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Evening star., 1949-02-19
House Group May Ask
Miss Strong 10 Testify
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Chairman Wood of the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities said today he would like
to have Anna Louise Strong testify
before the committee.
Miss Strong is an American
writer who spent years in Russia
and now has been arrested as a
spy and ordered deported. Amer
ican diplomats in Moscow have
asked twice to see her, so far with
out success.
Mr.. Wood said he will put up to
the committee at its next meet
ing the question of inviting her to
appear, once she gets back to this
country. The committee may
meet Tuesday.
Representative Nixon, Repub-
lican, of California, a committee
member, said he's all for it.
Mr.. Wood said there must be
something peculiar happening
when a person of her pronounced
liberal views is expelled from the
Soviet Union"
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Falls Church Planners Ask
Farley With City Council

The Falls Church Planning
Commission voted last night to
ask the City Council for a joint
meeting to discuss a proposed
traffic plan for the "stop-light
area" at Washington and Broad
streets.
A previous plan, involving only
one quadrant of the central busi-
ness district. was shelved a year
ago after the council refused to
approve the proposal in principle.
The central business district is
scheduled to have five off street
parking lots, totaling 270,000
square feet. A new street is pro-
posed, running roughly parallel to
South Washington street between
West Broad street and West Fair
fax street.
Evening star., 1949-02-19

The question of whether a citi-
zen of a inundated country has
the right to bring an action in
a Federal court was before the Dis
trict Court at Alexandria today.
The question was raised in the
case of Leo Klausner, a resident
of Palestine GsraeD, against Al
bert Levy. 108 West Rosemont
avenue, Alexandria. The suit
seeks to recover $50 ,949 which the
plaintiff alleges is due him as
the result of a business trans
action in Berlin, Germany, in
1928.
Irving Diener, attorney for Mr.
Levy, argued that Palestine was
mandate of Great Britain when
the suit was filed March 81, 1913
He argued that citizens of man.
dates do not have the right to
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Suit to Test U. S. Court Rights
OfCitizenofMundutedCountr

bring a suit in Federal courts as
do citizens of independent states
If the suit had been filed since
Israel's recognition as a state
by the United States. attorneys
said, the question would not have
arisen.
Attorney John w. Waller of the
firm of Thomas, Strauss & Wal
ler, which represents Mr.. Klausnel
argued that a post World War
treaty between the United States
and Great Britain recognized
Palestine's right to grant citizen.
ship. It follows, Mr.. Waller con-
tended, that the United States
recognized Palestine as a state in
sofar as the point in question is
concerned.
Judge Albert V. Bryan ordered
Mr.. Waller to file brief by March
5 in support of his position.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Alexandra PLANNING
Parade and Dances
ION Washington'Da Day

George Washington's 217th birth
day anniversary next Tuesday
will have special emphasis IN
Alexandria this year.
The annual celebration is TO
be a part of the city's year-long
bicentennial observance. The
first President aided in the orig
inal planning of Alexandria.
Events planned for Tuesday in
clude the city's largest parade.
two birthday balls and a number
of private parties.
To Begin at 2:30 PM.
The parade will begin at 2:30
pm. on Washington street at
jefferson street, and will proceed
north along Washington street to
Montgomery street, where it will
disband. Annually sponsored by
the Russell Mitchell Post. Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, the parade
this will also will be sponsored
by the Alexandria Bicen:ennial
Commission. Gov. Tuck will be
in the parade.
The parade will consist of nine
divisions. 1t will include Police
and Fire Department marching
units, civic clubs, fraternal organ
izations, floats, members of the
Bicentennial Commission, Army,
Navy, Marine and Air Force out
fits. high school cadets, veterans
and bands. One division will fea-
ture Fire Department equipment.
including the old engine of
Friendship Fire Co.. of which
Washington was member.
Throughout the day number
of radio broadcasts will originate
from Gadsby's Tavern in Alexan-
dria. The tavern frequently was
visited by Washington and other
Colonial figures. The programs,
to be broadcast over Station WRC,
will include an interview of Gov.
Tuck at 1:30 pm. Gadsby's
Tavern also will be the scene of a
private reception later in the day
for Gov. Tuck.
Costume Ball Planned.
A costume ball will be held at
10 pm. Tuesday at the Cameron
Street Recreation Center. Spon-
sors of the dance are the Bicen-
tennial Commission, the four
Alexandria chapters of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution
and the city's chapter of the
Colonial Danes of America and
the Alexandria Association.
Persons attending the dance are
urged to wear Colonial costumes,
but formal dress will be permitted.
Tickets for the dance may be pur-
chased at the Bicentennial Com
mission headquarters or at
Chequire House, both on King
street in Alexandria.
On the same night another ball
will be held at the Pendleton
Street Recreation Center for COL
ored citizens. Everett w. Johnson
is chairman of arrangements for
the dance, which also is being
sponsored by the Bicentennial
Commission.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
7 in Prince Georges
GET Suspended Fines
lin Sales Tax Cases

Two Prince Georges County
merchants yesterday received sus-
pended fines for failing to report
sales taxes, but Trial Magistrate
Alan Bowie warned that future
violators would not receive such
mild treatment.
II have no sympathy for people
who knowingly take this tax from
the people and fail to turn it over
to the State" Judge Bowie de.
clared. 1T amounts to a breach
of trust"
The suspended fines were rec
commended by Assistant States
Attorney Hervey Machen. who
said the cases were the first Of
their kind to be tried in a county
magistrate court.
I'm willing to 60 along with
the recommendation for suspend
ed fines this time because these
are the first cases we've had"
Judge Bowie said, "but in the fu-
ture it will be a different story"
Arthur Charron, florist in the
5000 block of Baltimore avenue.
Hyattsville, and Albert Silver
stone, proprietor of lunch room
with an on-and-off-sale liquor
license in Upper Marlboro, both
pleaded guilty to six charges each
of failing to report sales tax re-
ceipts. A separate charge was
placed against them for each
month they failed to report. A
suspended $100 fine was imposed
for each violation.
Mr.. Machen said Mr.. Charron
had made partial restitution and
had arranged with the State con-
troller's Office to pay the remaind-
er. His fine was suspended on
condition that he repay the full
amount owed.
Mr.. Silverstone, the court was
told, had completely repaid the
amount he owed.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Stock Market Quiet;
Many Issues Drift
Fractions Lower
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 1e.-The
stock market looked a bit droopy
today.
There was no decisive downward
move, but numerous issues sold at
fractional losses. At the same time
the stock list showed a liberal
sprinkling of plus signs.
Business was slow even for a
Saturday session, with turnover
at the rate of around 250,000
shares for the full session.
The disinterested attitude of
traders was a carryover from yet
terday. The market seems to be
in the middle of breathing spell
while waiting for Congress to act
on administration policies.
Virginia Carolina Chemical took
a comparatively wide price swing,
dropping 1ls to 87s at one time.
The company reported a rather
large decline in net profit for the
six months ended December 81.
Also lower were Bethlehem Steel.
General Motors, Sears-Roebuck,
Glenn Martin, General Electric,
Allied Chemical, Owens-Illinois.
American Tobacco. Santa Fe,
Southern Pacific, Atlantic Coast
Line and Mission Corp.
Higher prices were paid at times
for Goodyear. Woolworth, United
Aircraft, American Telephone and
Consolidated Natural Gas.
Corporate bonds moved along
lazily. The big dealers In U. S.
Government issues observed the
usual long weekend recess.
Higher in the curb were Electric
Bond g. Share, Pantepec OH.
Rotary Electric Steel and United
Light & Railways, Kaiser-Frazer
and Imperial Oil declined.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Man Sentenced for Theft
In Pan American BuiIdinq

An 18O-day Jail sentence was
imposed in Municipal Court today
on Louis Thigpen, 33, colored, soc
block Of Anacostia avenue Sc.
when he pleaded guilty to petty
larceny of a purse wallet in the
Pan American Building.
Judge Walter Casey said he set
a comparatively severe sentence
because Thigpen has a long record
of arrests.
Thigpen was arrested yesterday
following a chase up and down
stairs in the Pan American Build
ing after Miss Estrella Descartes
an employe, returned to her desk
found her purse rifled and saw a
stranger Fastening out of the
office.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
.CzechosIovokiu Plans
Red Bloc Finance Talk
By the Assoeiofed Press

PRAGUE. Feb. 19.-The news.
paper Svobedne Slovo says a con-
ference of finance experts of the
peoples democracies" is being
prepared by the Czechoslovak
Ministry of Finance.
The date has not been set. The
purpose is to strengthen co-opera-
ton on the financial front in this
part of the world, the newspaper
said.
If it proves true, it would be an.
other phase of the tightening ur
process with Moscow that was
marked by the formation of the
Economic Council of Mutual Aid
That was to straighten out bilat-
eral trade and barter pacts among
the cominform countries.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
USO
Continued From First Page

Community Chest "are discharg-
ing an obligation the entire pub
lie owes to our citizens who are
only temporarily in service and
who will return to civilian life. u
Voluntary Public Service.
He emphasized that this aid is
not "a charity but great volun-
tary public service"
In reactivating USO, the Pres
ident named IL men and women
to serve as new incorporators as
follows:
Edward L. Ryerson, board chair
man, Inland Steel. Chicago; Henry
Ford II. president, Ford Motors,
Detroit; A. J. Cock. Bank of
America president, Los Angeles;
Abe Lastfogel, William Morris
(theatricaD Agency. Beverly Hills.
Calf; Harvey S. Firestone, jr.,
president, Firestone Tire & Rub
ber, Akron, Ohio; A. L. Whitney.
president, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, Cleveland; Mrs. Maurice
T. Moore, New York; c. c. Spauld-
ing, president, North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co.. Dur
ham; Mrs. Henry Mannix, Brook
lyn; Frank M. Folsom, president,
Radio Corp. of America, New York;
James Sauter, president, Air Fea-
lures, Inc, New York: E. I. Kauf-
man, chairman of the board, Kay
Associates. Inc, of Washington.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
County Control Sought
For Lonhum Park Roads

The Lanham Park Citizens As
ISOLATION will ask Prince Georges
County to take over control of the
areas road system, now unpaved
and owned by the developer of the
community.
The problem was discussed at
the associations monthly meeting
last night in Blythe's Hall, Lam
ham Park.
r. H. Duff, jr., was named treas
urer to succeed Mrs. Lois McGow-
en- who resigned. Association
President Michael v. Mesko con-
Quoted the meeting.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Big.Time Jewel Thief
Admits Film Nofab|es
Were Next on LIST
BY the Associated Press

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Feb. 19
Tall, sauve Gerard G. Dennis,
described by authorities as. one of
the greatest jewelry burglars on
record, Is said to have admitted
Hollywood notables were his next
intended victims.
The 28-year-old Canadian is
suspected of looting wealthy homes
on the East and West Coast and in
Canada of 100000 in jewels and
furs.
He was arraigned here yesterday
on charges of flrst-degree burglary
and felonious assault, and held
without bail for grand jury action.
District Attorney George M.
Fanelli of Westchester County said
Dennis told him he had been plan
ming his next forays at homes of
various screen figures, including:
Jack Benny, Bette Davis, Eddie
Cantor, Edgar Bergen, Olivia
de .Havilland. Dorothy Lamour.
Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Will
liam Powell and other film stars
and executives.
Frank About Exploits
| Dennis was arrested in Cleve-
land Wednesday with $4,000 in
unset diamonds and 400 in cash
in his possession. He was re-
turned here yesterday.
The 6-foot, nattily dressed Den
mis- was described by Mr.. Fanelli
as very frank" about his ex-
ploits, and polished, sympathetic
and regretful."
Mr.. Fanelli said Dennis readily
admitted burglarizing Is West
chester County homes Of $4,000
in jewels and furs, and took Of
hcers on a tour, pointing out as
many of the places as he could
remember.
dispatches from Richmond,
Va, said the FBI and Rich
mond police refused to say
whether Dennis had been ques-
toned about last week ends
$500,000 Schwartzchild safe
cracking jewel robbery there.
Police said unofficially they
doubt that he was connected
with the job
No statement was obtained from
Dennis concerning recent alleged
thefts of $250,000 in the Beverly
Hills, Calf. area, and $170,000 in
robberies in Canada.
In a Beverly Hills apartment,
which Dennis gave as his address,
police Thursday night said they
found behind heavily reinforced
doors trunk containing rubies.
diamonds, pearls, loose gold. sill
yer and platinum valued at
100000.
Gems Difficult to Identify
Methods of returning the unset
diamonds here to the owners re-
mains a puzzle. as the stone can
not be identified readily after
rings and metal settings have
been removed.
Authorities said all the stones
were of the best, as Dennis had
made extensive studies of gems
before starting his seconds story
career.
Pretty Betty v. Ritchie, "a, who
was arrested in Dennis Beverly
Hills apartment on suspicion OF
receiving stolen property. said
yesterday that this is all ter
rible shock"
II didn't know what he was
doing. - thought I loved him
but don't love him any more"
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Crash
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war. He was graduated from
West Point in 1881 and was AS
sistant Air Attache here.
Wife Also Aboard.
On the plane as a passenger
was his wife, Mrs. Marjorie "
Williams, daughter of Col. Ar
thur F. Parker, who was killed
on Corregidor in the Philippines
The plane. a United States
Army CAT transport, was as
signed to the Office of Brig. Gen.
B. H. Hovey. air attache, and was
flying from Panama to Buenos
Aires when it disappeared.
Besides Col. Williams and his
wife, the others on the plane were
Capt. Charles H. Mayo, Greenville
S. c., co-pilot and member of the
United States air mission to Ar
gentina; M/Sergt. Hugh A. Willis
Newton, S. c.; T/Sergt. Linwood
E. Stanton, Canoe, Ala; M/Sergt
Uriah Horst, Tacoma, Wash;
M/Sergt. Robert c. Fracier
Odessa, Tex, and a Sergt
CaneStari.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Dr.. Dawson to Conduct
Alexandra Services

DR.. James M. Dawson of Wash
ington, executive director Of the
Baptist Public Relations Commit
tee, will conduct the $50 and II
am. services tomorrow in First
Baptist Church, Alexandria.
The minister of the church, DR..
Ernest F. Campbell, is in Florida
conducting special services at the
First Baptist Church of Sanford.
Speaker for the 8 pm. service
tomorrow will be the Rev. Ray
mond Womeldorf, for 80 years a
missionary in China.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Putriciu Head Honored

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Feb.
10 (SpeciaD Miss Patricia Head
of Falls Church, graduate of
Western High School. Washing
ton, has been elected vice presi-
dent of student government at
Mary Washington College of the
University of Virginia.
Evening star., 1949-02-19

WHITE PLAINS NJ Y-DENNIS ARRIVES FOR QUESTIONING
Gerard Graham Dennis ef 28yearold Canadian accused
by police of the theft of jewels and rs valued at $6oOOO
his arrival at the district attorneys office yesterday
in the custody of Detective It. Maurice Kelly of New Rochelle
N Y Detective Kelly who brought Dennis from Cleveland
where picked up said the had admitted
our robberies from wealthy homes. -AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1949-02-19

Mexico hopes to sell $4,000, 900
worth of sugar abroad this year,
largely to the United States.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
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FOUND.

COCKER SPANIEL, honey -colored, wears
fabiss tag: found in Bethesda, Md. 81.
RING 1class 1937), gold, black stone.
Call AK. 4134 Mon. between 7-9 pm.
Evening star., 1949-02-19

Egypt has added 5000 new tele-
phone lines in Cairo, but has
1000 applications.
Evening star., 1949-10-29
Mr.. Lehmun's Mistake

In the New York senatorial campaign,
both candidates have given voice to the
kind of silly and extreme statements one
must expect in all such political slugfests
But former Democratic Governor Herbert
H. Lehman-acting out of character-has
struck an inexcusably low blow in insinu-
ating that Senator John Foster Dulles, his
Republican opponent is bigot with an
anti-Semitic bias. If there is anything
Mr. Dulles can be accused Of he certainly
cannot be accused of that. So much of his
distinguished career has been devoted to
the task of combating racial and religious
prejudice that it is understandable why
Bernard M. Baruch-who has known him
for thirty years-has been quick to defend
him. 1t is understandable, too, why
DR.. Abba Hillel Silver, ex-president of the
Zionist Organization of America, has done
the same. Mr.. Dulles is altogether above
suspicion and beyond reproach on this
matter, and Mr.. Lehman-by this time,
at any rate-ought to know it. It is hard
to see how man of his stature and gen.
eral good sense could have stopped to
making such an ugly suggestion. If the
mistake boomerangs against him, he will
have only himself to blame
Evening star., 1949-10-29
Woshinqton Circle Congestion

I Opening of the WhitehurSt FreeWay has
brought new traffic troubles at Washing
ton Circle that warrant immediate study.
The circle was bad bottleneck even before
the freeWay was built-So bad that the
Highway Department had listed 1t as the
site for the city's next underpass. Now
the time has come to renew consideration
of some such drastic engineering treat
ment for the circle.
The new difficulties at Washington Circle
arise from the increased number OF We
hicles flowing into it from various direc-
tions since the freeWay began operation.
Complicating the situation is the street.
car loop around the circle. Another factor
Is the rush-hour stream of Virginia buses.
Traffic from several main thoroughfareS
converges here, to jockey for position in
q merry-go-round of confusion. Exasper-
ating jams result during the height of
the morning and afternoon rush periods,
extending in all directions, sometimes for
blocks.
It may be that channelization, corner
cutting or Street-widening projects will
bring some improvement, but even these
are likely to prove of little avail as more
and more cars use the freeway and its
approaches. If a grade separation here
was regarded as necessary when the circle
was studied by engineers several years ago,
such an undertaking is even more neces-
sary now. Freeways and underpasses are
expensive of course, but the added costs
are the penalties the city must pay for
inability of planners of the horse-and-
buggy era to foresee the traffic demands
of motor age -
Evening star., 1949-10-29

plete integration of white and colored fire.
men would be the most economical arrange
ment. In light of the copious evidence that
a dual educational system is more expen-
sive to operate. it now is time for our public
school officials to admit this fact, as Off
cials already have done in regard to the
Fire Department.
The Star survey gives the figures on cur
rent enrolment. In many areas of the
city. If there were no dual educational
system. the construction of additional
buildings would not be necessary.
President Truman recently issued a great
challenge when he said, THE real dangers
confronting us today have their origins in
outmoded habits of thought" Washing
tonians must begin to examine effectively
the evidence relative to the dual educational
system and to consider the facts which in
dicate that a dual system in our Nations
Capital is in many ways outmoded.
FRANK M. SNOWDEN, Jr.
Evening star., 1949-10-29
Proposes Printing Names
OF Community Chest Contributors

To the Editor of The STAR
The slogans for the 1949 Community
Chest drive ("Give Enough-Give More"
Everybody Benefts-Everybody GivesD
are very timely. 1t has occurred to me that
the Everybody Gives" movement might be-
come more of reality if it were possible
to publish names of the "Everybodies."
This idea could be carried out in this
manner: Have the local newspapers pub
lish names of donors who live within a
certain area each day or several times a
week. Thus, if the people on Twelfth
Street, Northwest, or Sherman Avenue, or
the Chevy Chase section know that the
names of the donors from their sections
will be published in the newspapers at a
certain time, perhaps they will speed up
their pledge making and contributions.
The title for this page could we'll be:
els your name there?"
1t is further suggested that this publicity
include only the alphabetical list of names
of all persons within the designated area.
and not their specific addresses nor /the
amount of their contributions
This suggestion might encourage an addi-
tional slogan: More People Giving-More
People Benefting.' E. F.. S.