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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-02

MOrgue
BribeLaid


A warrant accusing DR.. Abra'
ham NJ. Altshuler, 81, a Wayne
County medical examiner, with
soliciting an illegal fee in an al.
legged "morgue racket" was ISSUED
by Recorders Judge Groat today
at the request of Prosecutor bowl.
ing.
DR.. Altshuler, Downing said
would be prosecuted under the
bribery statutes. The physician
has private professional offices al
sos Fox Building.
Shortly after the warrant was
issued, DR.. Altshuler called the
prosecutors office and said he
would surrender at 9 a. m. tomor-
ro@. He will be Immediately
arraigned. Downing said.
FEE FOR RELEASE
Previously. the prosecutor said,
the physician had been TO his
office and made a complete de-
NAL of all the charges.
The warrant accuses DR.. Alt
shuler of asking a father TO pay
him $50 to make formal arrange
ments for the release of the mans
son from the county morgue.
The father, Walter Klann Of
903l Burt road, told Bowling
that his son. Robert. is, dice
Sept. 2 Of injuries suffered in ar
industrial accident and that the
body was taken 10 the morgue
When he went there to claim
the body, Klann declared. he wa:
approached by q clerk, Stephan
Keilman. who asked him whether
he had a physician TO represent
him.
"NEED CERTIFICATE"
When he said he hadn't. DR.
.Altshuler approached Klann
Bowling said. and told him he
would have to have a doctor:
death certificate for legal protec.
ton, and that he would give him
such a certificate for $50.
Klann did not pay the money
but took the doctors bushes:
card, Bowling said. Later a posi-
norton was performed with DR.
Robert Rosen representing the
family and DR.. J. c. Falk the
employers of the dead youth. The
body then was released to the
family.
Bowling explained that under
the law the coroner must sign GER
tificates for release of bodies in
cases requiring post-mortem. Nc
fees, however, are involved, he
said.
In a case where there has beer
no post-mortem, family physician
may sign the official certificate
and is entitled to charge for pro-
fesSional services.
PHYSICIAN NO. 1
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-02
Saar Germans
Before
Patton Drive

Dec. i (UP) ~. y. ngnter-
bomber pilots reported tonight
that q mass exodus of civilians
appeared to be In progress from
the threa tie d SaarIautern
area, In the face of an advance
on Saarbrucken by Gen. Pat
tons army.
PARIS, Dec. i (UP)--American
First Army troops slugged east
ward 400 yards on a four-mile
front southwest of Duren today,
bending back the entire south
wing of the German forces de-
Tending the Rhineland in perhaps
the most violent battle of the war.
Gen. Hodges doughboys set the
slow pace for three Allied armies
locked in two Of the toughest
struggles of Gen. Eisenhower's
grand offensive. The armies ex-
panded their toeholds on the she'll
plowed banks Of the rivers Roer
and Saar in preparation for a
knockout blow at GerInany's war;
making might.
BREAK sTALEMATE
Veteran First Army assault
forces broke the stalemate on the
rim of the Hurtgen forest and
battered forward to within 1000
yards Of Gey, four miles south
west of Duren, and to within less
than mile of Brandenberg, four
miles below Gey.
United Press correspondent
Jack Frankish reported from the
First Army front that the Yanlxs
were fighting against the stiffest
resistance, including mines and
roadblocks formed by felled pine
trees.
Fighter-bombers flew about $50
sorties against the Germans facing
the First Army. They smashed at
tank and troop positions directly
behind the line, and shot up strong
points farther to the rear.
RECAPTURE TOWN
Hodges troops captured LAM
ersdorf, west of Duren, for the
second time in "a hours in the
battle to clear out the Inde River
defenses west Of the Roer.
Front dispatches said the Ninth
Army on the First's left, had won
nearly a 10-mile hold on the west
bank of the Roer. and that the
Third Army to the south held an
eight-mile stretch of the west
bank of the Saar.
(The NaZi Transocean agency's
military commentator, Capt.
Sertorius. asserted tonight that
the American seventh and
French First armies in Central
Alsace had achieved "a deep
breach in the German line west
of Selestat," ms reported)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-02
Admiral Tries
ToSett|e Row,
Reopen Plant

The navy took official notice Of
the interruption of fighting equip
ment production at the strike
bound Graham-Paige Motors Corp.
with arrival here today from
/ Washington OF Rear Adm. Z. l..
Coehrane, chief of the Bureau OF
Ships.
! Work stoppage ar three war
plants involved in disputes over
seniority rights, continued with
nearly 1000 workers idle at Gra-
ham-Paige. Briggs Mack avenue
and Dodge main.
UNION LEADERS IGNORED
The walkouts went on despite
the orders of UAW-CIO regional
directors demanding that the
workers return to their jobs.
Adm. Cochrane. whose job is TO
see that the navy has all the fight
ing equipment it needs. came 10
Detroit to present an ''E' flag TO
the Great Lakes Steel Corp. this
afternoon, but Immediately turned
his attention to the Graham-Paige
shutdown.
EXPRESSES DISMAY
IL am greatly disappointed"
the admiral said, that war
workers engaged in the vitality
important production of am
phlbiOus tractors for the navy
would put seniority rights be-
fore equipment that our fighting
boys must have TO beat the Japs
and the Nazis TO their knees.
THE patriotism Of these
workers must rise above petty
grievances at a time like this.
They must 20 back to work at
once. That Is the only way TO
victory"
Warnings from the government
that the Dodge walkout imperiled
production of engines for B-29s at
the Dodge Chicago plant failed
to end the strike of 1900 at the
main Detroit plant which began
Wednesday.
George F. Adde's. acting preSi-
(Continued on Page ., Col. 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-02
In the Times TODAY

KEYKO WArGARINL--as-d generosity. q
makes stuffed potatoes 50 deliciom Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-02

m ,. e. TooLE, DENTIST
Hall Hours e-s. Ie, CA $3.50 ADV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28
BY HEBER KINIBALL CLEVELAND
Ut want to defend polygamy.

4 DON'T want to defend polygamy
Il 1t needs no defense. 1t is biologically, ply
] sioogically and morally right. can attest to
that. l am physically and morally stronger after
nine years of living with plural wives-four, in
fact-than was in monogamy. And have lived
a less emotional life under plural marriage.
Born and reared in Mormon family orig
inally converted to that religion in 1894 in South
Carolina and subsequently immigrated to the
young man. / saw more wantonneSS in those
years by supposedly religious persons than ever
was perpetrated under plural marriage.
Like many another young man who finds the
world at large doesn't offer that something which
he could be convinced he could cling to as a sub
stantial guide, returned to the land of my youth
to restudy the religion to which was converted.
But 1t offered no satisfaction until realized
that the doctrine and covenants of true Mormon
ism did, after ALL contain the principle, the law OF
God, by which could set my lfes course.
1t dawned upon me that the reason for lack
of persecution the lack of the characteristic
identifying the Mormon religion stated in the
doctrine that the Mormons as they are
known today are not practicing their religion.
On my own, / undertook TO practice il.
Life under that religion has brought me ex-
treme happiness keen sense of moderation an
appreciation of the laws of life, full knowledge
of the extent of human weaknesSes-and a flock
of minor trbulations, including FBI agents, active
and eX.Mormon "Peeping Toms; church stool
pigeons" and general informers.
Not that have attempted to conceal anything
in my life in polygamy
But now, while think about it-since Uncle
Sam has made public property of my life and
forced into the press the full particulars of the
extent of my family, think III pay his tax col
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28


me adequate credit for all of my dependents.
For even if he convicts me on this Mann
Act charge he has filed against me land I'm
hdent he can't even though his district attorneys
and assistant district attorneys to carry the
case TO the Supreme Court of the United States)
the conviction would have no effect my belief.
Ex-FBI agents and others have accounted for
the most regrettable nuisance with which have
had to contend Most of the $1,000 collection of
first editions or outof-print books on Mormon
religion have disappeared through them
The Peeping LONESOME of whom have made
bold to enter my house curiously shopping
after dark-the general informers and stool
pigeons have tossed off with a shoulder shrug.
Informers have been a bit trying, however.
BY creating ilfeeling between my employers and
myself, they have occasionally made work in GER
tain places unbearable.
QUT have many trades and have always been
- able to support my family. It's share and share
alike When we have plenty everyone In the
family has plenty. When we have little it's
still share and share alike am currently en-
ployed tailor.
AS to intra-family troubles, there are none. OF
course, there women unable to control jeal-
ousy. But If they are so bothered, they are not
numbered among plural wives. Each of them
at least, in my household - receives equal treat
ment. Each receives a pro rata share of my in
come, according TO the number of children and
their needs. They realize the sole function of
womanhind is TO multiply and replenish" the
earth-and know their husband is true to them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

lust
the
The polygamsal
defending
brought trial for alleged
'Lndbergh"
wvesMie Beth Barlow Ceveand
charge
in and
do
reflect The American Weekly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

To the best of my belief there has yet TO
occur a of social disease in a polygamist
family. There is no such thing prom!scuous
or Illicit behavior. Those wives-whether they be
two or six-can rest assured that IL their husband
is not with one of them of an evening he is with
another. He Is not out chasing the streets.
A PLURAL marriage can work-as il has done
~ for me for nine years-ony II the man OBJ
the laws OF life and Is just TO his family.
His children also rank evenly none comes
first receives special favors.
There can be no. debauchery - despite the
claims of the heckers, or those Of offcoor minds.
Marrying many wives TO obtain and
large family Is a responsibility, and the task of
explaining II is difficult. Large homes, or main
tanning separate homes for wives and their off
spring, involve expenSeS-and mental and heart
attitude inexplicable to many.
There are those who ostraciZe us-but have
lived in my neighborhood for seven years And
my children are growing to be fine boys and
girls, lacking in any sort of grudges, attend
ing public schools and apparently e|eloping into
healthy and fairminded young men and women
There Is no routine In association with many
wives. Each has her intervals of fertility and
Is known TO become purified with abstinence
fasting. Some may fast II months. /, myself,
have practiced such fasting for as much as six
months.
Each wife has her own quarters-as / have
mine. Each realizes that in celestial marriage she
must share her husband, and she must share him
gracefully and ntelligently.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

lectors a visit. Since
he's forced the issue, he
should be willing TO
make a stable remit
lance for overpayment
on income taxes, giving
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

The Cleveland Wives, Says Marie,
Live I'm Separate Apartments With
Their Children, Meeting Only 20
Prepare Meals and Enjoy Each
Others Company. I'VE Share
Everything Alike, Including q
Husband, and We Don't Worry
About the Curious, the Frying
Shoppers Who Come to Peer
and Sheer"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-02-12
ALONG
THE WAY.
By LEILA M. HENDRICKS


Are you a murderer? We know
you are shocked to be asked such
a question. Why you are re-
spectacle citizen and upholder OF
law and order. Dip your hands in
human blood! The very idea!
Yet. IL one is not careful, he may
kill the things that make life worth
living. Sometimes il were better
TO kill the body than the spirit.
Now who are spiritual murderers?
Suppose we name few: The Cos
siper. who kills someone's good
name: the cruel dictatorial husband
and father before whom the wife
and children cringc: the husband
who never has kind word TO say
To his family, who breaks the hearts
and brushes the soul OF those
whose happiness lies within his
hands.
The wife Is a spiritual murderer
who constantly nags. Is selfish,
greedy and bickers with her family
and relegates them to second place
in the scheme OF life. And you par
ents who murder the ambition OF
their children and make their lives
unhappy by trying to make law
yer out OF good tool-maker or
secretary out OF born actress or
vice versa.
Last, but by no means least. we
have as murderers in the first de-
gree wet blankets and kill joys,
They see no good in anyone or any
thing. They make us lose conf
dence in ourselves and also in our
friends with their poisonous tom
CUES. God grant that We shall all
cease 10 be murderers and this
world shall be the sweeter and
happier because we are a part OF II.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-02-12
LAY THAT PISTOL DOWN

The story is being told about the dramatic speech
of Negro leader who charged that southern Negro
baiters and northern reactionaries in the United
States Congress are determined to thwart Negro
progress and some of them like Rankin of Mississippi
and Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina are packing
pistols which they have pointed at the heart of Amer
can democracy The Negro orator declared "for the
sake of America and for victory in this demand
that these wicked men lay their pistols down."
We must face the fact that there are in America
men of il-will, men who do not want democracy to
work for all the people and who do not want Negroes
to share equtably in American life These men must
lay their pistols down. They are threatening the ma
ton and menacing world peace. 1t necessarily fol-
lows, however, that in America we have also men of
goodwill, who want to do justice by all people and
who want true national unity. These two groups of
men can be found in all races and in high and low
places
Our hope for the future lies in the cooperative
effort of these men of goodwill. Since the riot in
Detroit last year. we have noted the gradual revival
Of inter-racal efforts which are now Towering in
number of committees among many classes of our
citzenry. Religious and labor groups are leading
the way and each week comes the announcement of
new inter-racial body. These many committees
offer the opportunity for men of goodwill of all
to face the realities of race relations and form
bulwark of strength against the rising horde of
hate-mongers.
We are convinced that if these inter-racial eff
forts are encouraged and enthusiastically supported
the time will come in Detroit when we will be able
to force these native fascists to lay their pistols down.
Upon the ashes of the old order in Detroit we can
build a new city of peace and progress. Your men,
bership on some inter-racial committee is a good
investment which will pay dividends for all times
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-02-12
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT

We have been informed that the United States
Navy will shortly commission Negroes as regular
and medical officers and will man at least COM
bat warship with colored personnel" This announce
ment indicates that the Navy Department is prepar-
ing to make another concession to the democratic
principles which have been so long compromised. If
the mills of the gods grind slowly they have nothing
on the Navy Department
While we welcome the opportunity for advance
ment in the Navy for Americans Of COLOR we still
cannot escape the damnable fact of racial segrega
ton. We hope that it doesn't take the War Depart
ment as long to see the evil of Separation among
Americans it did to recognize that black men are
capable of becoming commanding officers. These
divisions according to color in armed services
are promoting new hatreds in both groups which
will plague American life long after this war has
been fought and won
The recent victories of the goth Squadron in the
Italian skies and the proves of our troops in the
South Pacific prove again what has been proven in
every America has fought, that Negro Ameri-
cans are indistinguishabe from other Americans in
courage and ability. The key to our progress is
summed up in the word opportunity. In commission
ing Negro officers in the Navy another door has
been opened and are sure that our boys will take
full advantage of that opportunity.
Progress and peace however, are two different
words and two different concepts to most Americans.
Segregation deliberately foments hatreds which make
peace impossible and without interracial peace in
America the progress Of our varied groups will al
ways be at the mercy of the Gods of Hatred. Theo-
retcally the social doctrine of separate but equal
is contradiction in terms and realistically it is a
principle of tyranny This doctrine has no place in
democracy and we are fighting for the protection
of democracy.
The left-handed concessions of the brass hats
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-02-12
Says No Negro
Pattern Found
For Diseases

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Is no
Negro pattern OF disease" DR.. w.
A. Mason. A. A. Surgeon. United
States Public Health Service. told
heads Of state departments OF health
and education from six states. meet
ing in a five-day workshop al the
downtown Piedmont hotel here.
He urged indignation OF compe.
tent Negroes in departments OF
health and education in the plan
ming OF overall programs and in
the execution OF these programs.
There must come about a meeting
of minds Of boards OF health. edu-
cation. recreation. industry. and law
enforcement agencies. 1, the basic
causes OF disease among Negroes is
reached" DR.. Mason asserted.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-02-12
THE LINCOLN VIEW

AS we observe the birthday of President Lincoln
we would do we'll to remember the Lincoln view
point on affairs Of state and his grasp of democracys
dream Our Civil War president was not content TO
muddle through bad situation, but he had bold
design to which he wanted to fashion great united
nation. The truly democratic state with govern
ment of the people by the people and for the people
was challenging ideal in his own thinking and ne
sought to persuade the multitude to see Americas
destiny as he envisaged it.
Those who rebelled against the Lincoln view
charged him with every imaginable malicious motive.
He was at once tyrant and a visionary, mounte-
bank and charlatan in the eyes OF his enemies. IL
is indeed startling for who revere Lincoln today
to discover in what regard ne was held by great
sections of America during his term IN office. The
Lincoln view, however, has triumpheds in a great
measure over the narrowness of those who fought
him.
1t is the fate of many great men OF vision that
they should be little understood in their own time
and yet they are able to triumph and leave their
mark upon our history. The so-called ideasts OF
today, those men of vision who want democracy to
work in America for all people, who want free
world, they are being similarly assailed by the re-
dictionary press, the native fascsts and the little
Hiters who cry for special interests and special
privilege.
There is an eternal struggle between selfish
greed in our society and the liberal spirit. We Ne
groes in America have learned to differentate be-
tween these contending elements and we know that
our best interest lies with those and organza-
tons which share the Lincoln view. The white
supremacists the America Frsters, the race-baters
and all the disciples of bgotry are plague upon the
nation and they have seized great power. They are
doing business with Hitler and they use the. word
democracy only to cloak their love Of fascisn.
It is fitting that upon observing Lincolns birth
day that we dedicate ourselves again to meet the
challenges of our period which differ only in time
and fashion from the challenges which President
Lincoln knew. We Negroes will always cast our lot
with liberalism and give our allegiance to men and
measures which reflect what we believe to be the
Lincoln view.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-02-12

with the idea Of Negroes being
turned white. The subject is one
that offers numerous possibilities,
and Mr.. Hyland has made good use
OF them here.
X X X
LLAMA. a novel by Martha Cell
horn. (Charles Scribner's Sons: New
York City; l944 is the story of a
mulatto on st. Boniface Island in
the Caribbean. She is first the mis-
tress and later the wife of the
wealthiest man on the island. Marc
Roger Llama is not accepted by the
community and Roger will not al
low her to see her family except at
rare intervals. So it is not until
the coming of Pierre, the young
schoolmaster to give her lessons
that her life begins to have mean
ing. Llama and Pierre fall in love
and the story moves along to the
inevitable tragedy.
st. Boniface is a French island
and Pierre comes there after the
fall of France. He, like Llama and
Marc. is unhappy although in his
case it is because he hates what has
happened to his country and the
Vichy regime in power there. His
decision to go to Martinique TO en-
list with the Free French brings the
situation TO head.
Miss Gellhorn has succeeded we'll
in her presentation OF Llama and of
Marc Marc. the sensual, is opposed
TO Pierre, the spiritual. She is able
10 show too how alone each is and
how each is reaching out for COM
partnership. In Mares case this
loneliness is able to overshadow his
jealousy Of Pierre and cause him to
wish for friendship with the young
er man. Pierre is not as successful
as character. He seems out Of
character in the final scene with
Marc in which he accepts Mares
reasonable solution for their COM
mon problem. His decision to leave
Llama is not surprising to the reader
but his scheming with the man he
formerly dcspiscd is not as accept
able. His attitude toward France is
not clearly enough drawn either.
There is bitterness in his heart for
her betrayal but this does not COM
pletely explain his burying himself
from the war in ST. Boniface.
These minor faults appear with
second thought because this is the
sort OF novel in which characters,
atmosphere and story combine 10
weave spell for the reader.