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Evening star., 1944-08-12
Mrs. Clara }. Schrider
Dies After lono Illness

Mrs. Clara Jane Schrider. 6s, .
resident of Silver Spring, Nd. for
the past A years, died Thursday at
her home, GOT Sligo avenue after a
long illness. Funeral services will
be held at $3.50 am. Monday at st.
Michael's Catholic Church In Silver
Spring. Burial will follow in st.
Johns Cemetery, Forest Glen.
Mrs. Schrider was active in tho
Sodality Of st. Michaels Church.
She is survived by her husband,
John Thomas Schrider; three sons,
Chief Petty Onicer Charles T. Schri-
der, U. s. NJ, on duty in the South
Pacific: William E. Schrider and
John D. Schrider; two daughters.
Mrs. Mary s. Abell and Mrs. Myron
c. Tyler, and sister, Miss Mary S.
Schrider, all of Silver Sprinp
Evening star., 1944-08-12
Anti-RooseveIt Democrats
Pick Slate in Alabama

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Aug. a.
A slate Of II presidential electors
was chosen here last night by about
80 persons meeting in the interest
Of the Anti-Roosevelt American
Democratic party. which named a
permanent chairman, secretary and
chose a candidate for the House
from the 9th birmingham con-
gressional district.
James o. Henry. ONCE employe OF
the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
Co.. was named permanent chair
man. and Fred Short of Ensley,
editor Of the Steel City Star. secre-
tary. James C. Puckett Of Birming-
ham was named to oppose Luther
Patrick, Democratic candidate for
the congressional seat from the 9th
district, and H. H. Grooms, Repub-
lican nominee.
A candidate for Senator was not
chosen at the meeting.
Evening star., 1944-08-12
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Aug. 12.-The wailine
of $4,000 mourners swelled over
Lublin as the Polish Committee of
National Liberation held huge
service for the victims who died In
the Nazi determination camp there
Soviet dispatches from that city
said today.
| Assembled in the great square
before the Lublin castle. the
mourners, led by Father Krusinski
who celebrated mass, sang the ira
ditional Saint Virgin" song of the
Poles, these reports said, adding:
Polish troops stood with un-
covered heads Women and girls
overcome with emotion. flung
themselves on the ground. Prayer;
for the dead continued for hours In
the hot sun.
Germans Dig Up Bodies.
German captives dug up many
bodies of the victims as hostile
Poles watched.
There were screams of murder
ers!' and "degenerates!" from the
crowd as prisoners lifted the corpse
Of a child from an open ditch.
The Committee of Liberation un-
yelled tablet on wall of Lublin
Castle and masons sealed an urn
with ashes of the Nazi victims into
the wall.
The memorial tablet carried this
inscription:
ITO the millions of the victims
killed by the German criminals at
Maidanek tthe suburban village
where the determination camp was
located and in the castle August
9Th. The Polish people
Crowds Flock to Camp.
Huge crowds f1ocked to the ex-
termination camp. looking with
frightened and angry faces at
scenes of half burned bodies and
piles of ashes of hundreds of others.
The people don't cry" said a
Pravda dispatch. They have no
tears left"
German prisoners dug silently
Ihey Shudder when they hear the
crowd shout and scream at some
fresh new atrocity," the dispatch
said.
Correspondent Boris Gorbativ said
one of the torture instruments was
weighing chamber, where the Ger
mans recorded the slow starvation
of victims who were not hanged. The
average weight for prisoners was re-
ported to have been 10 to 80 pounds
as they were fed solely upon soup
made from grass.
Papers Picture Atrocities
The Moscow press carried pictures
OF tremendous crowds before the
castle, close-ups of crematories full
OF bones. piles Of victims and shoes.
The investigation showed the Ger
mans had strung charged wires
around the camp after the escape
OF 30 men early in its history.
Prisoners sometimes we're allowed
to bathe in a filthy pool, correspon-
dents were told, and when prisoners
Evening star., 1944-08-12
rs 500 Poles Mourn at Mass
For Victims of Atrocity Camp

had finished the guards would amuse
themselves by ordering them to dress
In 3 seconds. Those who failed
were thrown back into the pool. Or
dered to submerge, and when they
came up for air, were beaten over
the head with rifle butts, eyewtt-
nesses were quoted.
Prisoner Is Strangled.
Soviet Engineer Poitr Denisov told
correspondents of two prisoners who
begged a guard to hang them. He
said one was strangled to death on
the spot.
VladilaW Skavronok, a worker at
the camp, told investigators that
German woman guards were used tt
carry out acts of sadism. He said he
saw. one of these women march six
children to a crematory. strip them
shoot them and then stuff their
bodies in the stove.
The Germans, he added. often
turned on loud speakers playing fox
trots when they carried out mass
hangings of Jews,
Evening star., 1944-08-12

had much movement and they Jam
trafiic. That Is bad"
Il see what you mean" said
Pvt. Willmy. looking at an Amer
lean fighter plane sweeping across
the sky. The German said nothing
Have you much trouble with the
soldiers taking a drop too much
now and rhen?" Asked Pvt. Willmy
mo. Considering the amount OF
cider and wine there is about we
have little trouble from drinking
And you?"
"Hmmmmm," said Pvt. Willmy
changing to another subject. DC
you have many AWOL's?"
Not many. I know of only one
case"
How do you punish AWOL's?"
1T depends on the individual
case and the mans record" sale
the lieutenant, But If we are re-
treating and the soldier is giver
orders to hold the line at any cost
and later shows up and tries re.
joining the unit, he is taken aside
Immediately and shot-he Is shot
real hard"
Evening star., 1944-08-12
MPs' Jobs All Alike,
German and American
Find al Prison Camp
BY HAL BOYLE.

| 6esoSiAtou EI6sb war COLEeopohQeht.
WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN
FRANCE. July 81 delayed 1.-Two
military police talked over police
problems today-and found them
pretty much the same In any army.
One was tall. blond lieutenant
In blue uniform who stood behind
barbed wire.
The other guarded him-Pvt.
Carl Willmy, who used to teach
music and physical educat ton at the
Patchogue IN. ~ High School be-
fore the Army put 4 rifle In his
hands and made him q military
policeman. Pvt. Willmy. who speaks
German fiuently, struck up q con-
versation with the lieutenant, leader
Of six German M. Ps who sur
rendered after the traffic over
which they had no control-Ameri-
can tank columns-surrounded them.
The lieutenant, q former buyer for
q German grocery concern, was
lonely and anxious to talk.
Trouble With speeders.
I'VE have a lot Of trouble with
speeders in our army" said the
lieutenant" They all think they're
driving Messerschmitts instead Of
Volkswagons."
TITS the truth" replied Pvt.
Willmy. II know Just what you
mean. What do you do with them?"
you mean the first time we catch
them7"
Yes"
"Bawl the devil out Of them
What do you do?"
I'VE do. too. But I don't say 1t
does much good. What do you do
If they violate the speed limit
again?"
Each time is different. If we
catch them the second time going
faster than so kilometers t37h
miles an hour, we put the driver
in solitary confinement for three
days and he gets only one hot meal
during that time"
What If that doesn't work and
you catch him burning up the high
way again and again?"
No Longer 4 Driver.
III he does 1t several times he
is no longer a driver. He's an in
fantryman, straightaway," said the
German, struggling. and he gets
put into the front lines. What do
you do?"
I'VE do that too" said Pvt.
Willmy, grinning. I'VE put him on
his feet again and give him some
thing to carry. What is your other
biggest problem?"
Making drivers keep proper in
tervals. We don't let them pass on
the roads, but its difficult to make
them stay the proper distance
apart. If their convoy is going 40
kilometers they should stay 40 met
ers distance. II 1t is going so kill
ometers-they should be so meters
from each other. But recently we've
Evening star., 1944-08-12
SpreckIes' Second Wife
To Sue for Upkeep
EN The ASSnciatad pras

EF the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.-Mar,
Lavinia Spreckles, second wife OF
John D. Spreckles, Sd, sugar fortune
heir, Will sue for separate mainte.
nance within two weeks. her attor.
ney announced last night.
She would file for divorce" sale
the attorney. S. S. Hahn, but tina,
is impossible without his consent
and 1t seems unlikely he will con.
sent"
Mr.. Hahn explained that Mr.
Spreckles, IS, is in Navy officers
training at Newport. r. I. The,
were married in Woodland. Wash.
October q. 1887, following Mr.
Spreckels' divorce from Roxana
Brown Spreckels.
Evening star., 1944-08-12
uxicob Driver Fined
$40 in Overchuroe Case

Frank M, Sprague. 255 Lynhaven
DRIVE, Alexandria, was fined $40 and
costs in Alexandria Police Court to-
day on charge of violating the rate
section of the city taxicab ordi-
nance. 1t was the first overcharge
conviction since the law became
effective in March.
Sprague was charged with COL
lectlng go cents to take a passenger
from Cameron and Harvard streets
to Union Station Tuesday. The rate
specified for that distance is IS
cents
Evening star., 1944-08-12
F.F. Toeeort, COP Chief
Suffers Heart Attack
b. the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press.
ESPANOLA, Ontario, Aug. 12.-F
F. Taggart, formerly prominent In
the Republican party in Cleveland
Is in hospital here in serious
condition after having suffered a
heart attack several days ago Hos
pital officials said his condition has
not improved.
MASSILLON, Ohio, Aug. IL (P.-
Friends OF F. F. Taggart. one-time
Republican National Executive Com
mittee member, reported here yes
terday they had learned Mr.. Tag
CART suffered heart attack while
vacationing in Canada. and was in a
serious condition in a Sudbury, On
tario, hospital.
The heart attack occurred Sunday
during a boating trip on Whitefish
Bay, friends said.
Evening star., 1944-08-12
On the Other Hand r
Government Must and Will Find Jobs
For ALL Say Leaders of Both Parties

fusal to provide Federal assistance
in a time Of national need. Leaders
Of both parties will tell you
privately, and some will tell you
publicly, that the Government must
and will find work for those who
cannot be Immediately absorbed by
private industry.
Perhaps II this were generally
understood, the disposition on the
part of war workers to look for
peacetime jobs would be greatly
lessened.
Evening star., 1944-08-12
Scot Pleasant Private
Awarded Silver Star

Pfc. Howard F. Weinelt, whose ad-
dress is listed as 308 Seventieth
place, Seat Pleasant, Md, has been
awarded the Silver Star, the War
Department announced today.
| According to the citation, Pfc.
Weinelt kept wire communications
open between his command post
and front line cc.hpanies despite
hostile fire during an enemy attack
in Italy on the night of February
7-l8, 1914.
Evening star., 1944-08-12

bllDW hlllel lCdIl lllllldllFc, cllJGI
prise and energy to have their way
Wheels will start whirling at high
speed, turning out everything from
gum drops to grand pianos and
everybody will have job and money
to spend. That is the pretty picture
painted in print and on the radio
1t is possible that these super
statesmen have been successful in a
way they have not intended 1t is
possible they have convinced mil
lions of people, not that full en-
ployment is going to be provided
in this magic manner, but that the
attempt will be made to do it. In
other words, that the national pol
icy will be to leave the problem of
postwar employment up to private
employers.
Workers Know Plants
Maybe that is why war workers
have started scrambling for peace
time jobs.
These workers have not been per-
suaded that unrestricted business
enterprise will provide jobs for
everybody Immediately, or even very
quickly. The average worker knows
something about the concern for
which he works. He knows that
the plant needs to be equipped and
fooled up for production and needs
to have market for its goods If
the plant is to operate He knows
that tie employer will hire no more
men than are needed at any given
moment. He considers this reason
able enough he would do the same
thing in the employers place. He
knows the concern is competing
with other concerns and cannot
carry any excess workers. He
knows that, in any case, there is
almost certain to be a lag between
the time when the plant stops max
ing war materials and resumes
making civilian goods.
He knows, in brief. about "busi-
ness as usual" When business is
as usual the thing to do is to get
yourself job that seems likely to
be permanent. War work will dis
appear WIFI lle war is over, so
the smart thing is to find a Job
right now that has nothing to do
with the war. Obviously tens of
thousands of war workers have
reasoned this way and have left
war plants to look for more per-
manent jobs. Explanations and ap-
peals have not stopped them and
now the War Manpower Commits
sion-in response to the de. perate
urging of the Army and the Navy
is taking more drastic measures.
making it very difficult to transfer
from war work to non-war work.
Remedy Suggested.
The situation might be helped if
those who have oversold the idea
Of business as usual" after the war
would now lend their talents to
unselling that idea. There is everv
reason to believe that the Govern
ment will accept the responsibility
for providing employment of some
kind for those who cannot be en-
ployed by private industry. This is
certain to happen whether the
Government is Roosevelt or Dewey
Mr.. Dewey may get some of his
ideas from Herbert Hoover, as
alleged but nothing he has said
or is saying indicates that he would
repeat Mr.. Hoovers stubborn re-
Evening star., 1944-08-12
Grass Fire FutuI to Man

WALLA WALLA, Wash, Aug. IL
P).-A wheat and grass land fire,
which Sheriff Archie Shick said
travelled faster than horse can
run rost the life of Carl Reiger.
He was one Of two men burned
severely Thursday in the fires sweep
over 1000 to 5000 acres north Of
here before it was checked.
Evening star., 1944-08-12
Goithersburg Legion
Reflects Reynolds
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GA1THERSBURG. Aug. 12.-De
warren H. Reynolds has been. re-
elected commander of the Barber
Briggs Legion Post here. Other Of
fcers elected were Carl Fetzer, vice
commander: William Phoebus, ad-
jutant; Walter Reinhart, finance
officer: Otho c. Trundle, historian
and George Gloyd, sergeant-at-
arms.
The post decided to build a shell
ter at the intersection OF Summitt
avenue and Frederick road for serv-
icemen.
Evening star., 1944-08-12

we are. Maybe
we are too good.
For quite a
while top-hight
industrial, busi-
ness and fnan-
ia | spokesmen
have been SELL
ing the idea that
the only thing
n e ces airy to
produce pros
perity when the
war comes to an
end is for the
Gov ernment to
take its hands
off business and
Evening star., 1944-08-12
By LoweH MeHeH,

We take pride in America in our
craftsmanship, We're the best sales
men In the world, we tell ourselves.
Maybe we are AS good as we think
Evening star., 1944-08-12
to
Questions

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Evening star., 1944-08-12
Chevy Chase General Gets
Mediterranean Command
V he Associated Press

hy the Associated Press.
ROME, Aug. 12.-Assignment of
Brig. Gen. Lyman P. Whitten to
command the U. S. Army Air Force
Service Command in the Mediter-
ranean theater, succeeding Brig
Gen. Harold T. Bartron. was an
nounced today by Allied head
quarters.
Gen. Whltten. native of Maiden
Mass, whose present home is in
Chevy Chase. Md. was head of the
air services division of the general
staff of the Army Air Force in
Washington before his arrival in
Italy
Gen. Bartron is leaving the Med
iterranean for an undisclosed
assignment.
Gen Whitten. whose home is at
4l0 Cumberland avenue, Chevy
Chase, is a graduate of the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology
the Air Corps Tactical School and
the Command and General Staff
School.
He began his career as a private
In the aviation section Of the Signal
Corps in 1917. The next year he
was rated a reserve military aviator
and commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the air service. He received
an honorable discharge in 1919, but
was commissioned in 1921 and
promoted through the ranks to
brigadier general in 1942.
Evening star., 1944-08-12

Q. What was the name OF Rip
Van Wrinkles dog?-O. Alb.
A. Rip Van Wrinkles dog was
called Wolf.
Evening star., 1944-08-12

Q. How old is the superstition that
tlngling of the ears means that
some one is talking about you?-
M. F.. C.
A. Pliny's Natural History
which has existed in manuscript
form since n AID, says that this
saying was a byword in Rome dur
ing the 1St century.
Evening star., 1944-03-19

q GOT linoleum on my counter, edged with strip
of chromium metal. Well last night guy that
= ought to know better set right here on a stool
an started gougin his fork under that metal
edgn'.
didn't say nothin' to him, but doggone it, he
bent the fork, he scufed up the linoleum on the
counter, an he pried up about six inches of the
chromium.
Then he scratched match across the napkin
rack, leavin' dirty smear on it. l couldn't say
nothin' You can't ever win an argument with
skunk
A little while afterwards another guy comes in.
He says to me, "Waly, put some ice in this
glass before bite the edge off it,
30 grin an give him some more ice water.
Then he sets there waitin' for me to get his ham
an eggs ready While he's waitin' he sees the
scuffed-up place the other guy left. He takes out
his pocketknife an smooths down the chromium.
He fixes up the scratches on the counter linoleum
the best he can He scrubs an rubs the match
scratch out of the napkin holder. almost. He don't
say word.
don't thank him or nothn an he don't try to
show me what he done He just pays his check
an takes his toothpick an says long an goes out
the door.
But l got to thinkin' later about the
difference between them two customers.
guess all the nice an fine things in this world
has been built an KEEP up by one kind. All the
stupid Dustin up an destroyin' has been done by
the other.
It's sort of a race to see which kind of people
wins out You add little you take away little;
YOU take care of what's around you or you muss
it up.
] DON'T care if you're dope that burns up the
palms off the fence rather than cut some rewood
or if you're millionaire that throws cigarettes on
the carpet For my money, it would be heck ofa
world if that kind won.
An on the other hand. wouldn't we have
dandy world if everybody done the best he could
to take good care of what we already got an tried
to add little more to it before he died?
-WAlly B0REN
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-10-21

Ben Johnson. white lad. had
been playing with Billy Jones.
Negro lad for several months
without his mother knowing
about H. The TWO boys had not
let race enter that picture al all.
The fact is ihcy had not even
though about II They cn3oy,d
each Others company and had
shared childhood experiences to-
reihcr Tho boys simply admired
each other and made comfortable
rlsyi ties. Tho fact iha, They
only lived TWO blocks apart made
It possible for them 70 get toge,h-
or often They encountered those
carly eNperiencs which are So
important in Shaping future att
titudes.
But soon 'heir Wholesome as.
socia'ions were 70 BE- brok,n Tho
evils Of prcludi,c and an IFS az.
lied relatives SCI 20 woiN AMI
Gid = damacine Thing Thar CAM
cerous e.il soon aii up an lhe
fine associations that fhoSc boz,
had made Il DESTROYED tolerance
and human rclulous Can yon h'-
licse thar IL was done hy adults
Yes. 81 MAS 50 often Adults dd-
stroy and prevent the growth ~
human understanding that shopid
',i-' between ail people
One dav thc mother % johnson
said Pen YOU mus siop pls}
'rg with Rillyr why mother
asked Bon WHY Ben Billy Jones
IS Negro anl Is NOT e1ual Nth
yfa neither car De mainrtn 'he
same social relations With yoH
Further n'ore we cannot accept
liiily IN oar home ard our fricnd~
Will crif'elre us most severely 81
j permit Bills Jones so eowo ~
m'r home You mas sever
connections v'h BIN
TINS "a rflIN Very to'rir"'i
form % est.' eageoiion q 'ao
owls q prf'ndier 'hSf white Cults
dfcn receive % fhe ho'n l,i
tfen learn ~ haze ami aeaaitt
ai sort 8, pt,ia!issS wths' ape
iasis or in.an..sc tbs IS aa
ecing srll however Y IS T'ff
mite pattern o. aroritsn teaet
racv
The minds ~ Youth ate 81 frs
from confusion 81 fssy 70 he
shaped Ia 'lic fiehi direction tbai
81 becomes 'c, VITAL renter
where tho iossors ~ foi,ranr
and hunan understandings caH
germinafc and rfoN rhc earlt
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-10-21
BY EMMETT PHILLIPS
tFOR AMP

landed ns.f ,o a number 81 Negro CTS The MAJ
mos were without mss Kits SO hey asked me Ne-
gro bows n they would VET them use theirs. ln-
,o.orod boys willingly obliged and NY Negro ~.
formani smiled as hr old hos win" hoy from
Alabama came ar and asked him io' ms mess
Mt
The Ne9ro private Nanted 10 wash his mess
XII before giving 81 to the Marine but This white
doushney from Alabama said. Never mind wash
ing H. y ain'f poison And ne ate from ,he un-
washed mess l dona ed hy Negro. After he had
his fli he said 70 his Negro hcnefacior. Let's 80
10 movie tonight This particular Negro veter
An claimed that once The Americans get within
lighting disian,e Or The laps The white sodie 3
mixed With the Ns4,o els and treated them win
fespe,t
See, ftaly l.Le 20 tei ihe lo~doVn 'fem 'n'
Neg4o tfNat be- rnntst lut nae Negro OF
,fter ~ Ielntisni 40 Dui ,ut the truth only the
iher day had = Nseto icer % very high rant
tell me fiat the south improving very fast
that souihcfners had seen the light and were pro,
ing hy The defeat 81 Cotton pa Smith We was
irving io snoV mo under with bunk but Nouldp g.
be buried / reminded him that it VAS southc %
Influence IN congress and IN armed forces
which was responsible FOR The increase 81 segre-
gallon both In military and civilian life. i main
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-10-21
White Scholar Looks AT Negro World
D PRIVATE-A GOOD SOURCE OF INFORMATION

itiAIf.r lal better look 10 his
>Na Nas a,a bis territory for
l"' harr 49, hs' hr Negro soldier
W ~f. 'h' fmrlt lnr mistfcatmenfl
Mn ine tn,ie sam And de-
81" '' i.t ia' sn'Glrr somewhat The
i' when sin,szlr- his boss lind that tho Mo-
By" a'ad r. sreas out come hell or
MfN N@'f or stfn fngrtmsftia-
Nf ,i.'w ntrn'es are almost exclusively
N'H "lM Negro prNaos occasionally talk
NN 'afpote of sergeant but very rarely
'N nl'- 1onsd officer And frankly folks /
aiaine "iih i1e pii'aies me non CONS are
preserve me from he commissions
ESPECIALLY hose Of high rank
'Ar aa''s loses me M telling me that
segregation getting him down thai he Is
"ih doing h ~ ne dniy work around hi.
'l 'ii tn.i' iAsi tls mvl ale among the men
f' Nn'fi j. Dad the naly ground winch your
r-i" soldier gltcs f. when b. admits that condi.
"n' 80 nonhcin camps and their Immediate ,ici.
nay. arc hotter han in Tho sou,hsrn ones not be
y qnfh o add that ihe northern pet-up while MOI
r' lhhnn"n ~ the uthern r. lad enough
lnf private Just hask from overseas usually
mas something inietetiinz 10 relate Listen 10 this
enc from veteran Of Gusdaicanai Late one
evening Al mess time group Of white marines