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Evening star., 1945-02-20

ball together here" Sister Leila ex-
planned.
There were letters full of boyish
exuberance, like the ones rom
Donald. Sister Leila recalled how
Donald had visited on Christmas
|eve-looking like real sailor with
his hat pushed way back on his
head" They had a little talk then
II told him he was too young to
bother with girls and now look what
he's writing" smiled Sister Leila
pushing a four-page letter across
the desk.
'It's been a year now since I left
the States and SO far not sight
of woman as yet. Wow!" wrote
the irrepressible Donald. adding
what the ship had served for
Thanksgiving dinner and how much
money he lost on Dewey.
Admits "Going Is Tough"
Mikes letters were different. He
promised the sister that st won't
let you down. I'll keep think
ing of what you said" Mike added
that what he was going through
was pretty tough, but "an you need
is a good, old Irish smile and a
prayer on your lips"
Even after the boys left St
Joseph's they always used to re-
turn for the midnight mass on
Christmas eve. and Joseph, writ
Ing his V-mail by candlehght, re-
1sembered that.
"On Christmas" he wrote, "I at
tended mass In one of the local
churches and the little children's
voices singing the mass gave mt
thoughts Of my days at st. Joe's."
Evening star., 1945-02-20
.75Pct. Of ofFederaI Employees
Deferred Listed as Over 80

Nearly three-fourths of the 354.-
202 Government employees holding
occupational deferments are 30
years of age or older, according to
data Selective Service Director
Hershey has furnished Senator
Maybank. Democrat, of South Caro-
lima.
Eliminating those who have been
rejected for military service, about
80 per cent of the deferments are
in the age groups from 80 years
upward.
Meanwhile, the House awaited an
opportunity to act on resolution
for the creation OF a joint congress
sional committee to investigate
farmer inductions.
Evening star., 1945-02-20

pines, and Robert G., 10, in England,
Both are in the armed forces. Mrs.
Charlton is employed in Cohen S
picture frame shop, 1927 g street
NV. Her husband, Vincent r.
Charlton, works for the Alexandra
Dairy.
Mrs. Charlton said the last time
she saw her mother was on Christi
mas Day.
Funeral services win be held ct q
pm. Thursday at the Ives funeral
home, 2847 Wilson boulevard, Ar
lington. Burial viii be Ia Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Lecture Course to Open
On American Unity

DR.. Ruth Benedict, professor OF
anthropology at Columbia Univer-
sity, will be the speaker in a nine
weeks lecture course on American
unity sponsored by the. Washington
Federation of Churches at 1851 N
street NV. at 8 o'clock tonight.
DR.. Benedict's topic will be THE
Races of Mankind
The course, sponsored by the In
terchurch Fellowship, is open to the
public for. nominal registration
fee and will continue weekly until
April II. featuring prominent speak
ers from various religious and racial
groups.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Date Set 10 Hear Trial Plea
I0f ; Sediiion Defendants

Justice T. Alan Goldsborough has
set March to hear a motion by
Attorney James j. Laughln for a
speedy trial in the case of three de-
PENDANTS in the mass sedition case.
Mr.. Laughlin filed the motion In
behalf of Ellis o. Jones and Robert
Noble, formerly associated in the
Friends of Progress at Los Angeles.
and Ernest F. Elmhurst, author Of
The Worlds Hoax
While it has been indicated at the
Justice Department that at least
some of the 26 defendants would be
tried again, there has been no for
NAL announcement. The mass trial
ended December in mistrial when
Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher died.
The trial had lasted nearly eight
months.
Evening star., 1945-02-20

Sister Leila heard the scuffling of
children's feet in the hall outside
her study and went to the door to
watch the ''minims" the S and 6
year olds-march by.
They're going into the assembly
room to get their good conduct
cards." she explained as she patted
the head of little fellow with his
two front teeth out and asked
another where his sweater was.
Most Were on Honor Roll.
Most of those boys on the honor
roll were just this age when they
came here" she reminisced.
She passed the library where six
violins were on a table, waiting for
the next lesson. She nodded at two
sisters mepding sweaters and trou-
sers for boys. She went up the
stairs, passed room with very small
beds where the ''minims" sleep, then
the shower room where the sisters
insist that the boys scrub thoroughly
every night, passed the juniors
sleeping room with a jig-saw puzzle
laid out on the table
Finally, she came to the door of
the chapel Here, on Tuesday
nights, all the boys who aren't old
enough to fight, pray for the boys
who knelt before them in that
chapel-tle Shannons and O'Con-
nells and Manguns, Mike and Jo-
seph and Donald and Benny, who
"had nobody" -'-
They're all good boys" said Sister
Leila. Il think they know our pray
ers are with them"
Then she entered the chapel ano
the door swung softly shut behind
her.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Sewer Death
Case Called
Foul Play
Robbery Theory
Studied in Killing
Of Arlington Womon

Arlington Police Chief Harry
l.. woodward today said def
nitely that "foul play" was in
volved in the death of Mrs. Irene
F. Tullis, 81, of $50 North Eighth
street, Arlington, whose body
was found yesterday afternoon
stuffed into the manhole Of a
sewer in the 2800 block of North
Fairfax drive, Arlington.
IF we get a break" the police
official said, "the case may be solved
in the near future" Chief Wood
yard said that his department had
several leads" on which 1t was
working. He conferred today with
Commonwealth's Attorney Lawrence
w. Douglas, but refused to diyulge
the nature of their talk.
At the same time, it was under
stood police were working on the
theory that the woman was robbed
and murdered before her body was
placed in the sewer.
According to the report of DR.,
w. c. Wellburn, county coroner
Mrs. Tullis, Navy Yard employe
died from a cerebral hemorrhage
caused by a blow on her head
Bruises were also found on both legs
Meanwhile, Detective 1t. Jeremiah
Flaherty and Detective Sergt. Rich
ard Felber of the Metropolitan Po-
lice Department were assigned to as
sist Arlington police in checking any
possible Washington angles of the
case. The two detectives were ques-
tioning fellow employees of Mrs. Tul-
lis at the Navy Yard.
Missing Since December 81.
Mrs. Tullis had been missing from
her home since December 81, when,
according to her family, she left to
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Two Traffic Deaths
Increase Years Toll
In District 10 Is

Two persons, one a 6-year-old
boy, died from traffic injuries with
in the last "a hours to bring the
Districts toll to 13 for 1945. There
were eight deaths this time last
year.
John Thomas Economics, 6, of
II M street NV, was killed yester-
day afternoon at North Capitol and
l. streets when struck by an ice
truck while on his way to drug
store to buy an ice cream cone,
police reported.
He had returned home from st.
Aloysius School a few minutes be-
fore, according to police, and with
his brother, Michael, S. had re-
ceived money from his mother, Mrs.
Mildred Economics, to buy ice
cream Michael rushed home a few
minutes later and told his mother
of the accident.
Police said Joseph S. Browne,
80, colored, of 20 M street NV.
operated the truck. He was charged
with leaving the scene of an acci-
dent and with failing to give the
right of way to pedestrian. He
told police he drove short dis
tance on after the accident because
he did not know he had struck the
boy. Oficers said the boy was
walking in a crosswalk.
Inquest Tomorrow.
The boy died in Casualty Hos
pital from fractured skull and
internal injuries soon after the ac-
cident. His father is Thomas j.
Economics, salesman for the
Atlantic Hotel Supply Co.
Browne will appear at cor
oner's inquest at 1l:30 o'clock to-
morrowAmorning.
In the other traffic fatality, War;
rem H. Perry, 27, colored, of 304 K
street NE, died early todayzin Cas-
ualty Hospital from fractured skull
and internal injuries received Feb
ruary when his motor cycle struck
a wall of the yiaductt. on K street
NE, according % police
Police said the vehicle Jumped the
curb as he was attempting to make
a U-tlrn. An inquest also will be
held tomorrow.
Arrest in Hit-R Run Case.
Meanwhile, police arrested a man
in, connection with a hit-and-run
accident Saturday night In which
an unidentified colored man was Sc
riously injured. The accident oc-
CURED at First and M streets S.W.
The injured man is in Casualty Hos
pital.
Wilson E. Jones, colored, 40, of
1903 K street, Fairmont Heights,
Md, was charged with leaving after
colliding and failing to give the
right of way to a pedestrian in the
case. Police said a sedan which
was picked up in Southeast WASH
ington yesterday afternoon was the
striking vehicle. The investigation
is being continued.
Evening star., 1945-02-20

visit her daughter in Falls Church
Va. When she was found yesterday
her head downward in the manhole
her hat, coat and pocketbook were
missing.
She was identified by the daugh-
ter, Mrs. Helen L. Charlton, 1011
Parker street, Falls Church, by her
clothes and by her rings, which
were. stiu on her gloved fingers.
The body was found by two en-
ployes of the county sewer depart
ment. Tom and George Lear. when
they responded to a complaint from
a resident in the vicinity that the
sewer was clogged.
At the time of her disappearance
the woman's husband, Frank j
Tullis, 81, a retired contractor, tolo
police his wife had visited doctor
the day she vanished. Police today
said they learned that Mrs. Tullis
left the Office of Dr. Stacy T. holland
in the Arlington Medical Building
in Clarendon, about 1890 pm. De-
cember 81 with a prescription. A
check showed the prescription hae
not been filled at the drugstore
where she customarily went.
Yesterday, however, her family
said Mrs. Tullis left her home thai
day to visit her daughter in FALL
Church.
Hit-run Case Seen Possible.
Mrs. Charlton recalled that De.
cember5 81 was cold. icy day. Hel
mothers normal route to Falls
Church, she said, would be to wall
to Wilson boulevard, about two
blocks from her home, and catch 6
bus to East End in Falls Church
Here she would transfer to another
bus that would take her to Broad ant
West streets, from which she woulc
have to walk about two blocks tx
the Parker street address.
The place where the body wa!
found is about eight blocks from
Mrs. Tullis' home, but in the oppo'
site direction from that she woult
take to visit her daughter. Member
of her family said she knew no on,
in that vicinity and they knew O
no reason. why she should be in tn,
neighborhood.
Police officials said they believe,
that If Mrs. Tullis met her deatl
during the daylight hours, her bod,
was not secreted In the manhol
until after dark, since it would b
almost impossible for any one t
dispose of body in that neighbor
hood during the daytime. Polio,
did not entirely discount the theor,
that the woman may have beel
struck by a hit-run driver VIII
hurriedly picked up the body an,
later disposed of it.
Manhole Cover Heavy.
Police were also interested in TIL
fact that the manhole cover is
heavy thing for two men to Lift
Sewer employees are equipped witt
long levers which they use to rails
the lids. They work in pairs to lif
them.
Mrs. Charlton said her mothe
could not have had more than 81
or SIS in her purse at the time sh
disappeared.
Mrs. Tullis, q native of st. Louif
moved to Arlington with her hus
band about rs years ago. They hav
lived in the same house ever since
Before that, they lived in the Philip
pines, where Mr.. Tullis was a Gov
ernment contractor employed ol
military installations. He had pre-
viously served In the Spanish
American War.
Two Sons in Service.
| Mr.. Tullis has been unable t
work since he fell from q scaffol
and injured his leg about four year
ago. Since then, Mrs. Tullis hal
been employed at the Navy. Var,
as storekeeper in the supplies de
partment.
She Is also survived by two son,
Richard ]. 81, now ii the Philip
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Boy browns After Falling
From Sund Burqe

Joseph Jones, Z. colored, of 261O
M street NV, drowned in the Po-
-tomac River late yesterday when he
fell from sand barge while playing
at the foot OF Thirtieth street NV,
police reported.
He was pronounced dead at Emer-
gency Hospital, where he was taken
BY fire rescue squad members, who
unsuccessfully used an inhalator and
applied artificial respiration for 40
minutes. The boy was identified by
his mother. Mrs. Dorothy Jones,
police said.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Prospect Of Obtaining
Clinic Psychiatrist
For $500 Brighter

Health Oficer George C. Rutland
said today there is a prospect of
obtaining psychiatrist at $500 a
year to inaugurate clinic under a
mental health service program that
would include treatment OF alco-
holicS.
DR.. Ruhland revealed he had dis
cuSsed with DR.. Winfred Overholser,
superintendent of st. Elizabeth S
Hospital, the possibility of having
members of the hospital staff serve
on q part-time basis at the clinic
at day and night hours.
He said that while DR.. Overholser
has been sympathetic to the idea, it
was necessary to obtain the opinion
of the controller general on whether
doctors receiving pay from a Fed
eral institution, such as. st. Eliza
beth's, could also receive fees from
the District Government.
Although Congress provided $24,-
600 in the 1945 budget for two psy-
|chiatrists at $4,000 year each for
the mental health clinic, 1t had
been impossible up to the present
time to obtain doctors at that sal-
ary. Dr.. Rutland said he had re-
ceiyed approval Of the Commits
sioners for paying psychiatrist ST.
600.
Or. Rutland emphasized that the
clinic would not be solely an alco-
holic clinic, but that treatment Of al
coholics would be merely part Of
its work. The service, he said, would
be Of aid to Juveniles anG also might
make it possible to reiease some
patients from st. Elizahetfss who
need only clinical treatment.
DR. Rufland said he did not favor
establishment OF the clinic ct Gal
linger Hospital No location has beer
decided on. s:.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
$ . 4 = =
Revenue Plans
For Stadium
oBeStudied
Two Proposals for
SeIf-Liquidoting
Project Offered
BY DON S. WARREN.

The joint commission on post
war memorial stadium for Wash
ington held an organization session
today and scheduled for furthel
study two suggestions, as to how
to make the project self -liquidating
lone of the suggestions was thai
private capital might finance the
4, project instead of a Federal appro-
priation or a Treasury or some
lending agencys loan.
The other. which received sympa-
thetic discussion, was that the sta
diurn have permanent display o1
scientific and commercial develop
ments along the lines OF world
fair" -
The latter suggestion was based
on the assumption that such a dis
play. would produce revenue to pay
stadium costs.
Three Subcommittee Named.
Senator Bilbo, Democrat, of Mis-
sissippi, chairman Of the Senate
District Committee who fathereo
the stadium commission legislation
was elected chairman.
Representative Randolph, Demo
crat, of West Virginia, chairman
of the House District Committee
was named associate chairman.
In the belief that the commits
sion's work fell into three categories
Chairman Bilbo was authorized to
appoint three subcommittees:: Site
District Commissioner John Russell
Young, chairman Senator Burton
Republican, of Ohio, and Senator
Mead, Democrat, of New York;
finance, Mr.. Randolph, chairman;
Representative Lanham. Democrat,
of Texas. and Robert v. Fleming,
president of the Riggs National
Bank; architecture, Senator Bilbo,
chairman; Senator Mead, Represen-
tative Simpson, Republican, of Illi-
nois, and Floyd D. Akers, chairman
of the Washington Board of Trades
Stadium Committee.
Terry Named Secretary.
Edward P. Terry, secretary to
Senator Bilbo, was named secretary
of the commission, without COM
pensation, and Senator Rilbo an
nounced he would appoint Miss
Leona Sweeney as commission clerk.
A public hearing will be held in
about three weeks to hear architects
and engineers and others with sug-
gestiops regarding the stadium be-
fore the commissions subcommittee
begin their work in detail.
Senator Babo predicted that Con-
gress will. insist on a financial plan
that would enable the stadium to
pay for itself and gave an outline of
his suggestion for a permanent ex-
position, " "
Great Source Of Revenue"
'There are now 1876 100000 people
In the United States and after the
war most all of them are going to
come to Washington" Senator Bilbo
said. "And there will be great tide
of people coming here from all over,
the world. There will be a great
source of revenue for the stadium If
We arrange to use some of its space
for the displays of the latest and
best articles of trade developed IN
this and other countries"
Mr.. La.nham who heads the House
Public Buildings and Grounds Com
mittee. said he had heard similar
suggestions and agreed they should
be explored Mr., Lanham suggested
that the stadium have other uses
instead Of being limited to athletics.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Relief Corps to Meet

The Womans Relief Corps, De-
partment Of the Potomac, will hold
q council meeting at 3 pm. Friday
at the home of the president, Mrs.
Cora L. Manoly, ll19 Orren street
NE.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Senate Confirms Envoys

The Senate yesterday confirmed
the nominations Of Wallace Murray
iof Ohio to he Ambassador to Iran
and Of Felix Cole Of st. Louis q
Minister 70 Ethicpda.
Evening star., 1945-02-20

Degree days Total for month, $50:
total Tor season to date, 3.378:
normal for season to date, 3,244
Evening star., 1945-02-20

- K5UHzS IA 0C1 sHSCs - ---
Mr.. Tullis has been unable to
work since he fell from a scaffold
and injured his leg about four years
ago. Since then. Mrs. Tullis had
been employed at the Navy. Yard
as storekeeper in the supplies de-
|partmeIlt.
She Is also survived by two sons,
Richard ], 81, now Ii the Philip
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-14
.Afehbiishops S
Statement

The RI. Rev. Edward Mooney.
archbishop of the diocese of De-
troit, said.
"The sad news of President
RoOsevelt's sudden death will
cast shadow of sorrow across
the world. In our country he
won and kept the loyalty Of a
ma jority of his fellow citizens
to a precedent-breaking degree.
In the dark days of depression
he inspired his cOuntrymen with
the courage he had so strlkingly
manifested I'm meeting affiiction
In his own life.
with rare vision he discerned
the menace OF aggressive totali-
tarianism to a free world and
he worked patiently to avert the
danger while he prudently pre-
pared tn mPet ii.
He led a united nation TO do
It's full share I'm achieving n
victory in arms, which he en-
visloned as only preparing the
way for establishment of liberty
under God in united world.
The difficulties and disappoint-
ments Of the task did not dis
may his buoyant spirit but they
did exhaust his failing strength.
His passing will be mourned
in a confused and warning world
Ia which with persuasive elo-
qtIeRee he held up the Christian
ideal of the dignity Of the
human person a. the very core
of true democracy.
"lf we succeed i'm building a
world organization for the MAIN
tenanCe Of just peace with
true liberty for men and nations
IL will be a most fitting monu-
ment TO his championship OF
the hopes that rise i'm the hearts
of men I'm every land where
freedom has a home.
II am confident that the
Catholic people of this diocese
will pray ferventlv for our coun-
try which mourns the loss OF It's
chosen leader and for the soul
Of the leader who bravely bore
the burden of such heavy re-
possibilities"
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-14

dents body will leave Washington
at 10 p. m. for his Hyde Park
home. where he will be buried
The funeral train will arrive at
the Hyde Park estate on the east
bank Of the Hudson at 9 a. m
Sunday. Burial will take place al
10 a m, with the Rev. DR.. An
thony Of the Hyde Park Church in
which the President was senior
warden, reading the burial service
SIMPLE SERVICES
Funeral and burial services Will
be marked by the simplicity and
lack OF oStentation that character
lied the Presidents life.
Services IN the East Room Will
bring together members of tn @
cabinet. heads of government
agencies, representatives from the
Senate and House. the Supreme
Court and members Of the family
and few close friends.
The Presidents body is being
borne to Washington in the special
car in which ne had journeyed
thousands Of miles over this coun-
try. into Canada and into Mexico
during the war years and those
preceding them.
The President loved TO travel
lie had probably spent more time
IN hIS special train than IN the
White House itself during the last
three crucial years. travelling bach
and forth 90 ports from which tc
fy or 80 by warShIp 10 the con
fcrcnccs AZ CaSablanca. Cairo
Tehran Pearl Hsrbor and Yalta
and back and forth 10 Hyde Park
The train was such til at h'
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-14

his bedroom leading off the study.
They laid him on his bed and
looscd his collar
Cmdr Bruenn examined the
President and diagnosed cerebral
hemOrrhage He did what he
could for the President and then
phoned Vice Adm. McIntire in
Washington Mclntirc, who was
the Presidents personal physician.
Is also surgeon general of the
navy MClntlre m m @ d j a ~
phoned DR. James f. Paullin.
specialist IN internal medicine and
staff adviser for the naval medi-
cal branch, in Atlanta, 10 hurry
10 Warm Springs
They were al hiS bedside when
the end came. The President
never regained consciousness. He
died painlessly and peacefully.
DR.. McTntire few to Warm
Springs last night from Washing
ton with Mrs. Roosevelt and
Stephen T. Early.
Other members of the Presi-
dents staff there included his per-
sonal secretary. Miss Grace Tully,
Mrs Dorothy Brady, Mrs. Alice
Vinegar. Dewey f. Long, Russell
McMullen and Miss Louisa Mach
meiSter
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-14
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personal physician and Dr. James E-Paulln Of Atlanta
specialist diagnosed death due to massive cerebral
hemorrhage.'
The two physicians together with 1t Cmdr. George
Fox also of the naval medical staff at the President
side when he died.
He did not recover consciousness after he stricken
at his desk.
Funeral services will be held in the East Room of the
White House at p. EWT tomorrow. The body will
arrive at Union Station, Washington at 10 m tomorrow.
After the funeral services at the White House the Presi
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-14
Jews EXtOl
Roosevelt

The jewish Community Council
of Detroit today praised the late
President Roosevelt for the work
he had done in behalf of the Jew
l>A people and added that the
people Of the Jewish race were
look!pg-lrTtA hope and confidence
10 the new President. Harry S.
Truman
James 7 Gilman. president Of
the Jewish Community Council
of Detroit. declared
with a profound sense of be
reaVement, Detroit's Jewish
community mOurns the passing
OF President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. The people Of Amer
lea and the people Of the world
have Lost an uncompromlslng
champion of human dignity and
deCency. Franklin ID. Roosevelt
died on the field OF battle. 10
that common men and women
Of all peoples, all races and all
crnedS may live In free world,
free from fear and free from
want
1--WE join the nation in look
ing with hope and confidence
10 the leadership Of President
Harry -. Truman. May God
give him strength, vision and
courage 10 lead our nation
through it, crisis, toward the
better world that must be born
out Of our present travail
"The Jewish community OF
Detroit urges all Detroit Jews
10 attend memorial services
which will be held in all De-
truit sXnagngueS this weekend
and next