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Evening star., 1950-04-30
New Envovs
Coming to
Fill Posts

Washington residents will have
ample opportunity before fall to
use their well-developed ability to
make friends. There will be no
less than seven new heads of dip
lomatic missions to welcome in
this Capital before that season
comes.
Probably the first of the new
ENJOYS to reach Washington will
be Athanasios Politis, a bachelor
who will be the Greek Ambas-
sador succeeding Vassili G. Den
dramis. The retiring Ambassador
and Nine, Dendramis will leave
the latter part of May and afte,
a visit at home will be back in
New York in the autumn.
Though no definite time is set
for the arrival Of the new Yugo-
slav Ambassador designate, Mr.
Vladimir Popovic, he probably
will be here before the summer is
well underway. He will bring with
him Nine. Popovic who is very
attractive. chic and charming
She attended the University OF
Belgrade and like her Ambassador
husband speaks French as fiuently
as her own language, and with
him now is mastering English.
The newly appointed Cuban
Ambassador. Senor Luis Machado
still awaits confirmation by the
Cuban Congress. Unfortunately
many Of the members of that
legislative body are conductine
campaigns for reelection and
SO 1t has been hard to have a
quorum in session. These elec-
tions, however. will be held in
June so that Senor and Sonora
de Machado will be with us before
the end of the summer.
The Iran Ambassador, Mr.. Hus-
sein Ala. will tell no one, not even
Nine. Ala and their children, when
he will leave. He wants no fare
wells. However, he will be home
before the first of June and his
very wide circle Of friends here
are hoping he will be back before
too long. Nine. Ala plans to stay
in this country for the next two
years while the younger members
Of their family complete their
studies.
No successor to the retirine
Bumese Ambassador, U So Nyun
has been selected and probably
will not be until the present envoy
Is on his way home. The Ambas-
sador still is in a local hospita
not yet able to undertake the lone
journey. Other newcomers ex.
pected in the next few month.
will be representatives from the
Netherlands and Portugal.
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Flower Mart
To Be Held
Next Friday

With q burst Of color, music
and spring blossoms the annual
flower mart of the Washington
Cathedral will open Friday morn
ing at II o'clock in the spacious
Cathedral grounds facing on Wis
consin avenue.
Traditionally. it is a day when
the great unfinished Cathedral on
Mount st. Adams is at home to
thousands of people from all over
the Capital area. as well as to
many out Of town visitors at
tracted by this unusual event.
This year visitors will be greeted
by the Fourth Bishop of Wash
ington and his wife. The Right
Rev. and Mrs. Dun will receive
from 3 and 4 o'clock in the gar
den behind their home.
Headed by Mrs. G. Rowland
Chase, chairman of the flower
mart as well as president of All
Hallows Guild. the sponsoring Or
ganization, members of the guild
are devoting the intervening days
to final check-up of the thou
sand-and-one details which 60
into creating a successful mart.
The proceeds are used for the
further Identification of the
bishops garden and other land
scaping features OF the Cathedral
grounds.
Prominent among the ingenious
women who have each year helped
to make the flower mart a shop
pers' holiday are the members of
the All Hallows Guild Executive
Committee. They are Mrs. Angus
Dun, honorary president: Mrs.
Chase. president: Mrs. j. Forester
Dawson. first vice president; Mrs.
Walter w. Boyd, second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. David S. Barry, record
ing secretary; Miss Elizabeth
Houghton, finance committee
chairman; Mrs. Elinor Thompson
Donaldson. garden committee
chairman, and Mrs. John A. Selby,
membership committee chairman.
Members of the flower mart
Committee are, Mrs. Preston Del
ano, food planning; Mrs. Freder-
lex B. Lee and Mrs. John JOSS,
children's activities; Mrs. j. Blaise
de Sibour. orchids and miscellane-
GUS booths; Mrs. Lewis Clark, gar
den club booths; Mrs. A. S. Mon
roney, aided by Mrs. Andrew Keck,
and Mrs. w. Stuart Symington,
publicity.
Shopping opportunities at the
Mart will include choices ranging
all the way from long loaf of
French bread to a potted geran-
ium, from cocktail canapes to lol-
rlipops, from a famous authors au-
tograph to ride on pony. from
choice selection of dried herbs
to miniature orchid for your la
pei.
The crowning bargain of fiow-
er mart day will have special in
terest for philatelists. A coo. posu-
card view of Washington Cathe-
dral flower mart, will be stamped,
Cancelled with a cachet especially
designed for the occasion, and de-
posted for its trip through the
mails in a special Flower Mart
mail box.
Evening star., 1950-04-30

A new club has been formed
here that is an answer to a prayer
but is limited to only IS members.
The prayer probably went like
this:
Oh, give me a home
Where the deer do roam
And the ducks and the pheas-
ants abound
Where the lakes are a mass
OF beautiful bass
And the boar are wild year
around.
Although the King and Queen
Rod and Gun Club was organized
in Washington almost entirely of
Washington men and their fam
lilies. its game-rich acreage lies in
the wilds of King and Queen
County. Va. Phil Clarke, who has
hunted in nearly every field and
stream east of the Alleghenies,
first stumbled on it a year ago
and promptly got busy. Soon
thereafter he and a group of his
huntsmen friends-Waverly Tay-
lor, Vincent Tompkins, Shorty
Lipscomb, Bob Portner, Murray
Hanson, Jock Merriam, Fulton
Lewis, jr.. and Lothrop Luttrell-
leased the 1000 acres for Is years
with a 10-year option.
The new lords of this land get
carried away with enthusiasm
when they describe their find. It
has 200 acres of lakes on it, in
cluding three bass ponds and 40
acre duck lake of marshes and
potholes. One of the lakes has a
natural beach and exceptionally
clear water that makes it ideal for
swimming. Each lake came
equipped with four rowboats and
two have lighthouses. Virgin tim
ber edge the waters.
The land fairly swarms with
deer to offer the finest hunting of
that type in the eastern part of
Virginia. There's fox, coon and
squirrel hunting, too, and wild
turkey, wild boar and plenty of
quail and railbirds (not to be con-
fused with jailbirds.)
All this week the area will be
thick with pink and white dog
wood and wild plum blossoms.
Which is one reason why the
members and their wives have
selected the coming week end to
move the first truckload of furni-
ture into the largest of the three
cabins on the property. Once an
old mill, it has already undergone
painting and repairing by its new
owners, can sleep 10 of them in
dormitory style. Another cabin
can house 8. Move over, I'm COM
ing down.
X X
The extraordinary feature of
this club gentlemen, take note)
is that the men have included
their wives and families in the
venture. All set to beautify the
cabins and thrilled about the fun
they will have are Sue Clark,
Betty Luttrell, Phyllis Merriam
and Peggy Hutchinson and Lii
Brant, whose husbands, Dick and
Clark, respectively. are members.
Others in it are the Bill Fitz-
geralds, the Frederick SprayerS,
Clifford Dye, Jack Caswell, the
John Waggamans and the Jack
Crosses from New Canaan, Conn.
It's an honest-to-goodness king
and queen club.
Needless to say, gourmets Clarke
and Portner have already organ
lied subsidiary of the r. and c.,
which they call. Les Chasseurs ct
Pecheurs Gastronome. That's
French for astronomical hunts
lmen and fishermen, which is just
Evening star., 1950-04-30

IN BISHOPS GARDEN.
Mrs. G. Ho,pland Chase, Mrs.
Dauid S. Barry and Mrs. For
roster Ddpison admire some of
the blossoms that enhance the
bishops garden NTH its age
old bor and beautiful foWering
shrubs. In this enchanting
setting all uisitors to the fo,D-
er mart Friday ,UiH be receiued
BY Bishop and Mrs. Dun. Mrs.
Chase is president of All Hal
lo1uS Guild and chairman of
the mart and Mrs. Barry and
Mrs. Forester are members OF
the Erecutiue Board OF the
guild.
Evening star., 1950-04-30

Mrs. Hans A. Klagsbrunn
and Mrs. Louis MorehouSe
Were IN the picturesque little
Cathedral herb shop getting
ready for the mart phen the
cameranlan dropped by. They
aUiH be among the "sales ladies"
on duty there during the fo1U-
er, herb and vegetable sale.
Evening star., 1950-04-30

(See BROOKS, Page BID
Evening star., 1950-03-18
3 Women Victims
OF Pursesnatchers

Three women were victims OF
pocketbook snatchings last night,
police reported.
Mrs. Grace Joyner of l125
Twelfth street NV, a room and
mail clerk at the Harrington Ho-
tel. said a colored man grabbed
her purse as she was walking near
her home. The pocketbook con-
tanned $22 in cash and jewelry
valued at $3.50, she said.
Mrs. Lucille r. Mccall of 1904
Floral street NV, a retired pho
tograph colorist, said she started
running when she became suspi-
cious of a man who followed her
after she. alighted from a bus
near her home. He overlook her,
she reported. and her right shoul-
der was bruised when she fell or
was knocked to, the ground.
Her purse. containing $40 and
personal papers. was taken.
Miss Geraldine Crocker. 4122
Military road NV, an employe
of the Economic Cooperation Ad-
ministration, had her second ex-
perience with a pursesgatcher in
the same neighborhood. She said
a colored man grabbed her purse
containing $40 in the 100 block
of johnson avenue NV. She said
she struggled to hold the bag, but
in vain.
Miss Crocker said her pocket
book was taken in the same area
last November.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Catholic Churches TO Take
Collection for War Victims

A collection for the relief of the
needy overseas, regardless Of ma
tionality or religious belief, will be
taken in every Catholic church In
the Archdiocese Of Washington to-
morrow. Last night the Most Rev.
Patrick A. O'Boyle, Archbishop Of
Washington. made an appeal for
the collection over Station WRC.
In many countries overseas" :"
he said, "the war might well have
been raging only yesterday. For
too many there are no homes at
all-only heaps of rubble. The
sorry meals Of soup and boiled po-
tatoes that are their mainstay
would be rejected as UNIT even for
our household pets. For too many
wretched people life today is moth
ing more than a miserable exist
ence, with little or no hope in
sight"
Called the Bishops fund for
the victims Of war. the collection
is a Nationwide effort by Ameri-
can Catholics this week to raise
IS, ,o0o. 900.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Turin Rioters Dispersed;
20 Policemen Hurt, 80 Held
~ the Associotsd Press

TURIN, Italy, Mar. 18.-Day-
long rioting between Communists
and neo-Fascists was duelled late
yesterday by heavily armed police
and carabinieri massed behind
machineguns and mortars in the
center of Turin.
Twenty policemen and as many
rioters were injured. At least 80
were arrested.
The violence was touched oil
Thursday night when members OF
the Italian neo-Fascist Social
Movement tMSI) tried to put up
posters near the Communist Party
headquarters. In retaliation the
Communists mustered auto plant
workers to march on the MSl
headquarters.
Police tear gas barrages and
shots into the air failed to stop
the marchers In overalls. The
Communists managed to set fire
to the neo-Fascist offices. Trans
portation through the center Of
the city was completely disrupted
by the fighting.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
BY the Asseciofed Press

BOSTON, Mar. 18-Invaluable
letters and documents recountine
the Revolutionary War period are
missing from the archives in the
Massachusetts, State House.
Among the papers missing are
letters signed by George Washing
ton. John Adams. Paul Revere
Benjamin Franklin, Benedict Ar
mold and Peter Stuyvesant.
Theft of the letters and docu-
ments over a period of years was
disclosed last night by the Massa-
chusetts attorney generals Office
A list of 43 of "the more impor-
tant and valuable documents" was
released, but a spokesman said
the actual number missing is not
known.
Among them are II letters by
George Washington, while he
served as commander in chief of
American forces in the Revolution
airy War.
One, dated February 26. 1776,
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Helene A. Deunef Dies;
French and German Tutor

Funeral services for Miss Helene
Anna Deunert, SO, a resident here
for the last 10 years. were to be
held at 2 o'clock this afternoon
in the Hysong funeral home. 1906
N street NV. Burial was to be
in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Miss Deunert. who lived at 1881
Calvert street NV, died Tuesday
at George Washington University
Hospital. where she had been 8
patient since October with brain
tumor.
Born in Germany, she came te
this country in 1922. She lived
| in Pasadena, Calf, and was
graduated from high school there
at the age Of SO. In 1882 she be-
came a naturalized citizen, the
year she received her B. A. degree
from the University Of California
She had done post graduate work
In Paris.
Since coming here. Miss Deun-
ert had given French and German
tutoring lessons. Active in chari.
ty work, she had helped support
more than 20 families in Germany
She is survived by a brother. .
sister and a niece living In Ger
many.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Newsmon's S Wandering Possum.
Saved From Stew, to Be Buried

In front of the home Of Repre-
sentative McMillen, Republican. Of
Illinois, 3038 Dumbarton street
NV, Peggy was spotted by a
group of boys who, armed with
snow shovels. chased him under a
car. Mr.. McMillen. who had
walked to a corner mailbox, re-
turned in time to see the small
animal emerge and be cracked
soundly on the head with a shovel.
Mr.. McMillen called police.
When Mr.. Timmons heard about
the possum-b beating. he told po-
lice he wanted his pet back, dead
or alive. The body was retrieved
hurriedly from 4 worker at the
Westchester garage, who had re-
ceived 1t from police.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Touring Club to Hold
Memorial Services

The Washington Educational
Touring Club will have its 18th
annual sermon and memorial serv-
ices at 4 pm. tomorrow at the
Fifteenth Street Colored Presbyte-
rian Church, Fifteenth and r
streets NV.
The sermon will be preached by
the Rev. HALEY Taylor, pastor.
Those participating in the memo
rial services will be the Rev. Alex
ander Taylor, national chaplain,
National Alliance of Postal En-
ployes; c. o. Lewis, director, Dis
trict evening and summer schools
of the colored divisions; Woolsey
w. Hall, president of the Fedora
tion of Civic Associations; G. H.
Wallace, president and founder of
the organization and the choir of
the National Training School for
Boys.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
D. {. Man Hit-Run Victim;
7 Arrested in Montgomery

Young Wong. 68. of 929 New
York avenue NV, was struck and
injured by a hit-run driver today
as he was walking across Tenth
street at New York avenue.
Mr.. Wong suffered a broken arm
and bruises.
Police said he was struck by q
car about 2 am. as it turned into
Tenth street from the avenue
The car did not stop. police added
Montgomery County police said
ia man who claimed to have been
a passenger in the car came to
their headquarters at Rockville
today and told of the accident
Acting on this information, Mont
gomery County police arrested two
suspects who were turned over to
District police.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
President Reported
Backing Kerr Gas Bill;
Party Split on Issue
sy the Asseeio,sd Press

Reports circulated today that
President Truman approves the
Kerr natural gas bill, on which the
Senate will vote next week.
An administration lieutenant
who asked not to be quoted by
name reported the President had
given clearance to the bill before
he left Washington for a Florida
vacation.
The measure, sponsored by
Senator Kerr. Democrat, of Okla
homa, would prohibit the Federal
Power Commission from regu-
lating the operations of so-called
independent natural gas gatherers
who sell the product to pipeline
companies.
The Presidents reputed ap-
proval of the bill left Democrats
divided on an issue where most OF
the Republicans appeared to be
lining up in opposition.
Some of Mr.. Truman's most
ardent followers, such as Senator
Lehman, Democrat, of New York
and Senator Douglas, Democrat, Oh
Illinois, are fighting the measure
Senator Lehman told the Senate
yesterday that Representatives o1
organized labor and economists
associated with no vested interests
whatever have advised me that
the inevitable effect of this legis-
lation is to raise the price of nat
ural gas delivered to the con.
sumer."
Evening star., 1950-03-18

Piggy, friendly, year-old pos
sum who wandered once too often
from home. makes his final trip
today, to be laid at rest in the
Aspen Hill (Md.) animal cemetery
Virtually snatched from pos
sum stew. Piggy at least was saved
for q pets funeral by his owner,
Bascom N. Timmons, Washington
correspondent for a group of
Texas newspapers.
His wanderlust probably stimu-
lated by the snow. Piggy wandered
Thursday night from the Tim
mons backyard. 1915 Thirtieth
street NV. And it was the snow
that led indirectly to his down.
fall.
Evening star., 1950-03-18

and colder with diminishing winds
tonight. Lowest temperature about
20 degrees in the west and about
|25 degrees in the east tonight. To-
morrow increasing cloudiness and
rather cold with rain or snow by
afternoon or night.
Wind velocity at 1880 O'Clock
this morning. 20 miles per hour;
direction, west.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Defendant in SIayinq
OF Iowa Coed Told Of
Game Of 'BIackout'
BY the kssoeioted Press

IOWA CITY, Mar. ia po-
liceman told jury yesterday that
Robert E. Bednasek, University of
Iowa psychology student. related
he had played a game of black
out" with his pretty coed sweet
heart shortly before she was found
dead.
The testimony was by Police
man Charles H. Snider. one of the
first witnesses called in the cam.
pus murder trial of the bushy-
haired, 24-year -old Bednasek. He
is charged with strangling to
death Margaret Anne (Gee-Gee)
Jackson. 20, whose evening-gown-
clad body was found last Decem-
Der IL in the rooming house where
Bednasek, lived.
Snider testified that about 2
am. on December II Bednasek
came to a police station near his
rooming house to summon help.
He said he and another officer
went to the rooming house and
found the body of Miss Jackson.
clad IN a white evening gown,
lying on the lower bed of a double
TERED bunk in a second floor room.
Mr.. Snider said that while he
was examining the girl Bednasek
related that he was only playing
a game"
you know, blackout," Mr..
Snider quoted Bednasek as saying.
cBlackout" is stunt in
which Inconsistencies is tempo
rariiy produced by holding the
breath and squeezing the neck)
Mr.. Snider and Patrick j. Nc
Carney. another police officer.
both testified about being called
to me scene. They described
Bednasek as very excited and said
he urged them constantly to do
something"
Mr.. Mccartney said Bednasek
once made a lunge for the officers
gun and indicated he wanted to
shoot himself. At another point,
Mr.. Mccartney said, Bednasek
asked the policeman If he would
shoot him (Bednasek) If he should
run.
BednaSek and Miss Jackson
attended a formal dance aJ his
fraternity Saturday night preced-
ing her death, and returned after
the dance to his rooming house
where earlier they had had q
private candle-light supper.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
New Charleston Bishop
To Say Moss Tomorrow

The Most Rev. John j. Russell
newly consecrated Bishop OF
Charleston, S. c., will say his first
solemn pontif1cal mass at 1880
am. tomorrow in the Church of
the Nativity, 5000 Georgia avenue
NV, where he has served as
pastor since 1948.
His brother, the Rev. w. Joyce
Russell of Benedict, Md, will be
assistant priest at the mass. The
Very Rev. Ignatius Smith OF Cath
olic University will preach.
The Right Rev. John F. McCor-
mick, rector of Catholic University
and the Very Rev. Paul Tanner OF
the National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference will be deacons Of honor.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Invaluable Historical! Letters
Missinq From Boston Archives

outlined his plans to the Massa-
chusetts Council for fortifyine
Dorchester Heights overlooking
Boston Harbor.
His emplacement of artillery al
that site resulted in the British
evacuation of Boston 174 years
ago yesterday.
Attorney General Francis E
Kelly informed rare book dealers
in letter dated February n that
some or ALL of the documents
may have been taken from the
archives by a former employee"
Prof. Keyes Metcalf, director OF
Harvard University library. said
the stolen papers would bring a
theft ''only about 10 per cent" OF
the price a reputable dealer would
charge.
Stanley Pargellis, director OF
Chicago's famed Newberry Lii
brary, said an ordinary" Wash
ington letter is worth $500. Some
letters with special historical in
terest, he added, would be valued
at more than $1,000.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Window Washer See
With $1,000 Before
His Torture-Murder
~ the As,eeioisd Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 18.-Police to-
day advanced robbery as the mo-
tive for the torture murder OF
a Terre Haute, Ind, window wash
er, whose severed body was found
yesterday in a ditch in suburban
Flossmoor.
The victim, identified by rela-
tives as George Willis Baldwin.
81, apparently had been robbed,
tortured. shot and blackjacked
before his body was cut in two.
The two sections of the torso,
severed at the waist, were found
lying under a quilt near the n
linois Central Railroad tracks by
two carpenters.
Mr.. Baldwin, who operated a
one-man window washing service,
had been missing since Monday.
His landlady in Terre Haute said
he usually carried large sums OF
money and she saw him with
$1,000 the day he disappeared.
Police said no money was found
on the body.
Name Stamped on Currency.
Chief Maurice Greene of Cook
County highway police said .au-
thorities had been told that Mr.
Baldwin stamped his name and
address on all of his currency. He
was reported to have carried two
wallets. Chief Greene also said
Mr.. Baldwin accepted gifts of Sec
ond-hand clothing and spent much
of his time counting his money in
his room in a Terre Haute ROOM
ing house.
Police theorized the murder had
occurred elsewhere and that the
body had been carried in the
trunk of an automobile for sew
eral days. A coroner's physician
estimated Mr.. Baldwin had been
dead at least three days.
Police said Mr.. Baldwin, ap-
parently after being Slugged, was
shot in the chest with .45-cali-
ber pistol. His body had been
severed, police said, with cleaver
or a bolo knife.
Believed Killed in Terre Haute.
The feet were bound together
with sash, cord, and the wrists
were tied with cash cord and elec-
trio wire. Sash cord and wire also
had been twisted about the neck.
There was a cash on the right
side of the head and bruises which
police said apparently had been
made by blackjack.
An inquest was scheduled today.
Authorities said police In Terre
Haute, which Is lit miles south
of Chicago, have been called into
the investigation as the crime was
believed to have been committed
in that city.