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Evening star., 1944-04-27
ST. Lawrence Project
Baked by Stimson;
Congress Split Seen
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of War Stimson Joined
administration supporters OF the
proposed $420, 100000 st. Lawrence
seaway development today, but il
appeared to be heading into con.
troversy over whether the joint
United States Canadian project will
ultimately require treaty ratification
by the Senate.
Mr.. Stimson wrote the Senate
Commerce Committee that Army
engineers have prepared preliminary
surveys and plans so work on the
huge channeling and hydroelectrie
project could be started promptly
after authorization and appropria-
ton Of funds by Congress.
While Mr.. Stimson went on rec
ord as favoring passage of the
joint resolution of Senator Aiken
Republican, of Vermont, author
izing the development as a postwar
project, Chairman Bailey of the
Senate Commerce Committee, be-
fore which the Aiken bill is pend
ing, said is was clearly matter
for ratifying by treaty"
A treaty would require two-thirds
approval of the Senate, while the
Aiken resolution merely would neec
a simple majority in the two houses
A similar st. Lawrence treaty failec
of ratification in the Senate ir
1894.
Senator Bailey's view was dis.
puted yesterday by Secretary o1
State Hull, who said he believed
the project could be built by inter.
national agreement sanctioned by
Congress and the Canadian Par
lament, as in the case of past con-
struction Of bridges linking the two
countries.
The project consists of deepening
the st. Lawrence River and con-
struction of new locks to accommo-
date sea-going vessels between the
Atlantic and the Great Lakes, and
also the building of a system OF
dams and powerhouses to generate
electricity at the international rap
ids section Of the river. The power
project would be operated by the
State of New York, which would
reimburse the Federal Government
for its cost.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
By the Associated Press,

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 27.-
The controversial novel Strange
Fruit" by Lillian Smith, was ad-
judged "obscene" by District Court
Judge Arthur P. Stone yesterday, al
though he said it was "a story that
might be told" and a Cambridge
bookseller was fined 5000 for possess
ing and selling it.
Abraham Isenstadt, Harvard Square
bookseller, who sold the book to
Bernard A. De Voto, noted author
and literary critic, by pre-arrange-
ment with the police in an effort
to test a local ban on the book, ap-
pealed and was held in $25 bail for
Superior Court.
Judge Stone dismissed original
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Council Gets Report
On Unwed Mothers

A survey of unmarried mothers
in the District based on 1943 fig
ures from the Bureau Of Vital Sta
tlstics will be studied for conclu-
sions by a Committee on Unmar-
ried Parenthood of the Council of
Social Agencies Division of Family
and Child Welfare at a special
meeting tomorrow afternoon.
The study was made to determine
the extra load public agencies will
have as result of the new baby
broker bill requiring licensing Of
child placement agencies.
A total of 1913 illegitimate births
in the District for 1943 were re-
vealed through the Bureau of Vital
Statistics records. OF these, the
committee made a detailed study
OF 789 registered during the first
six months of that year.
Eighty-one per cent of the births
were to District mothers, while 7
per cent more were to MARYLAND
mothers and per. cent to Virginia
mothers, it was reported. Pennsyl-
vania was next with less than 1
per cent.
The two youngest mothers of the
group were 12-year-old colored
girls, while five white mothers gave
birth to their babies at the age of Is.
The average age for colored mothers
was II and the average age OF white
mothers was 20, the committee said.
The committee also reported that
Of the 789 births studied, 6O4 were
colored and 183 white. Only So were
to Government employees, while 2O4
were to domestic employees.
The survey was made under the
Craftsmanship of Mrs. Lois Parsons.
Mrs. Catherine Norton is secretary
of the councils family and child
welfare division.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
British lilo Delegates
Battle Over Plan 10
Check Agreements
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated PresS.
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-The
first working committee to get down
to work at the international Labor
Organization Conference here sat
in silence yesterday while delegates
from the various parts Of the British
Empire put on a family fight.
The committee will propose future
policies for colonies and dependent
territories.
The fat went into the fire when
an Indian workers delegate, JAM
NADIA Mehta, asked that HO ap-
point permanent committee to In
Spect working conditions IN various
countries to see that nations live
up to agreements made here.
An Indian government delegate
had suggested that the home gov
ernments make such reports.
"A government report" objected
Mehta, would be nothing but 9
white wash"
Sir Frederick Leggett, British gov
ernment delegate, suggested perhaps
the committee should avoid such
detailed questions and confine itsel1
to writing general proposals for ref
|erence to other meetings. He said
his government had not had the
time "to take a position" on de-
pendent territories proposals before
the conference.
In reply j. A. Beasley, Australian
Minister Of Supply, asked specific
detailed proposals for the dependent
areas of Asia.
ITO delay would be fatal" Mr.
Beasley said. II must protest the
timidity expressed. The principles
here proposed Gin general they cove,
minimum working and living stand
ards for backward peoples) have
been known to governments for
years. The answer should be at
their f1ngertips.
"The japanese co-prosperity
sphere propaganda promised rising
living standard, and frankly, when
the war broke in Asia, great masses
had little care which was the VIC
torious side"
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Citizen Units Asked 10 Aid
Mechanics, Nurses Drive

More than 100 citizens associa-
tions today were asked to help re-
cruit automobile mechanics and reg
lstered nurses for part-time work to
fill pressing transportation and hos
pital needs.
The United States Employment
Service office here, which sent let
ters to the associations, said 100 me-
chanics and an equal number of
nurses were needed Immediately.
The USES suggested that if asso-
clatlon members would make house,
toulouse canvasses in designated
nelghborhoods they could find the
needed workers.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
BY the Associated Press.


The japanese have been bonn
harding Allied troops with sur
render passes" embellished with
pornographic pictures and carrying
the stipulation that one pass is good
for any number of soldiers.
Copies of the passes were released
by the Office of War Information to-
day along with other propaganda
leaflets picked up at Allied bases in
the Southwest Pacific.
The surrender pass, labeled
Ticket to Armistice," bears printed
instructions to advance toward
japanese troops, wave a white flag,
and strap your gun over your left
shoulder" At the bottom, in both
Japanese and English, appear the
words Sing for peace, pray for
peace"
Other exhibits play on the SOL
dier's nostalgia for home, say the
home front is letting him down, or
contain remarks designed to arouse
suspicion among Allied troops.
Topographic leaflets follow the
propaganda line of many Japanese
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Falls Church Boafswain
Awarded Legion Of Merit
Hy the Associated pres.

By the Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va, April 27.-Boat-
swain Robert L. Self, U. S. NJ, Falls
Church, Va, has been awarded the
Legion of Merit for outstanding
service as commanding Office OF a
Navy ship during the amphibious
assault on Sicily.
Learning that the Maddox had
been torpedoed, Boatswain Self di-
rected his ship to the scene and
rescued all the survivors of the
destroyed vessel.
Boatswain Sells wife lives in
Norfolk.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Youth Seized in Staying
OF Two in Farm Home
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HENDERSON, N. c., April 81
Police Chief j. E. Parks said yes
terday that A. B. Tuck, jr., Is, COL
ored, of near Clarksville, Va, was
arrested in Hertford County and
taken to Boydton, Va, to answer a
charge of murder in connection with
the Staying of Allen P. Johnson, 81,
and his sister-in-law, Miss Laura
Dutro, IS, at their farm home last
March Is.
Tuck denied any knowledgs of the
slayinRs.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
.e III AAeu,,1...

His mother airs it every SO often, and dusts, and
shakes out the clothes in his closet to make sure the
moths aren't getting at them. But mostly the room is
closed and silent, waiting for boy who's spending his
youth and strength, and skng his life, to buy safer
saner, happier world for the rest of us.
You can buy something for him =. yes, War Bonds
land not only on pay days and during the Drives;
but in-between. Today perhaps, remembering what
he's going through for you something you're tempted
to buy won't seem nearly so important helping to
get him back home. Buy Bond instead.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Champion Soviet Donor
Gives 127 Pints of Blood

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 27.-Tass, official
Soviet news agency, yesterday hailed
Yurit Kurshinsky, Moscow railroad
man, as the worlds champion blood
donor, with 141 donations, totaling
more than 127 rints.
Second among the thousands Of
donors was nurse, Vera Lizaeva,
with 128 donations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
5000 Planes Blaze
 Ruin Over Europe
Continued from Page 1)

sumed pre-invastion assault on Ais Europe into its sixth straight day.
 The last big two-way blow on Ger many by the eth and 5th Air Force heavies was delivered on February 25 when the two air fleets converged on the Nad aircraft center of Re- gensburg.
 RAF Mosquito boinbers kept the offensive rolling through the night, striking without loss at Berlin, Dort- rfiund and railway targets in France.
 More than 4,500 American, British and Allied bambers and fighters participated in the round of att tacks on coastal defense guns, radar stations, railway targets and air- drorhes in Germany, France and Belgium vest derayofoaBil etaoinuu Belgium yesterday for the second straight day.
 Some TOGO tons of explosive and fire bombs were dropped in the ser- ies of raids, highlighted by the Sth U. s. Air Forces heacy bomber at- tacks on six airfields and two rail- way functions in France and uni- identified military objectives in west ern Germany. A record escort of 1000 fifihters accompanied the 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators.
 One heavy bomber and three fighters were lost in the daylight raids, while 35 RAF bombers failed to return from pre-dawn attacks on Dortmund, Brunswick, and four other objectives in Germany, France and Belgium.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
.Jops Pushed
 From Bases
Continued from Page D

More than 40 miles to the west, Chinese troops continued their slogging advance southward through then Mogaung valley toward Kan1- aing, while British Chindit forces closed in from the south.
 Meanwhile, Chungking com munique reported that Chinese troops in China's northern Honan Province had launched general counter-offensive throughout the province, scoring initial successes at several key points.
 One Chinese column recaptured four towns on the Peiping- Hankow railway, driving the Japanese from a 6O-nile section of the road be- tween Suiping and Hsiungshan. while other forces drove on the rail line from the east.
 Simultaneously. other Chinese forces were on the attack 50 miles west of the railway and deep in western Honan. rolling the invaders back on all fronts, the communique said.
 Further gains also were made by Chinese columns driving toward the Burma frontier on a 100-mile front west of the Salween river.
 U. s. 14th Air Force fighters and fighter-bombers supported the Chi nese ground operations, bombing and strafing enemy troops, and armored forces and shooting down at least four planes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

(C6ntlnued from Page D resolution. if the National conven- ton did not approve the proposals, the delegates would be free to cast the states 40 votes for any Demo- crats ''hniding views it accord with those here expressed"
 The Roosevelt faction bolted the eneeting and held rival con- vention, naming Q full slate Of dele- gates with Mrs. Clara priscoll, Corpus Christi, chairman.
 Gov. Coke D. Stevenson was i1i- vited to head the main conventlor's delegation to Chicago and former Gov. Dan Moody was named it's chairman. George A. Butler, Hous- ton, Democratic state chairman, was named vice chairman of the delegation.
 Stormy Session
 The convention was the storiniebt ever held in Texas and Q showdown fight between the two factions was evident after former Gov. Moody had been elected temporary chair. man over former GOV. James V. Alfred, former federal district judge appointed by President Roosevelt. Moody received 040 votes to T74 for Aired. Alfred, however, refused to join the bolt.
 The convention reelected Col. Myron Blalock of Marshall as Ma tional committeeman but selected Mrs. IT, H Weinert of Sequin to succeed Mrs. Driscoll, who had been National committeewornan for 10 years.
 The pro-Roosevelt group first left the convention after losing out tn naming the temporary chairman and also in getting the convention pledged to support the party's nominees.
 A group of 300 supporters of President Roosevelt marched from the hall singing "the Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" but they returned later in 6 futile attempt to heal the breach.
 The PrO-Roosevelt group denied the walkout was Q break for time and insisted 1t was merely e caucus, but admitted the split when Mayor Tom Miller of Austin was named chairman.
 Wirtz who presided as temporary chairman, said l0 of the states 2l congressional district were repre-. sented at the trump session.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

has written l0 majority opinions
 They also pointed out that Stone has missed only three sessions of the court this term-ali attributable to a slight cold-and that his health apparently was excellent.
 Arrangements
 Stone already has appointed kje law clerks for the l044-46 term aB4 has completed other arrangements attendant on getting the court mns der way following the summer vaesr ton.
 One assoicate justice said recently that he believed Stone, appointed Chief Justice by President Roose- welt three years ago was successor to Charles Evans Hughes when the latter retire, would regard it as detrimental to his reputation if he both gained and retired from the chief justiceship under the New Deal.
 T had thought he would retirs at the end of this term" this jus. tlce added, but his friends say he won't"
 Stone has piloted the court thb year through one of the st0rmiest sessions of It's i5b-year-old history. with several justices openly crsti. cizlng their colleagues for alleged shortcomings ranging from e lack of respect for precedent to a desire to rc-write federal law.
 Stone lives here with his wife. the former Agnes Harvey of Chesterfield. N. H., which is also efene'g native town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

ed German forces nlassed for Q counter -attack in the Cisterna sec. tor and were beaten in their first ef- fort. A large force of German tanks tangled with the American vanguard on fiat fields northwest of the town.
 The battle ragged for four hours, and by dusk more than 90 of the giant Mark yrs and lighter enemy tanks were knocked out.
 Allied plans were out in force to support both Allied offensives. Light and medium bonbers concei1- trating on the Priverno-v valmonte road behind the beachhead caught a truck convoy and destroyed 100 vehicles.
 Warhawks and Thunderbolts rang ing the entire battle zones damaged another 100 or so trucks which the Germans had thrown into the effort to sustain their hard pressed land forces.
 sThunderbolts hit a road bridge over the Fiber 12 miles north of Rome and destroyed numerous rail- road cars and motor trucks in Q hail of blows against transport lines radi- ating from the capital,
 GA German communique reported heavy fighting lon both sides of Cisterna," transport hub on the Ap- plan Way 25 miles below Rome, tacitly acknowledging that the high- way had been cut and indicating an imminent threat to the town It. self. The communique admitted ''rather deep breaches" in the Ger many lines around the beachhead in several sectors.
 Bitter Fighting
 (On the main Italian front tine Nazi reported bitter fighting be- tween Sonnino, nine miles due north of Terracina, and Vallecorsa, eight miles to the northeast)
 Allied troops flaming out in gen. erally northeastern direction a lit- tie more than 20 miles below Rome slashed through the maze of Ger man defenses at several places, in a swiftly developing threat to trap the hard pressed NaI forces bearing the brunt of 6 full scale offensive by the Fifth and Eighth Armies to the southwest.
 United States armored forces bending back the coastal wing of the German def snses on the main front captured Monte Croce, which dominates the anchor base of Terracina and teamed with the French to capture the key towns of Pico and Lenola to the north.
 At the northeastern end of the main front the Canadian corps Of the Eighth army, in action as a unit for the first time, blasted a breach in the last segment of the Hitler line in violent fighting against the stiff opposition.
 Robert Vermillion, United Press War Correspondent, in a dispatch
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

tary installations at Graz, 30 miles south of Vienna, the Aviso Railway Viaduct on the Brenner Pass Line south of the Italian border, and Zagreb.
 Poor visibility ohscured the 18th Air Force targets. but towering col- umns of smoke attested to the dead- ly accuracy of the American blind bombing technique.
 The Atzgersdorf plant, was be- ieved to have been producing parts for Nad fighter planes.
 While the U. S. heavyweights ranged deep into the heart of the continent, swarms of other Amer ican and Allied planes streamed across northern France to resume the pre-invasion bombing of Hitler's west wall.
 Hundreds of medium bombers, fighters and flghter-bombers shut tied across the sunlit Dover Straits throughout the morning and early afternoon, and the rumble of heavy explosions coming from the Pas De Calais area could be heard clearly on the British coast.
 A headquarters announcement said four enemy airfields in north ern France were pounded by strong forces of American Marauders and Havocs and RAF Mitchells and BoS- ton bombers.
 AirfieIds Attacked
 The Nazi airf1elds attacked in the Paris area were not immediately identified, but the U. s. 9th Air Force revealed that almost 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, es- eorted by a similar number of Thunderbolt, Lightning and Mus tange fighters, blasted Berlin around mid-day.
 Nazi broadcasters described the attack on Berlin as a terror raid" !" indicating that upwards of 1000 tons of high explosives and fire bombs were showered down on the city and early enemy accounts had suggested that Mediterranean based bomberS also hit the capital in a follow-up raid.
 Later, however, the German home radio said American planes from the south hit targets in the Vienna area, touching of violent aerial fighting across southern Austria.
 The Berlin attack, first by the U s. eth Air Force heavies since last Fridays .500-plane raid on Ber- lin and Brunswick. carried the rec
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

firm was not engaged in actual war production-with the statement that:
 "Unless the civilian economy is to be dismissed as unimportant, or un- less we are to assume that only part of the country and not all of it IS at war, this was an emergency situ- ation."
 Urges Attention
 But if Congress should decide that changes in the law are necessary Riddle urged attention to two points:
 i. No statute dealing with war time disputes should depend for its Implication on technical distinctions between manufacture and produc- lion on the one hand and other es- sentiai economic operations on the other"
 2. The presidents power to deal with labor disputes arising out or defiance of War Labor Board orders "should not be narrower" than tne WLB's power to deal with such dis- putes. Otherwise, 1t will be impos- sible to enforce WLB orders.
 Concerning the room for dis. agreement on the legal aspects or the Ward case," Riddle said:
 Tt may be that as a result ol these hearings, this committee VII believe that certain changes should be made in the provisions of the War Labor Disputes Act. I am tn favor of any changes that will make the meaning of the act clearer ana remove doubt as to its application to particular situati0ns."
 Essential Work
 Riddle told the President in an opinion prior to the seizure that 'sNontgomery ward and Company Is engaged in activities of 6 kind that are essential to the mainten- ance of our war economy"
 Any interruption or etoppage Of the eompany's activities would have e serious adverse enect upon the war effort" he said.
 Pending the attorney generale testimony, Republican members ol the seven-inan committee resumed their charges that government one clals failed to utilize every available means to avert federal seizure of Ward plants.
 Representative Carl T. Curtis. R.. Neb., said that the government "de- libeFately wanted Co seine company properties, adding that Action taken by nt least three agencies prior Co the seizure showed "that such was the motive"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

in self-defense while temporarily insane.
 Today, Prosecutor Daniel Maher questioned Mrs. Miller about an al- legged conversation with Dr. Wat son Eldridge, @ colleague of Lind's at St. Elizabeth's mental hospital.
 Did you tell pr. Eldridge that you had received ii1heritances of $l5, 900 and 5000 and ask him, For Gods sake. don't say anything about this to Bob, and tell him that Mil Ter had threatened to kill both Lind and you?" Maher asked,
 "That money question" she re- piled, was just a dream. No, l didn't say any of that" Mrs. Miller refused-unless her counsel should later advise tito submit to fingerprinting in an effort to identify Q gun found in an eIl- velope in Linds car after the kill ing. A single fingerprint, the only one that has figured in the case, was found on the envelope.
 Did you ever touch that gum" Maher asked Mrs. Miller.
 No" she said. T was afraid of that gun"
 Jury Excused
 Judge Ben Moore excused the jury while he asked the witness:
 Are you willing to have your fingerprints taken for comparison with the print found on the en- velope which contained that gun?"
 T don't care,' Mrs. Miller said, but I would do 1t only on advice of my counsel"
 Again on cross examination, Mrs. Miller testified that there was only one gun in the Miller household in the 16 years she has been married to Miller. Thus far three guns have been mentioned in the case-the one that did the killing, taken from Mil- Ter by police; the one found in the car, and another found by police in Eind's nome.
 Asked whether she had keys to Lind's house, Mrs. Miller said. NO, indeed, I never did"
 Mrs. Miller also testified that she spent from $20 to $25 week of Miller's money buying groceries for Lind.
 T bought him food" she said under redirect examinations by de- fense Attorney M. Mason Welch, T went to market and paid for it each week.
 How much of Bob Miller's money did you spend for Lind every week at market?"
 "Never less than $2O or $25. If I was buying ham, it would cost a lot more money"
 What did you do with the grocer ies?"
 T delivered it to his Gind's) of- flee or put it in his car"
 Mrs. Miller said she paid Lind's life insurance for three years.
 Did you ever give Lind any of your own money?"
 No, I turned in some of my in- surance policies. But Bob paid the premiums on them"
 "Was there any particular pur- pose for giving this money to Lind?"
 Well, he was in trouble with ar- other woman. woman he went with for 20 years before he mar ried."
 Lind was Q widower at the time of his death.
 The court sustained objections to further questioning along this line.
 Yesterday Mrs. Miller said she saw Lind as often as three times a week.