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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Communist to Speuk

Martin Chancey, city secretary of
the Communist party, will discuss
Jobs for Negroes War Measure"
in the first of series Of open TO-
runs sponsored by the Frederick
Douglass branch of the Communist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

party at 8 o'clock tonight at 1921
T street NV. His talk will center
around the employment Of colored
workers by public utilities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

Save time. Save money. Use Star
want Ads" for quick results.
Ma. 5000.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Hotel Gives Up Bodies
Of Deafll-Pacf Couple

on himself, Detective 1t Fraser
said.
A note left by Mrs. Wilson in
dicsted she knew she was making
a death rendezvous when she
registered at the hotel as Edgley'S
wife Tuesday evening.
According 10 Fraser the note
told her husband 10 save chair
at the table for her. even though
she could not be there IN person.
She explained Edgley was the
man for me" and requested Sun
rise Serenade' be played at her
funeral
Before entering their death
pact, the pair drank the major
part OF a bottle of whisky, Fraser
said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Czech Envoy Opposes
Buffer Against Reds

WASHINGTON. March II (INS>
Vladimir Hurban, Czecho-Slo-
vakia's minister to Washington.
today said his country is opposed
10 establishment of any postwar
political buffer state system in
Eastern Europe that might be con-
sidered as directed against Russia.
Hurban said Czecho-Slovakia
expects the restoration of all it's
pre-Munich boundaries after the
war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11

FLINT, March 1.-THE dis
coyery of the bodies of two Mt
Morris residents today in Flint
hotel room revealed the details
OF a neighborhood affair that
ended in murder and suicide.
The bodies of Mrs. Margaret
Wilson. "a. and her nelghbor
CLYDE Edgley. IS. Mt. Morris were
found AZ Q a. m by William Efler
hotel desk clerk.
Mrs. Wilson had been ShotS "a
death wits a p callber pistol, by
Edgley. who then turned the gun
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
StdndIey, MoIotov
Confer in Moscow

LONDON. March II GNS)-
Admiral Standby, u. S. ambaSsa-
dor TO Moscow, conferred yester-
day with Foreign Commissar
Molotov. the News Chronicle re-
ported in Moscow dispatch. The
purpose of the conference was not
disclosed.
Standby has charged that Rus
STA has not told its people the full
extent of American aid.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Obituaries
Funeral Rites Tomorrow
for Property Clerk

Funeral services will be held
tomorrow night at the Barker
Funeral Home. 12700 Hamilton,
Park, for Frank II.
Meade, chief property clerk at the
Wayne County Jail for the last IL
years. Buriel will be in Athens.
Meade. who lived at 119 Webb,
is survived by his wife. Bertha; a
daughter, Mrs. Dorothy O'Brien:
a sister, Mrs. Ann V. Harrison
and three grandchildren, all OF
Detroit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Grand Rapids Officer
Awarded Air Medal

GRAND RAPIDS, March IL
1t. Jack L. Laubscher of 2950
Madison. today was one of q
of the Army Air Forces
to be awarded air medals for
service in the South
west Pacific area, it was an
nounced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Ford Aircraft Unit
To Receive f Friday

The aircraft engine division of
the Ford Motor Co. will receive
the army-navy e.. Friday at $50
p. m. in the engine building
Presentation will be made by
Col. Alonzo NJ. Drake, supervisor
of the central procurement dis
trict, army air forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Iona Coffin
Lumbermon's Daughter
Was III 3 Months

Funeral services for Mrs. Iona
Coffin will be held at 1880 p. m
Saturday in the Schmalzreidt Sons
Funeral Home, f6625 Grand River,
Mrs. Coffin died at the home OF
her father, Carl Scott, prominent
lumber dealer. of 1926 Lancashire
after an illness of three months.
Surviving are her husband. Gay.
lord nj. Coffin. OF 1929 Ruther.
ford; two children. and a brother
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11

day Joined forces 10 bring about
public congressional committee
hearings on legislation TO estab-
lish military and naal academies
on the West Coast.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
.Gredt-Grandmother
OF 80 Is Dead at @

BAY CITY. March 11.-Funeral
services will be held Saturday for
Mrs. Julienne Poirer. SO, Bay
County pioneer who died yester-
day after weeks illness. Born
in Ottawa. Can. she had lived
here 65 years. She is survived by
four sons. two daughters. II
grandchildren and 30 great grand
children. Burial will be in st.
Patricks Cemetery.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Open Hearings Asked

WASHINGTON. March IL
Rep. Costello of California and
Rep. Magnuson of Washington to-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Sweden Ignores Protest

STOCKHOLM. March. IL (INS)
Sweden has rejected a British
protest against construction OF
German fishing boats in Swedish
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11

Order War stamps delivered
10 your home by your Detroit
Times carrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11

shlpyards. Foreign Minister Gusa-
Their told the Parliament today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Kelly AbdndOns
Fight toChdnge
Highway Setup
By DON GARDNER

LANSING. March lion direct
orders from Gov. Kelly, all At
temptS 10 reorganize the Demo
cratic highway department were
abandoned today by Republican
legislators.
The decision came few hours
after proponents of tho bill in the
Senate took a sound trounclng Ia
wind up the StrangeSt and most
hectic session since 1888.
1t had TO be made because the
bill could still be passed il the
House decided 10 recede from It's
amendments and adopt the bill as
originally passed by the Senate.
Repeated attempts 10 get the
bill removing the right OF voters
10 select a highway commissioner
through both houses were made
with the climax coming yesterday
in the Senate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
STURGIS DEATHS

STURGIS, March II QNS)-
Delbert Stephenson, rs, founder
of the Stephenson Dairy in Con-
stantine. died today at his home
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11

Ambrose Thomas Goodacre, S8.
prominent Republican worker and
former Mendon Township super
visor and highway commissioner,
died last night.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
McCALLUM PROTESTS

Stymied previously by Lt.-Gov.
KeyeS' unorthodOX rulings and per-
SiStent efforts 10 stave of vote,
Sen. McCallum, rose again yester-
day TO protest.
II now move that the rules be
suspended for the purpose OF
voting on the highway bill con-
ference report at this time" Nc
Callum said.
"You are out OF order" Keyes
ruled
Half a dozen senators leaped Ia
their feet.
This L. the most high handed
and uncalIed for action l have
ever seem" Senator James MILL
ken said.
Senator Joseph Gloon Of tho
Upper Peninsula Joined the fracas
"Now wait minute" he
shouted while the gavel fell re-
peatedly. What I want to know
Is where the hell il the bill
now ."
- BUSHES FOR kEHES
"I demand that you retract
that statement" keyes said.
"You can't use swear words
here"
With fist doubled, Gloon started
for the rostrum and DR. Reyes
but was kept back by other SEN
ators.
Calmly. Keyes announced the
Senate would return TO its regular
business.
After its completion, Senator
Joseph A. Baldwin decided he had
the votes TO whip the bills spon-
sors. and rose 10 call halt TO
open hostilities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11

Frank j. Dahn. rs mail carrier
here for 25 years. who retired II
years ago, died today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
RuiI Brotherhoods Boost
Rate Of Pay Increase

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. (UP) =
The five operating railway brother
hoods responded to President
Roosevelt's wage settlement offer
Wednesday by drafting a counter
proposal calling for substantially
greater raises.
Informed sources said the coun-
terproposal, to be submitted to the
president Wednesday afternoon,
carried these basic provisions:
l. A straight time hourly wage
increase of eight cents, compared
with four cents awarded by an
emergency board and approved
by economic stabiIizatiOn direc-
tor Fred NJ. VinsOn.
2. Time and One-half pay after
40hOurs week for all yard men,
who constitute about one half of
the operating groups $4,000
members.
3. Full lay-Over expenses be-
tween runs for workers paid on
a mileage basis, i'm lieu of the
overtime demanded for the yard
men.
4. Vacation pay.
Mr.. Roosevelt had said he be-
lieved the operating employees could
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Nazis May Get
Out of Crimea
BY United Press

The Bulgarian army has ordered
the complete isolation of the Black
Sea port of Varna and restricted
the movement of civilians within
the city, the British radio said
Wednesday in a broadcast heard
by government monitors.
The broadcast said no explana-
ton was given for the drastic Or
der, but observed that Varna lies
southwest across the Black Sea
from the Crimean peninsula where
number of German divisions are
trapped by the Russians.
The Bulgarian order was so
sweeping that burials, marriages
and church celebrations were halt
ed and telephone and telegraph
communications were suspended.
An order for doctors to be pre-
pared for special orders intensified
predictions that Nazi Crimean
forces were to be evacuated to
Varna and that medical care for a
large number of wounded was be-
ing prepared.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22

receive no more than four cents an
hour increase in straight time
wages under the stabilization pro-
gram but had offered an additional
four cents as an overtime settle
ment. Railway employees now are
exempt from the 40-hour provision
Of the wage-hour law. Most of their
agreements provide premium pay
after eight hours in one day or 48
hours in one week.
In asking an eight-cent increase
in straight time rates, the operating
group closed ranks with leaders of
the Is incorporating unions who
also have insisted on a general in
crease of eight cents, with overtime
treated as a separate issue.
Both groups have ordered strikes
Dec. 80 to enforce their wage de-
mand. A union source pointed out
that the operating brotherhoods
had abandoned their original de-
mand for a minimum So daily in-
crease, trimming it to 81 cents.
They justified their request for
eight cents an hour by citing the
report of the emergency board,
which said the union had present.
Continued on page 6, col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
NAz|S' DEFENSE line IN italy WAIVERS
Allied Bombers
Wreak Havoc.
In RabauI Raid
Sink 600O-TOn Vessel
And Leave Fires
AT Jap Defense Bases
ADVANCE ALLIED HEADQUAR-

ADVANCE ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, New Guinea, Dec. % tUP)--
Allied heavy and medium bombers
sank a 6,000-ton supply ship, dam
aged severely two others and kim
died fires visible for SO miles in
one-two day -and-night blow at the
big Japanese naval base at Rabaul.
it was revealed Wednesday.
Another ship probably was sunk
and two others left afire in a series
of night attacks near Kavieng, New
Ireland, north of New Britain, and
6,000-ton freighter was damaged
in a day attack.
The intensified raids on enemy
shipping, together with a 189-ton
raid on Cape Gloucester, 275 miles
southwest of Rabaul, were announc-
ed in a communique as ground ac-
ton northeast of the Arawe beach,
head on the southwest coast of New
Britain dwindled.
"a Japanese communique broad
cast by Tokyo radio said that
Japanese navy planes had sunk
nine transports, two cruisers and
large number of landing craft in
two raids on Allied conveys off
AraWe Tuesday,
Ninety miles southwest of AraWe
across Dampier Strait, Australian
jungle troops on New Guineas
Huon peninsula captured a strong
ly-defended hill with the support Of
tanks and artillery and drove on to
a heavily-fortified japanese posi-
ton in a two-mile push beyond the
Maseweng river. Patrols already
were reported to have penetrated
the fortification.
Other Allied ground units driving
up the Ramu river valley of New
Guinea captured enemy positions
near Kesawai, 20 miles southwest of
Bogadjim, gateway to the japanese
base of Madang on the northeastern
coast.
Forty to SO Japanese planes at
tackled an empty Allied convoy off
the Huon peninsula Friday, it was
disclosed, and sank a 2O0-ton vessel,
but anti-aircraft guns on ships in
the convoy shot down IA to 20 of
the attacking aircraft.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Tours
Pacific Fronts

the AraWe peninsula on the SOUTH
west coast of New Britain.
Though details of the meeting
were not disclosed, discussions pre-
sumably centered on the coordina-
ton of mighty Pacific offensives
with particular reference to the
part Macarthur will play.
Southwest Pacific sources believ-
ed the meeting was second only
in significance and Importance to
the Roosevelt Churchill Chang
conference at Cairo and the Roose-
velt-Churchill conference at Que
bee.
These quarters also pointed out
that Marshall had an excellent
opportunity to judge how MacAr-
thur was exploiting his tactical
opportunities in the southwest Paci-
fic and to assess the merits of
MacArthurs repeated appeals for
additional supplies and reinforce
mentS.
Flying to the SolomonS, Marshall
conferred with 1t. Gen. Millard F.
Harmon, commander of army forces
in the south Pacific, and members
of the staff of Admiral William F.
HalSey, though he presumably miss
ed the admiral himself
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Fifth and Eighth
Armi ieS Smash
1Wo-Pron9 Lines
British Near East
Road Terminal as
yanks Press North

A L L | E d HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Dec. %. (UP)
American and French
troops have fought ahead
two miles on a four-mile
f ront t in the snow-swept
peaks above the Rome road
junction of Casino, it was
announced Wednesday, and fierce
tank battle is reducing the Adri-
attic port of Ortona to a shambles.
Slow but steady Allied gains in
violent battles on both wings of
the italian front intensified the
threat to beth Casino and Pescara,
prospective anchors of the next
main German defense line.
The British Eighth army, spear
headed by a tank concentration.
was grinding down German armor-
ed resistance in the streets of
wrecked and burning Ortona, and
the anticipated announcement of
its capture will be an anticlimax.
NEAR BEST ROME ROAD
Eleven miles beyond Ortona lies
Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the
best road across central Italy to
Rome. The way to the key port was
being blasted open in the Ortona
battle and complementary struggles
inland to Orsonga.
Striking westward two miles in
tho q oh
American troops attacked Acqua-
fondata, five miles due west of
Filignano, six northwest of Vena-
fro and three and a half beyond
Lagone.
-Four miles due north of AcQua-
fondata, other elements of the
Fifth army, including French units,
were assaulting the village of Car
ditto. Between Cardito and Acqua-
fondata savage struggles were in
progress among the heights which
command the left wing of the Ger
man defenses before Casino.
DOMINANT HEIGHT FALLS
A dominant height in the Mount
Casale Mass between the villages
fell to the Americans.
The French had been engaged in
bitter struggle for three days and
nights for a 3,000-foot mountain
pass and finally wrested the south
ern shoulders from the stubbornly
resisting Germans.
Another threat to Casino was
posed by American forces pressing
an attack on San Vittore, six miles
to the southeast. Its defenses were
being worn down Systematically in
fighting similar to that which re-
duced the nearby stronghold of San
Pietro.
The Germans moved up addition
al artillery and mortar batteries
to contest the attack on San Wit
tore, mile north of the Rome road.
AS they did at San Pietro, the
Americans had almost enveloped
the village.
The fall of Ortona to Gen. Sir.
Bernard L. Montgomery's armor
appeared to be only a matter of
Continued on page 6, COL a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Huge Ordnance
Plant Closes

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. %. (UP)
-Utah's first war factory, the $685.
100000 Utah ordnance plant, was
to halt operation late Wednesday
afternoon.
For many of the 10000 employees
the shutdown marked the end OF
year of war time prosperity. Many
others, however, already have been
absorbed in other war industries, or
soon will be.
The shutdown began last month
in line with the war departments
altered production requirements and
because of an improvement in the
nations war position.
At the time of the shutdown an
nouncement, officials said produce
ton at tie plant was far ahead OF
expectations. They also said that
curtailment of the submarine mem
ace, effectiveness of incendiary am
munition and unused supplies from
the Kiska campaign had reduced
the need for continued high pro-
duction.
Captain Vincent c. zeigler. plant
commanding officer, said that some
1,500 office employees would remain
on the job until the first Of the
year to complete records. After that,
the plant will be kept in standby
condition, ready to resume opera
ton Immediately, II necessary.
Zeigler, who returned Tuesday
from an eastern trip, said there was
little hope for further utilization
of the plant, at least until after
the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Bombers Blast
Germany in
Endless Raids ,
British Based Planes
Return Safely After
Blow at Rocket Areas

LONDON, Dec. %. CUP)-Large
formations of Allied bombers swept
over the southeast coast toward
Europe, Wednesday, continuing the
record breaking offensive which
British Mosquitoes carried through
the night with an attack on west
ern Germany.
Crowds of Christmas shoppers in
southeast England watched the out
bound bomber parade through
bright sunshine over the channel
for several minutes.
The bombers followed in the
wake of British fighter planes which
struck out toward the continent
in a dawn patrol amidst clouds
which melted under the rising sun.
The speedy Mosquito bombers re-
turned without loss from the night
foray over Germany.
Specific targets were not an
nounced, but they were believed to
include some of the hundreds of
war factories which dot Germany's
Ruhr and Rhineland.
Soon after dawn, groups of Brit
ish fighters flew out across the
English channel in a cloudy sky
for new sweeps over Europe.
The Mosquito raids followed a
record-breaking "a hours in which
more than $500 American and Brit
ish planes dropped almost 1000
tons of explosives on German tar
gets.
Reports of Allied raids on the
Continued on page 6, COL u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Heir of Busch
Faces Draft
Evading Count
FBI Arrests Grandson
OF Brewer, Four
Others on Conspiracy

NEW YORK, Dec. %. (UP)-Hans
yon Gontard, 81, grandson and heir
of Adolphus Busch, founder of the
Anheuser-B Busch breweries OF st.
Louis, was arrested here today on
a charge of conspiracy to evade the
Selective Service Act.
Arrested with Won Gontard, a
naturalized American of German
birth, were an army intelligence
officer, Won Gontard's personal
physician, and an official of uni
form manufacturing company, all
of whom are charged with conspir-
acy to delay Won Gontard's induc-
ton. A draft board clerk also was
named in the sealed complaint
which was presented before U. S.
Commissioner Garrett w. COtter,
but he had not been arrested.
CAME IN 1893
Won Gontard, whose American
born mother was the daughter of
Adolphus Busch, came to the Unit
ed States in 1888 and became a citi-
zen in 1888. He registered under
the Selective Service law with a
local board in Beverly Hills, Cali
fornia, where he was living, but
since making his residence in New
York his draft status has been
handled by local board 20, New
York City.
Others arrested were 1t. Francis
x. GrOttano, 81, of New York, an
intelligence officer stationed on
Governors Island; Dr. Arnold Aar-
on Hutschneker, As, of New York,
Won Gontard's physician, German
refugee who came to the United
States in 1888 and holds his first
citizenship papers; and Michael
Mangano, 43, secretary of the G.. NJ
Uniform company of New York.
Mangano was arrested in Brook
lyn and will be alraigned before
the U. S. commissioner in that dis
trict.
The complaint charges that Grot-
tano said to be a New York City
detective on military leave, intro
duced Won Gontard to Mangano in
194l and that they all made repre-
sentations to Won Gontard's draft
board to the effect that he was an
essential employe of the uniform
company, by which, the complaint
charges, he was at no time en-
ployed.
These representations delayed Won
Gontard's induction for some time,
but in January, l943, he reported
for his army physical examination
and was rejected on what is alleged
to be a faxed medical history of a
gall bladder ailment, built up for
the puoprse by DR.. Hutschneker.
Won Gontard and Grottano were
released on bail of $500. DR.. Hut
schneker'S bali was set at $1,000.
Hearing for the three was set for
January 5.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Governor Grants
First Pardons

SACRAMENTO, Dec. %. (UP)--
Governor Earl Warren wednesday
announced six pardons' to Califor
mia convicts, the first he has grant
ed since he took office last Janu-
airy.
The pardons, all granted under
1943 legislative act providing for
supervision of paroled or released
prisoners by county authorities,
went to:
Luigi Borello, "A, carpenter,
convicted in Alameda county in
1882 on a manslaughter charge;
Miheail Brokelakis, so, a ranch
laborer, convicted of kidnapping in
Napa county in 1916; Leroy Griffin,
Al, a radio mechanic, convicted of
grand theft in Fresno county in
1881; Mary Kavanaugh, 80, con-
victed in Los Angeles county of
burglary and theft in 1890; Thomas
F.. Luttrell, trucker, convicted of
second degree murder in Tulare
county in 1919, and Wallace Starnes,
AZ, convicted of receiving stolen
property in Sacramento county in
1923.
All of the six applied for and re-
ceived certificates of rehabilitation
from the superior court of their
county OF residence, Warren said,
and each either had been on parole
or had completed his term at the
time of applying for pardon. The
pardons have the effect only of
restoring civil rights.
In signing the pardons, Warren
said:
After many years of experience
in the field of law enforcement
am now in a position to realize a
long cherished ambition to express
by an act of executive clemency my
conviction that the rehabilitation
OF one who has offended against
society is just as important as the
enforcement of the law under which
he was punished"
The governor also emphasized
that under the rehabilitation act
none of these persons has been
put to the necessity of calling upon
the governor, or the governors Of
flee, or of sending anyone to the
governor to plead his cause or urge
special consideration"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Committee Backs
Director

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. %. CUP
The Pacific coast committee on
American principles and fair play
Wednesday wired President Roose-
welt its confidence in Dillon S.
Myer, director of the War Reloca-
ton Authority.
The committee. headed by DR..
r. Gordon Sproul, president of the
University of California, sent a du-
plicate telegram to the chairman
of the California congressional del
egation.
The wires listed five reasons for
the committees opposition to West
coast congressmen's request for
Myers resignation because of dis
turbances among japanese intern
eeS at the Tule Lake relocation
center:
l. Excellent relocation program
of the WRA.
2. THE directors recognition of