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Evening star., 1944-07-02
Home Accidents
| Mount to 128
Here in Week

The last week in June proved
costly In casualties in home acci-
dents in the District as a record
high of l2S treated in hospitals
was reported by the District Red
Cross Home Accident Prevention
Service.
There were 48 falls, l3 burns. one
accidental poisoning, one acciden-
tally injured from discharge of a
f1rearm, four cases of foreign bodies
in ear, nose and throat, 80 cuts and
% miscellaneous. A 2l2 -year-old
child died from mechanical suffo-
cation.
Victory gardens caused injuries
as two stepped on shovels and were
struck In the face by the handles
Two were injured while using hatch
cts
Among the children hospitalized.
two fell from garage roofs. two
were struck by yard swings, four
stepped on nails, two tripped over
toys, one drank spot remover. two
ran into trees, one ate IA cathartic
pills and two pushed safety pins
into their ears. One was struck by
a water pitcher when it fell from
table and one fell on a fishbone
which penetrated his finger.
-Four adults were treated for Sc
we're heat exhaustion, one man re-
ceived multiple lacerations when a
bottle OF medicine exploded and two
women were burned by curling
irons. Two adults were burned by
exploding matches, two fell in bath
rooms, four tripped over rugs and
electric cords, two slipped on waxed
floors, one was cut on an electric
fan and one 40-year-old man thrust
needle entirely through his
thumb while darning socks,
Evening star., 1944-07-02
New Trial Motion Filed
For Cathedral SLAYER

A motion for a new trial was
filed in District Court yesterday
by Charles H. Houston, attorney
for Julius Fisher, 81, colored jani-
tor, convicted Of flrst-degree muir
der Thursday in the Cathedral
library Staying March Of Miss
Catherine Cooper Reardon.
The motion said Justice James
M. Proctor erred in admitting oral
and signed confessions which, it
contended, were obtained without
advising the defendant of his con-
stitutional rights.
1t was also charged that the
court ruled improperly in exclud-
ing certain evidence favorable to
the defendant, and in sending the
jury back for further deliberation
after its first verdict was reported
Mr.. Houston also charged that
the justice "spotlishted unfavor-
ably the testimony of the defend
ant" No date has been set for
argument on the motion.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
|Womon Who Abducted Child ]
Hos Six Husbands, FBI Says 1

Mrs. Kreger pleaded guilty to ABB
ducting Rita Mae Lucero from q
downtown clothing store here Nom
day, saying she wanted the girl to
replace her baby who died at birth.
Mr.. Nathan said Mrs. Kreger
declared the marine sergeant was
the man she loved and contended
she did not know why she married
70 many others. She received only
one allowance check from service
men-$200 from her third husband,
also 4 marine, but returned the
check to the Government, Mr.. Ma
than said she told him.
Mrs. Kreger said two Of the serv-
.1cemen were overseas, one was iit
San Diego and that she did not
know the whereabouts Of the others.
A probation hearing on the child
stealing charge has been set for
July 3.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Joponese.BeetIes Again Strike
Gardens in Metropolitan Area
Trops Available to Residents in Maryland;
Lime Also Helps to Control Pests

The No. ! enemy of lawns,
shrubbery and gardens-the jap
anese beetle-has begun its annual
depreciation in the Metropolitan
Area, with some localities reporting
the pest an even greater nuisance
than last year.
National Capital Parks officials
report presence of beetles In parks
but they claim they do not appear
to be as widespread as last summer
The bugs have started to work on
roses and ampelopsis, an ivylike
creeper, however, and they may
come out in greater numbers later,
officials said.
They gave credit for the decrease
to the milky disease treatment given
to park areas several years ago. In
this treatment q microscopic bacil-
lus is spread over lawns. The bacil-
lus sets up . disease in the grub.
which dies before it reaches the
beetle stage.
Traps May BE Leased.
japanese beetle activity is par
ticularly pronounced in the Chevy
Chase area, parts of Arlington
County and in Alexandria.
Meanwhile, arrangements have
been made for the distribution OF
beetle traps to Montgomery County
residents at the Farm Bureau Office
in Rockville and at county build
ings In Silver Spring and Bethesda.
Prince Georges County has set up
agents in College Park, Hyattsville,
Laurel. Seat Pleasant, Suitland and
Bowie. Traps may be leased at the
rate Of 20 cents for two years.
Homeowners in Washington and
nearby Virginia will have to depend
on traps available in department,
hardware and seed stores.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Body Of. Boy, 6, Found
After l0-Doy Search
BY the Associated Press.

os inc Associated PresS.
UPPER LAKE, N. Y, July T.
The BODY of Joseph Fromeget. 6.
missing since June 20 when he be-
came lost near the top of 3,163- foot
Mount Morris. was found today a
mile anc half south Of the cabin
where he was last seen.
The discovery was made bv a
searching party headed by Is State
Police. The body was removed to
Tupper Lake where an autopsy was
to be performed by DR.. Earl c. Wag-
ner, Franklin County coroner.
The boy was left at the cabin
near the top of the peak when he
became tired while accompanying
MS father, State Fire Warden Ade-
lard FromaGet, on a tour of duty.
The lad was missing when Mr..
Fromaget returned to the cabin five
and one-half hours later.
Evening star., 1944-07-02

vile. Mr.. will speak at the Inde.
pendence Day celebration at Ia
koma Park. Athletic activities for
children will start ct . pm. with
patriotic exercises TO be held at 7
pm. and q dance for young people
from . TO II pm.
The Takoma Park Recreation
Center will be the scene OF the
children's events and the patriotic
exercises Will be in the triangle
park, Carroll and Willow avenues.
The dance will be at the Takoma
Recreation Center. In case Of rain
the exercises will be held in the
Seventh Day Adventists Church, op-
posite the triangle park, and the
dance In the Takoma Park Volun-
teer Firehouse.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Residents Of Berwyn
Plon War Memorial

Residents of the Berwyn area are
organizing a War Memorial Com
mittee to honor members of the
armed forces of this and former
wars.
The Maryland State Roads Com
mission has permitted the group
to erect an honor roll at Greenbelt
road and Baltimore boulevard.
Plans are being made to erect a
permanent memorial after the war.
Mrs. Eta P. Macdonald of the
Woman's Community Club has been
named temporary treasurer of the
committee. She will receive con-
Itributions for the memorial fund
Evening star., 1944-07-02

Agriculture Department beetle ex-
perts who claim the infestation ir
this area is not a. bad as 4 year
ago have this advice for property
owners planning beetle offensives
l. Milky disease control methods
are achieving good results but be-
cause of specialized handling and
facilities required. they are not
readily available to individuals.
2. Traps won't solve the beetle
problem. They are Of little value
unless an entire community sets
out traps. One trap in action
in neighborhood only means the
beetles in one garden stand A
chance of an early death.
3. Ordinary lime is the best ma
terial for spreading over Victory
gardens. While it doesn't Kill the
beetles. 1t chases them of to some.
thing more appetizing.
Most Garden Crops Safe.
In this connection, the depart
ment points out that with the ex-
SSksAOA VA SiiaP DcdAiS. COIU ana
asparagus, there Is little in the
ordinary garden to entice beetles.
They much prefer roses, apple
trees, srapevines, cherry trees. Vir-
ginia creeper, dahlias, hollyhocks
and wide variety of shade trees.
The departments researchers have
tried nearly every known chemical
and combinations that might rea-
sonably be developed for insecti-
cides. Many Of these are too potent
to be placed in the hands OF lay
men.
Among the sprays is lead arse
nate. The department has recon-
mended reduced dosage OF the
spray. however. in order to conserve
supplies for essential food crons
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Mrs. Horace {. Dodge
In Reno for Divorce
Ey the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
RENO, New, July Mrs Horace
E Dodge. former New York show
girl, Is establishing Nevada resi-
dence to divorce the heir of the
Dodge motor fortune.
The former Mickey Devine reg
lstered at the Del Monte dude
ranch as Martha D. Ward, June 13.
Her attorney would not disclose
what grounds she would use in a
divorce action against Mr.. Dodge.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
~ the Associated Press.

SAN DIEGO. Calf, July 1--six
husbands, acquired In four States
since 1857, and possibly one divorce,
were listed today by the Federal
Dureau Of Investigation As the mari
tai status Of Mrs. Helen Kreger, q,
who FBI Chief Harold Nathan
quoted as saying she abducted q
2-year-old child In order not to
disappoint her second husband,
Marine sergt. Harold Kreser.
Mr.. Nathan said Mrs. Kreger
identified flve Of the husbands as
servicemen and one as civilian.
II couldn't bear to disappoint him
after the hell he hAd been through
over there" Mrs. Kreger said, re-
ferrins to Sergt. Kreger's n months
In the South Pacic. "She was the
same age our child would have
been."
Evening star., 1944-07-02
National Experts P|ar
Digest Of Testimony
On Capital Housing

National interest In the contest
between public and private housing
as to how the Districts future slum
clearance and rehousing programs
should be operated was given a new
accent yesterday when it was re-
vealed the National Industrial Con-
ference Board, New York City, plans
to make a digest Of the Voluminous
testimony before the Burton Senate
subcommittee.
Virgil Jordan, president of the
conference board, has been promised
cooperation in making the digest by
Chairman Bilbo of the Senate Dis
trict Committee.
Mr.. Jordan wrote: "Your investi-
cation, we believe. has produced a
valuable body Of data on the rela-
tive merits Of low-cost housing as
supplied by Government and pri-,
vate contractors. This testimony
should prove of decided assistance
to the many communities currently
considering plans for slum clearance
in the postwar period and the con-
tributions which can be made by
Government and private enterprise
to the solution OF this national
problem.
This problem is so timely and
Of such broad national interest that
the National Industrial Conference
Board is currently contemplating
detailed review and commentary of
the evidence your committee has
collected.
THE proposed study would brief,
In impartial form, the lengthy testi-
mony presented by Government Of
flcials and private builders and
would attempt in the commentary to
develop the underlying significance
OF this testimony. The commentary
might also attempt to appraise the
quality of the evidence presented
as we'll as the applicability to the
whole field of national housing OF
the proposed solution for the Dis
trict."
The Burton subcommittee has
concluded its hearings, which lasted
though nearly six months, and an
other subcommittee, headed by
Senator Walsh, Democrat of New
Jersey, has been named to consider
the several competing bills.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Merry Fohrney to Wed
Son of Mexican Envoy
3y the Associated Press.

by INT Aks0citted Prese.
BUENos AIRES, July l.-Merry
Fahrney, former Chicago heiress
who has had five previous husbands,
Is engaged to marry Carlos Ojeds,
21-year -old son of Carlos Dario
OJeda, Mexican Ambassador to Ar
gentina, it was learned tonight. I"
The date of the wedding was not
announced, but Mrs. Ojeda said the
couple planned to live in Mexico.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Named Firemen's Aides

Mrs. Doris Grimes, Hyattesville.
and Mrs Margaret Mcclellan.
Brentwood, have been named re-
cording secretary and hospital
chairman. respectively, of the Mary
land State Volunteer Firemen's
Association.
Evening star., 1944-07-02

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-17

COMPLETION-Some three weeks
ago Governor BrouChton told news
paper mon that he thought he had
completed appointments of the null
tiple commissions authorized by the
last General Assembly, He found nc
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19
TODAY and TOMORROW
German Democracy
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

ed control of a great nation like
the German, the reduction of its
territory, or beyond that its parti-
ton, is an appalling thing to under
take. We should not be considering
it if there were any evidence that
a freedom loving German democ-
racy was risi:lg to over throw the
Nazis, and to purge and regener-
ate Germany.
What we must put aside entirely
is the allegation that we could pro-
duce and evoke a German democ-
racy, and that if it does not ap-
pear, it is our fault. Only the Ger
mans can produce a German de-
mocracy. The Germans are the on
ly nation who have succeeded in
doctrinating themselves and multi
tudes elsewhere with the idea that
some one else is always respons-
IDLE for what they do and for what
they do not do. Always they are in
the end more sinned against than
SHINING. If they accept Nazism, it
is because the Allies gave them a
harsh peace in 1919. If they do
not rebel against Nazism in 1914.
it is because the Allies do not
promise them a soft peace.
Is 1t not time to agree that if the
Germans want to be treated like a
tree nation, then they must fight
for their own freedom as all people
who are genuinely free have had
to fight? Let Germans come for
ward to open the path to our ar
mics, and by their deeds prove that
they are being liberated and t
conquered. Fawning on our troops
when they march into German
towns proves nothing, except that
they are used to the idea that
might makes right; and we need
not be surprised or impressed if
crowds that cried Hell Hitler" be-
gin to cry Hell Patton" Let Ger
mans purge the Nazis, and they
Will prove what can never be prov
ed in manifistoes written in New
York, that Germany exists with
which her victims can begin to
zeal On a basis of moral equality.
copyright, 1914, for the Starr
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19

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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19

The Germans and their pris-
oners took cover in house
where they found five barrels
of wine-on which the ferries
proceeded to operate latter
coming out from under table
where they tried to hide from
the barrage," Sgt. James G.
Macharas of Lynchburg, Va,
recalled.
The more the Germans drank
the warmer they got. They be-
gan laying aside their equip
ment, including guns. That was
alright with Herrera and Hits
man, who went around quietly
picking up weapons until they
had them all; then they captur-
ed their captors.
An hour later the aid station
was back in business in the
same house.
Pvts. Charles Barnes of AL
word, Tex, and America D.
Chiarito of the Bronx, N. Y,
were just sitting in a jeep wait
ing for two officers to return
from a patrol when a column
of Germans came marching
down the royd.
Il thought they were prison.
ers," Barnes explained, then
I noticed no Americans were
with them"
The doughboys had only one
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19
DUPLIN SOLDIER
GETS ARMY MEDAL

WARSAW, Sept. 18.-Rom Alph-
in of Beulaville has received the
Purple Heart for wounds receiv-
ed in the Normandy campaign. He
is now in a hospital in England.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Weeks OF
Faison, Route l, have been notified
that their son, Pfc. Woodrow
Weeks, was killed in action in
France on July Is. He had been IN
the Army since 194l and overseas
since February, last.
Cpl. William. L. Bostic, U. S.
Navy, son of Mr.. Estella Maceady
of Chinquapin, has been wounded
in action, according to a War de-
partment notice.
William K. Kelly, son of the Rev
Geo. M. Kelly of Magnolia, was
promoted to corporal and has re-
ceived his silver aerial gunner's
wings.
William Houston Carroll, sta
toned in Alaska, son of Mrs. Char
les F. Carroll of Warsaw, has been
promoted to corporal in the Army,
his mother has been informed.
Pfc. Norman H. Barr, of Camp
Murphey, Fla, is spending fur
Tough with his wife and mother,
Mrs. Anna Barr.
Henry D. Farrior, stationed in
Italy. has been promoted to a cor
poral in the army He is son Of
DR.. and Mrs. James w. Farrior
of Warsaw
Sgt. Page johnson. son of Mrs.
Charlie Johnson of Warsaw, was
recently transferred from Iceland
to England
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19
With The AEF
Near Misses And Such Things

gun between them, so they hid
in some bushes. When the
column came up the unarmed
Barnes stepped out of hiding
and yelled Lay those guns
down, you soandsos" Then
calling into the bushes as
though there was a force of
Yanks there, he yelled, Some
body come out with a rifle on
the double"
Out stepped Chiarito to COW
err the ferries. It was a lovely
sight a few minutes later to
see two GI's with one rifle
herding II enemy soldiers, in
Guiding one officer, down the
road toward the PW pen.
Whether Sgt. Bob Blair is
horseplayer or not he just lost
a photo finish and doesn't mind
saying he doesn't care a bit.
Sergeant Bob, who is from
Plainview, Tex, operates
around this front as an ar
tillery section chief. The other
day Jerry started pouring a
barrage on his position and
Bob made Decline for his
foxhole. When he was about 20
feet away, a German shell beat
him into it. Bob recognizes odds
in a hurry. He didn't 60 near
any foxhole fo~ the rest of the
day,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19
WILMINGTON LOSES
TRANSPORT OFFICE

CHARLOTTE, Sept. 18.-(P-Of.
flee Of Defense Transportation field
offices in Asheville, Winston-Salem
and Wilmington will be closed Oct
Is. it was announced here TODAY
by L. S. Manneschmidt, manager
of the Charlotte district office
The 46 counties in the western
North Carolina area will be direct
ly under the Charlotte office
Manneschmidt said.
The change leaves in operation
district offices here, at Raleigh
and in Columbia. S. C. Under the
new program, truck operators will
60 direct to their action boards in
all dealings regarding gasoline al.
lotments. Heretofore, the operators
have applied to the ODT district
agency nearest their home towns
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19
With The AEF
By SID FEEDER

Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon]
SOUTHERN FRANCE, Sept.
10. -Delayed)-(P)-Pvts. John
R. Herrera, Delta, Col, and
George Hitsman, Grand Rap
ids, Mich, will tell you Jerry
likes his vino. They ought to
know, because if a group of
ferries hadn't inhaled a lot of
it Herrera, Hitsman and the
rest of Their battalion aid group
would be prisoners.
The entire station was cap
tured just south of Lyon and
the Germans marched their
prisoners for miles.
"They even tried to make us
carry their equipment, but we
kept throwing Their stuff into
ditches," recalled Pvt. Arnold
Wiseman of Charleston, W. Va.
Then Yankee artillerymen,
knowing nothing about the
Yanks' capture, shelled the
road.
cit was really something"
explained Sgt. Stanley ]. Ma
lone of New York City and
Corp. William Duncan of Bir-
mingham, Ala.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19

' Dewey said, adding:
5 1.-THE provisions of this law ane
the other New Deal interference
, with free collective bargaining
should never be renewed"
THE right of workers TO leave
their jobs individually OF together
the right to strike-is one Of
the fundamental rights of free
men," he declared. 1T has some
times been abused. But what has
caused the abuse?"
Then he blamed the president
War Labor Board and declared:
whether by design or sheer in
competence. its practice has been
to stall-weeks, months, sometimes
years-before issuing decisions.
For that reason, too. the working
man and working woman and their
families have had to suffer-
Asserting the war effort has been
constantly hampered' by this
planned confusion.' the New York
governor said:
This policy of delay. and more
delay serves only the new deal and
its political ends.
1T puts the leaders of labor on
the spot. 1t makes them come. hat
in hand to the White House. 1t
makes political Royalties the test
of a mans getting his rights.
Personal government instead of
government by law, politics instead
of justice prevail in the labor field
in this country, and I am against
that kind of administration and al
ways will be-"
Calling for equality between bust
ness, labor and agriculture with
full employment and high wage
levels, Dewey promised to set up
a fair, even-handed government
with competent, orderly admins
tration.''
american working people know
that with the restoration of free
dom, they will have their greatest
opportunity to build better and
stronger free labor unions" he
said. :" They know that with
such freedom, the working men
themselves will drive both the rae
eteers and the communists from
positions of power in the labor
movement.
THAT he declared, sis why the
racketeers and communists are
against a change OF administra-
ton
He was asked at a news con-
ference earlier about Harry
Bridges, west coast CLIO leader
against whom deportation proceed
lngs are under way, and his only
comment was:
is Bridges still in this country"
In his broadcast on what he call
ed the New Deals towering con-
fusion of agencies" the candidate
said that with more than Is fed
era agencies pulling in opposite
directions, we have been yanked
from crisis to crisis in the field
of labor.
Why he declared, "even on
the railroads, where an orderly
system of mediation had been
palnstakingly created, we stood last
december on the brink of a pa
ralyzlng strike. That was only be-
cause one man government could
not keep its hands off established
previously successful legal process
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-19
Winston-Salem Man Do,
After Automobile Wrs,l

"lNsToN-sALEM, Sept. :.
dewey - y, LIE Burke IS, of Win,
ton Salem, died at bo... ''S
here this morning following in t'''.
IN an automobile accident in w..
i've other persons were bn-t %'nci
night about 6 O'Clock, 49, las
c, Burkers wife and two childr.,
o I Lee, 5, and Elizabeth I aen
., sustained injuries when tho al" nm
IN which they were riding cal
collision with another auton way n
whose owner W not inma e.I'e'
~ ascertained. These vic+ins E.
gether with Miss Louise Mi7a -. 10,
Harvey Painter. occupants ~ aila
othe-- car, were patients =. -, w
hospital. At ne