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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-01
JAP FLERs GIVE ALARM

Japanese search planes from
New Guinea and Carolines bases
spotted the huge fleet as II APP
preached Pslau and flashed
warning 70 the islands enabling
ships anchored there 10 flee
The Palsu group of 200 small
heavily wooded islands lies AZ the
western end Of the Carohnes $50
raiies east Of Mindanao, southern
most of the Philippines, and 1000
miles from Tokyo. Largest ~ the
group is 142-square-mile Babel
thusp.
Solonons based Liberators Of
Gen MacArthur's command struck
their first blow Of the war at
Truk Wednesday noon and de-
ttroyed 81 10 SO japanese planes
on the ground and in the air at
a cost of single bomber.
Heavy damage was inflicted on
Japanese installations on Eten
Island in the Truk atoll More
than 200 hits were counted on the
shop and hangar area, parking
aprons and rlnWayS
Evening star., 1944-07-14
kemper Says COP Drive
Will Stay Out Of Red
By the Associated Press.

x1s Liz ASSUSlAtCu IlCes
NEW YORK, July 14.-James s.
Kemper, Chicago insurance execu-
tive. who was selected yesterday to
direct the financing of the Repub-
licans presidential campaign, said
the campaign would be run on "a
balanced budget"
Soon after his appointment as
chairman Of the Republican Ma
tional Finance Committee was an
nounced by Herbert Brownell, jr.
national chairman, Mr.. Kemper
started rouno OF conferences with
Republican finance chairmen in five
States to coordinate the national
and State campaigns.
These chairmen are: Walter Hope,
New York; former Senator Joseph
Frelinghuysen. New Jersey; Ben
Tate, Ohio; Cyrus L. Phillips, Wis
consin, and Horace O. ]. Matthews,
Pennsylvania.
I'VE won't spend any money we
don't raise, ane we won't raise any
money we don't need" Mr.. Kemper
told a press conference.
Mr.. Kemper, 81, president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
in 1910 and 1891, called mounting
Federal deficits a mortgage on saw
ings" and said most of our postwar
planning will b. of little Importance
If we don't elect the Dewey -Bricker
ticket"
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Weather
Continued From First Page.)

the year was set on June II when
the Weather Bureau recorded l.4l
inches of rain.
st. Swithin's Day Legend.
Nobody was inclined to look 4
gift horse in the mouth, but there
were those in the droueht-stricken
farming areas who might have pre-
ferred = few drops Of rain tomorrow
Is . good omen. Tomorrow Is St.
Swithin's day, and. according to
British legend, If 1t rains on July is,
1t will rain continuously for 40 days
thereafter. The legend rose when,
after the canonization Of st. swith-
in, removal Of the sanctified bones
from the churchyard Of Winchester
Cathedral to the interior Of the
church WAS delayed for 10 days by
incessant rain.
Throughout Virginia the rains
yesterday were accepted As life
savers to crops. Even though many
fields were sunburned beyond sal
vation, the rain tended to brighten
the prospects for second paintings.
Most areas Of the State benefited in
varying degrees, and In some Sec
tions counteracted the threat OF
fires such as swept through Mathews
County and had burned over about
1000 acres by yesterday afternoon.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Abe Studies Legion
Beer License Plea

The ABC Board today took under
consideration the application of the
James Reese Europe Post Of the
american Legion for a Glass D club
license for the sale of beer and light
wine at its new clubhouse. 1914 Yer
mont avenue NV. Granting Of the
license had been protested and de-
Tended during two different hear
ings. The post is an organization of
colored servicemen.
Thomas E. Lodge. board chairman,
said testimony of both sides would
be carefully studied by board mem.
oers and That decision might be
reached within about a week or 10
days.
| Most of the hearing this morning
was devoted to testimony by Legion
members, both white and colored.
who supported the application.
Testimony of opponents was taken
a week ago.
Paul Flaherty, attorney for the
post, contended that granting of
the license was permissible under
the law and conditions would be
better under ABC supervision than
II the license were denied.
For the protesting organizations
Or. j. Warren Hastings, pastor of
National City Christian Church.
said four churches in the vicinity
OF the clubhouse and more than
hah OF the property owners had
objected.
Among witnesses urging granting
OF the license were C. Francis Nc.
Carthy, District Department Legion
commander, who praised the post s
record; Fred G. Fraser, former first
vice national commander of the
Legion, and Gail T. Judd, captain
OF the Legion's national guard of
honor.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Grave Of Pushkin Desecroted
BY Germans, Russian Choroe

the stove in the museum, which the
Germans turned into a brothel. The
poets armchair, reyelvers and other
OF his original manuscripts were
taken to Germany. " t. ,-.
One building was burned Tht
Sviatogorsky Monastery founded BY
Ivan the Terrible, where Pushkir
was buried. had been bombed.
Objects of art and furniture which
the Empress Elizabeth gave Abra.
ham Hannibal. the Abyssinian gen.
eral In Russian service who wa:
Pushkin's maternal great grand.
father, were burned and smashed
Oak trees under which he used te
write were chopped down for fire.
wood.
Russians also were shocked b,
stories from Wilno telling Of mas.
destruction to the SOVIET Lithuan.
ian capital and Of thousands Of Rus.
SLAMS, Jews and Lithuanians exc.
cuted.
Only three Jews were found in the
city which once had a large Jewish
population. Soviet dispatches said
These were an old man, who walked
with outstretched arms. and a wom-
an and small boy.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Nazis Use Dynamite
In French Massacre
BY the Associated press

~ 'A'e nsSOSlAtSu EIesS.
LONDON. July 1.-THE French
press service said last night that
nearly 800 persons were massacred
June 10 by the Germans in the VIII
lage OF Oradour-sur- Glane. Central
France. 1t said the men we're shot.
and the women and children died
inside a locked church which was
flrst dynamited and then set afire.
The massacre previously had been
reported by the British Broadcast
Ing Co., which said about l,l00 of
the towns 1900 inhabitants were
killed. June 10 also was the date
Of another massacre at the Greek
town Of Distomo and second an
niversary Of the destruction of
Lidice, Czechoslovakian village.
Only seven or eight" of the
French towns population escaped,
the French agency said, and Ill
buildings were burned.
There were contradictory reports
as to the reason for the German act.
Some say an arms dump was
found In the village, others that
some Germans were killed there" "
the agency said.
The press service reported Ger
man troops arrived in the village at
1:30 pm. and the commander d.
rected that the entire population
assemble on the fairgrounds. The
men were marched away in small
groups and shot. The women and
children then were herded into the
church for slaughter.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW. July l4.-The Germans
have desecrated the grave Of Alex.
ander Pushkin, taken away relic,
that marked his memory and burned
many of his manuscripts, Red Star
Correspondent Maj. Boris Azbukin
reported today in a dispatch which
caused widespread indignation here,
Pushkin, 10th century Russian
poet, who more than once was In
trouble with Czarist authorities be-
cause of his liberal opinions. is re.
vered by Russians as Shakespeare
Is by English-speaking peoples.
1T would be the same" one Rus.
sian shouted today, as II the Ger
mans had wrecked Stratford-on-
Avon or destroyed George Wash
ington's Mount Vernon"
Maj. Azbukin, who is with Gen,
Andrei I. Veremenko's Baltic army
advancing on Riga, said the Rus
SLAMS learned of the incident in
the Pushkinskie Gori Pushkin
Mountains, the country where the
poet lived and was buried.
Many Of his manuscripts were
declared to have been used to heat
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Pietro Caruso, Fascist
Police Chief Of Rome. Held
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
ROME, July 14.-Pietro Caruso,
police chief Of Rome during the
final four months of German oc-
cupation and said to be the most
notorious Fascist so far to fall into
Allied hands, may be the first OF
enemy leaders to be tried as a war
criminal.
CAruso,. now in Regina Coeh Jail,
which he once supervised, faces
trial by both Italian and Allied
military courts here, but as in
vestigation Of his case proceeds, 1t
Is reliably said, the enormity of the
crimes laid to his door is such that
he may be held over for the courts
in which the Allies expect to try
those held criminally responsible
for the war and acts of barbarian
committed during it.
Investigators say they already
have af1davits that Caruso per-
sonally chose so of the 800 italians
executed in mass by the Germans
last March in reprisal for the kill
ing OF 81 SIS soldiers by a bomb.
Evening star., 1944-07-14

~
courageously maneuvered his pla-
toon in a skillful, steady advance
against strong enemy resistance.
Ignoring his own safety in the in
terest of his men and the success of
his assigned mission, he heroically
continued to direct his platoon's s
fire until he lost consciousness from
third wound, which caused his
death.
1t. Corbett entered the service in
194l, after graduation from Catholic
University. and was sent overseas in
February, 1912. He was "a years old.
At Catholic University 1t. Corbett
was awarded the Harris Trophy for
ability as scholar and athlete. He
was an outstanding distance runner
and at the time of graduation held
the university stadium records for
the mile and 2-mile run and several
triangular meet records.
1t. Ben A. ThFkield, former tele-
graph editor of the Washington Post
and now an instructor at Solomons,
Nd, received the Silver Star for
the feat of his gunboat in fir-
ing so rounds without a miss dur
ing the landing Of New Zealand
troops from light, surface craft In
the Treasury Islands south of Bou-
gainville. A native of Middletown,
Ohio, he spent Is months In action
In the Pacific.
Col. Howard r. Johnson, formerly
Of 106 Third street NE, who also
received the Silver Star, jumped near
the Douvre River in France on D.
day. gathered the scattered elements
Of his paratroop unit, moved them to
LaBarquette Dam and defended the
objective for 36 hours despite coun-
terAttacks.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Model Husband SLAYER
Sent 10 Industrial School
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORRISTOWN, Pa, July IA
Mrs. Helen Wucherer. Il, was sen.
fenced today to an indeterminate
term In the Women's Industria,
School, Muncy. Pa, on a charge oi
second-degree murder in the shoot
ing of her husband. August, 50-year.
old real estate salesman and high
school teacher. whom neighbor,
called q model husband"
Judge George c. Corson pro.
nounced sentence.
Mr.. Wucherer was shot in the
parlor of his home last October 81
after hs wife learned he had beer
friendly with another woman, the
State said. Mrs. Wucherer, who
pleaded insanity, was convicted ir
May. Six weeks later her 65-year.
old father, Edward H. Hatfield, {
carpenter and close friend of Mr.
Wucherer, committed suicide BY
hanging at wildwood, N. j., setting
up q $1,000 fund for his daughter'l
rehabilitation on her release from
prison."
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Gen. Roosevelt Praised
By Gen. Terry Allen
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July
14.-Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt,
jr. "A delightful companion
and 4 loyal assistant"
That was the way Maj. Gen. Terry
Allen, former commander Of the
famous 1st Infantry Division, yes
terday described the man who was
his aide in the North Africa and
Sicily campaigns. Gen. Roosevelt
died Of a heart attack in Normandy
Wednesday night.
Gen. Allen, who now commands
an infantry division at nearby
Camp Carson, added: His devotion
to the interests Of the 1st infantry
was always uppermost in his mind. =
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Circus Seeks Release
|IoPreserve Assets
.Ry the Associated Presa

4
HARTFORD. Conn. July l4.-Le.
gal representatives of the Ringing
Bros, Barnum d. Bailey Circus and
committee of the Hartford Bar
Association will meet again today tc
try to work out a way In which tc
get the big shown rolling again.
The two groups discussed possible
solutions yesterday. They agreed, q
spokesman said, that the circus in
operation could pay It's obligations
but II kept idle would lose much OF
its assets.
1t. Gov. William L. Hadden, at
torney for the circus, told members
Of the bar association committee
that Hartford city authorities want
to get the circus out Of the city.
Mr.. Hadden suggested that, since
the circus assets In Hartford ap-
proximate 5000, 900. a bond in that
amount be filed with the approval
Of Superior Court Judge John H
King. who yesterday ordered the
circus into the hands of q receiver.
This proposal, . joint committee
spokesman said, will be placed be-
fore Judge King today.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Civilian Accidentally Thrown
From B-29 Puruchutes to Sufety

"a side blister Of the plane he re.
called instructions for parachut.
ing at high attitudes and delayed
pulling the ripcord until he wa.
sure he had reached a level with
sufficient air for breathing. He sale
that while he fell through space
the pressure reminded him of beine
drawn into q huge air tunnel.
Mr.. Claymore, in the Enid Army
airfield hospital for observation
and treatment of minor laceration,
received when he landed in a field
was anxious to leave. explaining:
My wife is vacationing in Call
fornia and my bird dog will b<
awfully hungry II 1 don't get home ,
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, k.,
Dies Of Heart Attack in France
Son Of Ex-President
Had Led Strenuous
Life in Two Wars
~ the Assoc,atsd Press.

~ the Associatsd Press.
LONDON, July 14.-Brig Gen.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr.. 56, ad-
venturous son of the former
President, died Wednesday night
Of 4 heart attack as he rested in
a captured German truck on the
Normandy battlefield.
His death came at HAS pm. In
his o1ice-bedroom in the converted
truck 1T the conclusion of an
arduous day Of carrying encourage
ment and guidance to the troops of
the 4th Infantry Division, of which
he was assistant commanding
general.
He win be buried tonight with full
military honors In the land he twice
fought to free from the Germans
and IN which his brother Quentin
was killed in the World War.
High-ranking officers, including
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, COM
mander Of the LIST Army, and Mai.
Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins, con-
queror Of Cherbourg and commander
OF the United States 7th Corps, and
scores Of doughboys will attend the
burial ceremony in an American
cemetery.
Son viii he Present.
His son, Quentin. 4 captain in
the lst Infantry Division which
his father once served as deputy
commander, also will be present.
The 4th Division Band will give
musical salute.
(0en. Roosevelt's only surviv.
ing brother. 1t. Col. Archibald
Roosevelt. was wounded in the
lett leg by shrapnel in the fight
ing on Biak Island June 20. His
wife said at New York he had
written that the wound was not
serious but that broncho- -pneu-
monia and other complications
had developed.
(Another brother, Mai. Kermit
Roosevelt, died In active service
with the armed forces In Alaska.
June 4. lo43)
zen. roosevelt, whose cheerful
grin was familiar sight during this
war In many an advanced observa-
ton post In North Africa. Sicily.
Italy and France. was stricken with
slight heart attack nve days ago,
but he insisted on continuing his
strenuous daily tours.
Wounded Three Times.
Returning late Wednesday, he ad.
mitted he felt tired and told his
son Quentin that "the old machine
Is pretty well worn down. Quentin
had returned to his post only two
hours before the general died.
Like his father before him. Gen
Roosevelt led 4 strenuous life. He
fought In both World Wars and
between them made a number of
hunting trips to out-of- the.vay
places throughout the world.
In the last war he fought in
France with the lst Infantry Di-
vision-the division always closest
to his heart. Starting as a major
ne finished as q colonel and was
wounded three times.
In this war, as the lst Divisions
deputy commanding general, he rode
Evening star., 1944-07-14

in the forefront of its amphibioua
assault landings in Algeria and
Sicily. Later he served in SARDINIA
Corsica and Italy as liaison omcer
with the French.
Afraid Of Missing Invasion.
Returned to Britain last March by
plane, suffering from pneumonia
the general constantly fretted that
he might miss the biggest show Of
all-the invasion Of Europe. But
once again-this time as deputy
commander Of the 4th Division-he
was on hand for the start of battle
and landed with the first wave.
Gen. Roosevelt really was a bat
tie casualty" said Mai Gen. r. O
Barton, the 4th Division command
er. All day long he rode the lines
He spared himself nothing. In fact
he had been out at command post,
cheering the men, helping com.
manders and helping me.
There is not a CT soldier in thu
4th Division but will feel his los,
severely. and that goes for the ON.
GERS and commander, too"
Before his death, Gen. Roosevelt,
had made plans to 60 back to thu
front yesterday.
He told me We would get ar
early start" said his aide, 1t. Mar.
Gus O. Stevenson, San Antonio. Tex
1t. Stevenson said the general wa
pleased because the ordnance boy,
had equipped the captured true,
with reading light so he coult
scan the works of Shakespeare h,
loved to quote to fellow soldiers.
Beyond Medical Help.
The general suffered a heart at
tack at 1l:l5 pm. and called to II
stevenson. The aide summoned
physician, but Gen. Roosevelt wa
beyond medical help and died ,
half hour later.
| His survivors include his widow
Mrs. Eleanor Alexander Roosevelt
three sons. 1t. Theodore, III. U. s
N. r.; 1t. Cornelius Van Shack, U
s. N. r., and Quentin. and a daueh.
ter, Mrs. William Mcmillan of Bal.
timore.
Also surviving are his mother
Mrs. Edith Roosevelt: two sisters
Mrs. Richard Derby of Oyster Bay
and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Of
Washington. and his brother, 1t
Col. Archibald Roosevelt
Evening star., 1944-07-14
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY. July a.
Joseph E. Claymore, SO, a civilian
flight engineer at the Oklahoma
City Air Service Command, para.
chuted to safety after he was ac-
cidentally throw from q B-29 Super
Fortress into the substratosphere,
Army authorities reported.
The plane was on q routine high
altitude flight yesterday near Enid.
Cause of the accident and the height
from which Mr.. Claymore fell were
not disclosed.
Mr.. Claymore told public relations
officers that as he was thrown from
Evening star., 1944-07-14
|Hun Declares Attack
On Department S Draft
Policy Grossly Unfair

Secretary of State Hull today de-
scribed rs . violent and grossly un-
fair statement an article in the
Washington Times Herald today at
tacking the State Department be.
cause a number of young foreign
service officers were not serving in
the armed forces. '
The article was accompanied by
the pictures, ages and q few per-
Sonal facts about each of the OH
GERS. The subject was brought up
at Mr.. Hull's conference by q re-
porter from the New York Daily
News.
According to the best information
available from q number Of sources,
Mr.. Hull said, the State Depart
ment has one of the best records
OF any Government agency on the
number OF draft deferments which
nave been requested.
Work Closely With Military.
The department, he said, has
never requested the deferment in
the State Department of any one
under 26 and has asked q draft delay
for only one person under 80, that
being for only 80 days.
1t is well known, Mr.. Hull said,
that many of the highly trained ON
GERS OF the foreign service stationed
all over the world are closely asso-
ciated with military officials and
render services indispensable to the
military forces In the prosecution OF
the war.
A summary Of draft deferments in
the foreign service obtained from the
State Department showed that five
persons under 26 have obtained draft
deferments which are due to expire
and the extension OF which will not
be requested. For men under 80, the
department said that 96 occupa-
tional deferments had been asked.
There are 457 men in the foreign
service between 30 and 81, in q
deferred status.
The total number of males In the
foreign service, including clerks and
other employees as we'll as officers.
is 2,039. the department said. OF
these, 1913 are between 80 and 81,
and in this group II are CLASSIFIED
as 4-F.
Men between 26 and % total 225,
OF whom A are classified 4-F and 43
are In IA awaiting induction.
30l Leave for Armed Forces.
Foreign service personnel under
rs number 174, of whom 81 are 4-F,
and for the balance of whom no de.
ferment is being asked.
Since Pearl Harbor. the depart.
ment, said, 30l men Of military age
have left the foreign service to enter
the armed forces and 100 classified
rs la are now awaiting induction
i The press is welcome, Mr.. Hull
said, to the detailed facts regard
ing the draft status Of any of the
State Department or foreign service
employees. He said he would be
glad for these to be spread on the
record for the benefit of any GOOD
citizen who is ready to accept the
truth.
He also said that he was quite
willing for any one to consult the
War Manpower Commission about
the matter.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Alexandra Teenoeers
To Hold Second Dance

The Alexandria sTeen-Age Club
will hold its second street dance at
$50 tomorrow night at Cores
ESQ station on Wilkes and South
Washington streets. An orchestra
will provide music for dancing.
Alan He'll, city recreation d.
rector. announced simultaneously
that 1t has become necessary to ex-
clude boys and girls over 13 from
the Maury School Playground un-
til more space Il available when
the grounds are completed.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
Morrison Reminds
Of Duty in Pacific
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 14.-Home Secre.
tary Herbert Morrison, in q re.
minder Of Britain's war against
Japan, told Commons today we
will fight 1t with all our hearts,"
There can be no question" he
said In q debate on continuatio
of government emergency war DOW.
ers, "of letting our American Allies
the Australian or New Zealander,
down or Sinking our full share o1
the burdens Of the conflict"
Evening star., 1944-07-14
One Killed, 20 Injured
When Truck Overturns
~ the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. July 14.-James
Moses, 10, colored. Of Baltimore, was
killed and more than 20 other men
and women injured yesterday when
o truck taking them to work at the
Maryland Drydock Co. collided with
m automobile and overturned.
About 40 persons were on the truck
when the accident occurred. Two
we're seriously injpFed.
Evening star., 1944-07-14

M T S. MdTRdTct
r e & a n, 5Ol5
Seventh place
NV, was killed
in in I a n try
fighting April 23
on the An z / o
beachhead in
Italy.
Pvt. r e & a n,
W no attended
Park View and
S t. Gabriel'S
S c h ools here,
was a taxi driv-
er when he en-
tered service in
Senfennher 1Qd2