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Evening star., 1944-06-17
Cl0 Renews Fund
Drive After Indorsinq
Roosevelt, Wallace

Plans to raise funds for the sup
port Of approved candidates today
occupied the attention OF the CIC
Political Action Committee, which
yesterday indorsed President Roose-
welt and Vice President Wallace
for reelection and approved 4
platform asking . guaranteed an
nual wage for workers and . post
war planned economy ITO develop
. new life Of plenty"
The Republican National Com
mittee has charged that the CIC
committee, which Acknowledges It
already has raised . fund In excess
Of t70o, 900, 10 violating the Corrupt
Practices Act, but Attorney General
Biddle has said he finds nothing
unlawful Ia its activities.
Nothing to Hide, Murray Says.
Philip Murray. CIo president, who
presided ct the convention here,
told the delegates the CIO COM
mittee has nothing to hide"
We want everybody to know what
Ne are doing" he said.
Mr.. Murray also repeated his
long-standing criticism OF Govern
lS1ent wage policies.
The 900 delegates representing
CIO unions gave their loudest ap-
plause, and d few scattered cheers,
for o special resolution indorsing
Mr.. Wallace at the opening session
yesterday. It was offered by r. J.
Thomas, president Of the United
Automobile Workers, and declared
that Mr.. wallace has demonstrate
ID his Arm attachment to progress
1--we principles"
The Endorsement Of President
Roosevelt was contained In the
$500 word platform offered to the
convention by Resolutions COM
ulittee.
Platform Adopted.
The platform was adopted with
out change and with no floor discus
sion except for q brief speech by
Ferdinand Smith, New York, rep
resenting the National Maritime
Union.
Mr.. Smith read Z section which
asked legislation To prohibit activi- |
ties or propaganda directed against |
any individuals because OF their ra-
cial, religious or national origin,
immediate passage OF IN Antipoll
tax bill and enactment Of - genu-
t11e soldier vote bill"
Mr.. Smith said that section was
the most important Of Ill ana
praised what he termed the Political
Action Commuters Liquidation ~
like that word" Of Representatives |
Etarnes, Costello and Dies.
It was the first public claim from
q CIO source for the defeat Of Mr.. |
6tarnes In the Alabama and Mr..
Costello in the California Demo-
cratic primaries ana for the deci-
sion OF Chairman Dies Of the House |
Committee on Un-Anerican Activi-
ties not to run for reelection. Mr..
Dies gave Z throat ailment as his
reason for withdrawing from the
Texas primary.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
REAL ESTATE
LOANS

First Trust money available %
rcllnance your home. No re.
newals. Or II you have meney
to invest ws can uss > limited
amount.
Aaacostia Bsilding Association
1888 Coed heps Read So.
IR. 5So4
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Jews to Celebrate

Representative Weiss, Democrat,
OF Pennsylvania, and v. M. Zubilin,
vnief Of the consular division Of the
Soviet Union, will speak at the
tenth anniversary celebration of the
establishment Of Biro-Bidjan, jew
1sh autonomous territory in the
Soviet Union, ct . pm. tomorrow at
the Jewish Community Center.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Robots
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parent attempt to confuse British
defenses, but rockets from ack-ack
batteries plunged steadily upward,
and q number OF the pilotless craft
were reported crashed
Putting caution before curiosity,
people OF Southern England flocked
into bomb shelters, most Of which
were jammed throughout the night.
Even as Hitler was sending over
scores Of the small unnamed craft,
American Flying Fortresses ana Lib
orators late yesterday were pound
ing military installations In the
Pas-de-Calais area, generally be-
Hlieved to be the robot launching
grounds.
Raj Spitfire pilots dived through
terrific fire from their own ack-acke
guns In bids to destroy these new
German buzz-bombs.
Fighter Pilots Attack Craft.
Fighter pilots are expected to
speArhead defense against the ro-
bots. Hits may not always explode
the craft, but flyers are reported
able to bring them down where they
would do the least harm.
At least three persons were killed
and others injured by one Of the
flying bombs which crashed last
night. Before 1t came down it was
observed streaking across the sky
with orange flames darting from its
tail and ack-ack bursting all around
It.
While every one is speculating
about the robots, this much seems
to be agreed-that they have high
speed, q bright red light tail, spit
flames from their exhaust, fly on q
straight low course and hum rhyth-
mically like q motorhoat.
The Allied aerial hammering for
months OF the Pas-de- Calais coast
and Prime Minister Churchill's
warning In the House Of Commons
months ago that new methods OF
attack could be expected appeared
good enough proof for the man in
the street that the Allied high COM
mand had not been caught mapping.
And some recalled, too, a raid Of
nearly q year ago-one that seemed
strange at the time-when several
hundred heavy Raj bombers
pounded forest at Peenemunde on
the Baltic coast near Stettin. They
q research station where
Germans were believed experiment.
Ing with the robots.
"Only Overture" Naxis Say.
A Stockholm dispatch said Swed-
ish correspondents had quoted
German military spokesman as say
Ing what has happened 50 far is
only the overture. It still Is ques-
ton whether the new weapon will
mark another phase In war as did
the airplane In the last World War"
Germans released no details about
the flying bomb, but said that Eng
land on Friday experienced "a 49,
hour alarm, the longest Of this war"
British morning newspapers as
serted that If Hitler had hoped to
disrupt British morale and weaken
their will to war he had failed
utterly.
"The British people will not de-
mand protection at hope to the
detriment Of the major task abroad"
the London Daily Express said.
Each smoking missile that comes
through the air over here is one
piece of German output the less to
be used against the armies fighting
for the liberation of Europe" the
London Daily Herald said. ANY
way, our men in Normandy are
facing much worse. We do not
complain at the fact that once again
civilian Britain stands in the front
line-and this time we share some
Of the trials Of an army on the Of
fensive, an army marching to
victory"
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Storm Hits South Dokoto
BY the Associated Pres,

CENTERvILLE. s. OAK, June IT.
-Cyclontc winds moved down num-
erous farm buildings In strip 8
miles wide and IL long last night
between here and Davis. No deaths
were reported. Some 30 Northwest
Iowa farm buildings also were re-
ported leveled.
Evening star., 1944-06-17

Every mile our boys win means
longer communication lines. These
mean greater expense, more en-
ergy, more Of everything from all
of ~. Let's all back the attack:
Buy more War Bonds.
Evening star., 1944-06-17

Torture Tejs with another bond.
He win fesl the squsese moro than
4ou do.
Evening star., 1944-06-17

finished 1t OF and picked up III
Japs as prisoners.
The carrier planes spread explo-
sions among barracks. airfield and
fuel tanks.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Z Army Flyers Killed
In Collision Of bombers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHREVEPORT, La, Mar. T.
Twelve Barksdale Field airmen were
killed yesterday when two medium
bombers crashed after a collision
while in flying formation.
The planes were buried in the
mud OF a plantation field about
8 miles northeast of Shreveport
There were no survivors.
A farmer said he saw the two
planes circling side by side and
then one ship veered into the side
OF the other. One fell into a spin
and crashed nearby. The othe,
crashed about a mile from the
other.
The dead, as announced by
Barksdale Field, included:
Second 1t. Dan j. Strain, %. in
structor-pilot, Broken Bow, Okla.
Second 1t. Thomas w. Wilson, III
student pilot, Arlington, Tex; Seconc
1t. Joseph F.. Zacharias, %, co-pilot
Chicago; Second 1t. Donald A. Ian
dis. 70, co-pilot, Burbank, Calf. (:
Second 1t. Louis r. Hanson, %. CO.
pilot. Cincinnati: Second 1t. Harvey
T. label, Is. bombardier, Milwaukee
and Corpl. Donald G. Witt, l9
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Casper
Wyo.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
; Persons Injured
In Traffic Accidents

A 4-year-old girl was severely in
jured by an automobile as she
stepped from streetcar loading
platform here. and two men were
hurt when an automobile in which
they were riding failed to stop at the
end OF a dead-end street.
Lisa Powell, 4, daughter of Royce
Powell, vice president of the WASH
lngton Council of the Navy League,
suffered a fractured leg and a pos
sible skull fracture late yesterday
police said, when hit by a car driven
by David G.. Busey of 210l Thirty
seventh street NV.
The accident occurred when the
girl, accompanied by her nurse. Mrs.
Etna White, stepped from a loading
platform in the 1900 block of Wis
consin avenue NV. and into the
path OF the automobile, police said
She was en- route to her home. at
1927 Thirty-first street NV. ac-
cording to police.
AT Georgetown Hospital, where
she was taken, attaches said today
that her condition was improving.
Joseph c. GLADDEN., 81, of 3l45
Mount Pleasant street NV. was
slightly injured last night when he
failed to stop his automobile at the
dead end of Allison street NV.
where it meets Blagden avenue, DO
lice said. A passenger in the car
Kirby Dovell, Al, of 6139 Georgia
avenue NV, suffered a fractured
leg, according to police. Both men
were treated at Emergency Hosnital
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Lonergan Back in Cell;
Little Hope for Early Trial
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. ANY possi-
bility that Wayne Lonergan's sec
ond murder trial would get under
way quickly appeared today to be
buried beneath legal stumbling
blocks.
With the accused wife slayer back
IN cell at the Tombs, processing
disappointment over the delay, Dis
trict Attorney Frank Hogan said he
had not decided whether to press
for a new trial Immediately.
Even If we started tomorrow" he
added, "it would take at least two
weeks for the preliminary ma
neuvers."
A new jury panel must be drawn.
because Judge John j. Freschi dis
missed the original talesmen when
he abruptly ended the first trial
yesterday with a statement that
Lonergan's attorney, Edward v.
Broderick, had sought to make "a
farce and mockery" of the first
degree murder proceedings,
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Six n. Y. Stamp Dealers
Charged With Fraud

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. six New
York stamp dealers were charged
Yesterday In seven Federal Court in
dlctments with conspiring to de-
fraud collectors by altering stamps,
tnereby increasing catalogue values.
A blanket conspiracy indictment
charged that by means of false.
forged and altered imprints. remov-
ing or adding perforations the 50 400
value of 16.103 stamps was boosted
to $4,000.
Individual indictments charged
the six men with possession of
forged and altered stamps or with
dealing in such specimens.
Clayton D. Hollinger, assistant to
the United States attorney, said the
investigation had unearthed "a
racket that has victimized an un-
known percentage of patrons who
invest millions of dollars annually in
foreign and domestic stamps of all
periods"
The indicted men, who will be ar
raigned for pleading Thursday, are
Albert j. Rabinowitz of National
Stamp Sales, Henry Lieblich, doing
business as Cosmopolitan Stamp
Co.; Michael M. Karen. who traded
as Radio Stamp Shop: Abraham
Meyer Kalish. Harry Cohen and
Morris j. Stern, all Of New York
City.
Evening star., 1944-03-04

are to enter scientific fields as nat
urally as boys.
Little girls are brought up to
believe they will be good with babies
but bad with radios" she remarked.
"A great deal of this happens be-
fore q child is 6, and it robs us of
nine-tenths of our potential woman
scientists"
The speaker, associate curator of
the department of anthropology,
American Museum Of Natural His
tory, spoke at the Science Talent
Institute at the Statler Hotel.
The 40 young delegates attending
the institute are competing for $1l,-
600 in scholarships and were chosen
from $1,000 entrants in the Sd an
nual science talent search conducted
jointly by the Science Clubs of
America and the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Co.
Contestants include two District
students-Jacques Charles Poirier,
16, a recent Woodrow Wilson High
School graduate now at the Uni
versity Of Chicago, and Nancy Agnes
Durant, Is, Dunbar High School
graduate just enrolled at Howard
University.
Nancy's project is the fame
proofing of paper and cloth which
she started after the Coconut Grove
fire tragedy. An Alexandria resi-
dent, she Is the first colored student
ever to reach the finals in the
science talent search.
jacques plans to become an or
ganic chemist. When wartime con-
dttions made organic chemicals
hard to get. he improvised apparatus
and practical methods o. synthesis
to make them himself. :
Evening star., 1944-03-04
DR.. Connerty 10 Head
Hospital Laboratory

DR.. Harold v. Connerty, former
professor Of pathology at the George
town Medical School, has been an
pointed head Of the Prince Georges
General Hospital laboratory, DR.. A.
Kirk Besley, hospital superintendent,
said today.
Dr. Connerty is the author of a
number of scientific papers and is n
diplomat of the American Board CT
Pathology. He will be assisted by
Miss Eleanor Rose Haynie and Ms;
Helen l.. Edge, medical and x-ray
technologists.
DR.. Besley said a roentgenoloeist
Is yet to be appointed. He said the
X-ray and laboratory facilities are
among the best in the Washington
area.
DR.. Besley said that in order to
Coordinate better the hospital lab
oratory facilities with the county
and State health departments,
branch State laboratory will be To-
Gated in the hospital This labora-
tory will be in charge of Mrs. Helen
w. Lowell, formerly in charge of
the Annapolis bacteriology labora-
tory.
Miss Haynie is a graduate Of
Temple University and received her
x-ray training at the Philadelphia
General Hospital. She served as
chief technician in laboratories in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
York and Washington.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Italian Strike Cancelled,
Mass Meeting Planned
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NAPLES, Mar. 4-The Allied Con-
troll Commission has announced that
a proposed 10-minute strike of
Italian workers in protest against
Prime Minister Churchill's recent
statements in support of Premier
Marshal Badoglio's government has
been Cancelled.
Leaders Of the action, Socialist
and Communist parties, said that
instead of strike, which had been
planned for today, mass meeting
would be held In Naples March II
when plans would be made to circu-
late a petition. This presumably
again would call for the abdication
Of King Victor Emmanuel and re-
organization Of the government.
The leaders said the strike was
called of ION precise instructions oI
the Allied supreme command" The
Italians conferred yesterday with
Allied authorities.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
New Cruiser Springfield
10 Be Named for 7 Cities
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Mar. 4.-For the first
time In naval history a United
States warship will be named for
two cities when the light cruiser
Springfield, honoring those cities in
Massachusetts and Illinois, will be
launched at the Quincy yard of
Bethlehem Steel Co. next THURSDAY
the Navy announced today.
Mrs. Angelina Agnes Bertera of
Springfield, Mass. and Norma Nc
Curley Of Springfield, ILL.,, will
christen the ship simultaneously.
The new ship is of the Cleveland
class, a type listed as 10000 tons,
GA feet long with 100,000-horse-
power engines and speed of 32.5
m.ph. Armament includes twelve
6-inch guns and twelve 5-inch anti
aircraft guns in twin mounts.
She is the third Springfield. The
first, wooden steamer, built In
1862, operated on the Ohio River.
The second was chartered from
the Delaware River Line by the
Navy in 1918 and operated in freight
and ferry service until returned to
her owner in 1919.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Capitol Secretary's Death
Is Listed as Suicide

A certificate of suicide has been
issued in the death Thursday night
of Mary Carney, 81. secretary
to Representative Kunkel. Repub-
ican, of Pennsylvania, by DR.. CHS
topher j. Murphy, deputy coroner.
The body was sent last night tc
her home in Columbus, Ohio, for
burial, police revealed.
The dead woman's sister, Blanche
with whom she lived at 1925 Fiji
teenth street NV. discovered Miss
Carney in bed with a gunshot
wound in her head and a revolver
in her hand shortly after 9 pm,
Thursday, police said. DR.. Cecilia
Fusfeld, 2026 r street NV, Miss
Garney's physician for some time,
was summoned and pronounced her
dead.
Police quoted friends of the secre-
tary as saying she had been in Ill
health for the last three years.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Lepke
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night when Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York asked postponement
until later in this week" The
Governor acted to give Lepke's at
torney time to prepare and file the
Supreme Court petition.
If the petition for a review is
granted, arguments likely will be
heard later, In that event, stay
would be in order until the final
decision is reached.
Sing Sing Prepares.
Meanwhile, at Sing Sing Prison
the grim preparation began again
for Lepke and his two condemned
companions.
Once again they were taken from
their death-house cells to pre-execu-
tion chambers, there bathed and
garbed in the death suits that were
issued them Thursday-white shirts
and black trousers. Once again
they were permitted to order their
last two meals, and Weiss was
quoted as remarking with a wry
smile:
well, I'll get good eats azain."
ALI ordered the same last meals:
For luncheon, steak, french tried
potatoes, apple pie and coffee; dbr
dinner, roast chicken, shoestriAG
potatoes. rolls and coffee. Thdge
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Woman Cleared by Jury
In Perjury-AssauIt Case
By the Associated Press

os Tie ASSOCldteQ Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 4.-Exonerated
of a perjury charge in what Kings
County Judge Peter j. Brancato
praised as "a fair verdict" Mrs.
Edna Hancock, 81, of Drury, Mo,
was detached today from an un-
happy tangle of legal fights which
began last July l when she charged
Murray Goldman attempted to at
tack her.
AS the situation finally resolved
itself. Mr.. Goldman stood free of
Mrs. Hancock's charge of ATTEMPTED
criminal assault and she was free
OF the charge that she brought
about his conviction through" per
lJury. Mr.. Goldman, convicted by q
jury, later was freed by County
Judge Samuel S. Liebowitz after 8
lie detector test. Judge Brancato
however, ruled that the lie detecto,
ttests are not, recognized in New
York. :
A cheer arose from a crowded
courtroom when jury Of IL men
and one woman acquitted Mrs. Han
cock late yesterday after deliberat-
ing on the perjury charge one hour
and Is minutes. Shortly afterward
she was in the arms of her husband
William Clark Hancock, Navy ship
filter, who had stood by her through
all the trouble.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
) British Vessels Wrecked
Off Turkey, Crews Interned
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey, Mar. 1.-Two
British motor torpedo boats and a
small British sailing vessel piled up
and sank on the rocks of Turkeys
southwestern shore yesterday.
Reports from 1zmir (Smyrna) said
141 Greeks and Italians and IL Brit
ons had landed in Turkey from the
Dodecanese Islands and had been
interned.
Unconfrmed but reliable reports
said one British motorboat struck q
rock and sank in an unspecified
area, and that another went down
in the same fashion, but six of its
crew were rescued and interned. The
third accident reported was sinking
OF a 25-ton sailing ship of type fire.
quently used in some past combats
In the Eastern Mediterranean.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Man Repeatedly Deferred
Held as Draft Evader
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 4.-United
States Commissioner Norman j.
Griffin held Ernest ]. Brown in
S2.500 bail yesterday on charge of
violating the selective service law.
after he called Brown "the most de-
liberate draft dodger in my expert
ence."
Commissioner Griffin heard testi.
mony that in June, 1943, Brown
asked deferment as a shipyard
worker and his board found he had
been thus employed for three days:
in September, 1943, Brown obtained
a postponement of induction due to
a leg injury; on January 2l, 1914.
when he was scheduled to report for
induction, Brown sent letter saying
he was i'll and obtained a weeks
postponement; on January %, he
Vailed to report; on January 81 he
asked for conscientious objector ap-
plication blanks; on February 81. he
submitted the objector application
and the board turned the case over
to the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton.
Brown claimed he became 80 on
February 81.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Four Valuable Palm Beach
Resort Properties Sold
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PALM BEACH, Fla, Mar. A.
George Macdonald announced YES
terday the sale of four of Palm
Beachs most valuable resort prop
erties-the Palm Beach Biltmore
and Whitehall Hotels, Sun and
Surf Club and Palm Beach Country
Club.
Mr.. Macdonald said the buyers
were A. M. Sonnabend g. Associ-
ates, a Brookline, Mass, syndicate.
They will take possession immedia-
ately.
The Palm Beach Biltmore, now
occupied by the Coast Guard as q
SPAR training center, cost $14,OO0,-
600 originally and is one Of the big
gest resort structures In Palm
Beach. Secretary of State Hull is
among present guesst at the ex-
elusive Whitehall Hotel.
The Sun and Surf Club is ma
tionally known and the Palm Beach
Country Club, fronting on the ocean
at the north end OF the colony, has
been the site Of important golf
tournaments.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Brandt Nominated
As Consul General

George L. Brandt, former charge
daf1aires Of the American Embassy
In Berlin. now foreign service ofri-
Ger OF class one and secretary in
the diplomatic service, was nomi-
mated by President Roosevelt yes
terday to be also a consul general
Of the United States.
Mr.. Brandt, native Of the Dis
trlct who lives at 1857 Montague
street NV, entered the foreign
service in 1915. He is a former chief
OF the State Departments Special
Division, which was created to han
die special problems arising out Of
the war. He was named charge
d'affaires to the embassy In Berlin
In 1941.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
VIA Is Now AIIocatina
10 Million Lbs. Of Butter
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Food Administration Is
allocating its stock of butter-esti-
mated at 10000, 900 pounds March /
among the armed services, United
States territories, the Red Cross for
relief purposes, civilian hospitals and
the lease-lend program.
The butter is the remainder of
250, ,000, 900 pounds purchased by the
VIA last year before the Govern
ment withdrew from the butter mar
kets September 30.
The VIA said yesterday the Gov
ernment would resume its butter
purchase program April /. At that
time, manufacturers will be required
to set aside specified part Of their
output to meet needs of the armed
services, the War Shipping Admin
istratlon and the Veterans Admin
iStration.
Later in the spring, after butter
production expands, the set-aside
percentage will be increased to pro-
vide supplies for lease-lend, terri
tories, Red Cross and civilian hos
pitfalls.
Officials said approximately one
third of the 10000, 900 pounds now
being allotted will go to the armed
services. The bulk Of that made
available for lease-lend will 20 to
the Russian Army.