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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-16

Facts Not Worth Knowing:
/. Fescinninity means scurrilous
and traces back 10 the town of
Fescinnine in Etruria. 2. Fourbe
is 10 cheat 3 Kemp is the
coarse hair Of the eyebrow. 4.
Squinny is ancient slang for
coping a gander.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-16

chaseS amounting TO only IS
shares.
THERE was another stock,
representing a popular COM
modify which. to most Ameri-
cans, is AS necessary as cigarets
and which has A basis Of sugar.
Last summer your correspond
ent got 10 shares of that and.
when nothing happened imme-
diately. began 10 wonder If
something was wrong with the
old touch.
But there was nothing wrong
with the wizardry. Because
along came this sugar shortage
and ratloning and the stock op-
Grafton has been a magnificent
success in a peculiar way.
Back there in 1929 was when
this gift was first discovered.
All through the Era OF Won.
derful Nonsense. when the Of.
fee boys around the shop were
forming $50 pools 10 buy stocks
on margin and the hackmen
kept their radios running so
they could calculate their win
nlngs, your author strictly re-
Trained from all such. deemirr
these operations 10 be somehow
unSound.
Therefore when the PAM
broke, ne was glad 10 have
saved little each week durina
the boom years.
Thus when the John y. Rookie
tellers, father and son. publicly
allowed that the market had hit
bottom and was about 70 bounce.
your correspondent went down
10 a Wall Street brokers' Office
and said:
II would like 10 buy $4,000
worth of your best investment
stocks"
What kinda" the customers
man inquired
Assorted.
So, very much like a very
much younger investor spending
a nickel Al a candy counter and
choosing some Of these and those
and them, your correspondent
bought variety Of securities
and, according 10 the brokers'
instructions. put them away and
forgot about them.
That Is. he forgot about them
until they became so gamy that
the department Of health con-
fscated them as a menace 10
public hygiene and sent them
off to the incinerator.
QACk in those boom years
- when touring Florida with
the ball players and fighters.
who were our chief national in
terest, your correspondent was
known 10 his colleagues as a
great sucker for the one-armed
bandits.
He would be sitting in some
place having quiet sandwich
and a house-palnt julep and the
first thing you knew he would
be dancing up and down before
a battery Of those plum-and-
lemon machines and, sometimes.
would lose as much as S25 in a
single evening.
One OF The great market
financiers Of our time and one of
the richest Americans said one
night that il was a shame 10
sec any one throw away money
that way.
lie said a man ought 10 invest
in sound stocks. not squander
his money on a device which
was rugged against him.
Little did he know that he
was speaking 10 a man with a
magic way with stocks.
If the Communist Party would
like 10 put up stake Of say,
100000, your correspondent.
just for the fun Of il, would
10 start something
that would utterly destroy cap
italism without loss of blood.
II must he a gift.
Copyrighted by tinted Features synd.. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-16

The more bonds you buy
through lending your money 10
your government the less your
taxes Will be.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-16

Your dollars pledged TO United
States Savings Bonds viii pro-
vide the ships and supplies 20
avenge the heroes of /Bataan.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Beneficiaries Held Liable
For Insurance Estate Tax

In a precedent-making decision,
considered of major importance to
life insurance companies and bene-
flciaries, the Court of Appeals today
laid down the principle that bene-
flciary, rather than the insurance
firm, must pay any Federal estate
tax due
In the opinion written by Associ-
ate Justice Fred NJ VinSon and
joined in by Associate Justices JUS
tin Miller and Henry w. Edgerton,
the court reversed a Board of Tax
Appeals ruling and held that Con-
greSS intended in its legislation that
the beneficiary is liable for the tax
and not the insurance company
Involved in the litigation were the
Northwest Mutual Life Insurance
Co., Milwaukee; the Connecticut
General Insurance Co., Hartford,
the State Mutual Life Assurance Co.
Worcester, Mass; the Equitable Life
Insurance Co, Of Iowa, DeS MOineS,
and the John Hancock Mutual Life
Insurance Co., Boston.
The cases were consolidated by the
Court of Appeals, but a lengthy
written opinion was handed down
only in the case of the Hancock
firm, which decision was considered
controlling. Attorney David R. Shell
ton of Washington represented the
insurance companies.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
|CiviI Service Theft
Defendant Linked 10
Business Service
Stolen Files Used,
U. S. Contends, for
Mailing Lists

The civil service file theft trial
dragged through its sixth day in
District Court today as the Gov
ernment sought to show the con-
nection Miss Katherine Kay, one
of the five defendants, had with
the Standard Business Service, a
firm alleged to have used stolen
personnel records of Government
employees to compile a commercial
mailing list.
Two of the principal witnesses
placed on the stand by Prosecutor
Charles B. Murray were Eugene C.
Sauer, Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation accountant, and George C..
Stephenson, cashier of the City
Bank.
No Record of Bank Account.
Mr.. Stephenson testified the bank
had no record of an account by the
Standard Business Service, but did
have one in the name of Miss Kay
from November %, 1887, to April Is,
1941.
Mr.. Sauer said he learned from
Miss Kay during his investigation
that she maintained the bank &C
count largely for the benefit of the
firm in clearing its accounts. Her
name, he explained, was not found
on the payroll records of the firm,
although she identified herself to
him as its bookkeeper and Office
manager.
The firms payroll records were
introduced in evidence, and from
them Prosecutor Murray called at
tentlon to the names, L. Lawrence
and Mrs. Lucy Lawrence. He asked
Mr.. Sauer for an explanation of
those entries
He replied Miss Kay told him in
Structions were given for such an
entry by Lawrence l.. Haynes, al
legged to be an associate in the firm,
and another defendant. so that an
examination would not reveal how
many members of the same family
were working for it.
Used Fictitious Initials.
Another Government exhibit was
carbon copy of letter initiated
"A. D." Mr.. Sauer said Miss Kay
told him she used the "A. D." in
stead of her own initials on the
firms correspondence because the
letters it sent out went to different
places and her own initials might
be recognized by employees of the
Department of Agriculture, where
she formerly worked.
The three other defendants are
Harlin W. Crandall, Walter A. c.
Camp and Werner j. Orbach.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Mrs. caIIie Zimmerman
Buried al Rock Creek

Mrs. Callie B. Zimmerman, who
died here Saturday, was buried to-
day in Rock Greek Cemetery, fol-
lowing funeral services at noon at
the Hines funeral home.
She was the widow of George j.
Zimmerman, who died on the same
date in 1882. A long time resident
of Washington, Mrs. Zimmerman
was born in La Porte, Ind, Septem-
ber 10, 1860, and came here as a
child. Her first husband, Alfred B.
Briggs, died in 1913
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. A. E. Demaray, whose husband
is associate director of the National
Park Service; a sister, Mrs. A B.
Searle, also of this city, and
granddaughter, Mrs. j. r. Anderson,
Yorktown, Va.
Mrs. Zimmerman made her home
at 612 Pickwick lane, Chevy Chase,
Md
Evening star., 1942-05-11

Rooms on o street without
baths are priced at S3450
month. There are a few with
private baths at higher rates, but
all such Accommodations have been
taken. All rooms are single and
have running water, and there's
a bath for every four rooms. Mr.
Scott said rentals are fixed by
the Government and he will not
be allowed to make a profit on
the proposition during the war,
only a management fee.
The rooms will have utility
cabinets, large clothes closets,
and will be furnished with a bed
topped by an innerspring mat
tress, dresser, easy chair, writing
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Mrs. Yono B. lie CIerc
Dies in Tukomu Park

Stricken with a heart attack
shortly after returning from services
yesterday at the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Yona
Buchanan LIE Clerc died last night
at her home at 225 Cedar avenue,
Takoma Park, Md.
Born in Americus. Ga, Mrs.
LIE Clerc came to Washington in
1918. She retired about five years
ago from the Treasury Department.
Mrs. LIE Clerc was a member of
the Takoma Park Presbyterian
Church, Takoma Park Women S
Club and the Fortnightly Book Club.
Besides her husband, DR.. j. A.
lie Clerc, senior chemist with the
Department of Agriculture, she
leaves a brother and a sister in
Georgia.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow afternoon in the Takoma
Park Presbyterian Church, with
+ burial in Americus.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
-Four Typical Mothers Broadcast
Courage to Sons Abroad
5000 at Sylvan Theoter Hear Marine
And Soldier Return Words of Reinsurance

and Seaman Second Glass Curtis
Williams of the Navy could not be
picked up m Washington. Both
are stationed at Pearl Harbor.
But their mothers broadcast q
return message anyway.
Il received your Mothers Day
card" said Mrs. Nixon. "It was
lovely.
Dog Still Grins.
Mothers have silly thoughts
sometimes. When I hear Remember
Pearl Harbor' I always think of
you, because you're there now and
then think of the Japs and know
that December Z was their last
visit there"
Seaman Williams, il he was lis
tening, heard that Frisco, your
dog, still grins, even If she doesnt t
have any teeth"
Il know you're working hard and
that you'll make the Navy proud
of you," Mrs. Williams said. And
all us mothers are proud of the
Navy"
The broadcast was part Of the
weekly program of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, featuring
Kate Smith, sent by short wave to
service men throughout the world.
Downey Speaks at Arlington.
Impressive ceremonies at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier in Airing
ton Cemetery were led by the Amer
lean War Mothers. Thirty -four
patriotic organizations, including
the American Legion national guard
of honor, participated and 26
wreaths were placed on the tomb.
The principal address was de-
ivered by Senator Downey, Demo-
crat, of California. who paid tribute
to the courage of the mothers of
service men both in the present war
and in past conflicts.
1t. Col. Edwin S. Bethlehem, jr.,
led the march of the colors, part of
the annual exercises, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Martin, national president of
the American War Mothers, extend
ed greetings. A Mothers Day proc
lamation was read by Mrs Florence
A. Latham, national corresponding
secretary and chairman of the Pro-
gram Committee
1t. Col. Charles Prexler, chaplain.
U. S. A., gave the invocation.
Y. NJ. c. A. Holds Breakfast.
Many organizations through the
city held special Mothers Day OBJ
servance exercises.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation held its annual morning
breakfast and special program for
service men and residents of its
central building at 1876 G street
NV.
In the evening, the Filipino
Executive Council gave a special
program of entertainment at the
Y. M. c. A. centered on the Mothers
Day theme.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
IUnhurt in Battle,
III Veteran Gets
Wound Stripes
BY the Associated Press.

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
May 11-He wasn't scratched
through four major engagements in
France in World War I, but Frank
Radell will wear two wound stripes
when he is commissioned major
here May 80.
AS an enlisted man in the first
World War, Mr.. Radell was wounded
in an explosion while lecturing on
bombs. Later, while an instructor in
bayonet drill at Camp Funston,
Kans, an over-zealous pupil scored
touche, wounding him in the
chest.
Twice in World War days Mr..
Radell approached the commission
he will obtain shortly with other stu
dents at a school for post exchange
officers conducted by the Army Ex-
change Service here. He gave up
one chance to be an officer to &C
company the 89th Division over
seas On November 4, 1918, he was
again recommended for a commits
sion. The armistice came along a
week later.
Until he volunteered for the
school here Mr.. Radell was buyer
and personnel director for a meat
store chain, with headquarters in
Kansas City.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Hindu Non-VioIence
Has Optimistic Side,
CrippsAide Finds
Gondhi Wouldn't Help
Invading Jops, Either,
Spry Says Here

The policy Of "non-violent nom
cooperation" espoused by Mohan-
das Gandhi will mean that India s
vast Hindu population will stage a
sit-down strike in the advent OF
Japanese invasion, Graham Spry
personal assistant to Sir Stafford
Grips, said here today.
Mr.. Spry, reviewing the recent
Cripps mission to India at a press
conference here today, said this pro-
gram of non-co-operation had not
been fully understood abroad.
He likened it, in American terms,
to sit-down strike, which he said
would seriously impede the jap
anese He pointed out that it would
be comparatively easy thing to re-
pair a railroad which had been
blown up-but that the japanese
would face real difficulties when all
the workers on a railroad just van
iShed.
Army Still Army, However.
"I don't want to exaggerate the
significance of this policy, how
ever" he said. "An army is still an
army"
But he emphasized that the non
violent edict would apply only to a
part of the Indian population.
The suggestion that India will
not resist is not sound. There are
over one million men under arms in
India now. This army is overwhelm-
ingly Indian. The Indians are being
armed as fast as that country can
produce arms or British and Amer
lean equipment can be shipped in"
He pointed out that the Indian
army has shown what it can do in
other battle areas and said that
while he was in India with Sir STAFF
ford he was cheered by the sight of
American and British airplanes al
ways on the move.
Talks Ended in Amity.
The purpose of the Cripps mis-
sion was to offer India a "declara-
ton of independence" Mr.. Spry
said. He emphasized that the nego-
tiations ended on a friendly basis
and that this fact held hope for
future success along the same lines.
THE mission was a very great
contribution" Mr.. Spry said. The
atmosphere in India has been
cleared and improved And, as has
been said. the door is always open
to resumption"
Evening star., 1942-05-11

desk, bookcase at head of bed,
built-in reading lamp, space for
radio, phone and sundries. There
will be a laundry and pressing
room on each floor, also icewater
fountains and a mail chute.
The roof garden will be quite
elaborate, with a sun deck, sports
deck, dance deck and party deck.
The party deck will have a kit
chen adjoining. In the penthouse
will be a classroom "for free
language courses"
A coffee shop will offer snacks
or big meals, service in room or
on the roof. For the musically
inclined, there will be a piano
practice room available without
charge.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Court Delays Trial
Of Group Indicted as
japanese Agents
Defense Is Expected
To Attack Charge
Against PubIieist

The propaganda trial in District
Court, first of its kind in the Nation
involving japanese, this morning
was postponed until later in the day
by Justice T. Alan Goldsborough.
1t was understood that former
United States Attorney Leslie c.
Garnett and Samuel F. Beach,
counsel for Vincent Williams, Amer
lean publicist who is one of the de-
PENDANTS, were expected to attack
the validity of the Indictment of their
client, charging he was forced to
testify before the grand jury against
his will in violation of his consti-
tutional rights.
Others Named in Indictment.
Also named in the indictment,
charged with violation of the For
eign- Agents Registration Act, are
David Warren Ryder, publicist;
Ralph Townsend, former writer for
Scribner's Commentator: Tsutomu
Obana, official of the japanese Com
mittee on Trade and Information at
San Francisco, and two japanese
now in Japan. They are K. Taxa
hashi, former head of the San Fran
cisco office of the N Y. K. steam
| ship line, and S. Takeuchi, former
manager of the San Francisco Office
of the Mitsubishi import and export
house, both former members of the
Information Committee.
Townsend and Obana already have
| pleaded guilty before Justice Colds
borough, their sentence awaiting the
outcome of the trial against the
other defendants.
Nine counts in the indictment con-
| Germ Williams, according to Albert
! E. Arnt and Arthur B. Caldwell
special assistants to the Attorney
General, charging him with omit
ting material statements in the reg
iStration he filed with the Secretary
Of State as an agent of the japanese
newspaper Japan Times and Mail
The prosecution contends Will
liams obtained much of his money
from the japanese Consulate Gen
eral at San Francisco.
Faces Stiff Penalty.
If found guilty, officials say, Will
liams could be sentenced to a total
of two years on the conspiracy
| count, plus $4,000 fine, while each
Of the nine counts, charging him
with failing to disclose full informa-
ton. carries a possible maximum
penalty of two years imprisonment
and 81 900 fine.
Ryder, according to the Govern
ment's charge, began publication OF
his magazine, Far Eastern Affairs
in March, 1888, ending it in Sep
tember, 1910, meanwhile using it as
a vehicle for japanese propaganda
The conspirators. according to
the charge, sought to influence
public opinion in this country ir
favor of Japan against China, spon.
soring a radio program on a Sar
FransiSco station and distributing 6
number Of pamphlets.
The Government plans TO call q
witnesses, many from the WeS1
Coast, and one japanese from ar
internment camp, officials said Il
is expected that the trial will last
about two weeks.
Evening star., 1942-05-11

loan, said he has twice as many
applications as rooms, but few
tenants thus far have been
signed. Preference will be given
women employed in war agencies.
Another and larger hotel for
women workers will be completed
in July. This is the 744-room
projects at Sixteenth and Euclid
streets NV. which has been
named Meridian Hill. The r. F.
C. is building that structure
directly, through its subsidiary,
Defense Homes Corp, which has
other hotels and apartment prof.
ects underway about the city,
including Mclean Gardens, on
the former Mclean estate on
Wisconsin avenue.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
S5O0,000 Addition
Under Consideration
Al Glenn Dale
Commissioners Moy Ask
Funds to Provide
100 More Beds

The Commissioners disclosed to-
day they are considering seeking
funds in the 1943 District budget
now before the Senate, for 100-bed
addition at Glenn Dale tuberculosis
Sanatorium.
Originally they had hoped to use
funds from the Lanham Act to con-
struct the addition but have been
advised by administrators of the act
that Lanham funds-for the relief
of communities whose facilities have
been strained by war population in
f1ux-cannot be used for tubercu-
losis hospitals.
1t is estimated the addition, with
necessary equipment and personnel,
may cost s5OO,0OO.
Temporary Structure Likely.
Commissioner Young said that be-
cause of priority problems the addi-
ton probably will have to be of the
temporary type permitted by War
Production Board.
The Commissioners also indicated
they will seek restoration by the
Senate of items totaling about $780,
600, which we're eliminated when
the bill passed the House several
days ago.
These include:
A 14th police precinct at Forty
second street and Benning road NE,
to relieve the load on No. II which
covers all territory east of the Ana
costa River.
An additional fire house at North
Capital and Crittenden streets to
serve an area which has been rapidly
build up in the last year.
Relief Ceiling" Opposed.
The city heads also agreed to ask
the Senate to remove the ceilings
on relief payments and restore the
position of principal assistant to the
director of public welfare, now held
by Miss Gay B. Shepperson, to the
welfare estimates.
The Board of Public Welfare con-
ferred with the Commissioners this
morning after a special meeting of
the members, and asked that these
changes made by the House be
restored. They also asked inclusion
of several other items which, how
ever, the Commissioners refused to
approve on the ground that they
were not in the original budget as
presented to the House.
Other restoration requests will
cover items in the school and library
budgets.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Auto Accidents
In D. Area Kill
One, HurtEight
Tokomu Park Womun
Dies When Cor Hits
Bridge Abutment
D. c. Traffic Toll

A Takoma Park (Md) woman
was killed and eight persons we're
hurt In automobile accidents in
Washington and nearby counties
yesterday.
Maryland police said Mrs. Mad
elyne Leach. "a, of Is Montgomery
avenue, Takoma Park, was killed
when the car in which she was
riding struck bridge abutment ON
the Southern Maryland pike near
Lyons Creek. Riding in the rear
seat, she was thrown from the car.
Charles r. Clark, Is, also of Tako-
ma Park, Md, listed by police as the
driver of the car, suffered a head
injury and was taken to the Prince
Frederick Hospital. Police said his
condition was not serious.
Ivan Leach, Is, husband of the
dead woman, and two other pas
sengers in the car, James w. Robin
son, 2l, of 13 Manor circle, Takoma
Park, and Alvin r. Dreas, 81, Ia
koma Park, escaped injury, police
said.
Three Women Hurt.
Three delegates to the Chicago
convention OF the Daughters OF the
American Revolution suffered bruises
and shock in an accident yesterday
near Annandale, Va. They were
taken to the Alexandria Hospital.
Police listed them as Mrs. Louisa
Sinclair of Alexandria, Mrs. Joseph
E. Pryor, 1903 Lowell street NV.
and Miss Bohmer Rudd, 1919 G
street NV.
John Martin. 1915 West Virginia
avenue NE. taxi driver, was
treated at Garfield Hospital for
lacerations of the forehead and left
ear after his car overturned on
Sheriff road near Dykes stockade
when he swerved to avoid striking
dog.
Two Children Hurt.
William Leak, colored, 27, Of $50
Columbia road NV. was taken to
Casualty Hospital with back injuries
and possible fractures of the collar
bone and facial bones after an auto
mobile accident in Upper Marlboro,
Md. His condition is undetermined.
Two colored children escaped seri-
Gus injury in auto mishaps. George
Burke, Is, Of 1926 Ninth street NV.
was treated for leg abrasions after
the bicycle he was riding collided
with a car. Constance Lathern, 4, Of
$50 Franklin street NV. was taken
to Freedmen's Hospital with scalp
cuts, burn on the left arm and a
possible fractured rib. She was re-
ported to have walked into the side
of car near her home.