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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-01
Our Film Folks

Film Fax: All the major COM
panies worried about what
became of their offices in Tokyo
were notified this week that Nip
pom Eigasha, japanese film COM
pany, has taken them over Nice,
knowing. No more toy balloons
available for gay movie scenes
priorities. Herb Stein says the Jap
navy has ship called the Or
strictly non-Aryan! They're still
grinding American flickers in
Spain and France. Some of the
celluloids are eight to ten years
old. whitfield down to two-thirds
their original length from wear
and tear. but they're B. o. to
those hungry people. The John
Garfields are celebrating their
ninth mile in the martial mara
thon. Writing assignment of
Rhapsody in Blue" story Of
George Gershwin. falls to Clifford
Odets' pen.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-01
J. L, LEE SEEKS JUDGE
SHIP OF CRIMINAL
COURT OF RECORDS

]. l. Lee, Jacksonville attorney
and Duval County member of the
Florida State Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, is a candidate for
Judgeship of the Criminal Court
of Records of Duval County, sub
ject to the Democratic Primary
of May 5th.
Lee was born and reared in
Suwannee County and has lived
in Jacksonville for the past ten
years. He received his law train
ing at Florida State University
and Cumberland University. He
is admitted to practice law in
Florida and Tennessee and in the
United States District Court and
the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals.
For eight years previous to en-
gaging in active practice, he was
a Law Professor.
In announcing his candidacy for
Judgeship of the Criminal Court,
Lee said: 1T will be my policy
to keep the Judges offices open
at all hours of the day for the
convenience of attorneys. law en-
forcement officers. and the public.
1 will have one system of justice
for rich and poor alike, absolutely
free of politics, religious and eco
nomic prejudices and I earnestly
solicit the vote and support of
every man and woman in this
county who is interested in having
that court conducted in an honest,
fair. impartial, economical man
ner."
Lee is married to the former
Marjorie Massey of this city.
paid Political Adv
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-01
Answers
Questions on page FOur)

1. Columnist of the Zionist
Record of johannesburg, South
Africa.
2. United States Ambassador
to Spain.
8. Ensign Ira w. Jeffrey, who
lost his life at Pearl Harbor.
Portuguese vessel in which
500 refugees, most of them French
Jews, reached Bermuda.
5 On April 9Th.
6. 1t was destroyed in a recent
r. A. F. raid on the Baltic sea-
port town.
Z. In 1852, since Zweig speci-
fled that the letters must not be
shown until ten years after his
death, which occurred last Feb
ruary.
8. May II, 1912.
9. The Magen David AdOm.
10. Editor of the Aufbau, Ger
man language Jewish paper which
has been termed The Bible of the
Refugees"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-01

that he would be reelected to Con-
cress as from the State at Large
in the first primary, which is May
s. Green, who has ably repre-
sented the Second Congressional
District for the past II IL years,
took advantage of the recent re-
cess of the Congress to speak in
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-01

many places in the Stat.
confer with his friends f,' sna
parts of the State. ''Oa |
AS senior member of ~.
ida Congressional delegs a1t W
Congress he is familiare a .'.aa
problems, needs and reo,' %.sa .
of all Florida. N''enea
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-01
LEX GREEN COMPLETES
TOUR OF FLORIDA

Starke, Fla, April 3O.-Com-
pleting a brief tour of Florida,
Congressman Lex Green predicted
at his home in Starke tonight
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

moonshine whisky to be had cheap at a GER
tain farm He got into his limousine to~drivc
there. From the back Of the car two men rose>
and ompticd their reviewers into his head.
Ccnetti crumplod dead over the steering wheel.
Big Joes funeral was scheduled for New
Years Day.
The committee on arrangements consisted
of five of Ccuetti's friends. Draper DICK
Fcrn, a young dandy who held the highest
degrees in the Malta fraternity and smiled
acidly but said nothing when he was asked
the meaning of seventeen notches on the
handle of his revolver; Big Nose" Philip
Connzzaro. huge taciturn man; Nicholas
Salmante nicknamed Blue Devil" because Of
the color of his sick skin who habitlally
kept in the background Of any gathering Of
men although later his contact with it always
came out as important; Patsy Corbi brother
Of Toni Corb and Vic Muratore, known as
The Bookkeeper" from his way Of viewing
men and women in terms OF dollars in or out
of his pocket and acting accordingly.
The five were particularly hopeful that
Frank Vcsperer and Frank Naples would
come to the cemetery and show seemly grief
for the departed Ccnetti. They were two chief
rivals of the dead man for the leadership of
the Fairmont vice industry.
The arrangement committee at the Cenetti
funeral Waned for them 70 come. but some
must have advised them not only 20 stay
away but remain indoors.
They followed the advice for some weeks
Then Vesperer, who never could bear confinc-
ment long. ventured out on February 16, 1922
lie slipped quickly out of his house into the
middle of street and walked with one hand in
his pocket, his eyes keen.
Suddenly men appeared in two doorways
hnfn
Vesperer could take his revolver hand out OF
his pocket ne fell to the street with enough
bullets in his chunky chest to kill horse and
was rushed TO the Fairmont hospital, still
alive
In the meantime his colleague, Naples was
entertaining a friend in his own home, the
blinds down. the shutters closed in every win
dow. The phone rang and a voice told him:
Your friend, Frank Vespcrcr, has been
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

badly wounded. He's at the hospital rapidly
sinking. and is asking for you.
Naples stuck revolver in his right hand
overcoat pocket another in the left hand
pocket Of his trousers. turned Up the collar Of
ms coat, pulled his hat down and stole out OF
the house by way Of the backyard lie daTtcd
across the street where lampHght showed lit
tie and gained the wall of a warehouse. along
which he slipped. a shadow in black shadow,
10 the average eye invisible.
The next moment four gun muzzles laced
the dark with their fire and he fell 10 the
ground writing a burly man with a big
nose stepped forward and put revolver TO
his head. They were not taking any chances,
So Naples went not 90 the hospital but 10
the most lavish undertaken shop in Fairmont
In the hospital Frank Vesperer heard the
news. Though his chest and lungs were per-
forated ne nevertheless managed TO steal out
of his bed and 70 the street where two women
Struggled him away in taxi
He fled 10 Baltimore hoping to outlivc his
enemies but the very effort killed him.
Fairmont was still agitated over the civil
war in the domain of it's criminals when the
news came OF the murder Of Bella Lemon
Good citizens did not mourn these dead but
they did not sleep well Of nights.
Then newspaper reporters burrowcd into
records, named names and minced no words
grand jury was convened and indicted
four men for the murder of Frank Naples
four of the committee on arrangements at
big Joe" Cenettis funeral. Then the jury
named James Urso, Commander of the local
Black Handlers; Patsy Corbi, brother of the
missing Toni; Joe Sergi. Angelo Buona Philip
Mississche and John Lecesse as accessories.
At the trial a jury convicted them all.
Ferri, Connzzaro, Muratore and Salmante
were hanged. Patsy Corbi was given a life
sentence which vas later committed. The rest
were given what amounted TO fife terms.
The men who killed Bella Lemon are still at
large. But Fairmont has slept better since
the probing fingers Of Joe Nasal found that
folded bit of newspaper under the swaziland
Of her hat and started the investigation that
brought the gang to justice.
TIL RN0EURU6-AN wl-EUH.UU
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

hat too big for her
couture, put the news
paper into the hat band
as a makeshift until
Corbi should buy her a new one in Baltimore
They left Fairmont on July 9th. apparently
the best of friends But in Martinsburg on
the way TO Baltimore she slipped away from
Corbi 'and sought out Police Chief William
Bowers.
Where could she report gang of bootleg
gers, she asked him.
Bowers showed interest but the woman had
a sudden change of heart and hurried away.
The next stop on her trail was in the rough
on the Rolling Road golf links.
nationwide hunt for Toni CoIbi finally
led across the border into Mexico, where the
trail vanished into thin air
Meanwhile the Bella Lemon case had put
Nasal and his paper on the track of story
much bigger than the hunt for her murderers.
1t was the story of people plagued by gang
of criminals and it's grim calendar of events
contained the following items:
on January % 1920 John LaCava, a one
armed taxidriver who had angcrcd one of the
Fairmont gang was shot through the back of
his head by a gunman who leaped to the run
ming board of his car, which then crashed
in a ditch. La Cava died at once
On August Q, 1921 Frank Arabella, a
coal miner who had resented some of the
gangs doings, was shot dead from am
bush he walked along the railroad
tracks in the Kelly Hill section of
Carksburg.
on September IT, 1921 Adolphus
Walker, Negro porter in a Clark Street
hotel in Fairmont, was fresh 20 one
of the Fairmont gang and an hour later
was dead from a bullet in his heart fired
by someone only officially unknown"
Then the leaders Of the Farmont
gang quarreled among themselves. They
were all members of the Camorra, Malta
and the Black Hand.
Big joe Cenetti, idol Of the Mafiosi
in the district, of whom there were
almost one hundred and fifty was so
strong he could straghten a horseshoe
with his bare hands so good a marks
~. man that legend grew about him.
r II was whispered that on December
10 2sth a message came 10 him from some
one anonymous that there was a lot of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
BoI+imore's Mystery
Victim Whose SIay-
ing Sent q Men TO the
GoIIow S and 8 to
Prison for Life-AI-
though Her Murder.
ers Never Were
Caught
BY JOSEPH GOLLOMB

rHE facts in the 20-year-old murder mys-
terry of Baltimore's Rolling Road Coun-
try Club make one wonder why fiction
has not made more of the newspaperman as
a crime detective. For in that story news
paper shrewdness and technques not only
succeeded where police failed, but also
smashed a terror that for years held whole
countryside in its grip.
The early morning of July H. 1922 was so
fresh and sparkling that three boys were play
ing on the golf links of the Rolling Road
Country Club before the rest of the world
was awake One youngster hit into the rough
at the tenth hole and, while searching for the
lost ball, suddenly let out yell of shock.
Almost hidden in the underground lay
womans body, naked and still, terribly con-
torted the head almostly off, the features
crushed. Nearby was a straw turban
When the police searched the vicinity. later,
they found boodied blackjack.
At the morgue further examination showed
that the blackjack had smashed the features
beyond possible recognition. knife had
slashed the throat and there were three AS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

structed photograph to Fairmont and showed
il TO the police.
why that's Bella Lemon" detective eX-
planned, recognizing it at once.
Bella was a lowly placed but high tenn
pcred member Of a gang that trafficked in
women bootleg liquor and narcotics
The moment the police recognized the face
on the photograph they rushed to Bella
Lemons home in back of an ostensibly soft
drink and tobacco store only TO find that
someone had just beaten them to it. The win
dow sash had been forced, the room ran
sacked But not all the evidence of Bella
Lemons inducements was destroyed
The police learned that she had been furious
with Toni Corb one of the leaders of FAIR
monts underworld, over another woman
Corbi a dangerous man for anyone TO be
angry with was by turns cunning and savage
Just then he was missing.
Nasal and the Fairmont police chartcd the
last known movements Of Bella Lemon and
Toni Corbi The indications were that Corb
had smoothcd the womans anger down and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

ence took place between
Nasal. his city editor
and Fred Frittita of the
art department
Frittita photographed
the woman's head at the
m6rgue. Then with an
air brush he built up a
face deduced from the
original.
The reconstructed fea-
lures showed a brunette
of the Mediterranean
type in her early thir-
ties.
Nasal then took a
copy of { he recon-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

bullets IN the brain.
Among those who
viewed the body al the
morgue was a reporter
for tn @ Baltimore
American Joseph Mas
sal
Il sure wish ! knew
who she was" he said.
Wish We could help
you" a police Official
replied. But two thou
sand people a day have
tried 20 identify her
and we've turned every
clue inside out and got
nowhere.
Nasal noted that
the turban must have
been too large for the
wOman's head as there
was a fold Of news
paper inside the hat
band. His eyes seemed
to make nothing Of tho
glimpse he caught Of
the masthead on the
bit Of newspaper, the
May 2. 1922 issue Of
the Fairmont west
Virginia. Times.
But in the office Of
the American a confer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

asked her to drive
to Baltimore with
him TO celebrate
[ n cir reconcilia-
ton. She had her
chestnut hair dyed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

10 July -. 1912
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
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the keys out and tossed them
across the street.
The soldiers then ran off in
the direction of Lebanon and
throughout this morning were
the objects of an intensive
earch throughout southwest
Virginia.
All state troopers in the area
were modified Immediately AND
were joined by IS local officers
attending an FBI sc h ool at
nearby Bristol.
w. H. Murphy, chief of the
FBI office in Knoxville, said
there that the pair beat a Fort
Oglethorpe sentry severely be-
fore communicating the taxi
cab. The sentry was identified
at Fort Oglethorpe as Sergeant
Clifton Hall of Rossville, Ga,
and his condition was described
as critical today.
Murphy said that both the
men were privates in the Third
Cavalry assigned to Fort Ogle-
thorpe and gave Lovett's home
address as 667, SIND street,
Philadelphia, Testerman's as p.
o. Box rs, Lynchburg, Va.
The FBI agent said that after
beating up Hall, the soldiers
armed themselves with four AS
caliber revolvers and 100 rounds
of ammunition. They then held
up the Chattanooga cab driver,
Charles F. Landreth at Ross
vile, Ga, and forced him to
drive them to Cleveland, Tenn,
where they put him out of the
cab and drove on.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
lOblewOrnan
Kills Self
IN Capital

WASHINGTON, March 13-
tR-Baroness Alletta A. Korff,
Is. daughter Of q Rear Admiral
a the u. S. Navy and widow OF
: Russian Noble, was fou n q
hanging from rope in a closet
leading to the attic in her home
today.
The body was found by her
son.in-law, squadron leader Ed
ward A. Russell, R.A.A., who is
in washington on a special as
signment for the British govern
ment.
Russell was called to open his
mother-in-law's home after her
maid reported she had been lock,
cd out all night and repeated
knocking on the door failed TO
bring an answer.
The baroness physician, DR.
Alexander Lyons, said she had
been respondent and in i'll health
for q year.
Baroness Korf was the wild
ow of Baron Serge Korff' last
Czarist Lieutenant Governor OF
Finland when it was a Russior
province.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
Chief Warden
Ends Course
Oehmke Graduates
at Wayne

Lawrence Oemke, chief Air
Raid Warden of the Mount
Clemens Council of Defense,
was among the class graduated
last night by the Wayne Univer-
sity school for instruction in
Air Warden Service.
The class was held for the
purpose of instructing the war
dcns in how to teach tn r
knowledge to others. Speeches
were made by Mayor Jeffries
of Detroit and his assistant Co.
ordinator, Glenn RI cha ar d S,
stressing the many abilities re-
CURED in Air Raid Wardens and
detailing the duties.
Oemke has been connected
with the Air Raid Wardens
since the inception of the or
ganization here, in September,
1941. Originally, the wardens
were set up under the Fire
Services, headed by Commits
sioner Ed Dubay, but when
Washington reorganized the. de-
partments, the wardens were
set up as a separate department,
Cemke being named chief here.
More air raid wardens are
needed in Mount Clemens and
qualified men and women are
asked to enroll at civilian de-
tense headquarters. Prospective
wardens are invited TO attend
a 7:30 m ee ing at the high
school tonight at which Cap
tain Noecher of Selfridge Field
Will lecture on Incendiary and
High Explosive Bombs. All
present wardens are expected
to attend.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
Speech League
10 Meet Here
Students Schedule
Round Tobls ToIk

Mount Clemens High school
will be host to Q Border Cities
Speech League meeting next
Thursday which will feature .
round table discussion on the
topic, what are the responsible
ties of students in the schools of
a democracy"
Six student speakers reprent-
ing Mount Clemens, Royal Oak
and Fordson high schools, will
participate in the discussion
which will be held in the Com
munity Room starting at 200
pm. Tea will be served in the
cafeteria following the discus
sion which 8 open to parents OF
students and the general public.
Mary Cotterman will act as
Chairman Of the discussion while
Clare Siegel and Jean Pringnitz
will represent Mount Clemens
High in the program.
The general topic 'yill be dis
cussed under six related head
ings including considerations OF
the blame for juvenile delin-
quency, dishonesty in scholar
ships and the role of student self
governing organizations.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
Eggs

DETROIT, March 13 Up
(U. S. Dept. Agr.)-U. S. grad
cd Michigan eggs in case lots
F. o. B. Detroit:
Whites - Extras Grade Al
large 3l1z-33; medium 1890;
standards Grade b large 30
81; medium % 231a; trades
Grade c. large q.
Browns - Extras (Gradc Az
large 3O,a 81; medium 1890;
standards Grade b. large 80;
trades Grade c. large q.
Detroit Broker Prices: But
ter, best creamery in tubs 34A :
35i4; Eggs - Current receipts
27I4; dirties 261a; checks 26.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
18th

Continued from Page One
ularly the dangers of the day in
cluded: Boxers who spar for a
moment at the sound of an alarm
clock, Irishmen, members of the
racing fraternity, gamblers. and
high school coaches-all In fact
who would rather be lucky than
president.
While such people sat tightly
at home or kept a quartet Of
fingers crossed, they had some
consolation in knowing that the
scientists, having bungled things
with the calendar for two
months in a row, didn't have an
other Friday the 18th arranged
for until November.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
ALMOST A WAR TRAGEDY

WABASH, Ind. - Lew Kretz-
meier telephoned his laundry to
find out why it hadn't brought
back his clothes.
The laundry said 1t had never
picked them up. Kretzmeier was
puzzled till he happened to re-
member that on the day he'd put
the dirty clothes on his front
porch for the laundryman, boy
scouts had been collecting rags
for the war.
Hours afterward, after two
junkyards had been searched,
the laundry turned up in a bale
Of rags.
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reaches of the north or north
west coasts of Australia.
However, indications that the
invaders were making ready to
use the mountain-split, jungle
covered island of New Guinea
as a big battle base were seen
from RAAF reconnaissance re-
ports that the japanese were
working at top speed TO estab-
lish fighter plane stations along
the northeast coast where they
won footholds in Lac and Sala-
maua.
PLANS DISRUPTED
Whatever plans the japanese
might have had for quickly-won
broader control of the island
coast were declared, however,
to have been disrupted by the
hard aerial blows of British and
American bombers.
The lack Of communications
on the island and its virtually
impossible stretches of escarp-
ments and jungle-tangled valleys
also will play part in disrupt
ing the japanese timetables. NO
single road connects the Japa-
nese-won beachheadS with the
bases of Australian forces In
key stations on the island.
(The Australian radio, heard
by CHS, said war correspond
ent of the Melbourne Argus re-
ported that Australian guerrilla
forces still were in action against
the Japanese on the northeast
coast and were carrying out
valuable operations.")
TOUGH JOB AHEAD
Observers said that even
though the Japanese forces were
campaign toughened and Jungle
trained, they would find over
land travel from the northeast
coast to the Papaun coast at the
south, across Torres Strait from
Cape York, a harder task then
any they had faced in Malaga.
These sources pointed to the
success of the air attack which
wrecked at least seven japanese
ships at Salamaua as an indica-
ton of what the japanese would
encounter if they tried to move
invasion forces to the southern
coast of the island by sea.
An air force spokesman said
that so far the only japanese
fleet known to be within strik-
ing distance of Port Moresby on
the south coast was the one at
Salamaua.
z SHIPS DESTROYED
Destruction of seven ships
there in the air attack last Tues
day has been reported in an Aus
tralian communique giving the
RAAF credit-a n d also in a
Washington communique saying
American heavy bombers sank
the vessels.
Between those two versions
lies a story of official confusion
which cannot be fully explained
at present.
There is no desire by Australia
to seize whole credit for the
Salamaua raid, although the
RAAF did share in the exploit.
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tribution" q portion Of their
monthly production TO be de-
cided from time to time.
The order, officials of the
WPB pulp and paper section
said, Is not expected to be ap-
piled stringently for the first
several months. During that
time, however, WPB will set
up machinery for stringent ap-
,plication when the supply sit
uation becomes acute.
1t is expected that the con-
troll will be used to allocate
pulp to paper mills facing shut
down because of the increasing
conversion of the industry to
nitrating pulp for the army and
because EurOpea supply
sources have been cut off.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13

DETROIT -(R- Counsel for
the Federal Mogul Company,
where $500 employees were idle
for four days in a strike threAh
weeks ago, announced Thursday
that the company and the Unit
ed Automobile Workers (CIO)
had agreed to submit their dis
pute to arbitration. The union
said the strike followed dis
missal of several employees and
the transfer of certain company
Jobs to a Grecnville factory.