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experiences Of the alleged victims
made their complaints dubious.
AZ Offenses Under Miller Act.

experiences of the alleged victims
made their complaints dubious.
AZ Offenses Under Miller Act.
A separate study of the cases
under the Miller Act, which covers
other sex offenses, showed that AZ
offenses were reported during the
first. six months of 1949.
In these AZ cases, according to
the study, 81 adults and four ju-
veniles were arrested and one case
was pending at the end of the
period.
In the 81 cases of adult arrests,
no papers were issued in 10 cases,
two offenses were reduced to SIM
pie assault, there were "a indict-
ments and one case was ignored
by the grand jury.
AS a result of the "a indict-
ments, two were found not guilty,
one case was dismissed and 81
were convicted. Three of these 81
were allowed to plead guilty to
simple assault and got sentences
respectively of eight months, one
year and two years. The latter
case invloved two counts with a
years sentence for each of them,
One offender, found guilty on
three counts was sentenced to six
to 18 months on each count and
put on probation. Another Of
fender was sentenced to serve two
to five years and put on probation.
In the other cases, two were
sentenced to serve from 20 months
to five years; one, two to six
years; three, two to seven years;
two. three to nine years, and three
were sent to St. Elizabeths.
Evening star., 1950-02-27

two world wars applauded his lilt-
ing melodies. such songs as "Just
a Wee Deooh-an-Doris," "She's
My Daisy" stop Yer Tickling,
jock" and "The Waggle of the
Kilt" It was World War I that
took the life Of his only SON
Capt. John Lauder - and Sir
Harry never ceased grieving for
him.
At 20, he had married and. with
his wife at the piano, the couple
added to their funds by giving
entertainments in a small hall at
Arbroath. Sometimes they made
IS shillings a week.
Some one advised him to try
his talents in London. and he ap-
peared in music hall there in
1900 to achieve instant success
with his song, "Calligan, Call
Again"
Sir Harry wrote most Of his
own songs and composed his own
music.
His fame spread to the United
States, and in 1907 he personally
followed it. Year after year he
returned and toured this country
and Canada with undiminished
success.
He commanded a large salary
and made large royalties from
Iphonograph records. Another
Scot, Andrew Carnegie, took him
under his wing and gave Sir Harry
good advice on investments.
Frustrated at the death of his
wife in 1927, Sir Harry slowed his
pace, and in 1886 moved into his
dream house" at Strathaven in
Ianarkshire. It became a land
mark, especially his private mu-
scum. containing mementos from
every place he had ever visited,
from honorary buttons bestowed
on him by American clubs to war
clubs from islands in the Pacific.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
2x4 on 1oboggan Slide
Pierces Youth Like Sword
BY the A..oeiotsd Press

DETROIT, Feb. 27.-A wood
2 by 4 alongside steep toboggan
slide drove through a Detroit
youths thigh like huge sword
as he scooted down the slide late
Saturday night.
The victim, Robert Potter, o.
was reported in serious condition
at st. Joseph Hospital, Mount
Clemens, Mich.
A police order closed the slide
at Green Glen Park at nearby
Utica. The park has been the
scene of two fatal accidents in
the past two years.
The piece Of timber that caused
Mr.. Polter's injury was one laid on
the ground to hold the water when
the slide was frozen. One end
had loosened and swung over the
track.
State police, working by flash
light in near-zero temperatures,
sawed off six feet Of the board to
get Mr.. Potter into an ambulance.
The remaining two-foot section
was removed by surgeons in an
emergency operation.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Around
the
World.
L. News in Brief -
Bulgarian Communists
Fear Grip Is Weokeninq

The Bulgarian Communist Par
ty, scared to death that its hold
on the country is slipping, is
carrying on a perpetual political
purge, source familiar with
Bulgarian affairs said today in
Rome.
Two sensational trials are ex-
pected, the source said. One
would be of Anton Yugov, former
Communist deputy premier. The
other would be of Gen. Ivan Kinov
and other military men.
The informant said these trials
will be evidence that ever since
Premier Georgi Dimitrov died the
Communists have feared for their
grip on the nation.
This assessment fitted in neatly
with recent reports. Yesterday
Donald Heath, United States
minister in. Sofia until the recent
break in relations, said in Milan,
Italy, that Yugov might be under
house arrest. In Germany there
were unconflrmed reports that
Kinov was jailed for attempting
to lead the army in a move to
throw off the Soviet yoke. -AP.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
New British Baron
Was Coal Miner
For II Years
By the Associoted Press

LONDON, Feb. 27.-A one-time
coal miner whose wife worked as
a housemaid to put him through
college has become a British
Baron. He is 68-year-old Jack
Lawson, for 80 years a Labor
House of Commons member until
he gave up his seat last Decem-
ber to take the vice Craftsmanship
of the National Parks Commission.
The new peer said he intends
to go right on living in his little
terrace house among his miner
friends at Beamish, in County
Durham.
Living here it is easy for any
one to tell me what they want, "
he explained to a reporter. They
walk in and out as if they belong" "
Announcement that Mr.. Law
son had been made a peer was
published this morning. Another
former Labor MP, Sir Francis
Campbell Ross Douglas. COVER
nor of Malta until recently, also
was made a baron.
Mr.. Lawson went into the coal
pits at the age of II. He was
a miner for IL years, working 10
hours a day. Early in their mar
riage, Mrs. Lawson decided he
should go to Oxford. She became
a household domestic to support
him while he studied.
Mr.. Lawson was secretary for
war in 1945-46.
Asked what title he would take,
he said:
"All I have thought about so far
is Lawson I hope they will
let me put Jack before it,
Evening star., 1950-02-27

ice cream at that, OF which ! am
not particularly fond"
A tall, lean, bespectacled man,
Albert said he was a Navy lieu
tenant commander during the
war, serving as an armed guard
on merchant vessels. A scar on
his forehead was made by shrap-
mel off Saipan, he said. The Navy
Department and Naval Reserve
found no record which tailed ex-
actly with his name, address and
rank.
Albert decided to go shopping
at 5 pm. Saturday, an hour be-
fore the stores closing time. OBJ
viously, he hadn't time to get all
he wanted in such a short time
So he decided to stay on, secret
ing himself in the flfth-floor fur
niture department.
About last midnight he weighed
the suitcase and found it sufh-
ciently heavy.
II he had checked his haul with
a shopping list it would have run
like this:
l tan topcoat.
so diamond rings, ranging up to
500 each in value.
IS watches, also up to 500 each.
saw from the tool depart
ment:: SO.
two-suiter leather travelling
bag: $50.
l pair of shoes, brown.
l felt hat.
Casting about for an exit he
thought of the window, and that
led to an idea. Finding a length
of sash cord, he tied it to the suit
case and gently lowered it to an
arearway near Tenth street be-
TWEEN the store and Rich's Shoe
Store.
Trapped Behind Gate.
At 3 am. Albert began letting
himself down the rope. Fifteen
feet above ground, it snapped. Al
bert tumbled to the concrete, in
juring his leg. He found himself
trapped in a three-foot separa-
ton between the buildings, barred
from freedom by a 15-foot iron
gate.
There he stayed for two hours
until Pvt. Ernest r. Cox, walking
his beat, flashed a light on the
suitcase suspended over the gate
Then he spotted Albert.
Firemen were called to place
two ladders against the gate SO
the man could walk over it.
In the suitcase police found q
hacksaw Albert had used to cut
into jewlery boxes. They said he
might have cut his way through
the iron gate, had he been able tc
reach the suitcase.
Left Family in Seattle.
firing Of his job as electric ap-
pliance salesman, which had oc-
cupied him since 1946, he left his
wife and three children in Seattle
three months ago and since has
floated from city to city, he told
reporters.
He had just arrived in Wash
ington when the desire to shop
seized him. He said he was on
parole for q bad check charge on
the West Coast.
Everybody makes boners," he
said. Even I made one"
His boner, he said, was in not
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Critics Forum to Hear
Father CHRISTOPHER

The Rev. Joseph P. Christopher
OF Catholic University will be
guest reviewer at the Critics
Forum at $3.50 pm. Wednesday
in the main ballroom of the May
flower Hotel.
"The Writer'S Notebook" by w.
Somerset Vaughan will be re-
viewed by Father Christopher.
DR.. James Cannon of the District
Board of Education will preside,
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Specialist on Reds Named

An American specialist on Rus
STA has been appointed director
of the United States High Com
mission in Berlin. He is Edward
Page, jr., A, of Ardmore, Pa.
former first secretary of the
United States Embassy in Moscow
and a member of the American
delegation to the Yalta and Pots
dam conference.-the.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
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stage more than a decade ago,
he had not ceased being a show
man. Still hale and hearty he
skirled his pipes and waved his
knobby stick for soldier audiences
in Britain all during World
War II, the same as he had done
a generation before for troops at
home and for charity.
With his niece. Miss Greta
Lauder, he went on recruiting
drives organizing shows and play
ing in Scottish towns on behalf
OF churches, schools. hospitals
clubs and community projects.
He even talked of making an
other farewell appearance, ir
America, but gave up the idea
because of failing health.
During the last months of his
life he had gathered some
strength, despite his critical ILL
ness. The doctors let him smoke
his beloved pipe now and then.
/ While the aged comedian joked,
the doctors watched and reported
there were no grounds for opti-
mism. Recently they noticed his
strength was slipping.
During his illness Sir Harry
indulged in one of his favorite
pastimes, listening to the radio.
1t was through this that he kept
in touch with a tradition he had
helped forward, that of the
comedian-singer.
Started Working at IL.
Among his favorite hit tunes
were those from the later Amer
ican musicals, like annie Get
Your Gun" and "Oklahona!" and
recordings by such American en-
tertainers as Bob Hope. Jack
Benny and Bing Crosby.
Born August 4, 1870, Lauder
was the oldest of seven children.
He went to work in a fax mill
at the age of II, when his father
died. Then he became a coal
miner.
Lauder always said the turning
point of his life was his marriage
to Annie Valance. His young
wife played the piano and they
started giving concerts at small
entertainment halls in Scotland.
Early in the 1900's he went to the
music halls in London, became q
success there and his fame soon
spread to the United States.
He was knighted in 1919 by
King George v for his services in
singing to the empire troops in
the trenches in France.
BY his own admission in Who's
Who. Sir Harry held but three
positions-as mill boy, then miner,
and for the last half century
what the people have made him. !"
What the people made him was
merely the same man with the
infectious gayety. dron humor and
rollicking whimsical songs he was
when he first stepped in front of
the footlights-but they made him
known to the entire English
speaking world.
Son Killed in World War I.
Three generations of British
royalty and the Allied armies Of
Evening star., 1950-02-27

waiting until the store opened and
leaving via a door.
But if I'd had a few more
minutes, would have gotten over
that gate" he said. He believed
he was knocked out by the fall
and perhaps was unconscious for
some time.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Tito Forges Ahead

Premier Marshal Tito said last
night Yugoslavia will forge ahead
despite opposition" from Rus
sian-led Eastern Europe.
He called on his people to rely
upon our own strength" without
awaiting "any particular help
from anybody" Apparently he
referred to the complaint he made
last week on the failure thus far
of the West to grant $36 million
in loans which. he said, were
promised to Yugoslavia by the In
ternational Bank, International
Monetary Fund and the United
States Export Import Bank.-AP
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Sedwick Aids Census

LURAY, Va. Feb. 27 (SpeciaD
-Rumsey Sedwick, Page County
farmer and former deputy sher-
iff, has been named head Of the
Page County census enumerators.
There will be 18 census takers In
the county.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Argentina Checks News

. An Argentine congressional in
vestigating committee has ordered
examination of all incoming news
dispatches "unfriendly to the eco
nomic policy" of the Peron gov
ernment which appear in news
papers there.
In the past three months the
committee has examined the ac-
counts of about half of Argentina's S
$50 daily newspapers and closed
go of them
Evening star., 1950-02-27
MoIoyo to Clear Reds

More than 100000 civilian VOL
unteers have been mobilized for
an "anti-bandit month" drive to
crush Communist guerrilla terror
ism IN Malaga.
The civilian volunteers will back
up British troops and police in a
campaign to sweep the jungles
clear of terrorists who have been
active almost since the end of
the war, killing rubber plantation
managers and destroying much
property,-AP,
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Hungory,s Demand Spurned

Britain has curtly rejected q
Hungarian demand that the Brit
ish weed out their diplomatic staff
in Budapest to prevent spying.
Hungary had charged the
Vogeler-Sanders espionage trials
showed "the purposes served by
such disproportionately large
staffS."-AP.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Hong Kong Ruling Stands

The British government cannot
and will not interfere with a Hong
Kong Supreme Court decision
handing over 90 Chinese airline
planes to the Communist govern
ment of China, a Foreign Office
spokesman said today.
Representations against the rul-
ing had been made to Britain by
the United States, which contends
the planes passed into the hands
of an American company through
purchase.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Mercy Killing
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tCOnClnueQ from FlrSC Fdgc.l
tered the room and went to the
left side of the bed. Mrs Borroto
was lying on her back.
DR.. Sander put his hand down
as though feeling her pulse. the
nurse said.
@. Did he say anything about a
pulse?
| A. No.
Miss Rose described Mrs. Bor-
roto as having short gasps" al
that point.
Mr.. Phinney asked if DR.. San
der said anything to her.
The nurse replied:
He asked if there was a sterile
20 or 10 &C syringe"
@. What did you say? ,...
A. I said I didn't know if there
was a 20 but I thought there was
a 10. He said a 10 &C syringe
would be all right.
The nurse testified then that
she left the room, went out to
the corridor and met the super
visor of the ward, Mrs. Cecilia
Smith.
Miss Rose testified she returned
to Mrs. Borroto's room where "Dr.
Sander was standing on the left
hand side of the bed, towards the
foot of the bed"
II gave him the syringe" she
testified. "The syringe was closed"
Asked by Mr.. Phinney what
that meant, she replied:
"The plunger was down in the
barrel of the syringe
Miss Rose said Mrs. Borroto's
breath at the time was coming
in short gasps."
"He CDR. Sander) swabbed of
the patients arm with the alco-
hol sponge"
Asked what part Of the arm
she answered:
Below the bend Of the elbow
on the inner side of the arm"
The nurse said as she saw DR.
Sander move the instrument to
Mrs. Borroto's arm, II heard q
louder gasp"
Miss Rose testified she saw the
needle was in the arm, the plungel
was back, and there was a little
blood at the bottom of the syringe
indicating the needle was in the
vein.
Pushed Plunser in.
''He CDR. Sander) started tc
push the plunger in"
The pretty blond nurse said
when she brought the syringe
from the medical locker it wa.
empty.
DR.. Sander sat erect without
moving as he listened to Miss Rose
but his face flushed visibly fol-
the first time during the trial
His wife sat motionless beside
him.
After the nurse quoted Dr.
Sander as telling her the air
would act like an embolism, Mr.
Phinney asked her what happened
next.
IT looked at the patients face
replied Miss Rose.
@. For about how long? 49,
A. just a glance.
@. What happened next?
A. looked back at the syringe
It was closed. The plunger was
down on the barrel.
Miss Rose said she then went
to the foot of the bed and took
up a position at the left side.
''How was DR.. Sander standing
in relation to you?" Mr.. Phinney
asked.
"He had his back to me- the
nurse answered.
@. Could you see what he was
doing?
A. No.
She said she continued to study
Mrs. Borroto as the patient lay on
her back under a sheet and q
spread.
What happened next?" asked
the prosecutor.
After a few minutes" Miss
Rose replied, "Dr. Sander turned
and handed me the syringe and
needle"
! @. About how much time had
elapsed?
A. About two or three minutes
Mr.. Phinney then asked the
nurse If DR.. Sander had made any
other statement to her.
"He said he would notify her
people and call the undertaken, =
1 Miss RnSo oncuyorod
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Ii Decision Awaited

Acting President Ii Tsung-jen's
decision on whether to resign was
awaited today in Nationalist
China.
A member of the cabinet said
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
would not resume the presidency
on March as was reported
previously. Mr.. Ii is recuperating
in the United States from surgi-
cal operation,-AP.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
80 Finnish Reds Sentenced

A Finnish court in Helsinki
today sentenced 80 participants in
August's Communist inspired
riots in the north lumber town
of Kemi to prison terms up to
16 months at hard labor.
Two workers were killed during
the riots, inspired by Red elements
to discredit the government.
The court acquitted 80 de-
PENDANTS and exempted five youths
from punishment. -AP.
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Meridian, Miss.
SUSHA AND SEFER T0RAH

in a little group tensely watch
ing every move Of Mr.. Lazar's, as
he slowly unwound the paper
wrapping, and then the Talith,
and as he began to unroll the
scroll.
With sigh of relief we finally
heard the verdict. Mr.. Lazar said
that the scroll was in very good
condition on the whole. Of course
there were some letters which
would have to be touched up by
his brush, the frayed edges of the
parchment would have to be
trimmed off, the little coat re-
placed by a respondent red vel
vet one embroidered in gold
thread. However, one of the four
discs which hold the scroll in
place on the spindles was broken,
as also the spindle that had held
it. Thereupon followed a discus
sion; with us arguing for the re-
pair of the original disc, which
had evidently been brought from
Palestine, as it was made of beau
tifully grained olive wood; and
Mr.. Lazar upholding the advisa-
bility of making new discs and
spindles, samples of which he
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showed us, made of ordinary pine.
We won out.
We won out, even to the re-
tention of the original little coat
made as it had been of sateen and
lined with homespun linen, surely
spun by some loving Jewish
hands directed by a mind center
ed on the mitzvah entailed in the
doing.
Susha set the date for the CIV
ing of her Torah to her syna-
gogue. It would be on the Sun
day following Sucoth, the season
when all Jews rejoice in their
Torah, and the reading of the
Torah is begun again at Beraishis.
What more appropriate time?
But we were not through yet!
Our excitement had apparently
not reached its peak! For Mr..
Lazar now asked what the in
scription would be, and with what
names? When he bethought to
look for any signs of previous
inscription, which is generally
made on the upper discs, he began
slowly to read, as he deciphered
the lettering on the wood:
In loving memory of Arieh =
beloved husband of Minded" =
We stood in awe and conSter-
nation, for Susha's face took on a
light not of this world, and her
fragile frame trembled as she
spoke softly:
81 knew her, Minded, she was Of
our kin! This Torah, then comes
from our own synagogue in Kny-
shin, where my husband worship
ped. He read from this Torah
many times. My father helped to
build the synagogue. My Hillelke
was Bar Mitzvah there, -----"
We stood silent for a long time.
When we talked again, it was
decided to allow this inscription
to stand, but that we would hang
a silver plaque over the dress of
the Torah, with the inscription
that this Torah was being donat-
ed in memory of Jacob ben Xvi,
and the entire lost community of
Knyshin, by the beloved wife, and
worthy townswoman, Susha!
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working nervously, and then she
said simply, "Yeh, mir is es sehr
gefehlen." My husband brought
the Torah home, rewrapped it in
his Talith, so all too spotless and
new, and we went to Paterson to
pick up his mother, and on to the
Solar for the word of final APP
proval.
Mr.. Lazar is not a fast moving
man. There are no chairs in his
shop. A suggestion of comfort
for the body would probably be
unthinkable in place devoted to
the things of the spirit. We stood
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Dixmude Sails From Norfolk
with Planes for France
By the Assoeioted Press

NORFOLK, Va, Mar. 18.-The
French aircraft carrier Dixmude
sailed today with the first units of
a 81 billion program of military
aid for Western Europe.
At 7:55 am. the little escort
carrier, her flight deck covered
with 48 planes - former Navy
fighters and bombers-departed
her pier at the Norfolk Naval Base.
Capt. Louis Felix Mornu, skipper
Of the Dixmude, said the carrier
will unload her cargo of war planes
at Bizerte, North Africa. She then
will proceed to Toulon, France,
"for short stay" Capt. Mornu
said. before returning to Norfolk
for another load of aircraft.
The Dixmude; arrived here
March and began loading planes
and spare parts the next day. The
last 10 planes were hoisted aboard
yesterday. These 10 had been
used in brief training program
conducted by Navy flyers and me-
chanics for the French flyers and
mechanics.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
BY the Asxoeioted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Mar. 1S
The United Nations, busy pro-
tecting the world from war, was
protected itself yesterday from
Willie the Actor.
Armed men sWarmed around
the world peace headquarters,
brandishing tommy guns and
guarding two armored cars bear
ing an estimated 81 million in
payroll cash.
Police were acting on tip that
Willie-real name William SUIT
ton-was due to call. But Willie
didn't show.
The dapper little bandit, a fugi-
tive from two prisons, is one OF
the top stickup artists in the
country and a professional bank
robber.
He is wanted as the gang leader
who lifted $64,000 from a New
York branch bank 10 days ago in
Ia fawless. Commute holdup.
Nassau County authorities said
they got the tip three days ago in
an anonymous typed letter.
The two trucks, one carrying the
q. N. payroll and the other money
for a branch bank at U. N. head
quarters, left Manhattan with an
escort of six police cars.
At the U. N. site. gates were
closed and locked and the cash
Evening star., 1950-03-18
German
Continued From First Page

NSollt1iluC0 CIOIu uSb IdSeD
munist-led East German govern
ment.
The East German Bank of
Emission yesterday issued a state
ment charging West Berlin money
changers with plotting the panic
''in order to confuse the popula-
ton and divert public attention
from the steadily mounting cap
italistic economy crisis in Western
Germany and West Berlin"
j. T. Kilduff. chief of finance
in the American High Commits
sion for Berlin, said Western Al
lied officials had confirmation of
the reports of impending currency
reform in East Germany. He
commented that the Communist
press had been trying to deny the
rumor and counter it by saying
the West mark soon would be
withdrawn from Berlin.
Their habit is to try to hide
a fact by charging the opposite"
Mr.. Kilduff observed. p
German financial officials re-
fused to give any figure on how
many East marks had been ex-
changed since the panic started,
but confirmed that 1t was up in
the Millions"