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Evening star., 1949-09-17

their complaints along with Mrs
Kline. The scrawlings, sometimes
written in lipstick and at others
in eyebrow pencil or fingernail
polish. have appeared in Mrs.
Klines apartment building; the
RCA Building. 1925 Nineteenth
street NV, where she works as
a teletypist; the Governor Shep-
herd Apartments, 2121 Virginia
avenue NV. and the Colorado
Building. Fourteenth and G
streets NV. Some of her friends
either live. or work in the latter
two buildings.
These agencies have looked into
the case. without apparent sue
cess so far: Naval Intelligence,
postal inspectors. 3 police pre-
cincts, the Woman's Bureau, de-
tective headquarters. and the
United States Attorneys office.
While Mr.. King, at one point in
his hearing. declared the chain
Of circumstances points in only
one direction" he withheld filing
charges, pending questioning of
further witnesses. Such action
may be taken before the end of
the month, he said later,
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Woman AI|ergic to Husband
She Loves Granted AnnuIment
Broke Out. in Rush
From Head to Toe
While With Him
by the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17.-Love
|conquers all but allergy.
That is the story Of Mrs. Joyce
G. Holdridge, ~. who had to give
up the husband she loved because,
actually. she couldn't stand him.
Her two-year marriage to Nolan
H. Holdridge. 26, San Francisco
matchmaker. was annulled yester-
day after she testified:
Il spent most of my time in
hospitals. My condition was
finally diagnosed as neuroder-
mathis due to my being allergic
to my husband. I was told that
there was no cure as long as I
continued associating with my
husband.
whenever I was with him, I
would break out in a rash from
head to toe. This would clear up
"A hours after I left him. -. But
1t would recur even at the men
ton Of his name"
She had absolutely no COM
plant about her husbands con-
duct.
The court, which earlier had
denied her . divorce decree be-
cause she could not prove
cruelty" within the meaning Of
the law. commended Mrs. Hol-
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Case of Defamation Campaign
Against D. 6. Woman Probed

A 4-month defamation cam
paign aimed at q 42-year-ol6
Washington divorce who has
been the target of obscene lip
stick scrawlings on walls OF
buildings here. today was being
investigated by the Corporation
Counsel's Office.
Chief Municipal Court Counsel
Clark King is conducting the
investigation. Eight other en-
forcement agencies have investi-
gated the case since last March.
The scrawlings, which have ap-
peared on the hall and lavatory
walls Of four buildings up to
September 3, all have been deroga-
tory Of Mrs. Frances Kline, of
the Cleland Apartments, 3l8
Rhode Island avenue NE. In
addition, Mrs. Kline and nearly
a dozen friends and relatives have
received numerous anonymous let
ters and telephone calls all of q
disparaging, if not indecent, ma
ture.
At a hearing in the prosecutors
office yesterday nearly 10 persons,
including building owners, voiced
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Job Insurance Claims
Reach 6-Month Low

Unemployment insurance claims
during the week ending September
10 dropped to the lowest level
since early April and indicated a
continued slackening in industrial
layoffs. the Labor Departments
Bureau Of Employment Security
reported today.
The Labor Day holiday ac-
counted for some of the decline in
volume OF new jobless compensa-
ton claims that week. Robert c.
Goodwin, bureau director, ex-
planned. But the $4,000 initial
claims fled by newly unemployed
workers were 10000 fewer than
during the previous week and
about 124. 900 below initial claims
In mid-July, he said.
The number Of initial claims
also was the lowest for any seven
day period since November q.
Continued, claims, representing
claimants out Of work for a full
week or more. declined to 1901 =
200. This was q reduction of
about 171,000 from the previous
week and the lowest since April 8.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Fed Up With Barbed Wire, :
Reich Red Chiefs Son Saws
BY the Associoted Press

by fhe ASSociofed Press
AHLEN. Germany. Sept. IT,
Joseph Reimann, %, son of West
Germany's Communist leader,
who fed the Soviet zone. says he
did it because my opinion about
freedom is different" from his
fathers.
I'm fed up with uniforms and
barbed wire" said young Rel
mann, who had served as a mem
Der Of the soviet-supported volks-
polizei (people's police after his
release as a Russian war prisoner.
Fed Up With Barbed Wire
At Dusseldorf, his father, Max
Reimann assailed those who made
political capital of his sons
fight. TT is well known" he said,
that I had no influence in the
education of my son during the
time of Hitler's regime. The last
time I saw him he was three years
old"
Reimann asserted that his son
was imprisoned by the Nazis and
became the subject of Nazi edu-
cation with all its militaristic and
nationalistic tendencies"
A British statement on Rel.
manns escape quoted him as say
ing, 7 wanted to escape from the
terror In the East zone, and es-
pecially from the East Zone
police"
Evening star., 1949-09-17
FEC 10 Compare Color "
Systems Before LICENSING
by the Assoeio;ed Press

The Federal Communications
Commission will compare various
color teleyision systems side by
side before deciding which one
If any-to license for regular
broadcasting.
The agency said yesterday that,
as part Of FEC hearings into the
subject starting September 26,
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn will demonstrate its method
Of transmitting color TV on
October 7, while the Radio Corp.
of America will get its chance
October 10.
Then, the FEC said, those two
companies and any other offering
color transmission proposals will
be asked to set up their demon
strations together for comparative
purposes.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Mrs. Doheny Sells Oil Well
Interests for $35,550,ooo
By the Assoeio,sd prsss

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 17.-Mrs.
Carrie Estelle Doheny, widow of
Edward l.. Doheny. the oil mag
nate. has sold her Fresno County
holdings for $35, 5000
Her interest in 2,570 acres and
u producing wells was purchased
yesterday by Nassau Associates,
Inc, of New York, a subsidiary
of Dillon. Read g. Co. Nassau
Associates entered into a long
term contract with Union Oil Co.
Of California under which Union
will take the entire production
from three fields, the Coalinga
Nose, Pleasant Valley and Gui-
jarral.
The first two fields are yielding
about 5000 barrels of high gravity
oil daily, Nassau said. Guijarral
Is still under DEVELOPMENT.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
|Lehman's 5 Statement
On barden School Bill
Declared 'MisIeadinq'

Glenn L. Archer executive di-
rector of Protestants and Other
Americans United for Separation
of Church and State. today as
sailed as misleading" statements
made yesterday by former Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman Of New York
and Mayor William ODwyer of
New York criticizing the Barden
House aid-to-education bill.
Gov. Lehman and Mayor
|O'Dwyer had attacked the Barden
Bill on the grounds it would pre-
vent use of Federal funds for pa
rochial schools. Their views were
given at a meeting Of the New
York State Democratic committee
which nominated Gov. Lehman
as the party's candidate for
United States Senator for the
state.
1T is only by twisted process
of logic that a bill which would
aid public schools can be called
discriminatory" Mr.. Archer de-
clared. THE public schools dis
criminate against no one-chil-
dren of all faiths attend them.
The Thomas aid-to-education bill,
which Mr.. Lehman indorses, would
allow use of tax funds contributed
by citizens Of all faiths to be used
by certain States in support of
sectarian schools.
For his part. Mr.. O'Dwyer
brings forth once more the
thread-bare argument that Cath
olic parents pay taxes, so why
shouldn't the Government support
Catholic parochial schools? Ac-
cording to this argument, no one
should be required to pay q tax
who does not receive a direct,
personal benefit therefrom. This
would mean that single persons,
or parents, who do not have chill
dren Of school age. could demand
exemption from payment Of taxes
which 60 to support the public
schools, or else a rebate on those
taxes. If the Mayor invoked this
rule in New York City. anarchy
would result"
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Wallace Predicts End
OF Free Enterprise
States Anarchy
BY The Associotsd Press

CLEVELAND. Sept. 17.-Henry
A. Wallace declared today 1.-THE
anarchy of the free enterprise
state is bound to come to an end
from its own instability"
THE chief question. continued
the Progressive Party's 1948 presi-
dental candidate, has been
whether the emerging general well
fare state should be based on
democratic or totalitarian prin-
ciples.
The contention of the Pro-
gressive Party is that it is i'm
possible to develop =" any place
in the world a general welfare
state based on democratic prin-
ciples as long as the cold war
is going on"
Progressive Party Conference.
Mr.. Wallace addressed the Pro-
gresslve Party's National Con-
ference on Jobs and the Economic
Crisis.
Neither Republican nor Demo-
cratic) patry can bring into being
a continuing democratic welfare
state" he said. They both, in
the final analysis, will come out
in exactly the same place as long
as they have the same attitude
with regard to foreign policy"
In an earlier session, the party's
National Committee expressed the
belief that Gov. Dewey of New
York "white-washed" law officials
in the recent Peekskill IN. "
concert violence.
Charge Against Dewey.
1t also charged him with turn
ing over an investigation of the
affair Ito the local officials who
themselves bear major RESPONSE
bility for the violence which oc-
Cured"
The incidents happened on two
successive week ends. They were
occasioned by the appearance of
Paul Robson, Negro baritone
identified with left-wing groups.
The party also blamed the "war-
breeding, hate-breeding and intol-
Grant foreign policy" of Demo-
cratic Party leaders for the
fracases, terming the violence "a
part Of the alarming pattern of
budding fascism in America"
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Professor Describes
His Fight With Nurse
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

COLUMBIA. s. c., Sept. 17.-A
meek looking little professor, who
says the nurse he loved two-timed
him, was ready to tell q jury more
about their intimate" relation
ship today.
He was scheduled to return to
the stand in the fourth day Of his
trial on charges Of burglary with
intent to murder Ann B. Pierce,
IS, who was brutally pistol
whipped.
Russell B. Maxey testified yes
terday that he heard Miss Pierce
tell another man: Honey, wish
you were lying here beside me
again" and call him an imprint
able name.
She didn't know he was listen
ing, the University Of South Caro-
lima engineering teacher declared,
because he was lying on the floor
beside her bed as she talked on
the telephone to DR.. John Harvin.
DR.. Harvin is a young baby spe-
cialiSt who says he dated the
buxom brunette two or three times
before August 3. That is the date
she claims Maxey beat her on the
head with a pistol.
Maxey, who gave his age as
approximately 40." insisted that
he was ready and willing to
marry" Miss Pierce up to the min
ute he heard her talk to DR..
Harvin.
He said he had been giving her
money to make payments on her
home, and sometimes he spent the
night there with her.
II thought in the eyes of God
we were man and wife" he de-
clared.
Maxey was separated from his
wife at the time. Mrs. Maxey has
sat by his side throughout the
trial. however.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
VA Sets New Barriers
To AimIess Use Of 81
Benefits for Education
by the Assoeioisd Press

The Veterans Administration
set up q new barrier today against
aimless use Of CT Bill education
benefits.
Veterans Administrator Gray,
ruled that veterans who have
completed or discontinued courses
OF training, and now wish to re-
sumo it. must prove that the new
course Is not avocational or recrea-
tional. and Is essential to the en-
ployment objective.
Veterans Administration ap-
propiation acts for 1s49 and 1850
prohibit the agency from spending
any money for courses which the
administrator determines to be
recreational or avocational.
Approval Must Be Given.
Mr.. Gray said no payments for
sutton. books, subsistence or
other purposes will be made for
any period before VA approval is
granted.
More than 4.5oo.oo World War
II veterans who have taken GI
Bill training at one time or an
other, he said, are not presently in
school.
Several hundred thousands of
these have temporarily interrupt
ed their courses for summer vaca-
tionS or other valid reasons. They
are not affected by the new regu-
lation, as far as resuming courses
for the fall semester is concerned.
Mr.. Gray added mail-order
schools and part-time courses
that lead to no definite educa-
tional goal" to the list Of courses
that require justification before a
veteran may enroll In them under
the GI bill.
Applications Of Rulings.
The same ruling for the past
year has applied to:
!. Courses In dancing, photog-
faphy. glider-operation. bartend-
Ing. personality development. en-
tertainment, flying and other
courses that are frequently used
tor avocational or recreational
purposes.
2. Courses In music. public
speaking, sports and athletics, ex-
eept those regularly offered by
colleges for credit as an integral
part Of q course.
:. All single subject courses not
part Of . general educational or
training program leading to a
definite objective.
Mr.. Gray also has placed on
this Observation-Disclosures" list
any vocational course offered by q
school established after passage
Of the GI bill June ~, 1914.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Mrs. Melissa Porter,
Mother Of Minister,
Dies at Son S Home

Mrs. Melissa B. Porter, rs.
mother Of the Rev. Harry v.
Porter, pastor Of the Westminster
Memorial Presbyterian Church,
434 Seventh street S.W., died yes
terday at the home of her son,
SIT c street S.W., after q long
illness.
Mrs. Porter, who was known to
her friends as Mela. was born in
Pittsburgh. A graduate Of Penn
sylvania College for Women in
Pittsburgh. she did graduate work
at Bryn Mawr College. She had
been active in Red Cross activities
in Pittsburgh and social welfare
work since coming here in 1910.
Her husband, the late Charles p.
Porter. at one time was a Govern
ment engineer with the Ohio VAL
ley Authority.
Mrs. Porter was q member Of
the Westminster Mem morial
Church and the Colloquinn Club
a social organization in Pitts
burgh.
. Mrs. Porter is survived by two
other sons. Charles A., Pitts
burgh, and George c. Porter
Summit. N. j.; a daughter, Mrs
Edna Lipscomb. Lexington, KY:
eight grandchildren and two
|great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
IS pm. tomorrow at the Lee fu-
neral home. Fourth street and
Massachusetts, avenue NE. Bur-
ial will be private.
DR.. Hillman Hollister. pastor
of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church, will conduct the services.
Evening star., 1949-09-17

welfare funds stafI intact, for
the time being anyway.
Mr.. Van Horn, a longtime
representative OF the coal oper-
ators. was reported about ready
to retire from the busines en-
tirely. He returned to Cleveland,
where he refused to comment on
his quitting.
A big. hulking man, Mr.. Van
Horn for years had battled Mr..
Lewis as q leading negotiator for
mine owners. Until he became
q trustee he served as chairman
OF joint operator-union wage
talks.
The tone of his letter Of resig-
nation strongly indicated that he
is at odds now with the operators.
It was dated September 14-indi-
eating that yesterdays trustee
meeting had nothing to do with
his decision to step out.
Arkansas Decision Is Blow.
1T is my intention" Mr.. Van
Horn wrote. Ito resign as prompt
1y as possible regardless Of wheth-
er or not you designate a success
sor.
ITO that end I intend, If a sue
cessor is not appointed in a rea-
sonable time, to take appropriate
court action in order to have my
trusteeship terminated and q sue
cessor appointed"
On top Of all this turmoil in the
coal picture. Mr.. Lewis had an
other worry.
This was the effect Of a Federal
court decision at Fort Smith. Ark
The court ruled that contracts re-
quiring all miners to be union
members are illegal in States hav-
ing laws barring such require.
ments.e Such States, besides Ar
kansas, include Tennessee, Texas
Virginia. Alabama and Iowa.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Western Democrats
Gather for Meetino:
u. ). Leaders 10 Speak
BY the Associoisd Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IT.
San Francisco hasn't seen so
many Democratic leaders since the
party's 1920 convention here.
They're in town-and more are
coming-for the Western States
Democratic Conference tomorrow
and Monday. An estimated 1000
Democrats from II States, Hawaii
and Alaska will set in on a busy
round of panel discussions,
speeches and banquets.
Theme of the off season get
together is Land. Water and
Jobs"
The conference is intended as a
Voice of the West''-to tell WASH
ington Of the fast stepping growth
and the problems of the big area
stretching from the Rockies to
the Pacific.
Unofficially, the theme is also
Politics and the 1850 Campaign"
DdTkley VIII SPEAK.
What the delegates have to say
will be directed to Vice President
Barkley, four cabinet members and
other key Washington figures. Mr..
Barkley is scheduled to be the
principal speaker at the final Mon
day night meeting.
Secretaries Sawyer, Commerce:
Tobin, Labor; Brannan, Agri-
culture, and Krug, Interior, will
participate in the panel discus
sions on such subjects as land,
water, power, resources and jobs"
The list of panel leaders include
Leon Keyserling, vice chairman of
President Truman's Council of
Economic Advisers; James v. Pat
ten, national president, Farmers
Union, and Interior Undersecre-
tary Oscar Chapman.
But Calvin w. Rawlings of Salt
Lake City, executive chairman of
the conference, didn't hesitate to
say there would be plenty of prac-
tical politics.
To Study Overall Program.
There will be quiet some de-
tailed planning for a grass roots
campaign to get out the votes
IN the off year of 1850" he said.
I'VE will consider an overall pro-
gram-not, of course, individual
candidates."
And John M. Redding, publicity
director of the Democratic Ma
tlonal Committee. declared:
1T will be the biggest Demo-
cratic meeting since the 1948 Ma
tlonal convention. and the biggest
Democratic gathering ever held
in the West outside of a National
convention.
ut is being held because the
westward shift of population is
accompanied by similar shift of
political power"
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Atlanta Judge Admits
He Wanted 10 Get His
Hands on Lockwood
BY the Assoeioied Press

ATLANTA, Sept. 17.-Judge
Robert Carpenter told a jury try
ing him for attempted murder
that he wanted to get my hands
on" John Lockwood when he saw
the attorney drive up with Mrs.
Carpenter all cuddled up against
him"
The 44-year-old Civil Court
jurist hadn't intended to shoot, he
testified yesterday. but did SO
when, he said. Mr.. Lockwood
reached with his right arm as to
draw a weapon.
And. he tearfully told the Jurors,
Gentlemen, If ever a man was
justified. believe I was"
Only a few hours before, he
said, his pretty 20-year-old STEP
daughter Barbara had told him
weepingly Of being forced to leave
a bedroom where the attorney was
visiting her drunken mother.
He added he received an anony-
nous telephone call reporting that
Mr.. Lockwood. his erstwhile
friend. and Mrs. Carpenter had
Just left a tourist court together.
Drove to Apartment.
Mr.. Lockwood, attorney TO,
Mrs. Carpenter in a divorce suit
testified earlier they had been Out
looking for the judge and "an-
other woman" in the tourist
court.
1t was then past midnight or
July n and the jurist said he took
his revolver and drove rapidly tc
his wife's apartment.
What he saw infuriated him, Ne
continued. but he waited until the
attorney left. then drove alongside
him and shouted. Lockwood, ]
want to see you"
In the shooting that followed
Mr.. Lockwood was wounded in the
face by shattered glass and bullet
fragments. He was additionally
injured when. leaping from his car
and fleeing. he fell into a 30-foot-
deep building excavation.
Testifies for Two Hours.
In two hours Of eloquent testi-
mony. Judge Carpenter pictured
himself as an indulgent husband
and father and the Innocent VIC
tim Of a double-cross in love and
business.
Golden-b blond Miss CARPENTER
preceded him to testify that Mr..
Lockwood, former Philadelphia
lawyer. had wormed himself into
her mothers confidence and af-
fection.
She also described the bedroom
scene with the attorney and said
she had been forced to move from
her mothers home because all
she could talk about was what
John said.'"
The trial is in recess until Mon
day.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Gunderson Appointed
Glenn Martin Director
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. ,l7.-Har-
vey J. Gunderson. a director OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corp,
yesterday was named q director
of the Glenn L. Martin Co.
The big Baltimore company is
q heavy borrower from the RFC.
Many OF the negotiations have
been carried on with Mr.. Gunder-
son.
Elected along with him to the
board were Chester F. Hockey,
president Of the Dawson Chem
ical Co. Of. Baltimore. and Daniel
A.. Evatt, financial vice president
Of the Martin company.
Evening star., 1949-09-17

time does not permit" Mr.. Ching
replied.
He said what he hopes to do Il
arrive at a general formula
which the various steel companie,
may then be able to woSk out with
the union.
Hoped for Bargaining.
Mr.. Ching said he had expected
both sides would get into col
lective bargaining after the board
report came out, without his hay
ing to enter the case.
Mr.. Ching said that the en-
suing debate by telegraph as to
the appropriate terms and condi-
tions under which bargaining
should take place" made it neces-
sary for him to step in.
Whatever may be the reasons
for the current misunderstand-
ing" Mr.. Ching said, 1T Is de-
plorable that it has arisen"
None Of the steel firms have
fatty refused to accept the fact
finders report. All have said they
are willing to negotiate If not
committed in advance to paying
the full cost of pensions and in
surance.
The companies seek a plan in
which the workers as well as the
employers will share the cost.
United States Steel has said II
will pay up to 4 cents an hour
Inland Steel Of Chicago has Of
fered a plan which 1t says would
cost the company 10 cents an hour
but 1t demands ernploye par
ticipation. # i
1t is this fundamental difference
OF opinion that Mr.. Ching must
overcome in conferences starting
Monday.
Most Of the major steel COM
panies already have told Mr.. Muir
ray how they feel. Late yesterday
Republic Steel Corp wired Mr.
Murray 1t would not accept the
Fact-Finding Board recommends
ttons as q prerequisite to resum-
ing bargaining.
I'VE have grave doubts regard
ing soundness boards recon-
mendation," the telegram said
including the recommendation
social insurance and pension
should be financed solely by the
employer"
Republic said it was ready to
resume bargaining but that it be-
lieved an insurance program
should be financed jointly, with
the company chipping in up to
4 cents an hour.
Youngstown Sheet g. Tube Co.,
through its president, Frank Pur-
nell, wired:
I'VE have advised your repre-
sentative Of our willingness to
start Immediately with collective
bargaining on the question Of So
cial insurance with obligations by
the company of participating sub
stantially in a contributory plan
to cover the cost"
Mr.. Purnen added that Young
stown also was willing to study q
pension plan.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
|Womun Lives Alone
On Irish Island

Mrs. Elizabeth Clerkin, sole in
habitant Of Cottage Island in
Lough Gill. Erie, rows 4 miles
to Sligo once q week to collect
her pension and groceries. Then
she rows back to her island home
and the solitude she enjoys.
, Her only companions are the
sea birds. She has no radio and
seldom sees a newspaper.
Evening star., 1949-09-17

bridges refusal to trump up
charges"
In granting the annulment, Su-
perior Judge Ray Brockmann
said: Courts may be forced to
recognize what medical science
has discovered-that such aller-
gies as Mrs. Holdridge complains
of are fact and not a caprice"
Mrs. Holdridge showed no sign
Of her allergy in court.
Her husband had remained 400
miles away in San Francisco.