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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
3O-Ddy Bombing
Would End War,
Air Expert Says

Thirty days after the United
Nations send 1000 planes a day
over Germany in bombing raids,
the end OF the war will be in
sight, Capt. Gil Robb Wilson,
president OF the National Aero
nautic Association, predicted today.
Speaking before a luncheon
meeting of the Detroit chapter Of
the MAJ, Capt. Wilson said:
you only have to see the pic
lures of what the block busters
have done IN raids 40 far 10
understand this. It would bring
any one In their knees to have
such destruction going on day
after day"
CREDITS AMERICA
Wilson stated that Germany
could be knocked out quickly and
surely by airpower.
Zone thousand planes day
after day over Germany would
he a lot more effective than
100000 men poured into a gi-
gantic Dieppe raid I'm an inya-
sion OF Europe" he said.
Wilson credited American Sucr
cesses TO date TO the courage and
vision OF American military air
leaders who concentrated on the
long-range bomber when other ma
tons were developing fighters and
dive-bombers.
SPEAKS OF POSTWAR
when II comes 10 keeping
the war In the other fellows
backyard. IL In because our air
leaders had the proper concep-
ton Of air power In It's global
application" stated Wilson.
He predicted the postwar world
would be ruled through the air
by Russia. China, Britain and the
United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Missouriidn Held
In $4,000 Fraud

James Randolph Baker, whose
Baker Land Company in DAM
phar, Mo-, sent out alluring des-
criptions of rich Missouri farm
land" today was indicted by the
federal grand jury on two counts
of using the mails TO defraud.
The indictment was returned be-
fore Federal Judge Edward ].
Monet. 1t charges Baker with
defrauding Edgar D. Spore and
his wife, Mary, of $4,000.
According to Thomas P. Thorn
ton, assistant United States attor-
ney, Baker perpetuated the fraud
by trading the Spores out of a
trailer camp they operated at
1850 Dix avenue, Melvindale.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Welfare Station Due
To Close Monday

The old Alfred station of the
public welfare department at 1850
Erskine will close Monday and the
case load distributed among three
remaining welfare stations, ii was
announced today.
Distribution points are at Fiji
teenth and West Warren, Dawson
and Joseph Campau and at st.
Jean and Vernon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Senator'S Ignore
Wtherspoon
To Favor F0P
Times staff Correspondent

LANSING. March 5.-Over al
jections from Detroit Police Cou}
Witherspoon, the Sen4tI
municipalities committee appeaft|
ready today TO report favorably 81
the bill permitting formatioma0|
the Fraternal Order of Poitcl
without interference from cit]
fathers.
Despite Witherspoon's arr}
ments there appears to be enougl
votes on the committee to ee|
the bill out at its next meetinI
Tuesday. Senator Nichols of Jacld
son is a member of the committed
and also is attorney for the statl
FOP organization. !.
wITHERSPOON's PLEAas
The Detroit commissioner ton
the committee the FOP will IN
.terfere with the home rule Of vi
department if allowed to exist AMI
cited numerous instances where M
said discipline was ruined" q
other cities where the organizAI
ton flourishes.
"The FOP Is like Ial,or|
union and a labor union has -
place in the police departmeuA n
he said. 4st
He said the FOP in other cite
issued associate membership1rt|
citizens for as much as $2Sa41
return the citizen was permftte(
to display membership emblenAs u
their cars and ostensibly remaiI
free from illegal parking ticketd
Meantime an appeal to the stat
supreme court from Judge KeidAh1
verdict in Detroit, outlawing Il,
FOP, was being planned. IN
lower courts ruling upheld tn
right of Witherspoon to issue ru1eI
against police organizations. 8
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Detroit Sub Officer
Cited for Bravery

A Detroit navy man. 1t. Richard
M. Farrell, is among three Ameri-
can submarine officers and one
enlisted man who received decora-
tons today for their heroism in
the sinking of $4,000 tons OF
enemy shipping.
Their craft damaged a con-
verified aircraft carrier. battle
ship of the Japanese Kongo class
and sank a patrol vessel.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
EnfbeZZler TO Repay
Rowe. Add $2.296

two counts-embeZzlement and
larceny by conversion.
Rowe accused Baker Of misap-
propriating funds entrusted 10 him
10 invest in an annuity.
Shunted around following many
successful years in the majors,
Rowe said he may work in a war
plant in Eldorado. Ark. rather
than accept his sale BY Brooklyn
TO Montreal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Dealer May Deduct Stamps Oh Phone Orders
0PA Explains
Other Rules on
Canned Goods

Regulations covering the order
ing of canned foods by telephone
return of faulty spoiled or surplus
cans as we'll as the status of serv-
ice men under point rationing were
clarified today by the OPA.
They are:
Q-I buy all my food from the
same grocer and order all my food
by phone. May leave my ration
book at the store and authorize
the dealer 10 remove stamps for
the food order?
Ayes, you may authorize
your dealers to act as your agent
In deducting stamps from your
ration book.
Q-What can do if get a
swelled can OF food from my
grocer?
A-Return II, and ask him to
give you a perfect can TO re-
place 1t.
Q-Suppose I accidentally break
a bottle of food for which i have
just surrendered a ration stamp.
Should my dealer replace it?
A-No. The loss for broken
containers Is yours II you are
responsible for the breakage.
OFF l have a surplus of canned
corn and canned tomatoes may ]
exchange these for foods ! need
but do not have?
Ayes, you may exchange
canned goods of equal point
value with your grocer II he is
willing, or with neighbors and
friends.
OFF I have no need to buy
rationed foods during the first
month of rationing may / save my
stamps to use when / need them :?
A-No. Point stamps become
invalid at the end of each ration
period just like stamps for sugar
and coffee.
Q-Are the smallest sizes of food
now rationed?
Ayes, even the smallest
cans of foods are rationed II
they contain foods included In
the rationing program.
Q-Is il more economical for me
to buy dry or canned beans?
Ar you can use either, dry
beans are more economical from
standpoint of ration points since
they increase In bulk when they
are soaked for use.
Q-What should be done with
the point ration books of men
going into service?
A-Ration books of men going
into contemplating they eat
at any army mess-should be
returned to local war price and
ration boards.
Off ration books of men eat
ing at an army mess are turned
back to the war price and ration
boards, how can families get food
for them when they are home on
leave7
Ar they are home for
week or more, local boards will
issue them ration certificates for
the length of their leave II they
present their furlough papers.
Q-Do men in the merchant
marine turn in their ration books
to their local boards when they
ship out on a trip?
Ayes. These books are sur
rendered to the board IL the
sailor Is leaving the country for
80 days or more. When he re-
turns home he may get the book
from the board for use while In
the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
POLICE VETERAN REsIoNs

Branding the court hearing I
"mockery," Patrolman Fred
Adams, 40, of 2464 Van Dyke. ~
II years member of the depdf1}
ment, resigned today.
Adams, a witness for the FCpl
announced his resignation in Z
letter to Hunt street superi0rz
He stated police and city officfxl}
were afraid to present the issue q
"a review by taxpayers"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
10 Maxi AdmiraIs Shifted

LONDON. March 5 (INS). -
Grand Admiral Doenitz, chief of
the German naval staff has re-
placed 10 admirals with younger
officers more experienced in mod
ern naval warfare. the Daily Tel.
egraph said today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Lincoln JAW Local
Elects CIdrksOn

John Clarkson today became the
new president of Lincoln Local
No. 900 of the UAW-CIO. Other
officers named are: vice president,
Edward Perry. recording secre-
tary, Andy Kay; financial secre-
tary, Robert o. Mcintosh;
treasurer. Jack Sassell, and
trustee, Sidney Hill.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

Promising to make full restitu-
ton and throw in S2.296 for good
measure. former Assistant Prose
cutor Ralph Baker today pleaded
guilty 10 embezzling "a ,592 from
Lynwood tSchoolboy) Rowe, one
time Detroit Tiger pitcher.
Baker waived examination he
fore Recorders Judge Stein and
was released under $1,000 bond.
he was charged with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Knudsen's Daughter
Bride of Lieutenant

Mrs. Hugh Martin and their SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr.. William
Phoebe.
Mrs. Ralph Stevenson. whose
son, John, married Elna Knudsen;
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee Robson, DIR.
and Mrs. Harold Henderson, Mr..
and Mrs. William Hassard. Mr..
and Mrs. Walter French and Mr..
and Mrs. Hanley Dawson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Gunner on the Chicago
7 ellis Of Last Battle
Survives Explosions
Of Six Torpedoes
Fired Into Cruiser

AS battle SCARED and helpless
as wounded duck on a log.
That was the situation of the
heavy cruiser Chicago when sunk
by the Japs after repeated tries
a veteran navy gunner's mate, now
on leave in Detroit, revealed today
Tanned and hardened by Il
years in the navy, Gunner's Mate
Wilbur McCafferty survived the
explosions of more than half q
dozen torpedoes that the Japs
pumped into the Chicago's tor.
tured hull before she gave up.
ATTACKED BY NUGGETS
81 was with her in May I'm
Sidney Harbor when four Jap
midget subs tried to get u.s."
McCafferty said. "They failed
and PIT boats got them.
81 was with her last August
when, during the first landing in
the Soiomons, we were hit by a
torpedo from a plane and the
bow was blown off. That same
night we were hit by six-inch
she'll"
Out of commission. the Chicago
was repaired and returned TO serv'
ice later in the fall.
at was of Guadalcanal last
January that we really began to
catch It," he said. "Twenty-four
torpedo planes attacked us in
two waves.
'Tn the middle Of this we got
our two torpedo hits. But the
Japs that tossed those two at us
never lived to see their work."
Despite the heavy damage
caused by the torpedoes. the Chi
cago downed four of the attacking
planes and remained af1oat but
unable to proceed on her owr
power.
SANK IN 10 MINUTES
"We were under tow when
they gave IL to us in a big way"
McCafferty said. Thirteen of
their torpedo planes got us then
and piled four more into us. We
were helpless and 10 minutes
from the time the Chicago was
hit she went down for the last
time"
After swimming for As minute
in cold. oil-covered water, he wa
picked up by destroyer.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29

was listed In receipts for care a
children. Other receipts included
family relief, Council Of Catholic
Women, parish assessments, au0
contributions, the total In recelpta
$3s,143.50.
In the expenditures were LISTED
care Of children amounting to Sill
1914; family relief, $8,900.61; aa-
ministration, $10,309.0l, the total -,
expenditures $38,143.50.
The Diocesan Bureau Staff me-
cludeS Rev. Eugene p. Cryne, aHsc-.
ciate director; Miss Agnes O. Elt9g
patrick, executive secretary; MIS-
Edna Mae Maloney, child welfare
case worker; Miss Theresa McGrath,
family welfare case worker; MIS-
Margaret L. Tehan, stenogrnphev;
and Miss Christine Donnelly, ste-
nographer. The advisory board In
cludes: John e. Bulger, chairman:
Frank T. Healey, vice-chairman
Miss Agnes G. Fitzpatrick, secretary;
Rev. Eugene p. Cryne, treasurer;
and Serge Belanger, Edmund J.
DAILY, william B. Fitzpatrick, Judge
John l.. Gaffney, Miss Mary Hen
Messy, DR.. Richard Hinchey, Frank
J. Kenney, Arthur r. Magraw. Miss
Catherine Maloney, George 8. Me-
Cormack, Mrs. Edward J. Mcdonald,
Honorable Frank r. McEvoy, Mich
ael G. Murphy, Frank Pope, Dr..
Raymond J. Quinn and Louis a.,
Walsh.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29

What is the matter with us all?
There is enough food to go round,
none Of us are going hungry. Ii we
can't always have our choice We can
find substitutes. But we shall have
to find them more readily and hap
PLY before we can say our whole
energies as O nation are released for
total war"
Indications were that drastic
scaling down Of eating habits Is In
store, with such peacetime delicacies
rs two-pound steaks, pork tender
loin and lamb chaps virtually ruled
out for the duration.
The only important items still UNI
rationed are bread. cereals, fresh
fish. poultry. game. fresh vegetables
and grlit, potatoes, eggs and milk.
As meat rationing began, there
were four other important develop
mentS:
I. Butter, cooking fats and oil
and cheese, "frozen" In grocery
stores since March %, and canned
meats and canned fish, frozen
since Feb. 10, were released for sale
again under point rationing on ra-
ton book No. 2.
2. Rationing restrictions were lift
ed temporarily on all dried and de-
hydrated fruits and vegetables.
3. Point values were cut drastical-
ly for all fruit and vegetable juices
juices and dehydrated soups and
were increased for more than half
a dozen other canned items. includ-
ing applesauce, peaches, pineapple
and canned fresh lima beans.
4. Supplies of rationed foods to
restaurants were cut between IS and
SO per cent to put restaurant eaters
on the same basis as other civilian
consumers.
Office of Price Administration Of
ficials predicted the new meat and
fats rationing program will allow
the average consumer about two
pounds of meat, ga pound Of butter
and cooking fats and two ounces Of
cheese weekly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29
LOC-CHOPPING
tilt ARRANGED
Sherman Ives of Thomas.
ton to Ofhciate as Judge
in Title Contest

Boston, March 29-The deadline
for registering for the Paul Bunyan
log-chopping title In New England
Is set for Thursday, April l. the
war production board announced
today.
Candidates for the championship
from each of the six New England
states were urged TO register with
their nearest Grange or County
Farm Bureau as soon as possible.
Any farmer, farm hand or Incl
dental laborer, barring only profess
sional woodchoppers engaged in
numbering operations, Is eligible to
enter the contest. Registrations
should be addressed to the nearest
Pomona Grange master or County
Farm Bureau chairman.
A champion logger will be chosen
In each Of the New England states
by Grange and Farm Bureau judges
The modern BunyanS, prototypes
Of the legendary hero Of American
lumber camps, will be rewarded with
trip to Washington where they
will be guests Of government off,
Gals, including Donald M. Nelson,
chairman Of the war production
board.
The state winners will be selected
on the accomplishments Of their
individual woodchopping for the
period from Feb. % to April I. This
production of lumber, so vital to
the war effort, is part of a logs for
victory program which is designed
to supply the nation with 2 Ia bill
lion board feet from the woodlots
Of New England, New York and
Pennsylvania.
JucTes Of the state contests are
as follows:
Maine-F. Ardine Richardson Of
Strogn, State Grange Master.
New HampShire-William j. Neal
Of Meredith, Grange Master, and
George Putnam of Concord, preSi-
dent Of the State Farm Bureau.
Vermont-Henry A. Stoddard OF
Bellows Falls, Grange Master, and
Arthur Packard of Burlington, pres
ident of the Farm Bureau.
MISUNDERSTANDING q. Turner
of Andover, Grange Master, apd Jo-
seph Decatur of Wayland, president
of the Farm Bureau,
Rhode Island-CharleS A. Gard
ner of Rumford, Grange Master.
Connecticut-Shermau K. Ives OF
ThomaSton, Grange Master, and
Samuel H. Graham of Sufiield, pres
ident of the Farm Bureau.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29
ia Families Aided
By Diocesan Bureau
Activities of Past Year Reviewed in Report "a
Advisory BOard Child Care Statement interesting

A meeting Of the Advisory Board
Of the Diocesan Bureau Of Social
Service was held last week at the
Bureau headquarters, 56 Church
street, Rev. Eugene P. Cryne, asso-
ciate director presiding. The DID,
cesar Bureau which is q Member
Agency of Council Of Social Agen-
cies and Community Chest submit
ted financial report Of the years
receipts and expenditures, the total
expenditures amounting to $38, 1880.
The family and child welfare re-
port were also submitted.
Miss Agnes G. Fitzpatrick, Secre-
tary presented her report Of the
year 1912 in which she stated that
one hundred and Seventy-four FAM
lies received service from the local
office. Forty-nine we're given guild
ance for a short period; one hun
dred and twenty five required case
work service for a longer period of
time. Sixty-one families were given
financial assistance and case work
service. There was also listed in
the report adjustment of economic
problems where insufficient income,
budgeting and household manage
ment was evident. Spiritual guild
ance was listed for sixteen families.
In the Child Welfare Department
sixty-nine children were accepted
for care. The total number under
care was one hundred and sixty
one. The report stressed the need
Of new foster homes to meet de-
mands Of increased applications;
also mothers Of young children were
encouraged to remain at home to
care for them. Miss Fitzpatrick
stated: During 1912 dislocation OF
family life due to war conditions
has continued D.. women have Sc
cured employment in war produc-
ton work sometimes without plan
ming adequately for the care Of their
children" Other difficulties arising
at the time were mentioned in the
report, which interfere with child
care.
In the financial report$17,17T.1J
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29
Mrs. Roosevelt Flags
Wild Buying Spree
Point RatiOning of Meats, Butter Cheese and Cooking
Fats Starts Today; Police Called to Quiet TErOngs

Washington, March 29.-(UP)-
Point rationing of meats, butter,
cooking fats and cheese began to-
day, bringing about so per cent of
all foodstuffs under ration restric-
tons.
One of the widest buying sprees
In history ended Saturday night
with consumers besieging meat mar
bets from coast to coast for
meat that had been completely sold
out hours earlier. Police we're need
ed in some cities to quiet the
throngs.
Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt severely
criticized the last-minute meat-buy-
ing splurge in her daily newspaper
column today.
a.. AL Of US need to release
our energies for total war;" she
wrote. IF we realized this, people
wouldn't Just before meat rationing
starts, storm thep utcher shops UNI
til the shelves are bare.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29
PLEURISY CLAIMS
FAMED COMPOSER
Death of Sergei Rachman-
inOff MOurned By World
of Music

Beverly Hills, Cal, March 90
(UP)-The world of music today
mourned the death of Sergei Rach-
maninoff, pianist, composer, and
conductor, who was, according to
most music critics, the greatest mas
ter of the keyboard since List.
Rachmaninoff, of Russian birth
but a nautralized American citizen,
died yesterday in his home here of
complications resulting from pleu-
risy. He would have been 20 years
old this week. A requiem Mass Will
be said for him tonight In the Rus
sian Orthodox church and funeral
services will be held tomorrow.
His wife, Natalie. his daughter,
Princess Irene Wolkonsky OF New
York. and his sister-in-law. Miss
Sophie lin were at his bedside.
His second daughter, Mrs. Tatiana
Conus. is in France.
There was no place in the world
where Rachmaninoff was not held
In the highest reverence as a vir-
tuoso; there was hardly symphony
orchestra of major caliber anywhere
in Europe or America that he had
not conducted during the course of
his long and active career: there Is
hardly a person anywhere who
learned to play the piano after 1900
who was not made acutely aware OF
both his technique and his compost
lions, such was his influence on the
art: there can hardly be an in
dividual who has heard any music
at all who was not familiar with
at least one Of his compositions. the
Prelude In C Sharp Minor that at
tanned a popularity almost APP
preaching that Of an Irving Berlin
number.
Born April I. 1873, In Novgorod,
Russia, he entered the St. Peters
burg Geningrad) Conservatory at
the age of nine. Peter I. Tchaikov-
sky. perhaps the greatest OF the
Russian composers, became interest
ed In his talents when he was ID.
He wrote his first opera. "Aleko.
at 10 and the next year began tour
ing the continent as a virtuoso. In
1898, he was a guest conductor OF
the London Philharmonic orchestra
which first established his fame as
conductor. He made his first con-
cert tour of the United States in
1909.
RachmaninoR was offered the
permanent conductorShip OF the
Boston Symphony orchestra on
three occasions. declining because
he preferred TO devote himself to
playing and composing.
He spent much of his time after
1910 In the United States but was
IN Russia when the revolution broke
out in 1917. He escaped with bis
family to Sweden. Always silent on
political matters, he had nothing
to say about the Soviet regime I'M
til 1881 when he signed with sew
eraI other Russian einigres a protest
against Soviet education methods.
His works thereafter were banned
In Russia. He and his wife be-
came American citizens last Feb
ruary.
HIS compositions included three
oneras. "AIeka," The Misery
knight" and Francesca De
Rimini."
critics have said that his second
symphony, the Piano Concerto In G
Minor and ID Minor. and his "Rhap.
sody on a theme by Petaolnshro
piano preludes. and some OF the
songs were among the finest works
composed In the both century.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29

The public will be admitted free
u charge.
Complete information regarding
The local community garden plan
will be announced by Chairman
Mcdonald who together with the To-
cal committee has been making
survey Of the prospective public
gardens here during the past three
weeks.
Professor wilkinson Is recognized
as an authority on Connecticut soil
and should give the aspiring, local
gardeners O great deal Of valuable
advice.
The local War Garden recruits"
will include everyone who is inter-
ested. Those who haven't garden
areas In their own backyards will
be allotted plots in the community
tracts.
I'VE are not aiming at any set
quota of gardens for l943" said
Chairman Mcdonald this morning,
because we would rather have 1000
gardens which are well taken care
Of by their owners, than 5000 which
are war gardens In name only"
TIE park department ONCE IN the
City Hall has been designated as
War Garden headquarters where all
Information regarding the campaign
may be secured.
The Mayors War. Garden COM
mittee Is comprised Of Chairman
Bernard A. Mcdonald, Mrs. Merton
3. Allan. Rev. Roger B. T, Ander-
son, E. Robert Stevenson, Gerald T.
Bowler, Harold r. Manning, Sup
erintendent Of Parks James j. Cur
tin and william J. Derwin, secre-
tary.
Governor Raymond e. Baldwin
urges that everyone who has q
suitable piece of land or can get the
use Of such a piece of land should
cultivate, grow and preserve as
much food as possible this summer"