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Evening star., 1949-07-24
7 u. :. Students Quizzed
In Mexico Staying
By the Associotsd Press

SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE
Mexico, July 23.-TWo American
art students were questioned to-
day in connection with the violent
death yesterday of Leonard Eur
mis-, "a, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Jose Herrera, district attorney,
said Mr.. Zurnis was found dead
early yesterday morning at the
home of Daniel McHugh. 26, OF
Pittsburgh. Pa.
The coroner's report said he
died of a fracture of the base
of the skull. His nose was broken
and his face was battered as
though he had been in a flst
fight, the report said.
Mr.. McHugh and his wife,
Joan, %. both students at the
San Miguel School OF Fine Arts
were questioned by Mr.. Herrera
today in a preliminary examina-
ton of the case.
Mr.. Zurnis was buried yester-
day in the cemetery here. He was
a student at the San Miguel
school under the CT bill.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
By the Associoted Press

GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 23.-
Nelson E. Schultz, 26, blind war
veteran, and his 11-year- old
brother are held by a coroner S
jury with being responsible for the
death of another brother, 4, in a
truck accident.
State Policeman David James
said today he filed charges against
Mr. Nelson and the brother, Merle,
in connection with the fatal acci-
dent while the family was on a
cherry picking jaunt.
Barry Schultz was killed and six
other members of the family were
hurt when the truck overturned
on a muddy mountain road July
I18
Mr.. James said he filed a charge
of driving a truck without an
operators license against Merle
and permitting an unlicensed op-
orator to drive his truck against
Mr.. Nelson.
Mr.. James reported Mr. Nelson
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Man, 33, Talked Down
After Tower Acrobatics
By the Assoeioted Press

MINNEAPOLIS, July ga So
year-old man did acrobatics atop
a 3O0-foot steel radio tower for
nearly three hours tonight before
police talked him into coming
down.
Police identified the climber as
Stephen Franczak of Minneapolis.
He was taken Immediately to Gen.
eral Hospital for observation.
Several thousand spectators
packed nearby streets as Franczak
did headstands. clung to the tower
with one hand and made the tower
sway with his antics.
Extra police were called to keep
traffic moving. o.
Franczak first was seen doing
a headstand on the tower about Z
pm. 1t was 9:25 pm. when he
came down and leaped about 20
feet into the arms of waiting
police.
Police Sergt Arvid Dahl tried
to get Franczak to come down but
FrancZak scurried back to the top.
Police said they believed Franc
Yak was the same man who tried
similar stunts on the tower about
a year ago.
The tower is located at Sixth
street south and Portland avenue
near General Hospital.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Father Of ; Held in Beating
Of Son with Belt Buckle

A 34-year-old father of three
children was arrested last night
and charged with drunkenness
and cruelty to children after his
wife complained he had severely
beaten his 11-year-old son with a
belt, police said.
The man, Beverly P. Davis, jr..
was arrested at the Davis home,
TIL Tuckerman street NV, after
police were summoned from the
home of Mrs. Davis mother. Mrs.
Alice Thompson. at 728 Somerset
place NV. Mrs. Thompson said
Mrs. Davis came there with her
children following the alleged
beating of her son, Robert.
The boy was taken from the
Somerset place address to Walter
Reed Hospital, where Mrs. Davis
works as a switchboard operator.
He was released after being
treated for bruises on his head
and side, and for a possible frac-
tured nose. Police said Robert
told them his father had beaten
him about the face and head with
belt and buckle.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Blind Veteran and Brother, II,
Blamed in Fatal Truck Crash

has 10 days to answer the charge
filed with Magistrate William L.
Dentler at nearby Cashtown.
Merle's case will be turned over to
the Juvenile Court.
Mr.. James said Mr.. Nelson drove
the truck because no other men,
ber of the family knew how to
drive. Mr.. Nelson, blinded in
World War II, operated the brakes
and gas pedal of the truck and
Merle sat on his lap and steered
Mr.. James reported.
The coroner's jury last night
said in it's verdict weather con-
ditions, Merle Schultz inexperi-
ence and his obstructed vision
with operating responsibility di-
vided, were the causes of the &C
cident."
Mr.. Nelson had no operator S
license, since he was disqualified
for one.
District Attorney Danile E
Teeter said he is delaying until
next week a decision on whether
to file manslaughter charges.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Newark Tuximen to Get
Descriptions of Bandits
By the Associoted Press

NEWARK, N. j., July 23.-
Public Safety Director John B.
keenan, today disclosed a police
plan to provide descriptions OF all
wanted bandits to the city's 1000
taxicab drivers.
This city will be hotter than
ever for the hoodlum who thinks
he can pick up an easy dollar at
the point of a gun or knife" Mr..
keenan, said.
Mr.. keenan, said the cab driv-
ers will in effect become private
eyes" for the police. He added
that it doesn't mean they will
spy on passengers or become anna
teur detectives.
They will, however, keep their
eyes peeled for men wanted for
l1oldups, and report suspicious tt
the police, he said.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Drugs Worth $500 Seized,
10 Held in 11th Street Raid

Members of the Metropolitan
Police narcotics squad arrested
eight men and two women last
night in a raid in the 1900 block
of Eleventh street NV.
Police said they seized S3Oo
worth of heroin and cocaine.
Detective Sergt. William Taylor
said police also seized a quantity
of syringes, needles and measur-
ing spoons.
Sergt. Taylor said customers"
entered a second-floor ante room,
where they purchased narcotics
from one of the two women. They
then went to a larger rear room,
where they took the drugs, he
declared.
The detective said So in marked
money, spent by undercover men
earlier in the day, was found in
a coin purse on the premises.
The raiders, who were accom-
panied by two United States mar
shals, carried arrest and search
warrants.
The suspects, all of whom are
colored, were held for investiga-
ton.
Evening star., 1949-07-24

the new high school on the north
side of Culpeper.
Included in the line of March
will be a group of Pamunkey In
dians from the reservation near
West Point, Va. Led by Chief
Tecumseh Deerfoot. the Indians
also will dance in the first scene
of the pageant.
A number of bands, including
the Quantico Marine Band. the
Ft. Belvoir Band and the Wash
ington Metropolitan Police Boys
Band, and about Is fire compa-
nies. will participate.
Other events of the celebration
will be dances at 10 pm. Thurs
day and Friday at the Pot g.
Kettle Club and a folk dance at
8 pm. Saturday in the street. A
fiddlers' contest will be held at
10 pm. Saturday.
Culpeper'S last large-scale his
torical observance was in 1928
when the Culpeper Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revo-
luton re-enacted the Tooth an
niversary of Lafayette's visit to
Greenwood and Culpeper.
Capt. Philip Slaughter. who
fought with the French general
for American independence, noted
at the time of the visit:
The man who formed his es-
cort Of honor refreshed with
drinks of iced toddy by Judge
Green, which was a favorite bev-
erage with Virginians.
Greenwood, which is situated
about a half mile south of here,
years later played host to an
other distinguished general
"Stonewall' Jackson, who had
just defeated Union forces at the
potf1o If Codor N6o,,ptoio
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Norwegian Ship limping
Toward Port Off West Coast
Nv the Associoted Press

by me RSSOCtoiSS 'cSs
SEATTLE, July 23.-The 5000
ton Norwegian motor Vessel
Skaubo, still plagued with engine
trouble, was proceeding with
hardly any speed" $50 miles OF
Cape Flattery tonight.
The Skaubo had flashed an
SOS. early this morning while
inbound from Manila with a
heavy cargo of copper and chrome
concentrates, copra and mahog-
any logs. She is bound for New
Westminster, British Columbia.
The Coast Guard reported to-
night the Skaubo had radioed
that the ship halted three time !
while limping toward port but no
Coast Guard assistance was de-
sired unless our trouble in
creases." Water was rising in her
bilges.
The freighter had listed more
than Is degrees at one time.
Cause of the listing was blamed
on a shifting of the copper con-
centrate cargo.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
By jones F. Moser

CULPEPER. Va. July 23.-
Flanked by other flags which have
flown over this Northern Virginia
town through the years. Old Glory
!fluttered from windows here to-
day, heralding the week-long Cul-
peper bicentennial celebration
which comes tomorrow.
Indicative of the pageant, "Un-
der Three Flags" which will high
light the commemoration, the
Stars and Stripes is placed be-
tween the Union Jack of Great
Britain and the Stars and Bars
of the Southern Confederacy. The
pageant will be presented Thurs
day and Friday nights at the
Rochester Ropes plant on the out
skirts of town.
A community service at the
Baptist Church at 8 pm. (e.s.tO
tomorrow will open the event
marking Culpeper's 200 years. The
Rev. Thomas w. Hooper, Presby-
terian minister here for AZ years,
will deliver the sermon.
Historical Homes to Open.
Tours of 20 historical homes in
and around Culpeper will feature
the commemoration during the
entire week. These include Green
wood, Redwood. Salubria. the
towns first brick home built in
1742. and the Horseshoe. near
Rapidan, which was erected in
1859 and now is the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius, jr.
More active observance will
begin at 1920 am. Thursday
when Lucyle Dove Humphries, IT.
year-old daughter of Mrs. c
Erskiue Strother. will be crowned
queen of the celebration by Vice
President Barkley.
The queen-designate is a linea,
descendant of Robert Green
member of the Colonial House o1
Burgesses, and a direct descendant
of Judge John Williams Green
member of the Virginia Court oi
Appeals. Judge Green owned
Greenwood and entertained Gen
Lafayette there in August, 1925.
Tuck to Review Parade.
After a luncheon for Miss
Humphries, a sophomore at Long
view College, Farmville. the BIZ
centennial parade will begin. II
will be led by Marine Maj. Gen
Lemuel c. Shepherd, jr., as grand
marshal.
Reviewing the line of march
the largest ever held in this Sec
ton, will be Gov. Tuck.
The parade will form at the
monument erected to the memory
of the famous Culpeper Minute
Men, organized here at the time
of the Revolution. It will move
through the town over Main and
Davis streets and will disband at
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Causes Of Deafness
Told in Free Book
| Available 10 Public
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Written simply and clearly, it
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You may have copy of this in
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Evening star., 1949-07-24
Franc Rises Steadily
lin Value as Pound
Continues Downs|ide
By the Associoted Press

PARIS, July 23.-Better condi-
tions in France, plus Marshall
Plan dollars, have restored the
franc nearly to its official value
while the British pound has been
slipping.
Five months ago it took $50
francs to buy a dollar on the un-
controlled black market. Today
it takes 345. The official rate is
318. The pound. officially 1000
francs. is quoted in the uncon-
trolled market at 920.
Traders and bankers do not al
low themselves to be too i'm
pressed. They are not convinced
by French officials claims that
the franc has become one of the
worlds strong currencies. They
will wait and see.
Nevertheless, the franc has
made real gains. Bankers and
traders here give these basic ex-
plantations:
l. European Recovery Program
dollars supply most of Frances
dollar needs. Equipment this
money buys is beginning to take
hold in industry. The Sollac steel
combine is installing $46,0O0.OOO
of ERP machinery in it's Lorraine
mills. The company itself is
spending 1O0,0OO.O00 francs for
similar improvements.
Investments Made Freely.
2. France has managed to keep
a central government fairly steady
for nearly a year. The improved
international situation has calmed
nerves. Frenchmen are investing
more freely.
3. Good crops cut the number
of dollars needed to buy food out
side France. Various factors have
Gained the fears of investors who
rushed last winter to convert
francs into gold. There is some
thing of a buyers market.
4. The government has pro-
hibited all buying of foreign goods
with unregistered dollar accounts.
5. France is having one of it's
best tourist seasons. about $780,
600 day pouring in.
The British say the beliefs that
they will devalue the pound has
stopped buying of British goods
that American buyers hold off in
hopes they can get $40 worth of
goods for 81 or So. To avoid
Britain's plight. the French gov
ernment permits importers and
exporters to hedge in the money
market so they won't lose in case
of further devaluation here. This
is a kind of financial insurance
to offset possible losses through
devaluation.
Exports to Dollar Area Drop.
But France is not out Of the
woods financially. Nobody can
say how the country will get along
when ERP dollars stop coming
in 1852. Exports to the dollar
area have diminished while i'm
ports from the same area were
increasing. Mostly these are paid
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Eisenhower Goes FishIess
.0n Wisconsin Vacation
by the Assoeioted Press

MINOCQUA. Wis, July 23.-
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
opened an assault on Wisconsin's
muskie lakes today-but it wasn't
all-out and it wasn't Immediately
successful.
mo fish today" reported How
ard Young of New York. at whose
summer home Gen. Eisenhower
is beginning a three-week vaca-
ton.
THE general didn't fish very
hard" his host added. He spent
much of his time visiting around
Evening star., 1949-07-24

for with ERP dollars. In April
imports from the dollar area were
20 0,600,0O0,O00 francs. Exports
earning dollars were 2,290,0O0, 1000.
Yet modernization of industry,
such as oil refineries, is begin
ming to cut down needs for dollar
imports.
Frances advantage over Eng
land is this: Her economy is al
most self sufficient. She normally
does not have to spend abroad
for food, and even exports some
food. Her people are among the
best fed in Europe. This has
helped produce the good feeling
prevailing in France. In the Gallo
philoSophic mood, France will
perhaps let the morrow of 1852
take care of itself.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27
Coplon Screams
"Frame-Up" At
Espionage Trial

judith COplon rested Saturday
from her gruelling role as star
witness in her own espionage trial.
The trial, highlighted by her
screams of frame up" and accu-
stions that a government proSecu-
tor was trying to brand me a
harlot," was recessed Friday.
Defense attorney Archibald Pal
mer indicated he would not call
her back TO the stand when it re-
sumed today.
In that event the 28-year old
former justice department politi-
cal analyst may know her fate by
the end of the week.
A jury of eight men and four
women must decide if she is gull
ty of stealing government secrets
to try to pass to Russia. She is
accused of having had these in
her handbag Wnen FIJI agents
arrested her and Valentine A. Gu
bitchev, a Russian engineer, in
New York, March 4.
Two other trials Stemming from
alleged activities in SubversiVe
fields also were recessed until to-
day in New York.
In one, Alger Hiss, One-time
state department official, is charg-
er with perjury in denying he
passed government secrets to
Whitaker Chambers, self-styled
courier for a preWar Red spy ring.
In the other, II communist
party leaders are charged with
conSpiring to advocate overthrow
of the u. S. government by vio-
lence.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27
Intended Victim
Trips UpGay
Aged LOthariO

CHICAGO (P)-Sizmund Z. En-
gel, who for so years has wooed
gullible widows and fleeced them
of their fortunes. was tripped up
by one of his intended victims Fri
day.
The dapper, aged Lothario,
whose suaVe talk and glib manner
earned him a reputation as an in
ternational confidence man, was
seized in a police trap in Michi-
gan Avenue shop.
Mrs. Genevieve Parro, 55-year-
old widow, led the 73-year-old En-
gel into the police net as they
went to the shop to buy luggage
for a proposed holiday trip.
Mrs. Parro became suspicious of
the smooth talking Romeo-who
posed as Paul Marshall. a wealthy
Evanston reSident-after he start
ed a Whirlwind courtship with her
earlier last week. She notified po-
liceWoman Marian Hagen, her
sister-in-laW. The arrest followed.
Police said Engel in his state
ments denied he ever had married
any of the women he had taken
money from.
Only King Solomon could
marry that many" he said
Il am always a gentleman" he
added. And a gentleman is a
man who knows right from
wrong, except in matters concern
ing money. After all. all I've done
in taking women's money is moth
ing that the politicians don't do
every day"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27
LONG-SUFFERING GIRL
DIES IN AUTO WRECK

MT. PLEASANT. Pa. LP)-Ten-
year-old Catherine Tully died in
an automobile accident shortly af-
ter doctors said her years of suf-
fering were over.
Mary Catherine had suffered
from a bone disease for years. She
looked forward to the day when
surgeons would tell her she would
walk without crutches.
Yesterday, while in Pittsburgh
for an examination, the surgeons
told her she was on the way 10 re-
covery.
On the way home the cab in
which Mary Catherine was riding
hit a concrete abutment. She died
without regaining consciousness.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27
Noted Educator.
Dies at IA

PALO ALTO, Calf. (H) - DR..
Ray Lyman Wilbur, who earned
eminence as an educator, in gov
eminent service, in medicine and
as a humanitarian, died yester-
day of heart disease. He was "a.
He was president of Stanford
university q years and its chan
cellor since 1913; Secretary of
the interior in the cabinet of Her
bert Hoover, he battled for con-
servation, better housing and bet
ter care for Indians. He fought
medical costs, illiteracy, syphilis,
and inferior medical schools.
He founded the California Ply
sicians' service; served as presi-
dent both of the American Acad-
envy of Medicine and American
Medical Association.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27
Helpful Salesman
Steals $1,000

HACKLEBURG, Ala. up u o-
lice Saturday were seeking the
bandit who measured windows for
free and the Bank of Hackleburg
for $1,000.
Bank officials said the man,
about As, came in Friday and said
he was a lumber company Win
dow salesman.
He hung around, busily measur-
ing windows until the bank closed
and all employees but cashier D.
w. Stanford had departed.
The bandit then forced Stanford
into the banks vault at gun point.
bound him with a belt and made
off with $4,000.
It was 30 minutes before Stan
ford was able to fee himself and
notify police.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27
Bridges Bond
Remains At $1,000

SAN FRANCISCO, P)-Harry
Bridges will remain at liberty on
$4,000 bail and the government
will not press its demand for a
bail increase to 100000, govern
ment attorneys said Friday.
The Go longShore chieftain is
under indictment by fedora
grand jury on charges Of perjury
and conspiracy. He is accused Of
swearing falsely he was not a
communist at the time of his nat
uralization in l945.
Thursday, Bridges sought per-
mission TO attend labor confer
ence in France. His request was
denied. At tina: time, government
attorneys demanded the higher
bail figure.
But, Friday, a governm n I
spokesman said the instructions
from Washington under which the
higher bail was demanded had
been garbled in transit. Actually
the spokesman said, the govern
ment intended TO ask the higher
bail only in the event Bridges was
given permission to go abroad.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27
Bess Chamberlain and daughter

Patsy who has been attending
school in the east arrived yester-
day from Seattle and are enroute
to Kotzebue where it is reported
that Mrs. Chamberlain plans to
open her resort for the summer.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27

Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-27

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Evening star., 1949-11-30
Our Homeless Judges

In a sort of play-by play account OF
the fascinating game of trying to find court
rooms for our Judges, yesterdays otar
reported that Chief Judge Laws is using
his chambers as a court room for pre-
trial work. Judge Mclaughlin is borrow
ing Judge Laws court room. Judge BurnIta
Matthews will be able to use room IN the
United States Tax Court until tomorrow,
when she will be ousted, with no place TO
pfo. Judge Kirkland Is using a room IN
Municipal Court, from which he Will be
evicted when the President makes up his
mind on the three new Municipal Court
Judges soon to be appointed. Where all
the Municipal Court judges Will SIT Is
unknown. The Government, unable TO
rent and remodel school building TOT
Temporary use as q. Court House annex,
has made q deal With the owners OF the
Standard Oil Building ng-shades OF Judge
Kenesaw Mountain Landis!-for use OF
one of its floors as Federal Court.
There are other complications, involv-
ing other homeless judges, too complex
to be described here. But the purpose OF
this comment is to remark upon the fore
sief1t of Judge Laws and his colleagues,
In District Court and the Court Of Appeals,
in having started the long fight several
years ago for new court building-a fight
that was won after repeated hearings ana
various disappointing delays, and which
eliminated In victory last summer when
the construction work actually began.
The new court building will be completed
some time in the late summer or fall OF
1851. What the judges, now without court
rooms, will do In the meantime Is q problem
that has not yet been solved. But the
solution should not be too difficult, be-
cause 1t will be temporary. The new build
ing, to be one of the finest In the country,
viii take care of our Judges and courts for
the foreseeable fnture-say the next hall
century. There are other conditions OF
overcrowding in the courts that viii also
be relieved. If the battle for the new court
house had not begun when it did, Justice,
In Washington, would be facing the pros
pect of not having room enough to
manipulate her scales : =