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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-05
FROM SEATTLE

Virginia Bernard and Marie Pur- dy are guests at the Baranof re- gistered from Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-05

that it is studying the advertising practices of Pall Mall cigarettes. made by American Cigarette and Cigar Co. of Durham, NC.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
ice Examiners Approve
Express Raise Plea

Two Interstate Commerce Com
mission examiners have recon-
mended a 10 per cent rate in
crease on the bulk of business
handled by the Railway Express
Agency.
Examiners Samuel r. Diamond
son and Charles w. Berry said
yesterday that hearings they held
last fall clearly show the express
agency's revenues are inadequate
to meet the increased cost of oper-
alton and taxes and to make
reasonable payments to the rail-
roads for the facilities furnished
and the services rendered by
them"
They added that prospects were
not bright for any substantial in
crease in express volume so long
as parcel post rates are main
tanned at their present levels con-
siderably below the cost of serv-
ice.p
Mr.. Diamondson and Mr.. Berry
asserted that even if the express
agency could pick up great deal
more business. it would still fall
more than $70,000,000 a year
short of meeting costs with pres
ent rates and level of expense.
IF the ICC follows the exam
iners' recommendation it would
be the fourth postwar increase
granted the company.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
British Action Seen Squirting
Slash in Europe ECA Funds

Great Britain's diplomatic rec
ognition of the Communist re-
gime in China raised a fresh cry
on Capitol Hill today for drastic
cuts in European recovery funds.
Senator Taft. Republican,. of
Ohio said he thinks the British
move will provide a lot of am
munition for those who want ECA
funds cut" ~
Senator Brewster. Republican,
OF Maine said the action presents
a problem Of how far we can go
in allowing our support to be di-
verted to the implementation OF
policies at variance with our own"
Representative Mansfield, Dem
ocrat, of Montana. insisted, how
ever, that the action was "Britain's S
business"
A similar line was taken by he
State Department. although its
view is that recognition of the
Communists Is premature. The
department pointed out that each
government must make its own
decision in the light of the situa-
ton as it sees it and of its own
circumstances" ',...1z=-s
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Role Of NationaIists
In U. n. Depends Now
On u. 5. and France
By the Assoeioied Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. Ma
tionalist Chinas future in the
United Nations seems for the pres
ent to be in the hands of the
United States and France.
On the Security Council Red
China now has been recognized
by S of the II nations-Russia,
Britain, Yugoslavia, India and
Norway.
Five others-the United States,
France, Cuba, Ecuador and Egypt
still recognize the last-ditch
Formosa island regime of Chang
Kai-shek's Nationalists.
Nationalist China is squarely in
the middle-holder of the Council
presidency for January. Chinese
Delegate T. F. Tsiang makes his
first appearance in that uncom-
Portable spot when the Council
meets at 3 pm. Tuesday on the
subject of conventional arma-
mentS.
Any move to unseat the Ma
tionalist U.N. delegation and re-
place it with a Chinese Commu-
mist group armed with full power
veto privileges is expected to SIM
mer for while. But some U. N.
lawyers agree that the current
Council lineup could mean that,
with two more votes, the Russian
led opposition to the Nationalists
might be able to achieve just such
a replacenento
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Greek Premier May Issue
Election Call by Monday
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece, Jan. t.
Greece's new Premier John Theo-
tokis said last night that If his
new cabinet decides to dissolve
Parliament and call a general cleo
tion, the decree will be issued be-
fore Monday.
Such decree would advance
the general election. previously
scheduled for April 9 or 16. at least
to the latter part Of February.
The Greek constitution calls for
general elections within 45 days
of the dissolution decree.
Mr.. Theotokis made his state
ment following the first meeting
of the new cabinet he formed yes
terday after the Populist- Liberal
coalition government resigned In
a dispute over the election date.
Liberal ministers in the old
government demanded that the
April election date be advanced.
When Premier Alexander Diome-
des refused, the Liberals resigned.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
|Lustron Files Plans
Hour Before DeadIine
By the Associuted Pre,.

The Lustron Corp. has rled a
reorganization plan by which it
hopes to stave off foreclosure on
$22, 100000 of overdue Govern
ment loans.
Reconstruction Finance Corn.
officials said yesterday they will
study the plan carefully before
discussing any Of its details pub
licly. The plan was delivered
about an hour before expiration
OF the deadline.
Lustron is a prefabricated hous-
ing venture, launched in Column
bus. Ohio. by Carl G, Strandlund
with $37 100000 borrowed from
the Government and 1000 of his
own capital. The RFC says s22,-
100000 of the loans are 'in de-
fault"
RFC officials said there has
been no change in the lending
agency's view that Mr.. Strand
lunds new plan "had better be
good: The agency had given
Mr.. Strandlund until nightfall
yesterday to submit a plan for
stabilizing the company's finances,
with foreclosure as the alterna-
tive.
The RFC said Mr.. Strandlund
must quit borrowing Federal
money, seek needed capital from
private investors, and give the
agency reason to believe that
some day he can. pay what he
already owes the Government.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Mrs.. {. F. Gooch Dies;
Secretary for GAO

Mrs. Katherine II. Gooch, A.
wife of Charles F. Gooch, former
baseball player who played for
the Mats in 1929, died yesterday
at Sibley Hospital after an illness
of four weeks.
Mrs. Gooch, who lived at $40
Rittenhouse street NV, was a
veteran of Is years Government
service. She was formerly with
the Justice Department and had
served the last three years as a
secretary in the General Account
ing Office.
Born here, she was the daughter
OF Mrs. Blanche S. and the late
w. Clayton Holtzclaw. She was
graduated from the old Business
High School.
In addition to her husband and
mother. she is survived by a son,
Charles Clayton Gooch of the
Rittenhouse street address: a
brother. F. Clayton Holtzciaw of
Washington. and sister, Mrs.
Margaret M. Simons OF Fulton.
Md.
Funeral services will be held at
9 am. Monday In the Church OF
the Nativity. Georgia avenue and
Peabody street NV. Burial will
be In Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Dr.. Sander 10 Oppose
Religious! I'jIII! Martyr Role
AT Mercy Death Trial
BY the Associated Pr..s

MANCHESTER, N. H.. Jan. T.
DR.. Hermann N. Sander, charged
with murder in the mercy death
OF a cancer-plagued patient, does
not want to be tried as "a relig-
ious martyr"
Ralph E. Langdell, a member
OF the young physicians legal
staff. said last night it is most
wrong" to stir up religious ami
r1osities over the case.
He said that the young physi-
clan, a former Dartmouth ski
captain, has no desire to "go on
trial as religious martyr"
The statement came after a
series of public comments by re-
ligious leaders-some condemn
ing and other commencing DR..
Sander.
A member OF the defense staff
also said the 40-year-old physi-
clan has nothing to fear" in the
States investigation of hospital
and other records relating to pa
tients he has treated.
Legal experts believe the defense
Will hammer hard at a section of
the Indictment saying DR.. Sander
injected air "wilfully, feloniously
and maliciously" into the veins of
Mrs. Abbie Borroto.
The State charges the 5a-vear.
old wife of a Manchester oil sales
man died of these injections and
not from cancer which wracked
her system for three months.
County Solicitor William H.
Craig quoted DR.. Sander as saying
early in the case that he knew
the injections would be fatal and
that he took the course as "an
act of mercy"
The doctor gave the explana-
ton at that time, Mr.. Craig said
that the woman was near death"
in the last stages of the disease
which attacked her large bowel.
The victims 19-year-old daugh-
ter Elise also told newsmen at the
time that sit was well-known
fact that my mother was dying" !"
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Two Senators Certain
Liberahzed DIP Bill
VIII Clear Committee
BY the Assoeiated Press

Two members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee predicted to-
day the group again will override
Chairman McCarran and recon-
mend a liberalized displaced per-
sons law.
Senator Ferguson, Republican,
of Michigan told a reporter he is
satisfied that a bill removing So
called discriminatory" provisions
from the law will be placed before
the Senate. He added:
II think we, have the votes to
get it through
Senator Magnuson. Democrat,
Washington, another member of
the committee, said he believed
there were enough votes to bring
the House-approved bill !, before
the Senate-as was done once last
October.
Senator McCarran was in Eu-
rope making personal investiga-
ton Of the DIP program last fall
when his committee recommended
the House bill. He tried to block
approval with cabled protests.
The Senate eventually sent the
issue back to the committee with
instructions to bring DIP bill
back by January Is.
Senator McCarran, renewing
his fight on the legislation, said
in a report to the Senate yester-
day that his European investiga-
ton shows complete breakdown
in the administration" of the pres
ent law.
It provides for the admission of
205 200 war refugees in the two
year period ending June 80. The
House bill would extend the pro-
gram for another year and in
crease the number of DPS eligible
for admission to this country to
$4,000.
The measure also would ad-
vance the so-called cutoff"
date-for determining the eligi-
bility OF displaced persons-from
December %. 1945, to January /,
1949, and remove other provisions
which President Truman and
others have called discriminatory
against Jews and Catholics.
A meeting of the Judiciary Com
mittee is scheduled for Monday.
Senator Magnuson said he as
sumes the DIP question will be
taken up then but added that he
doesn't know If more hearings
will be held. Senator McCarran
refused comment.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Bomber RefueIing Tests
Planned Over Polar Reqion

The Air Force is going to con-
duct bomber refueling tests over
the North Polar ice cap, q pro-
cedure which in wartime would
extend the planes striking range
over Europe and Asia.
The department said last night
in a cautiously-worded statement
that three refueling squadrons
from the 9th Air Force would GO
to Goose Bay, Labrador, and
would each spend a week on a
training mission designed to in
crease the efficiency of air-to-air
refueling." The squadrons will
leave at Today intervals, from
January to February S. APP
proximately 40 planes will partici-
pate.
Maj. Gen. Roger M. Raney, 9th
Air Force commander, said the
squadrons would fly from the
509th Bombardment Wing based
at Roswell, N. Mex. He said the
refueling technique would be the
same as that employed by the
B-50 Lucky Lady on its nonstop
global flight last year.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
By Russell Brines
Associated Press foreign Correspondent


TOKYO, Jan. 1.-THE consensus
of American military officials out
here is that Formosa is doomed
to Red conquest now that the
United States has decided to re-
main aloof.
They say Communist occupation
Of that island off the Southeast
China coast may have grave conse-
quences for the United States.
Here's why:
The outer American defense line
in the Pacific is a string of air
bases. The line runs from Alaska
to Japan and on southwark to
Okinawa and the Philippines.
Suppose war should come with
Russia. Fast fighter planes from
Alaska and possibly Japan would
be expected to intercept bombers
from Siberia heading for the
United States.
+ New Fields in Siberia.
The Russians are known to have
new air fields in Eastern Siberia,
on Kamchatka Peninsula north
east OF Japan and on SakhaIin
and the Kurile Islands at Japan's
doorstep.
American bombers from Japan
and OkinQwo coi11d cfrito Of fhaea
military targets in Siberia as well
as at key industrial centers.
Air power in the Philippines
could cover the vast stretches of
Southeast Asia, should the Chi
nese Communists start trouble
there.
This strategy presupposes a
neutral, or friendly Formosa, It
Evening star., 1950-01-07
u. S. Military Circles in Tokyo
Worried by Fornosu Decision

is $50 miles from Formosa to
OkinaWa. 1t is a little farther
from Formosa to Clark Air Force
Base, the American field in the
Northern Philippines.
In the hands of a competent
air power-Russia. not the Chi
nese Communists-Formosa would
be a bludgeon against both Ok
inawa and Clark Field. The JAP
anese built many good air fields
on Formosa, which was japanese
from 1895 until the end of World
War II.
To be sure. Formosa could be
hit from Okinawa and Clark
Field. The decision would depend
on who had the most force avail
able the outset of hostilities.
Air Power at Minimum.
Key American officers say the
United States air power in the
Western Pacific is at minimum
strength. But they want to hold
all present bases. The defense
line forms the American beach,
head in Asia.
The fall of Formosa, it is be-
lieved here. would be followed by
a Communist move in Southeast
Asia.
Should the Communist move
ment triumph in the United
States of Indonesia, the outer de-
fense line of the United States
would be outf1anked.
One result might be a forced
withdrawal of the American de-
fense line eastward to the Aleu-
tians and Hawaii.
In these days of aerial warfare
this would be-as one officer put
it-like defending your home
from the back fence"
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Rio Treaty Is Invoked
In Haiti-D Dominican :.
Feud Over Security ::
By the Assoeiafsd Press

The American republics have
put the Rio mutual defense treaty
in motion in an attempt to stop
feuding in the Caribbean. "a
Under the treaty an investiga-
ton will be held in an effort to
restore harmony in the area long
kept in turmoil by political quar-.
reling and filibustering.
The action came late yesterday
on complaints by Haiti and the
Domican Republic. But the stage
was set to stretch the investiga-s
ton to cover several attempts
to overthrow governments and
launch invasions in the area.
Committee Set Up.
The two appeals were laid be.
fore the Council of the Organiza-
ton of American States which,
debated four hours and set up, a
t-flnding committee to invests.
gate. ,,~
The councils special session was
called to hear Haiti's complaint
that she was the victim of a
Dominican invasion plot. Haiti,
asked that the Rio treaty be in-,
voked against her neighbor re-
public. nm
Then in surprise move, thu.
Dominican Republic also asked
that the treaty be invoked, con-
tending that it had been the tar
get of aggressive aims by other
Caribbean countries for several
years. a.,
This Dominican move opened
the way to permit a broadened
investigation.
Haitian Note Received. so~
Haiti and the Dominican Re-
public share an island in the
Caribbean and have been at odds
for years. ..-
Yesterdays special council sess
sion followed receipt of a Haitian
note announced Tuesday charg..
ing the Dominican Republic with
completely in an alleged conn
spiracy Of assassination and arson
to give the Dominican army an
excuse to invade Haiti. The
Dominican Republic denied this
calling the charges fantastic. rs.
The Domin1cans asked that any
investigation not be limited to
the Haitian charge but to the
general situation" in the Carib,,
bean. They contended that Cuba;
Guatemala and Venezuela had
participated in plots against the
Dominican government. s.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Ex-Pfincess Of Hesse
Sues for S495,490
Estate Of Father

A battle over a $495, 400 estate
is under way in District Court,
with Mrs. Elizabeth de Hesse,
former Princess of Hesse, seeking
to have herself declared sole heir.
The estate was left by the late
Richard Reid Rogers, 81, promi-
nent attorney and father of Mrs.
Hesse, according to papers filed
in the court yesterday. Mr..
Rogers, who had law practive
here and in New York, where he
also was recognized as a public
transit expert. died November 10
at the University Club in New
York. His Washington residence
for many years was the Metro
politan Club.
In. yesterdays petition, his
daughter, who lives in New York
and Cannes, France, also asked
that several papers purporting to
be her fathers will be declared
null and void because they al
legedly were not properly executed
or were voided by Mr.. Rogers
himself.
One Of these purported wills,
drawn up in long hand by Mr..
Rogers, bequeathed his estate in
one-quarter shares to two grand
sons, Richard and Waldemar de
Hesse, both Of Houston, Tex. This
paper also appointed the two
grandsons as trustees to admin
lister the two remaining one
quarter shares of the estate as
trusts for their two sisters, Au-
gusta and Olga de Hesse, of
Cannes, France.
This purported will was signed
by Mr.. Rogers and two witnesses
on November Is. 1948.
Elizabeth de Hesse, who gave
her Washington address as the
Mayflower Hotel, became an Am
erican citizen nearly two years
ago, after a court fight to retain
her title. Elizabeth, Princess of
Hesse. When Judge r. Dickinson
Let's denied her move, she re-
nounced her title and changed her
name to Elizabeth de Hesse
Evening star., 1950-01-07
15-Years.t Term
Given 10 Woman in
ataI Shooting Ju|y4

A sentence of Is years to life
imprisonment was imposed in
District Court yesterday on a
woman convicted of second-de-
gree murder.
Alice L. Morton, "a, colored, of
the 600 block of Second street
NE, was sentenced by Judge
Edward A. Tamm. She was con-
victed recently Of shooting David
F. Stephens, 80, colored, Of the
600 block of Eighth street, last
July.
4 Sentenced in Robbery.
Judge Richmond B. Keech SEN
fenced four men to prison for a
yoke robbery of a colored man.
They were said to have obtained
only So and a wrist watch. Two OF
them, Charlie w. Crump, %, 700
block of Sixth street NV, and
Julius S. Ogton, %, of the 1900
block of Seventh street NV, were
given from three to nine years
each. The other two. Clarence G.
Smith, %, Of the 900 block of
Freeman's Court NV. and Robert
Womack, jr., %, of the HOO block
OF Sixth street NV. were given two
to six years each. All are colored.
Silas H. Hunter, 80, colored, of
the 500 block of P. street NV. was
given a suspended sentence of
one year by judge Keech for neg
ligent homicide in a traffic death.
He was placed on probation for
two years. According to court rec
ords. Hunter was driving a truck
last September that fatally In
jured Cora Lucy Mayo, 40, colored.
OF the 210o block Of Eighteenth
street NV.
Jailed for Molesting Girl. +.
Richard w. sasnett, 56, of the
600 block of Maryland avenue
S.W., was given from six months
to three years by Judge Keech for
taking indecent liberties with q
l2-year-old girl. ~ VI sssf 81
Kenneth I. Lee, %. colored, of
the $500 block of Ontario road
NV, was given a prison term of
from one to three years by Judge
keech on a marijuana charge.
William B. Fletcher was sem
fenced by Judge Matthew r. Nc
Guire to serve six months In iail
and pay a $1,000 fine for failing to
nie income tax returns for the
years 1945-46. No age was listed
Tor the defendant who was said
to have lived in the 100 block Of r
street NV. The Indictment alleges
that Fletcher had a gross income
OF Sl3,378 for the two years, which
he did not report.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
3 Get 25-Yeor Terms
For Baltimore HoIdups
BY the Assoeioisd Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. - Three
holdup men who preyed on cab
drivers were sentenced yesterday
to Is years each In Maryland
penitentiary.
The three were John Henry
Ford. 20. Frank Lewis. jr., %, and
Robert ]. Martin. %. all Balti-
more colored men. &.
They were charged with eight
holdups during November. A
watch and total Of $3.50 were
obtained from the cab drivers
when they were confronted with
knives or razors.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
~ Riding Horses Die
In Chicago Stable Fire
By the Associated Press


CHICAGO, jan. Twenty
two riding horses burned to death
and a stableboy was injured
yesterday in fire which destroyed
the Greentree Stables In suburban
Norwood Park.
Mrs. Claude Mackey, wife of
the veteran polo player who owns
the stables, said 81 or % horses
were saved from the f1ames.. She
estimated damage to the. two
story frame stable at $50, 900.
In March. 1948. a $4,000 blaze
destroyed the clubhouse and rid
ing area but IL 95 horses, were
saved. - E
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Fuirfux Dances Planned
To Aid Dimes Fund Drive

A series of dances will be held
throughout Fairfax County to
raise funds for the 1850 Mile OF
Dimes campaign.
Joel Harris, chairman of the
drive which opens January Is and
runs through January 81 said
date for the traditional polio
benefit balls has not yet been de-
cided.
The dances win commemorate
the birthday Of the late President
Roosevelt, according to tradition
established during his lifetime
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Oldsmobi|e Official Soys
Prospects Are Best Yet
By the Assoeioted Press

DETROIT, Jan. 7.-Business
prospects look better than ever"
to. S. E. Skinner, general manager
Of Oldsmobile.
Oldsmobile, which set a new
production mark at $4,000 We
hicles last year, is aiming at a
1850 total of 375,00o vehicles. This
is $4,000 more than the goal an
nounced few weeks ago as Olds-
mobile displayed its new, models
at press preview.
The former record for this
Oldest of the General Motors car
divisions was 233 900 built in 1871
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Czech Shoes Squeak

PRAGUE R.-Westerners are
inclined to wonder how Czecho-
slovakia's red-tabbed security po-
lice ever catch suspect-their
shoes squeak SO. Indeed, this is
a city of squeaky shoes. The real
leather shoes are exported for
hard currency and the ersatz
leather shoes are given to the ma
tives. 81 E%iA2sj 80 1854.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
Sonskrit Dictionary Planned

NEW DELHI, India (P.-An
anonymous French scholar has
announced a grant of 5000 a year
Tor compiling Sanskrit- English
dictionary.
Evening star., 1950-01-07
FOUND.
--.--.---

DOG, mixed breeds, small. white With
short hair. Va of head black and other
black spots. Va. tag. Call WO. 1885.
D0G--All. black puppy. female, white
tipped tail on Lee hwy. Owner or good
home. CH. Q13s.
LIGHTER, silver colored Ronson, vicinity
Penna. ave, 18th st. Contact POrPLE-
TON. 110I 18th ST.. NV after z pm.
REDDISH BROWN CAT, at Barney Circle,
APPROX. month ago. VI. 1886.