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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Bettor, Employer Sue
Fontaine for S43,S86
In Gambling Losses
Attorney Says Law Allows
Firms Suit to Recover
Alleged EmbezzIed Funds

Recovery of $43,S86.52 which he
allegedly lost while gambling at
"Jimmy's Place, described as a
gambling resort at Bladensburg
road and Eastern avenue in nearby
Maryland is sought in a suit filed
yesterday by Harry w. Wilson, so,
Hyattsville, in Prince George County
Circuit Court at Upper Marlboro.
A second suit. seeking recovery of
$33, 1856 so of the money Mr.. Wilson
'allegedly lost, was filed by his en-
.ployers Fred H. Ugast and John w
.LyleS and Milton E. Groome, part
ners operating as the Capitol lServ-
ice Stations, 100 block of New York
avenue NE. This suit claims that
Mr.. Wilson lost the money while
working for them and that it was
Iembezzled from the firm.
The second suit was filed under
Maryland status which allow such
suits in gaming loss cases.
Named defendants in both suits
are James H. La Fontaine and
Charles Price, alleged operators of
the gambling resort, and the Mary
land Athletic Club. "a corporation
occupying the premises"
Bonding Firm May Sue.
The $4,000 difference in the two
actions is caused by a bond held on
Wilson by the United States Fidel-
lty and Guaranty Co. This bond
was paid after the alleged defalca-
lions. which extended over an eight
month period, were discovered last
October.
Robert A. Littleton, who is act
ing as attorney for the Capitol
Service Stations, together with T
Howard Duckett, said that the bond
ing company is expected to file a
suit in Circuit Court to recover the
$4,000.
In a six-line petition, Wilson
states he lost the money "at gaming
tables operated by the defendants. :"
The plaintiffs in the second suit
state that Wilson, a bookkeeper in
their employ for two and a half
years, has signed a confession ad-
hitting embezzlement of the money
ana losing 1t in gambling in
"Jimmy's Place"
Inc petition further states that
Wilson started making false entries
IN the firms books about eight
months ago and that this practice
was continued until October 30
when the shortages were discovered
by an audit.
Mr.. Llttleton, member of the
Washington firm of Mason. Spald
ing d McAtee, said today that his
action is the second to be filed in
such case in Maryland. In 1855
he recalled, the Maryland Court of
Appeals upheld the principle of the
right of recovery of gambling losses
under common law.
Under the Maryland statutes. he
added, person losing money while
gambling has the right to recover
from the winner, while under CON-
mon law the person to whom the
money belonged originally also has
the right to recover He explained
however, that a judgment entered
IN one of the two suits automatically
Will do away with the other suit.
Mr.. Llttleton also asserted that il
wilson is successful in recovering
the funds, his former employees will
recommend leniency to the district
attorney. He said no criminal COM
plant has been made against Wilson
to District authorities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Mother Of Fugitive
Accused as Accessory

Mrs. Elsie M Mills, so, of Edmore
near Sandy Spring, Md, has been
charged with being an accessory
IN the escape of her son. Pvt. Rob-
ert Lee Mills, %, of Rockville, who
lied from a Frederick Md iail
Christmas eve where he was being
held on charges of robbing a filling
station, Montgomery County police
reported today. She was arrested
yesterday and later released on
81 900 bond.
Mills also is a fugitive from a
Fort George G. Meads guardhouse
from which he escaped last month
in an officers automobile.
After he broke out of the Freder-
lex jail he was next seen by police
Monday night in a car alleged stolen
from a grocery salesman.
The soldier subsequently is alleged
TO nave stolen two other cars before
police lost his trail in thicket near
Sandy Spring Tuesday. He was
thought to have escaped from the
Sandy Spring area in another stolen
car.
Detective 1t. Frank Lane said
Mills wife, Mrs. Marjorie Mills, %
a Silver Spring grocery store en-
ploye, who was arrested Monday
night in the first car abandoned by
her husband and had been held in
the Rockville Jail for questioning
also has been charged with the un-
authorized use of an automobile
She is being held in default of a
81 900 bond.
1t. Lane said the mother is
charged with providing money and
food for her son after his escape
from the Frederick Jail. He said the
soldier is charged with desertion
from the Army, jailbreak and five
counts of unauthorized use of auto
mobiles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Federal Civilian Jobs
1852 Fewer Today
Than on June 80
War Department Leads
Reduction in Personnel,
Smith Tells Congress

The number of Federal civilian
paid employees in the quarter ending
today was 1852 less than on June
80, Budget Director Harold D. Smith
has reported to Congress.
Only 52.4 per cent, or 1908, 662, of
the 3,069,lS3 total Federal employees
as of September 30 were subject tc
the War Overtime Pay Act of 1882;
most of the remainder are field
postal employees and workers ir
arsenalS, factories, Navy yards, all
depots and similar positions, Mr.
Smith reported.
The following employment de-
creases were reported:
War Department, $4,000; Agricul-
ture, 7,413; Commerce, 1892; In
terror, 2,705; War Manpower Com.
mission, 1895; Federal Security
Agency. 1912; Office of Price Ad-
ministration, 829; War Production
Board, 800.
The largest increase was 1901 in
the Navy Department, followed BY
the War Shipping Administration
with 729 and the National Housing
Agency with 402.
Il would like to call attention
once more to a misrepresentation
which is expressed often in speeches
and the press Director Smith said
All of the 100000 Federal en-
ployes seem to be considered as
white-collar desk workers.
"As matter of fact, more than
half of these employees are build
ing boats, producing guns. inspect
ing munitions, manning air depots
and doing a thousand and one Jobs
OF production and distribution
Among the so-called white collar
workers are thousands of engineers
chemists and other technicians with
special skills.
Although in an organizat ton as
huge as the Government there are
bound to be occasional inefficien.
cies, the great bulk of Federal en-
ployes are working hard and we'll
each contributing his best efforts
to the winning of the war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
One Cent Onion
Price Ceiling
Case Dropped

Because the OPA decided that a
one cent overcharge was insufficient
basis for pressing charges, the
United States Attorneys Office yes
terday dropped the case against
Bernard Jaschik, 100 block of Ken
nedy street NV, accused of selling
pound of onions a penny over
the ceiling price.
The onions, according to the OPA
were boiler onions. on which the
ceiling price is II cents.
John Laskey, chief enforcement
agent for the District OPA, said
in Jaschik's case, he felt a warning
was Sufficient"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Roe Plans Third Race
For Scot in House
By the Associated Press

~ VIC hoooSldLeQ fIeSS.
SUDLERSVILLE, Md. Dec. 81
Dudley G. Roe, Maryland State
Senator who lost twice the Demo-
cratic nomination for a seat in the
House, announced his candidacy q
third time yesterday.
Mr.. Roe lost his previous candi-
dacy when recounts gave Repre-
sentative Ward slight margin. Mr..
Roe and Mr.. Ward were primary op-
ponents in both 1910 and 1912.
Other Democratic candidates are
Representative Ward, Salisbury, and
Calvert Merriken, Denton attorney
State Senator Wilmer Fell Davis,
fredericksburg, has announced for the
Republican nomination.
The primaries will be held May 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31

Madeleine Carroll, who inter-
rupted distinguished Hollywood
~career to do war work, told Junior
Board of Commerce meeting at the
Annapolis Hotel yesterday that for
the first time in her life she is
working with people who have
treated me as a normal human
being"
Miss Carroll, near the end of a
four-week Red Cross training course
here before being shipped overseas,
said the girls with whom she is
working sincerely want to do some
thing to help the war effort.
They haven't any romantic no.
tons about their work." she said.
And it isn't the uniform. I tried
mine on yesterday and it isn't CLAM
orous at all 1t looks like something
that came out of an institution"
The actress said she decided to
go into Red Cross work because she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Takes Post in Cuba

Miss Ruth Conard, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Conard, 21O
Flower avenue, Silver Spring, left
this week for Havana, Cuba, where
she will be secretary in the office of
the Inter American Division of the
General Conference of Seventh Day
Adventists. Miss Conard for the last
five years has been secretary to
Elder F. w. Wilcox, editor of the
Review and Herald. Seventh Day
Adventist publication.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Antifreeze Supplies
Ample in Maryland
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 31.-G. w.
Creighton, head of the Maryland
War Production Board, reported
yesterday that supplies of alcohol
and antifreeze solutions are ample
to protect trucks and automobiles in
Maryland.
There has been so per cent
increase In the production of alcohol
antifreeze," he said, commenting
that motorists had been "oversold'
BY inaccurate talk Of q shortage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31

was sick of words and I wanted to
get in and do something with my
owns two hands,"
She urged all Americans to turn
more intently to the problems OF
the war as the new year begins.
In the quiet of our own souls,
she said, I'VE can all rededicate
ourselves anad we can pray to God
that not only shall we have victory
in 1914 but that we shall be worthy
of that victory"
The "V-Man" award of the week
was presented by the junior board
to Mary Mason, who directs a radio
program on homemaker's problems
Miss Mason was cited not only for
her radio activities in connection
with the war but for her bond-sell-
ing efforts and as head of emer-
gency feeding in the District.
Winfield Weitzel, president of the
Junior board, acted as chairman of
the meeting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
GOebeI Team
Sweeps Ahead

Sandy Frederick and her Goc-
bel team continued their drive
toward the Ladies Minor League
championship at BoWl-O-Drome
Friday, conducting a pincers
moVem mt 10 entrap DenmarSh
Mariners Club and force them
TO surrender four points. Goebel
now leads Pomeroy Insurance
by four points. The latter had
10 be content with a 81 win
over Mount Clemens Skating
Arena Third-place Fuller-Pel-
tier Taxi stayed in the thick of
the titular scramble by blank
ing TaSSie Tavern. In other
matches Barney's TailorS won
three points from ID. N. Cooley
MorticianS, Petch Tool & Die
took three from Swan Drugs
and LaCroiX & GrocSbcck split
with Macomb Beauty Shop.
Mildred Campbell was the
fair-haired gal Of the evening,
shooting 1876 for nigh game and
554 for high total.
1D,o -,,,l, ,,g..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30

all = professional American Soc
Ger League crown. The United
States Football Association is
composed Of both amateur and
professional clubs.
Soccer has been played in the
east TO a greater extent than the
west Every eastern city now
has dozens of clubs and that is
true Of Chicago and st. Louis.
Not a few colleges and schools
have eliminated football for SOC
Ger. The game is played in the
Navy Pre-Flight schools.
The HispanoS are managed by
Duncan Othen, whose father was
a famous player IN southampton,
England.
Duncan Othen is not alone i'm
the belief that soccer viii make
rapid strid es in TN United
States following the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
Three ShutOutS
i'm House League

Mount Clemens Manufacture
Ing was back as sole wner of
first place today in the House
League at Bovl-O-Drome, re-
gaining the top slot last night
by virtue OF a sweep overePost
Engineers Electric Two other
shutoutS were registered, Miller
Insurance MOVING into the thick
Of the scramble by blanking
Post Engineers Carpentry and
Copeland advancing with 80
win over Altcs Lager. In other
matches, all 2-1 { Il ms, De-
troit News defeated ! O. O. F.,
MAESTRO Grocery won from Mon
iior-Lcadcr and Packers Out
let downcd Yde Grocery.
Ha Milne of 1astro's had
607 for high series lille high
game of 235 was shot by Jimmy
Forton OF NJ. c. Manufacturing
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
Plan Juvenile
Gage League
Entries for s Squads
Being Accepted Today

Plans for a juvenile basket
ball league, which will be open
TO all Mount Clemens boys ID
years of age and under, will be
completed al Mount Clemens
High School one week from to-
night when a meeting of pros
pective cagers is held.
The league is being sponsored
by the Department of Recrea-
ton, which hopes to round up
at eight quintets for league play
on Thursday evenings. All boys
who would like 10 compete in
the league are asked TO report
next Tuesday at 1870 D. m. at
the boys gymnasium.
\ juvenile cage circuit was
sponsored by the Department of
Recreation for the first time last
season and the project vas so
successful that il wa decided to
carry on the program again this
year.
Because only eight teams can
be accommodated, the first eight
aggregationS to put in a bid for
league franchise viii be &C
cepted.
The league will be underwrit-
ten by the Optlmist Club Of this
city. The Optimists, according to
Director of Recreation Bernard
Ballantine. have agreed to sup
ply each player with a basket
ball shirt as part Of the clubs
work in assisting boys.
Teams desiring to enter the
league before Tuesdays meet
ing should contact Ballantine by
calling 6263. or leave their
names with Coach Roy Quinn at
Mount Clemens High.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
Thirteen TiIis
on Utica SEIZED

A basketball schedule of IL
games were announced today by
Utica nigh school Coach Clinton
Swinehart Out of the 10 SEIZED
uled, seven contests will be
waged on the home court al
Utica.
The schedules:
December 3, South Lake at
Utica
December 10, Utica at East
land.
Grant School, East Detroit)
December II, Utica at Lake
view. >
January II, Romeo at Utica.
January II, Utica at Madison
January 10, Lakeshort at
Utica.
January d, Utica at Busch.
January %, Utica at South
Lake.
February I, Eastland at Utica
February IL, LakevieW al
Utica.
February IS, Busch at Utica.
February %, Madison at
Utica.
February 25, Utica IT Lake
shore.
All games start at 100 pm.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
SiX-IsOint Lead
Held by LaCrOiX

LaCrolX Painters and Decor
atore maintained their SiX-polnt
lead over j. & J. Music i'm the
Ladies Major League at Bowl
O-Drome last night Each mark
cd ~ q slam, Painters shutting
out Bath City Garage and the
Musicians blankIng NJ r. 'nder-
son. A third sweep was scored
by Dad Rustic Rest over Don s
Fiv !lOthcr matches resulted IN
81 win for Barnctts Dress
Shop over Henk' Studio, 81
win for Clinton b, BIO over
Johnnie'S Five and a halved
match between DenmarSh Hotel
and Ncda Bcauty Salon.
Doris KrauSe of LaCroiN' had
$40 for high series and Skip
Quessenberry of the same team
had 200 for high game The
Painters also took team honors
with 800 and 25O5.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30

Mcmahon Coal bolstered its
grip on first place last night in
the Holy Name League at Mount
Clemens Recreation by scoring
80 victory over Progressive
Press. Knights Of Columbus. i'm
second place, d % pc q two
games to Macomb Beer The re-
naming two matches were shut
outs, LaCroix Painters blanking
Oldbru and Hi-Speed doing the
same to Altes Lager.
Jack Coulter Of LaCroiX'
walked off with double honorS,
rolling 223 in a 632 series.
Thn
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
Bodies Soved from Deoth
by Several Freok Escopes

CANTON, O. U.p Canton
babies evidently do their teeth
ing on horSeShocS.
Three times in recent months
youngsters hardly able to walk
faced almost certain death and
emerged virtually unframed
from experiences that have kill
ed adults.
Tiny Alice Bruey, only Is
months old. toddled Squarely in
to the path of a PENNSYLVANIA
freight train. The Mortified en-
gineer stopped the train 200
yards past the spot where the
locomotive struck the girl.
There was Alice, smiling hap
PLY and clinging 10 the cow
catcher unframed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
Swamp Detroit
Club $ 10 81
on New Court
Soldiers Look
Good in First
Come OF Season

In a asst season opener in their
new base gymnasium, members
Of the Selfridgc Field basketball
squad Friday evening easily out
distanccd tho Billy Mitchell Club
Of Detroit. scoring 50 points to
their opponents total OF 81.
Coached by Sergt. Andrew
Pcllio, himself a swift moving
center on the squad, in the tenn
porary absence of Ii ut. Carl
f. Abbott base physical train
ing officer, the soldiers Llade a
brilliant showing presaging
splendid seasonal possibilities.
The Sclfridge team will meet
Hannah YMCA Thursday night
IN Detroit
Following is the box score Of
Friday nights clash.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
LUTHERAN LEAGUE
Lee kcSlcrS
NOVe Up Fast

Lee Printing moved back into
second place Friday in the
knights of Columbr League at
BoWl-O-Drome, advancing with
in two points Of pacemaking Su-
per Cleaners by scoring a shut
out over the FLYERS as Super
dropped one point 20 r. J Mil.
Ter Company. Another sweep
was registered by Schunkc Jew
elry al the expense OF Henk Stu
do In a fourth match Clint
ftOEge Eagles won three points
from HillcrcSt Studio.
High Scores were I'd Miller $
$50 series and Fred Milky IT.
tIn's 90 oauop
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
AlWartlt'S Hold
Leadership
TUESDAY

AiWarGt Distributors today
held uud-sputed possession of
first place ia the Lutheran
League al Mount Clemens Rec
reauon. thanks TO their 2-l We
tory Friday over Krause Serv-
ice The setback dropped Krause
into a tIo for second with ID y
Cooley Mortcians who won two
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30

tory went the Ma nal Chal-
lenge Cup put up in 1912 by
Scotland's Sir Thomas Robert
DeWar.
This play-off is soccer's World
Series in this country.
The HiSpanos also bagged the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
Sports Roundup
BY Hugh Fullerton, Jr.

NEW YORK, Nov 80 49, tAPl - Most Of the arguing in
the minor league baseball meetings concerns the otemPt 10
give JUDGE w Brarhan1 heaNc hn heGaot the Ma
tonol Association and 10 chonoe the voting setup
However there's onother amendment coming up IN the next
few doys ho ncy have for reaching effects ~ IS posed
Thot concerns drotnq territory and since the war hos
doomed lot OF Class cities 10 ~ SIZE there some
oood TERRITORIES voting 70 be drotteo The hitch IS tho
prices roreno from $50 600 down addition 10 the youe Of
park players etc being token over set by the no.
tona agreement Whot the big minors won't on arbitration
Of non operating leoeues probably woudr be very much
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
SERVICE DEPT.

Charlie Justice, the l8-yeor.od North CaroIno high
school b who IS sorrno in the bockfcd OF the Boobrdqe
Nd Novsl Training Stoon football tcom, won't have any
trouble getting college educotion otter the WIom
ond MARY o.reody has bid IN for him When SGT Sid
Gray OF Comp DAVIS. N C - B1uage asked Lieut.
Norm Stoodoe how he regarded the Chcago Beors Norm
answered Brother oil know tnat m dorm happy play
cd with them and not against them Ptc1lrv DAVIS for
New York busketbaer air corps wcoher consult
ont at CofeNjIe. Kos And no wonder some OF those
coun1en stretch up INTO the clouds isn't necessary TO
prove soldiers Iceland tho the Yonks reo scraPpes
One ct the better leather fingers there ond last yeor
Iceland bantam chomp, is PVT. Eddie Yonkee.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
HOUSE LEAGUE
BOON FOR ARMLESS

Artificial arms have been so
perfected that it is now possible
i'm some cases 20 have actual
finger control. This permits
writing, tipping. even the play
ing Of a musical instrument.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30

According 20 a recent survey,
there are 1893 automobile plants
from coast 10 coast engaged in
war work.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
LOBBY PATROL

Connie Mack neory ST. shows more endurance thon a
lot Of Younger stsndees the hotel lobby Choe Grimm con
do pretty TOR ob too Grimm orguos - don't core
hot else YOU soy obout Lou Novkotf he still can hit you
let him alone While rs pretty well agreed that t1er0
Pennock Bob Carpenter wants 10 boss the PnhIes
Herb isn't due here until tomorrow There's good
chance that Charlotte and Wnston-Saem ~ c., viii come
back INTO the Piedmont League today. The Ameucon
Association which proposed giving the doubeA eogues ten
votes change It's siding scale before the on'endent
comes up The Poetic Coost League which deIoyed IS
meeting day becouse Of Choe Grohon ouivoI from
Son Frorclsco won't elect president until January
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
OBSERVATION POST

Shos Shouehnessy. international League prexy and
No eonddoe for the National Association presidency,
this observation hot 70 eHPoin the entire
fuss between the big minors ond the little I'm bose
even they don't deserve it,"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-30
TopAY's GUEST STAR

Al Roche Indianapolis Stor: I'm going down TO de-
fcot the Irish OF kotre Dome proved thon thot
they money players After all, they didnt draw
copper their beotn9 the bonds OF Great lokcs