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Evening star., 1941-02-13
Transit Co. Asks
Right Convert
1871 Old Cars
increasing Costs
Cited as Rejected
Pleu Is Renewed

In a move to recoup at least sono
of the added costs resulting from
recent wage increases, the Capital
Transit Co. today filed plea with
the Public Utilities Commission for
permission to convert 181 of its old
tWo-man cars to One-man operation.
The company proposed to begin by
converting 30
Last October the commission re-
jected a petition by the company to
convert IS tWo-man cars, and the
company appealed the case to Dis
trlct Court, where it is now pending.
The commission had turned the
company down without prejudice"
as to future renewal.
In its plea filed today, E. D. Mer-
rill, transit company president,
argued that changes had occurred
and new conditions had arisen which
justified review. He estimated the
annual cost of an arbitration award
on wages and working conditions at
S380,O0O.
Increased Costs Cited.
N1I III Sdlu UIle 1OT
spread time beyond which rate
Of time and half must be paid was
reduced from 13 to 1912 hours and
the limit on platform time beyond
which overtime must be paid was
cut from 8ai to 812 hours. He said
other changes in working conditions
increased costs. He added that the
employment of additional extra"
men to avoid paying time-and-a-
half rates to men with regular runs
also involved extra costs.
Mr.. Merrill said that as the op-
portunity to employ additional men
become more and more limited by
defense activities" the burden of
the penalties" would be increased.
Cars Over Is Years Old.
consideration of increased costs.'
Mr.. Merrill said, "haS led to the
proposal to remodel certain cars to
accomplish desired economies and
to improve certain working condi-
tlonS and at somewhat less expense
than was contemplated in the for
mer application. The saving in cash
N-NPO44N4AbIA co ID dISO vi ScIlL III
that the company may have funds
available if it is to continue the
purchase Of Presidents Conference
Committee cars and to purchase Suf-
flclent additional equipment to keep
pace with the sudden growth in
Washington and in Government
employment resulting from the de-
fense program"
All 80 of the cars proposed for
conversion to one-man operation
now are % years old. All of the
remaining l01 in the whole pro-
gram are at least Is years old.
Nj. Merrill said improvements
will be made in the old cars as they
are converted, but that it was not
proposed to rewlnd the motors. as
was contemplated in the previous
request.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
zoning Board Permits
Use of Street House
By Executive Office
Old Porter Residence
Expected to Be Occupied
By Defense Housing Unit

Establishment of a branch of the
executive Office of the President in
the old Porter house at 1000 I street
NV, where defense housing re-
search work will be conducted, was
approved yesterday by the District
Board of zoning Adjustment.
An appeal for such permission was
sought by the Library of Congress
which now owns the premises. 1t is
understood the place will be used by
the Division of Defense Housing Co.
ordination. The property is located
opposite Offices of the Central Hous-
ing Committee.
Granted For the Duration"
|. The Adjustment Board granted
use of the property as an "educa-
tional institution" for the duration
of the emergency"
Five oJher appeals far variations
or exceptions from existing zoning
rules were granted as follows:
By Waggaman & Brawner. for j.
w. Campbell, tenant, to continue op-
Grafton of sand pit at Riggs road
and Chillum place NE. This ap-
proval was on a conditional basis.
BY Roger j. Whiteford and Edgar
N. Brawner, trustees, to extend re-
tail store and parking lot use on the
west side of Georgia avenue between
Underwood and Van Buren streets
NV, this also being subject to a
condition.
Remodeling Permitted.
BY Nick Bombard, Inc, to remodel
building at 1414 Florida avenue NE.
to permit automobile body repairing
as we'll as auto storage.
BY Wilbur Rogers, Inc, to permit
erection of a second-story rear ad-
dition at 1911 F street NV.
BY M. H. Fearnow, to permit erec-
ton of a two-story rear addition to
the dwelling at 435 Seventh street
SW
Evening star., 1941-02-13

Jean did not accompany the Grand
Duchess to Mount Vernon. Instead,
they spent the afternoon on Capt.
tol Hill, where Chairman George
Of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and Chairman Bloom
OF the House Foreign Affairs Com
mIttee introduced them to commit
tee members
Sight-seers Trail Party.
With Mrs. Roosevelt. the Minister
of Luxembourg and Nine Hugues
LIE Calais and the Grand Duchess
lady waiting, Nine. Joseph Bech,
her highness visited the tombs of
George and Martha Washington
and strolled over the grounds. Be
hind her trailed a crowd of camera
swapping sight-seerS.
At one point, the Grand Duchess
waited patiently for about five
minutes while Mrs. Roosevelt STOP
ped to chat with a sightseer who
had accosted her. c. c. Wall. super
intendent of the mansion. filled the
minutes with an explanation of the
slave system.
Within the mansion, the Grand
Duchess protested in her soft con-
tralto at the waste of starting a
new page in the guest book when so
few names were on the last page.
She signed where she was told, how
ever-"Charlotte, Grand Duchess of
Luxembourg"
Smiles al Comment.
Mrs Roosevelt, whose frequent
trips to Mount Vernon qualify her
as a guide, led her into Nellie Custis'
bedroom. At the low-sided baby's
crib, Mrs. Roosevelt commented that
she couldn't understand why the
babies didn't fall out.
Asked what she thought of the
new wallpaper in the Gusts bed
room. Mrs. Roosevelt objected that
it 'wiggled too much" The Grand
Duchess smiled.
In the outdoor kitchen, Mrs
Horace Mann ToWner, regent of the
Mount Vernon Ladies Association,
started to show where the beaten
biscuits were made. 1t came out,
however, that the Grand Duchess
had never heard of beaten biscuits.
Mrs. Roosevelt promptly promised to
serve them at the White House.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Defamation Contest
Set at Charlotte Hall
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CHARLOTTE HALL, Md. Feb. 10.
The 47th annual defamation con-
test OF the Charlotte Hall Military
Academy will be held here Satur-
day night, with IA cadets participant
ing in the final round.
Gordon Hittenmark, radio an
nouncer, has been named sponsor
OF the l941 Sentinel senior annual
of the academy. Cadet Kenneth
Volk is editor.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Philippines Is Topic
Of Capt. J. D. Croio

Conditions in the Philippines will
be discussed by Capt. John D. Craig
merchant marine officer and world
traveller, in lecture tomorrow night
at Constitution Hall before members
of the National Geographic Society
Capt. Craig recently concluded a
six-month study of the islands, dur
ing which he talked with both Phil
lpplne authorities and natives, and
made a film picture in color. showing
close-ups of the various tribes, in.
Guiding the Moros and Igorote head
hunters.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Pastor Killed as Auto
PIunqes From Halfway

BALTIMORE, Feb. 13 (P.-The
Rev. Charles A. Frick, rs, of Downs
vile, Md, was killed yesterday when
his automobile left the Frederick
road and plunged down 30-foot
embankment near Cooksville, 7 miles
west of Ellicott City.
His wife, Mrs. Ada F'rick, who was
sitting beside him, was uninjured.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Make February Safer

In February Beware Of:
l. Crossing streets carelessly
in rainy weather, particularly at
night. The four pedestrians
killed in February, 1910, were
struck in wet weather, three
after dark.
z. Crossing street at a point
other than a crossWalk or cross
ing against a red light. The
former cost two lives in Febru-
ary. 1910; the latter, one. The
fourth pedestrian was struck by
a hit-run motorist at an uncon-
trolled intersection.
OF the four pedestrians, three
were so years of age or older.
The fifth February victim was a
truck driver killed in a collision
with an automobile.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Hearing Set
For Dingemdn
Tomorrow

Harry !. Dineeman, ousted city
councilman. will be arralgned on
states evidence tomorrow at IL
a. m. John 4. Rieea, assistant
prosecutor. said late last night,
after the information was filed
with the court by Prosecutor VII
liam Z, Bowling.
Dingeman is accused OF accept
ing a bride for his vote on the
awarding of the Herman Gardens
housing project. He stood mute on
his first arraignment.
Another ouSted councilman John
+. Hamilton. was under deferred
sentence today with his bond of
$4,000 continued. after pleading
guilty 10 accepting bribe OF
$4,000 for his vote on the project.
Sentence was deferred by Re-
coTfeT-S j u d { c Christopher +.
Stein. on request of Bowling, who
said that Hamilton had been very
cooperative and was 10 be wit
ness in several other trials"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
.Wife's A|ibi
Fails Bandit

The alibi Of attractive Mrs. Ar
lene Koren, 26. that her husband,
John Koren. 80, was with her in a
doctors office at the time of a
1898 holdup failed to impress a
Jury in Recorders Court and
Koren was found guilty of rob-
berry armed.
Koren was accused Of being one
of the two men who held up Alex
ander McAliSter. bookkeeper for
the Davey Fuel and Supply Com
pany. January 16. near the office,
at 1850 Dexter boulevard.
Mrs. Koren said Koren had gone
to the doctors office with her that
afternoon. Her testimony was SUBJ
Stimulated by the doctor but police
said Koren could have gone to
the office and participated later
in the robbery. Koren will he
sentenced later. He lived at 1913
Cruise avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Obituary
Miss Lily A. Darling
Detroit Teachers Burial
in AImont Sunday

The body of Miss Lily A. OAR
ling will be taken to Almont,
for burial Sunday after funeral
services at II a. m. tomorrow IN
the William r. Hamilton Com
panv. 1878 Cass avenue.
Miss Darling. a school teacher
in Detroit for 20 years. died yes
tcrday after a long illness. She
lived at 3 Marston avenue. She
had taught at Kennedy and
Cooper schools and at the time of
her death was teacher at Nc
Michael Intermediate School.
Born IN Shelby. Mich. Miss
Darling came to Detroit IS years
age She was graduated from
Ypsllanti Normal School and the
Edna ChafTce School of Express
sion. She leaves a brother. Frank
Darling Of WarrenSburg. n. y.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Two Officials
Of Transfers
Union Face Trial

Two officials in the powerful
Transfers union must face trial
in federal court for alleged VIOLA
ton Of the antitrust laws. follow
Ing a ruling today by Federal
Judge Frank A. Picard, who dis
missed without prejudice a motion
TO quash the charges.
They are Bert Brennan, presl-
dent OF Transfers Local 337 OF the
Food. Beer and Soft Drink Drivers
and Helpers, a n d James Hoffa,
business agent. Four waStepaper
companies and seven company of
ficialS are included in the same
federal indictment. returned last
December. All have been under
bond since that time.
L. $. ATTORNEYS
John c. Lehr. United States dis
trict attorney here, said he will
Immediately request the govern
merit antitrust divisional head
office in Chicago TO
dispatch special assistant United
States attorneys TO Detroit TO pre-
pare the case for trial.
Others indicted are the Levine
Wastepaper Company, Monroe
Wastepaper Company, Standard
Mill Supply. Inc. Wholesale Waste
paper Company, julius Rotenberg,
Sam Lieberman. Isaac Green.
Peter Goldstcin. David and Samuel
Levine and Arthur Harris.
GOVERNMENTS CHARGE
The federal indictment charges
them with conSpiring with the
union officials to drive their COM
petitors out of business by strike
threats and refusal to admit en-
ployes of competitors TO join the
local.
Brennan's local is one of Is af-
filiateS in Detroit of the Team
sters' international. Approximately
22000 men belong to the Is
affiliateS and many have figured
in a series of Detroit strikes, in
GLIDING moving van and brewery
drivers. delivery trucks. building
supplies, long distance haulers and
[ he current lumber truckers
strike.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Ask u. s. Qudsh
Strike Suits

Motions to dismiss two damage
suits filed against the CLIO by
Paul j. Padgett and Melvin
Bartling. Ford Motor Company
employees who allege they were
beaten during the Ford strike
were filed in Federal Court today
by William Henry Gallagher,
UAW-CIO attorney.
The two suits name the Com
muniSt Party of the United States
as a co-defendant and request a
court order restraining the two
defendants from interfering with
the plaintiffs.
- Gallagher based his motions on
the grounds that no federal queS-
ton is involved there is no di-
versity of citizenship which re-
quires action in Federal Court.
and the allegations of the plain
tiffs were made in bad faith and
with full knowledge that they
were untrue.
Gallagher'S motion states that
the real plaintiff in the suits is
the Ford company which is using
the court as "a forum TO dis
seminate false propaganda and to
injurc and attack the good name
of the Go"
Judge Frank a. Picard will rule
on the motions and on the re-
straining order next Monday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

To
Bel Degree

To counter defense charges that
an attack confession was obtained
from James Ziegler. is, of 9599
Goodwin avenue. by a third de-
gree. DR.. Austin Howard Of Re
ceiving Hospital is expected 10
take the stand today as the trial
winds up before Judge John Y.
Brennan and a jury OF 10 women
and two men.
Doctor Howard examined Zieg-
Ter lust after the confession was
obtained by the prosecutors Of
fee. II was read into the record
IN court yesterday. and IN i
Ziecler admitted fracturing the
skull Of a l6-year-old girl and then
attacking her in an alley in the
rear OF $3.50 Oakland avenue.
The girl a student IH&orthern
High School. lay unconscious in
the alley for some time.
in his confession ZieCler adj
mitted first seeing the girl as she
walked toward a nearby theater.
He went home obtained a 3-feet
length of iron pipe from his back
yard. then accosted the girl. When
she resisted him, he said. he hit
her. apparently fracturing her
skull with the first blow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Threat Charged
To Defendant
In Death Trial

Homicide squad Lieut.. Leo Doyle
will testify today in the murder
trial of Carl Ventiniglia, AZ. OF
5216 Helen avenue, accused OF
Staying Vincent Repsys. 81. in a
beer garden last fall during a
quarrel over attentions TO Mrs.
Ann Repsys. wife of the victim.
The state contends Ventiniglia
killed Repsys so that he might
marry Mrs. Repsys, and offered as
testimony the statement of Bart
Spears, a friend of Mrs. RepsyS.
Spears said Ventiniglia threat
ened him one day at the beer gar
den and said;
81 hear you've been running
around with Ann. Quit IL or I'll
bump you Off"
Spears said he did not return
to the beer garden after the
threat.
The case is being heard before
Recorders Judge w. Mckay Skill
man.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

Gen. Hugh :. job on,
"America's Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

should do The investigation fol- Charles Dggs The report
lowed the charges made the committee made
by State Senators Stanley Nowak mendatons.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Two Bolivian Filters
Crash al Capital

WASHINGTON, May SIMS
"A projected 10000 mile flight
from the United States to Bolivia
ended in disaster at the very start
for two high Bolivian air force
officers.
Their cabin monoplane rose 80
feet. then crashed in flames near
the Washington airport, killing
Capt. Rafael SuarcZ- RivaS. aide TO
the chief of the Bolivian air corps
and seriously injured Capt. AL
berto Taborga, aide of the presi-
dent of Bolivia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

Miss MOntOur, FL, of 2111
Aline avenue, pictured at
court when she and Inkster's
former Police Chief Ben Lans-
berg were held on $1,000 bond
each and action on their
habeas corpus writ delayed 48
hours to allow the prosecu-
tors office more time to in
vestigate their arrests In an
alleged Inkster policy house.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Hump Hills 2
Collide, Fleeing CaUe-in
Workers Break Skulls
Times staff Correspondent,

LANSING. May 9.-Two men
were killed when they bumped
heads trying 10 escape a sewer
caNe-in in Delhi Township.
The victims were John Harris.
80 of 9l6 South Sycamore street,
and Ernest Martha. IS. of West
r1ir7ffa- Both har fractured SKuiiS.
Witnesses said they We're work.
inc on the sewer project when
they saw sand and clay falling
toward them. Franteally attempt
ing 10 reach the top. they
coliidcd.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Woman
To Rum Ring

The government today intro
duced testimony allegedly linking
Mrs. Abe Moss. 80, of 746 Colling-
wood avenue, with the operations
of an international alcohol snug
Cling ring.
Abe Moss, her husband, is also
a defendant in the trial, before
Federal Judge Edward J. Monet.
Harold w. Barron, 20. of Wind
Sor, named as a co-conSpirator in
the indictment, said that after de-
liveries of Struggled alcohol were
made by the gang in Windsor, tele-
phone calls reporting the success
of the operation would be made to
Mrs. Moss in Detroit.
Twenty-four defendants h Ia V @
pleaded guilty in the case, and
seven others besides Mr.. and Mrs.
Moss are standing trial.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Release
Of2Angers
Bowling

Angered by the release Of two
prisoners from Jail at the telephone
request of Circuit Judge George
B. Murphy, Prosecutor William E
Bowling today said he would de-
mand that Sheriff Andrew c. Baird
and Police Commissioner Frank d.
EaHfah ignore -stct requests in
cases of persons held for the pros
ecutor'S office.
''If we are going to he
thwarted in our investigation of
crime we might as well throw
up the sponge" said Bowling.
eff a Judge wants to release a
prisoner, he must come down to
the Jail and hold court and fix
bond. I am going to demand
that no more telephone requests
for releases be permitted"
Dowling'S ire was aroused after
Jurge Murphy requested the re-
lease Of Benjamin Landsburg, for
mer Inkster police chief and Miss
Mary Montour, y. of PHI kean
avenue, InkSter. They were ar
rested in a raid upon an alleged
policy house and taken to Jail for
further questioning.
Landsburg and Miss Montour
later appeared in court on writ
but Recorders Judge Christopher
E. Stein ordered them held on
$1,000 bond and made the writ
returnable tomorrow. Meanwhile
will question them. Lands
burg. recently convicted at the
county graft trial, is awaiting sem
tenCe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Council Probes
Dole Housing

Common Council today was
studying a report of special in
vestigating committee that well
fare families we're housed in some
cases in subStandard buildings and
that the welfare department had
miSuSed the waGe-work program
by having indigents do work which
regularly employed city workers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Gypsy Cure
She Arrives With Spring /;
His $42 Vanishes
Harbinger of Spring:

~ ~ - " = II IT =
Joseph Janececk. SIS. of 1861
Greeley avenue, told police he was
sitting on his porch when a 35-
year-old Gypsy woman came
along. She told Janececk, a rheu-
matism sufferer. there was to be
a meeting at City Hall for those
with his ailment. After her visit
Janececk found his billfold and
S42 gone. too.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-01
FOR SIBERIAN DEFENSE

Not many miles west of the westermost tip of the Seward Peninsula lies Siberia, the outfung pos session of Red Russians battling to retain their European homelands.
 And quartered on that Siberian soil is the Soviet Red Banner" army, believed to number some half million men, equipped with 5000 tanks, 5000 mored cars and 5000 planes
 They are the pride of the Soviet armed forces, these Siberian troops, and they have proved them selves more than once by giving crack Nipponese forces maungs in border encounters
 Despite recent rumors. it is not believed that there have been any sizable movements of these Siberian soldiers to European Russia reinforce ments in the death struggle against the Nazis For the Stalin advisers, while keeping both fists pounding at the Germans, have kept watchful eyes on the willy Japanese Right now, with the new Tojo war cabinet ruling the Tokyo roost there seems less likelihood than ever before that the Siberian defense forces will be moved west
 Indeed if pushed too hard by the Nazis, it seems more probable that the Sovets will drop back to a new defense front in the Ural Mountains behind which canny Joe Stan has centered his most intensive industrial developments, than that those Siberian troops will be called away from their constant vigil on the western shores of Boring Strait.
 Meantime, speculation in England has been rife regarding the possible of the Sberians as fresh endorsements against the supposedly weary German army. Those half-million fresh troops. thrown into the fight right might de- cisively turn the tide of battle of the British war chiefs believe
 Although have comment from the Stalin headquarters regarding the matter. the sup position has been advanced that if joint action on the part of the English and U s. forces could guarantee to successfully defend Siberia against Japanese invasion the road would be cleared to take those Siberian defenders to reinforce the Mos COW front
 AS visualize this plan, there may be several serious objections such a course of action.
 For instance, why should Stalin accept the guar of England and the United States, two nations so often in the past hostile to Communist Russia,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-01

that they will protect and hold for Russia such an important segment of the Soviet Union as Siberia? And if such plan were put in action, wouldn't that be just what the Axis is hoping to accomplish by drawing part of the British fleet and a major portion of the U. S. fleet into the Pacific thus leaving the Atlantic with less defense against Ger man war?
 If warfare in the Pacific draws too many of our boats away from convoy duty in the Atlantic how can continue with aid to Britain?
 Under rapidly expanding defense activity program each day thousands of rivets and tons of steel plate being poured into the production of new ships for navy but we are under the im- pression that the greatest majority of our battle wagons now afoat outmoded as to be quite ineffective in modern warfare
 We hope to see British endorsements bolster ing up the Russian lines. but the Siberian army left right where it is. If the Japanese go on the war path, we believe our navy handle the situa- tion far as keeping the Nippons from any attack against American possessions, but the added re- sponsbility of protecting Siberia might be the break ing point.