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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

|LoN0vIEw, 11s55-Upper rooms, newly
decorated. heated; garage.
MEYERS ROAD. 127s6-Beautiful lower
ave rooms. nook, newly decorated. heat
led, garage; so7; aduits.
WOODSTOCK DRIVE. 5f2i-Exceptionai
six rooms; stall shower; OIL: REFRIG-
IERATIoN. University 2-o143.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Mt. HoIyoke Baths Cut Off;
Harvard Men Offer Showers

fall-and so are the Harvard boys,
but with tongue in cheek.
Editors of the Crimson, Harvards
undergraduate daily, wired the pres
ident of the Mount Holyoke Student
Council that word of the girls dire
waterless plight" disturbed them.
They offered to loan their showers
and volunteered the services of the
college publication as headquarters
where other Harvard men may reg
lister their willingness to share in
this gallantry.
Nov" wired the Crimson editors,
when you feel like girls in the soap
ads and when even unwashed Yale
men won't come within 10 feet of
you, Harvard wants to make
friends"
Which offer brought the following
telegraphed response today:
"The unwashed misses regret no
real necessity yet.
Mount Holyoke."
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Pittsburgh Suspends
Striking Truck Drivers
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24.-Mayor
Cornelius D. Scully today carried
out his threat to suspend the city's S
striking truck drivers and equip
ment operators, while striking gar
bage collectors and helpers re-
turned to their jobs
Acting on the Mayors orders, Pub
lie Works Director Frank M. RoeS-
sing sent suspension notices to 157
drivers and operators who ignored
the Mayors ultimatum at noon yes
terday 10 resume work within "a
hours or face suspension. The no.
tices gave the strikers five days in
which to answer charges of being
absent without leave and prevent
ing the proper discharge of vital
municipal services"
If the strikers fail to reply to the
charges within that time, they will
be dismissed under civil service reg
ulations. the notices said.
Two of the A. F. L. truckers, who
struck Monday for higher pay, re-
turned to work in the water de-
partment shortly before the Mayors
deadline expired. The truckers
strike has halted maintenance work
on streets, sewers, traffic lights,
parks and bridges.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass, Septem-
Der "a. The drought forced ban
today on tub baths and showers at
Mount Holyoke College-but the
girls found plenty of sympathy from
Harvard men.
President Roswell G. Ham, at an
emergency chapel session of the
student body, said that the shortage
was serious.
Artesian wells supply water for
the school and lack of rain in the
past several weeks has left them
low.
There's enough, he explained, to
provide sufficient pressure to keep
the water system in operation, but
baths and showers are taboo-and
laundry must be kept at minimum.
Use water as if it were gold" eau
toned President Ham.
The weatherman is on the side Of
the girls-he predicts rain by night
Evening star., 1941-09-24
japan Kills Plans for Rallies
On Anniversary of Axis Pact

versary will be a meeting sponsored
by the Imperial Rule Assistance As
sociation and the Toxic municipal
authorities in Kanda Ward, a dis
trict sufficiently isolated SO that for
eigners are not likely to notice it.
Soviet Russia has replied to
Japan's protest against mines drift
ing into the Sea of Japan, apparent
ly from Vladivostok fields, Ishii said
but the nature of the answer was
not disclosed.
Ishii said talks between the two
nations over the issue still we're
going on. He said trade with Russia
was continuing normally, although
the RuSsian-JapaneSe commercial
treaty still was unratified
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Hunt Yields No Trace
0fBoy, Missing Day
From Virginia Home
1t. Burroughs, Father,
Leads Futile Search
By Police and c. c. c.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW MARKET, Va, Sept. "a
Several hundred c. G. C. boys were
to join the search today for Ed
ward Burroughs, 2ia-year-old son Of
an Army lieutenant, who disappeared
from the home Of his grandmother
at the foot of Massanutten Noun
tain near here yesterday morning.
With the father, 1t. Sherman Bur-
roughs, leading the hunt, more than
100 men and boys vainly combed
the side of the mountain and sur
rounding foothills yesterday and
through the night.
Sheriff Karl Gochenour Of Shen-
andoah County said an area .eX-
tending miles all around the house
had been examined. Three walled
springs in the territory have been
probed with poles, he said.
1t Burroughs of the 116th In
fantry Anti-tank Company, rushed
here from the A. P Hill Military
Reservation in Caroline County
after the boys disappearance from
a sandpile in back of the house was
reported. Edward was last noticed
playing in the pile by Russell r.
Miller, owner of the Burroughs res
idence, about II am. police said.
Mrs. Burroughs had left the boy in
care Of his grandmother, Mrs. Lii
lian Burroughs, while she went to
Roanoke, according to police The
house is located on the Lee high
way about mile and a half east
of New Market.
The child was wearing only his
underclothing. Searchers found his
pants near the house.
Sheriff Gochenour said blood
hounds might be used later in the
search. No suitable dogs were avail
able here. The c. c. c. bows who
will join the search today are sta
toned at Fort Valley.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Mrs. Jennie Gensberq
Dies at Home Here

Mrs. Jennie Gensberg, resident of
Washington for more than so years,
died last night at her home, 739
Newton place NV.
She wa sa member of the Areme
Chapter. o. E. S.. and of charitable
organizations. She is survived by
her husband, Shia Gensberg; four
sons, Lawrence, Abe, William and
John Goldberg. and two daughters.
Mrs. Daisy Sieff, Baltimore, and
Mrs. Robert Fox of this city.
Services will be held at | pm.
tomorrow at Danzansky's funeral
home, 1901 Fourteenth street NV.
with burial in Ohev Sholom
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
New York Gamblers
Body Found in Auto

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24-The body
of a policy game collector who,
authorities said, had tried to take
over the territory left open by the
determination of Murder, Inc, was
found in an automobile in Brooklyn
today.
The dead man, with two bullet
holes in the back of his head, was
Abe Bebchick, alias Hugh Murphy,
38, arrested many times in the num-
bers game racket.
Assistant District Attorney Ed
ward A. Heffernan said Bebchick
won $4,000 in a dice game in East
Side Manhattan last night. When
found, Bebchick had only a $40 and
$40 bill and a scent piece in his
pockets.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
lowmuster Elected

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. "a (P,.-
A. T. Lowmaster, vice president and
general manager of the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railway Co, yesterday was
elected to the Board Of Directors of
the First and Merchants National
Bank of Richmond. to fill the uneX-
pired term of the late B. West Tabb,
former vice president and treasurer
of the University of Richmond
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Dr.. Francis w. Shine,
Jefferson Scion, Dies

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Sept.
24.-Dr. Francis Wayles Shine, 67,
one Of the Nations outstanding eye,
ear. nose and throat specialists, died
today at University of Virginia Hos
pital on the campus of the school
founded by his great-great grand
father. Thomas jefferson.
DR.. Shine will be buried in the
private grounds of the Jefferson
family on the slope of Monticello
Mountain.
Evening star., 1941-09-24

masonry, and Donate Marrafa.
Columbia Chapter, No. |, Royal
Arch.
He also was a member of the
Church of the Redeemer and the
Chevy Chase Citizens Association.
Besides his widow. Maria. he Is
survived by two daughters. Mrs.
Mary NJ Wittenmyer and Mrs.
Josephine M. Ashby. and five sons.
Orlando ", Henry F. and Ernest D.
Marraffa, all of Washington, and
Pvt. Russell " Marraffa. stationed
at Dutch Harbor. Alaska. and Pvt.
Thomas A. Marraffa, stationed at
Camp Pendleton, Va.
Funeral services will be held at II
am. Friday at the Church of the
Redeemer Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Sept. 24.-The japanese
government today squelched the
plans of the fiery Seigo Nakano and
his pro-Axis Tohokai group for a
series of rallies Saturday celebrat-
ing the first anniversary of Japan's
alliance with Berlin and Rome.
I'VE want to celebrate this event
with dignity, so we do not want
meetings everywhere, said Koh
Ishii, government spokesman, in an
nouncing cancellation of the nine
downtown speeches that Nakano
had arranged for the avowed pur-
pose of drumming up enthusiasm
for the Axis, and the celebration
which the East Asia Development
Corp. had planned at Hibiya Hall.
The only observance of the ami
Evening star., 1941-09-24
American i. and T.. u.
Open Their Doors
For New Year
Registration in Public
Schools Still Loes
Behind Yeor Ago
"A. P. Wirephoto.

Two District universities today
opened their new school year.
Bishop Adna Wright Leonard, res
ident Methodist Bishop of Washing
ton, speaking at the opening con-
vocation of American University
questioned the sanity of men who
use Constitution-guaranteed liber-
ties to try to set up a new system of
government which will deny them
the liberties they so misuse. His
topic was The Outlook for Free
dom"
At Catholic University. students
in the school of arts and sciences
and in the engineering school were
taking placement tests and at noon
gathered for an address by the uni
versity medical director. Registra-
ton in the graduate school is being
held open until October l, it was
said.
Still tagging behind last years
figures despite an expected boost in
enrolment from national defense
industries. the public schools re-
ported a total of 84276 had signed
up by the second day as against sec
ond dav figures last year of 88869.
Yesterdays registration, however
was 5,125 above opening day Mon
day.
In the Is schools of the Anacostia-
Benning area, the enrolment
showed a gain, 10.239 Yesterday
against a second day figure last year
of 1926 This was the area where
pupil pressure was especially feated
by school authorities.
A breakdown of registrations as
of yesterday by the schools statis-
teal office showed: Teachers COL
leges, $50; senior highs, 15.547:
junior highs. 1868; vocational
schools, 104l, and elementary
schools, 47,175.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
County Attorney Named

WARRENTON, Va, Sept. "a CSpe-
claD.-George H Davis, jro Wash
lngton CVaJ attorney. YESTERDAY
was appointed by Circuit Judge J. r.
H. Alexander as Commemorative at
torney for Rappahannock County
TO fill out the uneXpired term Of the
late William F. Moffett, who died
recently.
Evening star., 1941-09-24

- - ~ - = s'as
A native of
Italy, Mr.. Mar
rafa came to
this country in
1905, and had
lived here since
1903.
He was a men,
Der of Benjamin
B. French Ma =
sonic Lodge. No.
IS; Albert Pike
Consistory. An
cient and Ac-
cepted Scottish
Rite of Free
ma SonrV. and
Evening star., 1941-09-24
French Cruiser to Quit
japan for Indo-Chinu
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Sept. 24.-The 7.680-ton
French cruiser Lamotte Picquet,
flagship of the Vichy governments
Far Eastern squadron, which has
been under repair at Osaka since
September Is, is scheduled to sail
for Indo-China Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Clay PIT. A. Plans Fete

A reception for teachers will be
given by the Henry Clay Parent
Teacher Association OF Arlington
County, Va, at the associations first
fall meeting at 8 pm. tomorrow at
the school.
Evening star., 1941-09-24

The Thai government announced
January 20 that the Lamotte-
Picquet had been badly damaged in
the Gulf of Siam in All engagement
with Thai naval and air forces. The
vessel was reported to have left
Saigon for an unannounced destina-
ton February "a after a truce ended
hostilities between Thailand and
French Indo-China.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Donate Marraffa Dies;
PIasterinq Contractor

Donate Marraffa. 65. of 5435 Forty
first street NV, well known plaster
ing contractor died suddenly at
Emergency Hospital last night after
Evening star., 1941-09-24
70 Ho Ho

AS prices of imported whiskies In
crease in the United States, Puerto
Rico's shipments of rum continue
to break high records.
Evening star., 1941-09-24

"A Reported Killed
In Mexican Troops
Clash With Workers
Employees Of War Plants
Stopped in March to
Interview President

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 24.-From
4 to IA persons were declared today
to have been killed in clash of
Mexican troops and aggrieved NUM-
tions workers who sought a mass
interview with President Manuel
Avila Camacho.
Avila Camacho, former Army gen.
eral, expressed regret at the Incl
dent which caused gunfre yester-
day on the Avenue del Castillo in
fashionable Chapultepec Heights,
and ordered an immediate investi-
cation.
An authorized source said four
workers were killed and wounded.
Other reports placed the toll as
high as IA dead and dozens
wounded. Among the dead was
listed Guillermo Rojas. secretary
general of the workers syndicate.
Parade Emphasized Charges.
Munitions workers had been de-
manding removal of Gen. Luis
Bobadilla Camberos, director of the
war plants, ana paraded toward the
Presidents home 10 emphasize
charges that:
!. The director had conspired
with labor leaders who had been
ousted by their own union to give
were Communists.
q He had injured the quality of
munitions productions by farming
out contracts to incompetents.
3. The ousted union leaders had
attacked the Presidents interna-
tional policies (Which include CO.
operation in hemisphere defense
and betterment of relations with
the United States in the union
| publication.
The official account said 200 work.
( ers made the march Others asserted
that more than 1000 participated.
Tried to Disarm Soldiers.
Spectators said soldiers guarding
the Presidents house blocked the
path, that the workers attempted
to disarm them and the troops then
fired. Rojas was said to have beer
shot in An attempt to disarm Col
MaXimano Ochoa, commander OF
the guard.
The Federation of Government
Employees, with which the munitions
workers are afflited, issued a state
ment describing the clash before the
Presidents home as "a nameless
crime" and urging Mexican labor tC
raise solemn protest, demanding
exemplary punishment" for those re-
sponSible.
The statement said federation Of
ficials were confident the President
would know how to see that JUS
tice is done
Evening star., 1941-09-24

The first patent for an electric
headlight for locomotives was issued
in 1881.
Evening star., 1941-09-24

Native miners are opening val
liable veins of gold in Nicaragua.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

commercial artist, studied art in
Paris and had just boarded a
boat for the United States when
the NaZis invaded Czecho-Slo-
vakia and has spent some time
in New York, but never found
anything to equal the rolling
plains Of her native Nebraska -
and the dawn patrol is one of
her greatest thrills.
Trainer since Major A. N.
White was called to active duty
with the infantry at Fort Rob-
inson, Arkansas, is Otto jensen
who was the majors first solo
student. Mrs. White is one of
Jensen's dawn patrol students,
and the Whites 16- year old
daughter Marion expects to take
up flying before long.
Another is Mrs. Irving Gillen,
who finds time to fly despite the
demands made upon her by an
18-months-old son. Then there
is Lois Leavitt, assistant Pro-
fessor of Education at Nebraska
Wesleyan University. who has p
pilots license but is piling UP
more hours.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

They sacrifice many evening
activities to get a full nights
sleep so they can roll out at A
a. m. for the drive to the flying
field. Each pays for her lessons,
and for some that means strict
budgeting.
A rural school teacher, Mae
Sharp, started the local chapter.
Another member is Mary Eta
Krisl a bookkeeper at the State
capital. Then there is gray-eyed
Irish Ilene O'Gara. whose inter-
est in flying was awakened by
her father, former Speaker of
the House in the State Legis-
lature. When Ilene was a little
girl he took her up in a flimsy
crate with one of those barn
stormers who always happened
around for small towns Fourth
of July celebrations.
1T seems sort of silly" nene
says, but / never forgot that
ride. l told Dad then that some
day would fly a plane Of my
own"
Helen McMonies. 9s- pound
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

treasured a vague hope that after
all maybe she could win Ashley
yet.
LAS for June" Peter continued,
the very fact that you went out
TO win Wood made her all the
more determined TO fight TO the
last ditch for him. II you were
planning TO get him your plans
must have gone astray some
where for June has won out. If
you ask me I'd say you'd con-
Quoted your campaign in most
unsubtle manner"
She said in a small voice: IT
didn't have any campaign"
Peter!"
NO" his voice softened, II
guess you didn't. That's part of
the trouble. You're just learning
things that the average Ameri-
can High School girl knows. You
may have passed 'all your exam
nations with honors. but you
don't know one thing about the
Get Your Man technique. Worse
than that. you came out here full
of suppressed emotions and last
evening all those repressions
came out with a bang. Gee
whiz," he ended ruefully they
did come out with a bangw
There was a pause. He had
ceased pacing the floor He
picked a cigarette off the table
and stood with his back half
turned towards her, smoking it.
What do you think i should
do, Peter? Apologize to Miss
Martin ?"
He made gesture of irEitated
impotence. why in the name
of all the saints ask me?"
I'm sorry, Peter. But you al
ways have helped me-"
Don't you think I've got any
feelings?" he went on savagely,
as though she hadn't spoken.
Why treat me as though 1 were
an aged uncle ?"
I'm sorry, Peter" Her voice
was stiff--and hurt. She had
started towards the door when he
followed her, laid a hand on her
arm and stopped her.
mo, I'm sorry, Sandra." He
was smiling family now. II
shouldn't have said that. Certain
ly I don't want to add to your
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

YER since last Spring the
morning quiet of a stretch
a- of prairie near Waverly,
Nebraska, has been broken by
the noisy "chirp" of early birds
who want to do things for their
Uncle Sam.
The farmers In the neighbor-
hood dubbed these invaders the
female dawn patrol'--and APP
propriately for the group COM
prises 10 women from nearby
Lincoln, the State capital. These
women, in snappy slack suits,
gather morning after morning
TO tune the motors of their
planes, rub elbows with fieecy
clouds for an hour or so and
then return to such compare
lively prosaic tasks as book
keeping, stenography. teaching
and housework.
All are members Of the Women
Flyers of America, a national
organization founded to make
sure the United States won't be
scaught short If war takes most
of the men from civil flying
tasks
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

troubles. And I'm glad you think
you can come and talk things
over with me, only :" He
paused and ran a hand back over
his hair. I'm not awfully sure
where stand emotionally myself
at the moment, and therefore
I'm not certain what advice I
can or should give you. Things
have changed with me- I'D sus-
pected they had, but last night /
was sure of it,"
II don't understand, Peter"
She looked up at him with wide
blue eyes. do you, do you mean
you're not in love with me any
more ?"
His smile became a little
twisted. II think that about
sums it up" He took both her
cold hands. "Shall we say
don't love you in just the same
way l used TO ?"
Her eyes were full of tears
suddenly. I'm glad. Peter"
He squeezed her hands tightly.
BLESS you, believe you are"
When she was almost through
the door she turned back towards
him. And you think I should
apologize to Miss Martin. Peter ?"
He said gravely: you must do
whatever you think best about
that, Sandra."
Yes" her voice was very low.
almost frightened, II suppose /
must"
1t said something for Sandra's
will power and a great deal for
her courage that she appeared
at the breakfast table. Felicite
was also down to breakfast, and
Sandra was a little surprised to
see that instead of the exotic
house coat she had formerly ap-
peared in she was wearing neat
black morning frock with white
collar and cuffs. II was the same
sort of morning dress that thou
sands Of French housewives wear
every morning Of their lives. Had
Sandra been less occupied with
her own affairs this change in
Felicite's appearance might have
caused her the same alarm as the
air of authority she had assumed
with the servants last night.
"Ah. there you are, cherie,"
CONTINUED on Page 2O)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

-HE walking, living tank" of
the distant Dinosaur epoch
y of the earth's past history
was the giant Stegosaurus, adj
mirably shown in this splendid
mural painting by Charles r.
Knight, which was presented to
the Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago, by Ernest r.
Graham.
Old Stegosaurus often weighed
ten tons and controlled this
mighty bulk with a brain that
weighed only two and one-half
ounces. The rows of huge spines
along his back and on his tail
were no mere leathery growth
like those of a crocodile. They
were real bone and hence real
armor from enemies.
In recent issue this striking
picture was published and copy
right credit to the Museum was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16
The Sad End Of the
"W.C.T.U."

NNIORD recently was re-
N ceived from Key West,
w Florida, that the big
power boat Genessee, loaded TO
her gunwales with Porto Rican
rum, was wrecked near Logger
head Light in the Gulf of Mexico,
near Fort jefferson, Dry Tortu-
gas. This is the same boat ac-
cording to Maine sardine men that
was built at Friendship, Maine,
more than 35 years ago and
christened "W.C.T.U.." meaning
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
The craft was built for a Rock
land fish packing concern. Her
owners were strong temperance
advocates.
Prohibition meetings were held
from her decks and not a drop
of liquor was ever allowed on
board. Her original crew Of six
men were all teetotalers.
The WC.T.U. was sold to New
York buyers and put into that
popular pastime all through the
Prohibition era of running rum
from st. Piers, Miquelonl More
recently she engaged in the same
traffic in southern waters. T
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

things, Peter. Some pretty ter
rible things, I'm afraid" Her
voice sank to a whisper.
He nodded. His anger was
gone and instead he felt very
sorry for her. All the same he
determined not to mince matters
Eyes, things weren't too rosy last
night, Sandra."
II know" Her voice was
humble and penitent. But what
exactly did j do, Peter?"
All she had done rose TO his
mind. He might have said: You
let Ashley Wood take you in his