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Evening star., 1943-12-12
Bogus Theater Scout
In Jail |nfirmary 10
Await Check Charqes

Arnold Lester-known to the FBI
as Arnold Lester Smith and to
Washington theatrical circles and
others as Foster Smith-was a pa
tient in the District Jail infirmary
last night after arriving. haggard
and i'll, from Chicago earlier in the
day in custody of deputy marshals
In striking contrast to the assured
young man, who a few weeks ago
convinced the cast of Sons of Fun
at the National Theater that he was
Hollywood talent scout, come to
recruit players for an opus to be
known as Capital Capers," Lester
Cor Smith was. helped from the
train by his guards and taken to a
marshals automobile in a wheel
chair.
Later, it was said at the Jail, that
he was under observation at the
infirmary, his condition undeter-
mined. Deputies had placed him
aboard Washington train last
week, but he was removed when he
became suddenly i'll and sent to the
Cook County Hospital in Chicago,
where he remained several days. His
arraignment previously had been
Evening star., 1943-12-12

I In order that actual constructor
work may be commenced when hos.
tilities cease"
Some Southern industrialists arr
expected to meet with the commit.
tee. Mr.. Short said much factua
information has been assembled re.
garding timber and other raw ma.
terials and this data would be pre-
sented.
Formation of the committee was
authorized at the SNPA's annual
convention at Hot Springs, Ark, two
months ago. Association President
George c. Biggers of the Atlanta
(GaD Journal appointed, in addition
to Mr.. Short, the following other
committeeman:
Victor H. Hanson, chairman of
the board, Birmingham News and
Age Herald; John F. Tins, jr., busi-
ness manager, New Orleans Times
Picayune; Frank Daniels, general
manager, Raleigh News and OBJ
server; Ted Dealey, president, Dallas
News: E. K. Gaylord, president,
Oklahoma City Oklahoman and
Times; Charles P. Manship, presi-
dent, Baton Rouge State Times and
Advocate, and John Dana Wise,
general manager, Richmond Times
Dispatch and News-Leader. Presi-
dent Biggers will serve as ex-offlcio
member of the committee.
Evening star., 1943-12-12
|Week Long Strike Ends
AT Consolidated Textile
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va, Dec. 1.-THE
Consolidated Textile Corp. here,
which has been idle since Monday
when employees walked out. will re-
sumo full operations Monday, I. L..
Langley, vice president, announced
last night.
The agreement to end the strike
provided that there would be no ad-
ditional speed-up of looms above the
rate on December 6. The walkout
was caused by proposed speedup.
The company was forced to close
the plant when 125 spinners refused
to work Monday night, Mr.. Langley
said. Other departments were un-
able to continue operations without
the aid of spinners and the plant
was automatically closed, he added.
Consolidated Textile employs ap-
proximately 900 workers, some of
whom are engaged in producing war
materials for the Government.
Evening star., 1943-12-12

delayed by illness, and the deputies
who had him In custody yesterday
said he was sick nearly all the way
from Chicago.
The prisoner was booked at the
District Jail as, Arnold Lester, al
though the FBI, which investigated
the case and arrested him in Chi
cago, said that Smith was his real
name, so far as agents could de-
termine. He has gone under various
aliases in the past, according tc
the FBI.
He faces several charges here OF
violating the National Stolen Prop
erty Act for allegedly causing to be
sent through the mails worthless
checks drawn on out-of town banks
These checks were reported cashed
at hotel and a department store
after Lester had established" his
background as a representative OF
a Hollywood producer and enlisted
members Of the cast of Sons OF
Fun" and others to play in Capital
Capers," to be produced here, SO he
said. He cashed checks and left
unpaid bills totaling around $1,000
according to the FBI.
Lester waived preliminary hearing
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Southern Publishers
To Map Construction
OF Newsprint Mills
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, Dec. 11.-Carl B
Short, chairman of the newly
formed Newsprint Mills Committee
of the Southern Newspaper Pub
fishers Association, said today the
committee will meet at Birmingham
December Is to organize and discuss
procedure to be followed in con-
structing additional newsprint mills
in the South.
Mr.. Short, who is general manager
of the Roanoke Times and World
News, said 1t would be impossible to
construct such mills under existing
wartime conditions, but 1t is the
plan Of the committee to begin at
this time the preliminary work and
bring to a conclusion as early as
possible all necessary studies and
plans, including a plan of financing,
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Strike Halls Operations
Al Iron Ore Mine
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEBANON, Pa, Dec. 1l.-A work
stoppage, involving some 1926 men
halted operations at the 2l0-year.
old Cornwall iron ore mine of the
Bethlehem Steel Co. and General
Manager Arthur F. Peterson said
today another 800 employees in ar
ore concentrator plant here will be
made idle unless mining Is resumed
soon.
Mr.. Peterson, who said he wa.
without definite word OF the cause
Of the walkout, declared the shut.
down began in shaft No. anc
spread few hours later yesterday
to the open pit workings. The ore
deposits, discovered before 1888
have been worked almost contin.
uously since.
George Medrick, district director
OF the United Steel Workers (CIOl
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Separate U. 5. Command
Established in Iran

BY the Associated Press.
TEHERAN. Dec. H. United
States Army forces in Iran now
constitute a separate command d.
rectly under the War Department
with a status equivalent to the
fighting command of any other
theater, Persian Gulf Supply Com
mand headquarters announced yes
terday.
1t will be known as the Persian
Gulf Command, dropping the wore
supply" and will be no longer
Evening star., 1943-12-12

said the union tried unsucceAsfully
to get the men back to work. He
asserted the dispute resulted from
a company appeal from q War Labor
Board ruling granting the men 5
cents an hour increase for inside
work and for night work from a
78-cent basic hourly wage.
Union oficials called a meeting Of
miners here later today to review
the situation.
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Suicide Pronk Lunds
Husband in Prison

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, N. CA frantic
housewife called the police station
to report her husband had shot
himself.
Patrolmen w. j. Mills and E. P.
Herring found the husband lying
in the yard, shotgun across his
chest and his clothing stained a
deep red. They bent over him.
Leave me alone, boys" the
wounded" man whispered. I'm
only playing trick on my wife
The blood" on his shirt was catsup.
He was booked on charge of dis
charging firearms in the city limits.
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Censor Gogs Boby's
Greeting to Uncle
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey thS ASS0cIattd Pre0.
NEW YORK.-Sergt. Carmine di
Santo, stationed somewhere In the
Pacific" telephoned his family on
his 26th birthday.
The censor gave him permission to
speak to his father and two sisters.
When the sergeant's sister tried
to get her 6month-old daughter to
gurgle for uncle Carmine, the CEN
sor quickly cut in. Sorry" he
said, regulations-this person not
listed"
Evening star., 1943-12-12
under turisdiction Of Middle Eas

under Jurisdiction Of Middle East
Command headquarters in Cairo.
Creation Of the Independent com.
mand one year after the first con-
tingents Of American troops arrived
in Iran followed q decision made at
the recent big Three" conference
here to increase deliveries to Russia
over the Persian corridor route.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Federal Union Re-e|ects
{. K. STREET. President

Ey the Associated Press.
! PEORIA. ILL.,, Nov. Is. - Federal
Union, Inc, yesterday reelected it's
founder, Clarence K. STREET, as pres
ldent and ended its third national
convention by working out a pro-
gram to educate the public more
rapidly in Federal Union principles. J"
The organization, in a statement
of policy, said the United States
should lead in forming now a nu-
cleus Federal Union of all those
peoples willing and able to accept an
international federal constitution,
assume and perform its responsible
ties and enforce its bill of rights.
Clyde T. Ellis, former member of
Congress from Arkansas and mana
ger of the National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association, was named
vice president.
Board members include Herbert
Agar OF Louisville, Ky; Stringfellow
Barr head of st. Johns College, An
napolis, Md; Mrs. John Biggs. Will
mington, Del; Percival Brandage.
Montclair, N. j.; the. Rev. A. Powell
Davies, Summit, N. j.; Russell Day.
enport of New York City; Miss Ade-
flaide Enright. St. Paul, Mimi: John
Howard Ford. Washington: Thomas
K. Mahony, Boston; Representative
Howard j. McMurray, Democrat, of
Wisconsin: A. J. G. Priest, New York
City; Edgar c. Taylor. st. Louis;
Brice Toole, Washington; Robert
Watt, Washington; Robert Wheel
wright, Wilmington, Del; Harris
Wofford, Scarsdale. N. Y; Neal Pot
ter, Washington; L. H. Schultz. Ba-
tavia. N. Y. and B. Weinholt,
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
IuIeIake Tension Eases:
Jap FIag-Waving Reported

By the Associated Press.
TULELAkE, Calf. Nov. 15.-The
Army last night relaxed the alert
status 1t had maintained for "a
hours at the Tulelake segregation
center and indica tons were that the
ttenSaoQ had essSds .at-.ths sSssnp fer
atfoy a f3xpanese .s.s &C y 80 s.s.
Lifting OF tie alert meant that
a limited number of soldiers could
leave th& grounds The Army took
control Of Tulelake Is days ago at
Ahe CLIMAX otSMeeks of riot0,ss dr.
'tu1banres. 's.sas :. ..se.s y s.fsi
; While the Federal Bureau Of In
vestigation and the Dies Committee
prepared to undertake separate in
vestigations Of conditions at Tule-
lake under War Relocation Author
lty rule, reports emerged that chill
dren, under parental supervision
held a demonstration on the parade
grounds yesterday, waving Japanese
flags virtually under the noses of
military guards.
The battle-equipped soldiers were
reported to have ignored the juve-
nile demonstrators. who soon dis
banded on failing to attract atten-
ton
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Roosevelt Pleased at Selection
Of Home for |nterfuith Center

row, Is now to become 1nterfaith
House-dedicated to mutual under
standing and good will among stu
dents matriculating in Hunter Col
.ege.
1T is to me of happy significance
that this place OF sacred memories
Is to become the first college center
established for the high purpose
of mutual understanding among
Protestant, Jewish and Catholic stu
dents. hope this movement for
liberation will grow and prosper
until there is similar establishment
In every institution OF higher learn
ing IN the land, the spirit of which
shall be unity in essentials, liberty
In nonessentials; in all things.
charity.
In that spirit We should all
treasure in our hearts and souls the
admonition of the grand Old Testa-
ment prophet: What doth the Lord
require of thee but to do Justly.
and to love mercy. and to walk hum
bly, with thy God
Very sincerely yours.
'FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Crossword Citizens
Protest Apartment
Building Plans

Proposed construction Of an apsrt-
ment house on the southwest corner
Of Sixteenth and Shepherd streets
NV. provoked extended debate to-
day at a hearing before the Nc
Gehee Subcommittee Of the House
District Committee on a bill to ban
such use Of the property.
Nearly so residents Of the Crest
wood development, just west of the
apartment house site, appeared to
urge approval of the bill. Their
spokesman. C. v. Maudlin, con-
tended real estate statesmen had
told them the tract in question was
park land. indicating they had no
fear Of apartment house develop
ment nearby.
Also they protested vigorously
against a decision of the District
Zoning Commission not to appeal q
decision by Justice Bailey in Dis
trict Court upsetting a commission
effort to restrict use Of the property
to private family dwellings.
Corporation Counsel Richmond B
Keech, speaking for the District
Commissioners and the Zoning
Commission, declared passage of the
bill would set dangerous prece-
Evening star., 1943-11-15

dent" which 1t was feared would,
begin seriously to prejudice the
general zoning plan Of the commits :.
sion." ss
Louis Gutenberg, representing
Harry Poretsky, contract purchaser =
OF the apartment house site, PROF.
tested a legislative ban would be-
confiscatory, explaining that the =.
prospective builder had spent nearly
$4,000 as deposit on the land and
between $4,000 and $4,000 for ,
preparation of building plans. :.
No action was taken by the COM
mittee Immediately after the hear. {,
ing.
At the request of Crestwood resi- :
dents, the Zoning Commission by !.
q 3-to-2 vote changed the property
classification in 1941 to prevent j..
apartment house construction. The .
contract purchaser appealed to the
District Court, and Justice Bailey :
directed the zoning be changed back
to what 1t had been, saying the
commissions action was arbitrary
and capricious, and this decision
was accepted by the commission
instead OF taking an appeal. :
Evening star., 1943-11-15
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-A letter
from President Roosevelt, expressing
qualification that the Roosevelt
family home at East Sixty-fifth
street here was chosen by Hunter
College as an interfaith center and
adding the hope that every insti-
tuition of higher learning in the
land soon would have similar es-
Establishments, was made public yes
terday.
The letter, written to Richard 4
Bishop, treasurer of committee
o1 Catholic, Protestant and jewish
laymen which donated the horses
to the college, was made public by
DR.. George N. Shuster, college pres
ident. A portrait of the Presidents
mother, the late Mrs. James Roose-
welt, will be unveiled there at dedi-
cation ceremonies November %.
Text of the letter:
My dear Mr.. Bishop:
Il feel that my dear mother
would be very happy in the real
ization of plans whereby the old
home in East Sixty fifth street, with
all Of its memories Of Joy and sor-
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Inquest SET Today in Death
OF Zoo Carpenter

An inquest will be dleld today in
the death of William H. Johnston,
SO, of Arlington, Va, who was found
fatally injured Saturday night in the
hallway of house at 1122 Twenty
fifth street NV. -
Police are holding Andrew Monroe
Sluss, 65-year-old dairy employe,
1923 Twenty fifth street NV, who,
they said, admitted scuffiing with
the dead man, carpenter employed
at the ZOO y
Sluss told police he came to the
house, where Mrs. Sluss was at
tending her daughters children, and
found Johnston there. in an inebri-
ated condition. Johnston. he said,
made a lunge at him as though to
strike him, and he hit the man.
Mrs. Sluss, released by police yes
terday, and two other witnesses will
testify at the inquest.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
P. 6. Wodehouse Reported
Joining In Paris Social Life
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 15.-P. G.
Wodehouse, English novelist who
has made broadcasts from Germany
directed to England, has gone to
Paris, where he is playing a PROM
inent part in social life," a Berlin
dispatch to the Swedish press said
today.
Wodehouse was captured by the
Germans during their 1910 offensive
IN France and subsequently was i'm
prisoned, although the Nazis said he
had been made comfortable and was
allowed to continue his literary work,
After the authors broadcasts.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
announced that the British govern
ment had noted that Wodehouse had
lent his services to the enemy propa-
ganda machine.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Lovett, Dodd, Watson
Will Continue Work
Pending Pay Suit

Three Federal officials. who will
~sessf the payroll attrr tpdaypy u2s
sree ~ Congress forsaalesed sum,
vefsive activities, planned to con-
Itinue working without compensation
pending a suit in the Court of
Ecaxtns 10 test the lsgAAty Of. tne
congressional action. s = = ''s
They are Dr. Robert Morss Lovett.
executive assistant to the Governor
OF the Virgin Islands: Dr.. william
E. Dodd. jr., assistant news editor
OF the Foreign Broadcast Intelli-
gence Service of the Federal Com
munications Commission. and Dr.
Goodwin B. Watson, chief ANALYST in
the same branch of the FEC.
Congress adopted a rider to a de-
hclency appropriation bill calling for
their separation from the Federal
payroll after November Is. unless
President Roosevelt sent their names
10 tne Senate and 1t confirmed their
reappointment.
A House appropriations subcom-
mittee found Messrs. Lovett. Dodd
and Watson guilty of subversive ac-
tivities and recommended their i'm
mediate removal, but this was modi-
f1ed, when the Senate failed to
agree. to allow them to remain for
several months.
While President Roosevelt has not
sent their names to the Senate for
confirmation, in signing the appro-
priation bill and its rider. he at
tackled the procedure as an unwar-
ranted interference with executive
authority
1t Is expected that eventually the
Supreme Court will be called on to
pass on the issue.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Foes Of Poll Tax Bill
Prepare Fi|ibuster
By Amendments

A flllbuSter is in the making on
the antipoll tax bill in the Senate,
With Senator jEastland, Democrat.
OF Mississippi and Senator McClel-
land, Democrat, of Arkansas pre-
pairing to offer several hundred
amendments to the measure that
would require weeks for considera-
ton.
Announcing their course last
night. the two Southerners said they
would join "a large number of other
Senators from every section of the
country in combating the House.
approved bill. which would elimi-
nate payment of a poll tax as a
prerequisite for voting in elections
for Federal officials.
Charge Communist Backing,
They charged the bill is spon-
sored principally by the Com
munist party and "also the radical
hybrid American Labor party in the
Democratic organization" 1t was
approved Friday, II to 6, by the
Senate Judiciary Committee and
beginning today, is subject to being
called up by any member .of the
Senate.
With filibusters threatened openly
in half a dozen quarters, efforts are
under way to avoid weeks of random
talk in the midst of war. Senator
Democrat, of Wyoming
believes he has the solution with his
resolution calling for an antipoll
tax constitutional amendment.
He pointed out thatspsI3y s.sixht
States-Georgia, TenneSsee, MiaeAs-
sippi, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas,
South Carolina and Virgir1ia--inake
payment of poll tax voting
qualification, and said it was likely
that the amendment would be Jr3tax
ned BY most of the other 10 Ststess !
CAmmlttee Deadlocked.s W. '''' :
The Judiciary Committee dead
locked. 8 to 8. on the OMahoney
resolution Friday, but agreed to con-
slider 1t today. If it were called up
and passed ahead the House poll
tax repeater the latter probably
would remain quiescent on the CAL
endar
Advocates of the bill declare no
one should have to pay in order to
vote, Opponents say the. bill is an
attempt of the Federal Government
to take over the States rights to
specify the qualifications of their
voters.
Evening star., 1943-11-15

The present with a future-War
bonds for Christmas. Keep on back
ing the attack.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
|Distihery Stock Scars
After Whisky Offer
To Shareholders
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Stock OF
American Distilling Co. bounded to
500 share today, up $25.75 q
share In the first sale since an
nouncement the company would
offer its stockholders nearly a barrel
of whisky at cost for each share
owned.
The first sale of 16,70O shares
came nearly two hours after the
stock exchange opened, broke a log
jam Of buying orders that found
holders Of the stock reluctant to sell
Shares of other distilling COM
panies were up 81 to S. a share at
times IN morning trading.
At the ceiling price of $62. so for
a barrel of whisky, the liquidation
of American Distillings whisky in
ventory at roughly $50 to $32 a bar
rel added around $50 a share to
the value Of the stock.
The company said the decision to
divide up its whisky stocks had no
connection with the civil suit
brought against 1t Saturday at
Peoria. ILL.,, by the once of Price
Administration. The suit asked
triple damages Of $7,509 900 for
whisky sales allegedly made in ex-
cess of ceiling prices.
1,700 Stockholders Listed.
Brokers and customers alike fe-
verishly tried to figure out the even
tual cost to the stockholder If he
actually tried to get his rye OF
bourbon.
Guesses-hedged because of the
48 different State laws regarding
liquor and the variety of taxes
ranged from $3.50 to 81 a quart.
The company figured the inven-
tory equaled $500 900 cases, or
45,600, 900 quarts of liquor. 1t lists
l,700 stockholders.
The privilege each share will car
ry, once the offer is formalized by
the setting OF dates and legal pro-
cedure. was outlined as follows by
company representative:
The share certificate could be pre-
sented to a retailer, who would take
1t to the holder of a wholesale
license. The wholesaler in turn
could request American Distilling to
release the whisky and pay. for the
owner, the excise taxes. The owner
could order the whisky bottled-for
a fee-by the company and finally
receive the bottled goods.
Two Reasons for Action.
One authority on the stock pre-
dicted that whisky brokers, who
have been having dif1culty supply
ing their retailer customers, would
try to persuade stockholders to sell
their rights to avoid the headaches
OF going through the legal pro-
Evening star., 1943-11-15
urkey Dinner Planned

The Womens Society for Chris
tian Service of the Gorsuch Meth
odist Church will give its 65th an
nual turkey dinner at 4:30 pm. to-
morrow and Wednesday in the rec
reation hall, Fourth and L streets
S.W.
Evening star., 1943-11-15

+cedures necessary to obtain the
whisky.
The company said It's reason In
passing out its inventory was two
fold: To help alleviate the cur
rent whisky shortage and to give
stockholders potentially a profit
greater than might have been
earned per share by rationing the
stocks over period OF two or two
and one-half years.
For the duration. the American
Distilleries are making alcohol for
the war effort.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-11-05
NOTE OF THANKS

Our most sincere thanks and
deepest gratitude go to our many
friends and relatives for their kind
ness and sympathy during our dark
hour of grief.
M/Sgt. and Mrs. Melville James
and Family.
-IT'Lr BE NEWS AT HOME -
Secretary
Secretary to Capt. Blache is Mrs.
Maxine Rose whose home is in
Pittsburgh, Pa, the wife of Mr..
John F. Rose, formerly in the 93rd
Division and now employed with the
Detachment Quartermaster Corps as
a civilian. Mrs. Rose has been at
Fort Huachuca II months. Since
first accepting a position at Fort
Huachuca she has been employed
in the Laboratory and formerly
worked under Capt. D. j. Watson
and Capt. r. E. Fisher. She is a
graduate of the Duquesne Business
college in Pittsburgh.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-11-05

At nightfall in the area there
are sounds that echo the tale
of Fort Huachucas transition.
The steady chewing of horses
sleepily munching a half-for-
gotten mouthful Of forage in the
stables is mingled with the fretful
whining of small animals in the Vet
erinary Station hospital, the croak-
ing of bullfrogs, the chirruping' of
locusts, crickets and myriad of in
sects, all blending in an endless
nightsong.
Old soldiers around Fort Huachu-
ca miss the sound Of the rolling wa
gon wheels, the night-long crunch
ing and stirring of not a score or so
but hundred or more horses. They
feel a sort of nostalgia whenever
they look at the rusting wagon wheel
treads, whenever they hear a horse
neigh or smell sweating horse flesh.
1t all reminds them of the Fort Hua-
chuca that was.
Men like Sgt. George Rollins, who
has been in the Army going on 29
years." and recently retired, Sgt.
Wiley w. Tinsley, S/Sgt. Austin F.
Lane, stablemaster, keep the tradi-
tions and echo the former glories of
Old Huachuca.
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