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Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-07-15

to remove her. They were forbid
den to do so by the physician in
attendance because OF the delicate
condition OF her health
Disgruntled at this turn of af-
/ fairs. they took quarters in front
of the house, expecting the birth OF
the child at any moment. In the
meantime, the nwes had spread
telling OF the plight OF the fugitive
Three men. George DeBaptiste,
colored. George Soerrl, colored
| and Seymour Finney. white slipped
covered wagon 10 the rear OF the
house. assisted the expectant
mother into II. and started for the
Detroit river. They reached the
river I'm safety and chartered an
old scow. filled IL with hay. and
proceeded TO tenderly assist Louise
into ii. Just as she was being low
cred into the scow. her third child
came into this world.
The man pushed off from Ameri-
can soil. just as the master and
sheriff arrived on the banks of the
river The mother and child were
landed safely on the Canadian side.
and were Immediately taken care
OF by members OF the Presbyterian
Church. Money was collected and
used for the comfort of the mother
and her little one. and to guard
against their being kidnapped.
Three weeks later both were
sent to Chatham. Ontario. where
they met the other two children.
who had been safely piloted to
freedom by the brother of Louise.
In the meantime. things had not
gone so well with the husband and
father. lie was thrown into Jail
and beaten unfercifully, to make
him reveal the name of the man
who had written the pass for his
wife. He refused to reveal the
name of his friend. and. although
his punishment was great, the
compensation was greater He not
only retained his own self respect,
but won the respect of his prose-
cutors.
After his wounds had healed,
and his strength had returned,
Elijah set about planning an es-
cape from prison. He longed to see
his wife and children, and to be
free himself This desire for liber-
~ became an obsession, and culmi-
mated in his successful escape
from bondage A week later he
Joined HIS loved ones at Chatham,
Ontario. IL was there for the first
time that he looked upon the face
of, his new born child. Robert
Johnson Willis.
Many of Americas greatest men
have been born in humble cir
cumstances; many of them can
boast OF courageous parents; but
none of them can claim more
dramatic setting at the time OF
birth. nor greater deeds of brav-
cry for both parents than X.
Willis, OF Detroit. Michigan.
The three heroes who assisted
Louise to escape the jaws OF slav-
cry have long since passed away
along with the parents of Robert
j., but the memory OF them will
always remain with him. In the
evening OF life George Soerrl was
taken care of by him and was
buried from his home. Seymour
Finney spent his life helping the
poor colored people and his son
Jared Finney. United States Com
missioner Emeritus. is still living
at a ripe old age In the city OF De-
troit. George DeBaptiste was al
ways active in the civic life OF the
community and lived to see the
dawn OF the era OF good feeling be-
tween masters and former slaves.
ITO BE Continued Next week.
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-07-15
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Evening star., 1933-02-19
AWARDING OF PRIZES
CLOSES FOOD SHOW
President Kraft Says Exposition
Was More Successful Than
Initial Venture.

The second annual United Food
Stores Exposition concluded in the
Washington Auditorium last night with
the award of 1893 automobile to
Basen B. Allison, 20, Of 6218 Third
street
Other prizes awarded at the closing
session, which was attended by throng
of several thousand visitors, included an
electric washing machine, presented to
Mrs. Elmer Newman of $50 Shepherd
street; a 106-piece dinner set, awarded
to o. F. Gray of 900 K street south
east. and an electric vacuum cleaner,
given to Mrs. John Gordon of 1852
Twenty-first street.
In addition. the food show sponsors
gave away several score bags of food
and samples, virtually cleaning out the
food show stock room before closing
time
Morris L. Kraft, president OF the food
stores group, said the show was even
more successful than the initial venture
by the United Food Stores last year,
and the group contemplated perpetual
ing the event.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
OKLAHOMA FARMERS
SORRY FOR "HASTE"
Land of 72-Year-0ld Pioneer Not
Bid in for Less Than Mort
gage and Taxes.

BY the Associated Press.
ENID, Okla, February 1s-After
gathering at the county building to
prevent farm foreclosure sale. about
200 farmers announced today. through
q committee, I'VE are sorry we acted so
hastily" and allowed the sale to pro-
ceed.
The committeeman said they IN
formed the other farmers not to halt
the sale when they learned the In
surance company holding the mortgage
did not intend to bid in the land for
less than the amount of the mortgage
and taxes.
Their only desire, they said, was to
prevent a deficiency Judgment against
M. E. Hildebrand, 72-year-old pioneer,
who owned the farm
AT meeting in school house last
night, farmers declared they intended
to prevent the sale. even if they had
to escort out of town the undersheriff
and the attorney who was to do the
bidding
The mortgage was for $4,000, with
interest and taxes a total of $4,000.
The Travellers Insurance Co. of Hart
ford. Conn. holder of the mortgage,
bid in the land.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
PUBLIC FEAR SUBSIDING.
Roosevelt a Bit Irritated at Immense
Protection.

NEW YORK, February 18 IP).-
There were slight signs Of irritation
today on the part of President-elect
Roosevelt at the immense protection
placed about him.
AS the excitement Of the incident
created by Giuseppe Zangara at Miami
Wednesday night died down there were
signs of a lessening of the tension.
Mounted and foot police stood about
East Sixty-fifth street, but every one
was beginning to realize Zangara's esca-
pade was the work of one man and
public fear for Roosevelt appeared to
be subsiding
Meantime, it was business as usual
with Roosevelt. He went ahead with
the daily routine and kept an engage
ment tonight to attend the dinner Of
the Inner Circle, a newspaper organiza-
ton, at the Hotel Astor. Tomorrow he
will have luncheon with his mother,
Mrs. James Roosevelt, sr,, who resides
next door
Monday night he will attend another
dinner here and then depart for the
Hyde Park home, where he will remain
until leaving for Inauguration at Wash
ington. He will go to Albany late next
week to attend dinner Of the Albany
correspondents
Evening star., 1933-02-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 18-One Of
the youngest Governors in the country,
David Sholtz of Florida, came to New
York today brimming with depression
cures" and optimism.
He brought forth homestead plan
he estimated would give 10000 families
a new start in life He said that it
had impressed President-elect Roose-
velt and that other States might be
urged to follow it.
He invited the youth of the Nation
to let Florida help them solve their per-
sonal problems.
He pictured his own State leading
the rest of the Nation back to normal
times.
A short, dynamic man Of Al, he paced
the floor for an hour while he outlined
with vigor his various ideas.
I'VE have millions of acres of good
undeveloped land" he said. I'm fact,
Florida is the last remaining frontier
State.
II believe that If we can attract
hardworking, experienced farmers to
Florida they will produce and consume
more than the Winter visitors, who are
becoming scarcer.
MY idea is to follow in general the
policy of the United States Government
in opening up vast tracts of land to
settlers in the Western and South
western States.
The colonist will be required to live
for part of the time on the State
land we select and at the expiration of
certain period to present evidence of
having made certain improvements. If
his record is satisfactory the State will
pass to him the title to the land.
I'VE want the new settlers to become
permanent residents. and to attain this
Evening star., 1933-02-19
YOUNG FLORIDA GOVERNOR BARES
HOMESTEAD PLANS FOR JOBLESS
State Land Program for 10000 Families Impressed
Roosevelt, He Says.

they must be successful from the start
We do not want the prospect of free
land to attract men Of the white
collar class. retired sea captains and
livery stable keepers, bankrupt mer-
chants and bankers and men from SINH
lar walks of life We prefer only plain
and fancy farmers who know that hard
work IS the only thing that will pro-
duce paying crops"
But at the same time the Governor
had praise for youth.
Florida IS the land for the young
man. We don't offer jobs. But We
offer plenty Of opportunity for live
young fellows. l know. I went to
Florida as young man myself"
He laughingly confessed that, al
though he has won the highest honor
a State can bestow. he actually is a
native of dear old Brooklyn" New
York City's most populouS borough.
boy" he said with a chuckle, then
added quickly:
But Of course Brooklyn was rather
rural in those days"
He calls himself the first Northerner
ever elected Governor of Florida
He said Florida was leading the Ma
ton in no longer treating the Federal
Government as if it were Santa Claus
and the Red Cross combined"
We take the position State ought
to stand on its own feet and not lean
on the Federal Government. We're
saying to the Federal Government that
were going to cut out gradually this
business of matching funds, with the
State agreeing to build some building
Tor which it has no Use just because
Federal m Y1I1f
up half the money.
That is just one way Florida is
leading the Nation back to normal
times
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Award of Congress
Asked for Woman
Saving Roosevelt
Florida Representative
Urges Medal for Mrs.
W. J. Cross.
BY the Associated Pres:

BY the Associated Press.
A Congressional Medal for the wom-
an credited with saving the life of
President-elect Roosevelt by making the
first bullet from the pistol of Giuseppe
zangara go astray was proposed yes
terday in the House
Representative Green. Democrat, of
Florida, said that when Mrs. w. j.
Cross of Miami pushed zangara's arm
and made him miss his target, she
did an unquestionably heroic act"
She should have and she will have,
a Congressional Medal of Honor" he
said.
MIAMI, Fla, February 18 P).-
Mrs. w. l. Cross said tonight she did
not think she did anything for every
body to get excited about" when told
that Representative Green of Florida
had proposed that she be awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor for strik-
ing Giuseppe Zangara's arm when he
attempted to assaSsinate President
elect Roosevelt here Wednesday night.
"Of course. would be very happy
to receive the medal" she said. When
was girl practiced pistol shooting,
and when that man started shooting,
I just reached over and struck his arm
into the air without really thinking
about what I was doing"
Persons at the scene said her act
probably saved the President t-elect from
being struck by Zangara's bullets.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
MUENSTER PRESIDENT QUITS.
Refuses to Execute Hitler Ban on
Catholic Papers.

MUENSTER, Germany, February 18
P).-Rather than execute orders of the
Hitler government to suppress Catholic
newspapers, Provincial President Gro
nowsky OF the Muenster district handed
In his resignation today. Herr Gronow-
SKY had asked Herman Georing. min
ister without portfolio, to raise the ban
against the organs of the Catholic Gen.
ter party, but Minister Of Interior Will
helm Frick refused.
The newspaper Germania, leading
organ Of the Catholic Center party,
was suspended today for a three-day
period because 1t printed an appeal to
Catholic organizations "to fight Boil
shevism, whether from the left or
right
The Deutshe Allegemeine Eitung, an
Industrialist paper, said this action
would be followed by suspension of all
the 800 dailies in the Centrist Press.
In additk to the ban on the Ger
mania, dozens of Centrist papers were
suspended throughout the Catholic
Rhineland today. Socialist and Com
munist publications in Giessen, Nurem-
berg, Heidelberg, Rastatt, Pforzheim
and constance were suspended for
periods up to four weeks,
Evening star., 1933-02-19
PERIL
DUETS POLITICIANS
Partisan Strife Disappears
as Capital Recognizes
Danger Signals.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The effort to assessinate the man who
in fortnight will be inaugurated Pres
ident of the United States has pro-
duced a strange psychological reaction
IN Washington. where partisan strife is
| normal and non-partisan support of the
Chief Executive is all too rare.
Overnight the feeling of partisanship
here seems to have given way to a de-
, sire to ward off the ill-effects of one
| crisis after another which have been
giving the Nation case of nerves. The
mere thought that a Presidents life Is
endangered is enough to give business
and finance moments of great uneaSi-
ness.
1t Is, therefore, significant that the
sentiment Of get-behind-the-P President
is rising rapidly, and it would not be
surprising If Mr.. Roosevelt entered the
White House with a country united as
strongly in support of him as President
Wilson had in April, 1917, within a
month after his second Inauguration.
Situation Recognized
Rumors of violence toward constituted
authority have from time to time in
troduced undercurrents of apprehension.
1t has been recognized that in troublouS
times fanatics and anarchists might
seek to harm public officials Some of
our parlor radicals have poked their
jibeS at President Hoover when, at tense
moments, White House gates have been
! locked. The secrets of plots and coun-
President gets threatening letters and
only the investigating officers ever
know which ones might have been seri-
ouS
While Mr. Roosevelt was unharmed,
the greatest sympathy seems to have
developed for him. 1t has made people
realize the dangers facing him as he
takes up burdens even greater than
those carried by the man now in the
White House.
The attack on Mr.. Roosevelt is at
tributable to a demented mind, but 1t
is nevertheless characteristic of such
periods Of widespread discomfort as the
present. Other rulers have suffered the
same hazards
Wins Admiration.
The new President will start with a
Nationwide support unparalleled in re-
cent years. His personal behavior at a
critical moment has won the admiration
of many who had no particular fond
ness for him politically. Popularity is a
great asset in public office, and not
since the days OF Mr.. Roosevelt's k-ns-
man, "T. r. has there Deen any one
in the Executive Mansion here who has
really won the affection of all the
people.
This may seem Of incidental inpor-
tance, but it has bearing on the power
of leadership of President in a ma
tional emergency. To that extent the
Miami tragedy has left an imprint OF
sad and sobered responsibility, with the
chief figure in the episode endeared In
the hearts of his countrymen.
(Copyripht, 1881
Evening star., 1933-02-19
HALT MANEUVERS
OF RE|CHSBANNER
Berlin Authorities Refuse
Permit to Use TegeI Mu-
niCipaI Field.
BY the Associated Press.


BERLIN February 18-Authorities
today upset the plans of leaders of the
Reichsbanner organization, which is
holding its convention here, by refus-
ing to permit the Republicans to use
the municipal field in the suburb OF
Tegel for maneuvers Sunday. Twenty
five thousand uniformed men were to
have participated.
The military exhibition, with a re-
view before Karl Hoeltermann, who
was reelected leader, was to have cli-
NAKED the convention. The program
now is restricted to a big demonstra-
ton IN the Lustgarten tomorrow after
noon at which Herr Hoeltermann will
speak.
Herr Hoeltermann today said that In
the immediate future a militant Re-
publican army" would be devoted to
preparations for a regenerate republic
Alter Hitler comes our turn" he
said.
He assailed Hitlerism, asserting
those powers now constituting the
government split asunder the German
nation by abusing the freedom per-
mitted in democracy"
President Hindenburg, according to
Hoeltermann, was not only elected by
votes, but by the hard earned pennies
of the working class"
Condemning "clasS rule from above ~
he asserted Bolshevism and Fascism
were identical in the desire to rule
despotically.
What Germany needs is better
wages, not moratoriums, said Hoelter-
mann. THE peasantry is in distress
because the buying power of the labor
ing class has been annihilated."
A brief period of silence at the meet
ing commemorated 65 politically slain
Reichsbannermen.
Leading members of the Social
Democratic party, trade unions and
other labor organizations made
speeches pledging their cooperation.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
PLAN URGING PUPILS
DENTAL WORK DRAWN
East Silver Spring School PIT. A.
to Get Proposal at Meeting
Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, February 18.-A
plan to encourage the children OF the
East Silver Spring School to have nee
essary dental work taken care of as
soon as possible will be presented to the
Parent Teacher Association at meet
ing Monday night, it was announced
Yesterday by the president, Mrs. Lloyd
Y. Beers, following a dental survey
made in the school by the State Health
Department.
The survey. which was made by DR..
r. c. Leonard, chief of the Bureau OF
Oral Hygiene, and by DR.. G. A. Lewis,
also a member of the State Department
of Health, showed that Of 408 children
$50 were found in need Of dental care
To stimulate interest in the repair work
the association is expected to offer a
prize to the room first reporting 100
per cent dental examination, which To-
cal dentists have agreed to make free
of charge.
A motion picture show, presenting
the life of the Eskimo, will be feature
of the meeting.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Pv the Associated Press.

BY tTlt HbSOtIdItu TItSb.
SPOKANE, Wash, February 18.-
Pale and a bit shaky from illness, Father
Bernard Hubbard, S. j., the glacier
priest" sat on the edge Of a hospital
bed today and told of proposed new ad-
ventures in Alaska's volcanic wonder
land.
The noted explorer dropped lecture
tour here recently when his physician
ordered him to bed to fight of a threat
ened attack of pneumonia and compli-
cations from high blood pressure. He
hopes to leave the hospital tomorrow
but will go Immediately to a hospital
at Victoria, British Columbia, for two
or three weeks.
His week IN bed here, the FIRST time
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Mu-So-Lit Club to Meet.

Prof. Wesley D. Elam. principal Of
the Parker-Gray High School, Alexan-
dria, will address the public forum of
the MuSo-Lit Club at pm. today at
1927 r street on the subject The
Philosophy of Booker T. Washington" :"
A musical program will be presented
under the direction of Mrs. Edward T.
Ford and Mrs. Maize H. Robinson.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
"GLACIER PRIEST" IN HOSPITAL,
PLANS NEW ALASKAN VENTURES
Father Hubbard Will Seek Traces of Great Civilizations
He Believes Existed in Aleutians.

in years that he has been i'll, gave
Father Hubbard an opportunity to null
over theories he has developed about
the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, where
he will return this Summer.
While exploring in the Aleutians,
Father Hubbard hopes to open up an
cient villages on Unimak Island.
"I believe there were great civiliZa-
tions in the Aleutians," he said. II
shall follow up the work SO admirably
started by Dali and other scientists of
the Coast and Geodetic Survey in the
70s and 80s of the last century"
His theory is Unimak Island was at
tached to the Alaskan Peninsula until
quite recently geologically speaking,
and that UniInak Pass occupies an
earthquake fault Of recent, times.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Entire Battalion of
Artillery Moved by
Air in War Game
Feat Proved Feasible in
Surprise Attacks, Gen.
eral Says.
BY the Associated Press,

PANAMA CITY, February 18-An
entire battalion of field artillery moved
into action in the air today when 10
bombing planes, transporting 3-inch
mountain howitzers, escorted 81 pur-
suit and % observation transport planes
to repulse theoretical enemy landing
force in the interior of Panama.
The demonstration, which is be-
lieved to be the first of its kind in
military history, closed the maneuvers
of the Panama Canal military depart
ment.
Gen. Preston Brown, who was In
charge of the war games said he was
pleased with the results" of today'S
demonstration.
1t revealed, he said, "the feasibility
Of transporting light artillery by air in
order to repel surprise attacks
Evening star., 1933-02-19
EXCESSES HIT BY TEXAN

SS-Year-Old Practices Moderation
in All Things.
J. A. Tegart, 88. of San Angelo, Tex,
has recipe for longevity
do nothing to excess" he says. And
that goes for liquor and tobacco. I've
used both moderately and can't see
that either hurt me any,"
Evening star., 1933-02-19
MORATORIUM DEFEATED
Idaho Senate Vote 3O-14 on 2Year
Mortgage Proposal.

BOISE, Idaho, February 18 lP.-By
vote of 80 to Ia the Idaho State SEN
ate tonight defeated bill granting a
two-year moratorium on mortgage fore
closures. The House has passed the
measure.
In its place the Senate adopted reso-
luton declaring foreclosures of mort
cages on conditional sales contracts to
be 'inimical to sound public policy dur
ing the present emergency"
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Hindenburg 0lympics Patron

Won Hindenbura' on invitation s''tta Of the
German Olyfnpics Committee, yester-
day accepted the patronship Of the
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Catholic Club Plans Dance.

HYATTSVILLE, Nd, February II
(SpeciaD The Merrymakers Club of
st. Jerome's Catholic Church will hold
an old-fashioned square dance Satur-
day evening in the Masonic Hall, start
ing at $50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
VISITS SONS AT GROTON

Mrs. Roosevelt Makes Trip From
New York by Motor.
GROTON, Mass, February 18 GP.-
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt wife of
the President-elect. arrived at Groton
Academy tonight to visit her two sons,
Franklin, jr.. and John, who are students
here. She drove from New York in her
roadster. accompanied by woman
companion.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
AIR SUBSIDY DELETED
Provision for Bermuda Service
Taken From Relief Bill.

Taken From ReIlet BIZ.
By the Associated Press.
The Senate yesterday struck from
the pending relief bill a provision to
permit the Government to aid in fl
nancing a 10-hour air service between
Washington and Bermuda.
The move was made at the instiga-
ton of Senator Couzens, Republican,
of Michigan. though the provision ives
put in the bill at the request of a De-
troit engineer, who said he and asso-
GATES we're prepared to invest $1,000
600 In the line If they could borrow
t2.0oa,0Oo from the Government. }
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20
.DEFES GREAT
 BRITAIN; FOUR
 MEN ON TRIAL
Russia Takes Firm Posi- ton in "Wrec king
 Activities Case

MOSCOW, March 20. Four British subjects charged with wrecking activities" in connection with their work on projects in Russia, will be subjected to a pub lie trial within a month. The trials will take place despite the pro tests of the British Government.
 The Moscow statement says:
 No pressure or menace from Great Britain will dissuade the trials"
 Thirty-five other employees of the Russian British Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, all of them native Russians, are also facing. trials.
 Britishers Involved
 The British subjects are L. c. Thornton, Chief Erecting Engi- neer; w. s. Macdonald, engineer John Cushney, engineer, and fit ter named Gregory.
 The charges are the men tried to put various power stations out of commission.
 Great Britain, according to ad- vices received here, threatens to break off all diplomatic and trade relations with the Soviet Union.