davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Boiling Field Man Held
For Jury in Check Case

James William Darlington. 48,
Boiling Field fireman, was held for
grand jury action in Municipal
Court today on charges of convert
ing to his own use s424 in checks be-
longing to fellow firemen. Caring
ton was asked to take the checks
of six fellow flremen to the bank and
cash them on September %, police
charge. Darlington took the in
dorsed checks to the bank and went
to Chicago on pleasure trip.
police say
The defendant. who previously
had been District fireman, re-
turned TO Washington Saturday and
surrendered to police. Darlington,
who lives at 9l3 Maryland avenue
NE, was held under $500 bond.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Grand Jury 10 Receive
Evidence Wednesday
In Fitzwater Murder
U. S. Prosecutor to Ask
First-Degree Indictment
Against Pop Homes

A flrst-degree murder indictment
against Gardner Tyler Pop"
Holmes in the Pentagon lagoon
Staying of Mrs. Margaret Fitzwater
September % will be asked of the
October grand jury. which will be
impaneled tomorrow.
The contemplated action was an
nounced today by Assistant United
States Attorney John w. Fihelly.
Meanwhile, Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald declared he did not in
tend to conduct an inquest into the
killing, because the crime was COM
mitted outside his jurisdiction. The
Pentagon lagoon bank lies in that
strip of land the boundaries of
which have been in dispute be-
tween the District and Virginia for
years.
A spokesman for the FBI said the
matter was out of the hands of the
FB1 and any decision as to the con-
ductlng OF an inquest was now up to
the United States attorney.
Inquest Held Unnecessary.
Mr.. Fihelly told The Star that an
inquest was not necessary for the
presentation of first-degree murder
evidence to the grand jury and. re-
gardless of whether or not DR.. Mac
Donald held an inquest. the evi-
dence in the Fitzwater case would
be offered Wednesday.
Another angle presented itself to
authorities seeking indictment of
Holmes for the murder of the 63-
year-old H street rooming house
keeper. 1t was the fact, the FBI
says. Holmes had been committed to
the Eastern State Hospital, at Will
liamsburg, Va, on March 3. 1922, as
paranoic. According to the FBI,
Holmes was declared medically in
sane and was never pronounced
cured On the contrary, he escaped
from the institution in 1881 and in
1896, having managed to remain at
liberty for five years. his case was
"discharged from the records and
search for him abandoned under an
administrative practice of the Viz
ginia institution.
II indicted. Holmes is expected tc
plead insanity, the United States
Attorneys office asserted. If medi-
cal insanity can be proved. it was
said, Holmes is automatically pre-
sumed under Federal law not to
have known right from wrong and
would not even have to stand trial
He would be committed to a mental
institution in such a case.
Weapon Still Sought.
FBI men and District homicide
squad detectives are still working or
the case and a search for the weapon
with which Mrs. Fitzwater's throat
was slashed from ear to ear has beer
intensified, police said. The weapon
presumed to have been knife. has
never been found.
Holmes, so, restaurant worker
was charged with flrst-degree mur-
der Saturday. one week after he hac
"discovered' the body of Mrs FitZ-
water floating in the Pentagon La
COON and reported the find tc
Park Police. He was taken into Gus.
todv a short time later by the F'Bl
and grilled for week on his con-
nection with the case.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Man to Serve 8 Months
In Nylon Fraud Case

David Fixman, 48, was sentenced
by Visiting Judge Royce H. Savage
in District Court today to serve 8
months to 2 years on charge of
false pretenses in accepting s67.5O
from a man after promising to OBJ
tain for him 81 pairs of nylon hose.
Originally, Fixman was under in
dictment on charges of grand
larceny and larceny after trust. He
was allowed to plead guilty to a
charge of false pretenses instead.
Evening star., 1944-10-02

WHO is SHE?-At the re-
quest of Metropolitan Police,
The Star prints the above
sketch of the unidentified
woman who plunged to her
death last Tuesday from CAL
vert Street Bridge. The sketch
was prepared by a Star staff
artist from material supplied
by the police, and any one
recognizing the woman is re-
quested to communicate with
the Missing Persons Bureau at
the Police Department. Two
women on Saturday thought
they had identified the wom-
an, but a finger-pnnt check
showed the identification to
be erroneous.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Nazi Doctrines
Planned forU.S.,
Witness Says
Sedition Testimony
Bores Plot to Force
American Acceptance
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

SEVERN Winterscheidt, Govern
ment witness at the Sedition trial,
who once was instructor at a school
for German American Bund officials
in New Jersey, testified today ne
was taught in Germany that the
American people could be forced to
accept a government recognizing the
supremacy of the Germanic race.
He was taught this, the witness
said, at a school for National Social
ism during visit to Germany while
he was leading figure in the Bund
Lawrence Dennis, a defendant
representing himself. demanded on
cross examination that Winter
scheidt point out where Hitler or
Alfred Rosenberg, the two authors
he studied. gave him such an idea.
Books Did Not Teach Idea.
Winterscheidt sale he could not
recall that Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
or Rosenberg's Myth of the Twen-
tieth Century" mis- textbooks, con-
tanned such doctrine.
Il didn't say it was in those books, "
he explained. 4 said it was taught
me"
Mr.. Dennis asked if it was not
true that Hitlers plans for Germany,
with supremacy of the Aryan race
uppermost, were rot adaptable to
any country in which Germanic
blood did not predominant. Winter
scheidt would not admit that.
Witness Explains Plan.
Did he contend, Mr. Dennis in
sisted, that the Germanic supremacy
plan was feasible in America, with
its large proportion of Negro popu-
lation and mingling of various
races?
The witness said it was so con-
sidered. 1t would be possible if the
gentiles took control of the United
States, he added
The 26 defendants are charged
with conSpiring to undermine the
loyalty of the armed forces. and
Winterscheidt was asked if he
taught BundiSts such an aim. He
said he did not.
Mr.. Dennis asked if Hitler had
ever tried to incite the German
Army to mutiny before he came into
power in Germany.
Hitler Wanted Army Control
Hitler wanted to take over the
army" Winterscheidt told the Dis
trict Court jury.
He wanted to control the whole
country, didn't he?"
Yes, but he wanted the army
first"
Referring to the Governments
charge that the alleged conspiracy
was part of worldwide Nazi plot.
Mr.. Dennis asked if Winterscheidt
knew of such movement.
Only, the witness replied. to the
extent that Reich propagandists
taught that sooner or later the world
would come to recognize the value
of National Socialism.
Parliamentary Government Opposed.
Wlnterscheidt said his preceptors
were opposed to all parliamentary
governments and urged their ma
tionals to refuse an oath supporting
any constitution.
France was cited, he said, as an
example of the decay of a race
that did not keep its racial purity.
but lntermarried with other races.
The United States, he added. was
mentioned in that connection.
The Slavic races. on the other
hand, were held up as an example
of racial integrity and growing
menace to the Aryans.
We were taught" said Winter
scheidt, that the success of Ma
tional Socialism would convert other
nations"
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Store Sales in August
Exceed 1o43's Mark

By the Associated Press.
August sales of independent re-
tailers, except department stores.
were 8 per cent above sales for the
same month year ago, the Census
Bureau reported today
Department store sales were up
l6 per cent and sales of whole
salers increased per cent.
AS between July and August Of
this year. independent retail sales
Dse 4 per cent. department store
sales 20 per cent and wholesalers
sales 3 per cent.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Archivist to Speak

w. L. G. Joerg, chief of the Divi.
sion of National Archives. will be
the principal speaker at a meeting
of the Washington Chapter of the
Geography and Map Group, Special
Libraries Association, at pm. to-
morrow in the conference room Of
the National Archives. Eighth and
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
New Subscription Price .
For Home Delivery in the Cty-Metropoitan Area.
Effective October 1, 1914

Regular Home Edition
Evening and Sunday Star (4-Sunday month) ooc
Evening and Sunday Star (5-Sunday month"; - 81 90 .
The Evening Star (per month"; - soc
The Sunday Star (per copy py)-- 1oc
Night Final Edition
Is
Night Final and Sunday Star (4-Sunday month"; ~ 81 100
Night Final and Sunday Star (5-Sunday month"; IN
Night Final Evening Star (per month"; - 75c
The delivery price of The remains among the lowest
lor all the newspapers the United States The slight in
crease OF 10 cents month will in part increased
cost OF production and permit higher earnings by the carrier
boys.
OF The Stars total circulation of about 100000 last
week l558O7 copies of The Sunday and 1929 copies
OF The Evening Star delivered directly by carriers to
SUBSCRIBERS at their homes in Washington and suburbs
Evening star., 1944-05-21

bly, gone another part OF the hangar and they
being slowed special box Boxed and vingess
plane marked with similar code numbers, bring
them together the fighting front checker goes
the whole thing He knows his job he in Africa watching
the planes off the eghte just before he received the
wounds which brought him an honorable discharge.
But here comes plane which cannot be deck shipped
It's different type of fighter and will be boxed completely
This wings props, tail parts and fuseage all go to the
Grating section.
And who does this job? Well Newark fireman spends
part his days designing cradles clamps and fittings Former
stevedoes among the packers The carpenters include
grandfather who has three under arms Among the paint
ers is an exsaor with only good And there
mekeeper who lost and all but two fingers of his
other hand at Salerno
It's hard work work that ends One foreman tells
of week when he put than 80 hours his last three
days. in fact, show 62 hours on the time slips.
They've Done the Impossible
AND it's no easier on the executives the Office staff One
of the company officers has had only five Sundays off in almost
two years The personnel has put IN II hours day
times than he likes to remember secretary says I'm
home 50 seldom my two youngsters scarcely know me.
Civilians do the work but the Army the show 1t sets
the wage rates. passes all employees fixes profit
limits Army work with company relay suggestions
from overseas Army officers will tell how these workers.
most of them with previous aircraft packing experience
have done the impossible.
the workers themselves thnk or tneS dS IEOS
sibe Jobs The work offers problems yes but there have
been problems from the and they been solved May
be the diversity has helped; least
provided a continuously fresh viewpoint.
These folks live to the exactng demands OF JOB that
is the next thing being under enemy fire Recognizing this
spirit the company provides special services typical OF which
is the suite maintained in Newark hotel tor any
worker who needs few hours sleep and doesn't want to
take the time to go home.
Wages high porter make $50 week, mechanic
as much as Sl65 Good pay indeed But exceptionally
high proportion of it goes into War Bonds.
few weeks ago rush order in Dozens OF ships had
to 90 to the docks the frelghters were waiting
Word went around the hangers How about it, Okay came
the answer bring And they brought EN- IN, seem
npv endless line Hour after hour the work went on Men ana
women forgot time became gassyeyed with fatigue Some
workers fell out slept of the hangar came back on
the lob At last the final plane its way lree Gays
and three nights and of those workers have been on the
Job right straight through
The funnel that heads those planes to the front won be-
come boteneck with like that the job The End
Evening star., 1944-03-12
BY JACK HAND,

ASSoClateQ PfesS Sports writer.
NEW YORK, Mar. 11.-Major
league baseball goes into spring
training for its third wartime year
tomorrow with high hopes of sur
vival despite expected and accepted
drains on its manpower pool by
draft boards and defense plants.
Although Detroit's advance school
has had four days of work at Evans
vile, Ind, Cincinnati leads the pa
rade of big league regulars into camp
by reporting tomorrow at Blooming
ton, Ind. The New York Yankees
at Atlantic City, N. j.; the New
York Giants at Lakewood, N. j.;
Philadelphia AS at Frederick, Md,
and the Cleveland Indians at Lafay-
cite, Ind, will follow Monday in the
second frostbite campaign north of
the Lands Eastman line.
Before the end of the week all the
clubs, with the exception of the
st. Louis Cardinals and Browns, who
postponed their start until March 90
will be busy combing rosters of 4-F
overage, underage and service-diS-
charged candidates to fill the ranks
of regulars in the service and war
plants or reclassified and awaiting
call.
Tigers Take Worst Clipping.
Although the player situation is
unstable, Detroit appears to have
taken the worst clipping from the
draft, which has claimed such stand
Evening star., 1944-03-12

An all-time hockey scoring record
for Uline Arena was set last night
with the puck hitting the net 20
times as the Toronto Parkdales de-
feated the Ontario Tiptops, 1913.
Eleven of these scores came in the
last period, seven of them by the
Parkdales.
Joe Klukay of the Parkdales, who
last season played With the Toronto
Maple Leafs, slashed in three of
his teams goals to take the lead in
the competition for the $50 War
Bond Owner Mike Uline of the
arena is giving to the player getting
the most during the two games be-
tween these teams here. They meet
again tonight at $50.
A crowd of 1900 was on hand last
night to watch the free scoring
game that was highlighted at the
start of the second period by a
f1areup between Normie Mann of
the Parkdales and Jack CulverWell
of the TiptopS. They exchanged
blows back Of the Tiptop net before
being separated and carried the
feud into the penalty box where
they again had a good fight. Both
got flve-minute penalties, only ones
meted out in the game.
Both goalies had a busy night,
with Mel Carey of the Tiptops par
ticularly being called upon to stop
numerous forayS down the ice led
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Navy Matmen Capture
Eastern Meet Title
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, Mar. IL
Navy's mat team won the cham
pionShip of the Eastern Collegiate
Wrestling Association here tonight
with point total of 80. Army was
second with 26.
Other colleges scored as follows
Lehigh, Is; Pennsylvania, 49, Dart
mouth, 7. Penn State, 6; Princeton,
5; Cornell, 2; Columbia, 2.
121 pound class-Malcolm Macdonald
Navy threw Fred McNair tCornelD with
reverse bar and body press in 2:59,
(Penn) threw Howard Blum Navy with
half-Nelson and bar arm in 5:15.
136-pcund class-Jack Sullivan PENN
threw Roy oliver Navy with half-Nelson
and bar arm in S:57.
l45-pound class-Joe Henson Navy
defeated George Fee ARMY by decision,
14-1.
155-pound class-John Hale Navy
defeated defeated Ted Niewenkhous uehish) by
I65-pound class-Dave Wood (Army)
threw Malcolm Lowe tPrinceton) with bar
and Nelson in 7;2S.
175-pound class-Bill Bernard Gehigh,
threw Bob Land ARMY with half-Nelson
and body press in 3:4S.
Heayyweight-Joe Stsnowicz ARMY
threw Gordon Steele tCornelD with body
press in 2:2S.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Draft Hit Major Clubs Start Training Grinds
This Week, With More Player Troubles Due

outs as Tommy Bridges, Dick Wake
field, Jimmy Bloodworth, Hal White
and Virgil Trucks.
The Boston Braves and Red Sox,
Philadelphia AS, Washington and
Browns have been given the once
over lightly so far this year, but the
services, which have made such
snatches as Johnny Mccarthy, Tex
Hughson, George Staller, Mickey
Vernon, Jake Early and Chet Laabs,
have their eyes on others.
Stan Musial of the Cardinals,
batting champ and most valuable
player in the National, still is avail
able, but Luke Appling of the White
Sox, who was top man in the Amer
ican, is in the Army.
Although estimates of the mini
mum number of players with which
it is possible to continue vary from
25 to 18 and various officials have
said, We'll continue as long as we
have nine men to put on the field"
most baseball men expect the ma
jors to run through their seasons
and the World Series with normal
size rosters containing as many as
10 or Is men without previous big
league or Glass AA experience.
Yanks' Losses Heavy.
Charley Keller, Bill johnson and
Marius Russo of the Yankees have
joined the armed services, and Spud
Chandler, the leagues most valu-
able player and top hurler, has been
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Coaches Would Curb Basket Boil Goal Tending

ings to Chairman James st.
Clair of basket balls national
Rules Committee. The commit
tee meets in New York March
27-28.
brakes survey showed that
goal-tending was not an unCOm-
mon occurrence. While the Ma
tons big boys are led by Kur-
land Of Oklahoma Aggies, right
behind him comes Don Often,
Bowling Green, one-half inch
shcrter. Other prominent goal
tenders, past and present, in
clude Mikan of De Paul, Risen of
Ohio State. Novak of Loyola,
Schroyer of South Dakota State,
Horstein of Penn State, Boykof
of St. Johns, Holub of Long Is
land, Gotten of Long Island,
Wiley of Oregon, Borrevik of
Oregon, Wintermute of Oregon,
Henry of Rice. Ellison and Hal
bert of West Texas, Carpenter of
Arkansas, Doughtery of Loyols.
Gruening Of Denver Sideways
and Wellhausen Of Kansas.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
BY the Associated Press.

NORMAN, Okla, Mar. IL
The Nations top basket ball
coaches-50 out of 54-believe
goal-tending by skyscraper play
ers should be eliminated by rule.
The big controversy of the
1914 cage season got new fuel
today as Bruce Drake, Oklahoma
coach, disclosed findings of
Questionnaire he mailed to his
brother coaches.
The solution isn't in raising the
height of the basket, most of the
coaches said. Instead, 43 ia
vored awarding a field goal if a
defensive player touched a try
for goal above the level of the
basket after the ball started its
downward arc.
Three would mark an area on
the floor beneath the hoop which
players would be barred from en-
tering. Just two wanted the
basket raised to II feet, but an
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Small Washington Bond Begins
Drills Tomorrow at Maryland
BIueee Expecting Catcher. Seven Hurlers
At Outset; Others Reporting Next Week

second string receiver of the Mats,
has done some playing at Chatta-
nooga, but for Mario Diaz and Reglio
Rojas it will be the first visit to this
country.
First drill is slated for 1l:30 to-
morrow at College Park. according
to Manager Bluege, with the players
to toll probably an hour. Before
the week ends, however, the training
session is apt to be upped to two
hours at least daily.
Conditioning work will be on the
University of Maryland field built
several years ago by Emil Haisman,
then groundkeeper for the Wash
ington ball club. 1t is strictly big
league layout, far better than the
fields major clubs were accustomed
to train on in the South before
Judge Lands. baseball car, re-
stricted preliminary work to fields
north of the Potomac.
Should cold weather or rain curb
outdoor training, the Mats will get
their drills indoors, either in the
spacious new armory at the univer-
sity or in Ritchie Coliseum that ad-
joins the ball field. Manager Bluege
means to take advantage of all time
possible in the short conditioning
campaign.
College Park Setup Ideal.
The College Park setup is ideal,
Bluege feels. The men will be well
housed and Trainer Mike Martin
| and Frank Baxter, his aide, will have
fine quarters in which to set up their
rubbing tables and therapeutic lamps.
| The club instead of the university
will look after the feeding of the
players.
The main worries now left Crit
fifth and Bluege concern the un-
signed Outfielder Stan Spence and
Pitchers Wilfred Lefebvre and Lew
Carpenter and Third Baseman Har-
lond Cliff. Nothing has been heard
from Spence, regular in the gar
den, and Carpenter. Lefebvre has
said he will remain in his New Eng
land defense job instead of playing
ball this year.
Cliff, who had been banked on to
play third base-a post where the
Mats long have been weak-claims
his draft number soon will be up
and refuses to report. Griffith has
talked with Cliff by phone to the
latters Yakima (Wash) home, but
has been unable to bulge the player
from his stand.
Failure to get Cliff would leave
the Mats with only Luis Suarez,
little-experienced Cuban, for use at
third base. Efforts of the clubs
bosses to pick up another third
baseman have been futile.
New Exhibition Schedule.
The list of training exhibitions to
test the Mats under fire has been
revised, since seven games were can
celed by teams of the Norfolk Naval
Base. 1t now includes only a dozen
games. seven of them allotted to
Philadelphia Blue Jays, the Balti-
more Orioles and Buffalo Bisons.
Dates are:
April l. Martin Bombers at College Park;
Baltimore at Fort Meade; s, Philadelphia
N; L. at Wilmington. Del; Q, Philadel-
phia On. II at Griffith Stadium.
H. coast ausrd at coese 2. PsrR
12, Philadelphia IN. Ii at Fort Meade:
u; Buffalo at Fort Meade; Ia. Buffalo at
, April IS, Baltimore at Grifith Stadium;
- d, Baltimore Baltimore
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Eastern Ring Crown
Is Annexed by Army
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Mar. IL
Army's boxing team, taking two
titles and five seconds, easily cap
tured the Eastern intercollegiate
boxing title here tonight with Is
points. Coast Guard Academy was
next with 81 points, Virginia, taking
two crowns, was third; Penn State
got 8 points and Syracuse failed to
score.
Virgina's Jimmy Miragliotta, un-
beaten this year in the 135-pound
class, was the class of the tourney.
Results of final bouts:
120 pounds-Pete Thistle. Coast Guard.
won decision over Dave Fink, Army
127 pounds-Frank Serago, Penn State,
won decision over Salvador Felices Army
135 pounds - Jimmy Miragliotta Vir-
glnia, won decision over Steve Conner
145 pounds-Jack Bodie. Army. won
decision over Ralph Niesz, Coast Guard
155 pounds-Bob Finley Virginia, won
decision over John Vaci, Army
165 pounds-Stan Russell. Coast Guard,
won decision over Bill McGlothlin, Army
l75 pounds - Leland Wright, Coast
Guard won decision over Jack Moran,
Penn State.
Unlmited-Bruce staser. Army. won
decision over George Richardson, Coast