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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-13
Battle Scales
New Heights
of Fero(ity
Red Aviators Fly
British Warplanes;
One City Given Up
International News services Cable

MOSCOW. Sept. 13.-The fate
of Leningrad, Russia's second city
and once its capital, hung in the
balance today as Soviet and Cer-|
man forces clashed in bloody CONF
bat for its possession.
Vice Foreign Commissar S. AZ
Lozovsky. chief Moscow spokes-
man. declared a battle of 'incredi1
BILE ferocity" is raging at the APP
proaches to Leningrad and de-
Scribed the German losses az
tremendous" ~
1.-The struggle has assumed
such proportions" he said, and
IL of such a character that the
Germans cannot continue IL for
long"
BRITISH PLANES AID
Huge dir BATTLES accomp6nicd
the great ground struggle before
Leningrad and it was revealed that
British fighting planes-Spitfires
and Hurricanes-piloted by Rus
sian airmen are taking a major
role in the combat.
tThe London Daily Mail re-
ported from Stockholm that the
battle for the great Soviet naval
base at Kronstadt has begun in
earnest.
This account said artillery
duels are in progress near Kron-
stadt and that German planes
have mined the waters nearby.
Russian minesweepers nightly
clear channels through the mine
fields for Soviet warships, which
persistently harass the German
battalions pushing down the
Finnish coast, the dispatch said.)
The Soviet high commands mid,
night communique reported con-
tinued fighting along the entire
front but admitted that Russian
forces had evacuated Chernigov or
the Desna River. 80 miles north.
east of Kiev and 20 miles south
east of Gomel.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-13

Continued on Next Page, Col. {:
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Make August Sofer

Every blot is a District traffic
death. The toll thus far this
year greatly exceeds that re-
ported here during the same
period in 1910.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
29th Division Begins
Registering Today
For Convention
Committee Meetings Also
Arranged; Floor Show
And Dance Set Tonight

The 29th Division Association to-
day began registration of several
thousand members for its annual
convention in the Willard Hotel.
During the day a series of commit
tee meetings and luncheons will be
held by various company groups. At
8 pm. there will be a floor show,
followed by dance.
Formal opening ceremonies will
begin at 2 pm. tomorrow with varl-
Gus group representatives participate
ing. District Commissioner Mason
will extend the citys greetings or
send a representative, it was an
nounced.
Chairman Reynolds of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee and
Senator Tydings, Democrat, OF
Maryland are to address the banquet
tomorrow night. In addition former
Gov. Harold Hoffman OF New Jer-
sey has been asked to speak. Ihe
latter two are 29th Division men.
Memorial services will be held
Sunday in Arlington National Gene
terry with wreath-laying ceremonies
at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier. The services will be at the
grave of Gen. Charles G. Morton,
war time head of the division.
A feature of the program Monday
will be a parade by members OF the
new 29th Division stationed at Fort
Meade, Md, for those OF the old
World War group. The convention
will close with luncheon in honor
of the new national commander and
a meeting of the National Executive
Committee.
Originally the 29th Division was
composed of National Guard troops
from the District, Maryland, Vlr-
ginia, New Jersey and Delaware.
Later requirements were taken from
throughout the country.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

the body was found in a first floor
bedroom.
Police said at the time that the
murder followed the same pattern
as had been reported in six previous
cases. The murderer, according to
police then, came to houses adver-
Using rooms" usually about dusk.
He asked for the landlady or her
assistant and was shown about the
house.
When he was satisfied that no
other person was near enough to
hear him, he criminally attacked
his victims, robbed them and in the
case of three of six colored women
attacked, he had strangled them,
either with his hands or with a
cloth.
Homicide squad detectives cruised
around the neighborhood with for
mer victims of his attacks, seeking to
identify the slayer of Mrs. Steward.
Victims were also called to police
line-ups but failed to identify the
suspects.
No. 6-Lucy Kidwell, 56-year-
old colored woman, was strangled
and criminally attacked in a base
ment rear room of her home at 307
Virginia avenue Sc. on September
81, 1910.
The circumstances of her death
were similar in almost every detail
with the death of the Steward wom-
an. She, too, had advertised a room
for rent. Her body was found by a
nephew, Alvin Holmes.
No. 7-Police are still investigating
the case of another colored woman
said to have been criminally at
tackled and murdered. Her name
and the date Of her death were not
given.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

4 briet case history of crimes
police say they haze SolDed 1eith
the confession OF JarDis r. Catoe
tollolUS:
No. /. The nude and garrotted
body of Miss Jessie Elizabeth Strict,
23-year -old War Department ste
nographer, was found in a garage
in the rear of TIT @ street NV,
on the morning of June 16.
Miss Strieff, who had come here
from her Iowa home only eight
months before, had left her apart
ment at 2110 Nineteenth street NV,
the previous afternoon, telling her
roommate she was going to get some
butter for a pie she was making for
her f1ance.
Dressed in a bright blue raincoat
over a playsuit, she went out into a
driving rain. When she failed to
return, her fiance, who had been in
vited to dinner, notified police she
was missing. The following morn
ing, a maid employed at the @
street address discovered her nude
body in the garage.
The girl had been criminally at
tackled. Her body was bruised and
her back bore marks OF being
dragged. She had on only her socks
and sport shoes.
Special Squad Put on Case.
In the face of rising indignation
a 25-man special squad of detectives
was put on the case. Reporters
thought they had located the deli.
catessen where she had bought the
butter. White umbrellas similar
to the one the girl was said to have
carried, were turned in to police
by the score.
Police for a time held the janitol
of Miss Strieff's apartment. He wa.
cleared as was the man who hae
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Dupont Tenants Seek
Injunction 10 Prevent
Use as Office Building
II Plaintiffs Assert
Government leuse
Hos Not Been Signed

Eleven tenants of the Dupont Cir
Gle apartments yesterday asked Dis
trict Court for a temporary injunc-
ton to restrain the operators of the
apartment hotel from converting the
structure into an office building for
the Federal Government
The court also was requested to
order Dupont Circle, Inc, not to per-
NIT any one on the premises except
those legally entitled" to be there,
such as tenants. guests, employees
and those on business with tenants
of the hotel. Some Government
employees already are occupying the
fourth and fifth floors.
A third request was that the cor
poration be restrained from placing
in the building machines. furniture
or equipment of any nature not
necessary to carrying on the apart
ment hotel business. This would
force out any typewriters or Office
furniture now being used in the
apartment by Government employees.
Although Acting Attorney General
Biddle has ruled that a tentative
agreement between the Government
and the corporation for the Govern
ment to take over the building is
binding, the tenants told the court
yesterday they were advised no lease
has yet been signed. They further
said the Government had been in
formed that certain tenants had
leasehold rights on their apartments
Three of the plaintiffs told the
court they operated business in the
building and stood to lose money
they had invested in equipping their
shops should the building be con-
verted. Samuel Scida operates a
barber shop; Joseph Paiano, a
beauty parlor. and w. Charles Brown
o newspaper and magazine stand.
Formerly, approximately 900 indi-
viduals lived in the building, ac-
cording to the suit, but number
Of them moved after they were given
notices that because of the needs
of national defense" the firm had
agreed to lease the building to the
Government. The Government
moved in employees on the fourth
and fifth floors on July Is, it was
said.
Other plaintiffs included Margaret
]. Macmillan, Teresa S. Smith, ".
Volta Parma, George E. Reedy,
Naneita Antolotti, Helen H. Weed.
Nina M. lizard and jeanette W..
Moffatt.
The suit was filed through At
torneys Martin F. O'Donoghue and
Thomas X. Dunn.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

Tips from the public were sifted
by homicide squad detectives with
out results. Suspect after suspect
was crossed off the list. A detective
sergeant was dispatched to Kansas
City, the slain brides former home,
and returned without any evidence
to help solve the case.
No. 3. Mrs. Evelyn D. Anderson.
26-year old New York waitress, was
found dead on a vacant. lot in The
Bronx, New York City, on the
evening of August 4. Strangled and
assaulted, she had been dropped
from a car shortly before her body
was found.
Police learned she had said good
by to her husband, who was leaving
on his vacation, early in the morning
and had left for work. In memo
book in her home, police found the
number of her watch, which was
missing when the body was found.
Discovery of the watch in Harlem
pawn shop led the trail to the man
arrested here yesterday.
Strangled in Basement.
No. Ada Fuller, colored, 81, Of
no fixed address, was strangled and
criminally attacked in the basement
of an apartment house at 1882
Corcoran street NV. Her body was
found by two colored women on the
evening Of January %. She was
taken to the District Morgue, where
her body was identified by her sister,
Mary jackson of 1918 Thirteenth
street NV.
No. 5-Mattie Steward, colored, 48,
was found dead by roomer Of the
house where she lived at 1923 Swami
street NV, on November %, 1910.
Blood stains in the basement tndi-
Gated the criminal attack and muir
der had taken place there although
Evening star., 1941-08-29
| Baltimore Bank
| Employs Girl
| AS Runner
tia A SSoci q tod Press

by the Associated Press.
| BALTIMORE, Aug. 29.-Maybe
Its a trend: A Baltimore bank has
employed its first girl runner - a
lblond-and expects to add four
more.
Miss Audrey Pfeiffer, pretty 18-
year-old high school graduate, is
! the first girl ever employed in that
capacity in Baltimore.
! Of1cials of the Fidelity Trust Co.
said they chose her after discover
ing that defense work had snapped
! up many boys who otherwise would
have been available for such jobs.
Theoretically, Miss Pfeiffer might
become president of the bank
likely prospects among the runners
advance to typists, clerks, tellers and
key men-but right now she's busy
performing Office boy tasks allotted
, to runners.
r. Howard Strott, the banks per-
sonnel manager, said when the
banks other four runners-all male
are replaced, he plans to hire four
more girls.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
History of Solved Staying Cases
Rising Indignation Followed Killing of Strieff Girl
In June; Clue After Clue Had Been Discarded

rented car in which police found
bloodstains. Screams heard in near
by Maryland the night of the girls
disappearance led police there.
Hundreds of other clues were
checked and discarded.
Sand in the girls shoes was
checked and the F. B. I. joined in
scientific tests of the girls body.
Interviews of every person in the
neighborhood proved fruitless.
AS weeks passed and the police
were unable to determine the scene
of the crime or locate any of the
missing clothing, two police in
vestigations were instigated, one on
Capitol Hill, the other at the Dis
trict Building.
Abramowitz Staying.
No. 2. Mrs. Rose SimonAbramowitz
28-year-old bride of less than a
month, was criminally assaulted and
strangled in her apartment at 1901
Sixteenth street NV. on March 8.
She was found lying in the bed
room on a ron-away bed by her
husband, Barney Abramowitz, 25-
year-old Social Security Board en-
ploye.
The time of the murder was es-
tablished by occupants of two near
by apartments who heard a woman
scream sharply and sounds of a
scuffle during the morning.
Investigators at first believed the
young woman knew her assailant
because, her husband said, she al
ways used q chain lock on the door
which allowed it to open only about
inches.
On the newly painted front dool
was a dark friction mark which
might have been made by hee
marks as some one carried thu
! struggling young woman down tn,
hallway to the bedroom.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Scientist Transferred

DR.. John R. Matchett, chemist OF
the Bureau of Narcotics, has re-
signed his Treasury Department
post and has been transferred to
the Agriculture Department, it was
announced yesterday. He came to
the Treasury in 1881 from the Uni
versity of Chicago and until 1884
was in the laboratory of the Alcohol
Tax Unit. During the last three
years he has been doing marihuana
research work. He has been as
signed to the agricultural research
laboratory at Albany, Calf.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
EvongeIistic Meeting
To Hear Business Man

r. G. LeTourneau, road equip
ment manufacturer, will be the guest
speaker at 7:45 pm. tomorrow at
the evangelist tent, Wisconsin ave-
nue. and Calvert street NV.
Beginning Sunday night, DR..
James Rayburn, Kansas evangelist,
will speak at 7:45 o'clock nightly
until September IA. Meetings at
the tent are under the direction of
William C. Bond, jr., president of
the Laymen's Evangelistic Associa-
ton of Washington, and Glenn w.
Wagner, president of the Washing
ton Bible Institute.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

90 . . .
August, 1910
Aug. I IAsq. I Aug. 9 Aug. II Aug. fS
. . . . .
Aug. 75IAss. III Aug. 81
o . .
Evening star., 1941-08-29
August, l94l

Avg. 6IAus. Y Aug. 22lAus. q
90 . . .
Evening star., 1941-08-29

StduudIu EIoflSlOItSs 4
At this point, the Commissioners
pointed out that the District let 125
separate contracts for paving and
similar work during the period men
toned, and of this number only 81
were awarded to the four contrac-
tors mentioned in the Warren re-
port.
"T'he report is so drawn" the city
heads said. "as to leave the impress
sion that the four contractors named
were in collusion. which resulted in
a substantially equal division of the
work, and that such contractors per-
formed all of the highway work OF
the District during this period. Such
is not the case. During the same
period, the District let highway
contracts to the total value of So
SIS, ,467 to IA different contractors"
Evening star., 1941-08-29

In August, Beware OF:
l. Crossing a street at some
point other than a croSSwalk.
Three of the five pedestrians
killed in traffic in August, 1910.
were fatally injured while COM
mitting this unsafe act.
2. The hours between 5 and
9pm. Four persons met death
within this four-hour period
in August last year.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-02-21
JEWS IN
SPORTS
By MoRR1s WIENER

country = the sports program at
that Jerusalem institution is pro-
crossing rapidly. And, the impOr-
tant thing is, come next July, this
singular university will be ceIe-
brating its second annual sports
meeting. Every contestant in the
program will be Jewish. For us, as
a writer of Jews in Sports, such
an athletic carnival is copy on a
golden platter.
We recall with what amusement
and tongue-in-cheek attitude the
sport pages of America greeted
the announcement sent out by the
Yeshiva College in New York that
it was planning to sponsor an ath-
letic program in competition with
other colleges. And, despite the
tremendous success scored by Jews
who had captured the basketball
game, the sports writer's through
out the country did not think a
basketball team from an all Jew
ish college could be anything but
a laughing matter. Of course, the
success of the Yeshiva basketeers
was not nearly as phenomenal as
the records of N.Y.U., or City Col
lege or Temple, or Tulsa or Stan
ford, but for a school whose stu
dents were intensely serious about
their scholastic results the very
fact that Yeshiva College was par.
ticipating in intercollegiate ath'
letics was a tremendous step for.
ward from any athletic angle. 81
| it is with the lads and lassies al
Hebrew University in Palestine.
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able to unite in a common pur-
pose German and Pole, Hungarian
n d Hollander, Englishman and
Alsatian. Such a society, he was
convinced, would not only develop
mutual liberation and respect
a m ong the various sections of
American Jewry and create har-
mony in Jewish life, but would
also contribute materially to the
intellectual and moral advance
ment of the Jewish community.
Who was this man Jones who
fathered the B'nai Birth? Strange
to say, we know little about him,
but that little is worth telling.
Jones was born in Hamburg, Ger
many, December %, 1911. From
the minutes of New York Lodge
No. 1, of which he was the first
secretary, it appears that he was
fairly well educated. When he con-
ceived the idea Of B'nai Birth, he
was a young man of few worldly
goods but of considerable stand
ing in the Jewish community. A
machinist by trade, he was prom
inent in the affairs of Congrega-
ton Anshe Chesed, New York;
third Oldest synagogue, of which
he was secretary for some years
during the late 1905 and early
1840's. Later he left Anshe Chesed
to help Rabbi Leo Merzbacher
one of the earliest members OF
B'nai Birth, found the Cultus We.
rein in 1843, which subsequently
became Temple Emanuel, the ia
nous Reform congregation.
Almost from the day B'na
Birth was organized Jones de-
voted himself to it unstintingly
He was secretary of the frs
lodge. From 1851 to 1855 he wa
grand saar (president) of the Su
preme Lodge. At the time of hi!
death on February 16, 1866, hi
was president of District Crane
Lodge No. 1, which he had helped
to organize. His death left hi:
family in serious straits, anc
B'nai Birth raised a fund for theil
relief. When Mrs. Jones died al
the age of 81 in 1881, the fund was
diverted to educational purposes
Benjamin F. Peixotto, who
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-02-21
M HEBREW UNIVERSITY
THE SPORTS PROGRAM

A sound mind in a sound body
|os been one of the educational
ms the world over and the ath-
stic carnivaIs and the sports jam
|Orees have proved the best expe-
|Ient vet to meeting this funda-
beutal principle. The Hebrew Uni
|ersity in Jerusalem in an about
|ropram for intramural sports is
hiding such a course both plea
INT and practical from a student
|oiut of view as well as from the
|igher pedagogical angle. How
|Ver, although intercollegiate COM
|etition in Palestine is still some
hing of a dream-The Hebrew
University is the only one in the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-02-21

knew Jones intimately and who
was president of B'nai Birth when
the founder died, told the 1866
convention of B'nai Birth that
Jones was universally mourned
as a true friend of humanity, a
philanthropist whose goodness of
heart never denied aid to the suf-
ferer nor sympathy to the unfor-
tunate."
No monuments have been erect
ed to Jones; neither have biogra-
plies been written about him. He
needs none. His monument is the
B'nai Birth and his biography is
its history.
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who died just Is years ago. |
Unlike the founders of the other
major national Jewish bodies,
whose fame kept pace with the
continued service of the agencies
they created, Jones has been the
forgotten man of American Jew
ish history, whose name and life
are known to few, even in B'nai
Birth. It is time he were lifted
from the limbo and restored to
his rightful place.
When B'nai Birth was born in
1843, the American Jewish COM
munity consisted of some $4,000
men, women and children, large
numbers of whom were recent i'm
migrants from Germany, Poland,
a n d Bohemia. Organized Jewish
life conferred around the syna-
gogue. Except for a few burial
societies, American Jewry had no
philanthropic agencies detached
from the synagogue. Neither was
there any provision for orienting
the immigrants into the American
scene. The Jewish immigrants who
had arrived from Germany in the
late 1905 were mostly men of
little means and less education.
While they had great need of ma
terial assistance and cultural guild
ance, the Jewish community was
too weak and too divided to offer
either in any effective measure.
Then, too, unity in Israel was the
great desideratum, for the various
groups of Jews had little to do
with each other. Synagogues in
creased in number but more be-
cause of the spirit Of competition
and lack of leadership than any
real need. The times called for a
new type of organization and it
was some of the younger and bet
ter educated among the German
newcomers who did something
about it. Chief among these was
Henry Jones.
Jones first began talking about
new organization with some of
. his friends who used to gather at
Sinsheimer's coffee shop on Es-
sex Street in New York. He sensed
the need for an instrument that
would bring together on the same
platform all Jews, regardless of
religious opinion, geographical
origin or economic status. AL
though a religious man and syn
agogue leader, Jones was suffi-
GENTLY realistic to see that the
rivalry between the congregations
of the Portuguese, Dutch, English,
Polish and German Jews, each
with their own ritual and their
separate and tightly knit commu-
nifty, was begetting a spirit of
jealousy and provincial antipathy
that blocked union and coopera-
ton. Recognizing the difficulty of
uniting the congregations, he pro-
posed to found a society
while based on the teachi'
Judaism, would be free in
alterations from everything
Yoofio ard d0cfrina1 and U0
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-02-21
FATHER of B'NAI BIRTH
= Henry Jones' 18th Yahrzeit -
By BERNARD POSTAL

The history of every organization is usually coupled with
the name of it's founder Thus always associate TheOdOr
Herz with the World Zionist Organization Isaac Mayer Wise
with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Hen
letta Sold with Hadassah Joseph KrauskOpf with the Jew
sh Publication Society, Herman Schapra with the Jewish
Jewish Women. But the oldest of all existing national
ish organizations in Amerca-Bnai Births seldom, if
ever coupled with the of its founder Henry JONES'
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PUS6U 20 IUUIIU a SUCI6Ly
while based on the teachi,
Judaism, would be free in
alterations from everything
matte and doctrinal and wo
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-01
Garden to Be
 Sponsored by
 Scout Troop

Girl Scout troop 3 will sponsor a garden at the Dobson farm, with land to be donated by the Women's Voluntary Service. Mrs Mel Mar tin will be consultant for the girls and J. P. Anderson will be advisor.
 Gardening activities as well as the health and safety of the girls will be carried out as recommended by a program arranged at National Headquarters.
 The first planting trip will be taken Saturday. May 3, and all in terested are to meet at troop 3 headquarters in the Parlors of She Northern Light Presbyterian Church at o'clock in the morning Any senior or intermediate Girl Scout who is not member of troop and who wishes to participate in the gardening activity, may do so by obtaining permission from their parents and contracting their troop leader for permission.