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Evening star., 1950-08-12
Arlington Man Uses Law Book
To Beot Charge of Gun oting

Cat Mr.. Jones home in Ar
lington, it was said he was not
expected back from Norfolk
until tonight and he could not
be reached Immediately for
comment)
Mr.. Fine got Mr.. Jones out o1
the difficulties after the fine anc
sentence already had been i'm
posed by Assistant Police Justice
L S. Richardson.
Mr.. Fine produced the old Su-
preme Court case and Justice
Richardson changed his action.
The visiting volunteer fireman
was arrested Thursday in the
lobby of a downtown hotel while
atatending the annual conven.
ton of the Virginia State Fire.
mems Association. The arrestine
policeman charged him with pos
session of a .25 caliber automatic
in his pocket.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Lady MendI Left ST Million;
Secretary 10 Get $3.50, 900
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.-Lady
Elsie De Wolfe Mendl, famed So
cialite and hostess to the worlds
celebrities. left an estimated 81
million estate, mostly in stocks
and bonds, when she died at 90
last July IL.
Her will. filed for probate yes
treday. bequeathed $350.000 to
her friend and secretary Of %
years, Mrs. Hilda West Douglas.
A charitable organization, the
Elsie De Wolfe Foundation, Inc,
will receive 100000.
The remainder of the estate
after payment of bequests will be
placed in trust to provide a $10,-
900 yearly income for her hus-
band, Sir Charles Mendl, 79. In
come in excess Of that will go to
Mrs. Douglas. On their deaths
the principal will go to the
foundation.
Lady Mendl, a former actress
who became a leader of interna-
tional society, died in Versailles,
France, but was a legal resident
of Los Angeles County.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Montgomery Board
Moves 10 Prevent
Hiring Subversives

The Montgomery County Per-
sonnel Board is drafting regula-
tions to guard against the en-
ployment of subversive persons,
it was learned today.
Such persons, it was. disclosed.
will include those closely asso-
ciated with subversives as well as
members of subversive organiza-
tions.
Although the proposed regula-
tions do not specifically mention
Communists, it is understood the
rules are aimed at them.
The board undertook the work
at the request of the County
Council.
1t is believed the councils re-
quest was spurred by the recent
discharge of a Montgomery Blair
High School teacher.
The teacher, william w. Hinck-
ley, was fired last June after
Elizabeth T. Bentley named him
as a one-time member Of the
Communist Party underground.
Miss Bentley Is a self-confessed
former Soviet espionage courier,
whose disclosures have set off sew
eral congressional Investigations
in the last two years.
When Mr.. Hinckley took the
stand before the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee, he re-
fused to say whether he was or
had been a Communist.
A county official explained that
the regulations will be in accord
ance with provisions Of the Mary
land Ober law requiring measures
to help carry out the State law.
Montgomery is believed to be the
first Maryland county to draft
such regulations.
They also will set up specific
steps to be taken by the board
in checking on the loyalty of
applicants for county jobs.
No plans are being made at this
time for a loyalty check of pres
ent employees because of lack of
facilities.
Evening star., 1950-08-12

NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 12.-John
Paul Jones. attorney of Arlington
and Washington, D. c., was fined
$1O0 and sentenced to so days in
Jail yesterday for carrying a con-
cealed weapon, but the conviction
was quickly reversed.
The reversal was handed down
after Mr.. Jones, who is president
of the Arlington Counter Fire
mems Association and a notary
public and lawyer in Arlington,
looked up an attorney friend,
Louis B. Fine. Mr.. Jones and his
counsel established that a
Supreme Court ruling dating from
early in the century held that a
notary public is a conservator of
the peace and can carry a pistol
anywhere in Virginia. It is for
hidden here under a city ordi-
nance.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Un-Americun
Continued From First Page

vanni Rosie Lomanitz and Irving
David Fox-were among those
cited. A fourth cited scientist,
Clarence Hiskey, worked for q
time on atom research at the
University of Chicago.
Three From d. C. Listed.
The list also includes several
officials of the independent United
Electrical Workers, including
James J. Matles. organizational
director, and julius Emspak,
secretary treasurer.
Among others on the list was
Pacquale Leonard James Branca
of 1873 Allison street NV.
In recommending action against
him the committee charged he
refused to answer many questions,
including one as to whether he
was member of the Communist
Party.
Mr.. Branca, who told the COM
mlttee he was born in washington
IN 1914, is a former teacher in the
Eliot Junior High School. He also
at one time worked as cab driver
He told the committee he is now
employed as a salesman for a drug
company.
Further Investigation Planned.
Two other persons with Wash
ington addresses had been recon-
mended by the committee for ci-
tations of contempt, but their
names were not called up for
action yesterday.
Chairman Wood of the Un-
American Affairs Committee,
when asked why they were not
placed before the House individu-
ally as all the others had been,
replied the cases had been "held
for further investigation"
These individuals were Eliza
beth Sasuly of 300 Massachusetts
avenue N. w. and Bella Rodnan.
who is Mrs. Samuel Rodman of
the same address.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Father Accused in Death
0fBaby Who Disturbed Him
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. pa 25-
year-old father has been accused
of fatally slapping his infant
daughter because her crying dis
turbed him as he watched a tele-
vision show.
The father. Walter Dorm. was
held without bail on homicide
charges in felony court yesterday
pending hearing August Is.
The child, Deborah, nine months
old, was found dead in her crib by
her mother, Bernice Dorm, 81,
after she returned from her job as
telephone operator. An autopsy
disclosed the baby died of a frac-
tured skull.
Assistant District Attorney Har-
old Birn said Dorm admitted he
slapped the child.
Sobbed Mrs. Dorm, Hes always
been a good father and a good
husband. He's innocent. no mat
ter what anybody says. God moves
in strange ways. 1t might be all
for the best"
Evening star., 1950-08-12
1000 Miners
In Britain Send
Stain Peace Plea
BY the Associofed Press

DURHAM. England, Aug. 12.-
A hundred thousand British coal
miners sent cable to Prime Min
lister Stain today asking him to
stop the fighting in Korea.
The miners are members of the
Durham area of the National
Union of Mine Workers. Their
cabled appeal was signed by Sam
Watson, general secretary of the
area union, who also is chairman
of Britain's Labor Party.
The cable asked Mr.. Stain to
order the withdrawal of the North
Korean Communists to their own
half of the peninsula so that me-
diation could begin. It added:
1--WE affirm that for the United
Nations to negotiate on this issue
now, with a pistol to its head,
would be to put premium on ag-
gression and to encourage gang
sterism in international diplo-
macy"
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Temporary Janifor Seized
On HOUSEKEEPING Charges.

A man employed temporarily
as a janitor at the Homer Build
ing, Thirteenth and F streets
NV, was arrested early today.
on housebreaking charges.
Police said the man was Charles
S. Mills. 25, colored, of the 1000
block of Portner place NV. He
was fllling-in at the Homer Build
ing last Saturday for the vaca-
tioning regular janitor.
Mills was quoted as saying that
during the early hours of his shift
he used a crowbar to crack a safe
in the Second-foor Office of the
Monumental Insurance Co., TAX
ing $140 in cash. He then en-
tered the Esther Shop, 1925 F.
street NV. police said, and took
$40 worth of children's clothing.
Mills told police he then left
for North Carolina, to take the
clothing to his children. Police
picked him up today in a hotel
at Fifteenth and U streets NV.
He was held in $4,000 bond be-
fore United States Commissioner
Cyril S. Lawrence for action of
the grand jury.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
By Fronk FIoherty
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stor and
the Chicoqo Daily News

OTTAWA, Canada, Aug. r.
If Moscow had planned the Ko-
rean war for the express purpose
of embarrassing the Canadian
government it couldn't have sue
ceeded much better.
There is no lack of will on the
part of the public in Canada to
get into the fight and back the
United States to the hilt. There
is lot of questioning about why
Canadians are not more directly
in the fight in view of the govern
ment's repeated declarations of
solidarity with the United States
and with the United Nations.
Unlike previous Prime Ministers
embarrassed by strong antiwa1
sentiments in some parts of the
country on the outbreak of war
Louis st. Laurent is embarrassed
by his inability. or unwillingness
to tell the public exactly what
the Canadian role is going to be
in the fight against Communism.
Ships and Planes Given.
The Canadian contribution so
far consists of two. destroyers,
operating under United Nations
command somewhere in the war
area, and a squadron of four EN-
gined transport planes used in fer
rying the men and supplies across
the Pacific. The public reads
about the battles and the losses
of American troops in Korea but
it gets no news of Canadians TAX
ing part.
There is a general demand that
ground troops be sent to fight
with the Americans on Korean
soil. The government, however,
has given no indication of inten-
ton to send the Army or any
part of it and defense authori-
ties privately say they think any
soldiers Canada could send would
be a mere gesture and of no help.
Actually, apart from the navy.
Canada has no forces ready for
employment overseas and that
leads a lot of st. Laurent's critics
to ask what the country has been
getting for the hundreds of mil
lions it has been spending each
year on defense.
Defense Theory Behind Stand.
Effective Canadian land forces
consist of a brigade group which
includes several battalions of
The governments
to commit that force to
action overseas is completely in
line with the theory on which it
Evening star., 1950-08-12

children Mrs. Ethel R0senbers.
The Government accuses her of
helping her husband and others
persuade her brother to turn over
A-bomb secrets to the Soviet spy
ring.
"If the crime with which she is
charged had not occurred, per-
haps we would not have had the
present situation in Korea" Chief
Assistant United States Attorney
Miles j. Lane told United States
Commissioner Edward w. Nc
Donald in asking for 100000 bail.
He did not explain his remark,
but he obviously meant that pos
session of A-bomb data put the
Communists in position to risk
war.
Mrs. Rosenberg's brother, Da-
vid Greenglass, a 28-year-old
Brooklyn machiniSt, was stationed
at the Los Alamos atom BONN
center in 1945 as an Army spe-
cialist.
The Government has already
charged that Rosenberg, 80, helped
recruit GreenglaSS as a source for
secret information that was turned
over to Harry Gold, Philadel-
phia chemist who has pleaded
guilty to spy charges.
The Government claims Gold
also was the direct link to Dr.
Fuchs, the German-British nu-
clear scientist now serving r.
year prison term in Britain for
spying
The FBI said Rosenberg was
the rings contact with the Rus
sian master mind who financed
it--Anatoli Yakolev, former So
Wet vice consul in New York.
Long Red Affiliation Charged.
Mrs. Rosenberg and her hus-
band, Mr.. Lane said, have been
affiliated with Communist activ-
tiles for long period of time"
The others charged in the case
are Alfred Dean Slack, Syracuse
IN. " scientist, accused of con-
Spiracy. and Abraham Brothman
and Miriam MoSkowitz of New
York, charged with conspiring
with Gold to give false testimony
to a Federal grand jury.
Mrs. Rosenberg's attorney, Alex
ander Bloch, said the charge
against her was "flimSy," and
tried unsuccessfully to have her
bail reduced so she could remain
home and care for her children.
Michael. 7. and Robert, 3.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Inability to Send Ground Force
To Korea Embdrrosses Canada

has planned Canadian peacetime
defense but in the emotional re-
action of the public to Korea the
theory is forgotten.
The theory is that Canada
would not and could not fight a
war without allies and would only
come into an overseas struggle
some time after it started, as in
World Wars I and II. The plan
based on the theory is to maintain
a nucleus force around which a
big army for country of 13 mil
lion people (say four or five divi-
SionS) could be built.
The combat brigade group is
something outside the nucleus and
has been built for the purpose Of
squelching quickly any invasion of
Canada by Russia. Defense plan
nerS think such an invasion is pos
sible and probable but only on a
small scale and designed, not for
conquest, but for diversionary ef-
feet.
Reds May Invade Canada.
Both Canadian and American
staffs envisage the Russians plant
ing a small invading force in
Northern Canada by air with a
view to diverting an undue pro-
portion Of effort to North Ameri-
can local defense. They see moth
ing that can stop such a force
being flown over and landed. They
don't think it can do mr"h T"'-o-
age but they envisage plenty Of
alarm and trouble Il 1t ~ -
destroyed quickly.
That is the purpose for which
the Canadian army keeps up COM
bat battalions. The government
is reluctant to let those battalicns
go abroad because it sees the
present situation as one in which
the Russians could profit by a
diversionary attack.
Such reasoning might be &C
ceptable to the governments
critics if it could be backed up by a
statement of government plans TO
raise an expeditionary force. But
the government is either unable
or unwilling to tip it's hand which
might also mean tipping the hand
of the whole Allied team by say
ing where and how such a force
would be employed.
Meantime, the government is
putting on a drive for recruits for
the regular forces and planning
a special session of Parliament at
which it will ask for big additional
defense appropriations, blanket
powers to send troops outside the
country and blank check to I'M
pose any economic controls it
likes.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
MobiIizing Workers
Assigned 10 uses

State administrators Of employ
ment services were told yesterday
by Robert L. Clark of the National
Security Resources Board that
they will have the job of mobiliz-
ing manpower for the present eco
nomic mobilization.
Mr.. Clark is head of the Man
power Office of the NSRB. He ad-
dressed the State administrators
of the United States Employment
Service and the unemployment
insurance organization who held
a two-day conference with Labor
Department officials.
The State officials at the meet
ing pledged cooperation with
Secretary of Labor Tobin and
Robert c. Goodwin, director of the
Bureau of Employment Security.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
; Polio Cases in Area
BRING Years S Total 10 140

Three new polio cases were re-
ported in the Washington area
since yesterday, bringing the total
for the year to 140.
The Districts 65th polio case
was reported to the Health De-
partment yesterday afternoon.
He is a 32-year-old man of the
1900 block of Harvard street NV.
who was admitted to the Be-
thesda Naval Hospital July 10.
Arlington and Fairfax Counties
have one new case each.
A 12-year-old girl of the 2800
block of Wakefield street, Arling-
ton, was admitted to Children's
Hospital August 10. The Arling-
ton County 'otal for the year is IL.
Fairfax County health authori-
ties yesterday reported a T.
boy of Falls Church had
been admitted to Children's Hos
pital last Tuesday for treatment
Of polio. He is the county's 21st
case.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Defense
Continued From First Page0

NCOnClnueQ from FISL SdSe.l
no such identifcations. The alert
ing of National Guard divisions
for movement to training camps
will be announced here as in the
past but smaller units will be an
nounced only in their own iocali-
ties.
rs Victories Ordered to Duty.
3. The Maritime Commission or
dered Is more Victory-type cargo
ships taken from the reserve fleet,
bringing the total number to be
restored to service to 148.
4. The Navy disclosed that the
27,000-ton aircraft carrier Leyte
would be kept in service instead
of being laid up for modernization
as previously planned. Instead,
her sister ship Lake Champlain is
to be taken out of the reserve
feet and modernized.
S. Representative Towe, Repub-
lican, of New Jersey. introduced a
bill in the House calling for uni
versal military training. How
ever, President Truman-although
he favors such a program-was
reported unwilling to press for it
at this time on ground that the
controversial issue might jeop-
ardize legislation he considers
vital to the Korean war effort.
The Air Force spoke of it's re-
serve call as one to meet an "ini-
tial requirement" 1t is summon
ing mostly officers of the rank of
captain or below and enlisted men
with special military skills.
5000 Promotions Considered.
AS an initial step toward adjust
ing the rank of officers already on
active duty to those being re-
called. the Air Force said 5000
would be considered for tempo
rary promotion to the grades of
captain and first lieutenant.
1t also announced the ground
on which reserve officers and air.
men called up may apply for de-
lay. These include:
/. Persons enrolled in educa-
tional institutions.
2. Those engaged in research
and scientific activities.
3. Individuals in certain essen
tial activities.
4. Hardship dependency cases.
Appeals to recall orders may be
made to the Air Force.
Evening star., 1950-08-12

crimes, Ontario, and Kenneth
Gearhart, IA, of Beloit, Wis.
In a way, Davis wishes some
other boys were his initial COM
petitors because these two are
among the closest friends he has
made since he arrived. The
derby is finished for two of the
three after the first heat. But
the heat winner will go on to
compete in the next elimination
race.
The boys, all II to Is, are
shooting at the championship
prize of a four-year college schol-
arShip.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Il Charles. County Girls
Compete for Queen Role
sneeiuI pispateh 10 The star

LA PLATA, Md, Aug. :13.-
Twelve Charles County girls will
vie for the honor of becoming
Queen Nicotina XVI to reign over
the county's annual fair Septem-
ber 1890 and october /. r.
Nominees chosen at a dance at
Chapel Point are Jackie Clark,
Dottie Clagett. Barbara Farrell,
Cecilia McDonagh and Barbara
McDonagh, all of La Plata; Mary
Ellen Gardiner and Vera McAllis-
ter, Waldorf; Peggy Nalley, Bel
Alton; Alice Schafer, Morgan
town; Frances Wills, Faulkner;
Gertrude Wright, Indian Head,
and Frances Cooksey, Spring Hill.
The queen and six princesses
will be selected by popular vote at
another dance August rs at Chapel
Point.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Churchill
Continued From First Page }

tions, but its action will have no
immediate practical results. The
group is a completely unofficial
parliament with no power to Gre
ate a European army or defense
ministry.
Mr.. Churchill said his motion
was intended as warning and
guidance" for the Western world.
To back up the army of united
Europe, Mr.. Churchill said. large
armed forces should be sent to
the continent from Britain and
the United States.
Although he did not mention
German troops in his speech, Mr..
Churchill said afterward he would
be delighted to have them take
part in the organization.
He Scoffed at reports that re-
arming Germany would precipi-
tate an immediate attack.
Believe me-" he declared, "the
long calculated designs of the So
Wet government will not be timed
or DETECTED by events of this
order"
Evening star., 1950-08-12

District of Columbia-Some
cloudiness, but mostly sunny this
afternoon, high in middle 70s. Fair
and cooler tonight, lowest around
so. Tomorrow fair and continued
pleasant.
Maryland-Fair and cooler to-
night, low about SIS west and SIS to
Evening star., 1950-08-12
IS Die in Luzon Flood

MANILA, Aug. IL (P.-At least
Is people drowned in floods that
have swept Central Luzon island
for 10 days, the Red Cross reported
today. Authorities expressed fear
of a serious outbreak of dysentery
from contaminated water in low
lands both north and south of
Manila.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

so east portion. Tomorrow fair
and continued pleasant.
Virginia-Fair and cooler to-
night, low SIS to so west and north
and 60 to IS southeast portion.
Tomorrow fair and pleasant.
Wind velocity at 1870 o'clock
this morning, IL miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
8o2, 300 BuIes of Wool Sold

CHRISTCHURCH, New zea-
land.-A report by the Wool Dis
posal Board on the past season S
wool sales shows that 892, 300
bales were auctioned, an increase
of $1,000 bales over the previous
season. The value of greasy wool
sold in the 1949-50 season was
EAT million ($131 million).
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Pneumonia Deaths Cut
Nearly so Pct. Since al

NEW YORK.-Mortality from
pneumonia has dropped from "a
per 100000 population in 1941 to
1872 per 100000 in 1949.
An even more significant de-
cline is indicated for 1850. Ex-
perts believe the drop in the NOR
tality rate is largely due to in
creased use of new drugs.
Evening star., 1950-08-12
Correction

Conservation Of the Right Rev.
Patrick j. Mccormick as titular
Bishop of Atenia will take place
at 10 am. September 81 in the
National Shrine of the Immacu-
late Conception at Catholic Uni
versity. Bishop-elect Mccormick
is rector Of the university.
It was enormously stated in The
Star yesterday that the consecra-
ton services would be held
Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-08-12

spy ring was
charged yester-
day with con-
spiracy to COM,
NIT espionage.
She is Mrs.
E t h el RoSen-
berg, wife and
sister of two
men alre a d y
accused of the
same crime.
S h e is a
S m all, slight
woman Of 35,
mother 0f two
Evening star., 1950-08-12
'Loudoun ALI Clubs
Go 10 Camp Monday
Near Woodstock, Va.
Special Dispaieh 10 The Stor

LEESBURG, Va, Aug. Ia
Forty-four girls and twenty-eight
boys from All clubs in Loudoun
County will leave Monday morn
ing for a weeks visit at Powell's
Fort Valley Camp, near Wood
stock, Va. They will be Joined
there by club members from
Prince William and Rappahan-
mock Counties. =
Camp Director w. w. Turner's
staff will include farm and home
agents from the three counties.
The camp also will have a life
guard, recreational director and
nurse. Leaders of the local group
will include Mrs. Ruth Boone and
Miss Betty Litton.
Appointment of Miss Constance
Rumbough of Lynchburg, Miss
Margaret Sherman of Wayne, >,
Mich, and Miss Dorothy Williams. >
of Indian Valley, as teachers Of
religion in the public schools has.
been announced by Loudoun Week
Day Religious Education Com
mittee. Miss Rumbough has been
assigned to the schools Of the
lower end of the county. Miss
Sherman and Miss Williams will
teach in upper county schools.
The annual field day of the
State Holstein-Friesian cattle
raisers will be held next Saturday
at the Charles R. Hope & Son
Farm, near Purcellville, starting at
10 am.
Speakers will include John w.
Willis, president, Virginia Hol-,
stein -Friesian Club; R. C. Con-.
nelly, extension dairyman at
v. P. l.; w. H. Armstrong, Vir-,
ginia Artificial Breeding Coop
erative; Ronald Hope: H. N. Willis,
national director, -Frie--
sian Cattle Club, and L. j. Crow .
gey, Virginia Holstein Cattle Club.
Robert j. Wilson, vice president.
of Capital Airlines, has purchased
the Russell Sexton farm in LOU
doun Valley, near Harpers Ferry.
The tract consists of lat acres of
farm and orchard land and has
two houses. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
plan extensive improvements and
will use the property as a stock
farm and weekend home.
Col. Edward j. Hale of Alexan-
dria has purchased the Carr farm
of 254 acres located on Mount
Gilead. Purchase was made from
the heirs of James w. Carr.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
be in Leesburg August 80. Donors
should contact Mrs. George Grif-
fifth in Leesburg or Mrs. Robert
Mix. Waterford.
The Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, Of
Kenneth Square. Pa, will preach
in Leesburg Baptist Church at IL
am. Sunday. Mr.. Hudgins, for
mer pastor of the church, is serv-
ing during absence of the pastor.
Rev. Bruce Griffith. . .-
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Evening star., 1950-08-12
Atlantic City Scratches

Cloudy and Sloppy.
1-Comel, Pam Light, Prince
Tread, Flying j. F., Listen Tiger
Gary Leslie.
always Home, Victory Sign.
o-Blackmont.