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Evening star., 1944-04-01
Farmers Cash Income
In 1943 Scared 10
|An-Time Record

Farmers cash income in 1914:
scared to an all-time high of $19,-
764, $50 ,000-$3, ,684. .752 600 more than
In 1942-and revised estimates OF
cash income from livestock may
push the total increase over 1912 tc
better than 5000, ,0O0, 900, Agricul-
ture Department sources said today
The cash return to farmers last
year was the largest on record and
% per cent higher than a year earl
ier when $16,079 ,8O8, 900 was earned
a Bureau of Agricultural Economics
report showed. The total figures in
clude Government payments.
Income to farmers in 1943, after
deducting labor and other costs
was estimated at $12,475 ,0OO, 900
compared with So, ,4S0 ,O0O, 900 in 1912
a 80 per cent increase, the depart
ment said.
Marketing of the largest number
Of hogs in the history Of the coun-
try and the sale of increased num-
bers Of eggs from larger f1ocks ac-
counted for most Of the advance In
income" BAE said.
THE record potato crop in Maine
favorable prices for tobacco in Con-
necticut. exceptional crops of citrus
fruits in Florida, both in 1912 anc
ls43, and the valuable crop of veg.
etables in Arizona went long way
in bringing about the increases in
receipts from crops in 1943 OF vel
over so per cent as compared with
1912"
One source pointed out that the
$19, ,764, 100000 figure may be in
creased by another $4,000 ,00O, ,00C
when revisions are made in the near
future on 1943 livestock marketings
Evening star., 1944-04-01
|ChapIin Case 10 Go
To Jury tuesday as
Testimony Is Ended
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April ALI the
evidence is in and next Tuesday a
jury of seven women and five men
will try to decide whether Charlie
Chaplin violated the Mann Act.
Defense and Government counsel
will sum up the case Monday and
Federal Judge J. F. T. O'Connor will
give his instructions to the jury
Tuesday.
Testimony was concluded late
yesterday afternoon. Judge O'Con-
nor then denied Defense Attorney
Jerry Giesler's second request for a
directed acquittal verdict, and, after
a conference with counsel, an
nounced that closing arguments
would be limited tos two and one
half hours each for prosecution and
defense.
Case Outlined.
The Governments contention will
be this:
That Chaplin, in October, 1912,
caused Joan Berry, his attractive
former protegee and drama pupil, to
be transported to New York for i'm
moral purposes and that later in the
same month he caused her to be
transported back to Hollywood with
the same objective.
The film comedian is accused in
an Indictment of two counts OF
Mann Act violation. If convicted
he is subject to a maximum pen
atty of five years in prison and
$1,000 fine on each.
He arranged for her trip to New
York with her mother, Mrs. Ger
trude Berry, Chaplain testified
after the girl repeatedly told him
she wanted to leave Hollywood for
good. He professed no immoral in
tent and, he claims, committed no
immoral act with her in New York
He also said he engaged in no act
of intimacy with Miss Berry after
her return, during the period. speci-
fed in the indictment.
Miss Berry Alleges Threats.
AtCCoAlCO w OAAC SVdilA, MASc oCl1
testified Chaplin told her in June,
1943, that he would spend fortune
blackening her character Is she pub
licly accused him of fathering her
then unborn baby.
She said he suggested she go to
New York to have the baby, that
she asked him If they could be mar
ried and that he responded:
I'm not marrying anybody"
Regardless of the outcome of the
Mann Act case, Chaplin still faces
civil litigation involving the pater-
nifty of Miss Berry's 6-month-old
daughter, Carol Ann.
He is accused in another Federal
indictment of conspiring with six
others to deprive her of her civil
rights by forcing her to leave Cali
fornia.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Farm Work of Amish
.Obviotes Druft Review
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, April L.
Maryland's Amish colonists of draft
age have done such an outstandine
job of farm production that moi
one has been reclassifled or in
Quoted, the st. Marys County Sc
lective Service Board reported yes
terday.
Chief Clerk George E. Hamilton
said the draft-eligible Amish are
classified in &c or &c, both farm
deferment classiflcations, although
they long ago entered claims as con-
scientious objectors.
There has been no need to con-
slider their claims" Mr.. Hamilton
commented. They have met every
standard established for farm de-
ferments. What is more, they have
far surpassed the requirements"
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Colombian Girl, Victim
OF Polio, Plays Boil

Thirteen-year-old Carmen Uribe
from Colombia, South America, who
came to Warm Springs, Ga, last
year for treatment for infantile
paralysis, now is playing basket bal
with her schoomates In Bogota.
In letter to Walter E. Hammond
Of the Tariff Commission, who
brought the stricken girl here at his
own expense last August, Carmen
wrote that she wanted her friends
to knew she was well and happy anc
that she remembers them and the
kindness they showed her.
During three-week visit in the
District before her return to Co.
lombia in January, GARNER stayed
with Mr.. and Mrs. William Duffus
56l8 Ninth street NV, and also was
a White House visitor.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Man Given 1-3 Years
On BURGLARY Charqe

Chief Justice Edward c. Eicher o1
District Court yesterday revoked
probation for Harvey Lee Robinson
10, colored,. of the 1900 block of 1
street NV. and sentenced him to ar
additional one to three years or
housebreaking and larceny charges
Last year Robinson was given a
suspended sentence of 6 to 18 months
and put on probation on six house
breaking and larceny counts. Yes
terday, Justice Eicher revoked the
probation.
Robert Harold Mckinney, "a, who
escaped from the cell block at Dis
trict Court early last month, yes
terday was sentenced by Justice
David A. Pine to from two to siz
years Justice Pine ordered a SEN
tence of one to three years on g
charge of violating the National Mo-
tor Vehicle Theft Act and similar
sentence for breaking out of the cell
block.
Joshua Denmark, SO, colored, has
been acquitted by a District Court
jury of statutory charge made BY
a young colored girl.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Lord Halifax Expresse!
Regret al Death Of 6
Shot Down in Error

Expressing his deep distress
over the death of six Washington
area civilian airmen accidentally
shot down in the Atlantic this week
by British fighter planes, British
Ambassador Lord Halifax has writ
ten Secretary of War Stimson ask
ing that his sympathy be extended
to the victims families.
Il hasten to send you a message
to say with what distress I, and I
have no doubt the whole British
community in this country, have
read this. news" Lord Halifax
wrote.
Previously the British Admiralty
expressed its regrets over the
tragedy, which occurred when the
British fighters protecting an Al
lied convoy apparently mistook the
four-engine C-54 plane for a Ger
man four-motored bomber of the
Focke-Wulf type. The plane was
operated for the Army Air Forces
Air Transport Command by con-
tract civilian crew. all employees of
Transcontinental and Western Air
lines.
One of the men, Avery Bruce
Merritt, Mclean, Va, purser of the
ship, was slated to enter the Army
after completion of the trip, "his
last mission" his wife revealed.
Mrs. Merritt has two young sons.
The crew captain, Charles S. Gar
ber, 26, of 1164 South Thomas street,
Arlington, had been with the Ferry
Command as captain of the TWA
transport for the past 18 months.
He Is survived by his widow and
their 8-month-old son, Charles, jr.
Another member of the crew, Beu-
ford Mann, Is, radioman, who for
merly stayed at the Potomac Hotel
here, was a bridegroom of less than
a month. His bride, a WAVE, is on
leave at her parents Massachusetts,
home.
Others who lost their lives were
George E. Shelton, East Monroe
avenue, Alexandra, first officer; Or
vile v. Scholtz, Oklahoma Building,
Beverly Park Gardens, Alexandria,
navigator, and Royce Theodore Wei
liver, 1923 Abingdon drive, Alexan-
dria, engineer.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Minnesota Convention
Due to Back Stossen

ST. PAUL, April l (R.-Namine
of seven delegates at large to the
national convention was the princi-
pal business of the State Republican
Convention here today.
An atmosphere OF harmony
marked the meeting, brought about
by Withdrawals of potential dele
gates. National Committeeman Roy
Dunn withdrew as possible dele
gate in favor of Gov. Edward j
Thye, and DR.. r. C. Radabaugh
State chairman, announced he was
not a candidate for reelection nor
for national committeeman. He
said he wished to devote his full
time to the campaign. to obtain the
nomination for 1t. Comdr. Harold E.
Stassen, former Governor, now on
duty in the Pacific.
1t was expected that the delegates
at large would be pledged to support
Comdr. Stassen. Sixteen of the 18
delegates chosen in county conven-
tiOnS are so pledged.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Builders Say District
Interests Back Private
SIum Reclamation

Private builders today were
giving the Senate District Sub
committee investigating housing
conditions evidence that their
characterization plan has the
support of the Washington Real
Estate Board, the District Build
ing and Loan League and the
District Bankers Association.
Witnesses at today's hearing.
which began at 10 am, were to
include Homer Phillips, president
of the Real Estate Board; Scott
Offutt of the Bankers Association
and H. Clinton Smith, cost expert.
Mr.. Smith was to draw further
comparisons between private and
public housing costs, adding to the
plethora of figures that private
builders already have submitted in
an effort to show that taxpayers
will suffer if the characterization
job is left to public housing
agencies.
S0uCu EACOuk
Meanwhile, Senator Capper, Re-
publican, of Kansas, a member of
the subcommittee, described as
very encouraging" the written
commitments from private builders
pledging construction of 23,650 low
rent housing units here In six years
if the builders characterization
plan is adopted.
The pledges, from approximately
so builders, were presented to the
subcommittee yesterday by James
G. Wilkes, attorney for the Wash
ington Home Builders Association.
Il don't care whether the work is
done by public housing agencies or
private builders-just so we get rid
Of these slums that have been here
so many years." Senator Capper
commented.
Burton Cites Limitations.
Chairman Burton Of the subcom-
mittee cautioned, however, that from
submission of the pledges the pub
lie should not get the impression
that all sluns here will be cleared
in the next six years. Restrictions
on the use Of critical materials prob
ably will prevent the work from
being completed within that time,
he said.
Mr.. Wilkes described the pledges
as the builders "promissory note, /"
and said the purpose In presenting
them is to show that private build
ers are ready and willing to build
the necessary low-rent replacement
housing If their plan is given the
green light"
Evening star., 1944-04-01
|WeepingChHdren
Of Navy EnIistee
Try to Stop Train
Iy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OLYPHANT, Pa, April Weep
ing bitterly, four small children sat
down on the railroad tracks yester-
day in front of a train that was
carrying their father, a volunteer
Tor military service, away to an
armed forces induction center.
The train, carrying a draft con-
tingent, was held up while the chill
dren'S parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Vandervort, begged them to move
Two policemen finally persuaded
them to stand aside, and with
streaming eyes they watched the
train pull out.
The children ranged from 2 to {
years old. Their mother carried a
fifth child in her arms.
Mr.. Vandervort, 32-year-old mine
worker, volunteered for Navy service
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Prisoner IN Hawaii Ordered
Freed Under Habeas Corpus
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. .s
HONOLULU, T. H., April 1e--
Federal Judge Delbert E. Metzger
yesterday ordered the release OF
Lloyd C. Duncan on a writ OF
habeas corpus despite affdavits by
commanding naval and Army off,
GERS of the Central Pacific that he
should be held under martial law
which they asserted still is required
because of the Imminent danger OF
invasion" of Hawaii.
The court directed Duncan to
post $500 bond and set next Wednes-
day for trial on the issue of whether
the 25-year-old navy yard worker
from Sheridan, Wyo., has been held
illegally by military authorities
Duncan is under six months SEN
tence by provost court for assault
ing two marine sentries.
In next Wednesdays hearing the
lengthy dispute over continuation
of martial law in Hawaii may be
Joined into a clear-cut issue which
may be conclusively settled by
appeal.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
BY the Associated Press,

os tke hSSOCldteQ fTeSS.
SAN FRANCISCO, April Cali
fornia and Texas Democratic party
leaders have started movement to
obtain postponement in the date of
the Democratic National Conven-
ton, now scheduled to open in
Chicago July 10, the Chronicle said
last night.
Speaker Rayburn and Attorney
General Robert w. Kenny of Cali
fornia, head of the Roosevelt
fourth-term movement in Cali
fornia, were reported to have joined
together in asking change in the
date.
Neither was available for direct
comment. Mr.. Rayburn was en-
route home to Texas.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Army Lists 6 Of 7 Killed
In California Plane Crash
BY the Associated Press.

FAIRFIELD, Calf, April L.
Names of six of the seven heavy
bomber creWmen killed in a crash
near Suisun Wednesday were an
nounced yesterday by Fairheld-Sui
san Army Air Base Three others
in the crew were hurt.
Capt. c. V. Hartley, base public
relations officer, said those killed as
the four-engined craft buried its
nose 10 feet into the earth after
engine trouble developed included ::
Second 1t. Orson B. Pratt, jr., CO.
pilot, Chicago; First 1t. Russell w.
CrisWell, Ithaca, Mich; Staff Sergt
Guy G. Turner, Sturgis, Mich. !;
Sergt. Arnold r. Bernstein, Man
chester, N c.; Sergt. Jack B. Bier
man, New York, and Sergt. Warren
V. Burns, Yonkers, N. Y.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
London Named Head
lOf Kansas DELEGATION

TOPEKA, Kans., April 1 (P.-
Kansas Republicans rounded out
their 19-member uninstructed dele
cation to the national convention
today with selection of seven dele
gates-at-large headed by former
Gov. ALI M. Landon, 1886 presiden-
tial nominee.
Mr.. Landon has indicated he ia
vors Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York as the 1914 choice, but he
avoided mentioning any names in
an address calling for a nominee
able to work with Congress and lend
the confusion Of red tape, bureau
made laws"
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Strikers Demand Vacations

MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, April l
(P).-Drydock and shipyard workers
went on strike yesterday, demanding
paid vacations, and as result the
government proposed to Parliament
that they be included in such legis-
latlon. Gas workers have been on
strike for three days to enforce a
similar demand Annual vacations
already are granted by law to most
Uruguayan industrial workers.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
100000 Gallons
In Gas Coupons Stolen
By the Associated Press.

.
BATON ROUGE, La, April L.
Authorities in this area searched
today for thieves who pulled what
police described as a smooth pro-
fessional job" in escaping with OPA
gasoline coupons worth more than
$4,000, 900 gallons, enough to supply
the State of Louisiana for q month
and a half.
The coupons were taken yester-
day from safe at the ration board
Office. In addition, various other
coupons and ration books good for
77,950 pairs of shoes, 10 bicycles,
sugar and other rationed commodi-
ties were taken from the Office of
the East Baton Rogue Parish Ra-
tioning Board by burglars described
by the beard chairman as black
market thieves"
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Iowa, Kansas Pick
|Uninsfructed Slate
For COP Convention
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, April Iowa Re-
publicans In State convention yes
terday voted to send an uninstructed
delegation to the national conven-
ton which opens June 26 in Chicago
The % delegates-two from each
district and seven from the State at
large-were elected unanimously by
voice vote, after the convention had
approved the Resolutions Commit
tees recommendation that 1--WE offer
no instructions to our delegates ""s.'
"The Republican Party has many
men fully qualified to fill the Office
of President, and does not believe
in the indispensable man idea," the
resolution added.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
w. B. Bennett Elected
Bus Line President

William B. Bennett, director ot
the Montgomery Bus Lines, Inc.
since 1887, has been elected presi-
dent OF the lines to succeed j. H
Stephens, who died recently, it was
announced yesterday.
Mr.. Bennett has been secretary OF
the Capital Transit Co. since 1898
and vice president since 1912.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Food Dealers to Honor
Isaac Jacobson MonduA

More than 500 grocerymen, food
distributors and food professors
have been invited to attend testi-
monial dinner to Isaac Jacobson
president OF the District Independ-
ent Food Distributors, at the May
flower Hotel Monday at 7:30 pm.
Mr.. Jacobson Is being honored for
20 years service In the food industry
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Congress in Brief

Senate:
Holds last session before Easter
holiday.
Postwar Committee studies bill to
create Once Of Demobilization.
House:
Routine business.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Civic Group to Meet

The Oak Spring Civic Association
will meet at pm. Monday at 491O
Blackfoot road, it was announced
today Prof. Mark M. Shoemaker of
the University of Maryland will
speak on "Landscaping Home
Gardens"
Evening star., 1944-04-01
60 900 Nozis Desert

NEW YORK, April l (P).-Neutra
estimates say more than 10000 de.
serters from the German armed
forces are at large in Berlin at any
one time, London broadcast re.
corded by CHS said last night.
Evening star., 1944-04-01

One pound Of waste cooking fats
makes enough glycerin to manufac-
ture one-third pound gunpowder!
Evening star., 1944-04-01

Load the guns thatM lick the Japs.
Save every drop of waste kitchen
fats. Take them to your meat dealer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-23
Politics
 M Passing

l Noe ulnco Che late vincent A. Wcuiiy took office as mayor of the plty of Waterbury back in iol0 have local Democrats in power faced as Alaht a financial situation as they
 No today on the eve of preparations For tho ioa5 budget, Mayor John s, Monngan and his administration aace Q tough test in preparing the aeaS estimates. Mayor Monagan has many plans and ideas for the post war period in Waterbury. He visions Che city government playing an ac. Give part in it, what with Q multi iude of public works projects just waiting Co be started. Plans to cor. relate such . program with the nity's ability to finance the same are constantly being worked on, over. hauled, and brought up to date, But on top of all this now is piled O very vital need to provide pension reserves for commitments the city made when it accepted the existing pension retirement provisions of the City Charter. Such reserves will be extremely heavy for many years to rome, even should the city scrap the existing pension framework and set mp c new one. Increasing evidence is also being brought to bear on city officials that existing physical properties, such as the City Hall and many of the school buildings, clam or for much more than emergency repairs, probably major operations on their interiors, Mayor Monagan, however, has given good indication that he can meet just such a situa- Sion as this.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-23
MRS.LUCY FOLEY
 DIED TODAY
Mother of Police Captain, Serviceman Passes at
 Fuller St. Home

Mrs. Lucy N. Foley. widow of James !, Foley and mother 0f Cap tain Patrick Foley of the WaterA bury Police Department died this morning at her home, A0 Fuller street, after Q brief Illness,
 Born in Ireland. Q daughter of the late Maurice and Ellen Hanlonl Wallace, she he'd been Q resident ot Fuller street for more than 80 years, Mrs. Foley was Q communicane of the Immaculate Conception church and e member of the Rosary Con- fraternity of the parish,
 Besides Captain Foley she is sur vived by another son, Private James Foley, U. s, Army, stationed at Charleston, s, O.: one brother, John Wallace, Waterbury; four grand children, and Q number of nieces and nephews,
 The funeral will be held from the home, 4s Fuller street, Tuesday morning, to the Church of the Im- maculate Conception for solemn high Mass, time to be announced later, Burial will be in the family plot in new St, JoSeph's cemetery, Friends may call at the home, Sun day and Monday afternoons and evenings,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-23
Foresters Of State
 On Outing Tomorrow
Seven Local Courts to Be Represented at PIainvilIe
 Oet.TOgether; Varied Program Arranged for Event

ROrosters from all parts ot con. necticue including delegations from the seven subordinate courts tn the Waterbury district VIII gather q. Yankee Division Park in plainville tomorrow for the annual state out ing arranged by officers and mem- bers of the Grand Court of Con- necticut.
 Festivities win open at ll:S0 o. clock tomorrow morning announced Grand Chief Ranger Ralph R, Bran6ley of Waterbury today, Throughout the day various sports will be played, dancing enjoyed and refreshments served. The chief ath- letic contest will be the soft ball champion game between members of Court Washington of Torrington and Court General Lawton ot Plainvile. The annual presenta- ton of prizes and the grand award will take place late in the afternoon.
 Supreme and Grand Court offis cers will be numbered among the guests of honor. St is the one time in the year that members of the For esterS of America in Connecticut unite with their families for gen. eral get-together. In former years the events have been outstanding successes and although the various courts have mnay friends in the armed forces today the attendance tomorrow is expected to measure up to that of former years. The occa- sion also serves as @n opportunity for officers to take an inventory ot the progress made since the last Grand Court session held in Put nam last May and to make neces- sary revisions in the pears program of activities.
 Grand Chief Ranger Brandely has been assisted by officers of the Grand Court. Locally chief rangers have supervised plans for having Q large representation at the outing,