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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01

At a meeting Of the National Ne
gro Congress held Monday night,
national and local leaders COM
pleted plans for the second Of a
series of regional conferences to be
held in Detroit, May 1890, l943.
One thousand delegates are ex-
pected TO attend from all sections
Of the Mid-Western states.
Prominent Detroit citizens have
already gone on record sponsoring
the proposed conference. At its
regular meeting. held at the Lucy
Thurman Branch Of the Y.W.C.A.,
the Citizens Committee unanimous
ly agreed to sponsor the conference.
Rev. Charles Hill. chairman Of the
Citizens Committee and pastor OF
the Hartford Avenue Baptist
church: Arthur Bowman. chairman
Of the Negro Youth Council for
Victory and Democracy; Atty. C..
lie Brun Simmons, executive board
member Of the Detroit Chapter, Ma
tional Lawyers Guild; Shelton
Tapes, record secretary. Ford Lo-
cal 600. uAW-CIo: Louis r Mar.
tin. editor. Michigan Chronicle
Mrs. Rosa Gragg. president OF thu
Detroit Association Of Women.
clubs: Eddie Tolan, Interracial com.
mittee Of Packard Local 100. and
Rev. John Miles Of the Peoples
church.
The meeting Of the Detroit Chap
ter Of the National Negro Congress
was addressed by Edward E. Strong.
who will remain here to work out
preparations for the conference.
The main purpose of the confer
ence." said Mr.. Strong, is to bring
about unity among Negro people
and TO establish closer collaboration
with labor TO break down all bar
riers OF discrimination against the
Negro people and for effective
prosecution of the war"
Miss Thelma Dale. administrative
secretary, also outlined plans for
the proposed conference. Miss
Dale reported that in Chicago more
than 80 prominent Illinois citizens
have endorsed the conference,
among whom are Oscar Brown.
president, Chicago Branch Of the
NA.ACP.; A. L. Foster. executive
secretary. Chicago Urban League;
E. r. Johnson. editor. Negro Di-
gest"; Lucius c. Harper Of the Chi
cago Defender; Earl B. Dickers. on,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01

The Liberty Ship. George Wash
ington Carver. named for the cele-
brated Negro scientist. will be
launched ut noon on Sunday. May
2 at the Richmond tCalJ Yard No.
I OF the Kaiser Shipbuilding Com
pany. the Maritime Commission an
nounccd today.
The ship. second in series OF
three bearing the names OF out
standing Negro Americans. will be
sponsored by Lena Horne, singer
and motion picture actress Beatrice
Turner. one of the 6.ll2 Negro
workers in the four Kaiser ship
yards in Richmond, will be matron
81 honor Both were chosen by the
United Negro Labor Committee
which is in charge OF the launching
ceremony.
Thousands OF Negro shipysrd
workers. who are employed as
bo.lermakers, shipfi;ters. shipright
stage riggers. joiners. sheet metal
workers. painters warehousemen
and laborers will participate in the
ceremony along with representa-,
,ives OF Negro organizations
Throughout, the country. The latter
will include a representative OF the
Carver Foundation al Tuskegee In
s,i,u;e. Ala. and a Negro delegation
from Ohio appointed by Gov. John
w. Bricker.
c. l. Dellums. West Coast repre-
sentative of the International
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Por-
,ers and president Of the United
Negro Labor Committee. Will serve
as master Of ceremonies on a pro-
gram which will include short adj
dresses by Attorney Walter a. Cor
don Of the National Association for
the Advancement OF Colored Peo-
pic: Leon II. Washington Jr., pub
Usher OF the Los Angeles Sentinel,
and Vernon McCalla. a shiphttcr.
representing the Kaiser workers.
Marcus Hall, another shipysrd
worker and proiegc OF Roland
Hayes, noted ,enor. will sing Bal
lad for Americans.
Miss Horne, star OF Cabin In The
Sky" will interrupt her work in
another motion picture. TO chrisien
the ship. Informed OF her choice
by the United Negro Labor Com
mit,ee. the young actress declared;
1T is such a high honor TO have
even the slightest part in a tribute
10 the great American and out
standing Negro genius and patriot
that | am SPECIFICS with gratitude.
To be privileged TO chrisien the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01
Carver Ship To Be
Sunday

Liberty Ship named after him will
be one of the most inspiring mo-
ments OF my life
Onicials Of Vie United Nero La
Dor Coinmifteef Include M. Del
lums. president: Spencer Jourdan,
International Brotherhood OF Boil
ermakers. first vice president; ].
r. Hoskins. United Transportation
Service Employees. second vice
president. and T. NJ Anderson,
Dining Car Cooks and Walters
Unionl secretary treasurer.
The SIS Booker T Washington,
first Liberty Ship named for Ne
gro. is in. active service under Ne
gro master. Capt Hugh Mul@c, and
the third. the SIS Frederick Doug
lass. Is now under CONSTRUCTION IN
a Baltimore. Md, shipyaFd --
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01

Cuba is shipping loofa gourd sponges
10 the United states for war work.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01
MACEO THOMAS.
WILL attend.
State SCHOOL.
p ANS Career "A s
M Ortician
Here
BY GLADYS MILLS

Maceo Thomas, world famous
dancer. formerly a member of the
internationally known team of
Chiffon and Thomas, after fading
out Of lime light for almost a year
is now ready to make his debut in
new and entirely different field.
Unknown even to his closest friends,
he has been attending the Michigan
State college of Mortuary Science.
the leading school Of its kind in the
country, and will soon graduate as
an embalmer and funeral director.
AS the male half OF the famous
dance team. Mr.. Thomas has played
all the leading theatres in France,
Germany. England, Ireland and
Australia. and was the first Ameri-
can act TO ever play a Royal Com
mand performance, before the late
King George and Queen Mary of
England. He has starred in AL Jol-
sons Wonder Bar" for two years
on Broadway, and also in Twen-
tieth Century Fox, and United Ar
lists Pictures Chute The Chutes"
with Eddie Cantor, and Love And
Kisses with Walter Winchell, Ben
Bernie and Simone Simon; also
starred in Lew Leslie's Blackbirds
Of 1884; and RK,O. Orpheum,
Loew and Paramount circuits; more
recently Chiffon and Thomas, were
stars OF the frst all-colored USO
show for Uncle Sam playing seven
ty-one army camps.
Mr.. Thomas is majoring in Der
masurgeFy, as we'll as being a resto-
rative art technician, his long and
continued contact with the art of
makeup OF all kinds makes him
a cosmeto,ogist, par excellence. He
comes from professional family,
several Of them prominent doctors
here in Detroit, best known his
father and brother, DR.. Joseph T.
Thomas, Jr.. and Sr.. and DR.. AL
fred E. Thomas, Jr-. and Sr., his
cousin and uncle respectively.
Recently Mr.. Thomas completed
sculptored head of woman,
modelled in clay, this work received
admiration and praise from his in
structor. Mr.. Edwards. who has per-
fected and made one OF the great.
est discoveries OF this age-that oi
giving those who have lost legs and
arms. new ones which can hardly
be distinguished from the original
Maceo Thomas is also planning to
enter this field-he hopes in this
way TO aid our boys who may be
wounded in battle in the present
conflict
We highly commend this young
man. and he is still very young
for his courage in tackling a new
and more difficult profession. after
the many years OF glamor. he en-
-teyed-a as a top notch entertainer.
He says that he will never COM
pletely give up dancing; he loves
i, and believes firmly that any
success he has attained was based
solely on his love for his work. He
assures US that ne enters his new
chosen field with the same tervor
and enthusiasm.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01
Halle Selassie Gives
SIS Gold Rings To Raj

LONDON. - AS contribution TO
the Royal Air Force fund for
wounded and disabled airmen. Halle
SelasSie. Emperor OF Ethiopia. this
week sent So gold rings weighing
100 ounces and worth 700 pounds,
here to the British Secretary of
State
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01

The Senior and Junior Civic
club presents Miss Elizabeth
Moore. soloist of Flint. Mich.
in a spring musicale. Tuesday.
May IL. at $40 pm. at Lucy
Thurman Y.W.C.A. Sss East
Elizabeth street. Miss Moore.
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. J. w.
Moore Of Flint. has just turned
seventeen. Al the age of ten
she sang the title role in the
Opereffa. Red Riding Hood"
She was a member of the Flint
high school choir for three
years. During her last year she
was soloist and valedictorian
of her high school class and also
won q scholarship TO the u. Of
M. in competitive examina.
ton. She is an "A" student in
her first year in college. The
public is cordially invited 10
come and hear this talented
young lady. Miss Moore will
be accompanied by Mrs. Emily
Hixon Of the Flint Civic Opera
and organist Of the Court Street
M. E. church. Emma L. Reid is
president; Mary F. BracY. Sec
retarY.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01
CHURCH GROUP TO MEET

EVANSTON. II. - The Sunday
school and BYPU Congress OF the
North River District association
will convene at Mt. Zion Baptist
church here May 5. 6 and Meth
DDS Of instruction will be featured.
Glasses will begin al $50 ans.
A. Tillman is president.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-01
Packard Workers Protest Speech Made By JAS Lndahl


Mrs. Demonia Owens has rscovs
cred from an attack Of pneumonia
and has returned to her home at
asa Z. Warren. Mrs. Owens 10 rap
IDLY regaining her strength and n
happy to be out again.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Carroll 10 Serve
on Vital Committees

Howard r. Carroll, Macomb
county's new representative in
the state legislature, today was
named to membership on three
vital committees of that body in
Lansing. They are: Apportion-
ment, Judiciary and Northern
State Hospital.
This morning Carroll, togeth-
er with Representatives George
Higgins, of Oakland county, and
Joseph Warner, of Washtenaw
county, introduced a bill on re-
apportionment which would re-
suit in Macomb county gaining
an additional representative in
the legislature.
Typical of the unbalanced sit
uation which now exists, Car
roll said, is the fact that he sits
next 10 a representative of one
county of less than 10000 pop
ulation. Yet that man has as
much TO say in forming state
laws as Carroll who alone must
speak for over 10000 Macomb
county residents.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Survivor
Continued from Pare One

whose work was help load
the planes with bombs, Noellert
was up on the catwalk when
the battle cry was raised.
"The first thing I knew a
plane flew by with big red
sun painted or il. After that,
they came like flies, for the rest
of the day.
Three Jap planes that I know
of crash dived on the deck of
the Hornet. One o. them was
so close ! was burned by ex-
ploding gas"
Minor burns were the only
injuries he received in the bat
tie. He was ta,-en TO an adjac-
ent cruiser and brought to shore
by tanker.
His main objective now, after
his visit is completed, is to get
back into it-but fast
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Hot Spot
Continued from Page One

"Then somebody in my fox
hole shouted, Just stick your
head out of this hole and you'll
see plenty of light
THE Smelling continued until
dawn. 1t was tough night.
People who read about a
Smelling don't think much OF 1t,
but those who have gone
through such a Smelling don't
want any part of it,"
Saunders. star football tackle
at West Point from which he
graduated in 1928, and later a
plebe and line coach at the
school, yesterday wore the first
time the star of a brigadier gen.
eral.
His bombing squadron, which
he led as a colonel, was the first
TO sight a Jap force of 40 or
more ships trying to reinforce
Guadalcanal troops, and gave
the warning which led to the
Japanese rout in the Nov. 1878
battle off Guadalcanal.
He participated in the Nov. 13
morning aerial bombing raid in
which the crippled Kongo class
enemy battleship and other Jap
vessels were sent to the bottom.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Mrs. A. J. Pickman
Dies Suddenly
Prominent Resident
Sueeumbs in Detroit

Mrs. Aileen Pickman, 40, OF
POI Moross, long a leader in the
Grace Episcopal church here,
fell, or leaped, to her death at
925 today from a fourth floor
sun room at Woman's hospital,
Detroit, where she had been a
patient since Dec. %.
Mrs. Pickman, a Mount Glenn
ense resident for % years, had
been an active member of the
Grace Episcopal church choir
and resigned from Civic Chorus
only recently due 10 i'll health
She was at one time a member
of the League of Women Voters.
Her husband, Albert j. is sem
Tor warden and treasurer of the
church. Funeral services are not
Immediately available.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Road
Continued from Page One

and set his pay at $500 per
year for the entire period. Each
of the commissioners, in addi-
ton, receives $500 yearly for
car allowance (vo by them
selves plus gas and oil plus re-
pairs TO said cars.
Although the boards 1913
budget was pared down $50
906.39 from the approximate
$4,000 spent last year, the
payroll dropped only S2,57281
from the S198,366. 40 spent for
that purpose last year.
The budget drop was neces-
STATED d''e to the drop il weight
and gas tax revenues, which sup
port the road commission. In
all, only 100 employees still re-
main on the payroll in con-
trast to 1876 year ago, Finch
said
The payroll C'op was not larg-
err, the comparative budgets in
dictate, because the commission
voted raises TO office help while
neglecting to raise hourly work
ers.
The raises given white collar
workers ranged from $40 to SIS
per month, the report shows,
even though the same workers
were boosted $40 monthly in
July.
Veteran A aud tor Arno 4
Boots" Ullrich wa5 advanced
SIS monthly to $500 per month
while Engineer Karl o. Brink
was upped s25 to the same fig
ure given Ullrich.
Vincent Lumley, son of the
commissioner raised SIS 10 S240
per month. Lumley is listed as
superintendent of plants and
mechanics.
The commissioners plan only
maintenance work this year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Farmland
Gets Life
in Prison
PORT HURON, Mich, Jan. IL

PORT HURON, Mich, Jan. IS
-(P)-Fred r. Hagen. AZ, EN-
NETT farmland today was sem
fenced to life in Southern Michi-
gan Prison, for the murder OF
Fred d. Simpson, Detroit war
worker and Emmett farmer.
Hagen pleaded guilty Tues
day to the charge that he muir
dered his employer Sunday by
beating him to death with a
hammer, and threw his body in
to a culvert ditch near Emmett.
Mrs. Helen c. Simpson, Wild
ow of the slain man, was sem
fenced to the Detroit House OF
Correction, after her plea OF
guilty of being an accessory at
ter the crime. Circuit Judge
Shirley Stewart, who sentenced
both persons, recommended
Mrs. Simson serve a mini
mum of four years, II months,
and the legal maximum OF five
years.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Pupils 10 Attend
Commission Meeiinq

More than 100 Mount Clemens
High school students will attend
tonight's City Commission at
which members of the schools
Junior Civic League will be spe-
cial guests.
In other years, Civic League
officials took over active man.
agement of the city but this plan
has been abandoned this year be-
cause of the war.
Civic League officials are:
Charles Branyon, mayor; James
Krauseneck, Henry Reuhle, Fred
Brandenburg and Hester Matth-
ews, commissioners, and James
Kaufeld and Howard Rosso, JUS
tees of the peace.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
3rd Charbeneau
Boy Joins Colors

The sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Charbeneau, As Lin
coin avenue, have fighting blood
in their veins.
All three of the boys have
signed up" and two are already
in uniform.
Home on furlough today Is
End. Lieut.. Ralph c. Charlie
neau, a pilot with the u. S. Ma
rine Corps. He is stationed at
Cherry Point, N. c.
A second son, Jerry, II, is a
dental student at Ypsilanti
State College, and is a member
of the u. S. Naval Reserve.
The third boy, Robert, FL, left
for duty with the Army Air
Forces, meteorology depart
ment. today.
Lieut.. Ralph Charbeneau's ad-
dress, when he leaves for duty
again on Sunday. will be: u. S.
MGR, V.M.F.-531. Marine Air
Station, Cherry Point. N. c.
Prior to entering the u. S.
Marine Corps, Lieut.. Charlie
neau served for nine months
with the R.C.A.F.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Five in Family
Lost in Pacific
Iowa Mother
CIines to Hope

WATERLOO, Iowa, Jan. l3--
tPt- The 49-year-old mother OF
five sailor brothers, all report
ed missing in action aboard the
cruiser Juneau which was sunk
last November in the southwest
Pacific, today chung to a hope
that maybe they'll all show up
somewhere, some day soon.
Mrs. Thomas F Sullivan, wife
of a railroad freight conductor,
was notified yesterday by the
Navy Department that all five
of her sons. ranging in age from
20 to %, were missing IN ac-
ton.
The boys always wrote at the
end of their letters, Keep your
chin up the mother recalled,
and nows a good time TO do
just that.
IF they are gone" she add
ed, lit will be a comfort to know
they went together - as they
wanted"
Navy officers said at Washing
ton I h a I the loss of the five
brothers was the heaviest blow
suffered by any single family
since Pearl Harbor, and prob
ably in American naval his
tory
The brothers joined the Navy
a little over year ago with the
provision they not be separated,
though Navy policy is to divide
members of a family in wartime
service.
They were; George 7, %,
gunners mate Sc con d class;
Francis H., 26, coxswain; Jo-
seph E. %, seaman, second class;
Madison A., %, seaman, second
class, and Albert l., 20, seaman,
second class.
All were single except Albert,
who had a 22-month-old son.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Goal Strikers
Gather Today
Hint U. S. Moy
Seize Galleries

WILK BARRE, Pa, Jan. ID
TIP Thousands of striking
miners in the Pennsylvania an
thracite fields were called into
mass meetings today to consider
a possible true, after the war
labor board limited it may ask
President Roosevelt TO seize all
strike-b bound collieries and end
this threat" to the prosecution
of the war.
Strike leaders received the la
Dor board statement - its sec
ond in two days - at q meeting
last night and Immediately act
ed to convene their local unions,
affiliates of the United Mine
Workers, today Il and 2 pm,
EWT) to get the reaction" and
consider peaceful negotiations.
The WLB, in kilograms to
John L. Lewis, UNIV president,
and heads of fl e companies, de-
clared that anthracite coal
stockpiles are a, critically low
level endangering the health Of
our people and the prosecution
of the war" and added:
FULFILL OBLIGATION
UNLESS this threat to the
safety of our rution is immedi-
ately terminated, the board will
exercise all powers within its
jurisdiction to fulfill i obliga-
ton to the country
Spokesman fer the 10000 par
ticipating in the l5-day-old wild
cat strike took this statement
to be a strong indication that
the board, if necessary, would
recommend that Mr., Roosevelt
seize the Is strike-bound collier
les in the name of the govern
ment.
The boards message was read
to the strike leaders from news
dispatch.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Lone P-4O
Raids NaZi
Headquarters
BY holland NORGAARD

AT A u. S. FORWARD
FIGHTER BASE IN TUNISIA,
Jan. 10 - Delayed R -
It was about breakfast time at
German headquarters in Kalr-
ouan this morning when a lone
United States Curtiss P-4O
fighter darted out of the sky,
headed straight for the building
housing the German staff.
The P-4O loosed its single
bomb and nosed upward just in
time to clear the roof while
pieces of masonry flew from the
building and the Nazis ran for
cover.
This is Just a minor chapter
in the almost -ivate war that
Major Philip G.. Cochran, 80, of
Erie, Pa, former Ohio State I'm
iversity student, and his fight
er squadron are waging on the
axis in southern Tunisia.
FIRST MISSION
Within an hour after arriving
at this advanced United States
air base in North Africa a month
ago, Cochran's squadron had re-
fueled and taken off on its first
combat mission.
They do not wal for orders.
eve would never get the job
done if we just sat down and
awaited orders" Cochran ex-
planned.
None is more appreciative of
this relentless 2udacity than the
gallant but poorly-equipped
French army which might have
been crushed but for the fact
that P-4O pilots believe in h .
ting first.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
New Library
Schedule Set

Effective Thursday, January
IA, the Mount Clemens Public
Library will maintain new
schedule of hours, made neces-
sary by loss of personnel and
illness. Miss Ann Croker, Ii
brarian, announced today.
The adult department will be
open from IL noon to 6 pm.
every day but Wednesday, and
the children's department will
be open every day, including
Saturday from 3 to 5 pm, with
the exception of Wednesday. On
that day the library will be
closed all day.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Russia
Continued from Page One

a6S OhS
Elected in a report by German
military quarters that heavy
fighting had spread to the sector
between Lake linen and the
Leningrad-Lake Ladoga region.
These quarters said Russian
attacks outside Leningrad and
South of Lake Ladoga had fail
ed.
In the Caucasus, Soviet dis
patches pictured the triumphant
Red armies as driving the AXIS
invaders back toward Rostov
along a 100-mile front, capturing
six more cities and towns, and
moving up for the assault on the
Nazi-held rail hub at Salsk, ITO
miles southeast of Rostov.
Stockholm reports said the
Russians were already within
artillery range of Salsk and
were battling the Germans en-
trenched northwest of the city.
Frontline dispatches said the
Russian comeback w e p
through the Central Caucasus
was moving steadily North along
both sides of the Rostov-Batu
railroad, scoring a i2-mile gain
in a single thrust from Pyati-
gorsk to Essentuki.
A Reuters British News Ag-
ency) report from Moscow said
Red Army columns which drove
from Stalingrad down past Ellis
ia and thence across the barren
Kalmyck Steppes had row join
ed Soviet forces from the Cauca-
sus
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Pupils Purchase Sab
in War Bonds, Stamps

Patriotic students of the pub
lie schools continued their heavy
purchases of War Bonds and
Stamps this week with sales
reaching S2,413.85, Superintend-
ent l.. Wade Fast said today.
Totals by schools were: Glenn
ems, S15.95; Dickinson, S11470;
D on a d n, S6l.80; Grant,
$59.40; Lincoln, $1,000; Ma
comb, $50; Wilson, Sl37.75 and
high school, $1,842.05.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Utica Five
CO1lquers
Romeo

ROMEO-Romeo High School,
playing its first basketball game
of the season, dropped a 26-l9
decision to Utica High here last
night.
The Uticans m Owe d out in
front at the outset and were
never headed, holding a half
time lead of 1915 and a three
quarter advantage of 1911.
Bud Susalla, Utica forward,
was the games high scorer with
IL points. Tommy Arbron paced
Romeo with seven
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-13
Girl, 5, CraveIy
Hurt in Crash

A five-year-old Warren town.
ship girl lay near death in Sara
toga hospital today after she was
struck at $50 pm. Tuesday by
a car driven north on Van Dyke
at Continental by Giacomo Gia-
calone, As, of 6490 Schoenherr,
Utica.
Near death is Katherine Hug
all, 8104 Lozier, Warren town
ship, who was struck as she
walked across Van Dyke with
her 11-year-old sister, Dorothy.
Giacalone is to make state
ment to Assistant Prosecutor
Fred Van Fleteran today. Kath-
crime is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Reginald Hugall.