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Evening star., 1941-05-11

coast of Scotland. British Spitfire
and Hurricane fighters tore into
cloud hopping Messerschmitts dash
ing across the Dover Strait and
Britons declared they broke up for
nation after formation of NaziS,
sending them scurrying back to the
French coast.
A German plane was reported
downed off the south coast and an
other badly damaged off Scotland.
Shopping crowds gathered in the
streets of coastal towns to watch
the dogfghts. but the planes were
so high in the brilliant sky that
they were barely visible.
Other Friday Targets.
The R. A. F'S other Friday night
targets included the invasion ports
of Calais, Ostend and Boulogne,
Kristiansand, Norway: Ijuiden. the
Netherlands, and airports in Nor
way and France, the Air Ministry
announced. The bombs dumped on
Calais shook the English side of the
channel coast.
At least three German raiders
were downed by British night fight
ers over England Friday night.
The Nazis loosed bombs at several
places in England, causing the most
damage in one northwest town, but
the raids were described officially as
"on a much reduced scale" A stick
of bombs dropped by a single Ger
man raider early yesterday morning
on a south coast killed seven per-
sons and injured many.
27 Fires Seen at One Time.
A pilot returning from the Mann
heim-Ludwigshafen raids said q
major fires were burning at one
time; another told of observing a
large Mannheim factory burned out.
A bomber winging toward Berlin
reported sending a German Messer-
schmitt spiraling to earth, and then
the British pilot said he continued
on to the German capital to un-
load his cargo of heavy explosives
on factories
The Berlin attack, it was an
nounced, was carried out by very
small force, the main assault hav-
ing been reserved for targets of
greater military Importance" How
ever, Berlin reports said congested
district in mid-Berlin was hit.
From all the far-flung night op-
erations, the British announced Off
cially that five planes were lost.
The raids followed a great Thurs
day night raid on Hamburg and
Emden. The Germans yesterday
acknowledged at least 95 casualties
at Hamburg and IS missing.
Evening star., 1941-05-11

mediation machinery, but that 1t
did intend to Insist that where
work important to the national de-
fenSe program is stopped, negotia-
ton for resumption of work should
be Speeded."
Other Developments.
The day also brought these other
developments:
The Building and Construction
Trades Council GA. F. L. at Boston
went ahead with plans to start
strike tomorrow by 925 craftsmen
and laborers employed by con-
tractors on $3O,00OOOO worth of piers,
dry docks and buildings at the Bos-
ton Navy Yard Union officials said
the strike would be in protest against
Government employment of "1.100
w. P. A. workers and 100 civil serv-
ice employees on the projects. A
Navy spokesman said the work stop
page would be very serious mat
ter and apparently we can do Moth
ing about it
Coal Mine Agreement.
Republic Steel Corp. officials and
the United Mine Workers &C. 1.
o. reached an agreement for re-
opening the oompany's coal mines
at Birmingham and Gasden. Ala.
The new contract will provide a
basic wage of s6 for a seven-hour
day, compared with the s5 rate
prevailing when the old contract
expired and work stopped on March
81
State police broke up picket lines
before an Army ordnance depot
construction project near Gallup, N.
Mex, soon after the State Fedora
ton of Labor ordered a work stop
page by A. F. L. union members
Union officials said the workers
were being called of the project to
bring attention to fragrant viola
tions Of State and Federal laws"
and that a list of complaints would
be issued later.
At Newport. R. l.. $50 members of
the United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners GA. F.. L. con-
tinued strike against private con-
tractors on Government housing
and naval projects The union
asked SIPS an hour instead of the
existing $1.12l2.
Evening star., 1941-05-11
Rockville Teachers
To Stuqe Two Plays

The faculty of Richard Montgom-
cry High School. Rockville. Md. will
present two dramas on May % in
the school gymnasium to raise funds
for a new school library. The for
mer library was destroyed by fire.
The Dear Departed" will be an
adaptation of Guy de Maupassant S
tale, and The Women Folks" will
tell the story of a young bachelor
whose life is dominated BY relatives.
Evening star., 1941-05-11
Citizenship Program
Planned Next Sunday
Al Roosevelt High
Fort Stevens Post
And Community Center
Office Sponsors

A community citizenship day OBJ
servance will be held next Sunday,
beginning at 5 pm, at Roosevelt
High School under auspices Of Fort
Stevens Post, Nc. 80, American Le-
gion, and the District Community
Center and Fairgrounds Depart
ment.
Joseph A. Walker, chairman OF
the posts Americanism Committee,
and Franklin Carr Of the District
agency are co-chairmen OF ar
rangements for the affair. All civic
and businessmens groups in the
area are being asked to participate.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle Of
George Washington University has
accepted an invitation to be prin-
cipal speaker, Mr.. Walker said yes
terday.
The program will include dis
cussion of Unity and Tolerance in
American Citizenship" by Clergy
men of three faiths, music by the
Roosevelt High School Cadet Band
and the Junior Drum Corps of the
Jewish War Veterans, massing Of
colors and the taking of citizen
ship pledge.
Plans call for presentation OF
Certificates of recognition" to young
people who have reached the age of
81 during the last year or have &C
quired United States citizenship
through naturalization.
Among the groups which have
been asked to take part are the
Georgia Avenue Businessmen As
sociation and the Petworth, Bright
wood, Mannor Park. Takoma Park,
Hampshire Heights, Chlllum Heights
and Sixteenth Street Highlands Cit
liens Associations.
The committee will announce the
complete program within the next
few days, Mr.. Walker said.
Evening star., 1941-05-11
Dining Room Pieces

Sos Hepplewhte Sideboard mahogany
$50 Sheraton Sideboard; mahogany ---------$54
500 Regency Sideboard; mahogany
sos Regency China Cabinet; mahogany
$50 English Chest.Server; mahogany
500 Regency Dining Table; mahogany
800 Regency Credenza Sideboard; mahogany--$74
$50 Hepplewhte Sideboard; mahogany y-----$ll2
s85 Hepplewhite Sideboard; mahogany
s85 Duncan Phyfe Pedestal Dining Table--$69.5O
s82 Colonial China Cabinet; mahogany 1850
so Sheraton Dining Table; mahogany
Evening star., 1941-05-11
Strike
Continued From First Page.)

from 81 to $115 an hour and double
time for overtime. They were
offered SLIP and time and half.
The Navy Department estimated
that 1894 ,96O,475 worth of contracts
for combat and auxiliary ships were
under contract at the yards.
Senator Truman said the Senate
committee did not propose to sub
stitute itself for the usual strike
Evening star., 1941-05-11
Dance Hostesses to Meet

The first business meeting of the
Army dance hostesses will be held
at Harding Hall in the Government
Printing Office tomorrow at 8 pm.
instead of in the Departmental
Auditorium as originally announced.
Otto S. Lund, manager of the
Washington Chapter of the Red
Cross, will speak.
Evening star., 1941-05-11

George Bernard Shaw wrote most
of his plays in shorthand.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Housing Project
To Be Resumed

Work was 10 he resumed within
one or two days on the SS.2l2,000
Herman Gardens housing project
al South6eld and Joy roads today
following award by the Common
Council of the second contract 10
the Cauldwell-Wingate Company
of New York City
After the award is approved by
Mayor Edward j. Jenries today
or tomorrow the contract will be
formally signed between the city
and the new contractor.
Work on the project. which is
one of the largest in the country,
has been al a Standstill for four
and a half months as result Of
the Com anon Council bribery
scandal which brought about the
removal OF three Councilmen.
The new contract calls for COM
pletion of the job within Ia
months but shortage Of materials
due 10 the defense emergency may
result i'm further delays.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Big Business
City Parks Refectories
$4,000 Ahead of 40

Under the new management of
the parks and recreation commits
sion, the eating places in the city
park system were reported today
TO be doing a boom time business.
with receipts far outstripping the
amounts of previous years.
Commissioner Bernard J. Lasky.
who has taken charge of the park
refectorieS. reports receipts so far
this season have been S255.0 as
compared with S185,000 TO the
same date last year.
The department is now serving
first class roadhouSe dinners. in
Guiding sizzling steaks, at the Belle
Isle Casino. 1t has freshened up
most of the park systems refec-
tories and the methods OF handling
money and accounting of inven-
tories have been frightened up.
The new commission. which
only came into existence last jan
uary. hope TO finance improve
ments in the park system through
the food profits.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
The BrushOff
Gets an Assault Warrant
Against Her Date

Wanda Bowden, 81. today de-
cided not to keep her next date
with Joseph Caruso %, and swore
out an assault and battery war
rant against him.
Chief Assistant Prosecutor Julian
Mcintosh said that Miss Bowden,
of 694 Putnam avenue, told him
that after they had broken of
their engagement, Caruso took
her out one night and beat her
so badly she had to go TO a
hospital.
A few days later. while she was
driving with him again, he sud-
denly stopped the car purpoSely to
dash her head against the car
and cut her eye. she added.
Later she said, Caruso, OF 1884
Fifth street. Wyandotte, told her
he would have 10 see her before
going into the army. She decided
she'd had enough dates.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
BU sI>ESS DIVIDED

Al tho direction Of jrffrles the
hoard recently advertised for ne"
buds and from these approved new
contracts which divide the business
between Kocnig and the Cronln
Coal Company.
Because of tho increase in coal
prices during the past TWO weeks.
however The total price of the
fuel increased approximately SS5,-
600. instead of decreasing as the
mayor predicted.
John II. Webster was elected
president IF the school board fot
the coming year. replacing Mrs.
Laura :. Osborn. Webster has
been 2 member OF the boaFd>1or
rs years. Frank a. German was
named vice president.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
School Board
Defies Mayor
On Coal Order

Despite the objections Of Mayor
JcffrieS. the school hoard today
voted 10 buy approximately one
hall of IFS next years fuel supply
from Tho kocuig Coal Company,
the only bidder on some Of the
Specifications.
The KocuiC company was origi-
nallv granted the board : entire
coai order for S556325. but the
contract was vetoed by Jeftries
because Albert i. Common, a for
mcr sales manager Of the koenie
company. has confessed paying
hrihc, 10 Detroit Councllmcn IN
return for their votes for concrete
construction ol the Herman Gar
denS housing project.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Cor(oran Joins
Assessor Board

Thomas NJ. Corcoran. AZ. Of
l7743 Northrup avenue. head
realty appraiser in the assessors
office, today began a. four-year
term as member OF the board OF
assessors by appointment of Mayor
Edward j. Jeffries Jr. The posi-,
ton pays $500 annually.
Corcoran succeeded George J.
Finn, whose term expired yester-
day. Finn had served since 1928.
The mayor stated several weeks
ago he intended TO bring new
blood TO the board.
Corcoran began work as a
draughtsman for the Fisher Body
Corporation and left that position
TO enter The city engineers office.
In 1919 he started in the assessors
office as junior engineer.
He was born and educated In
Detroit and is graduate of East
ern High School He is married
and the father of five children.
Finn is eligible for pension.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Welfare Aide S
Probed

The welfare commission today
adjourned until next Tuesday its
of the suspension
from the welfare department of
Daniel Avrunin. vice president of
Local 70, State, County and Mu-
nicipai Employees Union, Go.
Avrunin ard Ernest Macy,
president of the union. appeared
before the commission yesterday 10
protest the suspension, which
Mrs. Marie Fredericks, welfare
personnel director, said was due
to unsatisfactory work"
Avrunin claimed that he was
being Disseminated against and
stated that other departmental
work had prevented him from
keeping welfare cases assigned TO
him up TO date.
A motion by Richard T. Leonard.
commission member. that Avrun-
ms suspension be lifted pending
the outcome of the investigation
was voted down.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Straits Ferry Strike
Believed Averfed
Time. stan Correspondent

ST. IGNACE. July 2. The as
Surance of State Highway Conn
missioner G.. Donald Kennedy that
state Scamen on Mackinac Straits
ferries Will receive equal pay with
lake carriers is believed 10 have
ended thrco of a strike set for
,,l,,t
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02

ADNERTIsEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Elected by Osteopaths

DR.. Phil r. Haviland, whose
osteoparhic Offices are at 1910
West Grand River avenue. today
had been elected program chair
man of the American Osteopathlc
Society Of Proctology, for the
annual convention of the Ameri-
can OSteopathic Association to be
held next year in Los Angeles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02

Spun rayon and spun poplin
Slack suits and play suits in
grand array OF new styles.
Sizes ~ 10 20.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
3 Guilty Under Alien Act

WASHINGTON. July 2.--tlNS)
Three officers of the Bookniga
Corporation of New York, center
of Soviet Russian propaganda III
this country in 1888 and 1899.
were found guilty of violations of
the Alien Agent Registration Act
by a jury in the first test case
arising under the act.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Army Out OF Plane Plant

WASHINGTON July 2-'INsl
The war department announced
today that the last units OF the
army force which occupied the
plant of the North American
Aviation Corporation IN lneleWood
Cal. have been Withdrawn.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02

Miss Lincoln American
dancer, who with her brother
was arrested as a spy by
Naples, Italy, police and spent
three days in Jail, pictured
upon her return TO New York
after three years in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13

Expenditures therefore may exceed
present estimates.
TIL defense cost sheet contains
other items, however, than expendi-
lures. Except for the purchase of a
few raw and strategic materials,
practically all the money will be
spent in the United States, thus in
creasing employment and lifting
industrial activity to higher levels.
Rearmament will add many billions
of dollars to national income, and
this in turn will increase the reve-
nues Of the Federal Government. AS
industrial employment expands, ex-
penditureS for public relief, which
now constitute a large part of the
national budget, can safely be re-
duced still further, if not eliminated
entirely.
The vast expenditures of the de-
Tense program are clearly not of our
choosing, and are inevitable accom-
paniments of the task of safeguard
ing the Nations future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Fire Protection

Recommendations by committee
of the National Board of Fire Under
writers for improvements in Wash
ington's facilities for reducing fire
losses are constructive, and, to a
large extent, are in line with recon-
nendations made in recent months
by citizens associations and other
civic groups. Among the improve
ments suggested are an increase in
the capacity of the water filtration
and distribution plant, erection of a
new fire station in the Fort Totten
area, installation of more alarm
boxes and hydrants, use of larger
hose, a Tightening of building re-
gtrictions, purchase of some new
equipment and broader instruction
for officers.
This survey follows by slightly
more than a year one which resulted
In greater efficiency for the depart
ment. Late in 1889 two groups of
underwriters, and later a special
committee appointed by the Com
missioners, recommended numerous
station consultations and modern
,zation of equipment. At that time
it was found that the National Cap
ital's annual fire losses amounted to
only 23.1 per cent of the premiums
paid, figure which was lower than
that of any State and 14.7 per
cent lower than the average for all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13

States and Hawaii. Annual fire
losses in 1910 amounted to but $685.
sol, as compared with $888,630 in
1890, and this with a slightly smaller
department and much larger COM
munity to protect.
Washington has reason to be proud
of its fire department and to pay
heed to reasonable recommendation
for its improvement. Insofar as the
increase in the water supply is con-
cerned, the underwriters suggestion
is another voice in the demand for
immediate action on starting a
project long recognized as an urgent
need and which will require years to
complete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
ProphesieS Disastrous Result

From Enactment of Lease Lend Bill.
To the Editor of The Star:
With the passage of the lease-lend bill
we soon will be active participants in
the war to make the world safe for
democracy again with the same futile
results as characterized our last crusade.
There doubtless soon will be an at
tempt to convoy war materials to Eng
land. Our ships will be attacked and
sunk by German submarines. Then the
fight will be on in earnest. Our boys
in due course will be fighting in Europe,
in Africa, and in Asia. By and by the
appalling casualty lists will begin coming
in and fathers and mothers will be
mourning in silence for their unreturn-
ing dead.
When the war is over and peace again
settles over this troubled world, our
Nation, bankrupt morally, spiritually
and financially, will awaken to the folly
of our quixotic adventure.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Defense Cost Sheet

If Congress approves the request
of the President for an appropriation
of $1,000 100000 to finance American
aid to Great Britain and other de-
mocracies opposing axis aggression
and the country is counting on quick
congressional action-the appropria-
tons made, authorized or recon-
mended for national defense for the
present fiscal year, and the fiscal
year 1941-42 will total approximately
$39 ,000,0 000 900. Though the layman
can not easily visualize an eXpendi-
ture of such astronomical proper
tions, the significance of these fig
ures will be as plain in Berlin, Rome,
or Toxic, as on any American main
street. For they prove that the
United States. no matter what the
cost, Is determined to mobilize its
full industrial and war potential to
build total defense for the Western
Hemisphere and provide a maximum
of aid to Britain, Greece and China.
Of the $32 100000 represented
by appropriations, made, authorized
or recommended, exclusive of the
$70O0,OO0,0OO request, it Is estimated
that $6,464 100000 will be spent dur
ing the current fiscal year, and $10,-
811,OOO,OOO will be expended during
the fiscal year beginning July 1. This
will leave $14,725, 100000 to be spent
in later years. These estimates do
not include expenditures under the
new aid-to- Britain program.
From June 80, 1910, to March 1,
1941, actual disbursements for de-
Tense purposes totaled approx
mately s3,OOO,0OO,OO0. Rearmament,
measured by production of war ma
terials, and the volume of eXpendi-
lures, therefore, has not yet reached
its projected peak. The rate of fu-
ture spending depends, in part, on
the speed with which American in
dustry makes the readjustments
necessary to enable the United States
to become the arsenal OF democracy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Return

After long absence, haze come once
more
Back to this place / left so long
ago;
Back to this harsh and headldnd-
broken shore,
To the rough boulderS tDhere foam
breaks like Snoto.
Here are the Sed-gullS, tDheeltng on
the air;
Their harsh cries, heard above the
Duter'S sound,
Are beautiful to hear, these cliffs
are fair
To me, tUho haze been eriled, long
ldnd-bound
Ho1o good to stand here at the
Water'S edge,
And feel the todnt-ldced surf lap
at my feet!
To hear the WaueS roar up some rocky
ledge,
To smell the sed-t0ind, sdlt-ldden
and SUeet.
hare come home and, from ths
rushing sea,
1t seems there comes d song DO
Delcons me.
BEATRICE Raw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Murder by the Minute

There are many kinds of murder,
ranging all the way from killing time
to the slaughter of nations, and the
literature on the subject is extensive.
The best textbook was written by De
Quincy, and his Murder as Fine
Art is still regarded as reference
work par excellence for the con-
scientious murderer. The authors of
thousands of Whodunits have found
1t helpful, and many of their killers
show the De Quincy touch.
Mr.. De Quincy, however, did not
have the technique necessary to pro-
duce the genius of the Hitler"
Society, now operating from this city,
and engaged in one of the strangest
murders of all time No particular
mystery is involved. Their intended
victim, their own indentities and
their method is not only known but
broadcast. They have announced
their intention of heXing Hitler to
death by a scientific adaptation of
voodoo. They stick pins into an
image of him while chanting sono-
rous curses. They are practitioners
of new art-the slow-motion
murder.
1t is, of course, quite possible that
Hitler has heard of this, and he may
have a complete set of images of his
opponents and a corps of f1unkeys
to stick pins into them. Pending the
outcome of this thrilling race against
time, Britain will still carry on with
such old-fashioned weapons as guns,
tanks, fleets and planes.