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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-03
ParOIed Convict, I'D,
Denies He Drove
Hit.Run Death Car

Eighteen year old T. d var d
Schroeder, paroled convict, held as
the driver of the hit-run car that
killed a kindergarten pupi J.
stolidly maintained today, after
hours of police questioning, that
he was not the driver.
. His half brother, Albert Sehram
IS, of 40O3 Williams street. and
two teen-age girls, who were rid
ing in the car at the time of the
accident. Friday afternoon. all ac-
cuse Schroeder of being the hit
run driver.
IGNORED SIGNAL
Faced by his accusers at police
headquarters. he coolly insisted
that il was Schram and not he
who drove the car on the wild
ride which ended in the death OF
Maurice Mann Jr., ). as Maurice
crossed Fourteenth street at Lin
den avenue.
The car went through a police.
mans signal and struck the child
as he crossed from the Kennedy
school.
IL was In the back seat" he
told police. "Schram was driv-
ing"
The small. squirt eyed prisoner
now on parole from a prison term
for car theft. told police that he
saw they were going TO hit the
boy.
II reached over the seat and
tried to grab the wheel and turn
the car out OF the way" he said.
He constantly rubbed his eyes
as he talked but showed no sign
of sorrow. His only worry seemed
TO be the possibility of serving a
long jail term.
II suppose I'll get Is years."
he said over and over
SLOW TO ANSWER
He was slow to answer CUES
tons and would not supply police
with a clear picture of the acct
dent He smoked many cigarets.
Two Grand River station patrol
men, Joseph King and Jacob ia
penga. working on the case in
their spare time. brought about
the arrest of Schroeder yesterday
afternoon after a statewide pa
hour search.
Patrolman King remembered
that Schroeder was friendly with
man named Robert Cox. 26,
three years ago. The Cox family
mad moved but the officers traced
them TO 2724 Magnolia street. only
II blocks from the Schroeder
home.
On the bunch Of King and ia
penga The house was surrounded
by police of the Grand River sta
ton
Hiding in a closet of the fome
they found Schroeder. Japenga,
searching the house, discovered the
boy.
He came out OF the closet
with his hands in the air and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-03

be put to Michigan Consolidate,
Gas Company representatives b.
city officials and by the compan,
10 the city at tonight's Town Meet
ing in the Common Council cham
Der.
Questions by the city to the com
pany:
How many private gas utility
l. systems have gone into bank
ruptcy since 1929 and how many
municipality owned natural gas
systems have gone broke:
C-Didn't William G. Voolfolk
- tgas compan presidenD
once head an engineering service
organized by the late Samuel
insult?
Odd he advocate introduce
- ton of the therm basis for
measuring gas sales, which insult
pioneered? What salaries were
paid Voolfolk from 1881 TO 1910,
inclusivee
I-What proportion OF the 1910
4 revenues of the American
Light and Traction Company,
United Light and Power Com
pany and United Light and Rail-
ways Company derive from each
other or the gas company. and
what salary did MIR. Voolfolk
receive from each
Compare total of salaries
- and bonuses paid Ave top
gas company executives for 10
years ending last December 81
with similar totals for the water
board, DSR and public lighting
commission.
c-Dees- the Michigan COnsoli-
" dated have any sort OF
agreement that prohibits IL from
competing for gas sales In
nearby areas now supplied by
Consumers Power?
7-How many gas fixtures did
the Gas Company sell In
1910:
Q-When the SEC gets through
- Investigating" United Light
and Power will the present
holding companies retain their
ownership In the local gas COM
pany:
O-Wasn't the Kansas Natural
- Gas Company. in which Mr..
Voolfolk has an interest, paid
higher prices for n considerable
period than other producers:
The company's questions 10 the
,liy.
why was the municipal
ownership proposal for taxi
ing over the gas company rushed
onto the ballot? To make II
physically impossible TO get the
facts to the voters or 10 en-
barrass the company financially
In its efforts TO buy the Austin
field for cheap storage:
C-Hows do you reconcile coun-
- ellis proposal 20 appeal for
adjustment OF pipeline rates with
Councilman Smiths assertion at
n meeting that Detroit has the
lowest rates of any city In the
country:
O-What II the cost OF per
- passenger DSR rides: Didn't
II increase from 5.32 cents dur
ing the DSR's first year Of OPP
Grafton to 7.24 cents in 1910!
As soon as the city took
+ over the local Transports
ton system. did not the states
men make n City Hall reporter
general manager of the whole
transportation system:
S-Didn't the DSR spend
- $1,000, 900 in federal funds
largely TO tear up street car
tracks and build bus garages to
aid in forcing Scent street car
riders TO take IO-cent buses:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-03
Rail Union Votes on Strike

Detroit members of the Fede-
rated Railroad Shopcrafts tAFI1
last night took strike vote in a
meeting at West Side Dom Polski.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-03
7 More Deaths
Raise Traffic
Toll TO AZ

The deaths OF two pedestrians
today brought the years traffic
toll total in Detroit TO as. three
less than on this date during 1910.
Anton Frank Druk. SO. of 1921
Dexter, boulevard. was killed by
an Eastern Michigan notorious
driven by Floyd Irons. 25, of $40
West Sixth street. Royal Oak, as
he crossed West Columbia street
at Woodward avenue. Police said
Druk was crossing the street with
the light when Irons made a right
turn off Woodward avenue and
struck him Irons was summoned
to the prosecutor Office for a
statement.
The second death was that of
George r. Jackson. -, of 1670o
Asbury Park, who died in BEDFORD
Receiving Hospital after being
struck by. car driven by Emil
Hill. Sc, of 1921 Quincy avenue.
DRIVER RELEASED
Hill said that he was driving
east on Six-Mile road about 35
miles an hour, when jackson
walked into the path of his car.
Hill was released.
There was one death reported in
the county, that of William II. c.
Hindle. So. of ALI Haverhill ave-
nue.. who died today in ST. Mary's
Hospital.
He was injured February % as
he stepped FROM a bus on Mack
avenue near Buckingham avenue
in Crosse Pointe Park into the
path of a car driven by Thomas
d. Hilbert, %, of 1887 WoodhaAii
avenue.
Hilbert, who was released after
questioning. viii be called in for
further questioning, said Crosse
Pointe Park police.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-03

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-03
ENGAGER 81, MONTHS

That was the day you beat
me so badly at badminton," he
reminded her.
To the doctor she is Mike" and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-03
Questions Listed
For 'TownHaI|'
Gas Quiz

The following questions are to
be put TO Michigan Consolidated
Gas Company representatives by
city officials and by the company
10 the city at tonight's Town Meet
ing in the Common Council cham
Der.
Questions by the city to the COM
pany:
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Cuban Envoy to u. S. Pledges
fruitful Pun-Americonisn1'
New Ambassador, Dr. AureIio Concheso, Has
Long Background of Law and Public Affairs

HAVANA (By MaiD DR.. Aurelio
Fernandez Concheso, the new Cuban
Ambassador to the United States,
who soon will leave Havana for
Washington, told a representative
OF The Star in Havana that 'in the
discharge of my duties in the United
States I shall always strive, with
enthusiasm, and with faith. for a
great and fruitful pan-American-
ism"
In an interview given after the
confirmation by the Cuban Senate
of his appointment, DR.. Concheso
said:
"I shall carry on the work bril-
iiantly done by my illustrious prede-
cessor, DR.. Pedro Martinez Fraga,
by keeping up the necessary CO.
operation and friendship of Cuba
and the United States, since history,
economy and international policy
have united our people to the Ameri-
can people, who have for their
President today a man who uses
his extraordinary ability for the good
of the democratic destiny of the
world, the eminent statesman
Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Experienced In Public Affairs.
DR.. Concheso will bring to Wash
ington long and distinguished
background in the law and in pub
lie affairs. At the time of his ap-
pointment to Washington he was
serving as secretary of the Council
of Ministers of the President of
Cuba. He has been Cuba's Minister
to Peru and to Germany.
The new Ambassador received his
advanced education at the Uni
versity of Havana, where he won a
doctorate in civil and public law.
Evening star., 1941-01-17

Minister of State, DR.. Jose Manuel
Cortina.
"It would be good to remember
at this crucial hour for human
destiny that the Philadelphia decla-
ration made Of the United States
of America the cradle of democracy
and that its most outstanding pub
licists, Hamilton and Jefferson to
John Marshall, as we'll as its most
prominent statesmen, from Wash
1ngton to Roosevelt. have made Of
that country, in the past as in the
present, the strongest and mightiest
defender Of liberty and the rights
Of man.
ut is indeed an exemplary and
encouraging coincidence that these
very democratic conceptions, in
spired in the fullest respect for the
dignity Of man, are the chief ideas
which have animated the history of
our people, and were so brilliantly
supported by our most eminent
philosophers, from Saco to Marti.
Benefit "For All America"
"Col. Batista, who has always
evidenced his enthusiastic pam
Americanism, wishes that our diplo-
matte policy with the United States
be proper instrument of co-opera-
ton and understanding for the
benefit of all Of America.
Il can say, for myself, that in
Evening star., 1941-01-17

speaks English, French, German
and Italian.
In his interview, DR.. Concheso
said:
"I am deeply grateful for the very
great distinction shown to me by
the President of the republic, Col.
Fulgencio Batista, in appointing me
as Ambassador to the United States
of America.
Cooperation to Be Guide.
I'm reciprocation for such signal
distinction, which increases my re-
sponsibility to such great extent, I
wish to state that my diplomatic
duties in the United States, close
to President Roosevelt, will at all
moments be inspired by the sense
of international cooperation and
mutual understanding which ami
mate the foreign policy of the Presi-
dent of Cuba and which is so ex-
emplarily shared by our illustrious
Evening star., 1941-01-17

to put new limits on American cot
ton acreage.
early this week the Agricul-
ture Department at Washington
offered cotton growers $25, ,0O0, 900
worth of cotton goods free II they
would reduced 1941 paintings
enough to cut a million bales
off the Governments previously
announced production goal Of
100000 bales.)
Urging immediate application of
crop control, Egyptian cotton inter-
ests pointed out that this country,
like America, has lost most of her
export markets as a result of the
war.
Except for Great Britain's timely
help in buying the entire current
Egyptian crop at reasonable prices,
merchants said, Egypt would have
been denied the comparative pros
perity she has been experiencing.
Evening star., 1941-01-17

For % years he was professor of
penal law at the National University
of Cuba and six years secretary of
that university's faculty.
He went to Europe in 1926 to pur-
sue special studies in applied GRIM
inal jurisprudence at the University
of Rome. He represented Cuba at
the 18th assembly of the League of
Nations on the Disarmament Com
mission at Geneva, and he attended
the recent Scientific Congress in
Washington, where he presented a
paper on the codification OF the
penal laws of the American conti-
nent.
Became Secretary Of Justice.
In September, 1888, he became
Secretary of Justice. Later he was
Cuban Secretary of Education, and
in this capacity he launched a pro-
gram for the standardization of
modern education, which was de-
scribed in work entitled ITO Lib
erty Through Culture"
He has been editor and director
of the Cuban Review of Private Law,
Havana, and is the author of a
number of studies and monographs
Reform of Penal Law" 1.-THE Guilt
of Penal Law" Toward Continental
Solidarity Through Democracy and
Justice" He has written a literary
essay, "Marti, Philosopher" study
of one of the greatest of Cuban
thinkers.
DR.. Concheso has been decorated
with number Of orders. including
the grade of grand official, order of
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes; the
grand cross of the Red Cross and
the order of Cadiz and Olympia. He
Evening star., 1941-01-17

the discharge Of my duties in the
United States I shall always strive,
with enthusiasm and with faith,
for a great and fruitful pan-Amer-
icanism-particularly on this dra-
matte historic occasion when all of
the Spanish-speaking nations are
showing evidence of the most firm
solidarity amongst themselves and
with the American Government and
people.
ITO the American Government
>and people we are offering the most
cordial and decided cooperation in
their great efforts to maintain the
predominance of right and of de-
mocracy in the whole continent and
in the Antilles"
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Egyptians Plan Slash
In Cotton Production

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Jan. 17.-Egyptian cotton
circles were reported yesterday to
be sponsoring a move for further
curtailment of the country's cotton
production.
Wide interest was aroused, it was
said, by the news the United States
Department Of Agriculture had acted
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Eight Flying Officers
Decorated by King
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 17-Eight r. A. r.
officers who have accounted for a
total Of So enemy planes were among
Is men decorated by King George
yesterday.
The decorations included 16 dis
tinguished Flying Crosses and 4
Distinguished Flying Medals.
Queen Elizabeth, who wore in the
Evening star., 1941-01-17

upturned brim Of her hat q diamond
r. A. F. crosswing brooch, stood
beside the King as he decorated the
flyers at an East Anglian hangar.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
WEATHER

Southern California Partly
cloudy Wednesday and Thursday
cloudy wednesday night; continu-
ed cool with maximum tempera-
ture Wednesday and Thursday near
"a; light to gentle westerly winds
L. S. Weather Bureau Ell Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
Our Dispute Not
With Government
Saws Strike Chief
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willing TO do anything they could
for the government, but that the
dispute was with Bethlehem Steel
company and not WITH the govern
ment."
Truman'S reference TO Mr.. RooSe-
velts proclamation addressed to the
nation last night, marked the first
official attempt to invoke his dec
laration that no strikes or lockoutS
shall be permitted to disrupt de-
tense production.
The defense mediation board pre-
pared TO submit its recommended
tons for settlement of the soft coal
dispute, calling upon southern oper-
ators TO grant the United Mine
Workers union (CIO) the 81 a day
wage scale granted them by north
ern operators.
Hook said the Shipyards dispute
will be settled when the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding corporation agrees TO
accept conditions that every other
shipbuilder in the area has ac-
cepted.' Bethlehem has refused to
accept contract conditions which
have been accepted by "l60 odd"
employers in that area, he declared.
The strike. called originally by
approximately 1000 machinists OF
the local AFL union and joined by
500 CIO machinists, has been re-
pudlated by AFL President william
Green and John P Frey. head OF
the AFL metal trades department
However. the IAN has given its
formal sanction TO the action.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
u. s. Near Limit
Short Of Fighting

the seas he answered NaZi Grand
Admiral Erich Raeder and German
spokesmen who within 48 hours had
challenged the Atlantic patrol and
threatened that their naval forces
would not submit to it.
Mr.. Roosevelt went further. He
said Iceland and Greenland were
Newfoundland and our own indus
trial areas of north. the east and
the midwest. He said that Nazi
control or occupation of the Azores
the Cape Verde islands or any is
lands in the Atlantic would jeop-
ardiZe our safety. He noted the re-
cent presence of the late German
battleship Bismarck in the vicinity
of Greenland and said that attacks
on shipping off the shores we are
protecting at present are an actual
military danger to the United Staes.
Therefore Mr., Roosevelt said we
would fight TO prevent axis control
or occupation of those Atlantic
islands, The safety belt which he
boldly drew around the western
hemisphere at a distance of some
200 or 300 miles off our shores when
Europe's war began was extended
suddenly with those words TO en-
circle the Cape Verdes which lie
1856 statute miles from Sandy Hook
but only 1000 miles from Natal,
Brazil.
Our Bunker Hill of tomorrow
he said, may be several thousand
miles from Boston,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
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putes between employees and en-
ployers but to those between oppoS-
ing units of capital and to juris-
dictional or other disputes between
competing labor organizations. 1t
was the most direct warning eves
uttered from the White House that
the American Federation of Labor
and the Congress of Industrial Or
CARNATIONS must learn to live to-
gether in peace.
The president re-asSerted the "an-
cient American doctrine of the free
dom of the seas although 1t is ma
terially restricted at the moment
by the neutrality act which forbids
our commerce with belligerent
states.
DEFIES AXIS
He said axis powers planned to
overthrow Europe. conquer Great
Britain, dispose of South American
nations as the Balkans were liqui-
dated and then to "strangle' Can
ada and the United States.
He countered that program with
a policy of active resistance in which
he pledged the United States to 'all
further methods or combinations Of
methods" necessary to deliver mu
nitions to Great Britain.
Our national policy today, there
fore he said, lis this:
First, we shall actively resist
wherever necessary, and with all
our resources, every attempt by Hit
Ter to extend his Nazi domination
to the western hemisphere, or to
threaten it. We shall actively re-
sist his every attempt to gain con-
troll of the seas. We insist upon the
vital Importance OF keeping Hitler
ism away from any point in the
world which could be used and would
the Americas.
Second. from the point of view
of strict naval and military nee
essity, we shall give every possible
assistance to Britain and to all
who with Britain, are resisting Hit
IcI lSil VI Ilo CQulNdlCllI Will lOl &c
of arms. Our patrols are helping
now to insure delivery of the need
ed supplies to Britain. All addit-
ional measures necessary to deliver
the goods will be taken. Any and
all further methods or combina-
tions of methods, which can or
should be utilized, are being devised
by our military and naval tech
nic:ans, who, with me, will work
out and put into effect such new
and additional safeguards as may
be needed.
BETTER SYSTEM
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early explained that this did
not mean the administration would
adopt the obsolete convoy system"
but that there would be a better
and larger Atlantic patrol. When Mr.
Roosevelt planked for freedom of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
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success on Crete. which is the chic
sea bastion of Suez.
The Axis forces that pushed into
Egypt were superior to the British
defenders, according to the Cairo
communique, but it remained to be
seen whether they could be expelled
as previous advances there have
been.
MAIN BATTLE COMING
The fact that Cairo said the Brit
ish withdrawal in western Egypt
was temporary" indicated that the
main battle was yet to come.
The British reported continued
progress in mopping up Italian
forces in Ethiopia, where one en-
tire italian division was surrender
ing, and said that the military
fronts were unchanged at Tobruk
and in Iraq.
In London, official sources said
that SCI Axis ships totalling 2.S73.-
900 tons had been sunk, captured
or scuttled since the war began
and that a new success had been
scored by British submarines at
tacking Axis ships in the Mediter-
ranean.
On the sea front, Britain reported
an enemy liner OF about $4,000 tons
carrying probably 5000 troops to
north Africa had been torpedoed
and that a French tanker of 5000
tons had been sunk despite an
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
Was II Terrific
Or Just Terrible?
Viewpoints Differ
Continued from Page y

principles.
South-Montgomery (Ala0 Adver-
tiser: This is what the United States
has been waiting for d. the United
States has set its course clearly. Tt
will sail that course to victory or
defeat. Does anyone doubt that it
will be victory?; Dallas Morning
News: Stripped of other verbiage,
Mr.. Roosevelt declared war q.
Only the nation can elect to go to
war and Mr.. Roosevelt in his forth
right speech recognized the
United States had declared war.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
Guards Placed at
Arizona Dams

PHOENIX, May % (UP)-Guards
We're placed today at all dams and
power houses owned by the Salt
River Valley Water Users associa-
ton as a precaution against sabo-
tage.
Notices were posted at all ap-
proaches to dams and power houses
declaring them to be premises pro-
tected by the national defense act.
Locks on motor control boxes at
spillway gates and powerhouses
were changed. association officials
said. The action was recommended
by q special agent of the federal
bureau of investigation.
Similar action was recommended
by the FBI for other vital Arizona
industries.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
Axis Scores New
Military Gains

Italian warship escort. Two other
enemr supply ships OF 4,Ooo and 5000
tons also were hit and probably
sunk. the admiralty said in state
ment that confirmed the previous
reported sinking of an italian de-
stroyer
British warships and planes were
pressing the searcn IN the north
Atlantic for the l0000-ton German
cruiser Prinz Eugcn, which fled
when the Royal navy closed in Tues
day morning to sinh the 35000-ton
German battleship Bismarck. There
were no definite reports of the
progress of the search.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
Heavy Bomber
Contract Let

WASHINGTON, May % (UP)-
The war department announced to-
day that Boeing Aircraft Co., Sc
attic, Wash, has accepted the terms
of a proposed contract to start im-
mediate production of heavy bomb
ers at its plant in Wichita, Kans.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
BETTER SYSTEM

White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early explained that this did
not mean the administration would
adopt the obsolete convoy system"
but that there would be a better
and larger Atlantic patrol. When Mr.
Roosevelt planked for freedom of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
Mrs. Lulu Atkinson
Buried on Coast

Funeral services were scheduled
Wednesday at Forest Lawn in Glen
dale for Mrs. Lulu Wells Atkinson,
widow of the widely known con-
tractor Lynn E. Atkinson.
Mrs. Atkinson died in Pasadena
late last week. She was well known
in Imperial Valley through busi-
ness interests and frequent visits.
She in survived by two sons. John
and Robert, both of Pasadena.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
BERLIN DECLARES
DESTROYER SUNK

BERLIN, May % (UP)- The Of
ficial German news agency DNB
said today German bcmbers at
tackled a strong British naval unit
west of northern Ireland this
morning, sank g destroyer, and
severely damaged a cruiser with a
heavy calibre bomb.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
LEGION POST MEETS

Charles C. Bramkamp Tuesday
night was host to members OF
Eoyce Aten post of the American
Legion at the Golden State Cream
cry plant in Ell Centre. After the
regular post business session Bram-
kamp served his guests refresh
ments from among the company's
products.