AAF Shifts 18 Generals
To Create Separate
Unit Under Merger
By the Associated Press
The Amy Air Forces has shuffled
the assignments*of 18 generals as
a preliminary step toward creation
of a separate air establishment
under the amed forces unification
plan.
The AAF will become an Inde
pendent organization 24 hours Ifter
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal as
sumes office as Secretary of Defense
late next month.
Among the officers involved in one
of the largest mass shifts in recent
years was Brig. Gen. John F. Mc
Clain, veteran of the China-Burma
India theater, who. will succeed Mai.
Gen. Idwal H. Edwards as com
mand general of United States Air
Forces in Europe. Gen. Edwards re
turns to headquarters for reassign
ment.
Changes Listed.
Other officers and new posts:
Brig. Gen. Ernest Moore succeeds
Brig. Gen. Charles P. Cabell on the
' United. Nations Military Staff Com
mittee. The latter will be given a
Brig. Gen. Edward 3. Timberlake,
who has been attending the Na
tional War College, became chief of
the operations division, office of the
assistant chief of staff for opera
tions at AAP headquarters.
Brig. Gen. John P. McConnell
heads the Reserve and National
Guard Division, office of the assist
ant chief of air staff for operations
at AAR headquarters. He formerly
was chief of the air division of the
American advisory group in China.
Douglass Heads ATC Unit.
Maj. Gen. Robert W. Douglass,
)r.,, becomes commanding general
' of the Air Transport Command’s
indoctrination division at San An
tonio, Tex., he formerly was com
manding general of the 1st Air
Force.
Brig. Gen. Aubrey Lee Moore, who
served on the staff of the United;
teiates xorces in the European
theater, becomes commanding gen
eral of Williams Field, Ariz.
Brig. Gen. Carl B. McDaniel,
former chief of staff of the 7th
Air Force in Hawaii, is named com
manding general of the aerial ob
server-bombardier school at Mather
Field, Calif.
Brig. Gen. Donald F. Stace, for
mer commander of the 7th Air
Force in Hawaii, becomes chief of
procurement and industrial plan
ning division in the office of as
sistant chief of air staff for material
at AAF headquarters.
Strother Heads I^rsonnel.
Brig. Gen. Dean C? Strother, a
War College graduate, is named
chief of The miiitary personnel divi
frion in the Office of the Assistant
Chief of Air Staff for personnel at
AAF headquarters.
Brig. Gen. George F. Schulgen be
comes deputy to the assistant chief
of air staff for intelligence at AAF
headquarters and chief of the air
intelligence requirements division in
that hffice. He was on the war
planning staff in the Southwest
Pacific area.
Brig.. Gen. Richard C. Lindsay,
formerly assistant chief of staff for
intelligence with the Far East Air
Force in Japan, is assigned to the
AAF headquarters here for reas
signment.
Hall to Go to Europe.
Maj. Gen. William E. Hall is as
signed to Europe for duty with the
office of military government for
Germany. He was formerly a mem
ber of tire chief off staff’s advisory
err min
Brig. Gen. Alden R. Crawford re
cently succeeded MaJ. Gen. Laurence
C. Craigie as chief of air materiel
command’s engineering division at
Wright Field, Ohio.
Gen. Craigie returns to AAF
headquarters here to head the re
search and engineer division in
the office of the assistant chief of
ail stall for materiel, the post for
mery held by Gen. Crawford.
Brig. Gen. William F. McKee,
former commanding general of
headquarters command with the
United States Air Forces in Europe,
Is returning to AAF headquarters
for reassignment- as is Brig. Gen.
Lucas Victor" Beau, jr„ who had
been serving in the AAF’s Euro
pean air transport service.
Cuban Denial of Notes
Puzzles Dominicans
By th» Associated Press
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican
Republic, Aug. 20.—The Dominican
Information Office said today the
government was puzzled by published
reports that Cuban officials had de
nied receiving Dominican represen
tations alleging that a revolutionary
army was mobilizing in Cuba t& in
vade this republic.
The information office, official gov
ernment agency, said that “in recent
weeks several representations have
been made to the Cuban government,
via cable and diplomatic notes, citing
specific instances of the activities
bn Cuba of an armed brigade com
posed mostly of Communists, includ
ing veterans from the Red side in
the Spanish civil war.”
The office added that the Cuban
government had promised to inves
tigate the Dominican complaints,
«_a. IVint tVme for 4 f V»oH
done nothing.
On Monday the Dominican gov
ernment said it felt it should solicit
the good offices of some other Amer
ican" government to prevail on Cuba
to permit an investigation of the
Dominican complaints by an inter
national commission.
Dispatches frorrffTfavana Monday
Right. quoted Cuban ' Secretary of
State Gonzalez Munoz as saying the
Cuban government- had received no
official protest from the Dominican
Republic concerning the alleged rev
olutionary activities. Other Cuban
officials previously had declared the
Dominican reports unfounded and
Ruben de Leon, president of the
Cuban House of Representatives,
said proposals for an international
investigation were “absurd."
George Baker, Creator
OfySad Sack/ Divorced
By th« Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20—Mrs.
Brenda Baker, 23, obtained a divorce
yesterday on the grounds of cruelty
from George Baker, 32, artist origi
nator of the cartoon, “Sad Sack.”
“He refused to have children and
told me if I did I would regret it
the rest of my life,” she testified.
They were married May 29. 1946,
•t Yuma, Ariz., and separated last
February. She received a $7,500
cash property settlement, waiving,
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LORD INVERCHAPEL REMARRIES FORMER WIFE—Lady In
verchapel pictured as she left the registry office at Hunters
Square in Edinburgh, Scotland, after her remarriage yesterday
to the British Ambassador to the United States. Lord Inver
chapel is behind her in the doorway. She is the former Maria
Terese Dias Salas, member of a prominent Chilean family. The
couple plans to fly to Washington, the Associated Press reported.
—AP Wirephoto via radio from London.
Legislator Hits Separate Tax
On Each Item in Maryland Sales
By Associated Pros*
BALTIMORE, Aug. 20— Delegate
Bernard S. Melnlcove, Democrat, of
Baltimore took exception yesterday
to a ruling by Attorney General
Hall Hammond that Maryland's 2
per cent retail sales tax is to be ap
plied separately to all items in one
purchase.
The chairman of the House of
Delegates’ Judiciary Committee
challenged the opinion in a letter
to Controller James J. Lacy.
"I am concerned with Attorney
General Hammond's opinion of
August 18 in which he advises you
that ‘a vendor shall collect a tax
of 2 per centum on the price of each
sepaiate retail sale,’” Mr. Melni
: cove wrote.
‘‘I am sure this was never the
'legislative intent. If the Legis
lature had so intended, the act
would read that a tax is imposed
‘on each article sold’ instead of on
‘each separate sale,’ as is the case.”
Mr. Melnlcove said that under the
Attorney General’s ruling a house
wife buying 10 articles at 10 cents
! each would pay a tax qf 10 per cent
instead of 2.
The delegate also said the ruling
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Margaret L. Donaldson,
| Former Pianist Hqre, Dies
Mrs. Margaret L. Donaldson, -45,
former pianist and well known in
musical circles here, died yesterday
at Georgetown Hospital after a long
illness.
She formerly played for various
Washington organizations and also
wrote Several published piano
scores.
Mrs. Donaldson was born In
Binghamton, N. Y„ but had lived
here for more than 25 years. She
resided at 900 Nineteenth street
N.W. She was a member of the
Woman’s City Club and for the
last few years was an active leader
in PTA work at John Quincy
Adams, Gordon Junior High and
Western High School.
In 1921 she was married to Cragin
Donadlson, Washington real estate
man.
Surviving besides her husband are
two sons, Cragin, Jr., and Robert
W. Donaldson, and a daughter, John
Marie, all of the Nineteenth street
address.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p.m. tomorrow at the Hines fu
neral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
N.W. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Greer Garson Files Suit j
To Divorce Richard Ney
By tho Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.—Actress
Greer Garson, 35, has ffled a divorce
suit against Richard New, 33, film j
actor, from whom she has been
separated since January 20.
Miss Garson, the “Mrs. Miniver"
who won an academy award for that
picture in 1942 u'hen her role was
that of Ney’s mother, alleged that
for some time before their separa
tion Ney "inflicted a course of great’
and grievious mental and physical:
suffering’’ upon her'
Her suit informed the court there
was no community property. They
were married at Santa Monica,
Calif., July 24, 1943. She had been
divorced from Edward A. A. Snelson,
British civil servant. May 8, 1940.
Ney had been divorced from Elden
Hewitt, New York artist.
Psychiatry School Gets
$13,000 Research Grant
A Federal grant of approximately
$13,000 for research in mental health
has been awarded to the Washing
ton School of Psychiatry, 1711
Rhode Island avenue N.W., Dr.
Thomas Parran, surgeon general of
the United States Public Health
Service, announced today.
The school is among 25 receiving
grants totaling $400,000.
The funds will be administered by
Dr. Alfred H. Stanton, a faculty
member, for study in the ward for
mental patients at Chestnut Lodge,
Sanitarium, Rockville, Md.
Col. Brownlee, Friend
Of Buffalo Bill, Dies «
By th« Associated Press
TYRONE, Pa., Aug. 20.—Col.
Millard Fillmore Brownlee, friend
of William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody
and reputedly Pennsylvania's last
veteran of,the Indian wars, died
yesterday.
Col. Brownlee, who spent many
years in the West, helped track
down Indians after Custers last
stand in 1876. He witnessed such;
historic events as the driving of the
golden spike which united the East-;
West railroad line in Utah. -
made it possible for restaurants to
tax each item in a meal instead of
the total check.
Mr. Melnicove suggested the con
troller rule the tax is to be collected
on the completed transaction instead
of on separate items.
Mr. Lacy said $1,115,700 had been
received thus far from those who
have filed Maryland retail sales tax
returns for July.
Returns continue to come in from
various sections, but as many mer
chants did not receive their copy
of the form until after August 1,
they are late in forwarding collec
tions.
Retail use tax return blanks for
individuals are ready for distribu
tion, Walter E. Kennedy, chief of
the sales tax division of the con
troller’s office, announced. The
forms are for purchases made out
of the State where no sales tax
exists.
“If a person refuses to make a
use tax return,” the announcement
said, “nothing can be done about
it. A man cr woman is merely
honorbound to make the report.”
Daniel W. Ashley, 53,
U. S. News Publisher,
Killed by Lightning
Daniel W. Ashley, 53, vice presi
dent and publisher of the United
States News, was killed by lightning
on the grounds of his home at
Darien, Conn.,
during a severe
electrical
storm last night.
Mr. Ashley,
medical exam
iners told the
Associated Press,
was struck by
the bolt as he
walked across
the yard to his
garage to start
an auxiliary
lighting sys
tern.
Mr. Ashley was
appointed pub- Mr. A»hicy.
lisher of the United States News
and World Report, a magazine of
international affairs, last December
by David Lawrence, president of
the United States News Publishing
Corp., which controls the two maga
zines. He maintained headquarters
in New York.
Mr. Lawrence said that accord
ing to information he received, Mr.
Ashley was with his son Will at
the time of his death. The son,
a junior at Dartmouth College,
ducked into a nearby greenhouse
just before the bolt struck, but was
cfnnnoH TVTr T anrronno coiH
Mr. Lawrence said Mr. Ashley, one
of the country's best known adver
tising men, joined his organization
in 1940 as advertising director for
the United States News. Before that,
he directed advertising for the
Women’s Home Companion after
holding other posts with the Cro
well-Collier Publishing Co.
Besides his son, Mr. Ashley Is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Lillian
Ashley. He was a native of Dass,
N. H. Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
Mr. Lawrence said there would
be “some time” before* a successor
to Mr. Ashley is named as publisher
of the two magazines.
The Swiss have more than dou
bled their drug chemical trade in
the last year.
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Park Heads Look to Danish Idea
To Restore Damaged Statuary
National Capital Park officials said
today they have their “hand full of”
marble and bronze statues from
which fingers, hands and other parts
have been lost, prey of souvenir
hunters, vandals or the weather.
“Accordingly, we are looking with
real interest into a secret process
reported to have been developed in
Denmark ,and used extensively in
Europe for restoring such parts at
fairly reasonable cost,” the office of
Supt. Irving C. Root reported.
The process is not on the Ameri
can market but an expert from
Denmark is expected to come to
this country later this year to ex
plain it to officials here. It was
described today as a secret process
using a cement mixture which not
only is more durable than ordinary
cement but also can be worked with
necessary color effects. It is good
only for marble and other stone
statutes and not for bronze, a parks
official said.
The Peace Monument near the
Capitol, the fountain in Dupont
Circle, the buffalo on Buffalo Bridge,
and the Washington Monument
were cited as examples of statuarv
or memorials which urgently neea
repairs.
The Joan Arc statue in Meridan
Hill Park lost its sword on several
occasions. The National Capital
Parks office said the sword recently
was replaced. ^
“We have had a particularly
troublesome time with the Wash
ington Monument,” an official *aid.
“Chips and nicks have been taken
out of the stones for many years.
We try our best to patch them and
it seems there’s always work of that
kind to be done.”
Statues such as those on the
BufTalo Bridge on Q street N.W.,
where one of the figures lost a tail'
cause particular difficulty because,
as in the case of more elaborate and
costly bronze statuary such as the
Joan of Arc statue, the missing part
must be replaced after a special
modeling and recasting.
Northwood Park Group
Opposes Rezoning Bid
The Northwood Park-Pour, Cor
ners Citizens’ Association will op
pose a rezoning application for an
apartment project in the area when j
a public hearing is held at 4:20
p.m. Tuesday in the Dispensary
Building, Silver Spring.
25,000 Moose Gather
For Columbus Parade
By th* Aiiociatid Pr«i
COLUMBUS. Ohio, Aug. 20.—
Moose from three States converged
on Columbus today to join the 12,000
delegates to the national conven
tion for a two-hour parade and tri
State celebration.
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia members of the organization
were expected to bring the total to
25,000 before the parade began.*
Included in special “Tri-State
Day” features today was presenta
tion of a $25,000 check to the Boy
Scouts and special performances by
units from the children's home at*
Mooseheart, 111.
Supreme Secretary Malcolm R.
Giles presented the check to Amer
ica’s Boy Scouts through Dr. Ray O.
Wyland, Scout public relations
officer.
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