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Canada Expects Visit
By Princess Elizabeth
Soon After Wedding
By Doris Flee son
TORONTO —Topics discussed here
In addition to the heat wave and
high prices include:
1. Princess Elisabeth: Official Ca
nadian circles
will not go so
far as to say
they expect her
to come here
soon. They say
they will be dis
appointed if
they don’t see
the bride and :
b r 1 degroom
within a reason
able time after
their wedding.
Recalling the
J- long time it took
to arrange the
famous royal Dori* Fleeson.
tour of her parents, they suggest
that perhaps next spring they will
see their future sovereign.
2. Their new Governor General,
Viscount Alexander: They like this
British soldier and hope he will
stay a long time. They explain
that they have had to slap his
wrist occasionally. He ventured to
suggest, for example, ways of train
ing their army—he said “let them
do forestry and conservation”—
which is their business, not his.
3. How long, Oh King, how long?
Prime Minister William Lyon Mac
kenzie King has held his job longer
than any comparable democratic
official in the world today. He
just won’t say when he expects to
quit. But next June his will ex
ceed the tenure of the present
record holder. Sir Robert Walpole,
England's first Prime Minister.
Ottawa correspondents speculate
that after the mousy Mr. King out
serves England's Sir Robert he will
plan to retire.
According to custom, the Scotch
Protestant must be succeeded by a
r rcncxi-’W'aimuiau. me umuuicc.
Louis St. Laurent, secretary of state
for external affairs. In his late
sixties, he -is not expected to serve
long. Next in line; His undersecre
tary, lively Lester (Mike) Pearson,
alumnus of the Chicago stockyards
—his uncle was president of the
company but he claims he began at
the bottom and worked up to the
sausages on strict merit until uncle
took pity on him. He was formerly
Canadian Minister to the United
States.
4. T. C. Douglas, Premier of
Canada’s only Socialist province,
Alberta. Mr. Douglas’ party is the
Co-operative Commonwealth Fen
eration. Mr. Douglas is an admirer
of Henry Wallace and is shortly
Invading the Wallace country,
Southern California, for five weeks
of lectures. Mr. Douglas plugs wide
government ownership.
Canada has also a Premier who
Is not a Wallace admirer, hustling
George Drew of Ontario. Mr. Drew
sounded off recently at a public
banquet with his low Wallace opin
ions; the snickers of his neighbors
tipped him off that one of the
diners, the wife of the Swedish
Minister to Canada, was Mr. Wal
lace’s sister.
5. Air-borne immigrants. With a
12,000,000 population, Canada has
fixed an annual immigration quota
of 120,000, but lack of transportation
is impeding it. Premier Drew got
tired of waiting, flew in several
hundred. He hopes to fly in thou
sands more before winter.
fPeleaceH V* v tVii» Roll Rvndieot* Tno 1
FBI Joins in Probe'
Of Theft of Safes
By th« Asjocioted Pr*»i
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md.. Aug.
23.—Maryland State police and FBI
agents have joined in an investiga
tion of forced entries into two
Calvert County Post Offices and a
real estate office.
Burglars carted off safes from the
Post Office at Huntingtown and the
office of the Western Shore Realty
Co. Thursday night. The Post
Office at Dunkirk was entered for
the second time this week also, but
the postmistress, Mrs. Inez Jones,
reported nothing missing.
Postmaster Vernon Jarvis at
Huntingtown said his missing safe
contained between $500 and $600.
The safe from the realty company,
located oh Route 2, 3 miles from
here, was found rifled in the Prince
Frederick baseball park 1 mile
away. Almos D. Neald, office man
ager, said nothing of value was
obtained and that the burglars
overlooked an envelope containing
$100.
State police participating in the
Investigation are Troopers C. C.
Dumbruz, Walter H. Wahl and
Stewart CSibson.
No One Bids on Restoration
Of Perry Ship's Rigging
By tha Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 23.—
The Job of restoring the rigging on
the brig Niagara, flagship of Ad
miral Perry in the War of 1812,
went beging today.
The Department of Property and
Supplies, Pennsylvania State build
ing agency, announced that not a
single bid was received on the proj
ect, which includes the construction
of masts, sails and rigging of the
vessel.
The hull and decks of the ship,
which now rests in a special cradle
at the foot of State Street in Erie,
already have been restored under
the direfction of the State Historical
and Museum Commission.
“The specifications for the rigging
were prepared by Howard I. Chap
pelle, marine architect, of Cam
bridge, Md., one of the foremost in
the country, and they will make the
ship look exactly like it did over a
century ago,” Dr. Donald K. Stevens
of the Historical Commission ex
plained.
"We had a lot of difficulty getting
some one to do the work on the hull
because some of the timbers had to
be cut specially for that purpose."
Theater Man Invents
Noiseless Popcorn Bag
By tht AuociattS Pra»
8AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23—To
the long list of inventions for the
benefit of mankind, Irving M Levin,
theater manager, today added hi*
own contribution—the noiseless pop
corn bag.
Mr. Levin, describing it as the
answer to plaints of theatergoers,;
said the “hushed" bag is made of
specially processed, laminated cello
phane.
The lamination cuts out the j
"crM-*-»ekle,” he claimed, which so;
Irritates patrons. / 1
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This Changing World '
Decision of U. S. to Increase and Maintain
Military Forces in Italy Held No Surprise
By Constantine Brown
The Washington administration’s
decision to maintain and increase, if
possible, American forces in Italy
was not much of a surprise, although
it had been as
sumed generally /
that soon after
ratification of
the peace treaty
by the Senate
American forces
—except for the
contingent in
Trieste—w o u 1 d
be pulled out.
Routine orders
were issued in
May to concen
trate all our
forces at Leg
horn and ships
were detailed to Constantine Brown.
bring the men home, but things did
not work out as expected. Neither
Russia nor Yugoslavia have ratified
the treaties.
The lack of ratification in itself
did not interfere with our plans to
get the military out of Italy, but
some other things did. Reports from
American intelligence officers—
which were not only confirmed but
amplified by Italian authorities—
showed that the Italian Commu
nists were only waiting for the
Americans to leave before putting
their plans into effect.
Togliatti Is Leader.
The over-all direction of Commu
nists in Italy is in the hands of
Palmiro Togliatti, former promi
nent member of the Comintern who
was flown to Italy by the Russians
soon after the surrender. The mili
tary organization, numbering some
40,000 men, is in the hands of Luigi
Longo, an expert in guerrilla war
fare and a former leader of a
group in the International Brigade.
Prom data provided to us by the
Italian government and obtained
from the investigations of Ameri
can intelligence officers, it appears
that the Communists intend to
start an insurrection immediately
after our soldiers are withdrawn
from Venezia Giulia. They expect
ed it to be sometime this year.
This decision was reached last
Anril during conversations between
Togliatti and his former Comintern
colleague, Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia.
Preparations are complete for the
creation of a Communist wedge
along the Adriatic coast from Ra
venna toward Chioggia. In order
to prevent any surprise by Ameri
can forces based in Leghorn, the
Communists intend to establish
advanced points on the Parma
Modena-Bologna line. The task as
signed the Italian partisans In this
area is to blow up bridges and rail
ways and ambush isolated outposts.
The guerrilla tactics employed in
Spain—and later in Northern
Greece—are to be adopted in
Northern Italy, too.
The movement, according to
American information, will have
to be preceded by the massacre
of all unreliable—from the Commu
nist standpoint—characters in key
positions in that section of the
country. Special murder squads
known as the “Gappistl ’ have been
assigned that job.
Groups Well Armed.
The Italian Communist military
organizations are well armed.
Heavy armament is cached away
in stone buildings carefully guard
ed by Gappisti. Light armament is
entrusted to the individual mem
bers and is kept by them.
The strictest discipline prevails
in the Communist units and the
slightest breach is severely pun
ished. The leaders of the more
than 200 groups are reliable former
Italian officers who joined the
Communist ranks in discontent over
food supplies and unemployment.
Some former generals are among
them and these have been prom
ised fat jobs as soon as the revo
lution has succeeded. They are
competent enough to lead the Com
munist army into action against
the weak government forces.
The specific strategy of the Com
munist military group is directed
by Russian officers who belong to
the Soviet repatriation service and
are stationed at Salsomaggiore. To
these advisers must be added a
number of Yugoslavs, handpicked
and sent by Tito as members of
various trade commissions or as
commercial travelers.
The date for the outbreak has
not been set, but it is believed that
it will have to coincide with the
outbreak of some "signiflcent in
ternational incident,” such as might
occur in Greece in the next few
weeks. Italy then will be in a worse
position than Greece, because her
application for U.N. membership
was vetoed by Russia. Any U.N.
action in her case would have to
be initiated by her friends in U.N.
Policy-framers in Washington
vaguely hope that the presence of
American forces on Italian territory
will act as a deterrent to the plans
Moscow has laid down for Italy.
'On the Other Hand’
Something About the Man Who
Will Soon Take Up Dewey Trail
By Lowell Mellett
What sort of person will the peo
ple of the West meet when Robert
Alphonso Taft gives up vacationing
on Murray Bay and takes to the
Dewey trail? «
| For one thing
they will meet a
, very durable
person. The
Ohio Senator
has proved that
in the course of
the first session
of the present
C“ongress. He
: has not fallen
apart, as many
critics confi
dently predicted
he would do
when he reached
out and took Lowelt Mellett.
command back in January. He Is
still in one piece and still going
strong. If he was wearied at the
end of the session by the work he
had cpt out for himself, he gave
little evidence of it. On the face
of things, Mr. Taft carried a bigger
load than any other member of the
Senate,' but to all appearances he
came through in less need of a
rest than most of his colleagues.
Mr. Taft is a strong man physi
cally, strpnger than he looks. His
rounded figure is deceptive, unless
one also notes his erect carriage
nnri sniiflrprf shmildprn anri thp fart
that he always seems alert without
making any effort to be. Fifteen
minutes of setting-up exercises each
morning on arising—invariably at
7 a.m.—may contribute to this ob
vioui physical well-being. An aver
age week also includes Saturday
afternoon and Sunday morning golf,
The golf is good week-end ^golfing,
scoring usually in the low eighties.
An imperturbable disposition helps
to keep his score down. Not many
statesmen could fall over a dog in
a sand trap, get up and finish the
hole as though nothing had hap
pened. Mr. Taft did this before a
large crowd that had come out to
see him, Bobby Jones, Bing Crosby
and other notables play.
Fitted to Carry Load.
A day in the life of this man who
aspires to the back-breaking job of
the presidency may indicate how
well fitted he is to carry the load.
Following the setting-up exercises
and an unhurried breakfast, he
reaches his office at 8:30 a.m. Half
an hour is spent reading mail and
another half hour dictating letters
and still another half hour seeing
people. Most mornings from 10 un
til noon are spent in committee
meetings, Labor and Public Welfare,
of which he is chairman; Finance
Committee, of which he is ranking
member; Joint Committee on the
Economic Report, of which he is
chairman, and occasionally, when
the party line needs clarifying, the
Republican Policy Committee, of
nrViinh Ya a ie ehalvman
Most of the afternoon, with time
out for lunch during the first hour
of routine business, is likely to be
spent in the Senate chamber if an
issue of importance is on the cal
endar. That means he may be
on his feet much of the time, since
he is not inclined to sit silent during
a debate that interests him. He has
views on nearly all subjects and likes
to express them. Not in the least
oratorical, he just talks, and talk
ing doesn’t tire him. For that mat
ter, as uninspiring as his delivery is,
he seldom wearies his listeners.
The information and opinions he
pours out reveal the strength or
weakness of his group’s position as
no sheer eloquence could do.
“Sure of Himself.”
“Taft," said one of his close associ
ates, “knows more about more things
than any man in public life. He i
retains everything he ever learns
and it comes out easily, without
effort, when he wants to express
himself. He is completely sure of
himself on all matters and thinking
doesn’t tire him.”
This particular associate is also
an admirer. He wouldn’t say of Mr.
Taft what Clemeneeau Is alleged to
have said of Poincare—“He knows
everything ana unaersianas now
ing.” There are others In the Sen
ate, on the other side of the aisle,
who would say Just that. However,
that is beside the point here. The
point is that Mr. Taft will be able
to talk all the way to the coast and
back without wearing himself out.
When the President vetoed his
labor bill, Mr. Taft delivered a ma
jor speech on the subject in the
late afternoon. Leaving the floor
then he spent an hour preparing a
radio speech, but returned to the
floor debate, participating from time
to time. At 10 o’clock he went to
the Senate gallery and listened to
a radio speech by the President sup
porting the veto. He corrected his
own manuscript slightly in the light
of the President's remarks and went
on the air at 10:45 with his own 30
minute speech.
(To be continual.)
(Copyright, 1947, by Globe Syndicate.) j
Legion Departments
Slate 800 Resolutions
For Convention Vote
ly tht Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Eight
hundred or more resolutions, some
of them on veterans’ housing and j
immigration, are scheduled for con- j
sideration at the four-day national
convention of the American Legion,
beginning here Thursday.
Contents of the resolutions were
not available today. The Legion
in the past has advocated restricted
immigration, especially when United
States unemployment was high.
All the resolutions, drawn up by
58 departments of the Legion, will
be turned over to 15 convention
committees, according to plans.
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Thomas T. Mulligan ordered' the
city’s 19,000 police yesterday to ex
tend “every consideration and cour
tesy” to the Legion members and
guests, who are expected to number
in the hundreds of thousands.
Mr. Mulligan said Legion visitors
taken into custody because of in
ability to take care of themselves
"and not in connection with the
commission of a crime” would be
turned over to the Legion’s Service
Committee for handling.
The police, Mr. Mulligan stressed,
must remember that “the conven
tion will be attended by persons
from every State, as well as from
other countries, who will be un
familiar with our traffic regula
tions."
Warnings will be given for lesser
traffic infractions. A summons will
not be served "except in the case of
a flagrant violation,” Mr. Mulligan
said.
More than 4,000 officers and
patrolmen were assigned for the
Legion parade on Saturday, and j
1,783 for th* parade of the 40 and 8
organization on Thursday night.
Mr. Mulligan estimated 65,000 per
sons would participate in the line
of march Saturday. He said the;
noraHa nn PMfth avprm* wnulrl last.!
for 13 Vt hours.
Mr. Mulligan ordered that any
person found with a small cannon
in his possession be seised, the can
non confiscated and the possessor’s ■
name and address taken. In past
years. 40 and 8 parades have been
accompanied by the boom of can
nons and rattle of firecrackers.
Britain, France to Sign
Pact for Film Exchange
ly the Astwlattd Pr«»
PARIS. Aug. 33.—The French film
trade weekly Le Film Francais said
today an agreement would be con-;
;luded soon regarding the exchange
of films between France and Great
Britain.
Following the 75 per cent tax on
imported films decreed by the Bru
sh government, the French customs
iad blocked all films and film pred
icts imported from Britain during
he last eight days.
Britain Serves Notice
i -
Of Action to Continue
Preferences in Trade
By tha Associated Press
GENEVA, Aug. 23. —Britain
served notice today that she
would use escape clauses in the
newly adopted charter of the
proposed International Trade
Organization, in order to permit
continued preferential trade ar
rangements with nations of the
British Commonwealth.
The American delegation to the
conference has attemptea to con
clude here an agreement for the
reduction and gradual elimination of
the preferential trade arrangements.
J. Harold Wilson, British gecre
retary for Overseas Trade, address
ing a plenary meeting, referred to
Britain’s balance of payment diffi
culties and added:
“The methods we may have to
use in the intervening months and
years may appear to be opposed to
the principles and methods of the
draft charter.”
Pact Goes to Havana Parley.
The draft was adopted yester
day in a unanimous action by the
17 nations represented here. It
now goes before the World Trade
Conference at Havana, Cuba, in
November, for final action.
Mr. Wilson said Britain, in her
own case “shall find it necessary
and desirable to have even closer
co-operation with the other coun
tries of the commonwealth”
“It is of the utmost importance
that we should not bring discredit
on the fundamental principles of
nondiscriminatory multilateral trad
ing by attempting to move too far
and too fast in this difficult period,
when many conditions essential for
such a system have not yet been
rpalizpH ” Mr Wiljsnn saiH
Disillusionment Feared.
Clair Wilcox, American represen
tative, said earlier that unless the
17 nations here concluded a strong
agreement covering bilateral tar
iffs, the World Trade Conference at
Havana would “convene in an at
mosphere of cynicism and disillu
sionment."
He told the International Trade
Conference that some 57 nations
probably would be represented at
the world conference in Havana.
If the tariff pact under negotia
tion in Geneva “is a strong agree
ment, success at Havana will be
virtually assured, and the world will
be able to face the futrjre with a
new hope,” the American negotiator
said.
Mr. Wilcojc, vice chairman of the
delegation headed by American
Undersecretary of State Clayton,
spoke a day after delegates from
17 nations adopted the charter for
the proposed International Trade
Organization.
Compromise Not Yet Found.
The tariff negotiations, which
were carried on simultaneously
with discussions of the charter,
have been delayed principally be
cause the United States and Aus
tralia could not find a compromise
between Australia's demand for
wool tariff reduction and Ameri
can demands for tariff cuts on proc
essed and manufactured products
exported to Australia and other
countries in the British Empire
preferential system.
Mr. Wilcox said the delay was
“a disappointment” but “with real
determination, we should be able to
complete our task in the next
month or six weeks.
“More time is required. The
United States, for one, is prepared
to give it.”
Quoddy Refugee Plan
Meeting Postponed
By the Associated Press
EASTPORT, Me., Aug. 23.—A
Washington conference scheduled
for Monday to consider a plan to
convert the abandoned Passama
quoddy tidal power project into a
training school for displaced per
night.
Mr. Colwell said a telegram ad
vising him of the postponement did
not say when the meeting would be
held.
Under the training plan, devised
in the office of Senator Brewster,
Republican, of Maine, the city
would acquire “Quoddy" village from
the War Asets Administration and
turn it over to a nonprofit syndicate
headed by Prank Cohen, New York
and Philadelphia tractor manufac
turer.
The syndicate would train dis
placed persons about six months in
technical trades, languages and
homemaking skills and send them
to Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil
to make permanent homes.
Senator Brewster said Mr. Cohen’s
proposed agreement with the city
was fnr #»stahlishmf*nt nf a trn.ftt.ftr
assembly plant to employ between
400 and 1,000 permanent workers.'
The WAA, Senator Brewster’s of
fice said, had placed a “fair value"
of (396,055 on the 232-acre village
of more than 250 dwellings and in
dustrial buildings on which the
Government spent (7,000,000 in the
1930’s.
Mr. Colwell and Oscar H. Brown,
City Council president, said the
metal and cement industrial build
ings were in “gocd" condition and
the dwellings in “fair” condition.
The structures were kept up by
the National Youth Administra
tion and the Seabees, who occupied
them after the tidewater project
was dropped.
Steerage Mortality Heavy
Some early sailing ships carry
ing immigrants to the United States
booked twice as many steerage
passengers as the American law
allowed, the captains counting on
the certainty that many passengers
would die on the arduous Atlantic
trip..
Mississippians Pay
Final Honors Today
To Senator Bilbo
ly th« Associated Press
POPLARyiLLE, Miss., Aug. 23.—
Mississippians paid their last re
spects today to Senator Theodore G.
Bilbo, the man to whom in life they
had given more high elective offices
than to any other. •
Among them were many promi
nent in the State’s political life, but
with them were also many of the
people who had cast the votes which
had so often given “The Man” vic
tory at the polls—the farmers and
merchants of small towns over the
State.
His body, which iay in state last
night in the “dream house” he had
built for his declining years, was
moved this morning to the church
which he had fostered.
Funeral services were to be at 2
pan. today in the Juniper Grove
Baptist Church.
Mausoleum to Be Constructed.
The Rev. D. W. Nix, former pas
tor of the church, chose for his
sermon the text, "I have fought
the good fight; I have finished my
course; I have kept the faith.”
Senator Bilbo will be laid to rest
in a temporary vault pending con
struction of a mausoleum behind
the church.
His body was brought from New
Orleans, where he died Thursday,
and lay in state yesterday afternoon
and last night at the “dream house.”
Accompaning the body were a
highway patrol escort, an honor
guard of National Guardsmen, and
the Senator’s son and daughter,
Lt. Col. Theo G. Bilbo, Jr., and Miss
Jessie Bilbo. The Senator’s sole
surviving brother, John Bilbo, ar
rived shortly afterward.
■ Congress Delegation Named.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
of Michigan, presiding officer of the
Senate, authorized appointment of
a funeral delegation in a cable mes
sage from Rio de Janeiro where he
is attending the Inter-Amerlcafi
Conference.
The Senators appointed are East
land, Democrat, of Mississippi; Mc
Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee;
Hill, Democrat, of Alabama; Over
ton, Democrat, of Alabama; Rus
sell, Democrat, of Georgia, and
Johnston, Democrat, of South Caro
lina.
The seven Mississippi House
members, headed by the dean of the
delegation, Representative Rankin,
Democrat, were appointed to repre
sent that body.
Uncertainty still remained as to
the disposition which will be made
of the Senator’s properties—the
“dream house” with its unfinished
swimming pool, its broad yards with
their peacocks and guineas, “dream
hous* junior” and its uncompleted
lake, and his pecan groves and
■broad acres.
TrumaiT Sends Telegram.
Those close to him said it was not
known whether he had left a will.
Senator Bilbo’s home was flooded
with telegrams of condolences from
throughout the Nation. One of the
first to arrive was from President
Truman, addressed to the Senator’s
son and daughter.
It read: "I have learned with re
gret of the sorrow that has come
to you in the death of your father,
who was my colleague in the Senate
for 10 years and a faithful friend
always. To you and to all who
mourn with you I offer this assur
ance of heartfelt sympathy.”
Chips Down in Europe
Politics, Royall Says
By th» Associated Press
RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 23.—The
chips are down in the "world-wide
political game in occupied Europe,
in the opinion of Secretary of War
Royall, and "food and clothing are
the initial plays.”
Expressing his views in a speech
before the North American 4-H
Council in this capital city of his
home State last night, Mr. Royall
asserted:
"The world has become so small
that we can be reasonably certain
that in the long run—and perhaps
in the short run—such system of
government will prevail as will fur
nish its people the best standard
of living and the highest scale of
life."
In order to survive, Mr. Royall
added, "democracies must show that
they can serve their people better
than any other form of govern
ment, we have demonstrated this
here in the United States. It can
be demonstrated elsewhere in the
world.”
Mr. Royall said if the Amerlcan
British rone of Germany does not
prove the success of democracy, "the
failure will be considered by the
wnrlH nnr failure ”
Signal Corps Appeals
For 100 Reserve Officers
By the Associated Press
The Army yesterday appealed for
100 Signal Corps officers on reserve
to volunteer for active duty for an
indefinite period or for two years.
The need arises because of a large
number of wartime Signal Corps of
ficers have returned to civilian life,
creating a shortage of officers skilled
in the communications field and fa
miliar with photographic produc
tion.
Gen. Lemnitzer Named
To War College Post
ly the Atiociettd Srm
Maj. Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
who since November, 1945, has been
the Army member of the Joint)
Chiefs of Stall’s Strategic Survey
Committee, will be the new deputy
commander of the National War
College, the War Department an
nounced today.
Gen. Lemnitzer, born in Hones
dale, Pa., succeeds Maj. Gen. Alfred
M. Gruenther, who will be assigned
to the office of Gen. Elsenhower.
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Miss Truman Shows Confidence
As She Nears Concert Debut
ly tht Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23.—Mar
garet Truman, the President’s
daughter, expressed confidence as
she prepared to make her concert
debut tonight as soprano soloist be
fore at least 15,000 persons In Holly
wood Bowl.
’’I actually think this performance
is going to be harder on my family
and friends than on me,” the young
blond singer said. She expressed
disappointment that the President
and Mrs. Truman will be unable to
be in the audience.
“Ive worked hard preparing for
this and I’m confident,” Miss Tin
man explained. “But all mother and
dad can do is sit back and wait for
the reports.”
The concert will not be broadcast.
Earlier this year Miss Truman
made her professional bow as soloist
with the Detroit Symphony Orches
tra on a nationwide radio program.
The Hollywood Bowl officials re
ported advance sales have been
“good and lively with at least 15,000
seats sold.” The vast amphitheater
has a capacity of 20,000 which may
be reached tonight “if it's a good
warm night and the door sale is
bi»sk.”
Appearing with the Hollywood
Bowl Symphony under direction of
Eugene Ormandy, Miss Truman will
first offer two operatic arias, “Voi
Che Sapate” from Mozart’s “Mar
riage of Figaro” in Italian, and “La
Sauvette” from Gretry’s “Zemire et
Azor" in French.
She will follow these with a group
of songs in English: Haydn’s “My
Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair,”
“The Little Shepherd’s Song” by i
Watts, and “My Hero" from “The
Chocolate Soldier” by Oscar Straus.
Miss Truman was scheduled to
spend most of the day until the eve
ning performance "just taking it
easy” at her Beverly Hills hotel. A
light morning rehearsal—a last
once-over lightly—then a quiet aft
ernoon of rest and relaxation before
the “big moment” is the program
for the girl from Independence, Mo.,
who aspires to the operatic stage.
English Gets 2 to 6 Years
For Breaking Into Store
Thomas H. English, 34, of the
800 block of Tenth street N.W.,
yesterday was sentenced by Justice
Richmond B. Keech of District
Court to serve from two to six years
for breaking into a grocery store
in the 1100 block of Eleventh street
N.W. last September.
English had pleaded guilty to the
charge in July, after having received
six postponements of trial. He and
two companions were surprised by
police and arrested in the store.
The other two previously had been
sentenced after entering guilty
pleas.
English is a former member of the
old "Blackface Gang” which used
burnt cork to blacken their faces.
He reported he was fired on by an
unidentified assailant as he was
leaving his home last June 3.
In another sentence yesterday,
Justice Keech gave Thurman R.
Smith, 23, from six months to two
years on a charge of transporting
a 24-year-old woman from Evans
ville, Ind., to the District, in viol
ation of the White Slave Traffic
Act. Smith, who formerly lived in
the 1600 block of Eighteenth street
N.W., had waived indictment and
pleaded guilty to information cover
ing the charge.
U. S. Army Deserter
Jailed in Belgium '
Belgian police thought they had
another John Dilllnger on their
hands when they last captured
Johnny Sells, who deserted from the
American Army during the final
German offensive.
Later arrested for murder and
armed robbery, he was imprisoned
in Liege citadel, but escaped and hid
in Brussels. Recaptured after fur
ther robberies, he escaped again and
was at large for months.
At Namur, in company with a
woman, he hired a taxi, then robbed
the driver and drove off with the
cab. When he finally came face to
face with two policemen in Brus
sels one evening, he dashed into a
movie theater, where he eventually
was caught, after injuring two po
licemen. At last reports he was
still in jail.
Pacific Island Fishing
Customs Described
Curious customs among the is
landers of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga
were related in Auckland, New Zea
'and, by the Irish author, R. J. Gib
bins, on his recent return from 18
months spent In the Polynesian
group.
Shark Ashing with garlands of
coconut shell to attract sharks and :
rope nooses to drop over their heads
was a Tonga custom. In Samoa 1
he went Ashing for octopi with a
lure of bits of cowrie shell lashed
together to look like a rat, tradi
tional enemy of the octopus.
He saw many kinds of dancing— 1
the siva in Samoa, the hula in Ta- 1
hiti and the hula in Manihiki, '•
where the dancing was opeijed and 1
closed with prayer and hymn sing- ,
ing. While Europeans thought ■
these dances improper, to a native
they were ritualistic gayety, he said, j
Merchants Save Drivers
From Parking Tickets
ly tht Associated Pros *
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-It was ]
almost impossible to get a ticket for
parking along this resort's main
street recently.
About 250 merchants—all members
of the local lodge of Elks—checked
parking meters outside their estab
lishments and deposited nickels
where they were needed. A blue
sign was placed on windshields read
ing: ! i
"Your time was ui>—the flag <
shStoed red. It was our privilege to
save you a parking fine by putting a ^
nickel in the meter.”
On the opposite side of the card
was another message saying the
Betty Bacharach Home for crippled
children at nearby Longport "needs
the help of every one.”
Princess Radziwill Dies
In Monaco at Age of 60
By the Associated Press
CANNES. Prance. Aug. 23.—
Prrincess Leon Radziwill, 60, died
in Monaco today after many years’
residence in the south of Prance.
Born Baroness Olga Slmclin
Weterg, she becami one of the
world’s wealthiest women after her
marriage to Prince Radziwill of
Niewiez.
Incompetence Charged
In War Crimes Trials
8y tho Associated Press
OMAHA, Aug. 23.—Jay P. Gibbs,
Omaha attorney who resigned re
cently as a war crimes prosecutor
in Japan, says hundreds of thou
sands of dollars are being wasted by
confusion, incompetence and delib
erate slowdowns in tha war crimes
trials.
“Seventy-five per cent of the law
yers' have never prepared a case,”
Mr. Gibbs told reporters yesterday.
"Most of them are former OPA
lawyers from Washington, where
they had been on Government pay
rolls for years. . ~
“There’s no question that some of
them deliberately slowed down their
work to prolong their $7,500 to $8,
500 a year jobs, when they couldn’t
make $100 a month in private prac
tice,” Mr. Gibbs said.
Mr. Gibbs said he would ask Sen
ators Butler and Wherry, Nebraska
Republicans, for a congressional in-;
vestigation of the trials, which he
said are in an “awful mess.” The
attorney said "they’ve got so many ’
incompetents fumbling and falling
over^ each other that practically
nothing’s getting done.”
Montgomery Woman Killed
In Tussle With Son-in-Law
Mrs. Maggie Davenport, colored,
57, was fatally shot early today
while struggling with her son-in
law, in their farm house on Good
Hope road about a mile from the
East Colesrille road, Montgomery
County, police reported.
Police said they were looking for
Jerry Kimble, colored, for question
ing in the case.
A double-barreled shotgun which
inflicted the wound also was miss
ing, p<mce said.
The woman was. pronounced dead
at Montgomery General Hospital in
Sandy Spring after she was brought
there by her daughter, Mrs. Minnie
Kimble.
Police were told that Mrs. Daven
port interceded in an argument be
tween Jerry Kimble and his wife.
The woman was said by police to
have been holding the gun when it
went off. The charge of shot struck
her in the right leg above the knee.
Midshipmen, Cadets End
Joint Maneuvers Today
ly the Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 23.—Oper
ition Camid II, a 10-day period of
imphibious warfare training for 780
nidshipmen and 600 cadets of the
second classes at Annapolis and
Vest Point, will be concluded to
lay after an amphibious assault at
Virginia Beach.
Rear Admiral R. O. Davis, com
nander, Amphibious Force, Atlan
ic Fleet, announced that should the
iurf at Virginia Beach be too high
o land men and equipment with
safety, the exercises will be held at
he Little Creek amphibious base.
The cadets Bnd midshipmen went
100 miles at sea yesterday on the
;rans porta New Kent and Noble, olj
*rving gunnery practice and simu
ated aerial and submarine attacks
in surface ships.
The cadets, reinforced by Marine
3orps demonstration teams, will
some ashore today in landing craft
iperated by the midshipmen and
egular Amphibious Force personnel.
Monstrosity Sundae
Lives Up to Its Name
ty th* Associated Press
CHICAGO.—Jerry Scheme!, pro
prietor of an ice cream fountain, so
ar has found no takers ih Chicago
jf his offer of "on the house" to
iny one who can down three of the
monstrosity sundaes” he serves.
The reason might possibly be
ound in the monstrosity Itself.
Weighing 2 pounds, it consists of
ix large scoops of ice cream, two ,
vhole bananas, t^o large cookies .
ind fresh fruit, tapped off with i
hocolate and marshmallow sirup,
wo inches of whipped cream, a
tandful of chopped nuts and two
arge maraschino cherries.
Only 35 persons have been able
o eat two of the 60-cent sundaes,
ilthough the second is "on the
louse” if the customer can eat it all.
Ar. Schemel said "hundreds” have
ried to eat three, but he cannot fln
sh even one.
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The Dominican Republic is in
reasing its shipments of coffee to 1
he United States.
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Lilienthal Named Head
Of Chest Drive for
Atomic Commission
David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission, has
been named director of the Com
munity Chest campaigners in hia
organization, it
was announced
today.
The commis
sion is part of
the Government
unit of the
Chest cam
paign, which
opens November
12. Mr. Lilien
thal was ap
pointed by W.
John Kenney,
Assistant Secre
t a r y #of the
Navy, who is
chairman of the Mr. Lilienthal.
Government unit.
The Chest Federation yesterday
announced division of the total
campaign goal of $3,900,000 in the
National Capital Area among nine
soliciting groups.
The quotas are tentatively agreed
on as follows: Business Unit I,
51,450,000:. Business Unit II, $200,
300; Government Unit, $1,357,800;
Residential Unit, $570,000; Alexan
dria Unit, $58,000; Arlington County
Unit, $53,000; Fairfax County Unit,
“43,200; Montgomery County Unit,
5124,000, and Prince Georges County
Unit, $44,000.
Campaign Chairman Edward H.
Foley, jr., pointed out that the total
cf the suburban areas' quotas, $322.
200, is being raised among county
businessmen and their employes as
well as suburban residents. County
residents employed in Washington,
however, will be asked to contribute
through their offices.
Mrs. Roosevelt Won't Take
Farm Left by Minister
By th* Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Mrs. Elea
nor Roosevelt, explaining she doubts
she “could possibly make a wise
choice” as to disposition of the prop
srty, says she will not accept the.
150-acre Tennessee farm left her ,
by the Rev. A. B. Starnes.
Mrs. Roosevelt, writing in her col
umn distributed by United Features
Syndicate, said yesterday she had
received many suggestions as to pos
sible use of the farm, and remarked,
“I never realized before how many
people had plans into which a farm
in the Tennessee mountains would
fit.”
She said the lawyer for the estate,
which includes the farm and an
adjoining church and graveyard,
had notified her the property had a
value of less than $10,000.
Mr. Starnes, who died early this
month in Fredericksburg, Va., di
rected that Mrs. Roosevelt maintain
the property in good condition, erect
a monument to him on it to cost no
more than $2,000 and permit hi3
niece, Mrs Paul Jpnes of Fredericks
burg, to live on the farm during her
lifetime. .
NAM Head 5ays U A Holds
Keys to World Progress
By the Associated Press
ROANOKE, Va„ Aug, 23.—If the
“threat of everlasting serfdom is to
be wiped off the earth,” the United
States must do it in the present
world-wide struggle for freedom,
Earl Bundting, president of the
National Association of Manufac
turers, asserted.
Mr. Bunting, addressing the an
nual meeting of the Southern
Hosiery Manufacturers Association
yesterday, declared that modem
American machinery, productive
equipment and capital “are the keys
to the dynamic progress we have
made and must continue to make.”
The NAM president added that
"we have barely scratched the sur
face of what Americans can do in
leading the world to victory over
the pinch of hunger, the nightmare
of insecurity, and the dead hand
of medieval dictatorship.”
Of Nebraska’s 77,520 square miles
about 712 square miles are water
surface.
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