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Evening star., 1949-03-25
London Editor jailed 3 Months
For Vampire Case Stories

print restrictions were relaxed
early this year, claims the world
circulation record for any daily
newspaper. It's editorial policy is
independent leftist.
English law prohibits the pub
lication of any information which
might prejudice the trial of a
defendant.
The case against Bolam was
originated by attorneys for Haigh.
The court directed that the Mir
ror's owners also appear.
Lord Goddard. lord chief JUS
tice, described the Mirrors action
as a disgrace to English jour-
'nalism" which prejudiced Haigh's
right to a fair trial.
1t was done, he said. "as mat
ter of policy. pandering to SEN
sationalism for the purpose Of
increasing the circulation of this
paper" He said that after the
commissioner of police warned the
paper, the Mirror altered its last
edition, but very little"
The chief justice said the Mir
ror played up stories describing
Haigh as a vampire" and not
only said he was charged" with
the other slayings but that he
has committed others" and de-
scribed at least one of these in
detail.
LET the directors" of the paper
beware" Lord Goddard said.
They know now the conduct of
which their employees are capable.
They know now the view which
this court takes Of this matter"
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Churchill Leaves Today Renews Acquointonces Here

Former British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill planned to re-
turn to New York today after re-
newing wartime acquaintances
during an overnight visit to
Washington.
Mr.. Churchill had dinner with
President Truman and his family
at the Blair House last night fol-
lowing a small reception at the
British Embassy, where most Of
the guests were notables the Wis
itor had met during the war and
wanted to see again.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross disclosed today
that Mr.. Churchill had brought
the President gift of three books
bound in red morocco. They were
his two-volume biography of the
first Duke of Marlborough and the
second volume of Mr.. Churchill's
World War II Memoirs. Mr.. Ross
said. Mr.. Churchill had sent the
President earlier a copy of the
first volume of the Memoirs.
Putting a long cigar and rails
ing his fingers in his famous vic
tory sign for photographers but
refusing any comment on interna-
tional affairs, Mr.. Churchill
alighted from a private railway
car at Union Station here at 3:35
pm. yesterday.
He arranged to return at ! pm.
today to New York. where he is
the guest of Bernard Baruch
during a 11.day visit to the United
States.
Mr.. Churchill told reporters he
had nothing to say publicly other
than what he will say in major
address March 81 at the Massa-
chusetts Institl~e of Technology.
He obviously enjoyed the ap-
plause of a crowd that overran the
Union Station platform to greet
him, and said into newsreel micro
phones II thank you very much
for your very kind reception" y
1t was the wartime Prime
Minister'S first visit to Washing
ton in three years. On the last
occasion Mr.. Truman accom-
panied him to Fulton, Mo-, where
he delivered his famous attack
against Russia's dropping Of the
Iron curtain across the heart of
Europe.
Mr.. Truman gave a toast to
King George of England and Mr..
Churchill responded with one to
the President.
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Coroner to Act in Death
Of Man Hill by Streefcar

Action of the coroner was await
ed today in the death Of 2. 65-year-
old man struck by a streetcar
Tuesday night at Tenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
James o. Baker, IS, colored, 402
Eleventh street Sc, died yester-
day in Gallinger Hospital. He was
the Districts 18th traffic fatality
Of the year.
Police listed the streetcar oper-
ator as Edward Mercer, 81, of 1870
Florida avenue NE. It was rain
ing at the time. of the accident,
they said.
In another pedestrian accident,
Willard j. Hall, 6. of 4614 Fiji
teenth street NV. was being
Evening star., 1949-03-25
BY the Associotsd Press

LONDON, Mar. 25.-The editor
of the London Daily Mirror was
sentenced to three months in
prison and the paper fined sac, 900
today for contempt of court in
connection with Mirror stories on
a highly publicized murder case.
The editor. Sylvester Bolam,
was convicted on stories which
the court said called John George
Haigh. 40-year-old factory execu-
tive, a vampire" and said he
committed several murders.
Haigh is held in bleak Brixton
Prison on charges of killing Mrs.
Olivia Durand Deacon, wealthy
69-year-old widow. and dissolving
her body in acid.
While Haigh was detained on
these charges several weeks ago,
Scotland Yard pressed an investi-
CATION into the disappearance
of half dozen other Britops be-
lieved dissolved in sulphurlc acid
by a vampire" slayer who was
believed to have drunk the blood
of at least one of his victims.
But neither Scotland Yard nor
other police officials ever linked
Haigh with the other killings.
Bolam,. taken into custody in
court, was taken Immediately to
the same prison where Haigh is
held.
The tabloid Mirror, whose circu-
lation climbed to more than
1000, 900 daily when British news
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Living Costs
Continued From First Page

tCOIl tlIlueQ from F1rSJ PageD
slightly and the bureau reported
a 0.2 per cent increase from mid
January to mid February in resi-
dental rents. The rent increase
for the three-month period ending
February Is. the bureau said, was
0.9 per cent.
The latest index figures have
no immediate bearing on the
widely publicized General Motors
United Auto Workers contract
which is tied in with the cost Of
living. Any wage changes occur
only once in three months and
the auto workers lost 2 cents an
hour when the drop was an
nounced last month.
Should the index continue to
drop at the. January February
rate. GIN employees might lose the
Scent wage increase due them
May 20 for increased production
standards of the past IL months.
Wage rates of GIN workers go up
or down every three months with
the change in the BIS cost of
living index.
An East Grinstead CEnglan6
mon hoe roroiyaI on ~ nm uyord
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Gambling
Continued From First Page.)

taking numbers, race bets and
practically any other kind of bet.
all day every day-again. quite
openly.
About once every week or SO
q police car pulls up in front of
this store, one cop goes in. stays
about five minutes and then
comes out. Is he getting his cut
well what do you Think"
Capt. Covell said officers on the
beat are under orders to make
regular checks on the store. The
establishment. he said. contains a
back room almost always vacant
when police call.
On one occasion a single man
was found in the room. but there
was no evidence he had violated
the law.
1t. Roy Blick, chief of the
vice squad, said the store in ques-
ton not only has been under sur
veillance, but has been raided nu-
merouS times in recent years. He
added the proprietor was convict
ed on one occasion on gaming
charges.
Police were said to lack enough
evidence at this time to take the
case before a grand jury. but are
seeking witnesses willing to tes-
tify to law violations at the place.
Attention to Vice Urged.
The woman who complained to
The Star made the point that en-
forcement officers should devote
less time to gathering evidence
against Pyramid Club members
and more to the actual vice in
this city"
Mr.. Thomas. who was indicted
Monday on a charge of violating
the lottery laws by promoting a
Pyramid Club, was to have been
arraigned in District Court today.
When his case was called, De-
tense Counsel Denis K. Lane told
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut that
Evening star., 1949-03-25

the defense would like to argue a
to dismiss the indictment
before the arraignment.
What is this case about?'
Judge Schweinhaut asked.
pyramid clubs" he was told.
"Oh." replied the judge, and
smiled broadly.
A ripple Of laughter went
through the crowded courtroom.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Joe Lawless told the court he
did not have the defense motion
in his file. When the judge was
informed by defense counsel that
the United States attorneys Office
had acknowledged receipt of the
motion yesterday. the judge told
the three defense lawyers to con-
suit with the United States attor-
ney'S office.
Will Hear Motion Friday.
They returned a short time later
to report that Assistant United
States Attorney Charles Murray
had told them Mrs. Grace Stiles
had been assigned to the case and
was busy with the grand jury. Mr..
Murray was quoted as asking for a
postponement until next We'd
nesday.
Judge Schweinhaut set the case
for next Friday and said he would
hear the motion at that time. At
torney Edward E. O'Neill, who is
associated with Mr.. Lane and
George j. Boden, in representing
Mr.. Thomas, said he understood
the judges ruling meant he would
hear the motion first to decide
whether the indictment is good
before arraigning Mr.. Thomas.
Mrs. Stiles, who will prosecute
the pyramid case, has been in
charge Of presentation of cases to
the grand jury, but Mr.. Murray
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Vote on ERP Waits
As DonneII Renews
Atlantic Pact Plea
By J. A. O'Leov

Senate leaders held little hope
this afternoon for a final vote to-
day on the $3.50, 1000, 900 bill to
keep the European Recovery Pro-
gram going for the next Is
months.
They may keep the Senate in
session late this evening, but if a
vote is not in sight, recess until
Monday probably will be taken.
Although Democratic and Re-
publican supporters of the full
amount believe it will be approved
without change, some Republicans
will try to cut the new authoriza-
ton.
Senator Donnell, Republican, of
Missouri digressed from the pend
ing question of economic aid for
Western Europe when the Senate
met today to renew his plea for
full consideration OF the North
Atlantic treaty, which is to be
submitted for ratification.
Asks Full Senate Part.
Senator Donnell renewed a re-
quest he and Senator Watkins,
Republican, of Utah made last
week that all IS Senators be per-e
mitted to take part in the public
hearings and executive sessions
Of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee on the treaty. He said only
committee members should vote
in the committee. but that any
Senator should be permitted to
examine witnesses.
Senator Vandenberg of Michi-
gan, ranking Republican on for
eign relations, is standing with
Chairman Connally in defense of
the full foreign aid authorization.
Two other Republican Senator'S
Taft of Ohio and Capehart of
Indiana-are leading two separate
moves to trim the program.
Russian Opposition Cited.
Senator Vandenberg took issue
with the arguments of several of
his Republican colleagues yester-
day afternoon. however. as he told
the Senate Russia's effort to
scuttle the Marshall Plan is the
best evidence of its success. y
1T was fresh air in the lungs
of liberty" Senator Vandenberg
shouted. referring to the first year
of the aid program. 1T drove de-
spair from the souls of men"
The Foreign Relations Commit
tee has not attempted to deal with
China in this bill, regarding it as
a separate problem under present
conditions. Senator McCarran.
Democrat. of Nevada objected to
this course.
Il can't see why we should spend
billions in Europe and let COM
munism become rooted in ASIA"
he said. Il can't see why we try
to raise the iron curtain in Europe
and pull it down in Asia
Senator McCarran is author OF
a bill to give China a 81 500 ,000. .0G0
credit. A department report on
that measure is in. the hands Of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Evening star., 1949-03-25
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. 80. As


treated for head injuries in Chill
dren's Hospital today after being
struck by an automobile late yes
terday in front of his home.
Operator of the car was Frank
"A. HALEY, %, of 1915 Forty-f1rst
street, Brentwood, Md, police said.
The boy was running across the
street at the time, police added.
Evening star., 1949-03-25

An East Grinstead England
man has received an II ,000- word
letter from q stranger.
Evening star., 1949-03-25
BottIeship Iowo Laid Up

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. Is (P).
The Navy put the 45,000-ton
battleship Iowa on the shelf here
yesterday. The World War II vet
eran joined her sister ships. the
Wisconsin and New Jersey in the
Pacific reserve fleet at Hunters
Point Navy Yard. Decommission-
ing Of the ship leaves only the
Missouri on the active battleship
lief
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Chinese Communists
Make Peiping Their
De Fucto Capital
BY the Associated Press


NANKING, Mar. 25.-
Peiping today became the de
facto capital of Communist
China.
The Chinese Communist
radio said its central COM
mittee and army headquar-
ters had been transferred
there.
The arrival in Peiping of
the Communist leader Mao
TIE -tung, his deputy. Chou
En-Lai; Army Commander in
Chief Chu Teh and other top
Communist leaders was an
nounced.
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Ad Gloss to Hear Lecture

Mrs. Sally Muchmore, assistant
manager of the Better Business
Bureau, will lecture on "The Bet
ter Business Bureau and Why
Business Finances It" at 8:25
o'clock tonight before an adver-
tising class of American Univer-
sity at 1901 F street NV. The
lecture is the fifth in the series by
leading Washington representa-
tives from the advertising field,
Evening star., 1949-03-25
81 ToiIed for Month
On SoIvoged Altar,
Lost in New Blaze

Sergt. James Calours, 20, of
Detroit had worked for a
month repairing and painting
an ornate altar salvaged from
a fire February "a at the
Boiling Air Force Base chapel.
He used the equipment at
the bases hobby shop to re-
finish the 6-by-3-foot altar.
At 4 pm. yesterday he put
the finishing touches on his
project and left it in the
hobby shop.
The altar was destroyed in
the hobby shop fire at the
base early today.
Evening star., 1949-03-25

said she was coming back into
trial work.
Mr.. Thomas, whose indictment
threatened to send pyramid clubs
toppling, was surrounded by
friends and relatives in court to-
day. He was accompanied by his
wife and 5-year-old daughter
Mary Jane,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
Fifteen Persons Are Killed in Bus Tragedy

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Aug 10-- R-Fifteen persons died in the flaming wreckage of Greyhound GUS that burned after smashing into a bridge abutment near here early today.
 The bus, bound from Indianapolis to Bloomington, hit the bridge or winding, hilly road shortly after midnight. Seconds later it was in flames.
 The bodies removed were brought to the Indiana National Guard armory here to await identifica- tion.
 Driver Wayne Cramer of Indi- annapolis, one of the survivors, said a front tire may have blown out, causing him to lose control of the bus. After striking the abutment it skidded 150 feet down the winding highway and came to rest on it's left side, blocking the emergency door.
 Flames enveloped the vehicle almost immediately. The driver said he and two or threev passengers got out the front door. The other survivors escaped through a rear window which a passenger kicked out
 Glen Van Horn, manager of radio station WITS in Bloomington, said one of the survivors told him he walked through five feet of flames" to get off the bus.
 The survivor, Wells Richardson, IS, of Evansville, Ind, told Van Horn he was dozing when the bus struck the bridge abutment.
 Van Horn said Edgar Davis of Indianapolis, Negro, was credited by other survivors with kicking out rear window, through which most of the survivors escaped. Davis suffered a back injury and was brought to the Bloomington hos pital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
Cowboy Salesman Sfaris Another
 Trip Around Globe

LONDON, Aug. 10-lR-Ex-cowp Sam Keener is back again for the fifty-fourth time-fully equip ped down to a revolver and cart ridge belt for protection in rough country"
 The 61-year-old millionaire presi- dent of the Salem (Ohio) Engi- neering Company flew in last night on the first leg of a round-the- world sales trip.
 White-haired Keener ("Just call me Sam'D stepped off his special plane with a badge under his coat and four gold bars on his sleeve. Each bar represents 100000 miles of flying.
 His plane carries one and half tons of food, 10000 cigarets and "a large carved wooden horse bolted to the floor and complete with saddle.
 The horse was presented to him in America as a memento of his early cowboy days.
 q tstill love riding" Sam said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
HERBERT HOOVER
 0B5ERvING 75TH
 BIRTHDAY TO-DAY


 STANFORD U NIVER SITY Calif., Aug 10-tR-H Herbert Clark Hoover is 75 years old today. and tributes for the country's only living ex-President poured in from all over the world.
 Late today Stanford University will honor it's most illustrious graduate in the Forst Amphithe- atre crowd of 12,000 to 14,00O was expected.
 The program will be climaxed by major address by MT. Hoover, be- ginning at pm, (Pacific Daylight Time). His topic will be Think ot the Next Generation"
 Even MT. Hoover, who once said T have had every honor to which any man can aspire probably was surprised by the stir created by his birthday anniversary and by the congratulatory letters by the thousands.
 Two states, Arkansas and Mary land, proclaimed today Hoover Day" Governor Earl Warren Of California issued proclamation in which he said: Few men any where have lived more useful lives, and none with greater devotion, both at home and throughout the world"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
Bubonie Plague Breaks Out in New Mexico

SANTA FEE, NM, Aug 10-lR- Illness of two New Mexico resi- dents today was found to be Bu- bonic Plague-the "black death" of the Middle Ages.
 Only 21 other cases of the disease have been listed in the United States during the last 25 years.
 The diagnosis was reported by Dr. Vernon Link of the Western Contagious Disease Control Center in San Francisco.
 He told a news conference that modern drugs apparently have achieved smashing victory over the ancient, flea-borne disease Treatment, he said, has brought dramatic improvement in both cases.
 The victims are a 10-year-old boy treated at Taos and a 37-year-old man in the Veterans Hospital at Albuquerque.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
Pacific Northern Carries Eighteen Passengers Yesterday

The Pacific Northern Airlines brought 13 passengers into Juneau on yesterdays flights and on north bound flights carried three passeng- CTS to Anchorage and two to Cor dova.
 From Anchorage to Juneau: A. H. William, R. E. Marsh, George Swan, Earl Bright. Art Anderson, Glen Anderson, Ralph Green, R. c. Caldwell, Mrs. Ryan, E. G. Fish CT, Emma Browbridge, Leo Deven- ny.
 From Cordova: Mir Rosswog.
 To Anchorage: Dr. H. c. Schum- acher, Mrs. H. C. Schumacher Maurice Kaufman.
 To Cordova: w. Barbet, G. Gun ningham.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
German Police Fire On D. p. Crowd After Refusal io Disperse

MUNICH, Germany, Aug. 1O-R German police today fired into a crowd of 1000 Jewish displaced persons they said had stoned them and defied orders to disperse.
 The police said three of the DPS were wounded.
 The crowd, without obtaining a license for meeting, had gath cred to protest an alleged anti semitic letter in Munich news paper, police said.
 Munich, in the American occupa- tion zone, was a Nazi stronghold before the war Hitler staged his first, unsuccessful beer hall putsch here in 1922.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
LEVIN TRAvEl0GUE
 LAKES KIWANIANs
 ON MEXICO TRIP

Ed Levin, geologist, guide, travel CT, ex-fiction writer-and dynamic lecturer-gave Juneau Kiwanians n whirlwind trip through Mexico and a dash into Guatelmala at today's luncheon meeting in the Baranof Gold Room.
 After nearly a score of years, 16 of them in Alaska, Levin and his wife revisited countries Below the Border" as he titled today's talk.
 Levin, famed as a guide for Ex- plorer Father Bernard Hubbard, had climbed and studied volcanic mountains in Alaska, so his inter- est in Paracutin was exceptional, and his description of 1t vivid. (This is the mounain that blew itself out in 1943, in the backyard of a farmer who had to stop work when the ground beneath the OK ems feet became too hot to go on.)
 It was in this region that Levin noted the influence of Chinese cul- ture in Mexico, just as he had re- marked it at Nunivak Island. in the Boring Sea.
 Levin's informal talk was as vivid as the rich colors of the tropics His account moved with the head  long speed of a Mexican bus ride 10 describe cosmopolitan cities and picturesque countryside; bulETghts and fronton games; churches, pyra- mids, palaces, railroads. seaports and food, as well as silverwork, weaving, pottery, needlework and other native crafts.
 Levin is doing research at the Alaska Museum for a book about Alaska through dogs eye,'' choosing as his main character one of the dogs he used on many ex- petitions.
 President James Mcclellan an- nounced postponement of the dis trict Kiwanis convention previous ly scheduled for this weekend, also the formation of a 35-member club at Palmer.
 Larry Parker introduced the only guest at today's meeting, Woodrow Hensarline of Texas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
CHICAGO VISITOR

P. M. Armstrong of Chicago, :, registered at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10

FROM FIRST CITY Charles M. Marler of Ketchikan is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
Miss Marie Doyan
 And CPR Officer
 Are Married Here

The marriage of Miss Marie An toinette Doyon and MT. Henry White was solemnized last evening in the Catholic Church of the Ma tivity. The bride is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Henri Doyon of Mon- treal. Quebec, and MT. White, who is an officer acoard the Princess Kathleen, is from Vancouver. The Rev. Robert L. Whelan, S.J., offi- ciated at the nuptials.
 Miss Doyon wore gown of white ninon fashioned with an off-the- shoulder neckline and triple tiered skirt. Her fingertip veil was caught to a coronet of white stock and she carried a bouquet of pink roses and stephanotis. Capt. William o. Hughes, master of the Princess Kathleen, escorted the bride to the altar.
 Miss Linda Musgrave was maid of honor and wore a gown of blue georgette. Miss Doreen PabloW, bridesmaid, was gowned in pale yellow ninon. The brides attend ants wore matching wreaths of carnations in their hair and car ried sprays of carnations. MT. Will liam Warden, ships officer on the Kathleen, was best man.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
FOOD SALE

FOOD SALE
 By Lutheran Ladies Aid on Fri day, August 12, beginning 10:3O AM. at Sears Order Office. 69 2t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
FIRST CHILD BORN
 TO ERNEST LYMAN

Stephen Verle is the name cho en for their first-born by ACS Se and Mrs. Ernest Inman. Their so weighing eight pounds, five ounce was born early Tuesday morning St. Ann's Hospital.
 Grandparents sharing congrat' lations are Mrs. Mary Little Vancouver, B. C., and MT. al Mrs. J. M. Inman, who live McCleary, Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10

American glassmaking was revo- lutionized by a carpenter of Sand wich, Massachusetts,, who found in 1927 that glass could be hand pressed in a mould. This brought glassware for the first time with in the reach of every American home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
KATHLEEN IN PORT

With full road of roundtrippers aboard, the Princess Kathleen ar rived in port yesterday at 3:33 D. m. The ship sailed for Skagway last evening at II o'clock. The Kathleen will not stop in Juneau on the southbound trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
RECEPTION HELD

Over 30 guests attended the wedding reception which was held in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. The wedding cake was baked in the shape of the Princess Norah to commemorate the meeting of the bridal couple. Miss Doyon met her future husband aboard the Norah, on her trip to Alaska to be a nurse at St. Ann's Hospital.
 MT White will join his ship in Skagway to make the return voy- age. Mrs. White will leave Juneau in September to join her husband in Vancouver, B.C., where they will make their home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-10
FROM INDIANA

Mir and Mrs. DeArmond and Elizabeth Morningstar from An- derson, Indiana, are registered at the Baranof Hotel.