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Evening star., 1944-03-04
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Evening star., 1944-03-04
Press Club Chorus Set
For 1914 Debut TODAY

The National Press Club chorus,
under the direction Of Reinald Wer-
renrath. well-known baritone, will
make its 1914 debut with three per-
formances this week end, it was an
nounced today by Sam O'Neal, presi-
dent Of the club.
This afternoon the chorus was
to sing for servicemen at the Nation
al Press Club canteen. The program
was to be repeated at 4 pm. over
Nationwide hookup of the Nation
al Broadcasting Co. Station WRC
will carry the program locally.
The chorus will join with other
club members Sunday night in cele-
brating National Press Club night
at the Stage Door Canteen.
Under the Craftsmanship of How
ard Suttle, correspondent Of the VIII
mington On. c. Star-News, the
chorus Is planning a minstrel show
to be presented in April for the bene-
fit of the servicemen's canteen, it
also was announced.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
lease-Lend Act Vital
To War, Stimson SAYS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Secretary of War Stimson said
yesterday that failure to extend the
Lease-Lend Act for another year
would prolong the war and increase
the cost to our people in lives and
dollars.
I'VE are now in the full passage
OF war where the full accumulation
OF our strength must be thrown
against the enemy and our con-
tinuity Of effort maintained" he
told the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. Experience in this war.
as IN all wars, has shown that the
greater the preponderance we have
in men and material in any given
action, the fewer the casualties and
the quicker the issue is resolved in
our favor"
The Lease-Lend Act expires June
80 unless renewed.
When the power of our offensive
Is reaching its full tide" Mr.. Stim.
son added, lit is no time to nquidat<
a method by which that unity anc
effectiveness have been secured"
He told the committee that Great
| Britain has been the recipient ot
the greatest lease-lend aid"
-"As our troops overseas increase Ii
numbers, it may be expected thai
our Allies will furnish us with al
increasing amount of reverse lease.
lend within the limits of their ma.
terial and financial resources" tn.
Secretary declared.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
YugosIav Queen Honors
7 D. {. Women for Kniffino

Scrolls bearing the facsimile sigma
ture of Marie, Queen Mother of
Yugoslavia, have been presented to
seven elderly women residents of the
Hotel Gordon for their work in knit
ting sweaters for the Yugoslav
prisoners in Germany.
They were presented on behalf of
Nine. Constantine Fotitch, wife of
the Yugoslav Ambassador, by Mrs.
Eugen Villaret, wife of former
American military attache at Bel
grade. Queen Marie is in London.
Recipients were Mrs. P. D. Harvey,
Miss Grace Ward, Miss Sophie
Wright, Mrs. Sara Buchanan, Mrs.
Frances Farkas, Mrs. Edward Lin
ders and Mrs. Clarence Gould.
The scrolls are embellished with a
picture Of the maid of Kossovo, leg
endary Serbian heroine, tending the
wounded after the battle of Kossovo
in the 14th century. The text states
that the scroll has been presented in
royal recognition of industrious work
for Yugoslavia.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
366 More Repatriates
Crossing Spain 10
Board GripshoIm
BY the Associated Press.


IRUN, Spain, Mar. 4.-The first
two of three trains bringing 366
North Americans out of Germany
crossed the Spanish border shortly
before midnight en- route to Lisbon
and were due in the Portuguese
capital this afternoon.
The first train to arrive at Irun
carried 108 passengers; the second,
153. The third has 105.
Some had been residents Of Eu-
rope so long they spoke little or no
English. Born in the United States,
many had returned soon afterward
to the countries of their parents
origin in Europe.
Members of the repatriated group
generally reported that they had
been transferred from the intern
ment camp to another since their
original detention, but most said
they had been reasonably well
treated by the Germans.
(The first group of 800 repa-
triated Americans arrived in Lis
bon February Is. Thirty seven
wounded American soldiers
among them were taken aboard
the exchange ship Gripsholm
today, while the Others, in
Guiding those now en- route to
Lisbon, will 60 aboard tomorrow
The German group which crossed
the frontier into France Thursday
night included the former German
Consul at Algiers, who was captured
after the Allied landings in North
Africa.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
z Youths, 18, Face TrioI
In SociuIite's Kidnupino
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Mar. A.
Two 18-year r-old youths today faced
trial for the robbing and beating Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Sibley Gonzales, 27-
year-old Rochester socialite.
Detective Capt. Edward Collins
said Thomas Pampalone and Albert
Struckrath, both of Rochester, had
confessed that they compelled
Mrs. Gonzales at gunpoint to
drive her car early Monday to an
abandoned suburban farmhouse,
beat her with chair rungs and
robbed her of a ring.
Capt. Collins said the pair had
been charged with kidnapping, two
counts of first-degree robbery, first
degree grand larceny and first-de-
gree assault with intent to kill.
Mrs. Gonzales is q daughter Of
Harper Sibley, former president Of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Three Navy Flyers Killed,
One Hurfin Norfolk Crashes
Py the Associated Press

~ lne Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Mar. 4.-Names
OF three Navy flyers who lost their
lives in plane crashes Thursday in
the Norfolk area, and a fourth who
was seriously injured, were released
yesterday by the 5th Naval District
public relations Office.
1t. Comdr. Clyde H. McCrosky,
U. S. NJ, whose wife, Betty Nc
Crosby, lives in Virginia Beach, was
killed when his plane struck power
lines inside the Norfolk Naval Air
Station near the Ocean View gate
and crashed.
Two flyers were killed when their
Navy plane crashed that after
noon near Creeds naval artillery air
station. They were the pilot, En-
sign Richard Eugene Young, U. S.
N. r., Edwardsville, Kans., and
Elliott Barson Gates, aviation
radioman third class, U. s. N. R.,
Clinton, Mass.
A third occupant of the plane,
Louis John Linder, aviation radio
man third class, U. S. N. R., Pitts
burg, was severely injured.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Armstrong High Displays
Graduates Honor Roll

An honor roll bearing the names
of $50 Armstrong High School grad
yates in the armed services-includ-
ing nine who have been killed in ac-
tion-has been placed in the lobby
of the school at First and o streets
NV.
The honor roll was planned joint
ly by school authorities and mem
berS of the alumni association. It
lists the names of 264 soldiers, 80
sailors and II marines.
Those killed in action were Charles
Chisholm, IS; John B. Powell, SO;
William Edmonds, '3S; Elijah Cad
son, 36; Milton Wright, '36; Ma
thaniel Hill, SO; Charles B. Smith,
'43; Nathaniel Reyburg, '35, and
Alwayne Dunlap, 81.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Soldier, Member Of Gull,
Given 25-Year Term

BY the Associated Press.
FORT JACKSON, S. c., Mar. A.
Officers announced yesterday court
martial had dishonorably discharged
Louis D. Smith, jr., of Columbia
from the Army and sentenced him
to Is years at hard labor in Federal
prison.
Smith was found guilty of violat-
ing three articles of war, including
a charge of disobeying his superior
officers.
Smith, who maintained he was
illegally inducted into the Army last
September, said he was an ordained
minister and member of Jehovah S
Witnesses.
Smiths mother, Mrs. Lila Smith,
sought his release from the Army
several weeks ago through habeas
corpus action in Federal District
Court here, but Federal Judge c. c.
Wyche held that his induction was
legal. The court, however, ordered
Smith kept within the jurisdiction
of the Eastern District pending per-
fection Of an appeal to the Circuit
Court Of Appeals.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Former Aircraft Executive
Convicted Of Threat
BY the Associated Press.

py LIic AocOClAtC0 EICoBs
HARTFORD, Conn.,, Mar. IA
Federal Court jury which deliber.
ated seven hours convicted George
F. Warren of Woodbridge, for
mer aircraft company president,
of sending a threatening letter and
exploding rattrap to a one time
business associate.
Judge j. Joseph Smith set March
l3 as the date for sentencing. Send
ing or causing to be sent through
the mail threatening letter, the
specific offense charged, carries q
maximum penalty Of $4,000 fine or
five years imprisonment, or both.
Warren has denied all knowledge
of package received last October
by John ]. O'Grady, vice president
of the Bristol Aeronautical Co. OF
New Haven, glider manufacturing
firm once headed by Warren. Three
blank cartridges fixed in a rattrap
exploded when the package was
opened by O'Grady's secretary. She
was not injured.
An accompanying letter warned
O'Grady to take himself "a 900 miles
from here" and intimated that ar
order Of determination" had beer
issued for him and his family.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
St. Mary's Academy
To Reopen Monday

st. Mary's Academy, recently con-
structed on the estate of the late
State Senator Floyd King, Russell
road, Alexandria, will reopen for
classes on Monday, it was announced
yesterday.
The academy, now in its 18th
year. is directed by the Sisters OF
the Holy Cross, the Eastern province
OF whose order has headquarters at
Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross
in Washington.
The brick building contains, in
addition to classrooms, Offices and
science laboratories, a cafeteria, a
chapel, auditorium and gymnasium
The faculty is being housed in
manor house of the estate, which
has been in use since January, 1943
as a preschool unit and will be
continued in use for these purposes
Evening star., 1944-03-04

and to lack Of respect for moral
values.
It despises the sanctity OF the
family by its conception of marriage
ties and marriage laws and its COM
pletely immoral and disintegrating
attitude toward questions Of illegiti-
macy.
It mocks and despises our Chris
tian church and deprives it of its
influence on youth in order to be
able to preach a new morality which
brutalizes every boy and endangers
every girl.
1t has lied to us for 20 years. It
has abused our confidence. 1t has
embezzled our property in senseless
expenditures on behalf of the party
and in disastrous political specula-
tions.
1t has suppressed our spirit. It
has made us dishonest through fear.
1t has outraged our personal hber-
ties through the compulsory control
of the exercise and place of our
professions, prohibitions of changes
OF employment, compulsory men,
bership in organizations and the
like.
In this way National Socialism
has deprived us in our own country
of honor, of liberty and of property.
We are not threatened with
slavery from without but from with
in our own country. The ideals Of
the enemy we oppose in arms are
nearer to our own than those of our
own government.
I have most Unexpectedly found
deep sympathy with the decisions Of
my own conscience on the part Of
British officers. I look forward with
great hope for Germany to close CO.
operation with the Allies.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Sergeant of Jap Descent Saves
Injured Major Near Casino

Through 1t and drag the major to
safety" 1t. ironing related.
Sergt. Hisaoka had a trench about
eight yards long when he suddenly
threw down his shovel. There was
still ten yards to 60.
Hell, I'm going now" the ser
geant said. I'm tired of shoveling.
It's getting late and I won't get
there till night at this rate"
Finally Reaches Major.
Hisaoka crouched down, slid out
to the end of his trench, then
sprinted across the ten yards inter-
vening to the officer
Major" he said, I'm going to
have to drag you in"
That's all right, boy" the major
replied, get me back any old way"
Sergt. Hisaoka then grabbed him
by the arms and dragged him across
the open space on a litter. The
major is going to be all right after
spell in a hospital. Sergt. Hisaoka
is all right too. He was away on a
short leave today.
Sergt. Hisaoka is getting to be a
sort of legend in this unit of
Americans from Hawaii.
On another occasion a small num-
Der Of doubhboys on long road
leading into Casino were caught in
a terrific artillery barrage by the
enemy.
One soldier was in a makeshift
dugout when shell exploded i'm
mediately behind it and buried him
in the debris. 1t was Sergt. Hisaoka
who went over under fire, dug him
out and sent him along to a hos
pital.
They always count on Hisaoka
when they get into trouble" 1t.
ironing exclaimed.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Grand Jury Expected
To Study Cathedral
Staying Case Monday

Moving swiftly to bring the Ca
thedral murder case into court, the
United States attorneys Office will
present the case against julius
Fisher, 31-year- old Cathedral handy
man, to the grand jury Monday
morning, it was announced today.
1t was expected that the grand
jury would act Immediately and
possibly take action that would be
reported the same day.
Fisher was held for action of the
grand jury by coroner's jury yes
terday in connection with the slay-
ing Of Miss Catherine Cooper Rear
don, Cathedral assistant librarian,
whose bludgeoned body was found
in pit below the library Thursday
morning. He was still unrepre-
sented by counsel today.
According to the testimony of de-
tectives who arrested the man just
10 hours after the body was found,
Fisher not only confessed the crime
but led detectives to the spot in
his Deanwood home where he had
hidden the gold class ring taken
from the dead librarians finger.
Funeral services for Miss Reardon
were to be held at 2:30 pm. today
at the home of her grandmother,
Mrs. William M. Reardon, 805 Prince
street, Alexandria. She was to be
buried in the Reardon family plot in
Presbyterian Cemetery, Alexandria.
Miss Reardon's pastor, the Rev.
DR.. Charles w. Shearin of the
Church of the Epiphany, was to
conduct the funeral services as
sisted by the Rev. Hunter M. Lewis
of the same church and the Rev.
DR.. H. T. Clarke of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church of Alex
andria.
A memorial service for Miss Rear
don was held in the Bethlehem
Chapel at the Cathedral this morn
ing, with Canon Theodore o. Wedel
and Canon w. Curtis Draper offici-
ating. Miss Reardon's mother, Mrs.
William w. Reardon, jr.; her uncle
Porter Cox, and other relatives at
tended.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Merchant Sailors to Use
Mary Mccormick Estate
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4.-The
War Shipping Administration has
taken over the 13-acre estate of the
late Mary Virginia Mccormick at
Pacific Palisades, near Santa Mon
lea, for use as a wartime rest center
for merchant seamen, the United
Seamen's Service announced.
The property, valued at 81, ESQ, 900,
includes a group of spacious Medi-
terranean type mansions overlook
ing the Pacific and providing ac-
commodations for so seamen.
The estate has been vacant since
the death nearly three years ago
Of Miss Mccormick, daughter of the
late Cyrus Mccormick, harvester
manufacturer.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
High Court Hears Appeal
OF Aide 10 Saboteurs
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A sequel to the activities of Ger
man saboteurs who landed from
submarines on the East Coast of the
United States in June, 1912, came
before the Supreme Court yesterday
in an appeal by Anthony Cramer
from his treason conviction in the
Southern New York Federal District
Court.
Cramer was sentenced to As years
imprisonment and fined $4,000. His
counsel told the Supreme Court that
of four saboteurs who landed at
Ponte Vedra Beach near Jackson
vile, Fla, Cramer had contact with
two.
The attorney, appealing from the
Second Federal District Courts de-
cision to uphold the conviction, said
the crucial issue was whether
Cramer entertained that traitorous
intent which is indispensable to the
establishment of the crime"
OF the eight saboteurs who landed
from the submarines six were
executed here. One was given a life
sentence and another was sentenced
to 80 years.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
BY LYNN HEINZERLING,
Press War Correspondent.

Associated Press War Correspondent.
WITH THE 5th ARMY AT CAS-
SINO, Mar. 4.-The major was
lying in the rain on a rocky hillside
between Casino and the Abbey of
Mount Casino.
Everyone knew he was badly hurt,
but the nearest man to him had to
cross 18 yards of open ground in
the face Of German Shippers and a
German tank which was on the
road to the abbey.
The nearest man happened to be
Sergt. Gary Hisaoka, an American
of japanese descent from Hilo, Ha-
Waii. who came into the Army di-
rectly from the University of Ha-
waii.
Sergt. Hisaoka was almost beside
himself with rage at the Germans,
according to the story told today
by It. Paul ironing Of New Bremen,
Ohio. Every time he would raise his
head to look out at the major a
sniper would chip away a rock a
few inches from his head.
Cornered by Snipers.
The major had gone forward with
one of the most advanced units at
tacking castle above Casino ind
had gone too far over the lip of a
gully. Snipers pinned him down
there. His head and the upper part
of his body were protected by a
little rock shelter he had piled up,
but his legs protruded and he was
hit several times on his legs so that
he was helpless-unable even to try
a desperate dash to safety.
"Hisaoka began to dig a shallow
trench toward the major, hoping
that he would be able to slide
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Former Nozi Attoche Explains
Why He Decided to Join Allies

Erich Vermehren, former as
ststant German military dttache
at Istanbul, recently made his
tOay into Allied territory and pol
unteered for military serptce
against the Nazis. Here, In a
statement made available to the
Associated Press at Cairo, he
tells what prompted a confirmed
tolloDer OF Hitlertsn, to change
his basic pattern OF thought and
action
BY ERICH VERMEHREN.
CAIRO, Mar. Al am happy al
last to be able to do something fol-
Germany, and to join as volunteer
the ranks Of those who have de-
clared war against the bitterest
enemies Of Germany-the National
Socialists (Nazis).
What made it most difficult for
me to come to this decision was the
fact that my step was essentially one
dictated by conscience. 1t was
much more than an honest political
decision, more than a change from
one party to another.
Both these considerations weighed
with me, but beyond that my action
was one that made me a criminal in
the eyes Of the law of my State and a
dishonorable scoundrel in the hearts
Of many of my friends.
My political convictions, my per-
sonal ideas, my recognition of the
of Germany's situation
these alone could not bear the
weight OF such a decision.
1t was only my conscience which
could put me in the right, and
which could acquit me of any accu-
sation Of high treason and treachery
toward my fatherland. But is it high
treason If one loves ones fatherland
SO much that one cannot stand by
and see an unScrupulous clique ruin.
ing ones country?
The man who loves his father
land must be able to recognize ma
tional ocialism for what it really Is
the curse of Germany.
National socialism seduces oul
youth to loss of faith, to brutality
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Seven of Bomber Crew
Missing in Gulf Crash
By the Associated Press,

BY the ASSOCIATED FreSS.
LAKE CHARLES, La, Mar. A.
Seven crewmen on medium bomber
based at the Lake Charles Army Air
Field have been reported missing
following the crash Of their plane In
the Gulf Of Mexico Monday.
Those missing are 1t. Tyrus R.
Scott, Dansville, Mich; Justin r.
Dickinson, Taft, Calf; 1t. John
Colmey, Penn Yam, N Y; Sergt.
Robert M. D. Hendrickson, Syosset,
N. Y; Sergt. Peter H. Wiech, a.
Colmey, Penn Yam, N. Y: Sergt
Charles j. Kelse. Huntsville, Mo-,
and Sergt. Theodore Lyons, Jack
sonville, Fla.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Sick Circus Elephant,
Once a Star, Shot
After Cures Fail
BY the Associatec Press.

By the Associatec Press.
SARASOTA, Fla, Mar. A.
The career of Pearl, once q
member of the upper crust" Of
Ringing circus elephants, ended
yesterday. She was shot be-
cause a 2-year-old foot injury
wouldn't heal.
The unsuspecting 3-ton Pearl
was led into a grave is feet
long, 6 feet wide and 8 feet
deep. Marine Sergt. Greeley
Miller, just back from the Pa
ciflc, and Police Chief e. A.
Garner each fired a .30-3O bull
let into her brain.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Fireworks Plant Blasts
Kill Five, |njure Six

BY the Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Tex, Mar. IA
series of explosions at the Pan
American Fireworks Co.'S plant
northwest of Fort Worth yesterday
killed at least five persons and in
jured six others.
The plant, on the shore Of Lake
Worth, consisted of two large struc-
lures and about 20 smaller build
ings. Danger of additional ex-
plosions at first prevented firemen
and police from reaching the dam
age area.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Victory Tax DeductibIe
From Maryland Levy
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Mar. 4.-Although
Federal income tax payments are
not allowable deductions on Mary
land income tax returns, Victory
tax payments are deductible, ac-
cording to Chief Deputy Joseph O'C.
McCusker Of the State controllers
Office.
I'VE do allow Victory tax pay
ments as deduction, but it would
be extremely poor business for the
State of Maryland to permit Federal
income payments to be claimed as
deductions In the computation Of
State returns," the chief deputy said.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Mother Gets 2 to 4 Years
In Death of Duuqhter, 2

Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Mar. Mrs. Mildred
Merkel, %, was sentenced yesterday
to serve two to four years in prison
for inf1icting fatal blows on her 2
year-old daughter Claire with a
stove poker.
Judge Francis B. Allegretti of
Criminal Court fixed the penalty
after the defendant had pleaded
guilty to manslaughter.
The child died January 3 and Mrs.
Merkel subsequently told investi-
gators the child made her nervous.
Evening star., 1944-03-04

Peruvian Army
Air Corps, ac-
cording to word
received er e
today.
Mrs. c O. W a n ,
who was Mary
Welby Beverley
before her mar
riage, is tn e
daughter of Mrs.
Robert Beverley
2505 Thirteenth
street NV. Her
h u S b a n d, a n
Army major. is
in the South
Evening star., 1944-03-04

b r a n C h, died
yesterday at his
home, 1417 North
Jefferson street,
Arlington. Va.
after a short ILL
ness.
A veteran of
81 years service
with the Agri-
culture Depart
ment, Mr.. Slo-
cum came mere
in 1906 from New
York S a t e to
accept a position
with the Bureau
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Cadet Killed, Pilot Hurt
After BoiIing Out
BY the Associated Press.
NEyxyDTDr NJ Y

NEWBURG, N. Y, Mar. "A
Stewart Field aviation cadet was
killed and his instructor was injured
seriously Thursday night when they
bailed out of low-fying disabled
training plane near Liberty.
Stewart Field identified the dead
copilot as Aviation Cadet Monte U.
Nestingen of Westby, Wis, and the
injured instructor and pilot as First
1t. Lyman R. Hunter of Atlanta, Ga.
The two bailed out shortly before
the plane, on training fight,
crashed on the William Millen farm.
The fatality was the first among
Stewart Fields enlisted cadets.
An Army board was seeking today
to determine what disabled the
plane.