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Evening star., 1950-01-04
Police Believe Chef
Died Accidentally

The death Of Rene Mareha1, 80,
former Mayflower sauce chef
whose body was found Monday
in the Potomac River about a
mile and a half below Blue Plains,
appears to have been accidental.
Capt. jeremiah F. Flaherty OF the
homicide squad said today.
Mr.. Marcha1 vanished from
Hains Point the night of Novem-
Der II after his new automobile
crashed into a lamp post. He was
last seen by two park police
men sitting on the running board
of the damaged car. He appeared
dazed, the officers reported.
Capt. Flaherty said subsequent
investigation by homicide squad
Detectives j. K. Baker and Law
renee Hartnett indicated that Mr..
Marchal may have stumbled into
the river and drowned while wan
dering in a daze from the scene.
Mr.. Marchals body was tied to
a water-soaked log on the river
bank when 1t was discovered.
Police theorized that whoever first
located the body tied it to the
log to prevent it from drifting
away and then vanished because
of unwillingness to become in
volved in the investigation. Marks
on the body indicated the rope
was affixed after Mr.. Marchal had
been dead for some time. it was
said.
Final decision as to the cause
of MIR. Marchal's death will be
made. by Prince Georges County
Medical Examiner James I. Boyd.
The body was found in Prince
Georges territorial waters.
DR.. Boyd said he would issue a
certificate after receiving re-
port from the homicide SQUAD. .
Evening star., 1950-01-04
65-Pound Dog
Helps Policeman
Direct Traffic

A dog convinced a policeman
yesterday that dogs best friend
is a policeman.
Pvt. William berwick Of No. IL
precinct was directing traffic at
North Capitol street and Florida
avenue during the noon rush when
he saw the 65-pound German
shepherd dog lodging autos and
streetcars on direct route for
the spot where the policeman was
standing.
when dog doesn't say any
thing, 1t usually means he might
be hard to handle" said the trepi-
>datious Mr.. Zerwick.
This one nuzzled up to the po-
1iceman's leg and sat there. Dur
ing lull, Pvt. berwick took him
to the curb and said "Stayr'
When he returned to midinter-
section the dog followed.
After completing his 40-min-
ute stint, the policeman walked
toward the Animal Rescue League
at II o street N.W.-and 80 did
the dog.
It's there II it belongs to you
black and gray coat, q collar and
. rabies vaccine tag, which bears
ths legihle numerals "421-59."
Evening star., 1950-01-04
District Budget
Hearings Slated
In Few Weeks
City Spending Bill
Will Be Port of
One Package Plan

House subcommittee hearings
on the Districts budget for the
next year will be started within
the next few weeks, now that the
city spending bill is to be a part
Of the zone package" appropria-
ton bill plan.
Representative Bates, Democrat,
OF Kentucky, chairman of the
House Appropriations subcommit-
tee in charge Of the District bill.
has set no definite date for the
hearings, but he said they will be
started this month.
This will be much earlier than
usual.
Mr.. Bates added there Is no
reason for any extraordinary rush
on the District section Of the ap-
preparation bill, however, because
it will be but a small part of the
total outlay"
118 Million Program.
The size of the city spending
program for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1851, is expected to run to
about $118,000,000, according to
District building speculations. This
is calculated to be within the an
ticipated revenues of the District
in the next fiscal year, including
receipts Of the new sales tax and
other new levies and continuation
of the Federal payment at
81. 1000, 900.
The Federal payment was raised
from $4,000 900 to So, ,000, 900 in the
appropriation bill for 1916 and was
boosted again, by legislative action,
two years later. when Congress
passed one of the new revenue
acts for the city. The budget
President Truman will send to
Congress Monday will carry the
Federal payment for the next fiscal
year at $4,000, 900, since this was
the last legislative pronouncement,
officials said.
In commenting on this phase Of
the city's finance issues, Mr.. Bates
said last night he had never
thought the amount of the Federal
payment was "too much"
No Speculation on Change.
There was no speculation as to
any move in the House to change
the present $12,000,000 level.
The Senate in the past session
directed its Appropriations Com
mittee to handle the budget for
the next year in one bill. Similar
action was not taken on the House
side because Chairman Cannon Of
the House Appropriations commit-
tee already had announced his in
tention Of handling the budget in
that way.
The objective Of the single
spending bill Is economy, in that
members of the House and Senate
may know at one time the total
outlays they are voting, as meas
ured against estimated revenues.
Evening star., 1950-01-04

There are nos2 more MPs In
Washington today, but the boys
will still be around under another
title.
The local Military Police, Shore
Patrol and Air Police yesterday
lost their individual identities
with formal activation of the new
Armed Services Police Detach-
ment. Defense Secretary john
son, who was present, termed the
merger IAN exemplif1cation of
uniffcation" during ceremonies at
the Naval Gun Factory.
Also smiling approval were
Army Secretary Gray, Air Force
Secretary Symington and Navy
Secretary Matthews.
The unified ASPD officially as
sumed it's local service policing
duties following the activation at
3 pm. while the former SPs,
MPs, and Air Police became a
thing of the past in this area.
The new unit will operate within
a 10-mile radius from the heart
of Washington.
Evening star., 1950-01-04
No Fool Like an Old FooI,'
Judge Says Refusing Divorce

With a reference to the old saw
that there's no fool like an old
fool" Judge Jennings Bailey today
in District Court dismissed rs
year-old Samuel A. Stebbins' suit
for divorce from his wife Irene, 40.
There is nothing truer than
that saying" the 82-year -old
judge declared in announcing his
ruling. .a
"You may turn that back on
me, but that is the way I feel
when it comes to any situation
such as the plaintiff (Mr. Steb-
bins) had in this case" Judge
Bailey commented.
Trial of the suit. in which the
husband charged cruelty, began
yesterday. In her answer, Mrs.
Stebbins asked the court to permit
her to remain in her husbands
house, 5426 Macarthur boulevard
NV, where both have been oc-
cupying separate bedrooms for a
large part of their four-year mar
riage.
On the witness stand today Mrs.
Stebbins denied her husbands
charges that she ran around their
home without clothes. IT never
walked around the house in the
nude" she declared firmly.
Her denial co,1r,tered earlier
testimony by a former roomer in
the Stebbins house. The witness,
Roy G. Roberts, said he once saw
Mrs. Stevvins in that state, and
added that the next day she ap-
preached him and volunteered
the statement, IT probably looked
better in my younger days."
Mrs. Stebbins also denied her
husbands charges that her only
interest in him was to inherit his
SIT 500 home.
Evening star., 1950-01-04
Neighborhood Concert
Tickets Now Ready for
Central High School

Invitations for the next Neigh
borhood Concert by the National
Symphony Orchestra under the
sponsorship Of The Evening Star
which will be held January 3 at
Central High School are now
ready for distribution.
They may be had at Central
High School, Adams, Bancroft,
II. D. Cooke. Petworth. Raymond
and Thomson Elementary Schools,
Wilson Teachers College, the Rec
reation Department at Sixteenth
and Lamont streets NV. and the
Business Counter in the lobby Of
The Star Building. The invita-
tions are issued without charge
BY The Star.
Evening star., 1950-01-04
High Court May Get Chance to State Views on Doos

The highest court in the land
may decide whether. it was re-
fusal to part with their dogs and
cat that cost a one-time State De-
partment officer and his Belgian
born wife $1.742 while awaiting
transportation from Egypt in 1945.
In a deeply sympathetic and
somewhat classical opinion yester-
day, Chief Justice Marvin Jones of
the Court Of Claims ruled that
Mrs. c. c. M. Petersen, 4509 forty
third place NV, literally missed
the boat home by refusing to leave
without her beloved pets.
So the court unanimously
awarded her husband $3.50 for
the time the former State Depart
ment administrative officer at An
kara, Turkey, and his wife were
delayed at Cairo, Egypt. They
had asked for $40 per diem ex-
penses for each day they were
forced to await transportation.
ITS absolutely not fair" said
Mrs. Pedersen today-an opinion
|concnrred in by Attorney wesley
e. Mcdonald, who said he was
planning an appeal for the full
amount.
The court contended that Mr..
and Mrs. Petersen could have OBJ
tanned transportation without diff
ficulty had they given up Ourson,
% blue chow; Dickie. a skye ter
rier. and Bibi-nette. a Persian
cat.
Recalling his love for dogs as q
youth, Justice Jones said he un-
derstood Mrs. Pedersen's reluc-
tance to travel without them.
Waxing more eloquent, the JUS
tice wrote:
"Alcibiades had : handsome
Evening star., 1950-01-04

the difference between a dog and
man is that II you pick up a
starving dog and make him pros
porous. he will not bite you
'It was a dog that licked the
wounds Of Lazarus in his rags
Rim Tin Tin was a movie. star
Neither poverty nor riches, success
nor failure affects his loyalty. It
was the dog that served as q test
for the army Of Gideon"
But on the more practical side
Justice Jones said the State De-
partment does not provide for
transportation of animals at any
time. He said crowded wartime
conditions had separated whole
families s-that 'the dogs Of war
had been unleashed and were run
ming like mad over the face OF
the earth"
Telling Of her struggles from
Ankara. to Cairo. to Port Said, Mrs.
Pedersen said it was not true as
the Government contended that
the ships captain had refused to
take along her pets. In fact, sew
eral of her friends had shipped
out pets before her, She said.
It all boiled down. she declared
to a grudge that the American
consul at Cairo held for her hus-
band. who had just resigned from
the State Department.
Two OF the controversial pets,
"Dickie" and 'Bibi-nette" died be-
fore Mrs. Pedersen reached Amer
lea. Now she has 3 Russian wolf
hound named Ivan and now
grown kitten, Nicho, which was
left by Bibi-nette. Mr.. Petersen
now employed at the Pentagon By
the Navy Department.
Evening star., 1950-01-04
Man Cleared in Deoth
After Warehouse Fight

A coroner's jury yesterday exon
Grated George Cousins. 20. Of 1726
Lamont street NV, in the death
of fellow worker two days after
they had a fist fight.
The jury ruled at an inquest at
the morgue that Alvin s. Dreux,
36, of 1881 Third street NV, died
Friday of cerebral hemorrhage
caused by a fall from bed. The
fight occurred last Wednesday at
the Hecht Co. warehouse, 140l
New York avenue NE, where
both men were working.
Evening star., 1950-01-04

"Bilibid Prison in Manila ..
May 20. 1912 Camp Cabana-
tuan in June back to Bilibid
on December "a, 1914, the hell
ship for Japan .. that took three
weeks. :"
AS he turned back his mind to
the dates he'll never forget. the
lean, gray-haired patient on the
bed at Mount Alto Veterans Hos
pital looked up idly at a bottle,
which was slowly dripping peni-
cillin into his veins through a
rubber tubing.
The rubber tubing was coursing
l 1000, 900 units of penicillin an
hour through his body. every hour,
"a hours day. day after day for
eight weeks.
The tubing fell in front of
calendars on the wall, showing the
months Of November, December
and January. The days were
crossed of, beginning with No.
vember %. A large red circle was
around January II, when the eight
weeks will be up.
The patient is Kenneth E. Ran
son, SO. He Is getting the penicil-
lin for an acute coronary infec-
ton owing, at least in part, to the
heart weakness he developed dur
ing the three and a half years he
spent in Jap prison camps after
the fall of Bataan.
He was remembering the dates
yesterday for a field agent of the
War Claims Commission. It was
the first day Of Uncle Sans prep
aration for a small payoff to help
make up-at least financially-for
the food his soldiers didn't get
when they fell into enemy hands
during the war.
Under an act OF Congress, the
Government is going to pay the
former POWs 81 for each day of
imprisonment on which the enemy
failed to furnish them the GUAM
t1ty or quality OF food required by
the terms Of the Geneva Conven-
ton of July ~. 1929"
Mr.. Ransom smiled as he
scanned the ration list" agreed
to at Geneva. It showed such
items as fresh meat with bones,
fresh vegetables and fruits, sweet
ened condensed skim milk, coffee,
rye bread. soybean flour -.
mo" Mr.. Ransom said. 1T
wasn't like that"
Paul Roessler, 20, the war claims
agent who handed him the list,
smiled. too.
Mr.. Roessler was a staff SER
geant in the Philippines with New
Mexico's famed 20oth Coast Ar
ttllery (AA) Regiment. When
Bataan fell. he took the Death.
March with the rest Of the regi-
ment and spent three and a half
years in the Jap camps.
When the first atom bomb fell
on Hiroshima, Mr.. Roessler was
in a camp less than so miles away.
Since his return, he's finished the
Evening star., 1950-01-04

When asked If she thought she
had lived up to her marriage vows,
Mrs. Stebbins replied. IT was not
required to obey him under the
VOWS, but I tried >as hard as I
could to love and honor him. But
he has made it impossible"
The graying woman then told
Of alleged misconduct by her hus-
band. She said that once during
their marriage Mr.. Stebbins
walked around the house in his
long underwear.
"He had a rifle in one hand and
bullets in the other" she said. HE
said, I'll put two in your head.
There was a. very strong odor of
alcohol on his BREATH" Mrs. Steb-
bins testified, adding that she got
the rifle away from him without
any trouble.
Answering her husbands charge
that she had thrown water on him
on various occasions, Mrs. Steb-
bins said that once when she was
undressing in her locked bedroom,
"a lot of water" came through an
open transom and landed on her
head. She also declared that her
husband once threatened to punch
her in the face if she failel to pay
room rent, and that on another
occasion she once found note on
her bed demanding $1,115 from
her for room and board.
Judge Bailey concluded that
both parties were guilty of mis-
conduct toward each other and
that the husbands alleged acts
Offset whatever acts Mrs. Stebbins
committed.
His present wife is Mr.. Steb-
bins third. Mrs. Stebbins was
married o,,ee hefore
Evening star., 1950-01-04
Columbia Club to InstoII
Theodore Gerth Tonioht

Theodore P. Gerth, Washing
ton attorney and tax consultant,
will be installed as president of
the Columbia Club of Washing
ton at its banquet at Z o'clock
tonight at Hotel 2400.
MIR. Gerth will succeed Brooke
p. Hudson, Bladensburg real es-
tate and insurance man. Other
officers to be installed are Ray
mond w. Fischer, vice president;
Jerry Hysong, secretary, and
Thomas Knox, treasurer. Albert
A. Pagan will be toastmaster.
Evening star., 1950-01-04

Foreign Service School course at
Georgetown University and is now
studying for his masters degree.
AS Mr.. Ransom handed back the
list, he said, mo, mostly it was
rice. and some kind of leafy soup.
Sometimes, it was less than that"
It was less than that when Mr..
Ransom, then a captain, and about
l 500 other prisoners were loaded
In a Jap transport late in 1914,
after American planes began in
creasing their number of bombing
runs.
ION December 27," he recalled,
"about 180 of us were moved to
Evening star., 1950-01-04

year pOSlG1On-
effective Janu-
ary Is.
Appointment
Of Temple R.
FARRELL Of Ber-
wyn, was an
nounced today
by c. Gerard
Buscher. chair
man OF the
county recrea-
tion board.
MIR. FARRELL, a
familiar figure
in the sports
xHy
Evening star., 1950-01-04
Temple FARRELL Named
Recreation Director

A veteran playground and
physical education leader will take
over Prince Georges County's first
director Of recreation-a $500 a
Evening star., 1950-01-04

dog. Senator Vest described the |
dog as mans best friend
1--WE meet him first in Homer's
verse.
Evening star., 1950-01-04

"The dog by the Aegean seas.
"Scott referred to him as the
companion of our pleasures and
our tolls and Mark Twain said
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Stork 0utdoes Santa
In Kyle Rote Eyes
by the Assoeiofed Press

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 26.-
Highlight Of Christmas Day at
the Stanford campus training
camp Of the West team for the
Shrine East West charity football
game wasn't the daily drill or even
the arrival Of Santa Claus.
7 It was an arrival OF a different
kind.
Kyle Rote, Southern Methodist
star who has been assigned full
back duties in the game Saturday,
was notified that his wife had
given birth to a 7-pound 4-ounce
boy in Dallas.
Rote beamed, ''It's the finest
Christmas present anybody could
have"
Later. in answer to shouts of
Come on. Pappy." he joined
Quarterbacks Fran Nagle, Ne
braska, and Bill Weeks, Iowa
State, in long-range passing prac-
tice.
At Santa Clara, the East squad
also stressed passing. Usually un-
communicative, Coach Bernie
Bierman said the team is coming
along pretty good"
One casualty turned up.
Vito Ragazzo. William and Mary
end. was sidelined with a bruised
chest suffered in a collision with
Linebacker Jake RoWden from
Maryland.
X-rays were taken. Team ply
sicians. however. thought the in
jury minor and said Ragazzo
probably will be available for the
game.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Woman Wrestler Began
As Dancer and Swimmer

Mars Bennett, the 27-year -old
wrestler who meets Nell Stewart
in one of the mat matches tomor-
row night at Turner's Arena, al
ready had a colorful career behind
her when she took up this new
sport.
She has been an acrobatic
dancer, scholastic breast stroke
swimming champion. riveter in a
war plant and a star circus per-
former.
Sharing honors with the women
tomorrow night will be 60
minute match between Roland
Meeker and Lord Carlton. Also
scheduled is a two-man team
match sending Ken Ackles and
Stu Hart against Jim Austeri and
Abe Stein. plus a single between
the Great Scott and Ioanis Kos
toliaS.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
MCA HandbaII Tourney
Slated 10 Start Toniqhf

Sixteen entrants will compete
in the annual YMCA Holiday
Handball tournament which opens
tonight and continues through
New Year; Day. Jack Schwartz,
winner of more tournaments than
any other Washington player, is
favored in the singles, with John
Mozur and r. Moore expected to
furnish his toughest competition.
The doubles tournament opens
tomorrow and closes next Mon
day. Schwartz and Jack Levine,
city AAU and YMCA 1850 cham
pions, are conceded the best
chance for the crown.
Other entries include M. Levy,
champion of Colorado, with j.
Payne, former city champion;
Paul Pearlman and Mozur, Moore
and C. Engelhart and Leo Fitz-
gerald and H. Carter.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Rose Bowl Teams Bid Good-by
ToSonto and Get Down to Work

rest of the day off, but with a
strict curfew at II o'clock last
night.
. 1--WE love this weather." Ooster-
baan said. ct was 83 Sunday, sc
yesterday
There may be a double drill to-
day, then singles the rest of the
week.
California's Bears scattered to
their homes for the holiday. But
they reassemble today at Arrow
head Springs, near San Bernar-
dino. for the remaining five prac-
tice sessions.
Waldorf appears to be pleased
over the physical condition of his
charges and the successful train
ing. He goes as far as to say: I'VE
are not fearful, nor are we cheer
full: we're just saving wooQ."
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Vols Check In, Launch
Rash Of Cotton Bowl
Activity This Week
BY the Associated Press

|. DALLAS. Tex, Dec. 26.-Ten-
nessee's football team arrives here
late this afternoon and that, more
or less. will officially open Cotton
Bowl" week.
Sideline attractions to the New
Years Day football game began
at noon when a high school pas-
ketball tournament started.
A bowling tournament, college
basketball tournament, and a
casting tournament are other
sports attractions due to be un-
reeled this week.
The State class AA high school
championship game between
Wichita Falls and Austin will also
be played here Saturday.
Texas. Tennessee's foe in the big
show, won't arrive until Friday
morning.
Neither Tennessee nor Texas
has announced whether their
workouts will be open to the pub
lie.
Texas, which dropped its only
game this season to Oklahoma in
the Cotton Bowl stadium, is a
local favorite to knock off the
Vols. Both teams have lost one
game.
A sellout for weeks, the game is
due to attract slightly more than
$4,000 persons-all the bowl will
hold.
Hundreds are still trying to get
tickets and the personals" COL
umn of local newspapers are filled
with their pleas.
Both Texas and Tennessee
boast terrific defenses, and gen.
eral opinion is that this Cotton
Bowl game is going to be a de-
fensive battle.
Coaches of the teams aren't of
the general opinion, and Coach
Blair Cherry of Texas has said he
expects plenty of scoring excite
ment.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Speeiol Di.poteh to The Star

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 26.-The
Washington Caps, who have drift
ed six games back of fourth place
Syracuse in the Eastern Division
of the National Basketball Asso-
citation. moved here tonight to
meet the Indianapolis Olympians
in the second game of their six
game roaC trip.
Four teams in each division will
make the playoffs, and both Syra-
cuse and the third-place New
York Celtics in the Eastern Divi-
sion advanced another full game
ahead of the Caps by winning last
night. while the Caps were losing
1919, to the Minneapolis Lakers
New York is a half game ahead
Of Syracuse. only a half game
back of second-place Boston and
a full game ahead OF the leading
Philadelphia Warriors.
With the top teams so closely
grouped, the Caps can gain ground
almost any time they win, but
with eight victories in q games
they haven't been winning often
Tonight Coach Bones McKin-
ney's club plays the same team
that scored an overtime victory
over the Caps last Saturday night
in Washington. The Olympians
won by eight points after trail
ing by eigh. as late as the fourth
period.
Last night George Mikan and
Vern Mikkelsen scored more points
than the five leading Caps scorers,
Mikan accounting for IS and Mix
kelsen, %. Mikan made II field
goals and 13 out of II foul shots.
The Caps had an 1915 first
Evening star., 1950-12-26
American Swimmers Win
In New Zealand Games
By the Associated Press

AUCKLAND. New Zealand, Dec
26.-Jimmy McLane of Yale and
Wally Wolf of Southern California
carried Americas colors to VIC
tory tonight in the opening SWIM
ming events of the Canterbury
centennial games at Christchurch
McLane won the 220-yard free
style race from Bill Heusner OF
the ChicagoaTown Club and Alan
Gilchrist of Canada in 2:14.5.
/. Wolf led all the way in the 100
yard backstroke to beat Lucien
Beaumont, French Canadian, in
1:10.4.
A disappointing crowd of less
than 5000 watched the games
open this, afternoon with a color
full march of famed international
athletes from nine countries. Gov
ernor General Sir Bernard Frey
berg officially opened the games.
The United States team led the
procession and there were special
cheers for Sergt. Nal Whitfield,
who wore his Army Air Force uni
form. The Negro 800-meter Olym-
pic champion is on leave from
Korea.