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Evening star., 1944-02-29
3 Suits Filed Here
On Jim Crow Law

A test of the Jim Grow" law is
scheduled in District Court as a re-
suit of suits filed yesterday after
noon by three local colored men
against the Southern Railway Sys-
tenn, asking for a total of SAC, 1000
damages on claims they were forced
to leave reserved seats last Novem-
Der for which they had tickets.
The tickets were for transporta-
ton from Philadelphia to Greens
boro, N c., the suits said. The
suits claim the trio was Emporium
ed" by an agent of the company
to leave their seats at Alexandria
and Charlottesville, Va, and that
they were forced by a police officer
to leave on reaching Lynchburg, Va.
The suit claims the action was a
violation of civil rights. The COM
plainants, each of whom asked SIS
600 in a separate suit, are Ralph
Matthews, 1900 block of Eleventh
street, NV, editor of the Washing
ton Afro-American; William j.
Scott, 200 block OF Florida avenue
NV, and the Rev. william H. Jer-
nagin, 1900 block of Third street
NV.
The suits were f1led by Attorneys
James A. Cobb, George E. G. Hayes
and Perry w. Howard.
Save your waste kitchen fats.
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Iennessee Staying
Gives Supreme \ CouIt
New 'McNabb Case

The Supreme Court was confront
ed with another 'McNabb rule" case
today as arguments went forward In
the appeal Of two Tennessee men
from oo-year murder sentences.
e. 3. Ashcraft OF Shelby County,
accused OF killing his wife In 1871,
was questioned for SO hours before
arraignment, and allegedly made q
statement In which he involved
John Ware as m accessory, De-
Tense Counsel James r. Bickers told
the court as arguments started yes
terday afternoon.
Reputed confessions by both men
were admitted in evidence and the
appeal was taken on the basis Of the
Supreme Court decision In the Nc
Nabb case when q murder conviction
was reversed because the court said
three youthful defendants were held
overly long for questioning before
arraignment. In that instance, how
ever. the court ruled on the basis OF
Federal law.
The present case came from the
Tennessee State courts, and the
Tennessee Supreme Court upheld
the convictions, ruling that the de-
tention Of Ashcraft was not unlawful
since Tennessee statutes do not de-
mand immediate arraignment of one
accused Of crime.
This case, however, would afford
the Supreme Court an opportunity
to elaborate on the principles laid
down in the McNabb case which,
according to the Justice Depart
ment. have resulted in widespread
confusion in the Federal courts.
In an effort to get additional light
on the issue. the department re-
Gently appealed from a ruling of the
Court of Appeals here setting aside
the conviction OF James E. Mitchell,
|so-called society burglar whose
reputed confession was invahdated
because his arraignment was de-
layed.
In opening arguments yesterday,
Mr.. Bickers told the Supreme Court
that "Gestapo operations" were used
by the Shelby County authorities In
dealing with Ashcraft and Ware. He
linked this charge with the state
ment that he has a son in a German
prison camp, but did not 60 further
on this point.
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Good Neighbor
Continued From First Page.

subscribed to by the American re-
publics at the Western Hemisphere
peace maintenance conference held
at Buenos Aires in 1896 and at a
subsequent international conference
at Lima, Peru, in 1898.
The act also authorized the Pres
1dent to set up non-salaried advisory
committees and to pay members
subsistence and travelling expenses
when they were on actual Govern
ment duty.
Under provisions Of the law, the
President was able to act positively
to further develop closer cultural,
scientific and educational relations
between the United States and the
other countries in this hemisphere.
In two other messages sent to
Congress today, the President asked
favorable action on proposal to
provide two additional Assistant
Secretaries of State and proposed
legislation to amend the law grading
and classifying clerks in the foreign
service. There now are four Assist
ant Secretaries Of State.
Evening star., 1944-02-29

being indebted to striker" for
$3.50 maid service and on one oc-
casion was supposed to have eaten
a pint of ice cream with a member
Of the enlisted personnel, Mr.
Laughlin said.
At the conclusion of the hearing,
Mr.. Laughlin said he and 1t. Wight
agreed that due to the publicity
arising from the charges against her
1t would be in the best interests
of the military service that she be
transferred. In his final summa-
ton Mr.. Laughlin requested the
transfer.
The action of the War Depart
ment, he asserted. constitutes q
complete vindication for 1t. Wight
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Nelson Is Expected
10 Name New Unit 10
Direct Reconyersion
By the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
Chairman Donald M. Nelson is
expected soon to set up in the War
Production Board q new committee,
which he may head, to govern the
reconversion of industry from war
to peacetime production.
That prediction, made last night
BY informed WPB sources, followed
issuance of an appendix to Bernard
M. Baruch's report on postwar ad-
justment policies, giving WPB policy
making authority over what war
contracts should be Cancelled and
what civilian goods should be re-
stored as war needs taper of.
The new appendix apparently
clinched for WPB the building role
in the industrial phase of the eco
nomic realignment, a role which was
only implied in the main text of the
Baruch report issued at the White
House February 18.
Nelson Threatened to Quit.
Mr.. Nelson several months ago
made 1t clear he would resign as
WPB chief If some other agency
were designated or set up over WPB
to manage the reconversion lob and
thereby reduce WPB to what he
called "a second-rate agency"
Mr.. Nelson Is expected by his
aides to act this week or next in
setting UP WPB's own machinery for
charting the policy lines of reconver-
sion. The report that he would head
the reconversion committee came
from sources well up in WPB, but
Mr.. Nelson could not be reached for
Omment.
Production officials have observed
that the Baruch report left many
major issues unsettled. Presumably
he new committee would make the
decisions.
Controversial Issues Listed.
Some of the most controversial
ssues include:
Whether new firms should be al
owed to enter immediate postwar
competition with old ones in the
held; which of the major consumer
goods industries should be released
first; and whether part OF an indus
ry should be allowed to reconvert,
while the rest of the industry is held
to the completion of war contracts.
The appendix to the Baruch re.
port specifically assigns to WPB the
authority ito decide what civilian
and employment is to be
esumed Is war needs slacken": to
ay down the policies guiding the
choices for canceling contracts for
war goods no longer needed; and to
guide the shifting of contracts" to
make use of plants and manpower
reed from war production.
WPB was charged with collaborat-
ng with the armed services and
ther Government procurement
and with the War Man
power Commission and other civil
an agencies, in making the actual
hoices Of plants to be Cancelled out
u the war program
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Al 1.-THE EVENING STAR, Washinrton D. G.
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Extra Trains Allotted
10 Aid vacafionists
Marooned in Florida

Thousands OF Fasteners who
went to Florida for fashion,
able winter sun-tan may acquire
a mahogany hue before reach
ing their homes again, 1t ap-
peared today as the ONCE of
Defense Transportation said the
winter resort State is packed
with vacationers unable. to find
space on trains or buses.
The ODT has tried to relieve the
situation somewhat by authorizing
the Seaboard Railroad and the At
lantic Coast Lines each to operate
one extra northbound train daily
beginning tomorrow, for 80 days.
They will travel South empty
Travellers accustomed to the refine
ments of Pullman cars will be dis
appointed. The trains will carry
only coaches-many of them the
cast-of stock Of Northern roads.
(The Associated Press report
ed from Wilmington, N. c., that
the ACL will operate its special
northbound train as a section of
the Champion" 1t will arrive
IN Washington daily at 1905
am
Derby Trains Barred.
Meanwhile, another ODT an
nouncement doomed Eastern DERBY
fans hopes of being on hand when
the Nations leading 3-year-old
horses break with the starting gun
at Churchill Downs this spring.
Readily backing a suggestion of
Col. Matt J. Winn, head of the
famous Kentucky track, that at
tendence this year be limited to
residents of Louisville and vicinity,
the ODT said no special trains or
coaches would be allotted for the
race. In normal years fans fill 23
special trains and 276 additional
cars on regular trains.
Under Col. Winn's plan. no
tickets will be sold to persons out
side the Louisville area, except to
boxholders who must take their
1914 reservations in order to keep
them for 1945. And boxholders
must agree to turn over their res
ervations to servicemen in the
Louisville district.
With these provisions the ODT
said "it is no considered that the
running of the 1914 Kentucky Derby
will be inconsistent with the travel
policies of ODT."
Florida Pullmans Sold Out.
The special trains sent to bring
vacationists from Florida will be
equipped with coaches, diners and
baggage cars, but no sleeping &C
commodations. No additional Pull
man service will be ordererd, tn 1
ODT said, and first chance on
scheduled sleeping cars operating
from Florida will continue to be
given to servicemen.
AS Of today all Pullman accom-
modations north from Florida are
booked solidly for 80 days-the limit
for which reservations may be made
and the situation seems likely to
continue until Midsummer.
ODT advice to persons planning
spring vacations in Florida: Don't. v
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Communists Dominate
Clio and Hold Murray
Prisoner, Lewis Says
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-The New
York Times quotes John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work.
ers of America and founder of the
CIO, as having said in an interview
here that Communists dominate
the Congress of Industrial Organi-
cations"
Mr.. Lewis added, the paper said,
that IF I had my way not a single
Communist would belong to any
labor union in the United States"
The labor leader also was said
to have declared that Philip Muir
ray, Mr.. Lewis former lieutenant
in the mine workers union and his
successor as chairman of the CIO,
and Sidney Hillman, president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America and head of the CLIO
Political Action Committee, were
prisoners" of the Communists.
Murray Answers Charges.
The Times said Murray COM
mented in Washington that if Lewis
had son on fighting front-Mr
Murray's son is in the Army-that
he would not "act to arouse the
hatreds and passions of the people
whose prime interest is in the win
ming of the war"
Mr.. Murray was said to have
added, Il am neither a prisoner of
LewiSiSm or Communism.
When I was organizing the CIO
we picked up a lot of Communists
in one unit after another as we grew
= including Harry Bridges" Mr..
Lewis was quoted
But If I had not resigned the
Craftsmanship and left the CIO in
1940," he added, Il can tell you the
Communists would have been weed
ed out of the CIO long before now.
Instead, as any one might expect
weight around inside labor organiza-
tions, the Communists dominate the
CIO today"
Statement Quoted.
According to the Times Mr.. Lewis
added:
Philip Murray is today the pris-
oner of the Communists in his own
union. They control him and the
CIO through their seats on his Ex-
|ecutive Committee. And there isn't
a blessed thing he can do about it.
Sidney Hillman is just as badly
off. Both of them have got to play
ball with the Communists now, or
die"
Mr.. Lewis was said to have point
ed out that his attitude toward the
Communists did not apply to the
Russians.
LAS heroic Russia battles against
our German enemy in Europe, the
Communists in our labor movement
naturally hang on to the coattails
of the Red Army" Mr.. Lewis was
quoted, "and try to build an ideo-
logical bridge between our loyalty
to Russia and their own pet schemes.
This is sheer abuse of our good
will toward Russia. And of course
the Communists in our labor unions
are not even good Russians" the
Times quoted Mr.. Lewis.
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Wight Exoneroted;
Transferred to Post in West

1t. Virginia Wight, WAC, who
early in January was charged with
insubordination by her superior offi-
Ger, Capt. Evelyn Rothrock, has
been exonerated and transferred to
Fort Winfield Scott, Calf. her at
torney, James j. Laughlin, an
nounced today.
Asked to comment on the Laugh
lin statement, the War Department
said that 1t. Wight had been as
Evening star., 1944-02-29

signed to another station, away
from Washington, and had retained
the same grade. Capt. Rothrock,
WAC detachment commander at
Fort Myer, previously had been
transferred to other duties in the
Military District Of Washington.
1t. Wight was charged with fall
ing to comply with the request of
Capt. Rothrock for an account of
her financial affairs, Mr.. Laughlin
said. She also was charged with
Evening star., 1944-02-29
lotviun Epidemic Feared

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 20 P.-The
newspaper Svenska Dagbladet said
last night the Nazis have stopped
evacuation of Germans from Latvia
because they were spreading an
epidemic in the Reich. The nature
of the epidemic was not disclosed.
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Nozis Arrest Dancers,
Force Them to March
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb 29.-The Ge-
neva newspaper La Suisse said in an
article reported to the owl today
that the German-controlled police
at Milan had arrested 100 young
people for dancing and, before i'm
prisoning them, had marched them
across the city carrying a poster
bearing these words:
while the country bleeds, we
dance"
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Food Coupons Stolen

Armed men recently held up three
policemen guarding the town hall at
Scheeten, Antwerp, Belgium, and
stole 5000 butter coupons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-06
RADIO
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6
7:30-Family Altar - Rev. ]. A. Sui
Ivan.
7:45-Musical Clock.
S;O0-Daily War Journal with Martin
Agronsky.
8:15-Musical Clock.
1904. M. News.
3:45-Musical Clock.
s:OO-The Breakfast Club with Don
Mcneil.
10 00-Sweet River.
10 :15-Singo.
10 :30-U. P. News.
10 :35-Let's Dance.
II 00-Beakfast at Sardi's.
II :30-Gil Martyr, News.
11:45-Living Should Be Fun.
12:00-The Riddle of Life.
12:15-Meet Your Neighbor Alma
IL educational Farm and Home Hour.
l :O0-Baukhage.
1:15-Allie Lowe Miles.
1:301Rest Hour.
L :4O-News - Wilmington Star-News.
:45-U. P. News.
Standardization Period Rev. j. A..
Sullivan.
2:15-The Mystery Chefe.
2:30-Ladies Be Seatede.
3:00-SongS by Morton DoWney.
3 :15-Little Jack Little.
4:00-Blue Frolics.
4:30-Time, Views the News.
4 :45-The Sea Hound.
5:15-U. P. News.
5:30-Jungle Jim.
5:45-Organ Serenade - H. w. Lee.
600-Terry and the Pirates.
*:15-Spy Stories.
Coolest We Forget.
6 :45-Sports.
6:55-News Wilmington star-News.
7:00-Let's Dance.
7:30-Shipyard Revue.
8:00-Watch the World Go By - Earl
Goodwin.
3:15-Treasury Star Parade.
8:30-America's Town Meeting of the
Air.
9:30-Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands.
9:55-Harry Wismer - Sports.
10 :00-Raymond Gram Swing.
10:15-Listen to Lulu.
10 :30-Wings to Victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-06

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purred. And now, what for the
breakfast? Some hotcakes, per.
haps Little thin American ones?''
Yes" agreed the girl, through
her surprise. With a lot of sugar
syrup and some crisp bacon-cof-
fee, of course"
But you are a stranger, senori.
ta.'' The waiter answered Mallory S
raised eyebrows, "You are travel.
ing south. AS people go South they
never like our coffee" He gave a
morose shake of the head. mo.
] They fuss. Down in the city,
though, they learn, as you say in
the States, to take it. When they
come north again, they don't fuss
| Mallory amended. Tea"
quite so much"
After breakfast, when she was
ready to leave, the waiter suggest
ed, Why don't you stop down in
Tamanzunchale? It's market day. -
"I'll do that, promised the girl.
AS she drove on, the dense tropi-
cal splendor, that gripped the sides
of the highway, delighted her. Or
child vines smothered tall tr S.
She heard parrots calling il their
raucous voices. Occasionally she
could see houses in cleared spaces,
little grass huts that seemed sc
light in that section of deep green
growth.
Even the tiniest, ugliest houses
we're covered with morning glories,
or with strange vines that sported
gorgeous scarlet blossoms. Nina
ture jungles of roses clotted the
yards. Everywhere was the rich
green of banana leaves, the red of
poinsttias.
Mallory gazed, during seconds
stolen from her driving, upon
growth so tangled she wondered
what could be beneath it. A slug
gish river. she knew. She had
caught glimpse of it. Otherwise
there seemed to be nothing except
more and more of the same green
thickness. Like gigantic angle
worm, the highway slithered down
into Tamazunchale. Mallory lost no
time in getting to the market plac :.
There she found the primitive
scene that she was to see often,
one that never failed to entrance
her.
But scarcely had she begun to
look around when American words,
hidden beneath a cultural cloak.
were addressed to her. isn't this a
colorful sight?" man asked.
She knew before she turned her
head that the white scarfed man
would be standing there. There was
no question in her mind regarding
that. The only question in h r
mind was, would she be physically
able to turn her head
Ito BE Continued
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-06
NO SIMILAR CASE

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. H -
Vincent M. Miles, legal advisor
to Postmaster General Walker,
who ordered the magazine Esquire
deprived of second class mailing
privileges, said today records fail
ed to disclose a similar case in
the United States courts.
AS consequence, he added.
the department welcomes a court
test of the Postmaster Generals
action in the face of an examin.
ing boards refusal to bar the
magazine on grounds of obsceni.
ty.
Miles. reading from a prepared
statement, told a meeting of the
Federal Bar Association that the
issue involved in the magazine S
appeal to the courts was broader
than the question of obscenity.
Congress, he said, in authoriz-
ing second class mailing rights
did so for publications that dis
seminated information of pub
lie character and were devoted to
the arts, sciences and literature, -
but not for "a magazine that car
ried consistently matters such as
the record showed had been Car
ried by Esquire "
With this Interpretation of the
law. Miles said, the Postmaster
General sincerely felt it was
his duty to revoke the privilege"
for Esquire.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-06
SHRINE TO HOLD
NEW BERN MEET

NEW BERN, Jan. 5-The an
nual business meeting and winter
ceremonial of Sudan Shrine tenn.
pie will be held here on January
rs and 81, it has been announc-
ed by Recorder C. A. Seifert, who
with Potentate Luther A. Raney
of Wilmington and other divan Of
ficers is making final program
plans.
About $50 men from all parts
of the eastern part of the state
as far west as Durham are expect
ed to be in the class of candidates
one of the largest classes in
years.
Officers now serving the temple
are Raney, potentate; George w.
Waters of Goldsboro, chief rab-
ban; j. Edward Allen of Warren.
ton, assistant rabban; N. E. Ed.
gerton, Jr.. of Raleigh, high priest
and prophet; William J. Bundy,
Greenville, Oriental Guide; DR..
George E. Bell, Wilson, first cere.
monial master; Frank Watson, Ra.
leigh, second ceremonial master:
Sam S. Toler, Jr., Rocky Mount,
marshall; Marcus Carpenter, Dur.
hIn, captain of guard; John J,
Burney. Wilmington, outer gard;
c. A. Seifert, New Bern, record
er;; and George W. Alice, New
Bern, treasurer;
Fred I. Sutton, Kinston, orator;
N. D. Gwatney, Goldsboro, di-
rector of work; Earl M. Goodwin.
Wilmington. drum corps captain;
Harry Lipman, New Bern, patrol
captain; Wait Bagley, Raleigh.
band director; DR.. M. A. Pitt.
man, Wilson, medical director;
and H. D. Jones, Graham, alcc.le.
mist for the Wrecking crew.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-06
DANISH POET SLAIN

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 5 -(RH Kaj
Munk, famed Danish poet and
pastor who had openely fought
the Nazis, has been found slain
in woods near the German mill
tary headquarters at Silkeborg,
Denmark, dispatches from Copen-
hagen disclosed today, the victim
of what the free Danish press
service terms a Nazi-inspired poll
teal assassination.
The Staying of Munk, who had
written many anti-Nazi books, ar
ticles and plays, stirred up among
Danes an indignation unmatched
since the mass arrests of Jews
early last October.
The pastor-poet's body was
found Tuesday, dispatches to the
Swedish Telegraphic Agency said,
after four men believed to have
been Gestapo agents went to
Munk's' home at nearby Vedersoe
and drove away with him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-06
CHAPTER THIRTEEN

In the mirror, Mallory could see
herself shaking as much as she
had the night she had sat near
Tod Patrick and the rival soprano.
Only then her shaking had been
anger: tonight it was fright. Fright
caused by the two strangers in the
black sedan. Fright renewed by
that reminder that an apparent
lack of interest can cover the most
intense scrutiny.
Eyes in the back OF the head. !"
There was truth to that old saying.
"How well 1 know recalled Nal
lory. Not only because of T d
and the big-hipped soprano. She
had watched others-men singers,
publicity men, costumers, report
ers, piano accompanies. conduc-
tors-countless persons who might
try to do themselves more good
that Mallory Baker was doing. IL
variably her pretense had been one
of dead-panned. stiff-necked de-
tachment. exactly like that of the
white-scarfed man and his partner.
A SILVER ran through the blond
girl Again. shs ooAec' at &c r.
Election in the mirror. Its wanness
sent a second SILVER through her.
She stepped TO the telephone and
called the desk. Il think I'm catch
ing a cold. VIII you please send up
something for it," There was So
lace in calling her panic by a COM
mon term, also in hearing a casual
voice.
Certainly, Miss Baker," t h e
man was replying. I know just
the remedy. The bellboy will give
you directions
The bellboy was. young Mexi-
con, not much larger than Pope,
but older. He put small, almost
filled tumbler into her right hand.
This you must drink right down!
Give me your left hand" he direct
ed. Other way" Mallory had ex-
tened it palm up Quickly she
Tipped it over, backside up, and
watched curiously while he poured
white crystals there.
What is" that?"
Salt" he replied.
She hoisted her right hand. And
this?" she was preparing to ask.
Drink that right down t h e
Mexicon boy again ordered. The
girl did,, and felt as if she had
swallowed bonfire. Now t h e
salt" she heard through the
flames leapiag about her h d.
Hurriedly she obeyed. She felt the
turnbler being taken from her right
hand and something replacing it.
Her blinded eyes barely
could see piece of lime. She bit
into it.. swallowing the juice in
frenzied gulp. Its acidity cut, but
anything that deadened that fire
was welcome.
I'm cfokno I'm burning up!
I'm dying! All such EXPLANATIONS
flared through amallory's h d.
She still could not see. She felt
another glass in her hand n d
forced her -drenched eyes op-
e.l.
Lime water" her tormentor
said calmly. His tone m | i d,