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Evening star., 1941-01-05
Mrs. Klebers Arrives

Mrs. Richard NJ Kleberg and
Miss Alice Kleberg, wife and daugh-
ter of Representative Kleberg of
Texas, arrived yesterday from
Corpus Christi, where they have
been since the early summer. to
join the Representative in their
apartment at the Shoreham.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Erwin Sisters
Luncheon Guests

Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin en-
tertained at luncheon yesterday
at Pierre's for her daughters, Miss
Eileen Erwin and Miss Hope
Erwin. Each of the Misses Erwin
had table of her own friends.
Mrs. Erwin's daughters will
leave Wednesday for Dobbs Ferry.
where they will resume their
studies at the Masters School.
Evening star., 1941-01-05

the bridegroom, came for the we'd
ding and others from out of town
included Mrs. c. F. Goodrich of
Princeton, N. j., aunt of the bride;
her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Kirk of Morristown, N. j.,
and Capt. E. c. Hammer, U. S. N,
and Mrs. Hammer of Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1941-01-05

Abel A. Norris, jr., and Mr.. Joseph
Fisher.
Immediately following the cere-
mony a reception was held at the
home of the brides parents, where
the brides mother received, waring
a gray crepe dress, Windsor blue hat
and a corsage of camellias.
The couple left for wedding trip
South, the bride wearing a stone
blue wool dress with blue acces-
sories, silver muskrat coat and a
corsage of white orchids.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
OF Personal Note
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lehman Hosts
At Dinner at Woodmont Club

Mr.. and Mrs. A Lehman were
hosts at dinner last night at the
Woodmont Country Club, followed
by cards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian BrylaWski
have been entertaining house
party for Christmas and over New
Year at their country home on the
Patuxent River.
Several Families Greet
New Year at Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marc Goldnamer,
Mr.. and Mrs Cecil Kaufman, Mr..
and Mrs. George Marx and DR..
and Mrs. Aubrey Fischer celebrated
the New Year in Atlantic City.
Miss Lois Baer, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Milton Baer returned
yesterday from Atlanta Ga, where
she was the guest for two weeks of
Miss Shirley Massel.
Mrs. Estelle Nordlinger is return
inf this evening from Evansville,
Ind, where she has been spending
the past five months with her SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Marks and their two young
sons Kenneth and Clifford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Neuman
have as their guest, Mrs. Leo Ascher
of Chicago, for 10 days. Their SON.
1n-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Aaron Ascher of Baltimore, are here
with them for the week end.
Visit Blue Ridge Summit
Over the New Year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace I. Pack, Mr..
and Mrs. Joel Kaufman, MI. and
Mrs. Fred BashWitz and Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel S. kaufman were at
the Locust Grove Inn, Blue Ridge
Summit, for several days to welcome
In the new year.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Illch were
In Norfolk, Va, over the New Year
visiting their son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin Frank
lin Hofheimer, jr., and their young
son.
Mr.. Billy Wolf, jr., entertained
at dance at his home during the
holidays. A buffet supper was
served at midnight.
Miss Fannie Schott is the guest
OF her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Kaden, on
Staten Island.
Mrs. Lucy Ford, who spent sew
eral months here with her daughter
Miss Irene Ford, returned to her
home in New York, accompanied by
her daughter, who remained over
the holidays.
Daughter Will Join
Weinbergs for Visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Weinberg will
be Joined Thursday by their daugh-
ter and granddaughter, Mrs. Rob-
ert Steele Middlemas and little Miss
Patricia Ann Middlemas, who will
arrive by plane from Chile. Mr.
Middlemas. who with his family
lives in Santiago, will join them in
March for visit before accompany
Ing them back to South America.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Albert Weinberg,
3r., will return today from a fort
nights motor trip to South Caro-
lima and Florida.
Mrs. Emile Berliner was at home
Informally New Year Day in her
apartment in Wardman Park An
mex following her annual custom to
celebrate her birthday anniver-
sary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Nathan
Evening star., 1941-01-05
TideWater
Residents
HaveGuests
Sillecks Visiting
Mrs. Wallace;
Reids Entertain

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Jan. 4.
Miss Betty Lou Houghton of Hag-
erstown, Md, is the guest of Miss
Jane Bean.
Mrs. Michael Wallace has as her
guests her son-in-laW and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney B. Sill
leck, jr., of Hartsdale, N. Y, and
Mr.. Allen Charles Of Newport News,
Va. Mrs. Silleck and her young
son, Sidney B. Silleck, Sd, will visit
Mrs. Wallace for a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson C.. Brown,
jr., of NeWberry, S. c., are guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil L. Reid.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

At the police station the driver who gave
his name as Francis r. Macdonald was sub
jected to a thorough examination which he
went through under considerable protest,
abusing all and sundry. He was drunk all
right There was no question about that.
Then the cop looked over MacDonald's car
carefully. 1t might be just coincidence that
Trickler had been killed and Macdonald was
driving drunkenly along the streets of Water
loo and yet.
The cop was just about to admit to him
self that ii was just a coincidence after all.
There were no suspicious bumps dents in
the front of the black coach. The headlights
intact. None of the ordinary telltale
clues which police authorities look for when
they suspect a hit-and-run driver could be
found
Then the officers gaze happened to
wander TO the door handle on the right side.
And what he saw sent him hurrying back into
the station house where he phoned District
Attorney J. Seward Bodine of Seneca County
who had already taken charge of the Trickler
investigation
We've picked up a car that 1 think will
interest you" he said. There's small red
stain that looks like blood behind the right
door handle"
1t was blood all right DR.. Harold c. T.
Robinson, bacteriologist of Geneva Hospital
who was summoned by the District Attorney
TO analyze the stain, not only determined that
IL was human blood, but it belonged to Type
"a" to which type .Tricklers blood also be-
longed Besides that DR. Robinson found
small smear of human fatty tissue.
Trickler's body was not yet cold in the
Waterloo Hospital and already District At
torney Bodine had a suspect to the crime.
But pinning the victims death on Macdonald
was another matter.
There were no witnesses
The suspect himself remained firm in his
statement that he knew nothing about the
matter And so, promptly the next morning
at-the request of the District Attorney the
Bureau of Criminal investigation began look
ing into the matter. Director Bradley II.
Kirschberg appeared to fit together the pieces
of evidence which the troopers had gathered.
Was Macdonald innocent? Or was he
really the hit-and-run driver who had killed
Trcller2 u If he vast was unique case
without a parallel in the dossier of hit-and-
run mysteries. No part of his car had come
in contact with human victim, the troopers
discovered as they went over it microscopic
ally No part that is, except possibly the
door handle
II was on that door handle that Kirsch.
berg concentrated. Measuring it, he found
that it was one inch at the base and one
quarter inch at point. 1t was set with the
point towards the front so that it seemed
logical that if the car had been moving at
high speed the point might rip into man and
eviscerate him
Next Kirschberg measured the height of
the car. II stood So" from the ground The
suspected door handle was set at height of
41as inches Trickler himself had been So"
tall and as for the height of his wound
With characteristic thoroughness, the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

piece of glass is found, this too is compared
with the various makes of headlights file
in the laboratory"
One OF the most unusual of these cases
was one in which the b. c. /. collaborated with
the Vermont Highway patrol to solve the
hit-and-run killing Of one Walter Newton in
Vermont.
The Investigators believed that a sedan
which they had located had killed New
ton but they had TO prove it. After a careful
examination Of the victim they noticed that
section of the sole OF of his rubber hunt
ing boots scuffed much more than the
rest. Then they examined the undersde of
the sedan carefully with a magnifyng glass.
On the dirt covered "wishbone" of the
chassis they discovered that there was a
diamond shaped mark which appeared 10
correspond with the pattern of the sole of the
hunting boot.
The boot worn by the deceased was ex-
amined under magnifier TO ascertain which
parts were submitted to unusual pressure and
the part involved photographed.
similar photograph was made of the
impression on the wishbone:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

In the solved" files of the b. c. l. Is one
case of which the New York State Police are
very proud. and justifiaby So 1t shows
highway sleuthng' at it's best and it is a
case which directed by the late DR..
Bradley H. Kirschberg who was director of
the laboratory until his death, when he was
succeeded by his former assistant, Trooper
Kirwan. In the annals of the b. c. l. this is
known as the Case of the Eviscerated Man.
Fred Tricller paused at the corner of Vir-
ginia and Main streets waiting for the traffic
light to change 1t was some time after
midnight, in the village of Waterloo, N. Y.
Trickler was a cautious man. Standing
ST" in height, he weighed well 200
pounds. He was in fact, fat and like most
fat men, good natured. Although there was
little traffic at that hour of the night he
waited patiently until the light notified him
that it was all right for pedestrians to cross
the street Then he stepped off the curb
stone.
He was still alive when two villagers
found him few minutes later, alive but un-
conscious and bleeding badly from what ap-
peared to be a horrible knife wound which
had cut vicious slash across his abdomen.
1T looks if poor Fred killed himself
the way the Japs do-what do you call it
hara-kiri ?" one of the awestruck villagers
said.
The other was more practical We've
got to get him to the hospital before he
beeds to DEATH" he said. Phone for an
ambulance"
A few minutes later Trickler was on the
operating table OF the Waterloo Hospital
where DR. w. r. Holme performed an emer-
gency operation, to save him. But it was
hopeless. Death already claiming Fred
Trickler as the doctor worked desperately
over him The victims wound ran from the
loft To no III oh nf bp ah ba
intestines at the hepatc flexure. The lacera-
ton depth penetrated through the entire alb
domna WALL its width varying from two to
-tAree-iHehes- the -I4-iheh- wound.-At
2:53 A NJ Trickler died
How had he been killed? No knife or
other weapon had been found at the spot. AS
for suicide the medical authorities scoffed at
the supposition The victim had no reason to
take his own life and not even a fanatical
japanese intent suicide would stab himself
so terribly as TO inflict such a wound COM
parable TO that in Trckler's abdomen.
1t was not yet daylight and an awakened
Waterloo was exctedly discussing Trickler's
mysterious death when a vigilant local police
man noticed black coach weaving down the
street. The cop jotted down the license num-
Der, then as the coach continued to be driven
somewhat erratically he went into action
Guess I'll pick that fellow up and put
him away for the night before he gets HIM
self in trouble" he said to himself and sped
in pursuit.
Hold up a minute" he said good ma
turedy to the driver where are you eoing?"
why you blankety blank what's it to
YOU" asked the driver wildly.
Drunk. Ell ?" said the officer. And driv
ing car. Move over I'm going 10 drive you
to the station house.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

The Most cowardIy
of Highway Criminals.
Who Destroys More
Than 1000 Lives a Year.
Is Practically at the
End Of His Rope Be-
cause He Cent Hide
His Tracks From the
Test Tubes and Micro
scopes Of the Newest
Detective Science -
and the Wits Of Spe-
cioIIy Troined Police
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02


highway on her way TO buy some
groceries at the general store. The
next, she heard a squeal of hastily applied
brakes that didn't hold Then the car struck
her. tossing her Ifeless body thirty feet to
the side of the road with brutal violence,
leaving her like battered doll to be found
by the next passer-by or motorist.
Every year. scenes such this
peated more than thousand times as hit-and-
run drivers leave their dead victims behind
and flee in the belief that there
witness they have left no evidence behind.
Yet with the development of new type
OF crime detection highway sieuthing," a
surprisingly large number of hit-and-run
drivers every year now being brought TO
justice and their Identification and conviction
by means of science is of the most in
teresting and little known phases Of detective
work.
\ Carroll f. Mealey, Commissioner of the
f3ureau of Motor Vehicles in New York State
the State in which more than tenth of the
hit-and-rin crimes occur annually recently
told The American Weekly: Enforcement
agencies. especially the State Police are doing
excellent work in running down hit-and-run
drivers
Clever detective work and greater use of
scientific aids making it progressively
more difficult for the ht-sneak driver 10
escape ultimate Identification.
1T seems utterly inexcusable that any in
dividual should speed away from the scene
of an accident TO leave his victim suffering
perhaps dying when the suffering might have
been alleviated-an perhaps a life saved-by
a more humane reaction on the part of the
driver The element of fright no doubt enters
into the problem of individual conduct in many
hit-run cases. That however, does not ex-
cuse callous act in total disregard Of the
lives Of others"
In an obscure little building in Schenectady
n. Y, today the Bureau of Criminal In
vestigation under supervision OF Major John
A. Warner, Supt. OF New York State Police
is playing an important part in the solution
of hit-and-rIn- crimes And though most of
the slayers believe they leave no clue behind
after the tragedy. invariably bit of tetale
evidence is brought in TO the b. G. 1. which
points the trail to them.
Such evidence may be only broken but
ton piece of headlight glass, or minute
thread; yet through clever detective work it
is often sufficient to single out the culprit
among millions of registered motorists
Despite the fact that no other person may
have been present at the scene of the crime
other than the hit-run driver and his victim,
II is often amazing how the tragedy explains
itself" saws Trooper William Kirwan acting
mdrector of the Il. G. /.
Frequently there is scorch mark Of the
drivers tires on the road. showing how he tried
to stop his car, then the mark of the tire at
the side Of the road where he swerved in a
futile attempt to avoid hitting the victim.
Such a tire impression in the dirt often
furnishes an important clue. When a plaster
cast is made Of the tire mark and the cast
compared with the fingerprints' of various
makes of tires in the laboratory, we can tell
something about the car we are looking for.
IF a headlight has been broken and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

i9by American Weekly Britain Rights Rlaeryed
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31
Red Cross Agent
OPENS First Aid
Classes on Monday

Harold TerWilliger, national Red
Cross field representative in safety
services, Monday night will open a
class for first aid instructors for
Imperial county.
The classes will be held each night
for a week in the Red Cross head
quarters at 120 North Fifth street
in El Centre and are open to all
who are completed a regulation Red
Cross safety course. Glass members
already have enrolled from Ell Cen
tro, BraWley, CaleXico, Holtvillc
and Imperial
TWo-hour sessions will be hello
each night. Terwilliger said, begin
ming at 30 pm.
This course for instructors was
arranged, TCrWilliger said Friday
because so many Red Cross safe
~ instructors have moved away
from Imperial county We felt that
there should be a class to train a
new group especially since national
defense plans call for great numbers
Of safety instructors
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31
Josephus Daniels
Resigns as Envoy
To Mexican Govt

WASHINGTON. Oct. 81. CUP)-
President Roosevelt today accepted
the resignation of Josephus Daniels
as United States ambassador to
Mexico.
The President expressed regret
and reluctance in accepting it. He
added that the resignation will be-
come effective after Daniels, now
in this country, returns to Mexico
City to BID goodbye to Mexican
governmental officials with whom
he has worked.
Daniels. who was secretary of
navy during the World War and
had Mr.. Rosevelot as assistant sec
retary, was made ambassador to
Mexico with the advent of the New
Deal. The appointment was made
on March IT, 1898.
Daniels is publisher of the Ra-
leigh IN c. News and Observer.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that Daniels
rendered his resignation last night
because he felt that tho health of
his wife no longer would permit
him to serve at his diplomatic post.
Mr.. Roosevelt paid tribute to Dan
iel's work. describing it as outStand-
ing in furthering the good-neigh-
Dor policy in Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31
Army Seizes Plant
As Defense Strike
Picture Improves

Continued from Page One
Gay after production had been GU
taIicd most Of the day By due.
plcketlng Of CIO Steel Workers. r.
striCted production continued at
the company's homestead pla,t
where 100 crane operators were Oh
strike
President Roosevelt said at a PFC )
conference that the dcfeuse- labor
s!,"ation has taEon a recent tuln
for the worse Dut contended that
II still Is better than at the outset
Ct the rearmament program
The president refused 70 discus
hi4 reported plans 70 ask congress
t5- legislation 10 give him greater
po"ers 10 prevent strike delays in
,l'a. defense industries
without referring specifically n
me captlvc coal mine dispute OF
Thursday nights seizure Of the
Ar Associates plant al BendiX, \
! go President generalHed that
tho Itua:ion was not 50 bad. but
tia. !. could and mad been worse
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31
Seurchers Find
Two Lost FIiers

wilds 10 miles east of Fresno late
yesterday. 1t. R. n. Long still is
unreported.
Lydon and West, who had been
camped III the area since they We're
forced down Friday, owed their
rescue to their own efforts. They
had built a large fire and had uSeC
Very pistol lights at night TO attract
attention. Farmers saw the lights
and reported to forest rangers who
in turn informed the Army. Aft"r
search plane discovered them late
yesterday, blankets and food We're
dropped to them.
This morning rescue party set
out on horseback for the spot, over
which a plane lowered to guido
the SearcherS. The party was forced
to abandon the horses and proceed
on foot. The arrival of the party
was reported by radio to the head
quarters here and the trip back
started Immediately.
The men had written their name
in rocks near their camp. in can
yon 5000 feet above sea level bu,
the Army withheld identification
until their rescue was effected
They were able to withstand the
low mountain temperatures we'll be-
cause they were dressed in fur
lined flying suits and heavy hcI-
NETS. There was no trace of tho
planes they had abandoned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31
James Sinking
Makes No Change

WASHINGTON. Oct. 81 UP
President Roosevelt said today that
tbs international situation from
America 5 point Of view remains un-
changed despite the sinking of the
Am rlcan destroyer Reuben James
He refused - offer any comment
10 support suggestions by press con-
ference questions that the destruc-
ton CT the American Warship might
result III severance Of relations with
Naz. Germany.
The President said he did not
think the sinking OF the Reuben
James would produce any funda-
mental change in the lnternationa.
situation The American destroy
or. he said, simply was carrying out
assigned duty when she was sunk
IN the North Atlantic.
As for breaking off diplomatic
relations with Germany, long hang
ing by a slender thread. the Pres,t
dent said he had heard nothing
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31

FRESNO, Cal, Oct. 81 up -
Two Army filters, lost in the noun
tains since Friday, were rescued
today after they had been sighted
from the air by search planes
The fliers were Identified at Lit
Jack c. West and 1t. Leonard Ly-
don.
They were members of squadron
of 10 P-40 single-seated fighting
planes which were forced to break
formation and scatter by storm or
a flight from March Field, River
side. to Mcclellan Field, Sacramen-
to- last Friday morning.
Fourteen of the planes landed
safely at fields in California ant
Nevada. One plane crashed, killing
it's pilot. Another pilot left his
plane in mid-air and parachuted to
safety. Three pilots were unac-
counted for until searching plane
sighted Lydon and West in the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31
Allies Must Take
Offensive TO Win,
Rotarians Told

If tho United States expects =
come out on top ii The world wag
& which We are already part, We
and England oar ally. must assume
tha offensive instead OF the de-
1>nsiye.'
Tnis was ;hc solemn Warnme
given Rotarlans BY Ross HlckoX
prominent e Cen,yo attorney, IL a
summary OF the val Developments
Of recent months HlckoX spoke at
the Thursday noon meetine OF the
Fl Centre Rotary club. and shared
his subject with Paul Jenkins
Post-Press publisher
mo football team ever won a
game in which they We're con-
stantly on the defensive" HickoX
commented No game was ever Won
by a team which did not have an
aggressive, affirmative plan and
eoal 1t is high time that such
comprehensive program be estab-
lished, and that definite ambitious
goals be defined"
jenkins presented what he
termed as a skeleton framework
Cf what tbs war Is all about" ac-
cording to an oil company geologlst
who spent many years in European
oil fields. The plan projected the
idea that England has feared botL
Russia and Germany and has diplo-
matically maneuvered the two coun-
tries into destroying each other by
war. If such is the big plan. Jcn-
kins quoted the source as indicating
President Roosevelt and the Unlteo
States hold the control strings by
being the source Of strength owe!
England, and having the privilege of
debating Japans part in the world
plan. through economic control fac
tors.
The program was presented by
Dr. Norman Dupont, chairman o:
thc day w. A. Schenunan. prasi-
dent. presided. James Riedy Cen
tral Union High school sCNI-:.
Played several violin selections ac-
companied by EStelle Livingston at
The piano.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-31
Reds Resist New
German Attacks

ing ground in the face of heavy
German tank attacks.
To the north the Russians Wero
said to be holding firm on the lines
OF the Nara and Okla rivers about
40 to so miles southwest of Moscow
and to be continuing their counter
attacks around Mozhaisk. There was
no report on the Kalinin front. IT,
Germans were reported to be max :
ing heavy air attacks on Moscow
and Russian sources claimed 400
German planes have been brought
down in and around Moscow since
start of the big push about a month
ago.
The German high command 5
communiQue dealt exclusively With
operations in the south where "puf-
suit" Of the Russians both in Crimea
and the DonetS region was said to
be in progress.
On the rest of the front, the Ger
man high command said that "op-
crations arc proceeding further "
II was noted that for the first
time the high command dropped 1t.
repettiouS use of the phrase "ope1-
ations are progressing according TO
plan"