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Evening star., 1943-09-24
CHAPTER VI.
BY SERGT. FELIX HI. LARRONDE
..t... As Told to
GEORGE KENNEDY.
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT.

StAT 0iail COTTtSpOuueHt.
We were up and at the line where
the planes were standing in their
revetments at 4:30 on the morning
of March 8, at our base near Port
Moresby, New Guinea, The pilots
were out ahead of us and were all
gathered at operations.
We waited a long time in the
dwindling darkness. Sunrise was
about 5;45. The waiting wasn't easy.
We saw Bits and B-25s tFlying
Fortresses and Mitchells) going out.
We thought they were going to bomb
the enemy feet and keep it out of
our range-that it would be just like
The Choral Sea where we waited with
our A-24 dive bombers for days
and never were able to go out after
the too distant enemy. We found
out later that the heavy 5ombers
we had seen leaving were on re-
connaissance missions. But we
didn't know it at the time.
Finally about $3.50 Capt. Chudoba,
my pilot, came humping up in
jeep driven by one of the ground
force. He jumped out all excited.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Couple Is Remarked
Every Anniversary
License Clerk Told

BY the Associated Press.
VANCOUVER, Wash.-"Have
you been married before?"
Clerk Adele Andring asked the
couple applying for a marriage
license.
"Oh, yes" replied Elmer r.
Holmes Of Portland, Greg, six
times"
Every year Viola and I get
married on our anniversary" he
explained.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Workman Dies, ; Hurt
When Two Gas Blasts
Shake Arlington Area
AIphonse LindbIom
Victim of Explosion
In Pumping Stotion

A 34-year-old workman died
today in the Alexandria Hospital
as a result of injuries received
yesterday in one of two Arling-
ton County sewer explosions.
which occurred only a few hours
apart in the same vicinity. Three
other persons were injured.
Alphons Lindblom, "a, of 2707
South Adams street, Arlington, was
injured fatally when gas exploded in
the "sump," or collection basin, of
a sewage pumping station at the
Henry G Shirley homes project in
the 2800 block of South Lang street.
police said
Meanwhile, Richard Writ, super
intendent of the county Sewer De-
partment, said officials were trying
to link an explosion which occurred
about 7 o'clock last night in the
basement of the home of D. John
Papanicolas, 3101 South Glebe road.
with the earlier blast at the pump
ing station.
Blast Rocked Basement.
Mr.. Writ said the two explosions
were about 400 yards apart, and
while it did not seem possible there
was any connection between the two
tests were being made to determine
it they were caused by the same ex-
plosive agent.
Mr.. Papanicolas said the blast in
his basement, probably set off by a
pilot light on gas water heater,
splintered door and damaged a
screen on a back porch. He said the
force of the explosion knocked pic
lures and mirrors off the walls and
damaged his heating equipment.
Mr., Writ said tests would be made
today in an effort to determine the
cause Of the two explosions. He said
they did not resemble either illu-
minating gas or sever gas alone,
J but had some Of the characteristics
of both.
Lines Not Connected.
b He explained that while the sewer
lines had not been connected to the
pumping station, it would, however,
be possible for gas to seep through
the ground and into the stations
"sump. He said tests showed a
concentration of gas remaining on
the floor Of the sump.
Mr.. Writ said investigations today
would examine the possibility that
some chemical agent had caused the
two blasts"
Mr.. Lindblom and the three other
workmen were at work in the pump
ing station preparatory to connect
ing the sewer lines when the blast
occurred. They were taken to the
Alexandria Hospital where Mr..
Lindblom and Frank Anthony, COL
ored, of 1914 Fourth street S.W.,
were admitted, both suffering third
degree burns. Mr., Anthony's con-
dition was described as "satisfac-
tory" today.
Others injured, who were treated
for burns about the face and hands
and released, were August Lindblom,
"a, of l08 Fourth street Sc, and
Vincent F. Grady, 36, of 259 Maple
avenue, Tokoma Park, Md.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Maryland OPA Director
Plans Poultry PorIey
BY the Associated Press,

oS tHe associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 24.-Asserting
that "the problem of the poultrymen
on the Delmarva Peninsula is one of
the most pressing now facing this
office" Leo H. Mccormick, State
OPA director, has called an early
conference of Government and rep
resentatives of poultry raisers.
MIR. Mccormick announced plans
for the conference yesterday follow
ing report from the Eastern Shore
that the production of broilers in
that area, would be cut 80 to 40 per
cent below last years total.
An estimated 100,000,000 chickens
were raised there last wear.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Presbyterian Women
Meet at Winchester, Va,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, sept. 24.-The
annual meeting of the Womens S
Auxiliary of the Virginia Presby-
terlan Synod opened here yesterday
with Miss Louise Davidson of Be-
thesda, Md, presiding.
Reports of officers and committees,
as well as addresses by clergymen,
marked the opening sessions.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Maryland 10 Contest
Release Of ParoIee
By Judge harbury
Decision Is Filed for
Review by Stote
Court Of Appeals
BY the Associated Press.


ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept. 24.-The
opinion Of the Court of Appeals on
the constitutionality of a Maryland
law governing recommitment to
prison of parole violators was sought
today.
The opinion Of Chief Judge Ogle
Marbury of the seventh judicial cir
cult, in which he ruled that the law
was unconstitutional because it did
not provide for a hearing before a
parolee was sent back to jail, was
filed yesterday with the clerk of the
Court of Appeals.
Judge Marbury held that Section
80 of Article Al of the Maryland
statutes violated the Maryland Dec
laration of Rights and the 14th
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
tion.
Involved Baltimore Case.
The decision was made in the case
Of Donald J. Herzog, who pleaded
6u1hy ldob N0dlCA AZ AL odttAllUl z
City Criminal Court to four charges
of robbery with deadly weapon and
one charge of larceny.
He was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary on the larceny case
and to ten years on each of the rob-
berry charges, all sentences to run
concurrently.
The late Gov. Harry w. Nice gave
a conditional parole to Herzog In
1887, but it was revoked by Gov
O'Conor in 1912. Gov. O'Conor said
he had been informed that Herzog
had violated the terms of the con-
ditional parole.
Herzog was convicted in March,
1884, in the Criminal Court of Bal
timore City of assault with intent to
kill and robbery and was sentenced
to 10 years in the penitentiary. He
was released by Gov. Nice's condi-
tional pardon in June, 1897.
Herzog stated he had been in Ok
lahoma when Gov. O'Conor ordered
him recommitted. Several months
later. the Judge said, Herzog gave
himself up, was tried and sentenced
by Baltimore City Criminal Court to
three months in the House of Cor
rection in two forgery indictments.
Revoked without Hearing.
Habeas corpus proceedings subse-
quently were instituted by Herzog in
Prince Georges County, in which
he contended that his parole was
revoked without hearing or notice
to him.
Thomas p. MacCarthy, assistant
paroles director, stated that the
effect of the courts opinion in the
Herzog case probably will necessi-
tate some change in procedure in
the event that 1t becomes necessary
to return to prison any Of some 1876
persons now at large under condi-
tional pardons or conditional COM
mutation of sentence.
I'VE will be obliged to obtain an
opinion from the Attorney General
of Maryland in this regard" he con-
tinued.
Asked what effect the decision
would have on prisoners in the penal
institutions, Mr.. MacCarthy stated
There are still in the prisons a
number of parole violators who have
been returned to the institutions un-
der the proceedings followed since
1914, including several life termers
who violated the confidence placed
in them. What will happen in these
cases I can't say"
Included in Judge Marbury's
opinion was an order releasing Her.
zog from the House of Correction.
But before the release could be
completed yesterday, Baltimore City
police arrived and held Herzog on
what they said were detainer war
rants from Washington.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
X X
MAa1Ho~R~xWM
WAR BONDS
Alps Jumper

1t looks like we must go right up
to Berchtesgaden for Adolf, so the
Army has developed caterpillar
landing gears for its heavy planes.
1t is designed to allow landings on
rough or soft ground, by affording
more traction.
just so much more to Back the
Attack"
You can do more, too. Buy more
War bonds.
Evening star., 1943-09-24

MAGNOLIA PLAYS PRANK-Usualy spring blooming
Oriental magnolia scientifically soulangeana
burst into full bloom at Eighteenth Pennsylvania
avenue NV Mrs Betty Sutz Interior Department employe
and wife OF Machist Mate FIRST class Frederick Su
admres the blossoms Park natuasts
oseason prank Of the tree might be number
and recent Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1943-09-24
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Copt. Chudobo' Gunner Watches jap Fleet
As Allied Bombs Rip Into Ships

Sergt Fettr H. Larronde gunner in the plane of Capt
Edoard Chndobd who has told the story far gues
observation OF the battle from his iindoD
sktp-bombiag APO douglas Hauoc of
the rSt participating In the Bismarck Battle
the United States.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Pamphlet Attacks
Negro Housing
Ban for Philly

Philadelphia, Pain a pamph-
let entitled "No Homes for Ne
groes" the Youth Committee for
Democracy, Philadelphia Chapter,
makes a well documented and
sharp attack on the Philadelphia
Housing Authority for prohibiting
Negroes to occupy five Federal
housing projects built for war
workers in that area.
Pointing out that the Housing
Authority has justified its refusal
to permit Negro tenants on the
grounds of "white neighborhoods,"
the leaflet presents statistical data
to disprove the theories that values
go down when Negros move into
white" areas and that mass ex-
odus of white people occurs when
Negroes come in. On the latter
point, it quotes the 1910 census as
showing that 23.4% Of all white
families lived in mixed blocks, to-
gether with colored families, thus
proving that "the allegedly insup-
cradle prejudice against colored
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Mpls. NAACP
Hold ROusing
Member Rally

A rousing meeting, the largest
in months, Sunday, heard an
nouncements on the Minneapolis
NAACP membership drive and
heard a ringing speech by Rev. A.
F. Martin of Bethesda Baptist
church.
DR.. W. D. Brown, membership
campaign chairman, announced
that over 1000 members had been
secured and that over $1,000 had
been subscribed.
Members of the volunteer So
licitor group were awarded certifi-
Gates for their work in the cam
paign.
The principal speaker at the
membership rally was Rev. Martin
who gave many reasons why ev-
cry Negro should belong to the
NAACP. His talk received re-
sounding applause.
It appears that to date the Mill
City branch is ahead of st. Paul
in members. Rev. C. T. Nelson,
Sanity City president, was pres
emit and expressed the determine
ton that st. Paul was going to
come up to Minneapolis in men,
berships.
The full list of 1913 members of
the Minneapolis branch will ap-
pear in a subsequent issue of this
paper.
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held conference with the Air Base
authorities and the mayor issued
an order prohibiting the Negroes
from using the city-owned swim
ming pool.
InterraciaI Meeting Held
On July 8, Rev. Nelson was the
principal speaker at an inter-racial
luncheon at the Palace of Sweets.
After his address, in which he sug-
gested that the citizens of Sioux
Falls must take positive action in
changing the unfavorable conditions
complained of by the Negro SOL
diers, Ben Marguiles, a white bust
nessman, suggested that an organ
ization "for action" should be
formed. A steering committee to
organize a branch of the National
Association for the Advancement
of COlored People was named.
The temporary officers named
are: chairman, DR.. Prentiss Penn
berton (white), Professor of Reli-
gion at the Sioux Falls College;
vice-chairman, Charles Warden,
Negro businessman; secretary, Rev.
Guy E. Nusbaum, white Presbyter-
ian minister; treasurer, Ben Mar
gulies. Charter members of this
new branch will include many of
the leading business, civic and re-
ligious leaders of the Sioux Falls
community. Rev. Nelson told the
representative of the Recorder and
Spokesman that he was greatly en-
couraged by the response to his
suggestions for positive action by
many Sioux Falls people, who are
sincere in their desire to see that
the Negro soldiers, and Negro ci-
villains as well, are given their full
and equal rights in Sioux Falls.
Mrs. Dorothy Schultz made a
report for the special Anti-Poll
Tax Committee. Many speakers
have appeared before local labor
unions urging their support of the
Anti-Poll Tax Bill now buried in
the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate. An encouraging report was
made of the membership campaign
by the chairman of the Membership
Committee, John M. Culver. Earl
P. Dickerson, prominent Chicago
lawyer and a former member Of
FEPC, will be invited to address a
membership mass meeting early in
August.
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Della Burns,
Beloved Mill
Citian, Dies

Mrs. Della Burns, 2711 Emerson
Ave. &c., one of the bulwarks of
the Seven Day Adventist church
for the past ten years, died last
Thursday, July %, at the age of
Sc, at Abbott hospital. She had
been employed by the Misses An
ME and Elizabeth Quinlan, owners
of Young & Quinlan Department
Store, for % years.
Mrs. Burns, beloved to a large
group of friends in Minneapolis
of all religious denominations, had
been confined for only one week
though she had been in poor health
for the past five years.
Funeral services were held Sun
day, July 25, at Beacon Light Sew
en- Day Adventist church. Woodland
Funeral Home was in charge of ar
rangements and shipment of her
body to Jacksonville, Fla, where
relatives survive.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30

awarded the Navy Cross post
humously for Extraordinary hero
ism" while aboard the USS SAN
FRANCISCO, during action
against enemy Japanese forces in
the Battle of Guadalcanal, Novem-
Der IL and 10, 1912.
Mrs. Naunita Harmon Carroll, of
Cuero, Texas, mother of the Negro
hero, was sponsor for the new YES
sci. Mrs. Carroll had as her at
tendants, her daughters, Miss Paul
inc Mabry Harmon, war worker
in the Air Service Command at San
Antonio, Tex, and Mrs. Constance
Elaine ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Ell
Paso, Tex. Mrs. Carroll was also
accompanied by her husband, Will
liam D. Carroll, principal of the
Hudspeth County Training School.
The sponsoring party also included
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustave M. Solomon
of Cambridge, Mass. Mr.. Solomon,
an electrical engineer and graduate
of Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, is the highest ranking
Negro employed by the Bethlehem
Yards. He is a technician at the
Fore River Plant.
Following the launching, Mrs.
Carroll was presented with a sill
yer bowl, inscribed in memory of
the occasion, by Edward G. Geehr,
assistant general manager, on be-
half of the shipyard.
A reception was also given the
sponsoring party in the company's
dining room. High ranking navy
officials, headed by Rear Admiral
Harold T. Smith, supervisor of ship
building at the Fore River Yard,
also attended.
Proudly wearing her hero sons
Navy Cross, Mrs. Carroll cried a
bit as she smashed the bottle of
champagne and said, ~ christen
thee Leonard Roy Harmon" But
she was less emotional after the
launching as she told of her sons
efforts to enter the Navy. He was
turned down at first, she said, be-
cause he had a "heart murmur,"
but he kept coming back to the En-
listing Station until he was finally
accepted after the fourth try. He
was 26 at the time of his death, and
had served four years in the serv-
ice. He was at Pearl Harbor on
December z, 1871, and saw service
in several other engagements.
Mrs. Harmon is also proud of
the war work of her other son, Cor
nelius White Harmon, employed at
the Naval Base at Corpus Christi,
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Tex. She herself was formerly a
public school teacher.
The text of the citation accom-
panying the posthumous award of
the Navy Cross to Harmon is as
follows:
"For extraordinary heroism
while serving aboard the USS SAN
FRANCISCO during action against
enemy Japanese forces in the
Solomon Islands area on Novem-
Der IL and Is, 1912. With per-
sistent disregard for his own per-
sonal safety, HARMON rendered
invaluable assistance in caring for
the wounded and evacuating them
to a dressing station. In addition
to displaying unusual loyalty in
behalf of the injured Executive Of
ficer, he deliberately exposed him
self to hostile gunfre in order to
protect shipmate and as a re-
suit of this courageous deed, was
killed in action. His heroic spirit
of self-sacrifce, maintained above
and beyond the call of duty, was in
keeping with the highest traditions
Of the United States Naval Service.
He CALAMITY gave up his life in the
defense of his country"
The SIS HARMON is the newest
type of ship in the United States
Navy and is especially designed
for the job of convoy protection.
The escorts are all being named
for Navy heroes, just as destroyers
are named. The first of the escorts
are now in service. Others have
been launched and are fitting out
for service at sea. A large num-
Der of these vessels have been built
and are under construction at the
Fore River Yard, which employs
$1,000 persons, representing every.
race.
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Henry Wallace
Condemns Riots
AS Nazi Aid

Detroit-(ANP)-Henry A. Wal
lace, vice-president of the United
States, addressing a meeting spon-
sored by the labor and civic organi-
cations of this throbbing city of
war production on Sunday after
noon, firmly and with resolution
declared that race riots, poll taxes,
slum dwelling and illiteracy have
no place in a full democracy.
GAS an outgrowth of the war,
our choice is not between a Hitler
slave-world and out-of-date holiday
of normalcy," he said, "nor is our
choice between an Americanized
fascism and the restoration of pre-
war scarcity and unemployment"
"Must Crush Riots
Standing before the thousands
who jammed the State Fair
grounds, and speaking into an NBC
microphone which was carrying his
voice into millions of homes
throughout the nation, the vice
president, who has been called a
dreamer" by many because of his
espousal of what he has called the
century of the common man" and
a peoples revolution, looked into
the faces of the citizenry of city
which only a few weeks ago had
been torn asunder by vicious and
murderous racial conflict, and
warned:
ave cannot fight to crush Nazi
brutality abroad and condone race
riots at home. Those who fan the
fires of racial clashes for the pur-
pose of making political capital
here at home are taking the first
step toward Nazism."
And so the vice president, by a
matter of five days, followed Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his condemnation
of Outbreaks Of violence" which he
had declared in letter to Con-
gresham Vito Marcantonio of New
York "endanger our national unity
and comfort our enemies"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Defense Plants
Baseball Teams
Clash Sunday

The Twin City Ordnance dia-
mond ball team and the Interna-
tional Harvester team staged a
pitching duel at Sumner Field Sun
day, July 25, in gruelling battle
between the two teams.
The Twin City Bombers won out
by score of 4 to 8 in the last of
the 7th inning. The batteries for
the Bombers were Hill and Davis
against Scroggins and Perry for
International. Scroggins was
touched for 6 hits where Davis on
ly gave up A.
The two teams will play off their
tie at the Hollow, st. Anthony Ave.
and Kent st. in st. Paul, Sunday,
August 1. The Bombers' manager,
Leon Lewis, says anyone wanting
to see great pitchers in action
should come out and cheer for their
favorites at this game beginning
at 6 pm.
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Newcomers Will
Be Welcomed By
Urban League AUX.

The Minneapolis Urban League
Auxiliary will entertain recent
newcomers to Minneapolis at a re-
ception in the Sumner Project
social room at 1901 Bryant Ave.
No., Tuesday evening, August 8.
All newcomers and their famil-
les are requested to attend this So
cial hour, a gesture by the Auxil-
larry to welcome strangers to the
community and assist them in feel
ing at home in the new environ
ment.
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Frank Boyd
Attends BSCP
Zone Meeting

Frank Boyd, secretary treasurer
of the Twin City Branch of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port
ers, attended a zone meeting of the
Brotherhood in Chicago, Ill, July
q to "a. Representatives in at
tendance were from branches of
the organization in Denver, Chi
cago, Kansas City, Mo-, Oklahoma
City, Omaha, Chattanooga, Tenn,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus,
Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville,
Nashville, Pittsburgh, the Twin
Cities, Toronto and Montreal.
Much of the time was given to
reviewing the latest contract with
the Pullman Co., preparatory to
educating new men in the service,
many of whom do not know a con-
tract even exists.
Mr.. Boyd also attended the
Fourth Annual American Negro
Musical Festival held at Comiskey
park in Chicago. Mrs. Marva Louis
was this years chairman of the
affair. More than $4,000 people at
tended. Besides a 5000 voice choir,
other prominent musicians and
groups appeared. Paul Robson
sang. The U. S. Navy Band from
the Great Lakes Naval Station
played.
Miss Revoida Wright, niece of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Smith, S7S st.
Anthony Ave., is in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, visiting her father, Mr..
Fred Wright, and her aunt. She
will return to the city within a
FORTNIGHT
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Finishes Two
War Production
Truininq Glasses

Albert H. Smith, 314 Central
Ave. S. E., Minneapolis, appointed
in a group of so from Twin Cities
Ordnance plant to attend a Red
Cross training class at the Wesley
Foundation, Minneapolis, finished
the course with SO, next to the
highest grade in the class which
was SO.
Prior to his employment at the
New Brighton plant he completed
a course in Aircraft Mechanics at
East High School, war production
training center. Mr.. Smith was
employed as truck driver at Fit.
Smelling before going to New
RriphtOn.