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Evening star., 1950-02-11
Texas Deputies Due
To Get Girl Witness

Texas deputies. were due here
over the week end to return ar
l8-year-old wife to Amarillo ir
connection with a Staying she has
accused her husband of commit
ting last June.
The husband, Ewald johnson
80, who was arrested in Munising
Mich, has admitted the Staying
OF w. A. Thornton, Texas Gilman
in an Amarillo tourist cabin, the
Associated Press reported. Potter
County (Tex) Sheriff Paul Gal
ther is en- route to Munising te
return johnson to Amarillo tc
face murder charges.
Johnson's wife, Diana, is charged
with unlawful flight across State
line to avoid prosecution. She gave
herself up to United States Park
Police here Wednesday, saying she
saw her husband beat the Texas
explosives expert with his own gun
after he had given her and her
nuSDanQ a ride.
Jonhson's statement said he and
his wife were picked up by Mr..
Thornton at Tucumcari, N. Mex,
and stopped overnight in Amarillo
After the beating he told the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, he
took the oilman's money. gun and
car.
They later abandoned the car at
Dodge City, Kans., but it was not
until several days later that they
learned Mr.. Thornton had died of
the beating, Johnson was quoted
as saying.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Washington Passenger Tells
OF Stewards Tragic Death

Mrs. Margaret Winberg, 81, of
1914 Crittenden street NV. the
only Washington passenger on the
Pan American Stratocruiser, to-
day told how the steward was
sucked out of the plane. Her eye
witness story follows:
I'VE were just airborne out of
Boston when the door blew open.
The noise was deafening, and
there were bits of something that
looked like cotton with glue on 1t
flying all over the plane.
Il had been chatting with the
steward of and on for some time,
and he had just run back and
brought me a blanket. When the
door opened, he took the blanket
from me and tried to block the
opening with 1t. It was then that
he was blown out"
Didn't See Him Fall.
Mrs. Winberg said she did not
see the steward fall, and was not
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Threat TO State Witness
In Bolton Trial Probed
BY the Assoeioted Press

DETROIT, Feb. 11.-A reported
death threat against Mrs. Dorothy
Collins, a State witness in thu
Walter Reuther shooting trial, wa.
investigated by police today.
Police placed Mrs. Collins under
protective custody after she tole
|of being threatened by three
strange men on her way to court
yesterday.
Mrs. Collins, "a, is the common.
law wife Of convict John Kaliszew.
ski. 46, a star State witness, who
has told of being offered $4,000
by Carl Bolton, the defendant, te
kill. Mr.. Reuther.
Bolton is charged with assault
with intent to kill Mr.. Reuther
The CIO-United Auto Workers
president was shot and critically
wounded at his home the nigh,
of April 20. 1948.
The Toronto (Ontario) woman
told police she was accosted By
three men as she walked to the
Municipal Court Building. Two
OF them, she said, put their hands
menacingly in their pockets anc
told her she would be rubbed
out" If she said anything more or
the witness stand.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Belgian Army Announces
Complete Reorganization
BY the Asseeiufee Press

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. IL
The Ministry of National Defense
today announced a complete re-
organization of the Belgian Army.
The new organization is spear
headed by an intervention forces
command under Gen. j. Piron,
who led Belgian free forces cre-
ated in Britain during the war.
This force will include troops
now in Germany and new trainees
who are prepared to fight out
side Belgian territory under the
five-power Brussels Alliance agree
ment.
Other divisions of the Belgian
ground forces include a terri
torial forces command guarding
against fifth columns and sud-
den paratroop attacks and the
base command in charge of sup
plies to all fighting forces.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Gen. Story Shoots Stranger
In Kitchen Of His Home
BY the Assoeioted Press

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calf.
Feb. 11.-Maj. Gen. Walter P
Story last night shot and crit
ically wounded a stranger in the
kitchen of his home. Detective
w. L., Wilkins said. So. se,,a .z.
Gen. Story former commander
OF the 40th Division Of the Ma
tional Guard and prominent
socialite, was quoted by Mr.. Will
kins as saying the man gained
entry by asking to use the tele-
phone. ~ ''@~.,'.' 81 a..
The detective identified the
wounded man as Perry l.. Davis,
80, North Hollywood. He said
Gen. Story told him he did not
know the man. Davis was taken
to Birmingham General Hospital
with bullet in his abdomen.
Il told him he could use the
telephone in the Kitchen" Mr..
wilkins quoted Gen. Story, 'but
he insisted that he be permitted
to use the telephone in the front
part of the house. I refused"
Mr.. Wilkins said Gen. Story
told him he shot when Davis put
his hand in his pocket. The de-
tective said the generals nephew
1t. Col. Nelson Story III, cor
roborated the generals account.
Evening star., 1950-02-11

aware of the accident until after
the plane landed in New York.
She recalled that her own
safety belt was not fastened at the
time that the door blew open.
II had gotten up and started
toward the rear of the plane. I
fell down and managed to squeeze
myself into a sort of alcove in
front of the first seat" she said.
A former nurse, Mrs. Winberg
said she recovered her composure
and helped minister to the other
passengers. She said she gave
ammonia to an aged woman who
had tainted, and phenobarbital TO
an expectant mother who became
hysterical.
Wasn't Too Frightened.
Mrs. Winberg said she was re-
turning at the time from a shop
ping trip to Europe. She said she
is secretary of an organization for
displaced persons in business here,
and that the trip was made in
their behalf.
She described herself as mot
too frightened by the experience
explaining that she comes from
an old flying family"
Her brother, Arthur L. Welch,
was an instructor for the Wright
brothers flying school, and once
taught Gen. H. H. Arnold and
Gen. James Doolittle, she said.
About all you can say about
an accident like that" she con-
cluded. "is that it was an act of
God. At least I'm sure that it
wasn't any ones fault"
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Accused SIayers Jailed
In Two Fatal Shoofinas

Arguments, one of them in a
card game, brought death to two
persons here last night. Both
are colored.
Mrs. Bernice Arlington, "a, oi
1918 Thirteenth street NV, died
almost instantly from a gunshot
wound in the chest during a fight
at a home in the HOO block OF
First street NV.
Police arrested Johnnie W. Day
%, colored, of the First street
address, and ordered him held for
action of the coroner.
A blast from a 12-gauge shot
gun also brought almost instant
death to Richard Jackson, %, OF
the 1900 block of Benning road
Sc, during an argument which
developed over a card game, police
said.
William Harley, 81, colored, OF
the 1900 block of Benning road
Sc, was charged with murder.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Elmer Bailey, ST., IA,
Ex-Machinisf, Dies

Elmer H. Bailey, sr., IA, retired
machinist. who served in the Gov
ernment here for 48 years, died
yesterday at his home. AL Emer-
son street NV. He had been
ill for the last two months.
Retiring from the Government
in 1910, Mr.. Bailey acted as a
special representative for the
United States Steel Corp. testing
stainless steel at the Bureau of
Standards. During World War II
he worked in the machine shop
OF Capital Airlines.
A lifelong resident of Wash
ington, he attended Anacostia
schools and entered the Navy
Yard as an apprentice machinist
at the age of 16. During World
War I he was an ordnance in
spector for the War Department.
In 1919 he became foreman of
the Public Buildings Administra-
ton, the position he held until
his retirement.
A charter member of Columbia
Lodge No. 174. International Asso-
citation of Machinists, he at one
time served as its vice president.
He was also a member of the AS
ISOLATION of Oldest Inhabitants
and Dawson Masonic Lodge No. 16.
Mr.. Bailey is survived by his
widow, the former Miss Isabelle
johnson of Washington.
Other survivors include four
daughters, Mrs. Eleanore Smith
son, Mrs. Aline Lee, Mrs Myrtle
Findt and Mrs. Mary Ellen Etcher;
a son. Elmer H. Bailey, jr., and a
sister, Mrs. Annie Schafer, all of
Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Tuesday at the Deal funera;
home, 48l2 Georgia avenue NV
Burial will be in Congressional
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-02-11

Whether 1ngrid Bergman'S latest
picture, "Stromboli," will outlive
its premiere run here is up to the
public, a survey of Washington
area neighborhood theater mana
gers indicated today.
With a business eye trained on
the cashiers till, and a business
finger firmly on the public pulse
the majority of theater spokes-
men have adopted an attitude of
wait and see" before taking a
stand on the now controversial
movie.
What they particularly want to
see is how the people react to the
film when it makes its premiere
Wednesday at Keith's Theater.
"Stromboli" also will open stimuli
taneously at the colored Republic
Theater and at some 800 other
movie houses across the Nation.
To Know Thursday.
Since the blond Swedish actress
gave birth to son early this
month and named him Roberto,
after Roberto Rossellini, Italian
Aim director, there have been out
cries to ban the picture from va
rious church groups and censor
ship boards.
But, as one spokesman for a
theater chain said: Were not
churches-we're theaters.
IF the public accepts it down
town, suggested another theater
man, Frank Boucher, who is man
ager Of the Kogod-Burka chain,
you can be sure it will be ac-
cepted in the neighborhoods. II
there's any public resentment, the
neighborhoods may not want to
run it."
Then, referring to Wednesdays
premiere. he said of his decision
for the K-B theaters:
"I'll know by next Thursday
morning."
But not all managers polled
were holding off decisions to book
or not to book.
Il don't intend to play it,
fatty declared Jack Eskridge
manager of the Greenbelt (Md.)
Theater. He said, however. ii
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Allen Forwards Appeal
Of YugosIuvio for Funds
BY the Asseeiated Pres,

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Feb
1l.-American Ambassador George
Allen passed on to Washington
yesterday Yugoslavia's appeal TO,
quick action on three pending re-
quests for dollar aid amounting tc
$36 million.
The money is split up like this;
$25 million from the World Bank
S. million from. the Export I'm
port Bank and Sc million from the
international Monetary Fund.
The request for action was in
ltiated by Foreign Minister Edward
Kardelj two days ago during g
visit by Mr.. Allen to the Foreign
Office to discuss Yugoslav-Ameri-
can affairs.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Groves Urges Protection
OF A-Secrets al Any Cost
BY the Asseeioied Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE
Government should spare no ex-
pense, says 1t. Gen. Leslie r
Groves. to protect American
atomic secrets.
1T is expensive to investigate
any one." Gen. Groves said last
night. Sometimes it costs s2,50o
to investigate a person, even a
stenographer working on top
secret data. But it is an expense
that must be met"
The retired head of the Man
haitian District atomic bornh
project during the war was inter-
viewed on the National Broadcast
ing Co.'S eve the People" radio
television show.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Exhibitors Here Await Premiere
Before Booking 'StronboII

was not only because of the
furor that has been raised
about the Bergman -RoSSellini ro-
nance. but because Bergman has
had too many failures" He said
her last two pictures did poorly
here"
Another Expects to Run 1t.
From another suburban thea
ter. the Hiser-Bethesda, came an
exactly opposite answer:
We're normally an RKO out
let, and we expect to run it," as
serted Manager w. r. Gingell. He
explained the Hiser usually plays
all RKO pictures that have a first
run at Keith's, and added, $50 far
there has been no customer re-
action"
Several managers said they
personally" would rather not run
it. but they indicated that, after
all, business is business, and If it
looks like 'Stromboli" will be a
box Office success, they'd screen
it anyway.
After ALL" came the considered
opinion of Norman Higginbotham,
from Fairfax, Va, where he runs
the towns only movie house, I'VE
have to serve the people. # the
public wants to see it, we'll have
| to show it,
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Virginia Censors Approve
'StromboR Unconditionoiiy

RICHMOND. Feb. IL P.-In-
grid Bergman's new picture,
"Stromboli," can be shown in Viz
ginia without any deletions
Chairman j. B. Beverly, jr., of the
Motion Picture Censorship Di-
vision, said today.
There is nothing Objectionable
In the picture" Mr.. Beverly said
in announcing that the censors
had passed the film uncondition-
ally by a unanimous vote.
He said the Virginia censors'
vote on the Italian-made film was
taken January 27. He said
"Stromboli" is perfectly clean as
far as morality is concerned. The
division calls them (movies) as
we see them" he added.
Evening star., 1950-02-11

where" said Mr.. Pomerantz
gruffly. ...
"You are a very funny man
Mr.. Pomerantz," Mr.. Palmer ex-
claimed. Il know you better
than your own mother does"
"Mr. Palmer" retorted MI
Pomerantz, II don't like to see you
make such as ass of yourself"
/ "Well, I just want to tell you
that you are not getting any
copies of the minutes of the rec.
ord from me-" shouted Mr.
Palmer.
Before court convened yester.
day Judge Ryan directed that
copies of the official record which
are being given Miss Coplon al
Government expense be made
available to Gubitchev.
His honor said I was entitled
to the transcript, Mr.. Palmer ,
said Mr.. Pomerantz, land I in
tend to see it,"
I'll be busy with it all day to-
morrow and you'll never see it,
Mr.. Palmer stormed.
II intend to see it and his honor
will rule on whether I'm entitled
to see it, Mr.. Pomerantz retorted
Miss Coplon put her hands to
her forehead during the row be-
tween defense counsel and occa-
sionally smiled nervously at news
papermen who clustered around
the two lawyers after Judge Ryan
left the bench. Finally she urged:
will you please stop this, it's Sc
stupid"
Gubitchev, who has sat with
an expression of Slavic indiffer-
ence throughout the trial, did not
look at his co-defendant, but
finally arose and put his hat and
oyercoat on. He walked stolidly
away from the counsel table and
as he passed Mr.. Pomerantz ex-
claimed guterally: Come on, let's
CO." All day yesterday was con-
sumed by Mr.. Palmer's exhaustive
cross-examination of FBI Agent
Martin Carey, who trailed the ac-
cused couple from Upper Broad
way to the Greenwich Village sec
tion in downtown Manhattan,
where they were arrested.
Mr.. Carey said he searched
Gubitchey from his shoulders to
his waist Immediately after the
Russian engineer attached to the
United Nations was placed under
arrest. He said he was looking
for firearms.
I'm other words" said Mr..
Palmer. you searched him from
his belly up and Ne didn't have
anything on him-no guns, no
papers?"
MFR. Carey said he never saw
Miss Coplon pass any papers to
MIR. Gubitchev.
Evening star., 1950-02-11

altitude when Harris, was lost
through the opening, Of the. main
cabin door. ~ '-
"The passengers remained calm
and cooperative" he added. THE
flight was completed without fur
ther incident" ,',.s..
Mr.. Harris of New York City,
fell from the plane as it was fly
ing over the vicinity of st. James,
on Long Islands north shore
about IS miles northeast of the
airport.
Twenty-Five passengers arrived
on the plane.
Search for Body Ordered.
The Coast Guard ordered a
search for Mr.. Harris body.
Spokesman said he may have
fallen into Long Island Sound, or
his body may have landed some
where along the northern shore of
the island.
The door through which Mr..
Harris plunged was in the midsec-
tion of the plane-the main door
to the upper-deek passenger COM
partment.
Airline officials said the fact that
passengers were being strapped in
their seats-in preparation for
landing-may have saved others
from being sucked out.
Almost three years ago the nav
'igator of another transatlantic
plane was killed in a similar acci-
dent.
Plastic Dome Blew Open.
The airman. George B. Hart of
Sag Harbor, N. Y, was sucked out
OF plane at 10000 feet when
a plastic observation dome blew
out. He dropped miles into the
sea and never was seen again.
The plane was over the ocean
about $50 miles southeast of New
foundland at the time.
That accident happened March
10, 1947, aboard a Trans World
Airline Constellation on its way
to Europe. The planes pressure
system was knocked out and the
pilot had to drop to 10000 feet
to save 10 passengers aboard
Mr.. Hart's death and the new
accident are believed the only
ones of their kind in commercial
aviation.
Mr.. Harris, married man, was
one of II crewmen aboard, in
addition to the passengers.
The airline said Mr.. Harris was
born in Lafayette, Ind, where his
mother, Mrs. Chrisso Harris, lives.
He served 28 months in the
Army in World War II after serv-
ing as an interpreter and trans
lator for British intelligence in
f,rnnee
Evening star., 1950-02-11
|Radio-N Stocks Rise
lin Otherwise Narrow,
Quiet Stock Market
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Radio-
television stocks went to town
again today.
While the rest of the market
dawdled along in a fractional
range, TV issues shot ahead for
gains of l to points.
Today's sharp advance was the
latest act in the sensational per-
formance this group has staged
since the first of the year.
Demand has been based manly
on heavy current sales of TV sets
plus highly optimistic estimates
of the future by industry sources.
Announcement that President
Truman's fact-finding board had
submitted its report on the coal
strike to the White House had no
appreciable effect on prices. The
main question in the minds of
most traders now is whether or not
the coal miners will obey an in
junction just issued.
Zenith paced the TV group with
rise of around 4 points at one
time. Others a point or so ahead
included Admiral Corp, Emerson
Radio, Philco, Magnavox, Motor
ola and Sparks Wilmington. Frac-
tional gains were scored by Radio
Corp, Stewart-Warner and In
ternational Telephone.
Elsewhere minor gains and
losses were pretty evenly divided.
On the plus side most of the time
were Bethlehem Steel, Goodrich.
Montgomery Ward. Douglas Air
craft, Pepsi Cola. Kennecott Cop
per, Dow Chemical, Du Pont,
Union Pacific and Celotex.
A little balky were youngstown
Sheet. Chrysler, Sears Roebuck.
j. I. Case, Consolidated Edison.
General Electric, American Wool
en-, Southern Railway and United
States Gypsum.
Higher in the curb were Ar
kansas Natural Gas "a. Brazilian
Traction, Cosden Petroleum, Ma
tional Fuel Gas. and Standard
Power & Light. Backing down
were Cities Service. Consolidated
Gas of Baltimore, Long Island
Lighting, National Union Radio,
Niagara Hudson Power and
United Light.
Corporate bonds moved in a
narrowly irregular range.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Plane
Continued From First Page.)

ments before the accident Mr..
Harris had been reassuring an
aged woman passenger, and had
told her:
We'll soon be landing, and I'll
take care of everything for you.
You've got nothing to worry
about"
Inspectors of the Civil Aero
nautics Authority and the Civil
Aeronautics Board began an i'm
mediate investigation. Crewmen
were questioned after the plane
on flight from London-landed at
New York International Airport.
There was no explanation why
the door came open.
Capt. John T. Nolan of Hunt
ington, N. Y, pilot of the plane,
said he had received clearance
for landing, and was reducing
Evening star., 1950-02-11
FTC Drops Complaint
Against Fitch Shampoo
By the Associated Pres.

The Federal Trade Commission
said yesterday it has dropped q
complaint charging F. w. Fitch
Co. of Des Moines with miSrepre-
senting the properties and effec-
tiveness" of Fitch's dandruff-re-
mover shampoo.
The agency said its action re-
suited from the sale of the Fitch
Company's trade marks, trade
names and formulas" to Grove
Laboratories, Inc, st. Louis.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Divorce Papers Going
To Miss Bergman
BY u. ). AirmaiI
BY the Assoeiosed Press


Ell PASO, Tex, Feb. 11.-Ingrid
Bergman's divorce papers are on
their way to Rome by United
States airmail.
Attorney William Cooke said
he sent the papers last night. He
handled details of Miss Berg
mans Juarez (Mexico) divorce
from DR.. Peter Lindstrom, Holly
wood surgeon.
Miss Bergman, to whom a son
was born nine days ago, is ex-
pected to marry Italian Film Di-
rector Roberto Rosselini as soon
as the papers arrive.
Mr.. Cooke said he had turned
down an offer by a Holland air.
line that flies the Atlantic to team
with a Mexican airline and de-
liver the papers personally" He
would not elaborate.
Miss Bergman's divorce was
granted Thursday on the grounds
OF mental cruelty, non-support
0AAA
The beautiful actress Rome
attorney had said yesterday the
papers might be rushed to Rome
by special plane. but Mr.. Cooke
denied this.
Miss Bergmans baby, now called
Roberto, jr., may be registered
under the name Rossellini, accord
ing to II Giornale d'Italia, influ-
ential Rome newspaper. An ap-
pointment has been made for civil
registration today.
Rossellini said he and Miss
Bergman would be married as
soon as possible in a small and
private civil ceremony" and that
Catholic church ceremony may
follow later.
Miss Bergman and Rossellini
eventually may be able to marry in
the Catholic church, a Vatican
source said yesterday. But it may
take more than two years to clear
away the obstacles.
If Miss Bergman and the direc-
tor who fathered her child get
married in a civil ceremony, the
informant said, this would not
necessarily be a barrier to an
eventual religious wedding. But
the steps to a religious marriage
are difficult and may not succeed
A Jesuit writer for Civilta Cat
tolica, publication of the Jesuit
Society, said the first step must be
for the Italian film director to
obtain Catholic church annul-
ment of his previous marriage with
Marcella de Marchis. He already
has applied to the Sacred Rota,
the church's high tribunal, for
such an annulment.
Rossellini has a civil divorce
decree from his former wife, grant
ed by Vienna court and later
recognized by a Turin Utaly)
court,
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Wife Of Keats Speed,
New York Editor, Dies
sy the Assoeioted Pres.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1i.-Mrs.
Florence Chenault Speed, wife OF
Keats Speed. executive editor OF
the New York Sun until its recent
sale to the World Telegram, died
In a hospital last night after a
long illness.
Born in Richmond, KY, she
married MIR. Speed in 1907 and
thereafter lived in New York with
the exception Of two years which
she and her husband spent in At
lanta, Ga.