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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
Baby Dies At
Birth In Auto
OF His Parents

A baby boy born to a young
family while the parents were on
their way 10 q hospital was pro-
nounced dead on admittanoe 70
Receiving hospital after having
been refused sdmittance to q Ne
gro hospital
Police disclosed that the baby
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Childers
Of 1892 Hunt street.
Lack Of accommodations was
believed by the police department
to have been the reason the young
mother and her newborn baby
had been refused attention ct
Trinity hospital.
Eddie Boynton. IL months old.
OF Riopeile street. died last week
after he had choked 10 death on
an apple core, according 10 cor
oner's report which listed the
cause Of death as asphyxiation by
choking.
He was the son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Spencer Boynton Of the above sd-
dress
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
DorothyParker
Scores DeWey
With Deadly Wit

Detroit was greatly honored and
greatly amused this week by the
presence OF one OF Americas fore
most women authors, who 10 re-
nowned a. wit and yet who
wants everyone to realize the Sc
rlous undertones OF her tests: Mrs.
Dorothy Parker. She spoke OF the
Roosevelt rally Friday night, and
at q luncheon in her honor that
afternoon.
Sparkling bits In both speeches
delighted her listeners. ss TO wit:
at the rally she said, I'm here to
talk on q purely personal matter.
That is to some millions Of wom-
en- OF whom I'm one. The Re-
publicans speak often OF labor but
as an undigested lump In the belly
of the continent"
Speaking OF Clare Booth Luce.
she said. Mrs. Luce doubles in
the role of CT Joe and Marie An
toinette." And OF Mr.. Sidney Hill
man: Then the Republicans say
Mr.. Hillman Is Jew-J-E-W-
and Jew promptly becomes a four.
letter word" She referred 10 this
as an entrance through the door
marked fascism."
And Of communism. in the dull
lexicon OF reaction, a communist
is one who believes il is wrong to
own more than 100 slaves" And
Of Mr.. Wallace, she said that his
opponents call him "starry-eyed. /"
Said she then, Whats so hot about
going around with your eyes
shut?" And about criticism Of Mr..
Roosevelt's rehabilitation plans
she said, the boys won't be home
until the war is over and over for
keeps"
At the luncheon she refused to
tell her listeners how to vote say
ing. Il honestly don't see how any
one could without insulting you'll"
She derided Dewey with these
words, The Republicans have a
complete set OF arguments Of one
-Dewey's youth! Youth is after
all only matter OF timing by your
parents" She spoke OF having seen
President Roosevelt the night oil
his long drive through New York
and how he looked vigorous
strong and calm" But he had
driven through "a driving rain a:
cold as Dewey's heart, and a gale
that howled like Clare Luce!'
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
Judge Acquits 10

Ten men charged with maintain
ing and operating a mutuels bust
ness at several st. Antoine street
addresses were found not guilty of
several counts Of law violation on
Monday by Recorders Judge Ar
thur E. Gordon.
Three of the men, Ellis Smith,
81. of 2228 Beaubien street: Calvin
Hammond. SO, of 1913 ST. Antoine,
and Leon Ray, So. OF 4l6 E. Warren
street were found not guilty by the
court, while the others were ac-
quilted on motion for a directed
verdict by their attorneys, Joseph
A. Brown and Abe Messenger. fol-
lowing the taking Of testimony for
two days before Judge Gordon.
Others acquitted along with
Smith and Hsmmonds were Ben
Ormsby. A. of 1925 St. Antoine
street; Charles Turner, SO, of GIT
Z. Ferry; John Erwin, 43, OF an un-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
Youth Council To
Rid City OF Vice

Manager George T. Gundry. Police
Chief James T. Byars, and City At
torney Walter C. Krapohl partici-
psted, stated. I'm sure you will
find the city manager and the chief
OF police ready 10 act" A petition
to operate a cab company by r..
Mcintyre, World War ii veteran,
was accepted and will be granted a
hearing at the first commission
meeting next month.
Roger Townsend Mrs. M. v. Bax-
ter and Miss Dorothy Blassingame
are sponsors: Miss Katie Ellis,
chairman Of the Youth Council Of
the youth group of the local branch
OF NAACP.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
Miscella
LOST RelATIvesl

Would like TO know the where
abouts OF wife and children 81
VIII Jordan tdeceased) who cnee
lived at 1915 Antistam, Detroit
Mich. Children are Ollie and FREE
da. formerly Of ll04 Laurel street.
Texarkana, Ark. FredA at one
time a fur cutter. Both girls have
married names now but are not
known by me.-Gertruds Jordan
Kirk. Box $50. Leesvills. La.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
Sixth Conference
Held In Atlanta

BIRMINGHAM-Choosing as its
theme the slogan, Democracy
The Challenge OF Victory" the
Southern Negro Youth Conference
has issued a call for its sixth ALL
Southern conference The confer
ence will be held in Atlanta, Ga.
Nov. 30 Dec. l-3
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
NEW HOME BAPTIST

The public is cordially invited
TO attend all services at the New
Home Baptist church. 1914 Mack
avenue Rev. J. r. higgins. pastor.
The subject for the Sunday SER
mon was Citizenship in Heaven"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
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Evening star., 1944-03-31
Late Bulletins
Baby Broker Bill Passed

The House today passed and
sent to the White House legis-
lation designed to smash the
"baby broker" racket in the
District. The bill would Ii
cense and regulate child
placement agencies and indi-
viduals.
Earlier Story on Page B-1.)
Reds Capture Ochokov
LONDON R).-Red- Army
forces rolling westward along
the shores of the Black Sea
have captured Ochakov, 40
miles east of the former great
Russian naval base of Odessa,
Premier Stain announced to-
day. Ochakov's capture rep
resents a gain of 80 miles from
fallen Nikolaev by the Sd
Ukrainain Army, which forced
the Bug River estuary south
of Nikolaev only yesterday.
Earlier Story on Page ABB
Evening star., 1944-03-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 31.-A great
armada of RAF bombers, num-
bering probably more than 1000
smashed at the Southern Ger
man transport center and Nazi
Congress city of Nuremberg and
other points in the Reich last
night at a cost of SO planes
presumably bombers-the heavi-
est toll ever taken of an Allied
air fleet in a single operation.
The record loss was announced
just as the entire German net
work with the exception of Vienna
in old Austria shut down this morn
ing shortly after the warning that
enemy planes are approaching"
The first German warnings said
the daylight raiders were over Hes
sen-Nassau Province in Prussia.
18th Operation of Month.
The RATS announced loss, which
contrasted to German claims of
having inflicted the greatest defeat
of the war on the British Air Force
with the shooting down of 1872 four
engined bombers, was incurred in
the 17th heavy bomber operation
Evening star., 1944-03-31
$50 Woman Federal Workers
Quuruntined by Meninqitis

An emergency quarantine" against
possible spread of meningitis has
been clamped on Louisiana Hall
dormitory for about $50 Government
women workers at Arlington Farms
it was learned today.
The action followed the death oil
one Louisiana Hall girl on Wednes-
day, and the serious illness of Sec
ond, now at Gallinger Hospital
Both cases were diagnosed as
"meningococcus meningitis"
The quarantine, imposed by the
Arlington County Health Depart
ment, locked the girls in the dormi-
tory. Sulfa drugs were being ad-
ministered to all residents as pre-
ventive.
After conferences today among
Army, Navy and Public Health Serv-
ice officials, Arlington County off,
cials announced that the quarantine
will be lifted Monday morning.
All persons who came in contact
with the two victims in the War
Department have been notified and
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Federal Jury Indiets
De Lorenzo, Brewster
Aircraft Union Chief
False Statements on
Police Record in Seeking
Government Job Charged

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 31.-Thomas
De Lorenzo, IS, president OF
Local 365, United Automobile
Workers (CIO), was indicted to-
day by Federal grand jury on
a charge of making false state
ments in an affidavit submitted
in connection with his appoint
ment to the labor panel of the
War Labor Board.
The indictment charged that De
Lorenzo, whose local represents en-
ployes of the Brewster Aeronautical
Corps plant, asserted in an affi-
davlt sworn to April 30, 1943, in con-
nection with an application for Fed
eral employment that he never had
been arrested or indicted except for
traffic violations in New York City.
Thomas F. Murphy, assistant chief
of the criminal division of the
United States attorneys Office, said
that De Lorenzo was arrested March
Is, 1888, in New York on a disorderly
conduct charge; December Is, 1888
on a homicide-by- automobile
charge; July 7, 1941, in Hackensack
N. j., on charges of melting a riot
and malicious mischief.
Mr.. Murphy said De Lorenzo was
indicted on the latter charge.
De Lorenzo also was charged in
(See DE LORENZO, page AID
Evening star., 1944-03-31
U.S.. Warships' Attack
On Jap Island Near
Philippines Continue,
Enemy's Naval Units
Left PoIou After Being
Forewurned Of Assault
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Pearl Harbor, Mar. 81
Roaring defiance within 600
statute miles of the Philippines,
masses of American warships
opened the wars first attack
Wednesday on the powerful
japanese naval base of Palau,
and enemy naval units there,
forewarned by planes of the
armada's approach, deserted the
area in flight.
Our attacks continue" an
nounced Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
in phraseology recalling first dis
closure of the overwhelming two
day carrier plane strike February
1917 on Truk, Its miles east of
Palau.
1t seemed likely that this deepest
penetration on the road back to the
Philippines was made by aircraft
carrier task forces at least equal in
size to those which dealt such. heavy
plane and naval losses to Japan at
Truk and, few days later, ripped
part of, the air defenses of Saipan
Tinian and Guam in the Marianas
Attack Made at Dawn.
Admiral Nimitzs communique
yesterday succinctly stated that
strong Pacific Fleet forces, at dawn
Wednesday, 29th of March (west
longitude date), initiated attacks or
Japanese-held Palau Island"
His announcement of the Truk
attack was in similar vein, leaving
the presumption that the Palau as
sault was undertaken by hundred,
of carrier planes, many of then
believed operating from new, large
aircraft carriers. Palau is Its mile.
west of Truk.
The fact that japanese warships
at Palau, at the west end of the
Carolines, were observed fleeing thu
area before our units could reach at.
tack positions" plainly indicated thu
attacking armada's impressive size
At Truk, in the Marianas, and nov
at Palau, the United States Navy
has moved boldly afar from home
bases into long fortified nests of the
enemy, fairly spelling for a fight
with Japan's elusive fleet.
May Have Swung South.
Admiral Nimitz said japanese
search planes from New Guinea
helped spot the task forces ap-
proach, which may be taken to
mean the Navy swung south of the
Carolines to get at Palau That
would put the task forces in waters
adjacent to the South-Southwest
Pacific command of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur.
| The scores of small islands making
| lCan RAI All nan. A z \
Evening star., 1944-03-31
II Naval Craft
Are Sunk in
Mediterranean

The loss of IL naval vessels, rang
ing from large minesweeper down
to a harbor tug, in the Mediter-
ranean between January % and to-
day was announced by the Navy
Department this afternoon. Causes
Of the sinkings were not disclosed
but was described as due to a va
riety of causes"
The losses included one large
minesweeper, one motor mine
sweeper, eight landing craft, the
types of which were not detailed
and one harbor tug.
The Navy did not make public the
casualties resulting from the losses
The large minesweeper was the
Portent, commanded by 1t. Howard
c. Plummer, Beaumont, Tex, who
was reported safe. The motor
minesweeper was the YMS-30, COM
manded by 1t. q. g. Thomas E
Garner, U. S. N. r., Memphis, Tenn
listed as dead.
The Senior casualty" on the har-
Dor tug, the YT-198, was listed as
Chief Boatswain's Mate Robey Ben
field of Chattanooga, Tenn, who was
reported wounded.
The losses announced today bring
to a total OF 1853 the number of naval
vessels of all classes which have
been lost since Pearl Harbor.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
President Is Improving
Steadily From Bronchitis

President Roosevelt is steadily i'm
proving from the attack of bron-
chitis which has forced him to cur
tail his activities for several days
Presidential Secretary Stephen T
Early said today.
The Chief Executive remained in
his study at the White House and
kept an engagement that was can
celed yesterday with Cecil B. de
Mile, movie producer, who was ac-
companied by Comdr. Corydon
Wassell.
Mr.. de Mile has produced a mo-
tlon picture based on the expert
ences of Comdr. Wassell, a chaplain,
in leading refugees from the Java
wilderness.
Evening star., 1944-03-31

fully effective as it's defective pro-
visions will allow"
The measure would let servicemen
and women overseas vote with Fed
eral ballots, but only if they had
applied for the State ballots by Sep
tember l and did not receive them
by october l. In addition, the Gov
ernors of their States would have
to certify that the ballots were au-
thorized by State law.
Amendment Urged.
The President, in his message,
urged Congress to amend the act
right away to authorize all service
people who have not received their
State ballots by an appropriate date,
whether or not they have formally
applied for them, to use the Federal
ballot without prior express authori-
zation by the States"
He declared that IF the States
do not accept the Federal ballot,
that will be their responsibility.
Under this bill that responsibility
is shared by the Congress"
In a poll of all the Governors,
Mr.. Roosevelt had learned that at
least 20 States planned to do MOTH
ing about authorizing use of sup
Elementary Federal ballots, that 10
would permit their use or probably
would, and that nine were nom
committal.
The President explained that he
believed that it was within the
authority of Congress to use its war
powers Ito protect the political
rights of our servicemen and wom-
en- to vote for Federal officers, as
well as their civil rights with re-
spect to their jobs and their homes"
Today's message was couched in
a far more conciliatory vein than
the one Mr.. Roosevelt sent in Janu-
ary assailing the original States
rights" bill as a fraud"
Because of the confusing provi-
sions of the compromise bill and
because of the difficulty of knowing
just what will be the practical effect
of the bill in operation, it is impos-
sible for me to determine whether.
in fact, more service men and wom-
en- will be able to vote under the
new measure than under existing
law" the President wrote.
O'MahOney Raps Measure.
THAT determination will largely
depend upon the extent to which
the States cooperate to make the
measure as effective as its provi-
sions permit. In view of this sit
uation, I resolve the doubt in favor
of the action taken by the Congress
and am permitting the bill to be-
come law without my approval"
Present law valves registration
and poll tax requirements for serv-
Evening star., 1944-03-31
(Picture on Page A-5.)

Six crew members of an Amer
lean transport plane operated by
the Army Air Forces, all from
the Washington area, lost their
lives in the Atlantic this week
when the plane was shot down
accidentally by British carrier
operated fighters protecting an
Allied convoy, the War Depart
ment and British Admiralty an
nounced today.
The victims were:
Charles S. CARRIER, 1164 South
Thomas street, Arlington, crew cap
tain; George Edward Shelton, 5 East
Monroe avenue, Alexandria, first
officer; Orville w. Scholtz, Oklahoma
Building, Beverly Park Gardens
Alexandria, navigator: Royce Theo-
dore Welliver, 1728 Abingdon drive
Alexandria. engineer; Bedford Her.
man Mann, 403 Garland avenue
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Roosevelt Fails
To Sign or Veto
Service Vote Bill
Calls Measure Which
Now Becomes Law
Wholly inadequate
BY j. A FOX.

President Roosevelt today no.
titled Congress that he would
permit the service voting bill to
become law without his sigma
ture, even though he declared
that "in my judgment" the
measure is wholly inadequate
to insure to servicemen and
women, as far as is practically
feasible, the same opportunity
which they would have to vote
if they were at home"
The Chief Executive sent mes
sage to Capitol Hill announcing his
intention to let the controverted
measure become law at midnight
tonight.
In it, he appealed to the States to
cooperate in making the bill as
Evening star., 1944-03-31
House Finally Votes
To Recess to April II
Beginning Tomorrow

By the Associated Press.
An Easter holiday from TO-
morrow until April IL was voted
finally by Congress today.
The House adopted Senate
amendments shifting the start
of the recess from yesterday
until the Saturday date, neces-
STATED by the service vote sit
uation.
Adoption came after the
House. with less than rs mem
bers present, heard President
RooSevelt's message announc-
ing that he would permit the
service vote bill to become law
without his signature.
Representatives Rankin, DEM
acrot, of Mississippi and Hof1-
man, Republican, of Michigan
objected to the recess, but said
they would not "embarrass" the
House by raising the point that
there was no quorum present to
transact any official business.
Evening star., 1944-03-31

will be under a similar quarantine
in their homes until Monday. They
also will be advised to take sulfa
drugs.
DR.. Ralph G. Beachley, Arlington
County public health officer, said
that all precautions were being
taken, and that the procedure fol-
lowed Army practice in such cases.
1--WE don't think there is any cause
for public alarm" he said.
The dead girl succumbed in an
ambulance Wednesday while being
taken from Louisiana Hall to Gal
linger Hospital. She was Miss
Blanche Bernice Friefeld, II, of
Long Beach, N. Y, an employe in
the office of the chief signal officer,
War Department.
Miss Friefeld came here to work
March 4.
The second girl, now seriously ill
of meningitis at Gallinger is Miss
Marion Hearth, 10, of Barre, Vt. Her
mother, Mrs. B. F. Hearth, is en-
(See QUARANTINE, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-03-31
SMD. c. Area Men Die as British
Planes Down Ours in Error
Transport Craft Fired Upon in Atlantic
By Carrier Fighters Guarding Convoy

Potomac Park, Md, radio man, and
Avery Bruce Merritt, Mclean, Va.
purser.
British Regret Incident.
The War Department made the
announcement after receiving word
from the British Admiralty, which
expressed its regrets" over the
incident.
The plane, a four-engine C-54.
was flown by a civilian crew serving
under the Air Transport Command.
The ship was loaded with cargo, but
no passengers were aboard.
Fighters protecting the convoy,
mistaking the transport for an en-
emy plane, attacked the C-54 in the
vicinity of the convoy route.
The British report said the fight
ters evidently mistook the C-54 for
German -motored bomber. of
the Focke-Wulf 200 type. No other
details were obtained.
Capt. Garber's wife lives at the
| (See DIANE paoe A51
Evening star., 1944-03-31
RAF Suffers Heaviest Losses
In ! ,OO0-PIo Nuremberg Raid
96 Aircraft Downed for Record Toll
In Attack on transportation Center

in March by the British sky fleet
The previous record was set Feb
bruary 10, when the Raj lost 7s
planes in raid on Leipzig.
The attack on Nuernberg-the
scene of Adolf Hitler's prewar Nazi
party rallies and the peacetime CEN
ter of the toy industry--was the
ninth of the war on that city.
1t was carried out while British
Intruders ranged over the continent
shooting up airfields in France, the
Low Countries and Germany itseli
and while small force of German
raiders was giving London it's first
alert in three nights.
2,240 Tons Dropped.
The official description Of the
Nuremberg raid as in very great
strength" suggested that in the
neighborhood of 2,240 tons of bombs
had fallen on the city where 1O8
acres of the built-up area had been
devastated by previous blows.
The heaviest previous load for
that target was 1880 tons on August
27, 1943, when the city was last hit
in force.
The city is one of the most i'm
portant railway and industrial
(See RAIDS Page AN
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Wells, Mines on
SukhuIin Island
Return to Soviet
BY EDDY GILMORE.


MOSCOW, Mar. 31.-The JAP
anese government today re-
ceived staggering blow from,
the west when the Soviet gov
ernment announced it had
signed a protocol under which
Toxic agreed to surrender her
oil and coal leases on Northern
Sakhalin Island in the Pacific
The Russians contracted to fur
nish Japan with $4,000 tons of oil
a year for five years beginning after
the war.
Russia agreed to pay Japan
100000 rubles (about $950,O00D and
to allow Japan free export of stored
oil and coal in the concession terri
tory. Japan agreed to hand over to
Russia all property belonging to
japanese concessionaires including
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Proposal for S|um
Clearance by Private
Builders Offered
Construction Of 1850
Housing Units Here in
Six Years PLEDGED

A detailed plan for reclama-
ton of the Districts slum areas
by private builders-an alterna-
tive to the proposed public
housing program - today was
presented to the Senate Dis
trict Subcommittee investigating
housing conditions here by Mon
roe Warren, director of the
Washington Home Builders AS
sociation and chairman of its
Housing Committee.
Written commitments from pri-
vate builders, pledging that they
will construct 23,650 low-rent hous-
| ing units here within the next six
years if Mr.. Warrens plan is adopt
ed, were laid before the subcommit-
tee by James c. Wilkes, attorney for
the Home Builders Association.
The builders pledged to construct
$3.50 units during the first year OF
the program and 19,700 units during
the remaining five years. The num-
ber of substandard dwellings which
must be replaced previously has
been estimated at 10000 by public
housing officials.
Clarence E. Kefauver, president OF
the District Building and Loan
League. testified that adequate
financial backing is available to
carry out the private builders pro-
gram.
Board Is Proposed.
| The plan outlined by Mr.. Warren
calls for creation of a slum clear
ance board composed of represent
atlves of the Federal and District
governments, white and colored cit
liens groups, and "civic-minded
business leaders, including a prac-
tical builder and one person from
the mortgage or building and loan
field"
This board would select the slum
areas to be cleared, buy or condemn
these properties, and then, teal
down the slum dwellings.
The cleared land selected as the
site OF replacement housing then
would be sold. or leased, for long
term on a competitive bid basis, to
private builders.
Families unable to pay the rents
charged for this replacement hous-
ling would be given relief aid through
the welfare department of the local
government
Mr.. Warren said that under this
program, private builders will pro-
duce housing cheaper and quicker
than public housing agencies. The
job can be done with private financ-
ing and no Government financia.
aid will be necessary in connection
with construction of the buildings
he said. He added that under the
plan, the property would pay full
real estate taxes to the District
government.
Loans Reported Available.
Mr.. Kefauver testified that {
group of building and loan associa.
tions representing total resource,
in excess of $100,000,00O is prepared
to loan money for private slun
| (Coe IyOTTCyNTr noro