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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21
PUBLIC NUISANCE.

DALLAS, Texas - The coun-
ty rationing Board must move
from the county hall Of records,
said the commissioners court in
a written notice.
Unfortunately we feel i'm
PEELED to inform you that the
presence of the Board, serving a
frantic rationed people, has Sc
riously impeded the function of
several county departments,
the notice said.
Then they explained: The
waiting people, it seemed, bor-
roWed chairs from other county
offices with such regularity
we had to chain the chairs to
the floor"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-26
BY Gene Aheru
By Billy De Beck
By Westover
On the Planet Mongo

H-Asl'flRes NEARLY NAhsl6LG ReNs-cr2
~ UNSEEN BITES TIE y1clOUs RAT
WOLVES TURN on one ANOTHER ~
UNCONTROllA5LE FURY
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Fowler Addresses
Gateway Citizens

John L. Fowler, attorney for the
Greater Woodbridge Covenant ALI
ance, discussed the activities and
programs of the alliance. as guest
speaker at meeting of the National
Gateway Citizens Association last
night. The alliance was formed in
194l, through the combined efforts
of the Rhode Island avenue, Ma
tional Gateway and Burroughs Citi-
zens' Associations, to keep residents
Informed of housing developments in
that area, Mr. Fowler said.
Members of the association voted
to send letter to the Commis-
sioners suggesting improvements for
roads at Thirty-flrst street near
Charming street and on Vista street
off South Dakota avenue.
A contribution to the third an
nual Joint Christmas celebration of
the National Gateway and Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Associations
and the Woodbridge Businessmen'S
Association, which will be held Sat-
urday at the Taft Junior High
School, also was voted.
A motion to discontinue the Or
ganizations publication, Civic News,
because of the paper shortage, was
approved. 1t was agreed to use post
cards in the future to announce
events.
The association voted to empower
the Executive Board to accept new
members during its meetings.
Norman NJ. Murray, president, was
In charge of the meeting, held at the
Church of Christ, Douglas avenue
and Twenty eighth street NE.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Pair Held on Charge
Of Defraudinq Woman

Two men were held for action Of
the grand jury today after police
testified they had promised to get a
case of whisky for woman for $50
and then left her waiting in a cab
minus the $50.
The two defendants, Charles Nc
Laine, 20, of the 100 block of First
street NV, and Wendell Plummer,
25. of the 100 block of S street NV,
both colored. told Mrs. Mary Har-
rison, colored of 212 Florida avenue
NV. that if she would come with
them in a cab they would get her a
case of whisky for $50, according to
police. While Mrs Harrison waited
In the cab the two men entered a
house in the 1900 block of Sixth
street NV. and left by the rear
door. Police arrested the men later
as the result of descriptions and
other information furnished by Mrs
Harrison.
According to police, Mrs. Har-
rlson waited in the cab for two hours
and ran up sizable bill
Judge Almond w. Scott set bond
at $500 each.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Colonel Identifies Pistol
Al HameI Murder Trial

A Government witness testifying
in the second-degree murder trial of
Catherine NJ Hamel, 29-year- old
waitress, today identified in District
Court the revolver he said he saw in
the hands of the defendant after the
fatal shooting last August of Walder
F. Brown, 81, in the 1900 block Of
New York avenue NV.
Col. Daniel w. Adams, retired
Army officer who occupied an Office
q floor below the scene of the shoot
ing, made the identification of an
old Derringer pistol offered by the
Government as evidence.
He quoted the defendant as SAYING,
I"1 have shot my husband" Police
claim the defendant was a common
law wife of Brown.
Miss Hamel went on trial late vcz-
terday before a District Court ju~v
before Chief Justice Edward c.
Elcner. She is accused of shooting
Mr. Brown in her apartment.
Yesterday afternoon, Assistant
United States Attorney Cecil r.
Hef1in, who is prosecuting the case.
placed witnesses on the stand who
Identified Mr.. Brown after the shoot
ing and then called upon woman
who lived in the building at the time
OF the shooting to testify.
The woman witness, Miss Dorothy
Lewis, told Of hearing two shots fired
shortly after Miss Hamel and Mr..
Brown had left her apartment after
visit.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Butler 10 Offer Proof
OF Charges on U. 5.
Latin American Costs
BY the Associated Press.

D5 tHe hSSoClALeQ fIeSS.
Refusing to retreat an inch"
from his claim that the United
States has spent more than $6,-
600, 100000 in pursuing a finan-
cially extravagant good neigh
Dor policy in South America,
Senator Butler, Republican, of
Nebraska declared today he
would offer independent" proof
his figures were accurate.
The administration, through Act
ing Chairman McKellar of the Sem
ate Appropriations Committee, yes
terday countered Senator Buffers
estimate with detailed report
which placed all United States ex-
penditures and loans in Latin
American countries at only $780,
100000.
The Nebraskan, who had heard
Senator McKellar characterize his
original report as about 95 per cent
wrong" promptly declared he was
more convinced than ever that his
$6 600, 100000 estimate was correct.
I'm not retreating an inch" he
told a reporter. Il explained when
1 made the report that some flaws
would be found in individual items,
but that the total figure would
stand up.
Furthermore. I'm having made an
independent check by competent
specialists. They haven't completed
it yet, but it has gen far enough for
them to assure me that my figures
are right
Senator Butler wouldn't identify
the persons making the new study
of United States outlays in South
America, but said the report prob
ably would be completed within a
week and that Everybody will rec
ognize them"
Most of our expenditures In
South America have been all right,
and I've never objected to them"
Senator Butler continued. But we
have carried on projects down there
Soliipdl W lilC VIZ tllc WV
and the NYA. and It's that type of
projects, which we've stopped in this
country for economy reasons, that
shouldn't be continued in other
countries"
Senator McKellar. assembling fig
ures from various Government de-
partments and agencies, said that in
the last three years the United
States had spent directly Sl,426,-
822, 900 in South and Central Amer
ican countries and had made loans
totaling 81 ,483 ,373,O00
All except s324,185, 900 of the di-
rect outlays went for the purchase
of various war materials, said the
McKelar report. The balance in
cluded lease lend and military in
stallations.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Black Market Liquor
Reported Offered
In 1,000-Case Lots
BY the Associated Press.

bs lHe hSSoCldteu fItSs.
Senator Ferguson, Republican,
Of Michigan declaIed today that
black market" dealers are offer
ing choice whiskies to Detroit
night clubs, hotels and bars in
1,000-case lots at $25 a case
above Office OF Price Admins
tration ceilings.
Asserting that the Treasury and
the OPA ought to take steps at
once to break up this racket" Sen
ator Ferguson said he would ask
Ia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
investigating the liquor shortage to
take testimony from his informant,
Ia licensed Detroit dealer whose
name he withheld.
Chairman George announced,
meanwhile, he was asking the Sen
ate Finance Committee to place a
SEA- gallon tax on 117,000,000 gal
Ions of liquor that has been held
in storage more than four years in
an effort to force it out onto the
market.
Van Nuys Indorses Proposal.
The George proposal, Endorsed by
Chairman Van Nuys of the liquor
investigating group. would reduce
from eight to four years the period
in which whisky may be held tax
free in Government warehouses.
Senator Ferguson, a member Of
the Van Nuys committee. said one
Of the members of the Wayne
County DetroiD Liquor Dealers AS
sociation, made up Of hotel, bar
and night club operators authorized
to make out-of- State purchases, dis
closed the extent of the black mar
ket in telegram.
The State stores can't get any
whisky" Senator Ferguson said.
They told these people to get what
they can for themselves"
The telegram said the association
sent a letter of inquiry Ito every
distillery listed in McRae's Blue
Book from Oregon to Florida. asking
them to advise if they had or knew
OF any liquor to be purchased"
NO Stock Available"
All sent back the same reply, said
the dealer, that they were sorry
no stock available"
Immediately after this" he con-
tinued, I'VE were offered liquor by
several individuals in amounts up
to 1000 cases at prices averaging
s25 over the ceiling price per case"
Meanwhile, the Van Nuys COM
mittee will resume public hearings
Thursday with testimony from Sam
uel Horwitz, Cleveland (Ohio) hotel
operator. who, Senator Van Nuys
said. closed his bars rather than buy
black market whisky, of which he
said he was Offered plenty"
War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones and War Production Board
officials will be called Friday for
Questioning as to the possibility of
permitting distilleries to manufac-
ture whisky few days a month to
augment dwindling supplies.
All distilleries are now making
industrial alcohol for war purposes.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
By the Associated Press.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 14.-Johnny
Schoolboy, who always complained
he had too many names and dates
to remember in American history,
finally has the educators on his side.
Under recommendations agreed
on by the Committee on American
History after four months of study
and announced today by Commit
tee Director Edgar B. Wesley OF
the University of Minnesota, men,
orization Of a lot of dates and
names would be eliminated from
Johnny's history curriculum.
The recommendations are the
committees answer to the criticism
leveled last spring that students
didn't know their American history
any too we'll.
For Johnny, the grade student,
the committee would compel him to
remember only 10 dates-l492, 1907,
and seven other notable American
milestones. And he would be .ex-
pected to know the pertinent facts
about Daniel Boone, Sam Houston
De Soto and II other distinguished
persons whose names are synon-
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Eric Johnston Halls
Moscow, Teheron Talks

Ey the Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 14.-The
Moscow and Teheran conferences
were examples of a workable ap-
proach" to unity by which we can
solve the problems of peace, Eric
A. Johnston of Spokane, Wash,
president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, told a Salt
Lake City audience.
Conferees at Moscow and Teheran
wisely chose to ignore disagreements
and they were maryland first ex-
plored the areas of agreement, he
said in his speech last night.
He predicted such an approach
to the worlds problems would guar
antee peace for many generation
if not forever.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
President Lists War Role
In Harvard QUESTIONABLE
Py the Associated Press,

Py the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. IA
President Roosevelt, answering a
QUESTIONABLE sent to 10000 Harvard
men, filled in his military duty as
Commander in Chief of the United
States Army and Navy"
His answer to a question about
foreign service was Occasionally. u
The QUESTIONABLE was printed
yesterday in a special edition of the
undergraduate newspaper, the Grim
son. The issue, first printed since
the Crimson suspended publication
last May 27, was prepared by Is
former editors now in the armed
services.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Higgins Suggests Plan
To Cut Future
Landing Casualties
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Andrew Jackson Higgins, the New
Orleans boat builder, suggested to-
day that Higgins-designed landing
boats come in with full power and
speed in future beach operations
such as those involved at TaraWa in
the Gilbert Islands.
Reports on the Tarawa operation
said some of the landing boats hung
up on reefs of the beach, making 1t
necessary for the Marines to wade
ashore.
Asserting there was a natural
tendency to slow down on the sight
ing of reefs, Mr.. Higgins said:
They may not realize that 80 per
cent Of the time the boats will sur
mount reefs if given full power"
Mr.. Higgins emphasized he was
making no criticism of the Tarawa
operation, but merely offering a
suggestion he felt would be helpful
in future operations.
They did a marvellous job" he
commented. How could anybody
criticize?"
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Shipyards Ordered
BY FEPC 10 Rehire
|CoIored Workers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
West Coast shipbuilders have
been directed by the Presidents Fair
Employment Practice Committee to
reinstate all colored workers dis
charged solely because OF their
failure to pay dues to auxiliaries of
the International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers.
The companies also were ordered
yesterday to cease discharging or
refusing to hire colored workers
solely because they failed to obtain
clearance from the union.
Furthermore, Malcolm Ross, FEPC
chairman, said in a statement. the
union and its local lodges have been
directed to eliminate all member
ship practices which discriminate
against workers because of race or
color.
Firms notified Of the ruling in
cluded the Oregon Shipbuilding
Corp. and the Kaiser Co.. Inc, in
the Portland (Oreg) Vancouver
tWashD area, and the California
Shipbuilding Corp, Consolidated
Steel Corp. (shipbuilding division)
and the Western Pipe and Steel
Corporation in the Los Angeles area.
The committees action followed
public hearings in Portland and
Los Angeles. The FEPC held that
the auxiliaries organized by the
union were created only for colored
workers and are placed directly
under the control Of the white sub
ordinate regulaD lodge for the
area. Auxiliary members, the COM
mittee found, have no vote or voice
in the conduct Of the unions affairs
and must accept as their business
agent the business agent of the
supervising (subordinate) lodge in
whose election the auxiliaries have
no part.
The committee also found "un-
fair" differences in wage benefits
provided for members of the union
and the auxiliaries and in age limits
for adnittance to membership.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Clarence De Forest Dies;
Stockett-Fiske Enqraver

Clarence De Forest, about 55,
manager of the engraving depart
ment of the Stockett-Fiske sta
tionery store, was found dead about
noon today in the apartment he
occupied at l400 Decatur street NV.
The cause of death was not imme-
diately determined, but police said
he apparently had been dead several
days.
Officials of the stationery store, at
919 E street NV, said Mr.. De Forest
had been employed by the company
for number Of years. He was at
work Saturday, and, though he COM
planned slightly about his health, he
did not seem to be i'll, they said. He
did not report for work yesterday.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Educators Back Up Students
Who Struggle to Recall Dates

ymous with events In American
history.
In Johnny,s junior high school
years the committee favors making
him remember ITS, 1893, 1912 and
seven other dates, Mr.. Wesley said,
and some of the essential facts
about Clara Barton, Charles Good
year, Nathan Hale and Is other
specified notables.
There would only be IL more
dates for Johnny to learn in high
school-1765, 1923, 1893 and nine
others-none of which would have
been given him in previous years.
But he would have to learn about
43 additional persons of note, in
cluding Samuel Gompers, Stephen
A. Douglas and Francis Parkman,
the committee said
The report, to be published by
the Macmillan Co., will be released
to the public December %, Mr..
Wesley said. The committee was
sponsored by the American His
torical Association, the Mississippi
Valley Historical Association and
the National Council for the Social
Studies.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
DR.. Levin B. Broughton Dies;
MARYLAND u. Arts School Dean

Ichemist Of the Maryland Experiment
Station, assistant professor of chem
|istry, professor q agricultural chem
istry and associate head of the chem
istry department.. He had also di-
|rected research work for State in
dustries.
Dr. Broughton had published a
number Of books on chemical SUBJ
jects, including "Wormseed Oil
Products" Studies Relative to the
|Hydrolysis of Fat From Home-Cured
Ham," Industrial Alcohol By-prod-
ucts for Stock Feed" and Potash
From Industrial Alcohol
Headed Athletic Board.
At the time Of his death he was
chairman of the athletic board al
the university, of which he had been
member since 1918.
He was member of the American
Chemical Society, the Association OF
Agricultural Chemists and of the
College Park Rotary Club. He also
was a member of Phi Kappa Phi
Alpha chi sigma and Sigma Xi
Fraternities.
DR.. Broughton was born at POGO
moke City, Md, and attended ele-
mentary and high school there. He
also attended Bellefonte Academy
for one year.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Laurese Mcdonnell Broughton, Col
lege Park; daughter, Mrs. w. l.
Etienne, whose husband is an Army
physician in Italy, and a son
Barnett Broughton, a cadet at the
Military Academy at West Point.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at 2 pm. at st. Andrew S
Episcopal Church in College Park
Burial will be private.
Evening star., 1943-12-14

ing treated by Robert Redmiles.
Laurel physician for a heart attack.
State Police Sergt. Bernard j.
Nolan said four rifles, taken from
the homes of his companions, and
a fifth rife containing an empty
shell, found in the dead youths
home, were turned over to the FBI,
along with the bullet taken from
young Redmiles' forehead. Two
other rifles were examined yester-
day by county police
The dead youths companions told
police he suddenly slumped over
while walking in front of his home
They reported hearing a sharp crack
that sounded like one stone being
struck against another.
DR.. James I. Boyd, deputy Prince
Georges County medical examiner
said further examination disclosed
that the youth had died from a 90
caliber rifle bullet in the head. He
quoted the physician as saying he
had noticed the forehead wound
but thought it was superficial.
The youths parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Youell Redmiles, said funeral serv-
ices will be held at $50 pm. tomor-
row at the Kiser funeral home at
Laurel. Burial will be in Ivy Hill
Cemetery there.
The physician said he examined
young Redmiles when he was
brought to his Office "in a dying con-
dition." He said the boy died a
few minutes" after he was placed
on the table.
The doctor said he noticed a small
wound in the youths left eyebrow
but it appeared Insignificant in the
face of the fact a dying boy had
been brought into his Office. He
said he was told by the youths
companions that young Redmiles
had fallen and cut his head while
walking. He said this statement
caused him to overlook the impor-
tonco nf tho u,c,1,I
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Second Soldier Dead
In Seaboard Rail Wreck

BY the Associated Press.
SEALS, Ga, Dec. l4-Death Of a
soldier identified as Hubert A. Dion
of West Key West, Fla, raised to
two the number of fatalities in the
wreck. Of the Seaboard Air Line
Railways passenger train, the Sun
Queen, near here Sunday night.
Railway officials said Mr.. Dion,
whose Army unit was not identified,
died a few hours after five coaches
were derailed and three turned over.
Also killed was Pvt Roy Stinson of
Jacksonville, Fla. who was attached
to the 508th Parachute Infantry
Unit at Camp Mackall, N. c. He
was thrown through a window of
an overturned coach.
Twenty-Five other persons were in
jured, none seriously.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Pegler's Testimony
Al Film Extortion Trial
Blocked by Defense
Hy the Associated Press


NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Westbrook
Pegler, columnist, was excused
quickly from the witness stand today
In the trial of seven men on charges
of conspiracy to eXtort more than
$l,000000 from the motion picture
industry, after the prosecution OBJ
jected to defense counsel questioning
about his conversations with leading
film producers.
Mr.. Pegler, who identified himself
as "a newspaper writer since 1910"
testified under questioning by Chief
Defense Counsel James D. C. Muir
ray that he had gone to the West
Coast and interviewed one of the
Warner brothers, motion picture
producers.
Did you have conversation with
him regarding unionism and produc-
ton on the West Coast?" Mr.. Murray
asked.
Boris Kostelanetz, special assist
ant United States Attorney General,
objected that the question was i'm
material and was sustained by Fed
eral Judge John Bright.
Mr.. Murray asked the columnist
If he had discussed unionism and
production with Joseph Schenck,
former board chairman of Twentieth
Century Fox, and again the prose-
cution objection was sustained.
This Witness" Mr.. Murray told
the court, lis prepared to testify
that he went to the West Coast to
investigate unionism and production
at that time.
Il want to show that the COM
plants of the Warner brothers and
the Schencks that they were victims
of eXtortion could have been re-
vealed at that time and they would
have had every opportunity to end
It,"
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Mysterious Angles
Probed in Burning Of
Michigan Schoolgirl
BY the Associated Press,

BY the ASSOClRCed Press,
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. IA
The possibility that Miss Patricia
Winters, 17-year-old Greenville High
School senior, was alive when fire
broke out in the car in which her
charred body was found has been
raised by DR.. Simeon LIE Roy, Kent
County coroner.
The presence of carbon monoxide
fumes and SCOT in the girls lungs,
DR.. LIE Roy said yesterday, leads to
the possibility" that she still was
alive when the fire started.
The coroner's report followed a
statement by Capt. A. A. Downing
OF the State police that there were
several mysterious angles" to be
investigated, one of which was a
piece of copper wire, apparently a
strand OF lamp cord, found about the
girls neck before her body was re-
moved from the car early Saturday.
Miss Winters companion of the
previous evening, David Filgas, 16,
disclosed the girls death when he
appeared at a nearby farmhouse
about S am. suffering from severe
burns about the head, face and
shoulders. The youth, a Greenville
High School junior, is under police
guard at Greenville Memorial Hos
pital.
Detective LIE Roy Hunt of Rock
ford said Filgas told him he was
driving Miss Winters home from a
dance at Greenville when they
parked along country road near
her home. 1t was there Detective
Hunt quoted the boy as saying, that
an explosion occurred. Filgas didn't
remember many details and did not
tell anything about the cause of the
fire." Mr.. Hunt added.
Pieces of Filgas' clothing, together
with ashes from the interior of the
car. have been dispatched to the
State Crime Detection Laboratory
in Lansing for analysis. Police CUES
toned the youth several times yes
terday at the hospital. 1t was his
18th birthday.