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Evening star., 1944-06-22
Dental Captain Found
Hanging in Home

Z The body of Capt. Nathan Kriloff
39i Fort Belvoir dental officer, who
had been married 10 days ago to a
WAVE, was found yesterday hang
ing from a hook on a closet door
at his home, 308 Duke street, Alex
andria, police reported today
! DR.. John A. Sims, Alexandra
coroner, issued a verdict of suicide
s Police reported finding three
notes in which Capt. Kriloff indi.
Gated he believed himself to b,
mentally i'll. The notes we're ad
dressed to his parents, his com
manding officer and to his widow
Mrs. Frances Kriloff, a WAVE sta
toned in Washington, police said.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Accord Reached
Quickly on DC.
Supply Measure
House Conferees
Accept Virtually
All Added Items
BY DON s. WARREN.

Differences between the House and
Senate as to items in the Districts
record-breaking supply bill for the
fiscal year beginning July ! were
settled quickly at a conference to-
day, with the House managers ac-
cepting virtually all the S563.O0
added by the Senate.
While exact totals were not at
once available 1t was estimated the
bill win provide approximately &c.,
111.000 for the 1945 fiscal year, or
nearly 100000 more than the
appropriations for this year.
The revised bill, as agreed to In
the conference, is to be reported to
the House and Senate for action as
soon as details of the measure can
be whipped into shape, possibly later
today No hitcnes were expected in
either house as Congress rushed to
wind up necessary business before
the party conventions recess.
Compromise on Aides.
Conferees on the bill, headed by
Senator OMahoney, Democrat. OF
Wyoming, and Representative Cof-
fee,s Democrat, of Washington.
reached a compromise on the Senate
proposal for SOL ,779 for continuing
and enlarging the housekeeper as
sistance program for needy families.
The managers agreed to provide
about $39,875 to permit continuation
OF the 80 aides now employed, in
stead OF providing funds to hire 20
additional aides, and stipulated that
the program should continue under
strict Government financing only
for the duration of the war.
The pay for the superintendent OF
Gallinger Hospital was set at $1,000.
an increase of $500 over the pres
ent entrance salary. Health Offlcer
George G. Rutland had reported
1t was impossible to find a qualified
man to fill the vacancy at the pres
ent pay level. The Senate had pro-
posed to boost the salary to $500.
The Commissioners had recom-
mended an increase to only $4,000.
The House managers agreed to
an increase of $4,000 for the De-
partment of Vehicles and Traffic
for traffic lights but 1t Is stipu-
lated that this fund shall be used
only for the repair, maintenance or
alteration of existing lights and not
for installation OF additional signals.
Clerks Pay Boosted $S0e.
/ Approved also was an increase Of
$500 in the pay of the clerk who
handles issuance of automobile IL
cense tags, sought both this year
and last by the Senate at the re-
quest of Senator Nye, Republican,
of North Dakota.
Members of the Senate Conference
Committee are Senators O'Mahoney.
fGIaSs, Overtof1, Thomas of Okla
homa, Bilbo, Democrats; Nye, Hol-
man and Burton, Republicans.
Members of the House Conference
Committee are Representatives
Coffee, Anderson, Norrell, Whitten,
Democrats; Stefan, Dworshak and
Jensen, Republicans.
The bill was swept through the
Senate yesterday within Is minutes,
including time taken to read
changes made by the Senate COM
mittee in the House bill and two
Senate amendments. 1t passed
Unanimously.
Senator OMahoney explained that
most of the S563, AL increase over
the House total was due to the fact
that necessary supplemental items
had been submitted to Congress by
the Budget Bureau too late for con-
sideration by the House.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Sole of WJBS to Clark,
Seven Others Approved

The Federal communications
Commission has approved the sale
of radio station WJBS, San Fran
cisco, to a group of eight persons
including Senator Clark. Democrat
of Idaho and five Washingtonians
for 100000.
Mrs. Helen S. Mark, chief owner
of VOL; William B. Dolph, general
manager of VOL; Mrs. Glenna G.
Dolph, his wife; Mrs. Alice H. Lewis,
wife of Commentator Fulton Lewis,
jr., and Mrs. Herbert Bingham, wife
of local attorney, are the others in
the group acquiring control of the
station.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Synod Seeks $4,000
For Annapolis Project
By the Associated Press.

DS Iilc ASoOCldLeu IEeSS.
FREDERICK, Md, June 22.-The
Presbyterian Synod of Baltimore
laid groundwork today for a cam
palgn to raise $4,000 toward a new
church and students work center
at Annapolis.
The Rev. Jacob Avery Long re-
ported that Presbyterian Indus
trial Relations Institute, first perma-
nent organization of its kind to be
by church body, would
be opened in New York City in the
late fall or early winter. He said
representatives of the clergy, indus
try and organized labor would in
struct churchmen and laymen in
methods of furthering church labor
relations.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Suit Seeks SIS, 900
In Injury to Woman

Mrs. Florence D. Hawley and her
husband, John w. Hawley, of Roger
Heights, Md, filed suit in District
Court today against the firm of
Waggaman e. Brawner, 170O block
of i street NV, for $55,000 dam
ages for injuries purportedly suf-
Tered by Mrs. Hawley last Novem-
Der. The suit says Mrs. Hawley fell
down the exterior steps of an apart
ment building in the 200 block of
Douglas street NE.
The suit claims Mrs. HaWley suf-
.fered a neck fracture and has to
wear support.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
,SomerviiIe Leaves
War Services Post

Harry P. Somerville has submitted
his resignation as executive officer
of civilian war services, the Com
missioners announced today.
Mr.. Somerville, who took the post
last summer, resigned to become di-
rector of hotel relations with Broad
cast Music, Inc, New York.
Mr.. Somerville was manager of
the Willard Hotel for 10 years before
going to the District government.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
OPA Scraps Ceilings
On Wrecked Cars
At Police Auctions

The Office of Price Admin
istration today decided that
price ceilings recently estab-
lished for secondhand cars
would not apply to the wrecked
cars sold in District police auc-
tions.
OPA went further than that.
1t decided to take a chance and
let the public bid as high as it
wants to 60 on most of the
abandoned junk sold under the
police hammer.
But, it said, ceilings will be
inforced on five types of
articles: Sorted and graded
waste rags. scrap metal sold to
industrial consumers, tires and
tubes, scrap tires and tubes
and distilled spirits and wines.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Federal Soil Expert
Wins John Deere Medal

Charles E. Ramser, drainage engi-
neer with the Soil Conservation
Service, has been awarded the John
Deere Medal for distinguished
achievement in application of
science and art to soil" The award
was made yesterday at the annual
meeting of the American Society Of
Agricultural Engineers.
Mr.. Ramser, soil erosion expert,
has been with the Agriculture De-
partment for 81 years. He lives at
4615 Kenmore drive NV.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Mergner Waits ChaiI
Sentence in Staying
OF Blond Divorcee
Jury Takes 90 Minutes
To Reach Agreement
On First Degree Verdict
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

Convicted by District Court jury
of first-degree murder, Fred C.
Mergner, 45-year-old widower and
father of five children, today awaited
formal sentencing of death in the
electric chair for the Staying last
october Is of his former house
keeper, Mrs. Charlotte Robinson.
The bald, paunchy defendant was
the first white person in the District
to be convicted of f1rst-degree mur-
der since 1886, when Thomas Jordon
was found guilty of the Garden T.
Shoppe Staying of Mrs. Elizabeth
James on Good Friday in 1881. Jor-
don's sentence later was commuted
to life imprisonment.
Defense Attorney John H. Burnett
said today that the conviction would
be appealed. The death penalty will
be imposed sometime next week by
Justice James M. Proctor. Under
District law, the death penalty is
mandatory in f1rst-degree murder
conviction.
Jury Out 80 Minutes.
The jury took only 80 minutes to
find Mergner guilty of the murder
of the woman whom he had hoped
to make his wife. Receiving the
case shortly before 3 pm, the jury
sent word at 4:2O pm. to Justice
Proctor that they had reached a
verdict.
Among the spectators present
were Mergner's aged father, John E.
Mergner, and a brother. None of
the defendants children was present.
Guilty of first-degree murder as
charged in the indictment" was the
verdict read by the jury foreman,
James Fitzpatrick, an insurance
company executive.
Mergner received the verdict in
the same stolid calm he has MAIN
tanned since the trial started on
Monday. He stared straight ahead,
his face expressionless.
Three-Day Trial.
During the three day trial, one of
the sWiftest-moving first-degree
murder cases in District history,
Government witnesses testified
Mergner attempted to shove Mrs.
Robinson down a sewer at Seventh
and A streets NE. after shooting
four bullets into her face and head
in his car.
The Government contended Merg
ner murdered the blond, attractive
30-year-old divorce after she
spurned his love and offer of mar
riage. Mrs. Robinson had twice
married and divorced Wiley Robin
son, a convicted jewel thief now
serving a 10-year term in Leaven-
worth Penitentiary.
Mergner's deceased wife. Agnes,
was the daughter of John Weinberg,
founder of the Weinberg Bakery,
later absorbed by the Charles
Schneider Baking Co.. where the de-
fendant was employed as super
visor. Their five children were left
a $590,000 trust fund by Mr. Mein-
berg.
Claimed Alcoholic Stupor.
During the trial Mergner took the
stand in his own defense to contend
that he had been in an alcoholic
stupor at the time of the shooting
and could remember none of the de-
tails surrounding the shooting.
The jurors were told in their final
instructions by Justice Proctor that
voluntary drunkenness alone wasn't
justification for the commission of a
criminal act They were instructed,
however, to bring in verdict of not
guilty If they believed that excessive
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Teachers Selected
For Is RecreationaI
.Centers in Maryland
ChiIdren's Activities
Are Scheduled for
Most Communities

Completing plans for the opening
of the summer recreation program
of the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission in
Montgomery County on Monday,
Park Commissioner Col. E. Brooke
Lee yesterday announced the ap-
pointment of teachers to direct
activities at approximately Is CEN
ters and day camps.
Harold D. Peterson, instructor In
art, metals and crafts in Baltimore
high schools, will direct similar
classes in the county program Miss
Claire Van Norman, a teacher In
the Rockville elementary schools
will be in charge of music and
rhythms
Reno Continetti, athletic directo,
and coach at Montgomery Blair
High School, will be connected with
several of the progranfs and fa,
been assigned to help with coach
! ing in the eastern suburban sec
ton. s9
In charge of Lanham Act recrea.
ton and day-care nurseries is Miss
Jane Joslin. Mr.. Peterson will de.
vote one-third of his time to the
Lanham Act program.
Mitchell to Direct Program.
At the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Recreation Center, which has the
largest enrolment in the county
Louis Mitchell, director of the rec.
reation program for the county, will
take charge The day camp alse
will be located there.
The Kensington- Parkway Recrea.
ton Center, which also has a large
enrolment, will be under the direc-
ton of Miss Esther Mizell.
Ed Daily again will be director oi
the recreation program at Rocl
Creek Center. Another center viii
be at the Glen Echo Cabin Johr
School, but day camp is not yet
warranted there, Col. Lee stated.
A program, he said, will either be
operated at Brookmont or the chill
dren from Brookmont will be taker
to the Glen Echo facilities.
Mrs, Helen G. Donahue, District
teacher, will direct the Garrett Park
Elementary School and Miss Eloise
Patrick will be an instructor.
Children who have enrolled at the
Bethesda Elementary Schools will
be invited to join the program at
the Bethesda-Chevy Chase center
The commission also is supporting
school programs at the Chevy Chase
and Lynbrook Elementary Schools.
kady to Oversee Big Program.
In the eastern suburban area the
largest program is expected to begin
Monday at Jesup- Blair Park, along
with the day camp. John j. Kady
principal of the Girrard CIV. Va
High School, will be the director
while Miss Margaret Wolf1nger, in
structor of physical education al
Takoma Park Junior High School
will direct the girls activities.
Both the recreation program ant
a day camp will be located at Wood
side Elementary School and a re.
creation program also will be con-
Quoted at the East Silver Sprine
Elementary School,
The day camp-recreation pro-
gram of Parkside School, Silver
Spring, will have Mrs. Elizabeth
Fugitt as director. Miss Sarah
Glass will handle the program a
the North Four Corners School
The Rockville Elementary Schoo
program also will begin Monday.
Play lots for small children are
being organized in the Capito
View-Forest Glen section, and fol-
the Rosemary Hills community.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Hitler Book
Was Bund Text,
Witness Says
Testifies 'Mein Kompf
Served as Busis of
Nozis' Teachings
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.


Members of the German -Ameri
can Bund on the Eastern seaboar,
attended school where they wer
taught the principles of Nationa
Socialism as practiced in Germany
William Luedtke, former bund ma
tional secretary, testified today a
the mass sedition trial in Distric
Court.
The textbooks, said the witness
were Hitler's "Mein Kampp" anc
a book by Alfred Rosenberg, Hit
ler's policy-maker.
Luedtke said he took a thtree-
month course in New Jersey.
The teacher, who had studied ir
Germany. taught them that "the
democratic system was old and de-
caying and eventually would fall
by itself" he testified.
Teld to Relay Institutions.
officers of bund units who at
tended the school, Luedtke said
were instructed to relay what they
had learned to the membership al
meetings. How to spread Naz
propaganda was one of the lessons
taught, the witness told the jury.
Luedtke said his teacher wa!
Severin Wintercheidt, who had jus1
been in Germany.
A woman spectator who threw
the trial into a turmoil late yes
terday by shouting at the chie1
prosecutor and trying to display g
crude oilcloth banner, was held ir
District Jail today pending a sanity
examination.
She said she was Mrs. Edith Tur-
ner and that her husband is an at
torney in Newport News, Va.
The middle-aged woman inter-
rupted the proceedings just before
adjournment. Standing, she called
oft: Mr.. Rogge, I have message
for you.n o. John Rogge is chief
prosecutor,
Seized by Deputy.
She started unrolling the banner,
but before the jury or others in the
courtroom could read it deputy
marshal seized it and elected the
woman.
The trial was adjourned in few
minutes and Mrs. Turner was taken
to Justice Edward c. Eicher's cham
bers. District Attorney Edward M
Curran and his chief deputy, John
w. Fihelly, was summoned. After a
long conference, punctuated by the
woman's hysterical sobbing, Justice
Eicher reconvened court and had
her brought In. She was calm by
then.
Justice Eicher brought out that
she had told him she had attended
Several sessions of the trial He then
unrolled the banner, so that news
Eapermen and few attorneys who
had remained could read 1t. The
crudely lettered, nisspelled "mes-
sage" was headed, "A letter to At
torney Rogge" 1t added:
st do not know the guilt of these
men and women but do know that
our own corrupt American consuls
land she mentioned two names)
and their henchmen are guilty of
treason. Why are they still at large?
Why was this case suppressed? They
crucified a shell-shot war veteran
because he could not pay bribe."
Justice Eicher ordered her COM
mitted to Jail for 10 days, during
which she is to undergo sanity
examination.
Evening star., 1944-06-22

drinking had caused temporary in
sanity at the time of the Staying.
Earlier in the day, the jury heard
First Assistant United States At
torney John w. Fihelly describe
Mergner as "a slab of marble, man
who is guilty of the most cold
blooded and fiendish murder In the
Districts history" 4
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Arlington Girls PIon
Hospital Auxiliary

The Women's Auxiliary of the
Arlington County Hospital will
sponsor a junior auxiliary of girls
over 13 who volunteer to aid In
hospital work, it was announced
today.
The junior group will meet at l
pm. July at the hospital.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
of old newspapers and maga-
zines is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child In your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-06-22

Lucky German shepherd recently returned from
months service with the Army Is shown with young
friend 14year Happe oConne daughter of Ambrose
OConne newly confirmed Judge Of the Court Of Customs and
animal owned by Mrs Carolyn Whitney
Of 1923 Connecticut NV. Star Staff Photo
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-08
Your Health
Doctors Disagree
on Value of Bed
Rest For Patients
BY logan Clendennlns' NJ. o.

REST IN bed has always been
for me the great cure-all. 1t is also
one Of the most neglected proceed
ures in the whole field of treat
ment. Many a man is rushing
around his business affairs work
ing himself into lather OF
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-08
BY Dorothy Kilaallen

Ginger Rogers has Broadway on
her mind. She may star in music
al comedy this autumn. Mary
Plckford intends to adopt at least
two more children. Jane Ran
dolph. the pretty, is again sporting
Jack (mink coat Topping's ring
.. Harry James will go to court
in an attempt to break eight weeks
OF commitments. He'll claim the
contract holders are trying to cash
in on his NV popularity while pay
inr his old price. Rulof Cutten,
the very social broker, has left
for Reno for the conventional rea-
SON.. Mike Todd won $4,000 at
Belmont the other day, the horsey
set alleges. Frances Charles, the
first Mrs. Victor Mature, will shed
her current spouse, g., Maj. Clark
Gable is heartsick at leaving the
Army, Has no yen TO return to
films. 90. A famous Hollywood cou-
pie were tossed out of that Z. saith
St. hotel after II other tenants
complained about their noisy rows.
Radio Row is still agog over Ar
lene Francis boner on her Blind
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-08
And His Name Was Mussolini
These Days N ST gz l9ti E. soxor;xr

The liberation OF Rome termin-
ates finally the career OF adven-
turous Benito Mussolini The
President in his speech Monday
night said OF him:
Somehow. In the back OF my
head is still remembered a name
Mussolini."
But then is that not the fate OF
all co.called great men? Brutus
is remembered because Shakes
peare gave his memory sanctuary
and even in our own world, how
many know OF the Hayne who de-
bated Daniel Webster or even OF
that Henry Clay who. once truly
the greatest OF the great, is today
known as the label OF a cigar?
The greatest OF political leader
ship is fleeing, as few OF them
leave behind monuments OF lasting
merit. Plutarch, a gossip column
list, has recorded the doings OF
many an ancient who in his time
was as significant as those who
strut the stage today-but who
redQS flutdrCn!
or Mussolini II may be said that
he made speeches where Brutus
stabbed julius Caesar and Marc
Anthony delivered an grafton. thus
establishing the repetition OF his
tory and the eternity. OF oratory.
And what Mussolini said was no
different from what Anthony
might have said and what Octa-
vius surely did say, namely. Trust
me, boys, and I'll bring home the
bacon"
Unfortunately. none OF these po-
liticians ever bring home the bacon
by which they mean eternal tri-
umphant power for themselves but
by which the people mean peace,
contentment and security. When
the people discover that they have
been tricked by easily spoken
phrases or by a succulent voice or
charming personality. they seek
to rebel. 1t is at such times that
the politicos look for wars, since
wars act as an opiate for most ma
tions, for a time anyhow. Musso-
lini ran the whole OF this pattern
until he is now an ailing. discredit-
ed. old man. imprisoned by his prin-
cipal enemy. Hitler. and perhaps
debating his memories. Farewell
Benito, You tried hard and put
on good show while you could
but you never could lay your hands
on enough money to provide both
bread and circuses.
Mussolinis Fascism was a prin-
ciple OF the control OF the means OF
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-08
What They're Whispering in Gotham

Date" program, Miriam Hopkins
and John Gunther have resumed
their cooling 49,. Two major Aim
companies have offered postwar
movie contracts 10 Mary Churchill,
Winstons pretty daughter. The
Army is investigating the Brook
Ign poison gas tragedy. .. Bette
Davis is upset over the paintings OF
Mrs. Skeffington"-the worsts
roasts she's received in her Oscar.
strewn career John O'Donnell.
tire Washington scribe, will waltz
down the aisle with a pretty Daily
News copy girl. Those charges
against Ray Sugar" Robinson
have been pigeon.holed by the Ar.
my authorities. He'll Join Joe
Louis overseas group ia a couple
OF weeks.
Oracle Macdonald mother, who
was ailing seriously. is much i'm.
proved g.. Canada Lee weds Win
ME Johnson Duke Ellington's
singer tomorrow. Leslie How
ards will left only a fraction OF
the sum the movie colony thought
he had put away. The Robert
Sheans (Kay Shields), whose Chi
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-08

H. W. L.: Could you say
whether it is good for people TO be
continuously eating pork?
Answer: II is a matter Of taste,
not science. Pork is INTENTIONALLY
about the same as any other meat
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-08

/ production and distribution and the
wealth OF the people by a govern
ment organized by a single party
which in turn was dominated by a
single individual. 1t was a restora-
ton. in a modern setting. OF a
medieval absolutism but harsher
and more brutal in every human
manifestation. Its economics sought
to eliminate competition and to
substitute for a vital capitalism the
dead hand OF bureaucratic plan
ming and administration. which,
while meeting some astonishing
measures Of success at the begin
ming. degenerated quickly into an
unparalleled corruption. He Of
fered the individual security in re-
turn for remuneration OF every
form OF human liberty. The people
soon discovered that they had
neither liberty nor security but
only the shackles which they con-
scented that he forge upon them.
Those shackles have now been
broken by our armies.
'tussolini was once a Socialist.
He once believed in human free
dom. He once fought bravely for
the good OF the people. The con.
fusions which he called Fascism
originated In the even greater con-
fusions which go by the name OF
Marxism. All concepts OF state
dictatorship over the individual are
products OF a medieval mind react
ing to the inevitable disorders OF a
free society. And freedom. debate,
parliamentism. constitutional gov
eminent, the rights OF individuals
must produce a measure OF dis
order. even a measure OF disunity
within the state. No form OF gov
eminent Is more efficient than a
despotism and none more evil.
Mussolini made trains run on time
bus he killed people for their ideas.
In free country. we run the trains
on time and permit the people to
express their ideas openly. freely,
and without fear OF government.
The other night. a young woman
who calls herself liberal told me
that | ought to follow the leader
ship OF President Roosevelt. I
replied that I regarded 1t as the
essence OF the American ideal TO
follow no leader-to think for one
self. to express ones belief. to de-
bate and dispute. so that the truth
might appear OF its own accord
! and not by dictation. Mussolini
could never have understood that
and so he goes the way OF all
| tyrants.