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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09
Hoover For Non-Bias
In Education Bill

WASHINGTON - amp - Ex-
President Herbert Hoover came out
in favor of an characterization
clause in the federal aid to educa.
ton bill, last week.
In naming the three things that
such a bill should have Hoover list.
ed nondiscrimination on the basis of
race or religion second as a must.
He also said the bill should re-
quire specific standards of educa-
ton and education appropriations
should be put ahead of things like
improvements.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09
Sentence Sermons

1. Camouflage is but another form
of make-believe, featured to look like
something else, definitely to de-
ceive.
2. Too many men and women are
adding false color to try to make
the world believe that they accept
every man as brother.
3. 1t is an easy thing to stand be.
hind a smoke screen, but quite an.
other thing to stand boldly for the
truth where you can be seen.
4. 1t is one thing with others to
preach the gospel, but quite an
other thing to stand by it alone I'M
der termenting upheavel.
3. The way of the world is to slip
by under cover, and many a man
is there who would even deceive his
own brother.
s. Men in high places who have
been misrepresenting the high and
the holy usually find their future
road pretty uncertain and stony.
7. Men who try to hide their
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Entertaining for charming Mrs.
Leola Carey Robinson on Monday
night were the Zetas. On Friday the
Egelloc Club gave a farewell party.
Mrs. Robinson has been a member
of the faculty of the Liberty City
Elementary School. She leaves for
Richmond, Virginia to join her hus-
band where she expects to remain
indefinitely.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Those lovely ladies of the Bache-
lor Girls Club gave beach party
on Sunday closing their summer ac-
tivities. Guests included Messrs T. L.
L. Lowrie, Lloyd Johnson, Breeze
Brown, Harold Jollivette, Robert
Strapp, d. A. Douglas, Mr.. Lee, DR..
S. Jones, Roy Boggs, Miss Mar
garrett Parker of Gainesville and
Mrs. Frances Jollivette.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09
"The Deserter"
BY John Henrik Clark for AMP

By JONI HenTIk OIdTK TOT ANt
l Cannot change worlds,
Nor can prop them
When they start to fall;
Hence, I have no place
In this present turmoil
I will not exhaust my weak voice,
Or raise my frail hand,
But instead, l will stand.
Far removed from danger and sing
dixie bird in the wilderness)
And the damnation of man.
And the damantion OF man.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Mrs. Monica Bethel Raining of
New York City who has been vaca-
tioning in Miami and Nassau, BAHIA
mas has returned to New York.
Among those entertaining for Mrs.
Raining were Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Role and Mr. and Mrs. Percy Wood.
side.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Mrs. Theresa Lang of Tallahassee
was a recent visitor to her son,
grandson and daughter-in.law-The
Joe Kershaws. The Kershaws have
a lovely new home in Browns Sub
division.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Among teachers attending summer
school in New York City are Cloie
Sweeting, Alice Hawkins, Willie
Mae Murray, Ruth Polite. Author
inc Sands, Gussie Dobbs, Ethel Ray
Counts.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Coming from Tallahassee to spend
the weekend with their families
were Mrs. Carmetta Brown and Mrs.
Helena p. Knowles. Mrs. Brown
motored down, while Mrs. Knowles
came by plane.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Mr. Bertram Cambridge of Nassau
Bahamas, was in the city over the
weekend enroute to New York City.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Nurse Rowena Wallace, 1947 NV
9Th place had birthday on July Z.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Miss Angelina Stuart, a teacher at
Dunbar Elementary, is spending the
summer at her home, Hampton,
Virginia.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

DR.. and Mrs. Warren Welters
celebrated their third wedding ami.
versary on June 80.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Mr.. Clarence Arnett 1928 NV 5th
place is spending his vacation in the
Bahamas.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Mrs. Johnnie Lee Johnson, wifi
of Atty. Johnson, is vacationing a
her home in Albany, Ga.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Mrs. Amanda Franklin Brown has
gone to New Orleans to be at the
bedside of her mother.in-law who is
i'll.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

The Rt. Rev. E. L. Petersen,
Bishop of the American Catholic
Church returned to the city this
week after an extended visit to New
York City.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-09

Mrs. Kathleen Cooper, returned
on Friday from two weeks vaca-
ton with relatives in New York
City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Berlin Plans Show
Based on Career
Of Mrs. Mesto
By the Associofed Press

ROME, Dec. 29-Songwriter
Irving Berlin said today his next
Broadway musical play will be
based on the career of Mrs. Perle
Mesta, former Washington hostess
and now Minister to Luxembourg.
"It will star Ethel Merman-as
Mrs. Mesta-and will be written
by Russell Grouse and Howard
Lindsay" Mr.. Berlin said. ut will
portray the experiences of an
American hostess In Washington
who is appointed minister to a
mythical duchy."
Asked If Mrs. Mesta knew Of
the planned production, Mr.. Berlin
shrugged and laughed, II don't
know. She'll know about it soon.
however
Mr.. Berlin. with his wife and
daughters Linda and Elizabeth,
few to Paris today en- route home
from brief European vacation.
! was in Rome in 1914 with the
travelling service show, This Is
the Army" Mr.. Berlin said. 1T
was different then-we brought
the spaghetti. The Italians had
only the sauce"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
D. {. Waitress Slain
By Guardian, 81, Who
Then Kills Himself
Miss Joon W. Rossmon, n,
Shot to Deoth in Mons
WiIIiomsport Apartment

An attractive Washington wait
ress and her guardian were found
shot to death in the latter's VIII
Transport, Pa, apartment yester-
day.
The county coroner said the
deaths of Miss Joan w. Rossman,
81, of 1926 Nineteenth street NV,
and Sheldon c. Mexican, 81, her
guardian, were apparently muir
der and suicide" the Associated
Press reported.
Miss Rossman came here from
Williamsport 10 weeks ago and was
a waitress at the Village Inn. 1906
Rhode Island avenue NE.
Friends here said Mr.. Mexican,
a candy store owner, had been
Miss Rossman's guardian since
her parents died eight years ago.
They said he had been i'll with
a heart ailment and wanted her
to return home to look after him.
Guardian Was Bachelor.
MIR. Mexican, bachelor, used
a .32-caliber pistol to kill Miss
Rossman and then fired two shots
into his own chest, the Associated
Press quoted the coroner as say
ing. ..
1.-The motive was dependency
(Cnn CIYOnTTNrC Dona AA1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
BY the Assoeiofecd Press

HAMLET, N. c., Dec. ga
mysterious object moving south
west through the sky had scores
Of Carolinians agog today.
The object, on which descrip-
tons varied, was first spotted at
Fayetteville, about so miles north
east of Hamlet at about 4::30 pm.
yesterday.
It was sighted again over Ham
let at about 4:45 pm. and reports
came from Greenwood, s. c., to-
day that the mysterious object
passed westward over that city
shortly after 5 pm.
Greenwood is about 1870
miles southwest of Hamlet on
a direct line extending from
Fayetteville)
Scores Of residents in all three
cities reported sighting the object
And at Hamlet and Greenwood
it was chased for several minutes
by four pilots.
Hamlet observers said it resem-
bled a balloon or blimp, and ap-
peared to be about 20 or 80 feet
In diameter. At Fayetteville, one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Mysterious Flying ObjectLeoves
Scores of CuroIiniuns Aqoq

observer said it looked more like
a vertical neon lighting tube.
At Greenwood. two pilots said it
appeared to be streak of smoke
about Is or 20 feet long coming
from an unseen plane. But the OBJ
ject, the pilots said, retained its
shape during the 10 or Is minutes
that they followed it.
Ground observers all said that
it drifted into the direction of
the setting sin. But the four pilots
who chase it at Hamlet and
Greenwood said they were unable
to gain on it in their light planes.
At Greenwood, Joe Poole. one Of
the pilots. reported that the thing
appeared to be flying at about
5000 feet. He and w. c. Ashley
rose to about 5000 feet in their
light plane in trying to overtake
it. Their attention to it was di-
rected by Mayor A. H. Woodle of
Greenwood, who viewed it over
the city.
The Weather Bureau at Char
lotte said that the object appar-
(see OBJECT. Page A-5)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Sesqui Group Asks FIJI Probe
Of Contract Kickbuck CHARGES
Barron Urges McGroth to Determine
If Any Construction Deal Violated Law

anxious to have this matter thor
oughly investigated to determine
the truth of those charges, to
determine whether other such
offers have been made, and
whether the laws of the United
States have been violated thereby.
"Since the commission does not
have facilities for the conduct of
such an investigation, we hereby
request you to assign this investi-
CATION to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation"
Attorney General McGrath is
a former member of the commits
sion, having previously served as
chairman of the Senate District
Committee,
The reference in the letter is to
Paul Alexander, stakeholder in a
private firm handling space leasing
for the fair. who has denied max
ing any offer in connection with
the Freedom Fair.
He said discussions with con-
tractor who has made the charges
against him related to projects
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Capital Moues to 'Potomak';
Other eatures of SundayStar

How did Philadelphia view the removal of the Capital of
the Federal City the banks OF the
"Potomak' January /, 1900? In commemoraton of the
National Capitals sesquicentennia The Sunday Star
next Sunday will publish stimulation Of contemporary
description of 1900 Washington It has been prepared by
Chris Mathsen of The Star after weeks of research
Who remembers Pennsylvania In 1900? The Stars
Pictorial Magazine publishes fullpage cover in color OF
the Avenue Of the Presidents from 1900 photograph
entire Of the magazine devoted to pictorial coverage
of Washington during the half century.
For The Sunday Star editorial feature section Robert
Lincoln OBrien Districts most distinguished
citizens has written unusually interesting review
of so years living Capital Maj Gen. u S. Grant
III former chairman Of the Park and Planning Commission
tells real 5Oyear progress building the Capital City
Robert K Walsh Of The Star staff writes comprehensive
digest personalities events in the from the
Victorian to the atomic age.
Another Sunday Star feature The Stars annual business
and financial review
Read interesting issue Of The Sunday Star. Phone
Sterling 5000 for home delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Child Health Called Neglected
While Millions Go for Bombs
DR.. Buumgurtner
Makes Chorge at
Science Session
By Howard W. BlokesIee
Associated Pres. Science Editor

NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.- Top
American scientists today heard
the Federal Government accused
Of neglecting child health re-
search while spending millions on
bombs.
DR.. Leona Baumgartner, Of the
Children's Bureau, Washington,
made the statement before the
American Association for the Ad-
wancement of Science.
Only few thousand dollars a
year of Federal money goes for
child health research, she said,
but more than half a billion is
spent on other research, including
immense sums on bombs and
atomic energy.
BY contrast, she said, children
are by far the most important
product of the United States.
What we are AFTER" she said.
"both educators and doctors, is to
help in raising a new generation
of human beings who are buoy
antly healthy in body and spirit;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
3 Seminorions Missing
After Rowbout Cupsizes
BY the Associofsd Press

HEMLOCK, N. Y, Dec. 29.-
Three student priests of st. Mi
chael's Catholic Mission were
missing today after wind capsized
a rowboat in which they and two
other seminarians were crossing
Lake Hemlock.
Police Chief James Kane OF
Lima said the five were crossing
the Western New York lake from
the mission on the East side when
their rowboat upset.
Two of the students managed to
reach shore. They were Paul
Whitaker and Phillip Safina. Mr..
Whittaker's condition was de-
scribed as good" but Mr.. Safina
was reported in critical" condi-
ton.
The names of the other occu-
pants Of the boat were not imme-
available.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

The Sesquicentennial Commits
sion today asked for an FBI in
vestigation of kickback charges
involving an alleged contract Of
fer for a Freedom Fair construc-
ton project.
Carter T. Barron, commission
vice chairman. made the request
in a letter to Attorney General
McGrath.
Mr.. Barron's letter to the At
torney General. under date Of
December %, follows:
within recent days charges
have been published that an Of
ficer and stockholder of a cor
poration with which this cormis-
sion does business had offered to
provide a local contractor with
contracts for the construction OF
one or more buildings. which this
commission intends to construct,
in return for a percentage of that
contractors profits from such
construction.
1.-THE commission IS most
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
New South Capitol Span
To Open January Il

The new South Capitol street
bridge will be dedicated and opened
to traffic at Q pm. January IL,
the Commissioners announced to-
day.
Meanwhile, the city heads are
searching for a suitable name for
the new span, preferably honoring
a prominent American.
Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner L. E. Cox and Charles Stof-
berg, administrative assistant to
Commissioner John Russell Young,
have been asked to coordinate
arrangements for the dedication
ceremonies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Nh'NN AXVO xv4113Ny
Retired Auditor, 66, Hurt
Badly in Fall From Balcony

Leslie Boyd Farmer, 66-year-
old retired railroad auditor, was
injured critically early today in a
fall from a third-foor balcony of
his home in the West Clifton Ter
race Apartments, Fourteenth and
Clifton streets NV.
He was found by another resi-
dent of the apartment house in
an areaway about 80 feet under
the balcony.
Homicide Detective Sergt. Rob-
ert Tolbert is investigating.
Mr.. Farmer was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital with fractures Of
both legs and internal injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
See FORMOSA, Page A-4.)
Quake Shakes Luzon;
Damage Widespread
BY the Associated Press

MANILA, Dec. ga heavy
earthquake shook Luzon, main
island of the Philippines, for two
and half minutes today.
Isabella Province, on the north
east coast, was reported hardest
hit, with sea waves and land
slides.
The Manila Bulletin CORE
spondent said the shock was rated
at intensity seven there. That
is the third heaviest on the
earthquake scale.
An unidentified woman was
drowned by the seismic sea waves
at the town of Mercedes. A boat
with eight passengers capsized
near the Malalan Ferry, but all
were reported saved.
In the town of Naguilian, about
$50 miles northeast of Manila, a
jeep was reported to have been
swallowed up by a f1ssure in the
earth. Several nearby towns were
isolated by landslides.
The National Red Cross re-
ported several assures spewed
black water in the town of nagan
Isabella Province capital 275 miles
northeast of Manila. The Cath
Ollie church there was badly dam
aged.
In Cabanatuan, 10 miles north
of Manila, several women and
children were reported injured in
a stampede in a movie theater.
Throughout the 500-mile length
of Luzon, almost every able bodied
person fed into the open for
safety.
Damage to many. BUILDINGS was
reported. Large cracks appeared
In some Of Manila's tallest struc-
lures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Hiss Trial Brings Out
His Plea 10 Grand Jury
On Chambers Sanity
Sought to Have Report
Of Psychiotrist Presented
Before Indictment
By NewboId Moves, Jr.
Stor Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-On the
day he was indicted, Alger Hiss
pleaded unsuccessfully with the
grand jury to consult DR.. Karl
Binger, New York psychiatrist, on
the question of Whitaker Cham
bers' sanity, it was revealed today
at the former State Department
oh1ciaIs perjury retrial.
This was on December Is, 1948.
Later that day, the jury reached
its decision, accusing Mr.. Hiss of
lying in his denial that he gave
secret Government papers to Mr..
Chambers for transmission to
Russian spies before the war.
Judge Delays Statement.
The new disclosure about the
grand jury proceedings came in
the closing moments of the cross
examination of Mr.. Hiss by
Thomas F. Murphy, assistant
United States Attorney, as Federal
Judge Henry w. Goddard an
nounced he would delay until next
week a formal statement as to
whether psychiatric testimony will
be permitted in this trial.
Judge Goddard is understood,
however, to have ruled privately
yesterday that DR.. Binger and
another psychologist will be per-
mitted to testify for the defense
about the mental condition of
Mr.. Chambers. the ex-Communist
agent who is the Governments
principal witness in the case.
The trial will recess this eve
ming for the long New Years week
end and Is scheduled to resume
Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Murphy, who has kept Mr..
-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Safe With $500 Stolen
From Kensinqton Store

A 300-pound safe containing
about $500 in cash was taken last
night from the Kensington Phar-
macy, Lincoln avenue and Perry
streets, Kensington, Md.
Manager James Parker said the
thieves, who also took several car
tons of cigarettes, entered the
store by forcing the rear door. He
said they apparently put the safe
on rollers and hauled it away on a
truck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
German Red Kills Self
After Visit to East Zone
By the A.seeiofsd Press


GOEPPINGEN, Germany, Dec.
29.-The chairman of the Com
munist Party in nearby Salach
killed himself following a visit to
the Russian zone of Germany, his
family said today.
The family of Kurt Buehler, SO,
said he vowed to quit the Com
munist Party when he returned
home last week, saying: The
Communists kill everybody who
disagrees with them. This visit
cured me Of communism.
He visited party headquarters,
turned in his resignation and then
hanged himself in his home, his
family said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

YOKOHAMA. Dec. 20 (P.-Lt.
Gen. Walton H. Walker, United
States 9th Army commander, has
approved prison sentences of IA
japanese civilians and two army
sergeants. They were convicted
September 6 of mistreating Amer
lean and British war prisoners at
forced work in the Niigata iron
and steel works from 1913 to, 1945.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

Works, a subsidiary of the Ameri-
can-owned international Tele-
phone g. Telegraph Co. Two for
eign officials-an American and a
Briton-and a Hungarian man
ager of the company are in a
Hungarian jail charged with es-
pionage and sabotage.
The government also broadened
It's naturalization program by
taking over all Hungarian-owned
enterprises employing more than
10 persons and all printing plants
employing more than five. This
was considered a long step toward
further Specialization of the coun-
try's economy.
Western-owned firms were the
prime targets of the DEGREES. If
any Western-owned enterprises
are left after this action they
will be small ones.
But the Hungarians did not
touch the Hungarian-Soviet joint
companies with which the Rus
SLAMS have entered Hungarian in
dustry and business. The Hun
garian participation in the own
ership protects these firms.
Compensation Promised.
Compensation was promised for
the foreign and domestic owned
nationalized plants.
The foreign companies seized
had previously been exempted in
1948 from naturalization, al
though every Hungarian manu-
featuring firm employing more
than 100 persons was nationalized
at that time.
Minister of State Ernoe Geroe,
who directs the nations economy,
announced the seizure as "abso-
lutely necessary" to wipe out the
remains of foreign holdings to
prevent these undertakings from
being used for subversive machi-
nations"
Recent government announce
ments have declared that the off,
Gals Of the International Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co. in jail
have confessed to police they were
guilty of spying and plotting
sabotage. They are Robert Voge-
Ter. American, and Edgar Sanders,
British. both of whom were ar
rested with the Hungarian man
ager Of the company. 1mre Geiger.
in November.
Foreign imperialists have been
using the owners and leaders of
these undertakings (companies)."
Geroe said, ito build up espionage
rings and prepare sabotage &C.
tons"
Other Firms Mathematical.
He said such activities had been
going on in the Hungarian sub
sidiary Of the Standard Oil Co.
(Maort and the Standard Elec-
trio works, both of which were in
cluded in today's naturalization
decree.
Others nationalized included the
Hungarian branches of Shell Oil
Co., Vacuum Oil Co., Standard
Oil Co., the Dutch-owned Phillips
Radio Co., the Swiss owned Brown
Boveri Electrical Works and vari-
GUS textile factories.
The Maori case in which Geroe
referred was highlighted late last