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Evening star., 1944-01-30
Residential Wedding
Wasbingtonians
Are United in
CHAPEL Ceremony

The wedding yesterday afternoon
of Miss Julia Turner Worthington
and 1t. Calvin Choate Lombard
was of more than usual interest In
residential circles as the bride is
member of family that has been
prominent in Washington society
since the early days of the city.
The daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Y. Worthington, jr, the
bride is an attractive and popular
member of the younger residential
social set. She attended the Sacred
Heart Academy and was gradual
ed from the Madeira School and
Sweet Briar College, later spending
year at the Sorbonne in Paris.
1t. Lombard is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. G. Lombard and a
graduate Of Bucknell College. He
is attached to the Air Transport
Command of the Army Air Forces
and returned from year of duty
in India last autumn just prior
to the announcement of the en-
! gagement.
White snapdragons against banks
Of Australian ferns and palms with
| lighted candles on the altar of
the Walter Reed Memorial Chapel
made an impressive setting for the
wedding yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Worthington escorted his daughter
through the aisle for the 4:30 o'clock
ceremony, at which the Rev. Neal
McManus officiated
Simple lines featured the brides
dress of white satin, which was
fashioned with a lace yoke and
sleeves and panel skirt ending in
a medium train. A Juliet cap OF
illusion trimmed with orange blos-
SONS held her veil of the same ma
terial, which was full length, and
she carried bouquet of white
lilacs. The beautiful necklace.
which was her only ornament, was
a lavalliere of diamonds and mar
quisites designed as a basket Of
flowers, which was the gift of her
father to her mother on their we'd
ding day.
Mrs. William L. Robinson, sister
of the bridegroom, was the matfon
of honor and the brides sister, Miss
Mimi Worthington, served as maid
lof honor. They we're costumed
alike in turquoise jersey made with
long basques. square necklines, long
sleeves and full skirts. Their head
dresses were turquoise and silver
coronets and they carried arm bou-
quets of yellow roses.
Maj. Richard Pilkinton Of New
York was best man for the bride.
groom and Mr. George Y. Worthing-
ton, III, brother of the bride; MAJ.
Frank Devlin, Col William Hipps
and Capt. Clifford Colbert were the
ushers.
A long dress of gray crepe was
worn by Mrs. Worthington with a
hat of pink feathers and corsage
of pink camellias, and the mother
of the bridegroom was dressed in
blue and silver with a blue feather
: trimmed hat and a corsage Of
orchids. They received with the
wedding party at the reception
; which was held in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Worthington after the
ceremony.
Prof. Hugh Worthington of Sweet
Briar College, uncle of the bride;
Miss Nancy Worthington of Rich
mond, Miss Virginia Wexford of
Wilmington, Del, and 1t. william
!. Worthington. U. S. N. R., and Mrs.
t Worthington were among the guests
attending the wedding and recep-
ton.
1t Lombard Is now stationed In
Detroit and he and his bride will
make their home there for the
present.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

In more recent years weather has
been disappointing for the al fresco
parties, SO this hardy annual gave
way to the more practical sale held
indoors. Many of the active workers
for the institution are daughters
and granddaughters of those who
assisted Mrs. James in its establish
ment.
Mrs. Harry L. Grant is president,
Mrs. Donald Bingham, first vice
president; Mrs. Henry L. Abbott,
second vice president: Mrs. Howard
S. Wilkinson, recording secretary;
Mrs. Luther Sheldon, jr.. assistant
recording secretary; Mrs. Chester
Flather. corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Laurence G. Hoes, treasurer,
and Mrs. Harry Cootes, assistant
treasurer.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Will Hear
Symphony

The new American symphony Is
the composition of Mr.. Robert Rus
sell Bennett and is titled THE -Four
Freedoms" Sharing honors with 1t
on the program will be another
Washington premiere-the playing
of the Paganini D major concerto
by the brilliant French violinist, Zinc
Francescatti, from the original score.
The occasion will mark the debut of
the violinist in Washington, and an
additional bit of interest concerning
the artist is that his father was the
pupil of Sivore, who was the only
pupil of Paganini.
Other boXholders for the concert
Tuesday evening are the Soviet AM
(See SYMPHONY, Page B-l3.)
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Phantom Dinner to Be Gipen
For The House OF Mercv

For the seventh year invitations
are being issued to the phantom
dinner of the House of Mercy. This
home, haven of refuge for unmar-
ried mothers and their babies, was
founded in 1885 bY the late Mrs.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

parties. For. though the dinner is
to be in spirit only, the checks sent
in are very real and they are used
for a work that is very real and very
good.
The annual food and apron sale
Evening star., 1944-01-30

has taken the
place in recent
years of the an
nual ar d e n
party in the close
of the Washing
ton Cathedral of
st. Peter and st.
P Paul. Th ese
bright outdoor
fetes were set in
May, and during
the early days OF
the century the
late Mrs. James
a ! W ays was a
prominent figure
at the benefits.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

Julian James un-
der the auspices
of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese
of Washington.
T h e guiding
S pirit of the
House of Mercy
is Deaconess Lii
ian M. Yeo, who
teaches the girls
d u ring their
years residence
there to care for
their b a b / e S ,
trains them in
housewifely du-
ties, and by wise
Evening star., 1944-01-30

AIDING SMITH COLLEGE CLUB BENEFIT.
Mrs Felir Frankurter let ,Dih Mrs. Peter Mrs.
William Dugald MacDougaH chatting at the Danish legation
1ohere Mne de Kdufann ,ute OF the Minister entertained
the members of the committee in charge The benefit
program gven Monday evening, March 49, by Aoentita
Constitution Hail. The proceeds DH be shared by Smith
lege aoh Ginng College in China MacDougaH
hostess for her daughter Me de Kaufmann of
-.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

MAKING CHILDREN HAPPY AT THE HOUSE OF MERCY.
Mrs. Charles W. Sheertn Ofe OF the rector of the
OF the Epiphany oith oo OF the children orooing into helpful
and useful citizens She spends part OF day
teaching these future and hoo play together
in the American and successful aDay of building
better character.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

Another popular couple in dip
lomatic circles, the First Secretary
of the Peruvian Embassy and Sonora
de Balbuena, are being the recip-
tents of numerous hospitalities due
to the imminent departure of the
latter for Lima.
Sonora de Balbuena. with her
young daughter, Yolanda, aged 10,
and her small son Julio, aged 4.
will leave Friday for South America,
where she plans to spend several
months While there. Yolanda will
attend school at the Villa Maria.
This evening the Peruvian Con-
sui stationed in Washington and
Sonora de Montague will entertain
(See PARTIES, Page B-130
Evening star., 1944-01-30

Otto Vega. also has received his ap-
pointment as Second Secretary.
Senor Don Carlos Alberto Ricart,
Second Secretary, is spending the
week end in New York, and a spe-
cial representative of the President
of the Dominican Republic, Senior
Don Manuel de Moya, who has been
a visitor in this country for the past
month, plans to leave within a week
to return to Trujillo. He has been
staying at the Statler.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29

Under the circumstances
there could have been only one
verdict" he said. I'VE found
that the constitution and the
convention mandates had been
violated. Only one course of ac-
ton Was therefore left. The
board took that course.
I'VE called the officers In
and informed them Of the YER
dict. Not one objected. All were
relieved that the board had
acted so leniently In the matter.
One and all, they promised
cooperation with the interna-
tional union.
VIOLATE PROMISE
II do not say that this prom
Use Is being violated by all
those who gave IL to the board.
But IL IL obvious that some, At
least, are not keeping faith with
the international union and It's
vast membership"
Thomas said unionists should
recognize and obserce only one
type OF picket line-one au
thorized by a strike vote of tn,
membership and the international
AS the president OF your
union. I urge you to ignore any
picket line you may find" he
told the Chrysler workers. Tin
this case you will be serving
your own best interests, the
interests Of your union and the
interests of your country II you
pay no attention to the picket
line and 60 TO work"
CITES CONTRACT
Thomas then went on to de.
scribe the unions contract with
the Chrysler Corp.
you approved that contract
when II was submitted 10 YOU"
he said. "You ratified 10, and
agreed TO live up to II until IL
was amended or replaced by
another. That contract II still
In force. Between corporations
and unions. as between man and
man, contract IL solemn
agreement which no honorable
person will break.
i plead with YOU to give that
contract the compliance which
you promised TO give when you
and your authorized officers
signed the document,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Detroit Killer
In Prison Break

Armed with a revolver which he
obtained in some mysterious man.
ner, desperate Detroit criminal
is at large today after escaping
Saturday from Marquette prison
where he had served 20 years of
a life sentence for the cold-blooded
murder Of a Detroit policeman.
The convict, Alfred A. A'Hearn,
a. whose mother and four mar
ried sisters are living in Detroit,
was sentenced Sept. 2, 1924. for
first degree murder of Policeman
William -Ashworth, killed In a
bank holdup in August. 1924.
He is described as having a
ruddy complexion, gray eyes, dark
brown hair and weighing los
pounds. He is 5 feet 10 inches
falI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
ASSOCIATION INDICTED

Soon an indictment came down
from the federal district court in
Washington charging the medical
societies with conspiracy to vio-
late the Sherman Act through
restraint OF trade and COM
merce" in the District of CO.
lumbia.
When the district court acquit-
ted the medical societies, the case
was appealed by government.
finally TO the Supreme Court. In
a unanimous decision Jan. Is,
l943, the Supreme Court, while
ruling that the practice of medi-
cine did not fall within the pur-
view OF the antitrust act, sus-
tanned the department Of Justice
in its principal contentious sup
porting Group Health, Inc.
Within six months of the Su-
preme Courts decision, the Wag-
ner-Dingell Bill was introduced in
Congress.
% Under this bill, the practice of
medicine would become an air.
tight monopoly of the federal gov
eminent.
The outstanding fact revealed
by this first exhaustive public
opinion survey on the question is
that the problem of medical costs
and fees is really troublesome to
only about 20 per cent of the
population.
To assist this 20 per cent. our
Washington health bureaucrats
would uproot the entire existing
structure of medical care and
medical education.
TOMORROW The Crods.
Labelling Crusade.
Copyright, 1914. the Bobbs -M.rrtn Co.
Distributed by King Features synd., Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Senate 10 Act
On Cabaret Tax

WASHINGTON. May % (INS)
The Senate is expected to act
today on reduction of the 80 per
cent cabaret tax.
Senator Walter T. George Cd
of Georgia, chairman of the Sem
ate finance committee. said an
amendment would be offered to-
day to the debt limit increase bill
to cut the tax back to 10 per cent.
Senator Sheridan Downey Cd
of California plans to offer the
amendment. The debt limit bill
would increase the ceiling on the
public debt from 210 to 260 bill
lion dollars. As passed by the
House, the bill would increase the
debt limit to 240 billion dollars.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Army TO Reduce
Plane Defenses

WASHINGTON, May % (INS)
The war department disclosed
today that the danger OF German
or japanese air attacks on the
American coasts has become so
remote that substantial reduc-
tons" have been ordered in U. S.
anti-aircraft defenses.
Anti-aircraft guns. detection de-
vices and crews will be shipped
overseas.
Aircraft warning centers are 10
be closed and the aircraft warn
ing service. on a reduced scale,
will be absorbed into army in
stallations used for the training
Of fighter pilots.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Peace Plan
Pact Sought
Hull Meets Senate
Group Again Today
TINE DETROIT TIMES
MondeY. MaY ~. Iq44

WASHINGTON. May % ms
Secretary OF State Hull Will
meet again today with the Senate
foreign relations stfteesnait'ee-ss'
an effort 10 reconcile deep seated
differences which have arisen
with regard TO proposals for a
postwar peace organization.
Some of the senators are I'm
derStood 10 have presented force
fully 10 Hull the proposition that
the United States should not join
in an organization 10 enforce the
peace until 1t knows the terms
of the peace.
Other subcommittee members,
Il is reported, disagree with a
waiting policy, and contend that
the United States should so ahead
now with the formation Of peace
organization built along the gen.
eral lines of the League OF Ma
lions. with definite provision for
keeping the peace by armed
force.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Chinese
Enter Base

HANDY, Ceylon, May 20 QNS)
forces in northern
Burma today were reported to
have broken into beleaguered
Myitkyina. main Jap north Burma
base, while a. communique from
Lord Mountbatten announced
bloody repulse of Jap counterat-
tacks on the Kohima-Imphal
front in eastern India.
Jap defenders Of Myitkyina
have been battling street by street
against American forces which,
attacking from the south. seized
almost one-third of the town
In the village of Maya, north
of kohima. defending troops re-
pulsed an enemy attack with
heavy Jap losses. Other enemy
counter thrusts south of Imphal
also were hurled back.
CHUNGKING, May % (INS)
"A Chinese communique revealed
today that Jap forces in Human
Province. west of Yochow, have
launched an attack along the
Canton Hankow railway wit h
Changsha as a possible objective.
Another Jap advance in SOUTH
ern Rupeh Province carried enemy
forces 10 Kweikowshih. some 20
kilometers southwest of Tsung-
wang.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
New Ration Report
Required Of Hotels

WASHINGTON. May % GNS)
The OPA announced today that
a seasonal operator of a summer
or winter hotel. summer camp, or
similar Institutional user of ra-
toned foods henceforth must give
his local ration board a report of
the exact number OF days he
operates in the final ration allot-
ment of his season.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Dewey Ready
.ToBeDrdfted

HERSHEY. Pa, May % (NS)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewsy's VIII
lingness to accept a Republicans
draft nomination veered closer Ia
certainty today as the "non-
political" 36th annual governors
conference got down TO business
here.
Still adamantly ''unannounced."
Dewey highlighted informal politi-
cal discussion with a statement
that he had done nothing to dis
courage support for him an q
draft nominee four weeks from
now.
Sharing the campaign stage
with him as Gov. Saltonstall OF
Massachusetts opened the confer
ence with a message from Presi-
dent Roosevelt. were Cows. Bricker
of Ohio and Warren of California
All three were scheduled to make
important speeches before the SO
attending governors
DOING NOTHING
what are you doing TO dis.
courage nomination tafkf~
Dewey was asked.
Nothing" the governor rss 4
piled without hesitation.
War and postwar problems pro-
'vided the basis OF discussion for
the four-day conference which
tonight will have Dewey as its
principal speaker.
President Roosevelt's message
congratulated the states for their
effective unified action" in war
time.
Saltonstall. opposing too much
state reliance upon government
aid, declared that I'VE want our
country 10 be governed from the
bottom up and not from the top
down"
FAvORs LOCAL PROGRAM
Gov. Schricker of Indiana. told
the conference that the threat of
widespread postwar unemploy-
ment would be better met through
locally financed public works
program" than through reliance
in federal dole"
Bricker challenged all "candi-
dates" TO make an open campaign
like his own and took positive
stand against two foreign policy
views voiced by Dewey.
He declared he was opposed to
international military alliances
and saw no need for world police
force. Dewey in reply said nat
he would stand on what hs sid
at Mackinac Island last September
when he endorsed a military al
lance with Great Britain. Sub
sequently. he revised this To
recommend a durable cohesion
between the United States, Great
Britain and, he hoped" Russia
and China
- Army Air show Begins rrs1sv -
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convenient way. Order thean
delivered to your door from yoav
| Detroit Times carrier-salesmaa.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
THE WEATHER

De'r1' ard vicinity. Continued fair 70.
=. =. onort1~ partly cloudy with thunder.
DETROIT AREA
Temperatures sunday. Hgbss, an a..
sfeea lowest. So mean s.
departure from normal temperature Sun
dak - degrees
Departure from normal tsmnsra,,U.
SINCE Jan J. 342 degrees
ZEN peretufes ore year ago to-day, Hlgh
80 ~ degrees iowrst 81 mean Sc
Temperatures THIS dare In pas, II wears.
hlghest. ~ degrees IN 1929 loVa, "a In
1884
Relative humidity sunday. 10 m.
~ $50 M CO., 73O y m 1aa
$50 n &c Y
Precipitation m last 2f hours ending A.
Z. : 20 a. .--iSdss 100
Departure from normal preci pi,atton
Since Jan ~ inrrfs
Degree days for sunday Nay "a Zero
Norma frr MAY "a
Acclmulafe1 decree fsyf ths month I44
Ncfmal degree DAYS fof Ma. zee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
TWO IN CUSTODY

Some were living in Detroit
according to Detective 1t. Harry
IO'Brien, in charge of the case.
Still held was Kenneth Long
the victims husband. and Alex
Simpson. a Chicago salesman anc
friend of Mrs. Long. Long. who
has been held since the day after
the crime was discovered. was to
appear Wednesday on a continual
ton of a hearing on writ Of
habeas corpus.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
DinqIe Foot in u. S.

WASHINGTON, May % (INS)
Dingle Foot. parliamentary secre-
tary to Britain's minister of eco
nomic warfare. is in Washington
today to discuss matters of COM
mon interest in economic war
fare with u. s. officials.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Defroiter Is Elected
Postal Clerks Officer

LANSING, May 29-Steven P
Sickle Jr. Of Detroit was elected
vice president of the Michigan
Federation of Post Office Clerks
Sunday. as the federstion's an.
nual three-day convention came
20 a close, il was announced to-
day.
= Clyde Creager of Lansing was
reelected president The con-
vention voted TO hold its next con-
clave in Detroit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Wife Held in Attack
On Husband With Ak

Mary Williams. SO. of 826 Prem
police said she admitted attacking
It's. was held today on charges Of
assault with intent to kill after
her husband Paul, IS, with an Ak
in a quarrel over money. Will
Hams was IN serious condition in
Receiving Hospital with skull
In ilIrieS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29

PITTSBURGH. May 20 (UP)-
Funeral services will be held
"Wednesday for warren U. Christ
man. managing editor for 80
years of the Post-Gazette and of
one OF its predecessors, the Post.
He died Saturday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
76 AirInen Dig
Out of Prison

LONDON, May 20 (TNs)-Re-
ports from Silesia today said
that rs Allied airmen escaped
from the German prison camp,
StaIasluft No. 3, by digging a
A50-foot tunnel under the camps
electrified barbed-wire.
Foreign Secretary Eden re-
. vealed in the House OF Commons
recently that AZ Raj crewmen
were shot while attempting to
escape.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
ANTITRUST SUIT

The antitrust procee d n g
against the American Medical AS
ISOLATION and the District of CO.
lumbia Medical Society was built
up over a period of two years by
the department of Justice. acting
in close collaboration with the
advocates of socialized medicine
previously entrenched in other
federal agencies.
In 1887 a number of govern
ment employees organized Group
Health Association. Inc A loan
was advanced from the Home
Owners Loan Corp. Medical care
and disqualification were to be
provided on an insurance basis.
Group Health employed salaried
physicians and sought hospital ia
cilities for the accommodation of
its affiliates, but members of the
American Medical Association and
the Medical Society of the District
of Columbia declined to enter
into the plan. principally on the
ground that it did not protect pre-
vailins and long-established stand
ards of medical service.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
CHAPTER N
Smear Campaign Against Private Medicine
By LAWRENCE SULLIVAN

When the bureaucras set out to take new field
of business profession the first maneuver usually
an intensive campaign against the existing order
To pave the way for socalized medicine through COM
pusory national legislation advocates of the new order
have conducted for 10 years systematic campaign
of humiliation and derision against the American medical
profession 800
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
SEARCH FOR FRIENDS

Lacking any definite clue from
the scene of the crime, authorities
today were checking the slain
woman's acquaintance through a
friend who lived at her home at
3625 Oakman until only few
weeks before Mrs. Longs death.
Detective Sgt. Eugene Kinney
of the homicide division was in
Columbus. Ga. to interview the
friend. Mrs. Mildred Elliott. He
reported to Inspector John o.
Whitman that the names of II of
Mrs. Longs acquaintances' had
been obtained through his inter
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
DESCRIBES TRIAL

Thomas then described Ia detail
the tr1sl before the executive
board Of the international which
had resulted in the removal Of IA
local union officials.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29

professional standards the United
States has developed and sus-
tanned the most effective and
widely distributed system of
medical care ever achieved in any
nation.
ADD 81 YEARS TO LIFE
In the space of $50 years the
average life expectancy in the
United States has been extended
from 35 TO 81 years.
A child born in 1912 had a life
expectancy IL years longer than a
child born in 1900.
For this great service to society
the medical profession recently
has been hailed into the federal
courts like a criminal vagrant. on
the specious pretext of an anti
trust suit, and an organized eff
fort launched by government itself
to besmirch and degrade our doc
tors with responsibility for every
social dislocation or personal
hardship in a nation Of 135 million
people.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29
Bureaucracy Runs Amuek:
Bureaucracy Runs Anuek:
Smear Drive Din
AGAINST Doctors

EDITORS NOTE-This is another IN the series
Of articles by Laurence SuiUan, specialist in the red-
irons Of government and business the growth OF the
federal bureaucracy the United States. The series
is condensed rerSion Of Mr. SulLrans best seller,
Bureaucracy Runs Amuck.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-29

Aids Killer Hunt
(Continued from Page One)

(Continued from Page One)
and minds shocked by the events
Of the past week." Mr.. Liesemer
said. "Our minds are perplexed
~ to what would cause this
tragic event to take place. We
pray that this grave problem
shall be solved, and should not
be content until Justice Is met"
His congregation sat attentive
and silent. There was no surreptl
tious whispering, and not one ey'
turned to the spot in the cente
aisle where all knew Jean Long
body had been found.