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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-07
Americans Have Plenty Do Without Taking Troubles of Rest Of the
Battered World Says Rupert hughes


US Rupert Hughes
adcast by Rupert Hughes on December IS:
land should be over thrown by the Russian system.
Our American Communists tell us that life in
Poland is evil under landholder domination.
They tell us that life is very evil here in AmerI
lea under capitaliStic domination.
They would add the United States to the
SUviets along with almost every other country.
Take Spain. You can have it. Who wants it.
What are We TO do with Franco?
Take France. We're letting her children starve
while her political wars prosper.
Take Palestine, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia,
South Africa.
feuds and political differences that verge civil
war.
WHAT right have we to cross all the oceans and
w all the lands and put our fingers in every
hot pie on earth?
We will get our fingers stepped on. burned.
bitten and cut off. And we will howl bloody
murder.
Is it our sacred duty to patrol the globe and
keep the universal peace
Nearly everybody BUT me seems to agree that
there must be an international police force
say it will never work. 1t will never get
organized
NIE- IT DOES, IT WILL FALL APART ON
IT'S FIRST RAfA--=-=
Our own country is in the throes of intensely
bitter political wars
We can't agree on subsidies, initiation, higher
wages, taxes.
We have two or three race problems that al
dangerous as dynamite.
The Democratic Party IS all split up.
The Republicans can't agree among them
selves
The Prohibitionist candidate for president
protests that he can't oct prortieS for aipane
trips forhs campaign While at ERTAIN OTHER
fTT7T-7
Only few years ago our nation. solved the
drink problem forever by the prohibition amend
ment. We repealed that hy the list amendment and
t+es-7rre a10Ut IRE same.
Nov We are to have World Constitution with
Y prohibition amendment forbidding war
II Will stop fighting itt>t is the prohibition
amendment stopped drinking,
Shortly after Columbus discovered America,
tuTUDe was devastated BY fTIqhtfUI plague for
which this continent got the. blame
The first great wave of influenza swept Eu-
rope in the First World War right after our troop
ships arrived
We have two million soldiers over there now
and the plague is sweeping that continent again
When zoe attempt to bring peace to the Uorld
our beautiful influence tUW be called the influenza
or something and ,oH be Just roelcone as
the scarlet feUer.
WHAT GETS Me Is WHY WE SHOULD
GO ABROAD TO LOOK FOR TROUBLE WHEN
THERE So MICH MORE LIE l. A. HOMO
THAN WE CAN HANDLE.
When at last the day Of aImistice comes
hadn't better call our soldiers home from the
hills the sailors home from the seas, the pilots
home from the heavens and tackle the FRIGHT
FIJI FINANCIAL and POLITICAL PROBLEMS
We have at home?
We can be good neghbors, helpful and gen.
elouS
But we didn't build the rOorId; tDe didn't
create mankind; and any effort to manage the
affairs of all humanity is proof of nothing but
decisions of grandeur
knowledge Test Quick Questions
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ANNOUNCER: The National Broadcasting
Va Co, presents Rupert Hughes =. soldier
novelist . . historian and humoist. In his COM
mentaIy he phrases present day history in his
own entertaining style. -. Mr.. Rupert Hughes
KNIGHES: They say that all European wars
nm start in the Balkans. Glance at the Balkans.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
16,50OPupi|S Enrolled
In ParochiaI Schools
On Opening Day
Arlington Again Delays
Sturt of Glasses Due
To Outbreak of Polio

Washington's parochial schools
opened today for the 1944-45 school
year with an estimated enrolment
of $500 students. The exact figure
will not be available for about a
week, but the Rev. Leo j. Nc
Cormick, assistant superintendent of
Catholic schools for Washington and
Baltimore. said enrolment was ex-
pected to exceed that Of last year by
approximately 1000.
Meanwhile, Arlington County
postponed the opening of its schools
for the second time as a precau-
tionary measure against the polio
epidemic. The start of classes is
now scheduled for September Is.
District public schools will open
next Monday. School board officials
anticipate registration of about
$1,000 pupils, the lowest number to
be enrolled in II years. Jewish
students will not start classes until
September 20, which will permit
them to observe Rosh Hashana.
Two Episcopal schools in Alex
andria, st. Agnes and the as yet un-
named school at 2405 Russell road
will register students Thursday. The
new school will accept students for
the third to eighth grades and will
take boys from the third and fourth
grades of St. Agnes.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
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&Remiindey6a

Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4
blue stamps AS through Z-8 ano
AS through LIS good indefinite
ly. Each stamp worth 10 points
Use of blue tokens to be discon.
tinued October /.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Red stamps Al
through Z-8 and AS through G-s
good indefinitely for 10 points
each. All meats except bee1
steaks, roast beef and choice cuts
of lamb and pork are point free
Points for Fats-Your meat deale,
will pay two ration points fol
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in. The fact that lard
shortening and cooking oils have
been removed from the ration list
does not mean fat collection is
less essential.
Sugar-Book No. 4 stamps 80 through
33 valid for pounds indefinitely
Book No. stamp 40 good for S
pounds for home canning through
February %. 1945.
Gasoline-A-11 coupons good for 8
gallons each through November s.
B-3, B-4, C-3 and ca coupons
good for gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l and 2 in
Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Ofl-Periods No. 4 and cou-
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 80. Period /,
1944-45 ration, also good for 10
gallons q unit.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Capital Transit, PUG
Officials Schedule
Pre-Hearing Par|eys
Dote for Formal Sessions
To Discuss Rote Bose
Not Yet Decided

Meetings between representative
Of the Capital Transit Co., the Pub
lie Utilities Commission and repre-
sentatives of the public will be held
prior to the opening of formal hear
ingS on the companys rate base
rate of return, depreciation and
fares, it was agreed at a prehearing
conference today in the ofnces OF
the utilities commission.
With the staff of the transit COM
pany reported occupied with re-
financing problems and unable to
complete its studies for a hearing
now, no date has been set for open-
ing OF the formal sessions.
Among those taking part in the
hearings are the staff of the PUG,
officials of the transit company;
James w. Lauderdale, peoples coun-
sci: Milo H. Brinkley, chairman. and
John H. Connaughton, vice chair
man, Utilities Committee of the
Federation of Citizens Association
and Seton Darr. attorney for the
Transit Workers Union.
Chairman James H. Flanagan OF
the commission. told the prehear-
ing conference the commission
hoped it would be possible to finally
determine rate base that could
be perpetuated annually and that
the records of the company could
be set up so that periodic analysis
would be facilitated.
E. Barrett Prettyman, counsel fol-
the transit company, said he had
no comment to make on the outline
presented by Mr.. Flanagan and
promised cooperation in the study
OF data collected by stats of the
commission and company,
Evening star., 1944-09-11
|Dr. Ball Ends Al Years
In Pdstorate Here

Forty-one years as pastor at
Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth
and A streets NE, came to a close
yesterday for the Rev. DR.. John
Compton Ball. More than 1900
worshipers, listening to the music
OF "Blest Be the Tie That Binds"
watched silently as the S1-year-old
minister walked down the aisle after
the service. DR.. Ball now becomes
pastor emeritus.
DR.. Ball looked across the years
for the text of his last sermon,
using the same one he chose for
his first sermon. BY coincidence,
DR.. K. o. White, the new pastor,
took the text when he came to the
church as guest preacher for the
first time. The text was For I
Am Determined to Know Every
thing Among You"
DR.. Ball will be guest of honor
at reception Friday He will have
as his guest DR.. Walter H. Brooks,
80, pastor of the Nineteenth Street
(Colored Baptist Church, for 81
years pastor there and dean of all
the Washington ministers. DR.. Ball
said DR.. Brooks attendance would
demonstrate over a century Of Bap-
tist preaching in the Nations capital
with no color line drawn" DR.. Ball
also asked the congregation to give
DR.. White, Metropolitan's new
pastor, "a royal welcome, a typical
Metropolitan welcome" when he
delivers his first sermon Sunday.
Mozart's Gloria" DR.. Balls
favorite anthem, was sung by the
choir during the service.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
500 Veterans Placed
In Jobs Here MONTHLY
VINO Aide Reports
1000 Quickly Received
Employment Through
USES Since Jan. !

Discharged servicemen are being
placed In jobs here at the rate of
500 month, with close to 1000
having received employment since
January l through the United
States Employment Service, Ernest
V. Connolly, area director Of the
War Manpower Commission, re-
ported today.
The majority of veterans being
released from the armed services
have medical discharges, the official
pointed out.
Shop and maintenance divisions
OF the larger airlines and transport
companies are using large numbers,
particularly men who served as
ground crews in the air forces, Mr..
Connolly said.
One important war plant here is
employing all the professionally and
technically qualified ex-servicemen
it can get. A recent VINO check
showed more than IS per cent of
the plants workers had served in
the armed forces.
Small Firms Aided.
Returning veterans have been a
llfe-saver for many smaller firms,
which, although engaged In essen
tlal war operations, have expert
enced difficulty in keeping their
STATS up to strength" Mr.. Connolly
said. These firms are EMPLOYING
automotive mechanics, refrigeration
and machine maintenance men and
those with administrative and cler-
lcal experience.
The official said some veterans
have sought jobs that would take
them back overseas. Such cases
are referred to the Red Cross or
the United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration.
The number of men placed in Jobs
in Washington is only a small pro-
portion of those being discharged
from hospitals here, it was ex-
planned. Most are from other areas
and return to their home towns.
The USES steps in at this point
and helps them to find jobs back
nome, Mr.. Connolly said.
Veterans Placed Quickly.
USES records show that about
nine of ten veterans applying for
work have been placed without loss
of time.
Meanwhile Arthur L. Schoenthal,
VINO deputy director for the region
including West virginia. MARYLAND
Virginia, North Carolina and the
District, announced that the special
20-day recruitment drive for work.
ers needed in plants turning out
must" war items would be ex-
tended through October. He report
ed splendid results" had been OBJ
tanned to date, but added that
manpower ofncials still faced the
toughest kind Of recruiting Job" 4
Evening star., 1944-09-11

A 22-year-old expectant mother
her left leg and hip paralyzed by
poliomyelitis since July 81, stopped
in Washington five hours yesterday
between trains from Fort Bragg
N. c., to her soldier husbands home
in Newcastle, Pa.
They tell us the baby will be
okay," said her husband, Pvt. Nick
Albert, 25, military policeman, who
accompanied her on the long jour.
ney.
But her chances to walk-they're
only fifty-fifty."
The Alberts already have one
child, a 10-month-ol girl. The
second baby is expected in about SIX
months.
Care of the mother, Mrs. Bessie
Albert, %. during her stay here wa.
arranged by the District Red Cross
and the District Health Department
A Health Department ambulance
and crew met her at the station
took her to Gallinger Hospital as 8
precaution and then transported hel
back to Union Station in time fol
the Newcastle train.
Tells Story of Illness.
Pvt. Albert told the story of his
Wife'S illness to the Red Cross as
sistant director of first aid. E. c.
Henderson, and to the Health De-
partment nurse. Miss Inez Sager,
who met the train. A Canadian, she
was married to Pvt. Albert three
years ago in British Columbia and
came to Newcastle to live while he
spent more than two years overseas
on military police duty.
She brought their daughter, Nickie
Lou, to Fort Bragg to visit him
July 4. The soldier took the baby
back to Newcastle shortly after his
wife was stricken two weeks later
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Jury Places 2Charge,
Against Man in Cafe
Shooting Case
Is Indictments Returned
In District Court;
One Inquiry Dropped

Earl M. Forester, 81, of the 20(
block of Pennsylvania avenue Sc
was indicted today on charges o1
shooting and wounding Conrad B
Morris of the 100 block of Sixth
street Sc. The Indictment charges
Forester with assault with dan
gerous weapon. and assault with
intent to kill.
The victim of the shooting is sale
to have summoned police after hav.
Ing a dispute with Forester in q
restaurant. According to Morris
statement, Morris was on his way
to meet police in front of the res
taurant, as they had instructed him
when Forester fired q shotgun al
him.
The indictment was among 1;
returned today by the grand jury
before Chief Justice Edward C.
Eicher of District Court.
William H. Corbin, %, colored
first block Of Daggs lane Sc, wa.
indicted on two charges of house.
breaking and larceny and one charg,
OF burglary. He was caught in 6
store in the 1900 block of Nichol.
avenue Sc, police charged.
The grand jury ignored a cast
against Ersaline Shelton, 80, colored
2300 block of Seventh street NV.
in connection with the death of 9
colored man she was accused ol
striking with a crutch. The deac
man was George L. johnson, 20, ol
the 1700 block of Euclid street NV
Police quoted her as stating thai
johnson first struck her with one
of his crutches.
The indictments were presented
to the grand jury by Assistant
United States Attorney Sylvan
Schwartz.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
D. {. Women Urged 10 Aid
In Virginia Apple Harvest

Women workers / nthe District
who have vacations during the week
of September "a were urged today
by John Jones, District Extension
Service farm labor recruiting di-
rector, to volunteer for emergency
work in Virginia orchards.
Mr.. Jones said 10 women will be
required during that week to
harvest about 1900 bushels of apples
on the farm of Miss Louise Miller
near Charlottesville.
More than 100 men and women
are needed in Fairfax County to
pick apples and aid in silo filling,
Mr.. Jones said Volunteers are
asked to apply to Mr.. Jones at the
United States Enjoyment once,
Fifth and K streets NV,
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Department Heads Explain
BUDGET 10 Commissioners

District department heads today
began to explain their budget esti-
mates for the 1916 fiscal year to the
Commissioners. The executive ses-
sions probably will last the entire
week, budget officials said.
Public hearing on the budget esti-
mates will be held Thursday, Sep
tember 81.
Budget ofncials said they believed
public school officials would explain
their $4,000, 900 budget estimate to-
morrow. The estimates heard to-
day included those OF the central
administrative agencies Of the Dis
trict government.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
District Woman Killed
In Arlington Accident

Arlington County's fourth trafic
casualty of the year was recorded
yesterday when a car driven BY
Thaddeus Simmons, 40, colored, 1926
New Jersey avenue NV, skidded
and hit a power pole at Columbia
pike and South Carlyn Spring road
following q blowout.
Rosalie Lee Hedgeman. a, COL
ored. 'of 2129 Ninth street NV, was
killed in the accident. Three other
persons, Evelyn Walker, John E.
Higginbothes, and the driver were
injured slightly. They were taken
to Arlington Hospital.
Evening star., 1944-09-11

The Army will discharge him
after a Today furlough, Pvt. AL.
bert said, because there is no one
available among his family in
Pennsylvania to care for his wife
and child.
Il took lessons in those Sister
Kenny exercises" he said. Maybe
can help her-maybe. The doc
tors have told him she may recover
use Of the muscles With exercise anc
good luck, he explained.
Five-Hour Delay.
A Red Cross crew first assembled
at the station early in the morning
to meet the train, but were replaced
by Health Department crew when
a five-hour delay in arrival was an
nounced.
Stretcher bearers went aboard the
train as soon as 1t stopped at 1:26
pm. yesterday. While q conduc-
tor held back the outgoing pas
sengers, they lifted the slight, dark
eyed girl on stretcher and maneu.
vered her quickly through doors,
down the car steps and onto a roller
stretcher. Wheeled onto an eleva-
tor, she was rolled across the east
concourse entrance to the ambu-
lance. The same procedure was fol-
lowed to put her on train to
Newcastle at $40 pm.
"Ill be glad to get home" Mrs.
and Red Cross personnel, but spoke
only to her husband His only plans
for her future, he said, are to take
care Of her and take out her Amer
lean citizenship papers
Tive got her where I want her
now" he said.
Mrs. Albert smiled at him. Then
she turned her head away and
bhnked tears from her eyes.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Virginia Presbyterions
'WiII Meet This Week
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Sept. 1.-THE Vir.
|ginia Synod of the Southern Presby-
terian Church will meet here this
week to discuss church problems Of
administration, evangelism, educa-
tion and related fields, and particu-
lar church problems of wartime.
Miss Louise Davisson of Bethesda,
Nd, president of the synod's Wom-
ems Auxiliary, and the Rev. Fred v.
Poag, pastor of the Second Presby-
terian Church in Alexandria, will
make reports to the synod Wednes-
day morning.
Miss Davisson will discuss women's
work and Rev. Mr.. Poag will deal
with causes of the Southern Presby-
terian Church Assembly.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Negro Fighter Pilot
Wins DFC in ItoIy

ROME, Sept. 1l.-Col. Benjamin
Davis, jr., of Washington and New
York, commander of the all-Negro
332d Fighter Group of the United
States 18th Air Force, received the
Distinguished Flying Cross today
from his father, Brig. Gen. Davis of
the inspector generals department
The elder Davis is the first Negro
to hold general rank. His son was
cited for brilliant leadership over
Northern Italy on May o when he
led a group attacking 100 enemy
fighters which were attempting to
intercept bombers.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
.Sedition Lawyer
.AssaiIs Tactics
|0f Colleague
Attorney Questioning
| U. S. Witness Told
| She's Not on Triol'

A defense attorney in the sedition
trial came to the aid of q Govern
ment witness in District Court to-
day, objecting to a line of cross-ex.
animation by another defense coun-
sci, declaring the witness "is not on
trial"
Mrs. Betty Lee Mclaughlin OF Los
Angeles was being questioned by
Ethelbert B. Frey, attorney for Rob-
ert E. Edmonston. Mr.. Frey asked
whether typewriter reports Of II
meetings in Los Angeles which she
consulted during his direct testi-
mony were originals or carbons.
Mrs. Mclaughlin explained that
the typewriter ribbons and the car
bon paper both were blue and 1t was
difiicult to tell. Looking them over
one at a time, the witness said she
believed" most OF. them were orig.
inals.
Insists on Answer.
Mr. Frey insisted that Mrs. Nc
Laughlin knew whether they were
original or carbons, and he demand-
ed that she be required to say.
Joseph H. Bilbrey, counsel for
Franz K. Ferenz, jumped up.
Il object to this line of cross
examination" he said, "the witness
Is not on trial.
Il have right to attack the
credibility of this witness" Mr..
Frey retorted angrily.
Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher
sustained Mr.. Bilbrey's objection.
Chief Prosecutor o. John Rogge
objected repeatedly to Mr.. Frey's
questions as repetitious and pro-
tested against the defense attorneys
manner toward the witness" The
court sustained most of these OBJ
jections.
Meetings Described.
Mrs. Mclaughlin described q
series of meetings held under the
auspices of the Friends of Progress.
of which Ellis o. Jones a defendant.
and Robert Noble, a former defend
ant, were leaders. She told the jury
of pro-Axis defeatist sentiments ex-
pressed frequently.
The growing feud between Mr..
Bilbrey and some of the other de-
fense attorneys brought more sharp
repartee as the questioning of Mrs.
Mclaughlin continued.
Ira Chase Koehne, representing
three defendants, tried to bring out
from the witness that, although she
took no notes at the meetings, de-
pending on her memory for her re-
ports, some one else did make Short
hand notes. Mr.. Bilbrey again OBJ
jected and was sustained.
IT object" Mr.. Koehne snapped.
ito Mr.. Bilbrey acting as DR.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde in this courtroom"
Justice Eicher indicated the
courts ruling would stand.
Jones Offers Protest.
The defendant Jones, who is act
ing as his own attorney, protested
against Mr.. Bilbrey's alleged de
iberate and continuous misstate-
ment of this record" The court
overruled this objection.
Later Mr.. Bnbrey registered an
other objection during cross -exami-
nation by Albert w. Dilling, attor-
ney for Elizabeth Dilling. Mr.. Bill
brey contended Mr.. Dilling was not
employing "the proper way" to bring
out what he wanted to elicit from
the witness.
i object to Mr.. Bilbrey's objec.
tion," Mr.. Dilling said tartly. The
court refused him permission to re-
ply further, directing him to proceed
with his interrogation in whatso-
ever way he chose.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Child Born to Corcorons

Mrs. Thomas G. Corcoran, wife OF
the Washington attorney who once
was adviser to President Roosevelt
gave birth to a Z pound 10 ounce
son yesterday at the Suburban Hos
pital at Bethesda. A daughter was
born in 1941. Mrs. Corcoran, the
former Peggy Dowd, was her hus-
bands secretary before they were
married March 4, 1910.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Guide for Absentee Voters
Stote BoIIot Lows GA to D. Summarized;
Questions and Answers on Registration

This is the first In a series of
summaries of State ldUs on reg
istration and uoting to be pub
lshed daily in The Star for the
benefit OF Doters from these
States ,Dho are no,D in the Dis
trict.
ALABAMA - Residence require
ments: State, 2 years; county,
year; precinct, 3 months. Pay all
poll taxes due, $3.50 per year, after
October /. Registration is perma-
nent. Absentee voting permitted
Request absentee ballot from pro-
bate judge, october Is through No.
vember 2. Return voted ballot to
probate judge In time to reach pre-
cinct before the close Of polls.
ARIZONA - Residence require.
ments: State, l year; county and
precinct, 80 days. Absentee voting
permitted. Registration may be BY
mail by obtaining the permanent
Registration Afndavit" from the
county recorder before October 8
Request application for ballot from
county recorder after October 7
Evening star., 1944-09-11

the Washington sedition trial will
be called to testify for him. He
has not indicated the nature of
their testimony, however. It was
on his plea that these persons might
not BE- able to leave the sedition
trial to come to Baltimore that Mr..
Laughlin sought q delay.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Child, 2, Dies of Burns

Dolores Kittrell, 2, colored, 200
block Thirteenth street Sc, died
yesterday in Casualty Hospital Of
burns suffered when she spilled
scalding coffee on herself at her
home last Wednesday, police re-
ported,