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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16
Death
Takes
Golf Star
BY VI. r. DRUKENBRoD

Tragedy has reduced forever
from a threeSome to a twoSome
a family golf game played for
years at Oakland Hills on Sun
days.
First 1T. William B. Thompson.
killed the other day at Fort
Lewis, Wash, by the accidental
explosion of a shrapnel shell, was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L.
Thompson, members of Oakland
Hills.
The senior Thompson played
these Sunday games with two of
his Sons-Bill (Lt. thompson and
Frank Jr.-almost from the time
they were big enough to swing
club. The boys enjoyed them
and 50 did their father.
NEVER BROKEN UP
IF "A golfer without a game came
along he was included TO make il
a foursome. but that was all. BY
mutual understanding the family
thrceSome never was broken up
for "A single one of these rounds
Until Bill entered the army in
July. 1871.
Then 1t became a twosome, with
the father and the other brother
carrying on. waiting for the day
when the war would be won and
Bill would return to make il
thrceSome again. But now Bill
isn't coming back.
GAVE STROKES
Tn the early days of Oakland
Hills the elder Thompson was one
Of the clubs low handicap play
erS. This meant that at the start
Of the family matches he had TO
give his sons stable handicaps.
But as the boys began growing
UP and their golf improved. handi-
caps had 10 be readjusted, until
finally 1t was the father who was
receiving strokes.
While he wouldn't admit II 10
his sons. this pleased the father
almost as much as their power
full driving did. Few will match
some Of the booming tee shots
these two brothers have hit at
Oakland Hills.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16
CROP HARVESTED

I'VE were lucky to get our
soybean crop harvested early"
the elder Quick said. II pity
the poor farmer who II good
enough To invite hunters 10 use
his fields and then have his
crops tramped into the ground"
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Funeral Services Held
For Joseph F. Mills, II

Funeral services for Joseph F
Mills, y, retired Washington build.
ing contractor who died Saturday al
his home. 80 Madison street NE.
were held today in Mount Holly
Baptist Church. Mount Holly, Va.
with burial in the church cemetery
there.
Mr.. Mills had been engaged in
the contracting business here TO,
IS years prior to his retirement
about four years ago. A native OF
Virginia, he came to the District in
l01.
He was member of the Petworth
Baptist Church and had served for
number of years as deacon and
at the time of his death was on the
Board of Trustees.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ann
Brown Mills; three sons, Frederick
B., Chester E. and William E. Mills,
and five grandchildren.
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Russiiu
Continued From First Page.)

! -
kasy fell to Gen. Ivan Konevs
army last week.
Detailing action in the Soviet
drive south of Nevel, the Moscow
war bulletin said Gen. Bagra-
mian's army had wiped out 1900
Germans yesterday and that 1.-The
enemy is retreating, abandoning a
great quantity of arms and ammu-
nition"
$40 Towns Taken in Week.
Gen. Bagramian was driving in
multiple thrusts toward Vitebsk and
Polotsk. In less than a week his
troops have recaptured nearly 1000
square miles of territory, including
$40 villages and have killed or cap
tured nearly $4,000 enemy troops
along a 50-mile-wide front.
Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, Axis COM
mentator, was quoted as saying the
Red Army drive toward the Baltic
constituted the beginning of the
Russian winter offensive"
The Paris radio, in a broadcast
recorded by the Associated Press,
said the Russians had initiated a
powerful attack to sweep out the
Dnieper bend" The broadcast as
serted that the Red Army was at
tacking in the Nikopol sector south
west OF Dnepropetrovsk. A success
1ul Russian smash here would open
the way for a drive toward Niko-
laev and Odessa, but there was no
confirmation of the .Vichy report
FROM Russian sources.
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Court Denies Motion
For Directed Verdict
For FPHA Architects

Justice David A. Pine of District
Court today overruled a motion by
oefense for acquittal through a
directed verdict of George Dewey
Conner and Oscar vatet, senior
architects for the Federal Public
Housing Authority, being tried on
charges of conspiracy to obtain
illegal compensation, allegedly for
the approval of plans for the manu.
facture of prefabricated houses for
the Government
The directed verdict was sought
on grounds the Government had
presented insufficient evidence to
prove the charge. Immediately
alter the motion had been over
ruled, the defense began placing its
witnesses on the stand to testify
before the jury in the several days
old trial
Before closing the Governments
case yesterday, John M. Kelley, at
torney for the Justice Department,
read a statement .allegedly made by
Mr.. Vatet to FBI agents.
In the statement, Mr.. Vatet is
reported to have said that officials
OF the Alladin Co., makers Of pre-
fabricated houses. disgruntled over
their failure to obtain Government
contracts, brought the charges
against MIR. Connor and himself to
discredit the Government agency
and its employees.
Assisting Mr.. Kelley are William
A. Carter Of the Justice Department
and Assistant United States At
torney John c.. Conliff.
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Crew Of Crippled Flying Fort
sticks With HELPLESS Comrode
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
| PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2l.-Mem-
bers of the crew OF a Flying Fortress
refused to bail out and leave a
helpless comrade to his fate in
the clouds $500 feet over the hills
Of Pennsylvania, 1t was revealed
today.
The ship was on a routine flight
from Bradley Field, Windsor Locks,
Conn.,, to Patterson Field, Dayton
Ohio.
When three of the motors quit
and the fourth wasn't turning up
properly the pilot, Lit. B. L. Miller
OF Concrete, Wash, realized that it
would be dangerous to attempt a
crash landing in the hills with 100
gallons of gasoline on board.
He ordered the men to bail out.
Four of them did so. When the
fifth, 1t. E. r. Gardner of Carthage.
Ind, the ships navigator, started
down his runway the handle of
his parachute caught on a fire ex-
tinguisher handle and the chute
opened inside the plane.
1t Miller said his heart dropped
into his boots, but he gallantly or
dered the engineer, Staff Sergt. E.
Dondes of New York City, to lump.
Sergt. Dondes said gruf1ly, 'I'll ride
her down."
The co-pilot, c. W. Meade, Okla
homa City, Okla, elected to stay
aboard also.
So they rode her down.
We were just missing the tops
of the trees" said Pilot Miller, "and
we had to land quick. We had to
get over the top of the last hill and
land on the next rise.
We just cleared it and there
ahead of us was little farmhouse
gave 1t all the right rudder had
and all the engine, which wasn't
much, cutting the right wing into
tree so we'd ground-loop and miss
the house.
| The plane slithered to stop on
hillside between Federal and Car
negie. about 13 miles from Pitts
burgh. The Fort burst into flames
almost Immediately, but all four
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Harry R. Smith, "a, Dies;
Funeral Set Tomorrow

Harry r. Smith, "a, retired sign
painter. died yesterday in Garfield
Hospital after an illness Of a week.
A native of the District, he re-
sided. at 1920 Newton street NV.
He was q member Of Harmony
Lodge OF Masons.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Harriet
B. Smith; two daughters, Mrs.
Marie Sorrell and Mrs. Margaret
Kelly; q son, Charles Smith, and a
brother, Percy Smith, all OF this
city.
Services will be held at pm. to-
morrow in the Hines funeral home.
Burial will be in Congressional
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Defense Ends Summation
In Film Extortion Trial
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-The de-
fense concluded its summation yes
terday in the 11-week trial of seven
men charged with conspiracy to
extort more than 1000, 900 from the
motion picture industry.
Federal Judge John Bright an
nounced that the Government would
make its summation today and that
he would deliver his charge to the
jury tomorrow.
Three defense attorneys contended
before the jury of nine women and
three men that the payments in
volved bribery rather than extortion
and that in any case none of the
defendants received the payments.
The attorneys hammered also at
the testimony of the prosecution s
star witnesses, George E. Browne
and Willie Bioff, racketeer labor
leaders sentenced to prison terms on
eXtortion charges in 1941, and asked
the jurors to throw it down the
sewer
Evening star., 1943-12-21

Your heart may bleed for our
wounded soldiers, but to be prac-
tical, let your arm do 1t. Call Blood
Donor Center, District $500, and
make an engagement to give some
blood.
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Months Salvage Reaches
2O,6OO,0OO Pounds Here

James E. Colliflower, chairman o.
the District Salvage Committee
yesterday announced that collec.
tions Of salvage material in Wash.
ington during November totaleo
20,6l4,262 pounds.
Collections included 6,327 1927
pounds of scrap iron and steel
1l7,331 pounds of tin cans, 44,79t
pounds of household fats, 163,00C
pounds of rubber, GOT ,848 pounds oil
rags, 36,375 pounds of garbage
grease and 13,316,885 pounds OF
paper.
Mr.. Collifower warned citizens
not to relax their wastepaper sal
vaging effort, declaring, I'VE still
are not reaching about 40 per cent
of the known sources of waste
paper"
Wastepaper collections were in
creased 1,2O8,932 pounds, over Octo-
ber, with a total of 49,799,75 pounds
for the past six months.
Evening star., 1943-12-21

men escaped injury, although the
pilot lost q shoe climbing out. They
were able to save the bombsight
and a few other pieces OF equip
ment.
OF the four men who chit the
breeze" one was injured, the radio
operator, Staff Sergt. S., j. Ciak, New
Haven, Conn, who suffered broken
foot as he landed. .4,@
The others who came down safely
were Staff Sergt. A. j. Grande, Shell
ton, Conn.,, photographer; Corpl. A.
o. Reed, Houston, Tex, assistant
engineer, and Sergt. w. r. Yohe,
Glenn, Nebr., gunner.
Capt. William Gordon Brown,
commander Of the 9th Ferrying
Service Command at Pittsburgh, was
loud in praise of the mems heroism
and said he would recommend them
for recognition.
Evening star., 1943-12-21

whose weather forecasts aided
CHARLES A. Lindbergh and later
trans-oceanic flyers, died at his
home today.
DR.. Kimball, who had been in
the service of the Weather Bureau
since 1895, was named head Of the
services New York ofiice in 1896.
Earlier he had served in many parts
Of the United States and in the
West Indies.
During the World War DR.. KIM
ball was meteorology advisor in New
York for the French high COM
mand. His services in aiding Amer
lean and European trans Atlantic
flyers was recognized by France,
Italy and other nations which
honOred him.
He was born In Detroit on Feb
ruary IL, 1874, and expected to re-
tire on his next birthday.
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Plane Crash in Georgia
Kills Five Army Flyers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAVANNAH, Ga. Dec. 21.-Five
men from the Hunter Field Army
Air Base were killed in the crash of
a plane near Midway, Ga, about 80
miles from Savannah, Col. L. l.
Koontz, commanding officer, an
nounced early today.
He identified the dead and next
of kin as:
Second 1t. John F. Hudson, jr.
Wilmington, Del; Second 1t. John
A. Walker, Indianapolis; Staff Sergt
Charles C. Lyzbicki Acosta, Pa;
Sergt. Joseph P. Torrisi, Newark
N. j., and Sergt. Samuel J. Spinella
Morgan CitV Ia
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Albert n. Marquis Dies;
Founder Of Who's S Who
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press,
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Albert N
Marquis, 80, founder of Who.
Who in America" died today in his
home in suburban Evanston.
Mr.. Marquis, who had gradually
'rellnquished his editorial duties, two
years ago became editor emeritus OF
the biographical dictionary of no.
tables. He had directed its policies
since the first edition was published
in 1899.
Born in Brown County, Ohio, Mr.
Marquis began his business career
as a bookseller in Cincinnati, and
later established the first business
directory of Chicago.
Evening star., 1943-12-21
Dr.Kimba|I ,Lindbergh
Weather Man, Dies

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Dr. James
Henry Kimball, SO, meteorologist
who prepared the first weather
maps for transatlantic flying and
Evening star., 1943-12-21

RUSSIANS DRIVE ALONG EASTERN FRONT-The Russian
Bac Army Cd reported by Reuters within 20
mics OF Vtebsk In its westward drive. Ukraine Army
) repusd counterattacks in the Rus
SANS exerted strong Kovograd Berlin said
the Germans had evacuated the east side of the Dnepr
opposite kherson Shaded approximate
territory A D uironbo+o
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

LOST-Ration books No. l and 3
belonging to Lupe, Antonio, Rach-
ell Hernandez. Return to Ration
Board. 1913
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

FOR SAnE-Good bedroom noun
tain home, furnished; 6 #. Norge
Refrig.; Flamo range, built-ln
fixtures and bath. Good view and
shade treeA. See after Oct. /. A.
G.. Ingram, Live Oak Springs. 1914
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
2-.Personals, Special Notices

SCRAP METAL SOLD to us will be
delivered air express to Tokyo
and Berlin. NALIBOFF JUNK CO.
584 Broadway, Phone 589. 1912
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

WANTED - Reliable woman for
housework. No children, good SAL
ary. Phone 80 or after 6 1792R.
l0-l1
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
2-Personals, Spec. Notices
Business Services

PLANT FOOD CO. of Pas
adena wishes to announce all
mixes for all crops now available
to Imperial Valley farmers. Liquid
Plant Food is complete fertilizer
with all necessary ingredients put
into liquid form and Immediately
ready for plant consumption. Just
put the barrel at the headgate
and adjust the flow, that is all
the labor necessary to apply it.
For further details call or write
to Lew Mcintosh, 512 w. 7th ST.,
Imperial. P. o. Box "a. Phone
3731. 9-26
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

LOST-Ration book No belong
ing to Claude Lindsey, Jr. Return
to Ration Board. 1913
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

REAL ESTATE MART

3 BEDROOM FILA house, hard
wood floors throughout. Nice
fenced-in rear yard, plenty of
trees and shade.
TYLER INSURANCE AGENCY
$40 Main Phone660
10-N
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

LOST-No. 2 and 8 ration books
belonging to Francisco Singh. Re-
turn to Ration Board. 1913
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

WANTED-Man Tor work in service
station. Good pay, steady work.
Simpsons Super Service, 1497
Adams. 1915
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

FOR SALE-Home on Hen. 2 bed
rooms and sleeping house in rear.
$500. Owner wants 700 down,
$50 month. See Starr Won Fluss,
664 Holt. 10-1
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Cards of Thanks

WE CAN'T FIND words that will
begin to express our sincere
thanks to our friends for the
many good deeds they have
shown us at this trying time of
our great loss of our dear wife
and moher.
w. N. Wigington
and Hulon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
800 acres in Section 80 and 33,
township IL Range Is, Impe-
rial County. Only $125.00 per
acye, terms. Write or see P. j.
HoIlenbeck, 1913 San Diego
TruSt and Savings Bldg, San
DiegA Calf. 10-4
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

FOR SALE-3z0 good soil, well To-
Gated. 100 plowed, ready for flax.
Immediate possession. Price d
right and terms easy. C. Muncey,
608 Main. los
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

,--Business Services
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

2--Personals, Spec. Notices
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

Waitress over 81. Desert
Malt Shop, 476 Main. 10-6
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Witness Tells O. 4eIenrfe rr+e
Say, More Than 500 SAVED

oaEn we ran in1o a Jap cruAser ano
gave her he'll. + saw flames and
smoke gushing from her. One hero
was the Nhaleboatman who vol
un5eered to stay back and pick. up
more survivors. We left him"
Jap Strength Broken.
MIR. White said ,that prior to the
battle, planes spotted four cruisers,
five destroyers and several supply
ships coming down from the north
and the American force hit them
after they turned into the Kula
Gulf, which is only Is miles long
and fianked by dangerous reefs.
The action YVES broken off st dav-
oreak wben ths main American
force retired, lesying Two nesuoyers
70 pics. no Jne cruiser survivors.
THESE t~o oestroyegs oroks off the
rescue Work three times 10 engage
scattered remnants Of the enemy.
After daylight. planes reported
that the gulf was spotted with float
ing wreckage with japanese clinging
to RATS and spars amidst great oil
slicks.
Mr.. White said that while the
japanese force was completely
broken, some ships may have sue
ceeded in landing troops for the re-
inforcement Of Villa. on Kolomban-
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Copper Ore Is Moved
Aaain as Strike Ends

By She Associated prese
BINGHAM CANYON, Utah, July
9 AeaVily-laden ore rtains moved
nom the huge pits Of the Ufsn
Ccpper Co. mines 10 smelLers tonsV
as operslions again reached g. pesh
alter temporary settlement OF 8
strike of railway conductors.
In less than an hour after the 100
conductors of the Bingham g. Gar
field Railroad last night voted to
return to work.. operations at the
pits and the nearby Magma and
Arthur smelters resumed.
The trainmen, members OF the
Order of Railway Conductors, walked
off the job Tuesday, depriving the
mines of trsusports for the ore
% ,melters.
Tine snisiue union members voted
% return 10 Tneir posts ''until sfter
national mediators nave Investigated
the dispute" a union spokesman
said. The vote followed by a few
hours a company withdrawal Of an
order issued July l which classified
the rail workers as employees of the
copper company and not the Bing-
ham 81 Garfield Railroad, a line
operated by the company.
The conductors had struck in pro-
test of that order, maintaining it
would exclude them from benefits
under the Railroad Retirement Act.
Evening star., 1943-07-09
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Continued From First Page.l

Continued From First Pagel
committee that he, the President,
refuses to allow the documents de-
scribed in your letter to be delivered
TO the committee, as such delivery
would be Incompatible with the pub
lie interest"
Budget Head Also Refuses.
Mr. Pstterson's letter was similar.
Harold Smith, director of the
Budget Bureau, likewise refused to
testify, asserting the President had
issued specific Instructions" that
bureau files relatingEto the proposal
TO transfer FEC Intelligence activi
ties to the armed Services should
not be made publid.
Proposals of this character re-
late directly TO the military pro-
gram, and their disclosure would
not be in the interest of that pro-
gram" Mr.. Smith said.
Chairman Fly repeated on the
witness stsnd today his previous
written refusal to give the commit
tee files and documents it had re-
quested. i II
Eugene L. Carey, committee coun-
sci, said the files requested deal with
the consideration by the Board of
War Communications of charges
against Neville Miller, president of
the NatioHsl Association of Broad
casters. Il ~
Were Dismissed.
MI. Carey said the committee had
inlolmation that BWC had ordered
an investigation of charges that MI.
Miller was alleged to have pub
lished confidential matter pending
before bbard coirinittee OF which
Mr.. Miller was al member. The
BWC's Law Committee, he added,
dismissed the charges-which MI.
Carey said had been made ito pun
ish Mr.. Miller fort his opposition
to Mfr. FlW
Mr.. Fly fold the committee his re
fusal to produce the documents was
based on a decision Of the board, Of
which hs is chairman, that they were
confidential and belonged to the
board and not to the FCC.
The board. he said, felt that pub
lie disclosure of the records would
adversely affect The national Sc
curity or iniure Che national pres
tige."
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Chinese Consul 10 Probe
Imprisonment OF Internees

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.-The
Chinese consul generals Office here
said today full report would be
made to the Chinese Embassy in
Washington on the verbal fare-up
between Chinese and Japanese in
ternees at a Government detention
camp which resulted in the jailing
OF At Chinese.
Il don't think it was fair to send
the Chinese to Jail and let the Japa-
nese go free" observed a spokesman
for the consul general. Frankly,
we were surprised to learn that
there were any japanese left so
near to the Pacific Coast"
The trouble occurred Wednesday
when the Al Chinese, held at the
Sharp Park immigration Station for
jumping ship and refusing to return
to sea, ran Up their nations. flag
over their barracks and demanded
the day off to attend 2 celebration
in San Francisco marking China's
sixth war anniversary
japanese at the station protssted
display of the flag and various
placards the Chinese had put up.
The immigration service called in
Army forces when violence was
threatened. The Army took the
Chinese to Jail when they refused
to take down their signs and flag.
Regulations prohibit the raising
of any foreign flag over United
States Government property.
Evening star., 1943-07-09
American Submarine,
Sinking Jap Vessels
Al 0ne-d-Day Raie
Ry the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
American submarines, slicing
through Pacific waters in ever
mounting numbers, are knocking
off Japanese ships at the rate of
one a day. The destruction of
10 transports and supply vessels
was announced by the Navy yes
terday.
This terrific toll of what Japan
needs most--ships to link her far
flung outposts of stolen empire
has prompted the Navy to issue
three special bulletins in little more
than a month on the activities OF
its undersea arm. Ordinarily, the
doings of submarines are related
only after long periods of silence
maintained for security reasons.
Since June l, the American sub
marine packs, which Secretary of
the Navy Knox declared were aug
mented steadily, have blasted to the
bottom 80 Japanese, supply vessels,
many of them big transports and
tankers, and three destroyers. Prob
ably sunk were two more-a trans
port and tanker. Nine more ships,
including a destroyer, were listed as
damaged.
Sometimes vessels seen from a
periscope only as being damaged
sink later but submarine command
ers long have adhered rigidly to the
rule of calling them just rs they
see them. The submarine most like
ly to be back for another try at the
enemy is the one that gets away
without waiting for too much OBJ
servation, as soon as an attack has
been pressed home.
Hence, the toll of ships sunk an
nounced in Navy communicates is
the very minimum.
latest Success nf Tne SUBMARINE
raLoe,G was mas reotrteo. %eSt~osN
jn sn snncGncemsny Claiming 10
moe Jaosnese t1ans oorg and supCiy
VESSELS torpedoed TO lie bottom.
Four medium-sized cargo vessels
were damaged.
This brought to 283 the total re-
ported sunk or damaged in the Pa
cific since the attack on Pearl Har-
bor. OF this number 200 were sunk,
20 probably sunk and 54 damaged.