, IS, carpenter
who receives $43 monthly in re-
lief from the District, and Nelson
Kagol, SO, a gardener who also
receives the same.
The house is situated on a hill.
Trees and weedy growth hide it
from the street. A long series of
rickety wooden steps lead to the
entrance from the street. The
house contains a kitchen, dining
room and four bedrooms.
The dining room table was COW
cred with old newspapers, and
Mrs. Suikerbuik said that white
spots on the floor were made when
a plasterer recently worked on the
ceilings in making repairs which
might forestall condemnation PRO-
ceedingS.
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Survivor of Press Group Recalls
Hiqh Liqhts of Indonesiion Tour

all of our days at Batavia. We
| talked about our families and our
work at home. Burton was loaded
down with presents for his chill
dren. He had bought a sarong
with enough cloth to make two
skirts, one for his wife and one
for his daughter. He had bought
all the Bali carvings and silver
work he could put in his luggage.
Charles Gratke of the Christian
Science Monitor was the skilled
diplomat of the group. He could
always be counted on to say the
right thing at the right time. He
composed a telegram to Prime
Minister Nehru of India asking
for permission to land in India
1t was his plea that finally melted
down President Soekarno of the
Indonesian Republic in his stern
refusal to answer questions. :
Mr.. Gratke was probably the
best liked man In the group. He
never got fused. He never said
a mean word; he was always kind
and helpful.
Elsie Dick was the girl Of our
group. She was director of women's
religious and educational programs
for Mutual Broadcasting System.
Elsie was always smiling and
friendly. She had to listen to a
lot of rough language and some
stories that would not bear re-
peating in parlor. But she passed
it all with grace and dignity. She
had plenty of cause to feel insulted,
but she had way of passing those
things off in a way that made the
Evening star., 1949-07-14
29 Scheduled Air|ines.
Nearing Full Year
WjthoutFataI Accident.
By the Associated Press

. Americas regularly scheduled
airlines are within six weeks of
a full years operation without a
fatal accident.
: Civil Aeronautics Board records
: which show this, also list Tues
days airliner crash in California
as the fifth fatal accident of l949
among domestic nonscheduled
: carriers.
. These crashes claimed 106 lives.
Last years comparative record
shows five fatal crashes for the
regular operators and four for the
irregulars-that is. those not fly
ing established routes.
1948 Deaths TOtaled SO.
The 1e48 deaths in regular op-
, erations totaled SO, including Is
creWmen; those in nonscheduled
flights SO, including 9 crewmea.
) Government air experts say,
however. there is no accurate
: basis for comparing the safety
records of these two types of car
riers, in view of wide differences
i in operations. They say it is like
trying to compare safety on vari-
Gus forms for surface tranSporta-
ton, such as streetcars which fol-
low fixed routes between given
points. and automobile, which go
anywhere, anytime.
The CAB does, however. conf
pile statistics on the basis of pas
4 senger miles. For 1948, these sta
tistics show 1.3 passenger deaths
per 00,000,000 passenger miles on
the regular lines and 25.4 pas
senger deaths per 100,000,000 pas
senger miles on irregulars.
The CAB notes that the figure
for the irregulars is partly an
estimate, because not all such car
riers submit complete reports.
Scheduled planes flew 6,227.-
$4,000 passenger miles last year,
j. nonscheduled lines an estimated
r 1SO,99O,9O4.
: There are 20 lines in the sched-
uled passenger flight field. The
board has authorized some lis
large irregular carriers and nearly
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1000 small irregular carriers to
handle passengers on non-sched-
uled basis.
The last fatal accident on the
scheduled lines occurred more
than 10 months ago when North
west Airlines plane crashed at
Winona, MINI. August 20. 1913.
This crash resulted in 81 deaths.
Tuesdays crash involved Stan
dard Airlines plane.
Standard had been ordered by
the CAB to cease operations as of
July 20. This order. however, was
not based on any charge that
safety regulations had been vio-
lated.
1t was based solely on CAB find
ings that Standard has been run
ming a regular transcontinental
passenger service whereas its
operating authority limits it to ir-
regular flying on a contract or
charter basis.
Evening star., 1949-07-14

other party feel ashamed. She
broke my heart when, finally, at
Palembang, had bought an ex-
pensive sarong. After buying it 1
thought, of course, she would like
it, but she exclaimed, why, it is
loud and gaudy!"
Cigar smoking Tom Falco of
Business Week was always out
like bird dog hunting for some
thing and taking pictures. He
could put his typewriter on his
lap while he was seated in the
plane and drum out his notes and
stories as easily as a professional
stenographer could in perfectly
equipped Office. Tom found a
Catholic church at Bah so he
could 60 to mass.
Took CopiOus Notes.
Mr.. Colvig was studious re-
porter who took copious notes in
his big round vertical handwrit-
ing. He could read his notes
afterWard.
BarroWs. Moorad and Branyan
also took copious notes. Each of
them was planning to write a
series of articles. Barrows told
me I'm going to sit down where
I won't be disturbed and write
series of serious articles. I
expect to do them over and over
because I want them to be ac-
curate and present a clear pic
ture of this situation"
Nat had purchased a small
model sailing ship for his boy.
Branyan was loaded down with
Bali carvings and other souvenirs
for my wife and kid" Moorad
bought so much he had to buy
a wicker basket to hold all of it.
Moorad has a book on China
being published this week by Dut-
ton. Just as the bus at Singapore
was leaving for the airport,
asked him to send me an auto
graphed copy.
All right, if you give me a re-
vieW," he called.
That's a deal,", I shouted as
the bus moved down the driveway
from the hotel.
"Hurry Up and Wait"
AS I read over what I have
written I have emphasized these
personal experiences because they
we're things that relieved us in
theemidst of a lot of hard work.
Everybody worked hard. Type
writer's we're clacking away late
at night and at times early in
the morning. And as Moorad
remarked from old Army expert
ence we had to do a lot Of "hur-
ry up and wait"
But no story would be COM
plete without mention of Lynn
Mahan, representative of Theodor
Swanson Co., public relations out
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fit that handled the trip. Lynn
was a combination mother hub
bard and wet nurse who was ,ex-
pected to pull white rabbits out
of his hat whenever any one Of
us wanted something. He was as
patient as Job of the Bible: a
grand fellow and highly COM
petent. He became one of u.s..
I have forgotten to mention
Bill Newton of Scripps-H Howard.
1t was he who stayed in Jogja-
karta to watch evacuation of the
Dutch and the belated arrival Of
the Republican army. His stories
of the anti-Dutch. pro-Repub-
lican attitude of top United Ma
tions observers. particularly Aus
tralian Brig. Pryor, shocked us,
but confirmed what practically
all of us found in our travels in
Indonesia.
The American policy is anti
Dutch and pro-Republican. The
young American press attache of
the American Consulate in Ba-
tavia gave a few of our members
a free lecture on You lave come
out here in the face Of our open
and declared policy" He stated
a fact that was generally ap-
parent.
In my sober opinion, the loss of
these newspaper, radio and mag
azine men will prevent the Ameri-
can people from knowing how dis
astrous American diplomatic pol
icy has been in Indonesia and how
it today is misleading the Amer
lean public in supporting a policy
that will bring a first-rate calam-
ity to what could be rich and
peaceful section of the world.
Almost to man these men
were going to tell this story of
American diplomatic incompe-
tence and Misrepresentation of
the situation over the radio. in the
newspapers and magazines.
To me that is the biggest part
Of this disaster. 1t was a disaster
for civilization. Only Mrs. Bran
don and I remain to tell the story.
Evening star., 1949-07-14
By WiIIiom R. Mathews

MANILA, July IA (Pl.-First let
me get the record straight.
never said that Mrs. Brandon
refused to take the Inflated ship
because she felt it would be sabo-
tagged. What did say was that at
a dinner party on the. night of
July 2, she said in connection with
the proposed return flight via
India:
II would not think OF flying
back on that plane. AS sure as
you are alive, it is going to be
sabotaged." !!
I stand on that statement.
Mrs. Brandon, like me, had
made other plans about returning.
The last time I saw most of our
group together was shortly before
noon July 8 in the airport bus in
front of the Cockpit Hotel at
Singapore. There were nine of
them besides me.
Bertram D. Hulen of the New
York Times and John Werkley of
Time Magazine had remained in
Batavia to be close to communi-
cations. They were afraid that
something might pop down at
Jogjakarta and if they went away
on our trip to Sumatra, they would
get caught mapping. Mrs. Bran
don had also remain in Batavia.
Group Was COngenial.
Vincent Mahoney of the San
Francisco Chronicle and H. R.
Knickerbocker of Radio Station
WOR. New York. preceded us to
Singapore and left for Batavia the
morning Of the evening we arrived
Mr.. Mahoney was the jester of
our group. He never seemed to
sleep. He was always doing some
thing funny. Mr.. Knickerbocker
liked to work alone. but one after
noon when we were returning
from Makassar, flying over the
Java Sea, sat next to him in a
bucket seat job. He said: This
is a good bunch. There is not a
heel in it. Usually on such trips
as these there is always a heel
who makes life miserable for the
Others"
We were a congeniaI group.
Those nine to whom I bade good
by at Singapore had been with
me on our trip to Palembang and
Medan, Sumatra. We had flown
in from Medan Wednesday night,
July 6, and they were leaving Fri
day noon for Batavia where they
were to have a press conference
with DR.. Loving, the Dutch gov
ernor of Indonesia. They were
to lunch with the Republican rress
of Indonesia Saturday.
Sunday, July 10, they were to
take off for home via Bangkok and
India.
Spent Fourth at Palembang.
We had celebrated the Fourth
OF July at Palembang, at a coun-
try club. We had toured oil in
stallations and the city. That
night Jim Branyan of the Hous-
ton Post and I were roommates.
Every time Jim got on his lack he
snored like a foghorn.,
During the fight from Palem-
bang to Medan, Nat Barrows of
the Chicago Daily News and
George Moorad of Radio Station
KGW. Portland. Oreg., decided
that Branyan's luxuriant hair
needed cutting. So, while in flight,
Moorad and Fred Colvig of the
Denver Post held Branyan in his
seat while Barrows took out some
scissors and proceeded to give
him a really f1rst-class haircut.
On that trip to Sumatra we
were a jolly crew. We had learned
how to take official receptions
In stride.
Burton Heath of Newspaper
Enterprise Association was my
roommate at Medan. He developed
a fever, so I doctored him with
some of my sulfa pills. He was
all right the next day.
He was my roommate during
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scholastic achievement and the
promise of participation and
leadership in other university &C
tivities.
While a student at the Wash
ington high school. Richard was
active in the cadet corps, was
president of his junior and senior
classes and member of the base
ball team. He won first prize at
the Washington Science Fair in
1947.
Evening star., 1949-07-14

a $4,000 schol-
arship by Cor
nell University.
Richard, the
son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph L.
Drew, plans to
enter the five
year civil engin-
eering course at
Cornell this fall,
the school an
nounced.
The national
scholarship, one
of IS, W a S
o,,,orded for
Evening star., 1949-07-14
Tribe Feusts on CuterpiIIurs

The Masarwa tribe living in the
Serowe district of Bechuanaland
has an inexhaustible food supply
in the mopani tree this season.
visitors to Mafeking report: It is
not the trees fruit the natives seek
so avidly. however, but the cater
pillars that thrive on its leaves.
Evening star., 1949-07-14

(Mr. Matthews, editor and
publisher of the Arizona Star
at Tucson and Deteran foreign
commentator, Just missed the
crash that killed II American
correspondents in q Dutch air
liner near Bombay Tuesday.
He and Mrs. Dorothy Brandon
of the NeU York Herald
Tribune had left the party.
Mr.. Matthews here tells his i'm
pressions of the trip and of the
people abodrdJ
Evening star., 1949-07-14
u. N. Reporters to Hold
Borrows Memorial Rites

LAKE SUCCESS. July IA (P.-
The United Nations Correspond
ents' Association said yesterday
that a memorial service will be
held tomorrow at q. N. headquar-
ters for Nat A. BarroWs, the asSo-
cations secretary, who was killed
Tuesday in the plane crash in
India.
Mr.. Barrows. correspondent of
the Chicago Daily News, had COW
cred the U. N. since its founding.
Evening star., 1949-07-14
Gout Milk Promoted

New South Wales. Australia, is
setting up goat stud farms to
make it possible for every small
farm to have it's own fresh supply
of goats milk, even in grassless
areas where cows can't be kept.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. A
~,
Arlington Youth Awarded Mrs. Esther {. McGavack
Sc 900 Cornell Scholarship Dies in Purce|IvIe al 80

A June graduate of Armstrong
Technical High School, Richard
Albert Drew, 2505 First street
south, Arlington, has been awarded
Evening star., 1949-07-14

p Fire damage In the United
States in 1948 was at an all time
high of $711,114.000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-08
AFL GOING
 AFTER (I0
 MEMBERS

ST. PAUL. Minn., Oct. 8-tR- The AFL today embarked on a plan to carve huge membership chunks from the CIO toward achieving a figured 1,0O0,000-member gain in 1850.
 Key officials of the American Federation of Labor said privately they expect to pick up big parts of CIO unions, when the factional scrap in the CIO comes to a head, as may happen soon.
 A showdown between the CLOS left wing and the right wing ele- ments is shaping up for the C1O convention at Cleveland later this month. CIO President Phillip Mur- ray has threatened his left wing union leaders with expulsion.
 Labor circles expect the result to be splintering of the CLOS major unions, with the CIO trying to sal wage as many members as possible and repudiated left wing leaders trying to drag large membership groups from the CIO.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-08
FOOTBALL SCORES

Final scores of football games played last night are as follows: Los Angeles Loyola 52, Fresno State 13.
 Southern Oregon 21, San Fran cisco State 21 (tie). San Jose State 49, Pepperdine. l2 Colorado Mines 19, Western (Colo) State '.
 Missouri Mines fl, Northwest Missouri 13.
 Evansville IT, Missouri Valley T. South Dakota Mines 6, Northern State 6 (tie).
 St. Thomas (Minn) 51, St. Olaf 2 Emporia (Kans) 32, Rockhurst 6. Hawaii 27, Denver IA. Abilene Christian 13, Southwest ern (Tex) 10.
 Hardin Simmons, 20, North Texas State IT.
 Drake 46, South Dakota 6. Alabama 48, Duquesne 8. villanova 28, St. Marys (Calif) 20 San Francisco 38, Detroit IA. North Dakota 21, Augustana (SD) 0.
 Temple 27, Syracuse IA. Whitworth (Spokane) IA, Central Washington 13.
 Lewis & Clark J.V. 12, Pacific
  University J.V. 12 (tie). Washington Frosh 20, Idaho Frosh '.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-08
BIG GRID GAME TODAY I5 ARMY
 WITH MICHIGAN
Bv ED CORRIGAN

NEW YORK, Oct. 8-tR-The season still is in it's infancy but one of the best games of the cam paign is on tap today = Army against Michigan.
 These power houses of the grid iron-Michigan shows q winning skein of 25 straight while Army's streak stands at 13 without loss clash at Ann Arbor before capacity crowd of 97,oO0.
 The mighty Wolverines, who got off to squeaky start With couple of relatively close triumphs over Michigan State and Stanforo are mindful of the last time they met Army. That was in 1946. and the Cadets triumphed 20-13 with Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard carrying the ball.
 This years Wolverines, rated tops in the country in this weeks Asso- ciated Press poll. will rule slight favorite over Army.
 There are some other good games on todays calendar.
 Oklahoma and Texas, couple of high scoring outfits, clash at Dallas before 75,000. This is tossup but Oklahoma probably will have a slight edge.
 Notre Dame is more worried atout the Tulane game next week than Purdue, while Southern Cal, which already has whipped Navy and Washington State, probably will beat Ohio State. Baylor and Arkansas are two rough-tough teams that play for keeps with the former rated one touchdown the better. Kentucky, which has surprised one and all, has been in- stalled as the choice over Georgia.
 Some other top games of the day include UCLA-Stanford, Yale Columbia, Iowa. Illinois, Texas Christian-I n diana, Washington Oregon State and Iowa State Colorado.
 Villanova was handed a scare last night in Philadelphia. The Wildcats eked out bare 28-2C triumph over banged and battered St. Mary's of California. The Cali | fornia teams three touchdowns were the by-products of second !! period fumbles.
 In another intersectional fray al Tuscaloosa, Alabama overwhelmed Duquesne AS to 8.
 i San Francisco upset a favored Detroit University, 3s-1t. and Temple whipped Syracuse 27-14.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-08
MRS. C. BURNETT E
 H0N0RED AT SHOWER

Honoring Mrs. Gordon Burnett at a delightful baby shower, Mrs. Don Foster and Mrs. John flag meier were co-hostesses Thursday night at the Foster home at Aux Bay.
 The guest of honor was the re- cipient of many beautiful and use full gifts, all prettily wrapped in appropriate colors. During the eve ming the guests enjoyed playing a fortune telling game.
 Sandwiches, cake and delicious hot punch were served to the fol- lowing guests: Mesdames w. D. Schoeppe, Frank Peers, Phil Dawes, J. H. Worgum, P. J. Nickel, Ken Nelson, N. Reddicopp, A. E. Seaton, l. Hagerup, R. I. Congdon, J. De- Hart, Earl Barcus, and Bob Jones'; Misses Bonnie Jo Lynch, Cara Lee Foster, Lynne Barcus; the guest of honor, Mrs. Burnett, and the hostesses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-08
MARTHA SOCIETY TO
 HOLD RUMMAGE SALE

The Martha Society of the North ern Light Presbyterian Church an- nounces a rummage sale will be held in the church basement We'd nesday, October 12.
 At the Friday meeting the fol- lowing committee was appointed to handle the sale: Mrs. Willis R. Booth, chairman; Mesdames Ralph Martin, J. w. Leivers, T. A. Nor gan, Jerry Williams, Ray Day, E. J. Bowling, c. E. Warfield, Alert Harrison, Ray Taylor, Ben Reher, H. A. Stoddart, M. M Flint and Charles " Rudolph.
 Anyone desiring to have their rummage collected may notify Mrs. Booth before Tuesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-08

1 Allie Reynolds began warming up in the Yankee bull pen.
 Campanella lined Lopat' first pitch over Rizzuto's head for a single scoring Hodges and sending Olmo to second. Hermanski lined single over Henrich's head SCOT ing Olmo and sending Campanella to third.
 Reynolds replaced Lopat for the Yankees.
 Johnny Jorgensen, a lefthanded hitter, batted for Erskine. Paul Minner, southpaw, joined Banta in the Dodger bull pen. Jorgensen was called out on strikes as Rey- holds made only three pitches.
 Four runs, seven hits, no errors, two left on base.
 Seventh Inning
 Yankees Jack Banta went in to pitch for Brooklyn. Billy Cox re- placed Miksis at third base.
 DiMaggio rolled out, Robinson to Hodges. Robinson also threw out Brown. Woodling also ground ed out to Robinson to enable the Dodger second baseman to equal the world series record for a sec ond baseman making three assists in an inning.
 No runs, no hits, no errors, none Jeff cc case.
 Dodgers Reese lined to Bauer in front of the scoreboard in right center Cox flied to DiMaggio. Sni- der went down swinging.
 No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on base.
 Eighth Inning
 Yankees Reese scooped up Bauer's bouncer near second base and threw him out. Coleman flied to Hermanski in short right. Rey- holds fouled to Campanella behind the plate.
 No runs, no hits, no errors and none left on base.
 Dodgers Robinson bounced out, Brown to Henrich Hodges sent a hot smash on the ground to Rizzuto who threw him out. Olmo was called out on strikes.
 No runs, no hits, no errors, and none left on base.
 Ninth Inning
 Complete fadeout except for runs, hits and errors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-08
THEY DID IT!

BOSTON, Oct. S-tR-The three men who told six-year-old Martha Murray they were going to clean her house were right-they did.
 Martha greeted her mother, Mrs. Margaret Murray, on return from a shopping trip yesterday with this inquiry:
 Mummy, why are we having our house cleaned out?"
 Pressed further. the child ex- plained that the men had entered and told her they were going to clean out the place."
 Mrs. Murray discovered $126 in cash and $26 radio missing from the apartment.