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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-14

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directors was the first vice
president this year a. was the
director of tours and tranSpOr-
tation for the convention of the
National Association OF Real
Estate Boards here in 1871.
Lamhrecht was elected 10
board membership December,
1921 49,. IS the son Of the late
Richard G.. Lambrecht who was
so widely known for many
years among the financial,
banking and real estate inter
eStS Of Detroit . past preSi-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-14

tors War Conference opening
in Cleveland Monday.
General sessions will open
Tuesday and continue through
Friday.
Many outstanding in realty
and government circles will dis
cuss the problems facing real
tors today.
II will he an actiOn-packed
week for the realtors.
Yes. the meeting will he
vigorous and loaded with valu-
able events but many of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-14
Calking Helps Save
Fuel, Experts Say
Cracks Sealed TO Stop
Escape Of House Heat

The government in its present
urge further conserving coal,
petroleum products. household
gas. electricity water. commu-
nications and transportation, ma
terials, manpower and equip
ment required in their production
and delivery. emphasizes that if a
10 per cent saving IN coal can be
realized, 6a, 600, 600 tons Of coal ~
effect, will be added 10 the supply,
engineers stressed Saturday
Heat-Sealing OF BONES by inSu-
lating walls and ceilings. installing
weather-Stripping storm doors
and windows, and calking cracks
10 prevent heat leaks was empha-
sized.
They stated:
"Calling il exceedingly inn
pOrtant a. "A heat cOnserNeT.
"Calking compounds are Fead--
iIy available from paint, hard
ware and building material
dealers, and applied easily with
a putty knife or calINing gun.
THE time 10 do the calking
job il now, TO prevent cold air
from creeping into the house
and Ia increase your benefit
from your fuel. which IL II absO-
lutely necessary 10 conserve"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-14

HEET the officers of the Detroit Real Estate Board
wi who will guide the desnes of that growing group for
1914 Samuel j. Savens PRESIDENT Edward F. Lambrecht,
president j. r. MCGOWAN reelected secretary and Nor
bert j. Markert treasurer
They will be installed the meeting the board
early in January
Savens elected the board April 1890 past chair
pOt tho Irofpr rlo
Evening star., 1943-04-28

not for them. In the first battle
we had gained the island and lost
four cruisers. Then the Japs had
tried to do business on land and
failed and tried to do business on
sea and failed.
Now the Japs changed their tao
tics. Now they decided to concert
their attacks and let loose a whole
symphony of destruction, with
planes as the wind instruments,
ships as the brass section and troops
for percussion.
Through August, the marines had
been ranging over the island in a
bush-flghting war. Japs would land
in relatively small parties, and par
ties of marines would take out after
them and wipe them out. But
toward the end of August and in
September the Japs put into opera
ton their famous Toxic Express"
sea train which ran nightly in the
dark of the moon and landed troops
in such quantities that small parties
Of marines could no longer do any,
thing against them. Now it was no
longer bush-fighting, but war, en-
gaging all the forces available.
This posed problem for us which
was to the Japs' taste. Our available
forces were required to protect
Henderson Field. With the sea open
to the Japs. we could not send our
land forces chasing their land forces
all over the island We had to keep
punched up around the airport. All
the Japs had to do was throw line
around our bunch and build up their
strength behind that line with the
Toxic Express. This they did, and
when they had accumulated what
they felt was enough strength, they
hit with it. They stood on every
platform there is for fighting man
to stand on nowadays-land, sea and
air-and threw their blows simul-
taneously, and our job was to kick
the platform from under them.
Not from choice, but from neces-
sity, airplanes were given the job of
derailing the Toxic Express, and so
Evening star., 1943-04-28

and during September and a good
part of october and November al
most all the hazardous moments in
our flyers sometimes short, some
times long seeming hfetimes were
spent in "the groove" mauling at the
Toxic Express.
1t was, while it lasted, an ex-
traordinary business altogether, the
waters, the sky and the land being
aprowl with sudden death during
the ''lulls" between battles and being
af1ame with death during battles.
During the "lull" periods nobody
could ever be sure what, was going
to hit him or when or where, and
many an American and many more
Japs stumbled unexpectedly into
their graves. During the. battle
periods everybody knew what was
going to hit him and when and
where. But that didn't make it any
easier to take.
Torpedo 8 set up shop right in the
Evening star., 1943-04-28
Attack Vengeance! The Story of 1orpedos

prevent the Japs from building up to
battle strength. 1t was job the
airplane was not equal to, but in
those very desperate days, indeed, we
were very much the underdog in
Pacific waters, and simply could not
spare the ships to do the job.
Difficult Task Posed.
The Toxic Express put out from
way stations in Jap strongholds to
the west and north of Guadalcanal.
They came in the dark of the moon,
wrapping its black shapes in the
darkness. The Japs did not use
transports. They used destroyers,
frequently with a cruiser escort.
They'd dump men and supplies on
the beach a few miles up or down
from Henderson Field, frequently so
close that you could hear in those
simmering tropical nights the soft
putt-putt of the motors on their
landing barges shutting back and
forth from ship to shore. Then the
Warships would steam over to Hen
derson Field and throw rocks"-as
our fellows used to describe it-try-
ing to blow up the air force so that
there wouldn't be anything looking
for them when daylight came.
When daylight came the Jap ships
would be far away. The planes
would go after them, but they
seldom had any luck. There was too
much weather to hide under and too
many tree-sheltered island coves to
duck into.
Henderson Field was so situated
on Guadalcanal that ships heading
for it, whether from the east or west.
had to pass through a long, relative
ly narrow channel between islands.
This channel became known to ma
rlne and Army flyers as the slot"
and to Navy flyers as "the groove"
Evening star., 1943-04-28
CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER IT.
The official war diary of Torpedo
8 discloses that on August % news
was received John Thurman and
crew had been retrieved from their
tropical retreat intact.
All hands repaired promptly to the
ice cream bar of the carrier and
had some on John. With, SWede re-
calls, hot fudge sauce. So the occa-
sion was jubilant. Or at least 1t
roared right along in the direction
of jubilance until suddenly it was
derailed. Somebody recollected that
now nobody but John would be able
to enjoy the company of his girl.
Her photograph showed her to be
quite pretty There had been warm
hearted plans afoot among the
squadron about her, all of them
predicated on the assumption that
John, being tucked away on some
obscure tropical isle for the duration,
would offer no competition. Now 1t
was plain that, when the squadron
got mainland leave, John would be
again offering too much competition.
The war diary than goes on to
state that on August 80 Frenchy
Fayles and crew were recovered.
More roaring at the ice cream bar.
August 81, the diary declares, the
carrier got picked"
This is the quaint Navy way of re-
porting that submarine blew hole
t,,to will tornado For
most people torpedoing would be
an adventure remarkable enough to
suffice quite while. But the young
men of Torpedo were leading very
crowded lives, so crowded there is
hardly room left for the recollection
of mere torpedoing.
There was a heavy thump, as if
somebody has kicked the wall of
your room hard enough to shake the
whole room. The submarine had
made a spread attack, firing five
torpedoes in broadside. Three had
blown up in the water. One had
Just missed the ship and the fifth
had hit aft on the starboard side
There was, SWede recalls, some
running around" He remembers
being annoyed by that. Sit down,
he beloved. There was no place
to sit and he has a memory of men
looking at him with round eyes and
mouths rounded with surprise over
his curious command. IF you want
to do something" he amended, do
something intelligent, like putting
on your lifebelts.'
Symphony of Destruction.
However, lifebelts were not need
ed. The torpedo had had no luck.
1t had blown a considerable hole,
but had killed no one and had not
actually done anything shipyard
couldn't undo
After that, the carrier went home
for patching and Torpedo flew to
a New Hebrides base. That was
the beginning of their experience in
using bhe islands OF the South Seas
for the purpose the times had in
tended them-as unsuitable aircraft
carriers.
Two battles for the Solomons had
now been fought. Three more re-
manned to go before the Japs would
finally admit that Guadalcanal was
Evening star., 1943-04-28
Man, 70, Wed s. Years,
Divorced. Takes Bride
By the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO.-Abraham Lincoln
Woolery and Mrs. Margaret C.
Stammers-both 78-were married
recently.
The ceremony was read by Su-
perior Court Judge Oscar F. Nelson,
who last Wednesday granted Wool
cry a divorce on desertion grounds
from Mrs. Medora Pugh Woolery,
who had been his wife for So years.
Mr.. Woolery said he met his new
bride at a dance,
Evening star., 1943-04-28
Million Mill SHORTAGE

KANSAS CITY (P).-Restriction
on manufacture OF metal sales tax
tokens have created a million mill
shortage in Missouri.
Remedy: The Kansas City Mer-
chants Association will begin paying
81 10 for each 81 worth turned in.
Evening star., 1943-04-28

middle of this business and set to
work getting all the revenge they
could.
(To be continued tomorrow
Copyright, 1943, by N. A. N. A., Inc)
Evening star., 1943-04-28
BY IRA WOLFERT.

Squadron 8 flies into jdtDS OF
death to halt Jap attack on Mid
pay Island, only one plane get
ting through. Reorganised by
1t. Suede" Larsen, they proUe
bad medicine for 80-ship enemy
attempt on GuadaIcGndl. Ti0o
planes doWned at night in
strange 10aters, but not out.
Suede gets back to carrier NTH
t1DO others.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
-Four Canning Centers
Are in Operation
Hours Are Announced
For Bethesda Area

-Four public canning centers,
equipped with pressure cookers, are
now in operation in the Bethesda
Chevy Chase area, Mrs. Chase Dom
aldson, director of the Garden In
formation Service, has announced.
The locations, hours and director
are as follows,
Bethesda area, q, Leland Junior
High School, 8 am. to S pm, Mon
day through Friday, and7 to IL pm.
Tuesday. Mrs. r. Vance Johnson
supervisor, Oliver 8208.
Massachusetts, avenue extended,
Westbrook School, 80 m. to noon,
Monday through Friday. Mrs.
Claude Norton, supervisor, Bradley
0014
Glen Echo, Glen Echo School, to
6 pm, Monday through Friday.
Mrs. Norton, supervisor, Bradley
0292.
Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase Ele-
mentary School, 9 am. to pm,
Monday through Friday. Mrs. Ger
aid Wallace, supervisor, Wisconsin
9729, and the Chevy Chase Woman's
Club, 9 am. to S pm, Monday
through Friday, Wisconsin 1923,
Mrs. Wallace, supervisor.
The Montgomery County School
Board, which obtained the pressure
cookers, said that Gamers may go to
any center where the hours are
convenient.
Special arrangements for using a
pressure cooker at home over the
week end may be made for those
who find it impossible to get to the
center.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Gamers Suffer as Women Quit
To Avoid Tax After Eurninq $12

They protest the withholding of
20 per cent on the weekly sums
earned In excess of s12," he con-
tinued, land rather than submit
many of the women stop work as
soon as their pay in any week runs
to that figure"
Mr.. Shook said further that, with
the husbands of many of the women
earning big pay in war plants and
military establishments, there was
not much incentive for many of the
part time female workers to take
packing house jobs.
Meanwhile, a shortage of tomato
peelers was reported by several Bal
timore plants, and shortages of male
workers to unload power boats which
brought full cargoes of tomatoes
from Maryland and Virginia points
to water-slde canneries in Baltimore
also was reported.
Tomatoes we're reported as piling
up on wharves at several Virginia
points because boats could not be
unloaded and turned about in time
to pick them up.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
NoI|e Prose- Frees
Youth Convicted ON
Fear Confession
Action on New Evidence
Cancels Second Trial
On Robbery Charges

Robert Francis Wheeler, 81, COL
ored, who last January was SEN
fenced to serve from to 27 years
in the penitentiary on robbery
charges, but was later granted a new
trial because of new evidence. yes
terday was freed when the robbery
charges against him were nolle
pressed at the United States at
torney's Office.
Newly uncovered evidence indi-
Gated Mr.. Wheeler had not signed
an alleged confession" under cir
cumstances which had been testified
to in court at the time of the trial.
AS a result his case was remanded
to the District Court by the Court
OF Appeals for hearings on motions.
The motions, in turn, were made in
District Court before Justice Mat
thew F. Mcclure. in June, through
Mr.. Wheeler's attorneys, Arthur G.
Lambert and Warren E. Magee, who
had been named by the appeals
tribunal to represent him.
Another Granted New Trial.
John Wesley Hart, 81, colored.
who also was sentenced in January
to serve from 9 to 81 years in con-
nection with the same alleged rob-
berries, was granted new trial last
June. The latter trial is still pend
ing.
At the time of his trial. MIR.
Wheeler steadfastly denied in court
that he had committed any of
three robberies with which he was
then charged. Later, he indicated
to his attorneys that he had signed
confession" because of being fear
full OF being roughly handled by
ponce II he refused to sign it.
Not Identified by Victims.
In nolle pressing the three cases
against Mr.. Wheeler. Assistant
United States Attorney John C,
Conliff, jr., said that not a single
victim had identified Mr.. Wheeler
and also asserted that the alleged
confession" had been made before
Mr.. Wheeler formally had been
charged with the robberies
Because of this, Mr.. Conliff said
in line with a Supreme Court ruling
IN another case the alleged CON
fesslon' could not be used as evil
dence against Mr.. Wheeler and there
was no other evidence to implicate
him.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Courtney |. Nails Rites
Al Alexandra Today

Funeral services for Courtney l..
Nails, 56, Of Alexandria, who died
Thursday at Circle Terrace Hospital
after q brief illness, will be held at
2 p. m. today at the Wheatley fu-
neral home in Alexandria. Burial
will be In the Alexandria Presby-
terian Cemetery.
Mr.. Nails, for % years traffic
manager at the Navy Department
here. was the son OF the late Walter
E. and Bette Lee Nails of Alex
andria. He was member of the
George Washington Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by his widow. Daisy
NJ. Nails; three daughters, Jeanne,
Rhea and Bette Lee: and son, Pvt.
Courtney Nails. Army Air Forces;
three brothers. Allen Nails of WASH
ington, and Walter L. and Stuart
Nails Of Alexandra, and a sister,
Mrs. James H. Bryant, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Montgomery County
Recreation Centers ,
Transferred 10 Park
OfficioIs Find More
Facilities Available
Around New Location

Recreation centers now being
sponsored by the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion at the Montgomery Blair High
School. Silver Spring. and at the
Four Corners School will be moved
to Jesup Blair Community Park
Monday, it was announced today.
They will remain at the park until
September.
Ofncials in charge of the recrea-
ton program explained that more
facilities are available at the park,
including rustic cabin which has
just been completed. The cabin has
"a concrete porch on which children
can play on rainy days.
1t also was pointed out that be-
cause Of the heat, children attend
ing the relocated center would be
more comfortable there due to the
large number of shade trees.
Montgomery County school buses
will transport children from Four
Corners, leaving at 8 am, and from
Montgomery Blair at $50 m. daily.
The buses will leave the park at
pm.
Commission officials also an
nounced that an in-service training
institute is being held at 2 pm.
every Saturday throughout August
for college and high school stu
dents employed as assistant instruc-
tors at the centers. Glasses will
beheld at various loca ations through
out the county.
Sponsored by the recreation de-
partment of the commission, the in
stltute Is under the direction of
Louis Mitchell, who is instructing
the students in all phases of recre-
ational work.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
-Four Held by Police
After Stolen Truck
Injuries Two Persons
Fifth Passenger FIees
As Vehicle Overturns
In Arlington

-Four colored Washington resi-
dents today were being held for
investigation by District and Arling-
ton police after a ride early today
in truck that injured two persons
in Hyattsville before it overturned
an hour later at Glebe road and
Fillmore street in Arlington. A fifth
passenger in the truck is being
sought.
According to District police, the
truck was reported stolen from the
Safeway Grocery Co., 1845 Fourth
street N E.
District police are holding two
colored boys. IA and II, who suf-
fered minor injuries in the accident.
A youth, II. and a woman, 23 are
being held by Arlington police for
District authorities.
Roscoe Hayes. colored, 30, of
Hyattsville, was struck by the truck
and removed to Freedmen's Hos
pita- He was released after being
treated for leg injuries. s4A~4young
girl. also reported hit by the. truck
in Hyattsville. was removed in an
automobile. Her identity is un-
known
According to police, the truck was
reported stolen here about 100 am.
After travelling through Hyattsville,
the vehicle was observed by Arling-
ton police scout car about am, be-
ing driven on the wrong side of the
road near Lee and Washington
boulevards.
When it stopped for a red light at
the intersection, one of the police
men got cut of the scout car and
started to walk toward the truck.
Apparently seeing the policemen,
the occupants of the truck started
off again, crashed through a barri-
cade at Glebe road and Fillmore
street and overturned. Four of the
occupants were thrown out of the
vehicle and dazed, while a fifth
landed on his feet and fed.
He was pursued for two blocks but
was lost in the residential section
after police had fired one shot in the
air. Arlington police said his iden-
tity is known.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Death Toll Rolled Beck

Wartime restrictions on gasoline
have rolled back the death toll Of
motor vehicle accidents back to
what 1t was two decades ago.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 14-The re-
fusal of many women to work after
they have earned s12 weekly, to
avoid payment Of the withholding
tax, has resulted in many Eastern
Shore packers being forced to sell
Northern professors tomatoes they
can't handle because of the labor
shortage.
Frank Shook of Easton, secretary
of the Tri-State Packers Associa-
ton, said many of the plants on the
Shore were so short-handed they
couldn't handle the "glut" of to-
matoes now pouring in from acre
age for which the Gamers con-
tracted.
Most of the women who come
into the canneries to work during
the peak of the canning season
and on whom we rely to get out the
scheduled pack of goods won't earn
more than 1924 in season, they
submit to their bosses," Mr.. Shook
said.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Funeral Services Held
For John F. Huroett
Special Dispa tch To The Star

special OlSpatch 10 Inc Star.
GERMANTOWN, Nd, Aug. IA
Funeral rites for John Fenton Har-
gett, St, well-known farmer who
died Wednesday at his home near
here after long illness, were held
today at the Neelesville Presbyterian
Church. The Rev. G.. G. Kundahl,
pastor, and the Rev. William B.
Waters Of Rockville offciated.
Burial was in the church cemetery
Mr.. Hargett is survived by his
widow. Mrs. E. May Derr Hargett;
two daughters, Margaret E. and
Anna NJ Hargett, and two sons,
Harold and Wesley Hargett, all of
this neighborhood; a sister. Mrs.
Charles Derr, Baltimore, and a
brother, Lewis B. Hargett, Frederick
County
Evening star., 1943-08-14

Stop growing about the things
you can't spend your money for.
You can buy War bonds with It.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Alexandra Labor Group
To Meet Monday NiQht

The Alexandria Central Labor
Union, comprising AFL Unions in
Alexandria and Fairfax has an
nounced a meeting for Monday night
at Painters Hall in Alexandria n
discuss the poll tax law. Prominent
Labor officials will speak.
All unions are urged to set up
poll tax committees to inform mem
bers of the Virginia laws governing
voting rights.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
First Offender
May Face Trial
In Health Case
Grocer's Forfeiture
Leeds to Move
For Policy Change

Further Qualification Of the Health,
Departments policy in dealing with
food operators who violate healtnI
regulations was expected today fol-
lowing the forfeiture of collateral
yesterday by a grocer charged, !,
among other things, with having
broken glass in both meat cases.
Under the announced Health De-
partment policy. first offenders are
usually allowed to forfeit. All others|
must stand trial. II the first Of
fense, however. is fragrant, attach
ments may be issued for the de-
fendant's court appearance.
Yesterday, Ellis Levy, operator oil
a grocery at 1913 North Capitol
street, forfeited $25 when he failed
to appear in Municipal Court forI
trial. According to Health Depart
ment Inspector John Waldron, this
was the first charge placed against
the grocer.
Mr.. Waldron said he would confer
today with DR.. Reed Ashworth,
food inspector, regarding possible
action to be taken to insure Mr.
Levy's appearance in court. A plan
for co-orainated action between the
Health Department and the corpo-
ration Counseps Office to bring flag
rant violators to trial will be dis
cussed, 1t was learned.
Other charges against the grocery
were: Maggots on meat block and in
back of meat cases, garbage on floor.
flies, bad odors.
Elmer Howerton, operator Of q
restaurant at 929 Tenth street NV.
was fined $25 by Judge John p.
Mcmahon on a health violation
charge. Charges against the es-
tablishment we're: Dirty floors and
walls, ceiling in need Of repair,
kitchen infested with reaches, dead
flies in ice box.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Funeral Rites Are Held
For Mrs. <. F. Riordun

S. .cial Dispatch to The Star.
LAYTONSVILLE, Md, Aug. IA
Funeral services for Mrs. Edward F.
Riordan, IS, who died at her home
here Wednesday after long illness.
were held today at ST. Martins
Catholic Church. Gaithersburg. The
Rev. M. j. Twamley, pastor. cele-
brated requiem mass, and burial was
in st. Peters Cemetery, Libertytown
Formerly Miss Brightwell Of Fred
erick County, Mrs. Riordan had
lived here about 81 years. Besides
her husband, she leaves a daughter,
Miss Catherine Riordan, and a son,
F. Guy Riordan, both of Laytons-
vile, and sister, Mrs. May Fowler,
Unionville.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Fuirfox Summer School
Awards Two Diplomas

Ernest Orndoff and Billy Triplett
received high school diplomas yes
terday at closing exercises of the
Fairfax Summer School. Twenty
two students also received certifl-
Gates of graduation from elementary
schools.
A picnic for elementary students
was held on the school grounds. and
William Maxwell, director of the
school, was presented smoking
stand by the student body.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
4 X
WAa1Ho~R~1NlM
WAR BONDS
Cos: 500 per Hour

One four -motored bomber burns
up 500 worth Of high octane gas an
hour on flights over German terri
tory. Hitler doesn't like it, so Goeb-
Eels is writing letters of complaint.
Something should be done about it.
We ought to buy more War bonds to
buy more bombers