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Evening star., 1949-10-22
$500,000 Cash
In 10 Suitcoses
Pays for Hotel
BY the Assoeioied Press

NEWARK, N. j., Oct. pa
follower of Father Divine today
took over affairs of the Hote
Riviera. which was paid for with
$500, 900 in cash lugged from Phil.
adelphia in 10 suitcaSes.
The money was brought to the
Federal Trust Co. here by 10 Di-
vine followers and 1t took IA tell
ers 3 hours and 35 minutes te
count the money in IS, $40 ane
$40 bills.
They carried the cash from
Philadelphia headquarters Thurs
day without guard or guns.
The follower handling opera
tions identified himself as Ger
maine" a retired engineer ano
architect. He said smoking will
not be permitted. One tenant
who said he had paid a months
rent in advance was told he coulc
remain. When he asked Ger.
maine If he could smoke, he was
asked: You enjoy walking. don'1
you? Then you can do your smok-
ing In the fresh air."
Evening star., 1949-10-22
Women and Brother
Found Slain in Home
By the Associated Press

BERKELEY. Calf, Oct. o.
Two women were found bludg-
eoned to death and their brother
shot and killed in their residence
here today.
Police breaking in at the in
sistence of neighbors, who became
worried after papers and milk
piled up on the porch for II days,
found dead:
Mrs. Mamie Mckenzie, 70, for
meN house mother at Stern Hall,
women's dormitory on the Univer-
sity of California campus.
Miss Irene ONeil. about SO,
Mrs. McKenzie's sister.
Eugene O'Neil, So, the women's
brother and a retired Southern
Pacific locomotive engineer.
The bodies Of the two women,
horribly beaten. were found in
their bedroom.
Mr.. O'Neil, shot to death. was
lying in a laundry OF the kitchen.
The gun which apparently killed
him was lying in the hallway near
the bedrooms.
Police were unable to determine
Immediately whether he had shot
himself fatally and crawled away
from the gun or whether he had
been murdered.
Evening star., 1949-10-22
George Y. A||enL Likely
ChoicetoBecomeU.S. u. ).
Envoy 10 YugosIavia
Acheson Aide Directed to
Join PorIey Of Diplomats
In Soviet Bloc Countries
BY the Associated Press

The United States is expected
to name Assistant Secretary of
State George v. Allen Ambassador
to Yugoslavia as part Of the West
ern campaign to stiffen Marshal
Tito's resistance to Moscow.
Informed diplomatic officials
said Mr.. Allen is Secretary of
State Acheson's choice for the
key cold war post now held by the
ailing Cavendish Cannon.
Mr.. Allen is a former Ambassa-
dor to Iran. There he had two
years Of hrst-hand experience in
a distrustful neighbor country of
Soviet Russia at a time when the
relations between Iran and Mos
cow were particularly critical.
He is now in Europe and has
just been directed by Mr.. Acheson
to join in a conference with
American ENJOYS to Sovet-bloc
countries, opening Tuesday in
London.
Appointment Expected Soon.
President Truman is expected
to name him to the Belgrade post
shortly.
This would fit in with other
moves by the United States and
the other Western powers to en-
courage Marshal Tito in his feud
with the Cominform.
+ The next such move may be a
decision by the United States and
Britain to lift an existing ban on
the shipment of civilian aviation
equipment to Yugoslavia. Antici-
pating a favorable decision, the
Yugoslav government already has
asked permission to buy equip
ment from an American airline.
Omcials said the State, COM
Evening star., 1949-10-22
Real Fall Weather Due
To Reach D. T.. Tomorrow

Washingtons misplaced spring
weather was due to bow out after
a high today of nearly 80 degrees.
Winds reaching Is to Is miles
an hour were expected to usher
out the warm weather late to-
day with shower likely.
The Weather Bureau forecast
more typical fall weather" be-
ginning tomorrow. BY Monday
morning, the temperature was ex-
pected to drop to the 40s.
The cool air is coming out OF
the West and moving rapidly this
way, according to the forecaSter.
In Baltimore the Weather Bu-
reau predicted snow f1urries in
extreme Western Maryland about
Wednesday.
The forecaster here, however
said there was no evidence to in
dicate Washington was likely to
get snow f1urries, although he did
not bar the remote possibility that
the mercury might slide low
enough for a few flakes.
Evening star., 1949-10-22
Man, IS, Found Dead in Yard
with Revolver in Hand

Henry Beck, rs, of 4535 Harri-
son street NV, was found dead
of a bullet wound in his lower
abdomen early today in the side
yard of his home, a .32-caliber
revolver still clutched in his hand.
Police said Mr.. Beck had been
in i'll health and worrying over an
impending operation.
The body was found about 5:45
am. by Homer Hall, 1880 North
Longfellow street, Arlington, a
route man for the Post.
Mr.. Beck, widower, lived with
his daughter. Miss Helen Beck,
who said she had looked into his
bedroom about Q am. and found
him apparently asleep. He had
the revolver for many years. she
said.
He was pronounced dead by the
family physician. DR.. T. A. Wild
man.
Evening star., 1949-10-22

them. Miss Glass took a $40 bill
from the cash register and hand
ed it to the man. He. took the
$40 bill. gathered up the IS and
the five 81 bills and handed all
Of them to the clerk and asked
that she give him a $40 bill. This
she did.
II was so confused, I didn't
know what I was doing" she told
Judge Thomas D. Quinn.
At this point the manager OF
the shop, Charles Vanderhuff
came over and said the customer
was asking for too much change
and closed the register. The man
left. but a quick check of the
cash revealed that $40 was miss
ing.
"Was the cash register still
there?" Judge Quinn asked.
Evening star., 1949-10-22

Police were called and arrested
"the gentleman Harry Joseph
Livingston, 68, of Baltimore. in a
restaurant about four blocks away,
where he was getting change for a
$40 bill.
Livingston admitted doing the
clerk out of the $40 and told the
court she had been repaid.
Judge Quinn commented that
Livingston was first arrested 40
years ago for a similar offense
and had been arrested innumer-
able times since, the last time
following a card game in which
the other players were not salts
ned with the outcome. Il think
you would find out you can't get
away with it, he declared.
He sentenced Livingston to 180
days in jail.
Evening star., 1949-10-22
? of 5 Breaking Arizona Jail
Are Slain, ? Quickly Captured
At Least One of Pair
Killed by5hots Of
Crippled Wutchmon
BY the Associated Press

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 22.-Fiye
Arizona desperadoes smashed out
of the midtown, flfth-floo county
Jail early today. and two fell dead
under a blast of gunflre before
they could get out of the court
house.
At least one of the prisoners
was killed by a crippled night
watchman whom they had dis
turbed reading in a ground floor
record room.
The watchman, Tom Stowe,
may have shot the second, but so
many sheriff's deputies were fir
ing by that time that no one
could be sure who hit him.
Two of the jailbreakers were
captured on a stairway between
the second and third floors. The
fifth, Jack L. Tatum, 26. crawled
out of a courtroom window and
SOt away.
A deputy sheriff was shot in the
mouth by one of the prisoners.
Killed were two Arizona prison
pals who were charged with mur-
der not long after release from
the penitentiary. They were Ed
ward Corcoran, 33, and Edward
McEwen, 80. Both were awaiting
trial.
The search for Tatum turned
downtown Phoenix into a furor in
the early morning hours. Sheriff's S
deputies roped off the courthouse
grounds to keep several hundred
spectators out of the range of pos
Evening star., 1949-10-22
London Women on Spree
Of Buying 10 Beat Taxes
BY The Asseeiofed Press

LONDON. Oct. 22.-Housewives
went on shopping spree again
today after rumors spread that
the government will raise pur-
chase taxes to fight imitation.
Stores in London's fashionable
West End reported the busiest
morning of the year.
There was no confirmation or
denial of the rumors. Prime Min
lister Attlee plans to announce
Monday a series of economy meas
ures necessitated by the nations
financial crisis. Details still are
top secret.
Earlier this week buying rush
for clothing developed because of
rumors that clothing rationing,
abandoned last spring. would be
restored. The government denied
that it had any such intention.
Evening star., 1949-10-22
Chunqking' S Poor District
Hit by Fire; 5000 Homeless
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

CHUNGKING, Oct. %. Fire
ragged through Chungking's poor
class Changpei district today, leav-
ing more than 5000 persons
homeless. No casualties were re-
ported in the city's fourth bad
blaze since September 2.
Two employees of a tobacco dry
ing ship, where the fire was. be-
lieved to have started, were ar
rested on charges of negligence.
Lack of fire-f1ghting apparatus
and the tardy arrival of fireboats
on the Chialiang River gave the
fire free rein. Only frepzied tear
ing down of buildings to create
fire lanes limited the flames. Some
pit homes were reported de-
stroyed.
The Changpei district is across
the river from Chungking's down.
town area which was hard hit by
a fire September 4 which killed
l.7O0 persons.
Evening star., 1949-10-22

The troubles of the Dixie Donut
Shop clerk and a flim-f fam artist
were related in Municipal Court
today.
The clerk, Miss Evelyn Glass,
307 Seventy-second place, Car
mody Hills, Md. said "the gentle
man" came into the shop at 606
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. yester-
day and ordered a dozen dough-
nuts which cost 40 cents.
She said he gave her q $40 bill
in payment and she gave him
1880 In change. Then he gave
her dime for two more dough-
nuts which cost 9 cents and got a
penny change. +
He then took a IS bill and five
81 bills. placed them on the
counter, and asked her If she
would give him q SO bill fol
Evening star., 1949-10-22
300 Priests Reported U.N. Up pho|ds Charge,
Held in Czechs Drive That Soviet Satellites
To Impose Church Law Violate Human Rights
Catholic Sources Declare
Unrest Has Been Created
In Some Communities
BY the Associated Press

PRAGUE, Oct. %. Church
sources said today that Commu-
MIST directed police raids of the
last two weeks resulted in the
arrest of dozens of Catholic priests
and caused unrest in some
Czechoslovak communities.
These sources estimated that
more than 300 priests now are
in Jail. most of them for oppos-
ing the governments new church.
control law which makes them
civil servants and gives the state
control over all church appoint
ments and financial and admin
istrative affairs.
The police action against
priests, which was stepped up to
break resistance to the govern
ment's church control schemes
was separate from the widespread
roundups of small businessmen
which sent thousands of middle
class elements to prison and
+! forced labor camps.
South Budejovice Hard Hit.
Hardest hit in the police sWoor
against priests, the church sources
said, were the district of Budejo-
vice and the city of Ceske Bude-
| jovice, in Southern Bohemia
about 100 miles south of Prague.
There 9 Wears have been jailed,
along with about 40 priests. This
| is about 10 per cent of the clergy
of this diocese.
The church sources also said
that the Bishop of Ceske Budejo-
vice had been put under police
surveillance similar to that kept
on Archbishop Josef Beran of
Prague. Permanent. guards sur
round his residence and his auto
has been reported conf1scated.
Unrest developed in the Bude-
jovice diocese when plainclothes
police attempted to arrest the
bishops secretary, a priest, in the
daytime. Catholics gathered in
front of the bishops palace and
prevented it. The police retreated
that time, but returned at night
and arrested the secretary.
Arrests of priests also were re-
ported in various other Bohemian
and Moravian towns.
Fire in Parish House.
At Rockycany, west of Prague,
the Catholic administrator of the
parish of Straisce was sentenced
to two months in Jail and fined
10000 crowns $4,000 for reading
a pastoral letter.
Subsequently a fire broke out
fSee CZECH Page A-3l
Evening star., 1949-10-22
New Congress Battles
Indicated on JUDGES
Recess Appointments
Three Actively Opposed
BY Senators; Six Given
Bench Assignments Here

New fights in the next session
of Congress over President Tru-
mans nominations were foreshad-
owed today by his recess appoint
ment of three Federal judges op-
posed by individual Senators from
the States involved.
Carroll O. Switzer, whose nomi-
nation as Federal judge for the
southern district of Iowa was
blocked in the last session by Sen
ator Gillette. Democrat, of Iowa,
was one of the controversial fig
ures given recess appointments
by the President late yesterday.
He also appointed M. Neil An
drews to take over as Federal
judge for the northern district Of
Georgia and Willis w. Ritter foi
Utah. Mr.. Andrews has been op-
posed by Senator Russell. Demo-
crat, of Georgia and Mr.. Ritter
by Senator Watkins, Republican,
of Utah.
% Appointments Made.
In all the President announced
recess appointments for % men
he had nominated for Federal
judgeships but who were not con-
firmed before Congress adjourned.
To hold their new jobs they will
have to be nominated again and
confirmed by the Senate after
Congress meets again in January
The list of recess appointments
included six new judges here.
They are George T. Washington,
David L. Bazelon and Charles
F'ahy for the United States Court
of Appeals, and Charles F. Nc
Laughlin, James R. Kirkland and
Mrs. Burnita Matthews as District
Court judges.
Also on the list was William
Henry HASTE. Governor of the
Virgin Islands and former dean o1
the Howard University Law Schoo
here. to be a judge of the Thire
Circuit Court of Appeals in Phila-
delphia. He will be the first
Evening star., 1949-10-22
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Evening star., 1949-10-22
7 Communist Forces
Racing for Junction
In South China Drive
Red Troops Aiming to Pin
kotionoIists Against
lndo-Chino Frontier
BY the Assoeiofed Press

HONG KONG, Oct. 22.-Two
Communist forces driving west
ward in South China raced to-
night toward a linkup for ar
assault on KWeilin.
Red Gen. Chen Keng's troops
moving northwest along the West
River from Canton. raced to tie
in with Gen. Lin Paio's Communist
veterans who were driving on the
Kwangsi Province capital from
the northeast. Exact positions OF
the two forces were not disclosed
Their aim seemed to be the
pinning of Nationalist Gen. Pal
Chunghsi's armies against the
French Indo- China border in the
southwest corner. of Kwangsi
Pals force of 100000 men is the
best left to the Nationalists.
Commission Evacuated.
In the face of the advancing
Red Armies. the entire staff o1
the Joint Commission of Rural
Reconstruction was evacuated
from Kweilin. which is 250 all
miles northwest of Canton. The
organization went to Yungnine
(Nanning). where the Kwangs
provincial government already
had been transplanted.
(This dispatch referred to
Yungning as present Nation
alist headquarters" This might
indicate Kweilin's threat al
ready was so serious that Pal.
had moved his command base
to Yungning. It is deep in
Southwestern Kwangsi.)
Elsewhere in the Chinese civl
war:
The Communist news agency
claimed the capture of Tao Hus
Island only 3 miles south of Chi
Shan, Nationalist air and navy
blockade base in the Chusl1an ar.
chipelago 100 miles. southeast o1
Shanghai.
The Communists also an.
nounced their troops had arrived
at Tihwa. capital of Sinkiane
Province in the far northwest. Or
September 20, the Red radio an
&C., ~yyIlyA n =
Evening star., 1949-10-22
Truman PoIishes Up Talk
For U. N. Aboard Yacht
BY the Assoeiofed Press

President Truman was cruising
down the Potomac today and put
ting the final polish on a foreign
policy speech.
The presidential yacht Will
liamsburg anchored last night at
Blackstone Island in the lower
Potomac. ready to push off this
morning for the mouth of the
Patuxent River.
Mr.. Truman's party will return
to Washington tomorrow after
noon. The foreign policy speech
Is to be delivered Monday at the
laying of the corner stone of the
United Nations Building in New
York.
Evening star., 1949-10-22

sible gunfire. Fire trucks splashed
their searchlights over the build
ing and shadowy grounds. Road
blocks were thrown up through
out the city.
The prisoners staged their break
about lis am. w. A. Millett,
jailer, said Tatum asked him for
aspirin. When he opened their
cell door, the prisoners jumped
him.
Leaving Mr.. Millett locked in
the cell. the prisoners picked up
an automatic pistol in the jail
office and entered an elevator.
They got out on the second floor
(See .JAH,BREAK Page A.2.)
Evening star., 1949-10-22
By the Associoted Press

pr I'VE S>soe'oleo FFeSS
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-Dmitri
z. Manuilsky. Soviet Ukrainian
Foreign Minister, charged today
that fundamental human rights
are being violated every day in
the United States.
He made his charge in the clos
ing stages of a heated human
rights debate in the United Ma
tions General Assembly.
Manuilsky told the Assembly
that Western charges against Bull
garia. Hungary and Romania were
dirty ISLANDERS" and fragrant
falsifications."
! He attacked the United States
for being one of the countries to
press the charges. saying that it
was strange for such action to
come from a land where lynch
law and Jim Crow" prevails and
where fundamental human rights
are being violated every day"
Manuilsky was the last listed
speaker.
Shawcross Hits Vishinsky.
White Russia's foreign minister,
Kuzma Kisselev,. sought in vain
last night to be included in the
speaking list, to answer a blister
ing attack by Britain's Sir Hartley
Shawcross on the Soviet bloc
leader, Russia's Foreign Minister
Andrei Visbinsky. Kisseley was
expected to renew his fight to take
the floor today.
The 59-nation Assembly in
plenary session hoped to reach a
vote on whether to cite Bulgaria,
Evening star., 1949-10-22
Assembly Asks Advisory
Opinion by International
Court on Treaty Clauses
bulletin
BULLETIN

NEW YORK (P).-The United
Nations Assembly turned aside
bitter Soviet protests today and
in effect upheld Western charges
of violations of human rights
behind the iron curtain in Bull
garia. Hungary and Romania.
The Assembly voted. Al to S, to
express its grave concern over
the charges. 1t also asked the
International Court of Justice
for an advisory opinion on
whether the Soviet satellites are
obligated to carry out treaty
provisions for settling the long.
disputes.
Evening star., 1949-10-22

(See CZECH, Page A-3D
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tSee YUGOSLAVIA. Page A-3.
Evening star., 1949-10-22

(See AMTORG, Page A-3D
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(See U. NJ, Page A-3D
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{See SERVICE FIGHT, Page A-31
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(See JUDGES, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1949-10-22

Deserves Full Support"
MIR. johnson deserves the full
support of this committee and the
country in his difficult task" Of
trimming armed force expendi-
lures, Mr.. Hoover said.
He warned that the Nations
Evening star., 1949-10-22

tSee CHINA, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1949-10-22

Mostly cloudy with a shower likely late
today. high near 80. Clearing tonight, low
near IS. Tomorrow mostly sunny and
cooler Full report on Page A-2o
Midnight, SO 6 am. so IL m. III
2a.m. SO Sam. So Noon ---73
4am. go 10 am. SO l pm. III
Evening star., 1949-05-01
Glenn Fords Contract Bans Makeup;
Actor Nov Big Storl q Firm Fellow

Kong. France. Italy, Africa ana
England.
Glenns only hobbies are fish,
ing and hunting.
I'm my travels I'm going to
do some big-game hunting in
Africa" A huge gun collection is
one of the big features of the
Ford home. I'm lucky guy"
Glenn says. With all the ups and
downs in Hollywood during the
last seven years. I've now reached
"a point where I'm my own boss
more or less. And I can take time
off or work, as ! please
Most of his life it has been
work for Glenn. He started with
the usual newspaper route. My
dramatic career started in little
theaters doing everything from
building scenery. stage manager,
being an understudy. Believe me.
in the long run it's better to come
up slowly than jump to fame over
night. It's like wine that is better
If it takes a certain time TO age.
Too many young actors are i'm
patient and rush into deep waters
before they can swim"
Hollywood and yours truly first
realized there was an actor called
Glenn Ford in town when he
played the young lover in so
Ends Our Night" with Margaret
SULLIVAN and Fredric March. But
before he could get deep in the
picture groove. he Joined the Ma
rines. After the war he was lucky
because Bette Davis had q good
memory and demanded him for
her leading man IN "A Stolen
Life.
Glenn is perhaps the only actor
in Hollywood who looks the same
OF screen as on. That's because
he never wears makeup In his pic
lures. Just to be sure he doesn't.
this clause is written into all of
his contracts.
Evening star., 1949-05-01
HOLLYWOOD.

I interviewed Glenn Ford in his
bedroom. don't know why Glenn
chose the bedroom. 1t could have
been that the rest of the house was
being redecorated. But I'm a girl
who doesn't ask questions until
after the interview begins. So
when Glenn shouted from upstairs
Come on up," I went on up.
/ Glenn's bedroom is entirely
masculine-paneled walls, dark
green leather furniture and a
mantlepiece smothered with pipes
I assumed that absent wife Eleanor
Powell had something more femi-
nine for a bedroom in another
part of the house. But. as I told
you, I'm a girl who doesn't ask
questions until she has to. Now
however. had to.
"You and Eleanor" I began
How do you continue to stay mar
ried when you are parted so much
of the time?"
No More Separations.
"That question doesn't have to
be answered" answered Glenn
because we're not going to be
parted any more. The trip she's
just made to London is her last
professional appearance, Oh. but
that's old news. You don't want
to print something that has al
ready appeared"
Actually. it Is new" news
Eleanor. the best lady dancer OF
our day. gave up her career after
she married Glenn f1ve-and-a-half
years ago-and stayed quietly put
at home until their now 4ha-year-
old-son Peter was 2. Then that
old urge to perform was too strong,
With Glenn's permission, Eleanor
accepted theater and night-cluh
engagements that kept them apart
| for a good six months Of each
subsequent year.
Nov, that's over" says Glenn
rather abruptly. And taking the
hint that he would rather discuss
something else. I talk about his
/ son,
Evening star., 1949-05-01
From E Egypt to Tennessee
Is Todd's Plan for Aida
By Mark Borron

in opera. and some o! them GOOD
looking. too" Todd literally aa-
mitted. And they can act. too.
If you siye them a chance on the
Broadway stage. Look at the way
this Exio Pima is knocking them
dead in South Pacific '"
He'll BE Faithful.
Despite his aversion TO the word
opera" Todd insisted that his
broadway version of Aida" will
cling fairly faithfully 10 the lIbret-
to and score as 1t is regularly pre-
sented at the Met.
Mostly what I'm doing" Todd
said. rs TO move Aida from Mem
phis, Egypt. TO Memphis. Tenn.
down on the river levees We Il
use Aida music. a little modern
lied. Why not7 It's good music
Il want TO do this show for the
prime purpose OF entertaining peo-
pie. I'm the first 20 admit that !
don't know much about this long =
hair stun, the stun Tor people VINO
occupy plush bottoms.
And. remember this isn't my
first experience with the long hair
music done In the modern manner
At the New York Worlds Fair ]
took Gilbert and SullivanS The
Mikado' and presented II as The
Hot Mikado' with Bill Robinson In
the leading role, II went great.
and would have gone better II
only the fair had lasted"
Aida" WIN BE Hep,
Todd said that in moving Aida e"
to a modern setting In Memphis.
Tenn. he wants to do 1t as show
that will be hep. or up 10 the
minute TO 194e audiences.
Il don't like this futuristic
razzle dazzle predicting what we'll
be living in In the year 204e, he
said. Il want a show that will
be familiar and be fun to audiences
(See BARRON. Page CO