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Evening star., 1953-01-18
Cumberland Police
Check Man in Fatal
Beating Of Housewife
BY the Associated Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan. IT.
"A man was being checked to-
day by investigators trying to
learn who beat attractive Mrs.
Odessa Frances Meister and
dumped her body under a pile
of trash on the east edge of town.
Police announced they had "at
least one man under surveill-
ance" in connection with the
Staying of the 35-year-old house.
wife and textile worker. They
did not identify him.
A pair of glasses found near
the spot where two young rabbit
hunters yesterday discovered the
body of Mrs. Meister also was
being checked. The body was
found in a secluded section OF
pine and brush threaded with
crude roads used frequently by
young lovers.
Victim Left Alive.
Police Lieutenant James E.
Van said stains on the ground
indicated Mrs. Meister was alive
and bleeding when she was left
by her assailant.
|. An autopsy showed she had
been dead since about the time
of her disappearance December
20. At least eight head wounds
had been inflicted with a blunt
instrument.
1t. Van expressed belief the
slayer was familiar with the
wooded, hilly area. The nearest
road comes to a dead end not
far from where the hunters came
upon the body, and a stranger
could become lost in a short
time.
Police went to Mrs. Meister's
funeral this morning, screening
those in attendance.
Mrs. Meister was the mother
of an 11-year-old girl.
Husband MyStified.
Another phase of the investi.
CATION was being conducted ir
Baltimore. where the victim!
vital organs were sent for analy.
sis by the State medical examin-
ers Office.
Thomas Meister, 35-year-olc
husband of the woman, told po-
lice he hadn't "the slightest
idea" why anyone would want
to kill his wife. The couple
worked at the Amcelle plant o1
the Celanese Corp. of America
on the southwest outskirts o1
Cumberland. He worked the day
shift. she from 4 pm. to mid.
night.
Mrs. Meister was last seen ar.
irving at the plant on a bus
When found, the body bore the
same clothes she wore then.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Rare Commons Found
In British COLONY
By the Assoeioted Press

HONG KONG.-Two century,
old cannons, which guarded this
British Crown colony in the days
of Queen Victoria, have been
found in a tangle of jungle on
hills overlooking this city.
An artillery officer said the
guns, weighing a ton apiece,
must have been from some Brit
ish man-o'-war and no doubt
were the pride of early Hong
Kong defenders. The date S
stamped on the cannons showed
they were made in 1885.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Salt Wafer Fishing Permit
Beaten With Seminole Aid
By the Associated Press

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. ia dele
cation of Seminole Indians
helped the Dade County Con-
servation Council reject a reso-
luton requiring saltwater fish
ermen to pay 81 for a State
license.
Mike Osceola, spokesman for
the Seminoles, asked the council
Friday night what would hap
pen to people who fish because
they have no money and need
fish to eat"
IF a man has a dollar he can
60 buy the fish or the license -
Mr.. Osceola said, "but if a man
is hungry and has no money,
what if he wants to fish?"
Most of the representatives of
the 68 conservation and civic
groups which make up the coun-
Gil joined the SeminoleS in vot-
ing against the resolution.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Buby Warns of Fire

CARDSTON, Canada P)-The
sound of her baby coughing woke
Mrs. Lloyd Saunders, who found
her house on fire. She escaped
unhurt with the baby, and
neighbors helped quell the blaze.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Glass Door on Church

NEW YORK (P)-To give
passersby a clear view of the
services, ST. Edmund's Protes-
tant Episcopal Church in the
Bronx has replaced it's oaken
front door with one of glass.
Evening star., 1953-09-16
Speed, Efficiency and JocqueIine

two silos and when she later
came to a group of planes she
knew she was near the Mon
treal airport. She landed with
out accident.
An experienced pilot few back
with her which was fortunate
because we ran into bad weather
and I wouldn't have known how
to navigate without being able to
see the ground"
Miss Cochran, wife OF financier
Floyd B. Odlum. mu1ti-million-
aire founder of one of the coun-
try's largest investment trusts, is
not adverse to attempting more
record flights. II just don't own
a jet" she says with a twinkle in
her eye.
At present she is concentrating
all her attention on her cosmetic
business, getting ready for the
winter season and especially
NA1 4Ot14Ado Cd1Co.
Trim and blonde, the attrac-
tive Miss Cochran flies around
the country for appointments in
her own plane as casually as
most women drive a car.
She sometimes has breakfast
in New York, lunch in Pitts
burgh, a business appointment
in st. Louis and dinner in
Dallas the same day.
If she attends a late party, it's
not unusual for her to fly home
that night. plotting her husband
and her secretary" I just slip
a wool sweater over my evening
gown and take of my shoes" is
her formula.
Miss Cochran has been in the
cosmetic business since she was
II years old, and is welded to
her profession.
IF I had to make a choice be-
tween flying and cosmetics, I'd
take cosmetics" says the famous
flyer, every time"
Evening star., 1953-09-16
By Mary l. Vouqhon

speed, efnclency and MISS
Jacqueline Cochran are almost
synonymous.
The Nations leading woman
pilot and first of her sex to crack
the sonic barrier made a flying
visit to Washington this week
in connection with her cosmetic
business which bears her name.
While here, she paused briefly
between a continual round of
business and social engagements
to give her impressions of flying
faster than sound.
Just before the vital instant
"it's like having bunch of
gremlins on one wing and an
other bunch on the other all
having dance" is the way Miss
Cochran describes the expert
ence.
Then the plane becomes alb
solutely smooth until you come
out of it and the turbulence
starts again."
Miss Cochran said the jet pilot
is plenty busy from the moment
he achieves his altitude and goes
into the vertical dive for the
sound barrier plunge.
THE nose keeps trying to tuck
under and it is vitally necessary
to keep in a vertical dive"
Meanwhile wing will begin
to dip and by the time you've
got that back the other starts
in"
Miss Cochran gives all credit
for her jet pilot training prior
to the sonic flight to the jet test
pilots who spent months giving
her advice. help and counsel in
flying jet.
Uppermost among these was
Maj. Chuck Yeager, the first
pilot to fly faster than the speed
of sound.
Even after 20 years of flying
it's not easy to climb into an
F-86 and take off with no previ-
Gus training" Miss Cochran
stressed.
II couldn't have done it with
out benefit of those pilots help
and advice" she said. II feel like
I had a co-pilot.''
Miss Cochran also shattered a
speed record the same day she
became the first woman to fly
through the sonic barrier.
The date was last May 18 and
she broke the all-time jet record
Evening star., 1953-09-16

Ifor a 1OO-k1Iometer course
set in 1851. To achieve this
she flew around a 100-kilometer
closed course, 800 feet above the
Mojave Desert. She was clocked
I at 652.337 miles an hour.
CThis record has since been
unofficially broken by Brig. Gen
j. Stanley Holtner who few a
like course September 2 at Day
ton, Ohio, in excess of 800 miles
an hour.)
Miss Cochran's adaptability
with the jet is reminiscent of
her early flying days.
| A beauty operator who had
never seen a plane close up.
much less been in one, she was
| working IA hours a day, six days
a week.
II used to occasionally glance
out the window and see plane
in the sky" she recalled. 1T be-
came a symbol of freedom to
me-"
She went a step further and
bought a technical book on how
to fly.
"One Saturday I went out to
an airport and took a free lesson.
I bought the course-and Soloed
the following Monday-forced
landing and ALL"
The engine conked out on her
solo flight and the quick-to-
learn, but novice pilot brought
the plane in upright. stopping
just short of a fence.
Il knew so little about flying
I thought that was a routine
occurrence" she humorously re-
called.
Reminiscing of those days, Miss
Cochran said she'll never be as
good a pilot as she was three
weeks after she Soloed. why I
didn't get into trouble I'll never
know" she laughed.
Two weeks after the solo, the
determined Miss Cochran took
off for Montreal unperturbed by
the fact she couldn't read a
compass or a flight map.
She used the Hudson River as
a landmark. finally landing in
Burlington (Vt.) where she asked
the airport manager directions
to her destination.
HE thought 1 was pulling his
leg when I told him I couldn't
read a map" she said. But I
finally convinced him I was seri-
ous."
| He told her to watch out for
Evening star., 1953-09-16
Party Planned

A party marking the end Of
the Rosh Hoshanah and Yom
Kippur holidays will be given
by the Sisterhood of Congrega-
tion Bethel of Montgomery
County at $50 pm. Saturday at
the Congregation auditorium, 3
Pooks Hill road. Bethesda.
Entertainment will include
games, dancing and refresh
mentS.
Evening star., 1953-09-16
Problems Today
|Wfe Says
She Is Not
Appreciated
By MurieI Nissen

DEAR MISS NISSEN: I have
been married 16 years and have
a 10-year-old son. have worked
hard ever since / married, yet
my husband never has an ap-
preciative word for me. We own
a farm, and I can take my place
any day with men doing outside
work. Besides the work of my
house and the farm, I have an
outside job which pays for all
our clothes and extras. My hus-
band gives me nothing. He's al
most 20 years older than I am,
and ] know I haven't loved him
for years.
MINNIE A.
ANSWER: One decision that
can never be made by an out
slider is whether or not a woman
should leave her husband,
whether she would be happier
away from him or maintaining
the status quo. Many factors
must be weighed before an
answer is reached.
Loneliness can often be such
a devastating experience that
women will endure any amount
of marital incompatibility to
escape it. If you are personally
unequipped to face the world on
your own. separation is not ad-
visable. If, however. you have
learned through your work to get
along easily with people, and feel
that your economic future is
assured, you may be happier
away.
It's doubtful if your husband
will let you go easily. After all,
he has a fine housekeeper. a farm
hand, and an income-all in one
woman. You are a valuable asset
and if he had any sense, he'd
realize the fact and treat you
accordingly. The fundamental
trouble is that you've given too
much, asked very little in return,
and have accepted the role into
which your husband cast you
with too much complacancy. It
never pays to do too much for
some people.
Why not take some of your
hard-earned cash, go on a vaca-
ton. and see if your husband
comes to some realization of how
important you are around the
house! He may revise his treat
ment of you a bit.
DEAR MISS NISSEN: My
husband is in service, stationed
in Florida. I was with him until
a month ago, then came home
intending to stay. I didn't realize
how much I would miss him.
I'm pregnant, and it seems that
every day miss him more. He
thinks I'm better off home. He's
a wonderful husband and his
whole concern is for me. We've
just been married four months.
MRS. H. P.
! ANSWER: You would un-
doubtedly be better off with your
husband, in your present emo
tional state. You'll meet other
! young brides and prospective
mothers at your husbands base,
and you will certainly be more
content.
Muriel NiSSen Will reply to
all readers lUho ask her help.
Write for free leGfet DIP.
"Findnci1l Trouble" In all
cases, be sure to incloSe an dd-
dressed, stamped envelope and
send request to her, care OF
the Wom1n'S Department, The.
EUening Star, Washington 4,
D. G.
Evening star., 1953-09-16

THE GREMLINS WERE DANCING-Mss JocqueIine
Cochran, famous flyer and the first pilot to crack
the sound barrier, kens the planes wing turbulence
just before going through the sonic wall "a bunch Of
gremns dancing the WINGS. The noted beauty spe-
ciost is pictured making final arrangements for the
opening of her line of beauty cosmetics Local depart
ment store.
Evening star., 1953-09-16
Onion Rinqs

Marinate onion rings in mild
vinegar that's been sweetened
with a little sugar and serve with
hamburgerS.
Evening star., 1953-09-16

First Course
Chicken soup mixed with to-
mato Juice and a little cooking
sherry makes a delightful first
course.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Table Tennis Tourney
To Bring Top Stars

Top table tennis stars will
compete January 81 and Febru-
ary in the Capital Open Cham
pionships sponsored by the Dis
trict of Columbia Table Tennis
Association. The tournament will
be held in the Washington Boys
Club gymnasium, Seventeenth
and Massachusetts, avenue Sc.
Table tennis stars such as Dick
Miles. national champ from 1947
to 1851. and John Somael and
Sol Schiff, both former national
title holders, are expected to
compete.
For the first time in two years,
local players will get an oppor-
tunity to play against competi-
ton from other cities. Tiber
Nazi, local champion who ranks
fifth in the Nation and who has
won every local tournament for
several years, will face tough
competition. He was eliminated
Dy MT. OOUlael III Close IMdCCn
two years ago.
The tournament, for the bene-
fit of the Boys Club, will be held
in three sessions: Saturday, jan
uary 81, at 8 pm; Sunday,
February l, at 2 pm. and 8 pm.
Tickets are available at the Fair
way Sports Shop, 1918 G street
NV Tickets will be 80 cents
per session. $3.50 for all three.
Children under IA will be ad-
mitted for 80 cents, tax included.
James Verta of 10134 Crest
wood road, Kensington, Md. is
president of the District Table
Tennis Club.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Groans Of Dying Women
Described at S Trial
BY the Associated Press

BORDEAUX, France, Jan. IT.
"A one-armed Alsatian soldier
testified today he heard groans
and anguiShed cries of dying
women in the little church at
Oradour-sur- -Glane before the
third company of Hitler's SIS Das
Reich division set it af1ame in
1914.
Two hundred forty-f1ve women
and 207 children were shot, blud-
geoned or burned alive in the
church as an aftermath Of a
Nazi elite guard search for
French underground fighters.
The soldier, Paul Graft, made
his statement on the sixth day of
the trial before a military tri-
bunal here of IA Alsatians and
seven Germans of the Das Relcn
division, accused of having killed
642 villagers in the June 10, 1914,
Oradour massacre.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
British Woman Hired
ByU. 5. Army Is Held
In Vienna Spy Probe
BY the Associated Press

VIENNA. Austria, Jan. IT,
The United States Army's inves-
tigation of Russian spy ring led
to the detention today of a 30
year-old Vienna-born British
woman who has worked several
years as a typist for the Amer
lean 796th Military Police Bat
talon in this four-power city.
A Divorce, Mrs. Theresa Har-
ris was reported "crying help
lessly that the American agents
did not believe her innocence"
Father Noted as Writer.
That word came from Mrs.
Harris mother, Mrs. Rudolph
Holzer, who was permitted to see
her for a while this afternoon.
The prisoners father. a white
whiskered theater critic and au-
thor we'll known throughout
Vienna, said:
II intend to appeal personally
to the Austrian Chancellor Dr.
Leopold FigD to intervene in my
daughters arrest"
United States officials empha-
sized that Mrs. Harris is held
only for questioning and said
"she did not have access to any
secret information"
Soviet Diplomat Named.
She is among five persons
known to have been arrested
here in connection with an
espionage plot a Washington
grand jury charged was headed
by the second secretary of the
Soviet Embassy in Washington.
Yuri v. Novikov.
Two Austrian-born former
GIS among them-Otto Verber,
81, and Kurt Ponger, 39-have
been flown to Washington, where
they face arraignment Monday
on charges of participating in
the ring.
Others known to be detained
are Walter LAUDER, Austrian
born former American soldier
who has been studying at Vienna
University under the CT bill Of
rights, and Ernest Tislowitz, a
Berlin-born veteran of the
United States Military Intelli-
gence Service.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
ToIk on Cerebral PuIsy

DR.. Frederick L. Stone, the
National Institute Of Neurologi-
cal Diseases and Blindness, Be-
thesda. Md, will speak on cere-
bral palsy at a meeting at 8 pm.
tomorrow, Of the United Cere-
bral Palsy of Montgomery
County, Inc, in the Liquor Dis
pensary building, $500 Colesville
road, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
6 Out Of 212 Pass
Bar Examination
Held in Richmond
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Jan. 17.-Sixty-
three candidates passed the Vir-
ginia State bar examination here
last month, Howard c. Turner,
secretary and treasurer of the
Virginia Board of Law Exam
iners, announced today.
That is less than 80 per cent
of the 212 law students who took
the tests last December 9 and
10. The percentage was consider
ably below the figure for the two
previous tests-61.7 per cent for
the June, 1852, exam, and over
so per cent for the December.
1851, test.
The exams are given twice
each year. The next one will be
at Roanoke in June.
The candidates examined in
the December test were not af-
fected by stiffened requirements
passed by the 1852 General As
sembly. After December 81. 1853,
every law student who is not a
graduate of an approved law
school finish at least three years
academic training instead OF two,
and must study three years in a
lawyers office before qualifying
to take the bar exam.
The successful candidates:
hemag samgel O. Barsy Aen t.xnstoh HsRDtSn Robept
Arlington; Lewis r. Booker. Richmond;
Stanley Bryan Norfolk; HoraHe w.
Church; Earl Christensen. Arlington;
H Davis III. Charlottesville.
Carel E. Davis Richmond; Edward A.
Falls Church: Jerry, E. .Dishner. Gate
City; Thomas w, Dodge: Arlington; John
6uva 81 Prake oacester Raf ch9Feh Thomas Faith
Aiexandria; James ii. Flippen, tr., creWe;
John 1. Harvey; BadS jr.' Arlington; Barron
james 4 johnson: charlottesyille; Floyd
Ea Keam Fals cnureh PFneSfi @iam anne & Eek fiefe
chariotte$ville; Jesse, Q, Lindieye Guilford
College. N. C.: Richard E. Mcconnell.
Ivy Depot; Edward ?: McGeheei. Rich
mond; Alfred K. McGuiGe, Arlington:
Thomas j. Markham, Norfolk; Robert
E. Mellon. Williamsburg.
Octavius A. Orbe. Charlottesville;
r. D. osterholm. .Glenwood. Iowa:
Pendleton. tr. Richmond; Gerald J.
Pi,eEcs. P,eEa;. RichmSnd; Robert H; Pratt:
George G. snarr. jr;. Winchester; Harry
Shaia, jr.. Richmond; Joseph w. Sharts.
jr., Richmond: John c. Somers. Arling-
ton: George Woody Stafford, CharlotteS-
vile: Richard F. Stone. Lynchburg.
George E. Turner; White Stone; Earl
G. Vass iii Laurel; Fred E; watson,
land; Gilbert H: Wilson. r.. Richmond;
Hill; jr.. Charlottesville; John R. Roller.
Hishtown; Aldred W. Lowe. Sandston:
Rengel. Alexandria; George F Levin,
Washington. D. c.. and George J.
Schultz. Vienna Va.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
School Subjects 10 Be Topic
Al Arlington Meeting

Arlington residents interested
insubjects offered in county
schools and how they are taught
have been invited to a meeting
on Wednesday.
C. Glen Hass. associate super
iutendent of schools and director
OF instruction, will preside at the
meeting at 8 pm. in the Little
Theater at Washington-Lee High
School. The sponsor is the Par
ents' Council on Instruction.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
No. | Canadian Hoodum Shot Dead In Salt Lake CITY,

Shot January 8 when he ran
while accompanying officers to
the Salt Lake police station for
questioning in a morals case,
the man died two days later.
Police sent the mans finger
prints to FBI headquarters in
Washington, where records
showed him to be Kennedy.
Kennedy has been wanted by
Toronto officers since his escape
November q, 1948, while on the
way to Kingston penitentiary to
serve eight years for forgery.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Events Of Rural Interest
Scheduled in Virqinia
By the A.soeio,ed Pres.

BLACKSBURG. Va, Jan. IT,
-Four events Of rural interest
are scheduled for Virginia dur
ing February. They are: Feb
ruary 4-Purebred swine sale at
Suffolk. February 6-Purebred
swine sale at Winchester. Feb
ruary 8-10-Virginia Nursery
mems Association at Richmond.
February 17-18 - Nutrition
School of Feedmen at VPI.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
BY the Associoied Press

TORONTO, Jan. 17.-Canada's S
most-Wanted criminal has been
killed by police gunflre in the
United States.
He was Hugh Kennedy, 35, of
Winnipeg and Toronto. who held
the top spot in the list of
Canada's hoodlums issued Tues
day by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police.
A Salt Lake City dispatch
today said a man killed by
police bullets has been identified
as Kennedy, alias Mcintosh.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Comp Springs PTA

The Camp Springs (Md.)
School Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton will meet at 8 pm. tomor-
row in the school auditorium.
The Rev. John S. Cronin, of the
National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference, will speak.
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SOUTHEAST
Near Boiling Field

Just blocks from Boiling Field is lovely brick semi
detached 3-bedroon house. Complete with full
dining room, basement and " boths Fenced lot
1880. Coll for appointment to inspect.
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tional pieces; what colors would
you suggest?
A.-Brown would be a good
color for the sofa you are plan
ming to buy for your living room
and the sectional pieces in coral
with gold metallic threads run
ming through would bring a good
color accent into the room.
Owe are building a new
home and at present are concen-
trating on the kitchen. There
are three doors and a pass
through in the room and we are
planning to use every bit of
available wall space for cabinets
and counters. The cabinets will
be natural birch and the counter
tops will be coral. Could we
use wallpaper on the ceiling?
If so what would you suggest?
Also what color would you sug-
geSt for the floor covering?
A.-Since all the wall space
in the kitchen will be covered
with birch cabinets think that
using wallpaper on the ceiling
will bring color and interest into
the room. A plaid paper in green
and yellow would be nice. For
the floor covering suggest brown
with yellow feature strip.
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Near Boiling Field

97oU doWh1 monthly Payments Ike rent
Lovely brick home with completely GE kitchen, sep
orote dining room, powder room on first floor
bedrooms and bath, full basement, front potio Hot
water eos heat. Just $l6,o50.
Out to S.W
S.W.
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Owe are planning to re-
decorate our bedroom and would
like some advice on the colors
to use for the walls, woodwork,
rug and draperies. The furni-
ture is cordovan mahogany.
A.-Lemon yellow for the walls
and woodwork of your bedroom
would be a good background
for the cordovan mahogany fur
niture. For the rug I suggest
chartreuse and for the draperies,
pattern in yellow, green and
chartreuse on a burgundy back
ground.
OIL would like some advice
about furniture for our living
room. The only piece we have
for the room is a mahogany
piano. Could we use blond fur
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Let your tenant
pay your way

Separate entrance apart
ment makes your monthly
payments. Large 3-bedroom
home in Tokomo Park with
an ottic with z bedrooms.
Full dining room. Just
$4,000.
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Chevy Chose Porkwoy

An unusual Volue in q brick, g.
bedroom home. located in D. c.,
just off Conn. Ave. Loree Iiv-
ing room, dining room, modern
kitchen, z baths, finished recreo-
ton room, detached garage. large
lot. Owner leaving country ond
must sell. ONLY $24,95O.
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niture with this? The wallpaper
has pattern of gray and white
leaves on a green background;
the woodwork is a light finish
and the draperies are gray. What
colors would you suggest for the
rug, sofa and two chairs?
A.-You can use blond furni-
ture with the mahogany piano in
your living room. Dark green
would be a good color for the
rug. For the upholstered pieces
Suggest: The sofa, red; one
chair. black; the other, char
treuse.
Miss Lenahan my be addressed
directly by writing to her at P. o.
Box SO, Times Square Station,
New York SO, N. Y.