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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Nems Behind the NeTs:
Press Treated Shabbily
During Sea Conference

porters who knew the situation
were unable 10 print il.
The navy insisted Admiral
Stark. who was supposed 10 he
al the conference, was ION
leave" naval officers rarely per-
form Official business ION
leave"). Hours after the Church.
ill-Roosevelt statement had been
broadcast 10 the world, the navy
continued 10 contend:
admiral Stark Is on leave"
The army said chief of staff.
General Marshall, and chief of
the air corps, General Arnold.
were "on inspection" conveying
the meaning that they were
touring the country. Even after
the official announcement had
disclosed that the Roosevelt
Churchill meeting had been at
tended by Officials OF their two
governments including high
ranking officers of their mill
tary, naval and air service" the
army claimed Marshall was
still on inspection" and Arnold
was returning from inspection"
Not Serious
This post-facto deception by
the army and navy might have
indicated Stark, Marshall and
Arnold were no longer high
ranking officials" that Mr..
Roosevelt must have suppIsnted
them in the conference by
others, had any one taken them
seriously, which none did.
The truth merely was. by that
time every officials tongue had
become a secret from its reason
ing powers in the mind.
The climax was in keeping
with the publicity tone of the
whole venture. First news of
the statement m o 10 most
radio listeners twarned 10 listen
in by announcement the day
before from London) from the
broadcast of the lord privy seal,
Clement Atlee. Advance copies
for simultaneous release to
newspapers were furnished by
the White House here, but no
official of this government went
on the air to speak at the same
time as Mr.. Atlee.
The American press certainly
got shabby deal, if not a
embarrassing, in n great event
of American history.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17

A citizenship class meets Mon
day and Wednesday moons in the
Dodge Community House, 620l
Farr avenue, under the direction
OF the WA Adult Education
Project. Persons completing the
course are given certificates which
may be taken to the naturalization
bureau. The course is open to
aliens free of charge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Nazis Raid CAMBRIDGE
And East ENGLAND

BERLIN, Aug. 16.-QNS)-Ger-
man planes raided war important
detectives at Cambridge during
the night, the German radio an
nonced today.
Bombs also were said to have
been dropped with good effect
on the British east coast and
southwest coast. Several fire,
were observed following raids or
Great YARMOUTH, Falmouth anC
Hull.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Leg by Air
Nazis to Let Raj Filler
Deliver IL Safely

LONDON. Aug. 10. 49, Every
fghter-pilot in the Raj clamored
today for the privilege OF flying a
new aluminium leg TO Wing Com
mander Douglas Bader. the legless
British ace who was captured by
the Germans last week.
German authorities sent a mes,
sage to the Raj through the Rec
Cross saying that Bader damaged
one of his artificial limbs while
landing.
The Nazis offered 10 let the
Raj fighter deliver a new lef
Iunopposed over the air field neal
which Bader is held and drop II
by q small parachute.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Post Office Clerks TO Meet

More than 1000 delegates will
ATTEND the annual convention of
the United National Association
OF Post Office Clerks here August
I25 through 20, it was announced
Saturday by officials of the or
ganization. The meetings will be
held at the Book Cadillac Hotel.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
SPASMS, HAY fever

Doctors formula - Calafo LIQUID - has
helped thousands. Must help you or coats
nothing. Aids In clearing congestsd bron-
chlal tubes Of phlegm that causes those
choking spssms. Cheeks tendency Ia at
tacks. You'll say CaIafo Liquid best or
money hack 20-dsy treatment, s1.00, ~
kln.eI and other druggists.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Bill for New Trial
In Garden-T-Shoppe
Murder Case Is Asked
Randolph Urged to Help
So Court Moy Hear Doto
OutIuwed at Present

A request for introduction Of a
special bill to empower District
Court to hear a motion for new trial
of Thomas Jordon. now serving a
life prison term for the Staying
of Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes in the Garden
T-Shoppe holdup in 1881. was ad-
dressed to Chairman Jennings RAN
dolph of the House District Com
mittee today.
James j. Laughlin, Jordons attor-
ney, told Mr. Randolph in a letter
that new evidence was uncovered
after expiration of the go days
within which motion for a new
trial must be filed under present
statute.
The attorney said the new evidence
caused President Roosevelt to COM
mute Jordon's death sentence to life
imprisonment.
For years, controversy has ragged
as to the guilt or innocence of
Jordon," the attorney said TT is
the view of most. persons that he is
innocent and is the victim of a
grave injustice. There is only one
way to settle this matter and that
is to place all this suppressed evi =
dence before a new jury so that it
may weigh such testimony and ap-
praise it. The matter will never
down until this is done"
Evening star., 1941-08-11

auto about 3 miles north OF that
town Saturday night.
Further Maryland accident fatal
tiles were:
Miss La Rue Whitehurst. 10, Of
Westminster, fatally injured in an
accident on the new Windsor West
minister road when the car in which
she was riding left the highway
went over an embankment and
landed in a dry creek bed as she
returned from the Westminster
Riding Clubs horse show dance.
Roy Brown, %, also of Westmin-
ster. a companion of Miss White
hurst, died of his injuries early to-
day. A third occupant of the car,
Oscar Hess, jr., %, also of West
minister, was injured slightly.
Mrs. Amelia L. Parsons, IS, of
West Ocean City, and Mrs. Lilly
Baden Truitt, 55, Ocean City, killed
while walking across the Berlin
Ocean City highway late Saturday.
An 18-year-old youth later sur
rendered to police as driver of the
automobile which struck them.
Edward Foss, SO, of Baltimore,
hit by an auto while crossing a
street in that city.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Montgomery Girl. 7,
Dies Of Spotted Fever

A victim of Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, Dorothy Ann Lewis,
7-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Philip Lewis, Old George
town road, near Bethesda. Md, died
Saturday at the Montgomery County
General Hospital.
The child was a pupil at Alta
Vista School. Besides her parents,
she is survived by two sisters, Edna
May and Ethel Marie, and brother,
Philip Elmer.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 pm. tomorrow at the Warner
E. Pumphrey funeral home. 8434
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
Burial will be in Lignum. Va.
DR.. v. L. Ellicott, county health
officer, said the death was the second
reported from spotted fever in the
county this year. A third victim
of the disease was reported recently,
but is believed recovering, he said.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Cruise Passengers Find Bargain
With St. EIizubeth's Skipper

Marine Supply Co.. 1900 Maine
avenue S.W., and had spotted it
about a quarter of mile away,
stranded at the wharf of the Capt.
tai Yacht Club.
Mr.. Kiefer was guarding ship
when the owner arrived at the
wharf. He later was exonerated
at the harbor police station after
he had told his story.
The skipper, it was learned by
police In their investigation, escaped
from st. Elizabeth's August g. About
9 pm. Saturday he slipped down to
the docks at the Marine Supply Co.
and cut the Mamma loose. A num-
ber of colored loungers were nearby
and became, readily enough at
such a nominal fee, his first passen-
gers. BY midnight his business had
increased. 1t was then he took on
Mr.. Kiefer as helper.
When the skipper returned after
his fruitless search for gasoline he
was arrested by harbor police and
charged with unauthorized use of
motor boat He later was turned
over to authorities at st. Elizabeth's.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
-Four Drown
In Accidents
Father, 2 Children
Lose Lives as
Boot Hits Log

Drowning took the lives of four
victims in the Washington subur-
ban area yesterday-a father and
his two children in Occoquan Run
near Manassas Va, and a 17-year-
old youth in the Potomac River
near Seneca, Md
The father was Francis Leroy
Sayre, 38. of 20 East Walnut street,
Alexandria, Va, service manager at
Gladney Motor Co. there, who was
drowned while attempting to rescue
his daughter, 10 Ann, S. and son,
Francis Leroy, jr., aged 3, after
their boat struck a submerged log
and sank about a mile from Davis
Ford Bridge, miles east of
Manassas.
The only survivor of the family
outing was the mother, Mrs. Lillian
Sayre, who chung to log and was
rescued by a fisherman in another
boat.
Canoe Turns Over.
The youth was Rodney Costello,
jr.. II. student at Gaithersburg
High School, who was lost after the
canoe overturned in which he and
a friend, Clifford Howard, jr., IT..
son of former Montgomery Coun-
ty sheriff, were on Sunday out
ing.
Prince William County Police
man r. L. Vetter said the Sayres
had only been out in the run for
about Is minutes when a submerged
log struck the boat and it sank
rapidly. Calling to his wife, who
could not swim, to cling to a near
by log, Mr. Sayre grasped the two
children and was swimming toward
the shore, less than so yards away,
when his strength gave out only a
few yards from shallow water.
Mrs. Sayre was in a hysterical
condition when she was rescued by
a fisherman who had witnessed the
tragedy from the bank and who
brought her to shore in an outboard
motorboat A rescue party made up
of members of the Manassas and
Occoquan fire departments sue
ceeded in recovering all three bodies
by nightfall They were removed
to the Hall Undertaking Co. in
Manassas pending completion of
funeral arrangements.
Mr.. Sayre had been employed by
the Gladney firm for the past five
years and formerly was service man.
ager for motor company in Wash
ington, where he had been employed
for Is years.
Rescue Attempt Fails.
The accident which took the life
of Mr.. Costello. star athlete at
Gaithersburg High School and
we'll known amateur baseball player
in the county, occurred shoraly after
noon Yesterday while he was SWIM
ming beside the canoe which his
companion was padding
The Howard youth told Corpl. G.
w. Linthicum and Policeman Ma
son Gray that the canoe overturned
and he grabbed his friend three
times and pulled him back to the
upset craft, but that each time he
had been unable to hold on.
The body was recovered in the
middle of the river about an hour
later by Lorenzo Sager of Seneca
and Howard Roberts of Darnestown.
Efforts by the Rockville Rescue
Squad to revive Mr.. Costello with
artificial respiration were vain. DR..
C. E. Hawks. Montgomery County
medical examiner, issued a certifl-
cate of accidental drowning.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Prisoner Badly Beoten
By Precinct CeIImute

Charles Dixon, 64, colored, was
near death today IN Casualty Hos
pital, police reported, after a beat
ing by q fellow prisoner in a cell at
twelfth precinct early yesterday.
Police said they had been unable
to determine the cause of the at
tack. Dixon's injuries, they added,
were inflicted by 27-year-old for
mer inmate at st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital who is being held at the pre-
cinct station for investigation. Po-
lice said they were unaware before
the fight occurred that the attacker
had been hospitalized before his
arrest. The victim Of the attack
was arrested on drunkenness
charge.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Burglars Take S135
From Residents Of
Apartment House
$3.50 Is Returned
To Cos Stution With
Arrest Of Employe

Burglars took Sl35 from three
residents of an apartment house at
$500 Connecticut avenue NV. yes
terday in one of a series of week.
end thefts.
Sue Macy reported $40 taken from
her room, Martha Sides lost $50,
and Eleanor Atuna reported s35
stolen, according to police.
More than $3.50, of which $432
was in cash and the balance in
checks, was reported stolen yester-
day from a. filling station at $50
Michigan avenue NE. police said
but the sum was recovered with the
arrest of an employe.
Police said the gas station had
been experiencing a series of rob-
beries," and in the last four months
had lost over $1,000 in addition to
Yesterdays theft. No charges were
Immediately placed against the en-
ploye.
Approximately $500 was taken
Saturday night or yesterday morn
ing from a drug store at 925 Eighth
street Sc, police reported. Thieves
entered by breaking glass in rear
door and looting a counter cash
drawer.
The attempted robbery of street
car motorman failed early today
when the approach of citizen
frightened the armed bandit away
The bandit, a white man, about IS.
f1ourished a nickle-plated revolver
at Motorman willard L. Beavers, of
Clinton, Md, when an eastbound
car on which the bandit was riding
had reached East Capitol street and
Kentucky avenue, but ran away
from the car without taking any
money.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Maj. Gen. Johnson
Assigned 10 Command
Canal Zone Defenses
Army Pilot Succeeds
To Post Vacated by
Maj. Gen. Andrews

Maj. Gen. Davenport johnson
who has been assistant chief of the
Army Air Corps in Washington since
last October. was assigned today to
command the Panama Canal de-
fenses.
The 51-year-old Army pilot is now
on temporary duty in the Canal
Zone. He succeeds to the post va
Gated recently by Maj Gen. Frank
M. Andrews, who is now head of
the Caribbean defense command
Gen. Andrews, also an Air Corps
officer, is in supreme command over
all the defenses of the Caribbean
bases which guard the approach to
the canal.
At the same time, the War De-
partment announced that Maj. Gen
John P. Lucas has been assigned
to command the Bird Infantry Di-
vision at Fort Lewis, Wash. In that
capacity, he succeeds Maj Gen
Charles F. Thompson, recently
transferred to command the 1st
Army Corps at Columbia. S. C. Gen.
Lucas, who is also 81, has been on
duty at Fort Lewis.
The designation of Gen. Johnson
emphasizes the Importance the War
Department is placing on air de-
fenses in the Canal Zone. A native
of Tyler, Tex, he was graduated
from West Point in 1912. He has
always been in the Air Corps except
for a few early years as an infan-
tryman.
Gen johnson was an airman with
the punitive expedition into Mexico
shortly before the World War and
was cited for gallantry by the United
States, France and Italy for his
flying record in France.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

Offer of boat ride at IS cents per
couple brought rushing business
for a time yesterday before it was
discovered that the skipper" of the
craft providing the bargain excur-
sions was an escaped patient from
ST. Elizabeth's Hospital.
The biggest surprise came to Jo-
seph Casper Kiefer. %. of Snug
Harbor Hospital, Staten Island,
N. Y, who had been induced to shin
aboard the lS-foot boat, the Mamma,
as "irst mate"
An end to the excursions came
suddenly before dawn yesterday
when the engine sputtered, coughed
weakly and died, and the mate called
to the skipper. whom he took to be
the owner, that I'VE need some gas"
Of went the skipper, a 22-year-
old soldier, in search of fuel which
Secretary Ickes has ruled should
not be sold during night hours and
it was some time before he returned.
Meanwhile A. Daniel Pleitner of
Hyattsville, owner of the Mamma.
had discovered his boat wos missing
from its moorings at the Nash
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Chever|y6ets Door.to. Door
Delivery OF Mail

The Hyattsville Md postmaster
has been authorized by the Post
ONCE Department to establish q
contract branch ofiice at Cheverly
and to make door-to-door deliveries
in that area, it was learned today.
This action follows the recent
establishment of similar service in
the Hyattsville and Bladensburg
areas
Cheverly citizens, working with
the aid of Representative Sasscer.
Democrat. of Maryland, urged the
Post once Department to establish
the new service.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Weekend Accidents
Kill 14in Virginia
And Maryland
District Youth Dies
After Crash Cuused
By Tire Blowout

Fifteen people were killed in
motor accidents over the week end
in Virginia and Maryland.
One victim was 19-year- old
Washington youth. John Stathes of
1882 Eighth street NV, who died
in Emergency Hospital yesterday
after an accident a mile north of
st. Inigoes, Md.
When the automobile in which he
was passenger had a tire blowout
Saturday, it hurtled into a culvert,
police said. The young mans pelvis
and both legs were broken. A
| Leonerdtown ambulance hurried
him to the hospital.
Five Virginians were killed yes
terday when a Southern Railway
freight train crashed into their 1926
model automobile as they were bound
for Sunday school at Jasper, Lee
County, Va, the Associated Press
reported.
The dead of this accident were
ESmond L. Cousins. about SO, Sum-
day school superintendent; Cora
Nell Kerns. II; Beatrice Light, Is;
Estil Higgins, IA, and Sadie Lee
Rhoton, 16.
Three other occupants of the car
escaped with minor injuries. A wit
ness said the auto stalled on the
railroad tracks at the top of steep
| grade, with the front wheels across
one rail. 1t was thrown so feet
into corn field.
Freak Accident Fatal.
A freak accident took the life Of
Edgar L. johnson, about Al, of
Alexandria, when the car he was
driving left the highway near Char
| lottesville. State troopers said he
was thrown from the car; the vehicle
| turned over, and its front wheels
landed on Mr.. Johnson, strangling
him.
Six colored persons were injured
at least one of them seriously, in an
accident l mile south of Alexandria
on United States Route No. l early
today. Anna Mae Davis, Is, of
1905 Fifteenth street NV. was un-
conscious from a head injury. pos
sibly a fractured skull. and Harold
Reynolds, %. a chauffeur. of 2601
Thirty-first street NV. was suffer-
ing severe cuts and bruises. The
! condition of Sergt Floyd Miller of
Fort Belvoir, and Thelma Jones, 81,
of 1108 Eighth street NV, and the
occupants of the other machine,
James McDougal and Mrs. Annie L.
McDougal, both of Philadelphia. was
undetermined. They were admitted
to Alexandria Hospital for treat
ment.
Virginia Victims.
Other Virginia dead were:
Hattie Lee Smith, 9, of Danville,
killed in a collision yesterday about
% miles southwest of Richmond.
Her mother and brother were criti-
cally injured.
J. w. Poe. 10, Navy enlisted
man attached to the u S. S. Hani-
bal, killed when his motorcycle was
in collision with an auto on Vir-
ginia Beach Boulevard yesterday.
Leonard Armentrout. "a, farmer
of near Harrisonburg, struck by an
Evening star., 1941-08-11
William A. DuPuY, IS,
Former Washington
Newspaperman, Dead
Served us Executive
Assistant to Secretary
Of Interior Four Years

William Atherton Du Puy, IS
journalist and author. died yester-
day at Fort Collins, Colo. where he
was writing a book for the Forest
Service, the Associated Press re-
ported today.
Mr.. Du Puy had been i'll with a
heart ailment several years. DR..
Roy L. Gleason said he apparently
suffered an attack during the night.
Mr.. Du Puy. a native of Palestine,
Tex, was graduated from the
Phoenix (Ariz) High School and
was a student at University of Ari-
zona for two years.
He began his newspaper career in
Arizona as correspondent for Pa
cific and Eastern papers and later
covesed the Legislature at Austin,
Tex He later worked as reporter
in Houston, New Orleans. Vicksburg,
st. Louis, Washington, New York
and Philadelphia.
Opens Syndicate Here.
In 1907 he organized the Du Puy
Syndicate with headquarters in
Washington, supplying feature
stories on national affairs to news
papers. From 1915 to 1916 he was
field secretary of the Navy League
and in the latter year was the origi-
nator and first editor of Sea Power
In 1918 he was captain in the
military intelligence Lewiston of the
general staff of the Army. He was
a past commander of the National
Press Club Post of the American
Legion.
Mr.. Du Puy was general manager
of the Haskin Newspaper Service in
1919, Public Ledger Syndicate in
1920 and later went to the League
of Nations, in Geneva, where he
was editor for the International
Labor Office.
He was executive assistant to the
Secretary of the Interior from 1929
to 1888, serving previously as an
expert with the United States Bu-
reau of Efficiency investigating the
currency system.
Wrote Many Books.
In 1884 he went to the Pan-Pacific
Press Bureau as Eastern manager.
He travelled extensively. writing
many articles on international af-
fairs and on the work of the Gov
ernment.
He was the author of Uncle Sam,
Wonder Worker 1913; Uncle
Sans Modern Miracles" 1914;
Uncle Sam, Detective" 1915:
"Uncle Sam, Fighter" 1918: Our
Insect Friends and Foes" 1924;
Money" 1925; odd Jobs of Uncle
Sam," 1926; co-author with Ray
Lyman Wilbur, former Secretary of
the Interior, of a work on conserva-
ton; Hawaii and Its Race Prob
lems," 1892; THE Nations Forest" +"
1898; "The Green Kingrom, 1889.
and The Baron of the Colorados, E"
1910.
He Is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ada Lee Orme Du Puy, and a
daughter, Mrs. Edward Nelson Ding
ley, Arlington, Va.
He will be buried in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Mr.. Du Puy's home here was at
2707 Adams Mill road NV. He was
a member of the National Press
Club, Authors and Overseas Writers.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Virginia Valves Drivers
Permit for Soldiers
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOclated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 11-Col.
Marion S. Battle, director of the
division of motor vehicles, has in
formed policemen and trial justices
that a nonresident holding valid
out-of-State drivers operator license
need not hold a Virginia license
while he remains a legal non-
resident.
The statement was in a memo
randum issued to clarity the auto
driving status of soldiers, defense
workers and new residents now
stationed in Virginia.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Bond Concerts

BY the Marine Band at the Ma
rine Barracks bandstand at 8 O'Clock
tonight. Capt. william F. Santel-
mann, leader; Henry Weber, as
sistant.
BY the Army Band in the. band
auditorium of the Army War Col
lege at o'clock tomorrow after
noon. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
leader; Karl Hubner, assistant.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
ASSIGNED to Melbourne

Second 1t. Robert H. ODell of
Washington was assigned today by
the War Department as assistant
military attache at Melbourne,
Australia. He will sail the latter
rart OF this month.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

In August, Beware OF:
/. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crosswalk.
Three of the five pedestrians
killed in traffic in August. 1910,
were fatally injured while COM
mitting this unsafe act.
2. The hours between 5 and
9 pm. Four persons met death
within this four-hour period
in August last year.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
August, l94l

August, 1910
Aug. I Aug. I Aug. sIAss. t7IAsS. Is
. . . . .
Aug. 7sIAus. 77tAug. 81
Q o Q
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Make August Sofer

Every blot is a District traffic
death. The toll thus far this
year greatly exceeds that re-
ported here during the same
period in 1910.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16

annual peace oratorical contest
held in Hope Memorial Chapel
here with an Grafton entitled The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16

increases in assessments which
city officials believe should be
levied 10 Offset the decreases that
may be- granted 20 the downtown
properties.
CITY Assessor Kenneth J. Nc
Carren. who is in charge Of the
personal property assessments, eS-
Inmates that the high inventories
Of tools and materials in factories
doing national defense work may
boost the personal assessment rolls
bv $50 600 600 10 $4,000 600.
McCarren has an additional stan
Of Investigators this year and has
warned industrial plants that he
intends to track down their tax
able supplies by every means at
bis disposal including a careful
check of defense contracts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
Vim Peace.Speech Contest

HOLLAND, April 16-=INSl-
Blase Levai of PaSsaIc, n. j, a
Hope College junior, won the