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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Tribal Chief, English Wife
Barred From South Africa
BY the Asseeiuisd Prss.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
Nov. IAN African chieftai1 and
his blond London wife were
barred from South Africa last
night on the eve OF a hearing to
decide whether he will rule his
tribe.
An official announcement from
Pretoria said the Union of South
Afrcia had ruled that Seretse
Khama, q, chief apparent of the
Bamangwato tribe IN the British
protectorate of Bechuanaland, and
his wife, Ruth Williams, have
been banned.
Seretse. Oxford educated. mar
ried Miss Williams, "a, a London
typist. about year ago when he
was in the British capital.
They are now in Serowe, cap
ital of Seretse's mud-hut domain
A judicial inquiry win start there
today on a challenge by Tshekedi
Khama. Seretse's uncle and tribal
regent since 1926. on the nephew's
right to the throne. Tshekedi was
offended when Seretse broke tribal
tradition by marrying a white
girl. He walked out.
The South African govern
ment frowns on their marriage
because it goes against the gov
ernment's policy Of the separation
OF the races.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Capital AirIines moves
To RecapifaIize Debt
BY the Associated Press

Capital Airlines yesterday an
nounced proposal to recapitalize
its present funded debt in a step
to obtain money for new planes.
The plan, calling for exchange
of the present .312 per cent de-
bentures. for a like principal
amount of new 4 per cent de-
bentures. requires approval of
holders of two-thirds of the ST.
385 900 of debentures outstand-
ing. Acceptance deadline is No.
vember 30. ...+.
Only those, debenture holders
who consent to the modification
will be offered the right to ex-
change. b..
Each of the present 81 900 con-
vertible income debentures would
be exchanged for one series a.
$500 debenture bearing interest
at a fixed rate of 4 per cent
whether earned or not and series
B" convertible income debenture,
bearing 4 per cent interest when
earned.
The series ''B" debentures would
be convertible into common stock
at a conversion price of Sill q
share. The present conversion
price is $38 a share.
j. H. Carmichael, Capital pres
ident,- said the present debenture
forbids Capital to pledge any of
its property or create any long
term debt and thus has prevented
modernization of its aircraft fleet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Netinius Book Hints
Stain Made Too Many
Concessions al Ya|ta

Soviet Prime Minister Stain
showed an obvious desire to
reach agreement with the late
President Roosevelt in their last
meetings at Yalta and may have
got into trouble with his Politburo
for making too many conces-
SionS."
This was the view Of the late
Edward r. Stettinius, jr., set out
in book presenting his inside
story of the Yalta Conference to
be published Thursday under the
title of Roosevelt and the Rus
Sians.'' .E s,
Mr.. Stettinius. former Secre-
tary of State and lend-lease adj
ministrator, died of heart at
tack yesterday at Greenwich,
Conn, before release of the book
on which he completed work
weeks ago. Funeral services are
to be held tomorrow at st. James
Episcopal Church in New York.
AS Secretary of State. Mr.. Stet-
tinius took part in all the diplo-
matte discussions at the Yalta
Conference and gave a detailed
account of them in his book. ~
Mr.. Stettinius insisted that the
worlds troubles today are not due
to the Yalta agreements but to
Soviet refusal to honor those
agreements. He pointed out that
Soviet policy apparently changed
to a tougher line Immediately after
the Yalta Conference in which
Stain made greater concession"
than were made to him.
Some State Department experts
believed then. Mr.. Stettinius wrote,
that after Stain returned to Mos
COW he ran inc difficulties with
the Politburo" for having been
to friendly and for having made
too many concessions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Two Czech Officials
Prepare 10 Leave u. ),
After Recall Demand

Two Czech officials we're pre-
pairing today to leave the United
States in accordance with a State
Department demand for their i'm
mediate recall.
Although the department didn't
say so. the action obviously was
in retaliation for Czechoslovakia' S
expulsion Of two American diplo-
matte officials from Prague on
charges Of spying. Secretary OF
State Acheson denounced these
charges obviously ttrumped up
DR.. Vladimir Outrata, Czech
Ambassador here. sought an ex-
PLANTATION Of the State Depart
ment demand in a talk with I'm
dersecretary Of State Webb late
yesterday. He told reporters that
he didn't hear any reasons
He said the Czechs involved,
Consul General Erwin Munk in
New York. and Jan Horvath.
listed as "housekeeper" of the
Embassy here, were making plans
to leave. but that the date of
their departure would depend on
sailing times of vessels.
Horvath, officials said. was Job
viously more than a housekeeper.
DR.. Juraj Slavik. who resigned as
Czech Ambassador here when the
Communists took over his govern
ment, said Horvath was very
active" in consultation with Czech
Communist officials and that he
had been told the "housekeeper'
was more important than the
Ambassador"
Isaac Patch, jr., and John G.
Heyn were the American attaches
expelled from Prague. An EN-
bassy clerk without diplomatic
immunity. Samuel Meryn, still is
held in Jail there on spying
charges,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
British Cheer Arrival of SIoop
Battered by Reds in China

Comdr. j. S. Kerans, decided to
make run for it. Without pilot
and in the dark of night the
Amethyst sped downriver under
fire and rejoined the rest of the
British Asiatic Fleet at Hong Kong.
Viscount Hall said the desperate
dash for freedom has fired the
imagination of the entire COM
monwealth and indeed of the free
peoples of the world" He added:
''It was inspiring and outstand-
ing and in every way very gall
liant exploit"
One of the spectators who saw
the sloop arrive was Seaman Cyril
Williams, Is, who lost both legs in
the Smelling last April. Together
with other wounded. he had pre-
coded his ship home.
Friends in the crew spotted Will
hams sitting in his wheelchair at
the dockside. One of them ran
ashore and carried him aboard.
The Amethyst returned from the
Far East by way of Malta. She
will be refitted and sent back to
Asiatic waters with a new crew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
House Spy Probers Call
Louise bransfen AGAIN

House spy hunters today for
the second time summoned Louise
Bransten, wealthy West Coast
woman, for questioning in connec-
ton with Soviet espionage ac-
tivities. .......
Mrs. Bransten of San Francisco
and New York was one of four
witnesses. called to appear at pub
lie hearings next week before the
House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities.
The other witnesses were not
identified. The hearings will be-
gin Monday.
Mrs. Bransten has appeared be-
fore the committee previously
She was questioned at q secret
committee session last year when
the committee was investigating
Communist activities at the Uni
versity !. OF California radiation
laboratory.
On that occasion Mrs. Bransten
refused to answer questions on
constitutional grounds. A COM
,nittee witness testified in 1947
that Peters, identified by the
committee as a Soviet agent. re-
ceived $1,000 from Mrs. Bransten
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Carl F. Jackson Rites
70 Be at II Tomorrow

Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow in Fort Myer
Chapel for Carl F. Jackson, 40,
assistant general manager of the
American Trucking Associations,
Inc, who died Saturday at his
home. II West Woodbine street,
Chevy Chase, Md. Burial will be
in Arlington Cemetery. It was in
correctly stated in The Star yes
terday that the services would be
at 2 pm. s.
Mr.. Jackson, a native of Strong
vile, Ohio, who served in the
Army during World War I. had
been in the trucking industry
since 1880 and with the associa-
ton since 1894.
He is survived by his widow,
Mildred Moore Jackson, and by
two daughters. Mrs. Patricia Joy
Lanzillotti. Berkeley. Calf, and
Mrs. Carol M. Maudlin, 2110 Thir-
ty-eighth street Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
William D. Mahon Dies;
90
Retired AFL Labor Leader
By the Associated Press

DETROIT, Nov. William D.
Mahon, 88, former international
president of the AFL Bus and
Streetcar Operators Union, died
last night. ,...
After long service in the labor
movement, Mr.. Mahon retired in
1916 because Of poor health. He
had headed the transportation
union for nearly So years.
He believed fervently that arbi-
tration, not strikes, was the best
method of settling labor disputes.
In MIRA days, President Roose-
welt named him to the transit
code authority.
Mr.. Mahon. who had been
spending much Of his time in
Florida, died at Grace Hospital
here. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Tito Recalling Reserves
And Adding Recruits
By the Associoted Press

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. Nov.
1.-Premier Marshal Tito has
strengthened his armed forces In
recent weeks as a defensive meas
ure, against a background Of a
heightening~ war of words with
Moscow and the Cominform.
Tito has bolstered his army
with a regular autumn Gallup OF
recruits. He also has returned
to service a number of reserve
officers, technicians and special
lists.
However, this does not amount
to a general mobilization OF
reserves. A Gallup of recruits at
at this time Of year is customary
Reactivation of an unspecified
number of reserve officers and
technicians, however, served to
underscore Tito's determination to
keep his army At and ready for
emergencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
By the Associated Press
PLYMOUTH. England. Nov

PLYMOUTH, England, Nov. l..
The heroic crew of the sloop
Amethyst brought the battered
little ship home today.
Still bearing the scars of Chi
nese Communist gunf1re. the
Amethyst drew smartly up to her
berth at the Royal Navy Yard
while thousands cheered.
ViScount Hall, First Lord of the
Admiralty. went aboard to make
a brief official welcoming speech.
Then relatives of the 72-man
crew swarmed up the gangplank
and there were hugs and kisses
all around. ..-.-
The odyssey of the Amethyst
began last April 20. when Com
munist shore batteries raked her
in the Yangtse River. leaving her
aground with II dead. !
For more than two months the
little ship lay there, unable to
move because Of the guns trained
on her.
Then on July 20 her skipper. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Britain viii Reimburse
Exchange Teachers in U. 5,
By the Associated Press

LONDON. Nov. 1.-The new
low dollar rate for the pound may
keep British schoolmarms from
teaching in some American schools
next year but will not affect the
living standards Of those already
In the United States.
Sir John Maud, permanent Sec
rotary of the Ministry Of Educa-
ton, said yesterday it is too early
to tell what effect devaluation will
have on exchange next year.
But British teachers already in
the United States IN an exchange
system need not worry. They'll get
enough extra pounds SO they'll
still have $4,000 a year, Sir John
said at q teachers luncheon.
There have been rumors that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
kirkland Takes Oath
As judge. on Monday

James r. Kirkland will take his
oath as judge of the United States
District Court at a ceremony at
10 am. Monday in the courthouse.
The oath will be administered by
Chief Judge Bolitha j. Laws.
Mr.. Kirkland today submitted
his resignation as general coun-
sci of the Senate District Com
mittee. His place there is being
filled by AL Wheeler "for the time
being" under plans announced by
District Committee Chairman
Nicely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Kansas City Bookie
Says He Spent $1,000
To See Inauguration
BY the Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Nov. IAN ex-
convict told a Federal grand jury
he spent 3,000-much of it on
clothes-to attend President Tru-
mans Inauguration.
The jury is investigating UNDER
world activities in Kansas City.
Max Ducov, who described him.
self as working lin what you call
handbook operations. baseball
and football" was questioned
about his income tax payments.
He was asked how the trip to
Washington could cost $4,000.
Il bought some Clothes" Duvoc
replied. Il bought 5000 or $700
worth. I bought high silk hat.
I bought tails and I bought some
stiff shirts and an overcoat I wore
once-and I'll probably have to
give it to the Salvation Army. !
wouldn't wear it again.
And I bought a hat, Of course.
I had to be appropriate and. of
course, had to be up-to-date.
After so years. why that is once
in a lifetime"
Ducov testified Friday. A tran
script of his testimony was filed
in District Court yesterday in con-
nection with a contempt citation
against him.
Ducov and another witness,
Nathan L. Basin, also testified
that Charlie fBinaggio shared in
profits from q beer distributing
business in exchange for influence.
Binaggio Is chief contender for
control Of the old Pendergast
political machine. His group is
opposed by a faction headed by
James Pendergast. nephew of the
late boss Tom Pendergast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01

the Britons would have to return
before this year is up. because
of a money shortage. They left
here with $500 each-the equiva-
lent of $4,000 under the old rate.
Devaluation of the pound Sep
TENDER Is cut the value Of their
$500 to $1,400.
Under the exchange system.
about 100 teachers from each
country swap jobs for a year, to
learn about each others methods
and students.
Americans teaching in Britain
benefited from devaluation, as
did other Americans here who
are paid on dollar basis. Their
dollars now buy about 80 per cent
more than formerly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
Diplomat Found Dead

ATHENS, Nov. l (P.-Argen
tine Charge d'Affaires Ernesto
Diehl, 80, was found dead today
In his hotel room Of what police
termed self-inflicted wounds. His
wrists were slashed. A source
close to the Argentine Embassy
said Diehl recently had received
instructions to return to Argen-
tina, but did not wish to 60 back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
South Africu Lacks Gut

There's q shortage Of gut in
South Africa and rackets for ten
mis-, squash and badminton are
going unstrung, because Of the
import control pinch. Cape Town
reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01

Grebes are usually called dab
chicks" "dildappers," Hell divers"
and water witches" They are
diving birds related to the loon
family.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
Ground Breaking Ceremony To Mark
Start OF Work On College Gymnasium

A ground breaking ceremony will
lead the way for work on the new
$250,000 gymnasium auditorium ac-
cording to President Ramseyer. The
date for this Isl expected to be some
time during the last week of May
as construction will begin June l..
Detailed plans for the occasion
will be announced later.
Robert Miller contracting firm will
erect the building. It was emphasized
that various phases of the building
would be completed only as the funds
are available. Only half of the ne
cessary amount is available now.
The hope is to have some parts OF
the building ready for use at the
beginning of the school year next
fall.
Walls of the new gym-auditorium
will be of concrete block, faced with
brick TO harmonic with the Other
buildings on campus. Ware and Con
rad are the architects selected By
the Building Committee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
College To Start
Radio RrOadcdsts

A series of radio broadcasts by
Bluffton college music and speech
talent will be inaugurated soon over
WILMA, Lima, it was announced by
the administration this week. Altho
plans are incomplete as yet, the
series of weekly half hour programs
will probably begin around the first
of March and run to the middle of
May. Arrangements are in the
hands of Professors Russell A. Lantz
of the music department and William
Burbick of the speech department.
The majority of the programs will
be musical although occasional
dramas and special features will be
included as they can be prepared.
Continuity and announcing viii be in
the hands of the college.
Programs will originate in the
WILMA studios except for an occa-
sional on-campus broadcast. Work
on the campus studio in Science Hall
has ceased temporarily but will be
resumed during the summer to per-
NIT an expanded program of campus
broadcasts next fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
Flying To Europe
For Relief Work

Four Bluffton College students
are going to Europe this summer to
do relief work in Germany. Aldine
Zimmerman, Lois Rich, Dorothy
Hurley, and Carlton Sauder will go
to Messiah Bible College in Penn
sylvania, where they will gather with
other young people of the United
States planning to do relief work,
for an orientation program June
1912. Their trip to Europe will be
made by plane, leaving New York
City, June IA.
Preceding the month of relief
work will be visits through England,
France, Belgium, and the Neither
lands. Students from other parts of
Europe will accompany them in
their work in Germany.
Visits to Switzerland and Italy
viii also be made by the group be-
fore flying home from Rome on
August 25.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
Scouting Started
Here IS Years Ago

Scouting in Bluffton started short
" after the national Boy Scout
organization began its activities 80
years ago.
The first local troop was organized
about 1912 with the late DIR. J. S.
Steiner, local physician, as the first
scoutmaster.
Other scoutmasters here have
been: Armin Hauenstein, Steiner
Geiger, Turley Rupright, Dwight
Murray, Robert Schaeublin, Karl
Gable, Paul Wingate, Woodrow Lit
tie, Eugene Benroth and Wade
Shook.
Scouting here has not had an un-
interrupted existence. Many troops
have been forced to quit activities
because of lack of interest on the
part of boys and sometimes on the
part of leadership.
In the history of scouting locally,
the American Legion has been spon-
oO1S OI IfOot ILOI tioopS, WftA fii
several instances churches acting as
the sponsoring organization.
Summer camping always has been
an important vacation activity of the
scouts. In the early years popular
camping locations were Indian lake,
Lake Erie and Old Mans Cave, but
in the last decade Bluffton scouts
have gone to the Shawnee Area
Council camp near Defiance.
Practically all members OF
present day troops are uniformed, a
decided change from the scouting
| activities in early days here when
only a small portion of scouts owned
uniforms.
During their activities over more
than a decade, scout troops have met
in the town hall, the Legion hall
school buildings, churches and in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
ADULT LEADER
SHIP WOULD PERMIT SCOUT
EXPANSION HERE
Concluded from page u

week.
Local observance of the week
opened last Sunday morning when
Scouts attended the First Mennonite
church in body. The church,
sponsor of the troop, was the first
Mennonite church in the United
States to sponsor scouting activity.
In Civic Day
Bluffton scouts also will participate
in Allen county's civic day 'observ-
ance to be held this Friday in con-
nection with Boy Scout week. On
that day, scouts from all parts of
the county will take over Allen
county offices in Lima.
Bluffton scouts who will be on the
roster of honorary officials during
the day will be Don Badertscher,
star scout; Bruce Hauenstein, first
class scout, and Don Tripplehorn,
star scout.
Members of the troop include Joe
Smucker, first class; Karl Klassen,
second class; John Tripplehorn, star;
Don Tripplehorn, first class; Fred
Habegger, first class; David sBixel,
star; Mari Watkins, tenderfoot; Don
Badertscher, patrol leader and star
scout; James Green, tenderfoot; John
Koch, tenderfoot.
Richard Patterson, Life; Bruce
Hauenstein, first class; Ronnie Coma
way, second class; Joe Joseph,
tenderfoot; Frederick Basing r,
tenderfoot; James Henderson, tender
foot; John Murray, tenderfoot; and
Dean Badertscher, tenderfoot.
Troop Committee
Troop Committee members include
Karl Gable, chairman; Armin Hauen-
stein, Ralph Badertscher, Gordon
Bixel, Robert Luginbuhl, Robert
Ewing and Paul Wingate.
Assisting Acting Scoutmaster Her
man Hilty are John Tripplehorn,
junior assistant scoutmaster; David
Bixel, senior patrol leader; Richard
Patterson, scribe, and Ronnie Coma
way, quartermaster.
The troop meets every Monday
night in the basement of the First
Mennonite church.
During the past year, IT members
of the local scout troop attended the
summer council camp at Defiance.
The camp will be vastly improved
for next summer, for a $4,000 i'm
provement program is drawing to a
close.
Added to camp facilities are two
executive homes, a new dining hail.
a new trading post, new water
system and new road. A complete
modern kitchen maintained at thc
camp has a walk-in cold storage
locker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
BIuftOn Holds
Eagle Scout Record

With II youths from here qualify
ing as Eagle Scouts during the last
decade, Bluffton holds the record for
the largest number of scouts of that
rank in the Shawnee Area Council,
considering the number of participat-
ing scouts.
Bluffton scouts qualifying for the
Eagle award during the last 10
years include Bill Amstutz, Robert
Oberly, John Schmidt, Bill Mericle,
Dean Niswander, Maynard Pogue,
Robert Stratton, Don Augsburger,
Charles Triplehorn, Otto Klassen,
Robert Ramseyer and Gene Patter-
son.
Earlier two scouts had won Eagle
rank: Robert Schaeublin and Donald
Fenton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
Leaves Teaching
For Industry job

Stanly F. Steiner, son of E. p.
Steiner east of Bluffton, recently
resigned his position as instructor
in industrial engineering at Ohio
State university 10 accept a position
as method superintendent in charge
of the method department of the
Oliver corporation at Springfield,
Ohio, manufacturers of farm ma
chinery and industrial tractors.
The department includes method
improvements, time study, wage
evaluation, process and tool engin.
eering, plant layout and other fea.
lures. The plant employs $50 peo
pie.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
BENJAMIN GossnaGn
Rites On SATURDAY.

Benjamin Gossman, II, retired
Beaverdam painter, died of compli-
cations last Wednesday in Lima st.
Rita's hospital.
Funeral services were held last
Saturday afternoon in st. Paul's
Lutheran church of near Jenera, of
which Gossman was a member. Rev.
Z. G. Alderman officiated. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
Born in Van Buren, township,
Hancock county, Gossman was mar
ried on July s, 1900, to Mary Bor-
mouth, who survives. Among other
survivors are five daughters and five
sons. One of the daughters is Mrs.
Luella Bosse, of Jenera.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10

quarters of the Bluffton Sportsmen's,
club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
In MemOriam

In loving memory of our mother,
Mrs. Eva E. Patterson who depart
ed this life February IL, 1916.
Death laid its hand upon you,
1t was the Masters will;
But the hearts that always loved you
Dear Mother-love you still.
Your memory we will cherish
As the times roll so swiftly by;
Some day we hope to meet you again
In the realms beyond the sky.
Her Children
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-10
College Lectures
By Don Sn,ucker

Religious Emphasis Week will be
observed by Bluffton college March
IA. The speaker will be Pev. Don
Smucker, a former graduate of
Bluffton College and now a professor
at the Mennonite Biblical Seminary
at Chicago. He will give two address
es each day, one during the chapel
period and the other in the evening.