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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-23

80. Circuit Court Judge John Simp-
son imposed the sentence on Natalie
Polumbo, who had three previous
felony convictions. 4 jury took
only 80 minutes to find Polumbo
guilty in the S2O.00O holdup. Two
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-23

now on-l.ayc ROLAND VI. Holder.
chief examiner In the Escanaba Of
.rr. was named assistant district
manager
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-23
GIVEN SENTENCE

Jackson, Mich.-A 36-year old
man was sentenced to life imprison-
ment yesterday following convic-
ton on a charge of holding up the
Kantlehner Jewelry store last Sept
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-23

More than 100000 Coast Guard
Port Security identification cards
have been issued In New York.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-23
Normal College Calendar

TODAY
b Insignia Sigma Sigma, father and daughter dinner
700 pm-Wesleyan Guild feed first night Methodist church
SATURDAY
6:"O pm-Stoic banquet, Charles McKenny hall
500 p Nall olege open house, Charles McKennv hall
$50 p m-Christan Youth Fellowship picnic and
Evening star., 1945-03-16
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star stan Correspondent.

WITH AMERICAN FORCES ON
THE RHINE, Mar. 16.-American
wounded from the Rhine front last
night filled the halls of an ancient
building beside mountain lake in
the depth Of a beech forest nearby.
The building was taken over while
filled with Germans and slave la
borers Of the Reich for use as an
evacuation hospital. It is command
ed by 1t. Col. Harry Shelley Of the
University of Maryland Medical
School. On his staff are DR.. Charles
Finley of Washington and DR..
Samuel Adams of The Plains, Va.
DR.. Shelley was welcomed by the
Germans and asked to take over all
the hospitals facilities. He found
$50 German soldiers and SO Russian
men and women. The Germans were
well attended, but the Russians were
confined in one large louse-ridden
room A few raw potatoes es-their
only diet-had been thrown to them
daily.
The doctors were thrown on their
mettle by the influx of wounded.
Maj. Joseph Weelan of Boston went
to work on delicate operation, re-
moving q bullet from q soldiers
heart. The operation was COM
plete success, although the patient
once stopped breathing and the sur
Evening star., 1945-03-16
National Symphony
Plays al Armstrong

The only concert given by the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra this sea-
son exclusively for colored school
children was to be played this aft
ernoon in Armstrong High School.
Francis Garzia, assistant conduc-
tor of the National Symphony, was
to direct the orchestra, with Richard
Bales, musical director of the Ma
tional Gallery, giving the commen-
tary on the selections.
A demonstration of the brass Sec
ton of the orchestra was to be a
feature of the concert. The pro-
gram was to include Wagner's over
ture to die Meistersinger." the first
movement of Schubert's Unfinished
Symphony" The Donkey and the
Swan" by st. Saens; Rimsky-
Korsakov's Flight of the Bundle
Bee" and two selections from Grieg' S
peer Gynt."
The final students concert of the
season, open to all school children
of Washington and vicinity, will be
played March "a at II am. in Con-
stitution Hall when Hans Kinder
will conduct the National Symphony.
Seats for this concert are now on
sale at the National Symphony box
office in kits, 1880 G street NV.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Legislators to Speak
On Chevy Chase Forum

DR.. Louis Lorwin, economic ad-
wiser to the Foreign Economic Ad-
ministration, will be the discussion
leader in the Chevy Chase Com
munity Forum at 8;15 o'clock to-
night at the Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase. The topic will be "Is Full
Employment Possible After the
WARP"
Members of the panel are Senator
Morse, Republican, of Oregon; DR..
Alvin Hansen, special economic ad-
wiser to the Federal Reserve Board;
Representative Biemiller, Democrat,
of Wisconsin, ant DR.. Emerson
Schmidt, director of economic re-
search for the United States Cham
ber of Commerce.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Wilson Calls Pearson Liur,'
Suys He Never Saw d HundbuII

Speaker Rayburn suggested to Rep
resentative Voorhis, Democrat, Of
California that he leave the floor
and thus leave Mr.. Wilson unat-
tended.
Mr.. Wilson said the columnist is
"a ruthless, diabolical, double
barreled liar" about the handball
courts and the legislator doesn't be-
lieve his story about Mr.. Rayburn
and Mr.. Voorhis, either.
I'm assuming the Speaker didn't
do that" Mr.. Wilson said. Hon
estly, I don't believe he would. If
he calls Drew Pearson a liar that
will make it unanimous.
Mr.. Rayburn said nothing.
Mr.. Wilson, who once proposed a
curfew for Government girls, took
no chances on an empty chamber
for yesterdays speech. He requested
q quorum call before he started and
got $40 members In their seats.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Eight Again Deny Plot
To Misapp|y Union Funds

Seven members of the Hod Car
riers, Building and Common Labor
ers' Union and a contractor today
reiterated pleas of not guilty to a
charge of conspiracy to misappro-
pirate union funds on which they
were indicted last March.
1t was necessary for the group to
be arraigned again in District Court
due to a technicality. Previously
they had withdrawn their original
pleas in order to file pleas in abate-
ment through which they sought to
have the indictment set aside. The
pleas in abatement, however, were
overruled.
Some of the men also were named
in other indictments and today
again pleaded not guilty to all
charges against them.
Those named in the conspiracy
indictment and who entered pleas of
not guilty today included Joseph
Speed, George Morgan, Evans H.
Hamilton, George w. Plummer,
Matthias Kiesgan. Achilles Persion,
John w. Garvey and Isaac Weiner
a contractor.
Assistant United States Attorney
John w. Fihelly said today that he
expects a trial date to be set in the
near future.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Doctors I rom Washington Area
Care for Wounded Along Rhine

gerry was interrupted Tor half-hour
as artificial respiration was en-
ployed.
Another soldier, wounded in the
throat, died, although artificial res
piration was employed for 48 hours,
which marked a time record for its
use on a patient undergoing surgery.
Col. Shelley is native of Balti-
more and a graduate of the Univer-
sity Of Maryland Medical School. He
was an associate instructor in
genito-urinary surgery before en-
tering the Army.
Capt. Finley, 80, a native of Mount
Morris, N. j., graduated from George
Washington University Medical
School in 1889, and remained in
practice here until he entered the
Army Medical Corps in June, 1913.
He was sent to England in February
1914, and later served in France and
Belgium.
Mrs. Finley now lives at 916 South
Wakefield street, Arlington, with
their 8-month-old son, Charles, jr.,
whom Capt. Finley has never seen.
DR.. Adams, IS, joined the Army
last year, Immediately after gradua-
ton from the University of Virginia
Medical School. He also Is q gradu-
ate of Virginia Military Institute and
made his home in The Plains, Va. A
sister, Mrs. Harold Cummings,
lives at 1000 Southern avenue s. E.
Evening star., 1945-03-16

German lines, he once was given
wrong directions and his jeep
reached a point a half mile from
Nazi lines before he turned back, he
said.
Mr.. Bond arrived in the United
States a week ago and reached
Washington Sunday. A native of
Laurel, Md, and a graduate of
Georgetown University Law School,
class of 1914, he is now staying with
Mrs Bonds brother law and
sister, DR.. and Mrs. William V.
Connors.
Guests at Dances.
In France and Holland, troops
frequently were invited to dances
and entertainments. Since they've
reached Germany there has been
a strict ban against determination
with Germans. including children,
he said. Violations Of this regula-
tion-which have occurred in a few
cases-bring quick penalties, he said
Engagements in which the blue
and Gray" Division has taken part
include those at and around Vier-
vile, Isigny, st. Lo, Vivre, LIE Con-
quet, Brest, all in France; and Bour-
helm, Koslar and Julich, in Ger
many, Mr.. Bond said. "St. Lo was
the toughest" he added.
Worst 'gripe" of District men and
others in the division, he said, is
against strikes. They can't under
stand strikes. and you often hear
them say strikers should be shipped
overseas and put in the front lines.
Evening star., 1945-03-16

permission to remove the offending
freSco.
THE MURAL" he went on, "is a
picture which, to speak frankly,
depicts a number of fat women,
scantily clad, disporting themselves
on a beach,"
When news of the Senate's action
reached Kennebunk Port, according
to the Associated Press, Kenneth
Roberts, the novelist and one of the
leaders in the antimural movement
shouted, "Hurrah."
Both Harrington, author, who
spends his summers in Kennebunk
Port, echoed this sentiment, telling
the Associated Press:
THE nudes aren't naughty -
they're Just plain ugly"
Evening star., 1945-03-16
10Th Division Soldiers Yeorn
For D. c. Says Red Cross Aide
One Question Thot
All Ask Is When Will
War End, He Reports

GIs from the 29th Infantry Di-
vision clustered around a stocky,
middle-aged man in a Red Cross
uniform at the front in Germany,
last month. and congratulated him
on getting a 30-day furlough.
"IIl give you $1,000 to take your
place." said youthful soldier, jok-
ingly..
Yeah, can't you pack me in your
suit case?" said another.
George w. Bond, now staying at
5524 Thirty-ninth street NV, had
been overseas two and a half years
as senior Red Cross field director
with the division-composed largely
of District, Maryland and Virginia
soldiers. He had crossed the Allan
tic with those men, lived with them
in the field and been bombed by
German planes. He was going home,
and they wished they could make
the journey, too.
Long for Relatives.
There's nothing those boys want
more than to come back home again.
They want to see their dads and
mothers, their wives, children and
sweetheartS. Wherever I went
throughout the division, there was
one question everybody asked me:
In your opinion, when will this war
be over and when will we get back
to the States?'"
The division was sent overseas in
the fall of 1912 and spent 20 months
in England before joining in the in
vasion on D day. Since then it has
seen some of the toughest fighting
of any unit in the European area,
Mr.. Bond said.
I'm view of their record and the
fact that they were among the first
to arrive overseas, the boys expect
they'll be among the first to come
home when the war is over" he
said. But they all want to finish
the job first"
Three Others With Division.
Three other Red Gross field di-
rectors are assigned to the division,
but Mr.. Bond is the only one who
has been attached to it from the
time it left the United States. He
was assigned when the division was
activated February 8, 1941, and has
been with it ever since.
Often as close as 2 miles from the
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Meat Shortage Here
Will Be Critical Soon,
Restaurateurs Told

A critical meat shortage faces the
District within the next few weeks,
Douglas Boyle, hotel business men,
Der Of the Office of Price Admins
tration's Advisory Committee, told
the Washington Restaurant Associ-
alton last night.
The shortage will make the pres
ent situation look like a "lush'
period. Mr.. Boyle said.
you may think there Is a Short
age now, but I am afraid that be-
ginning in May YOU are going to
begin to realize what shortage
means" he told the restaurateurs.
Mr.. Boyle was one of the speak
ers at a special meeting of the asso-
citation to consider problems facing
restaurant owners as the result of
cutbacks in ration points and the
midnight curfew.
Robert j. Wilson, executive secre-
tary of the association, promised the
members that those who felt they
were entitled to stay open after mid
night would be assisted in complying
with requirements as soon as Gov
ernment officials give further details
on the plan.
Conrad Osterman, District OPA
food ration expert, discussed the
cutback in ration points and reserve
food supplies, which OPA an
nounced is designed to put restau-
rant patrons on the same basis as
households.
He said OPA will try to spread
the cutback over ration ALLEGATION
periods to avert hardships.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Corens Sued for S1,527
By His Father-in-Law

A suit for s1,527.7l against Henry
H. Corens, A, of 4515 Gladwyne
drive, Bethesda, who faces action
of the Montgomery County grand
jury on charge of numbering his
wife, Pearl, 81, has been filed in
County Circuit Court by the slain
womans father, McKendree Walker,
Gaithersburg.
Through his attorney, Thomas c.
Kelley, Mr.. Walker claims in the
suit that the amount sought repre-
sents the unpaid balance of a
So 800 promissory note signed by
Corens and his wife on January
Is, 1943.
Mrs. Corens' head was found
February 27 near a little-used road
in the Dranesville section of Fairfax
County. Police still are searching
for the torso. The murder charge
against her husband, now being held
without bond in the Rockville Jail,
will be presented to the grand jury
when it convenes Tuesday.
Evening star., 1945-03-16

converting an Mo trailer into .
semitrailer tank transport; for de-
vising of various equipment handling
machines and for the development
of various trucks and dollies used
In moving hospital equipment.
HE performed outstanding serv-
ices as maintenance crew chief"
with company of an ordnance
battalion during February, 1914, the
citation says.
The 39-year-old sergeant was en-
ployed as a Mechanic before enter
ing the service about four years ago.
Overseas for two and half years, he
recently was transferred to France.
Converting old, discarded car parts
into fast-moving racing cars used
to occupy lot of his time before
he went in the service, according to
his sister-in-law, Mrs. Bruno Crock
of the Silver Spring address.
A resident of Silver Spring most
OF his life, Sergt. Crock attended
schools there. His brother Bruno,
with whom he lived before enter
ing the service, is also employed as
a mechanic.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Senate Asks House to Erase
Nudes in Maine Post Office

If the gentlemen of the House
agree, the bulky feminine nudes
who have been disporting themselves
on a fresco in the Kennebunk Port
(Me) postofice for some years will
get the old "heave-ho" into the
cold, cold world.
That decision was made by the
Senate yesterday after Senator
White, Republican, Of Maine told
his colleagues that the people OF
Kennebunk Port so resented the
painting-the work of a WPA artist
that they had raised $1,000 to re-
place it with one depicting the
towns ancient shipbuilding and
shipping industries.
All Kennebunk Port wanted, the
Senator said, was the Government s
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Cult Member Receives
) Years in Draft Case

A three-year jail term was i'm
posed on william Henry Koch, Is, of
1903 Massachusetts, avenue NV, by
Judge Robert N. Pollard in Federal
Court in Alexandria yesterday after
a jury had found him guilty of
failure to submit to induction in the
Army.
A member Of the Jehovah's Wit
nesses, young Koch was ordered to
report to Fort Myer induction CEN
ter October 6. Induction center Off
cials testified that Koch lined up
with the other inductees, but refused
to take the step forward which in
dicates formal induction.
David Grove Busey, Is, of 2101
Thirty seventh street NV, pre-
siding elder of the Northwest Wash
ington congregation Of Jehovah's
Witnesses, testified that Koch,
whose appeal for reclassif1cation
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Montgomery Charter
Board Opposes Bills
To Revise Government

Pledging its efforts to bring
about a modern, businesslike, eff
cient and economical" county gov
ernment, the Montgomery County
Charter Committee directors were
on record today as opposing Mary
land Assembly bills proposing
changes in the form of govern
ment. The proposals are no real
substitute for a county charter, the
group said.
In statement yesterday, the
directors attacked the Postwar Com
mittee's proposals as inadequate.
Since similar proposals had been
fought so bitterly by the machine
in last years Charter campaign u
the statement said, this recent pres
entation by machine leaders nat
urally caused considerable interest
and speculation in many circles"
Supervisor Limited.
The directors declared the pro-
posal to create county supervisor,
at a maximum salary of $4,000 a
year, is no real substitute for a
county manager. "He is allowed no
real independence of thought or ac-
tion," the report said, "and must
follow the whims of the County
Commissioners"
In regard to a merit system bill,
recently introduced in the General
Assembly. the statement said that
it lis no true civil service plan" /"
1t eliminates specific Offices from
the merit system and in this way
keeps important jobs as political
plums, the statement said.
Asserting that the charter di-
rectors believe that no county issue
require partisan elections. They
pointed out that the Postwar Plan
ming Committees general planning
group had adopted a resolution
calling for continued partisan coun-
ty government. Under the Hatch
Act, it was said, Federal employees
would be eliminated from partici-
patton in county government.
To Continue Statements.
The statement said the charter
directors will continue to bring to
the attention of the voters impor-
tant facts and developments in
county government, and will seek
the election of a charter board in
1916 to draft county charter re-
sponsible to the will of the people.
A new Charter Committee Board
Of Directors, recently elected, in
cludes DR.. Oscar F. Blackwelder, DR.
Donald Bliss, George R. Candy
Donal L. Chamberlin, Mrs. Dean
Dinwoodey, DR.. j. H. Forsyth Dean
James j. Hayden, Everett r. Jones
o. M. Kile, the Rev. j. Virgil Lilly
Adlai S. Magee, Mrs. PGad B
Morehouse, Mrs. Walter E: Perry
DR.. H. H. Hewlett, Ray T. Tucker
Judge Thomas c. Kelley and Capt
| Chester Wells.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Two D. {. Youths
Are Executed
In Alabama
Hockenberry, Reedy
Pay Penalty for
Kidnoping-AssouIt
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Mar. 16.-
Two Washington youths convicted of
abducting and criminally assaulting
a Birmingham woman died calmly
in the electric chair today, ending
crime careers which their mothers
said began with abnormal childhood
tendencies.
Neither of the doomed youths,
stocky l9-year-old Daniel Reedy, nor
tall, sharp-visaged, 22-year-old Jo-
seph Hockenberry had final word
to say as they were strapped in the
electric chair shortly after midnight.
At an 11th-hour clemency hearing
before Gov. Chauncey Sparks, they
did not deny the crime. Hockenberry
professed religion, telling the Cover
nor he had found God in the death
house" Reedy said he didn't re-
member much of what happened.
Governor Refuses to Act.
After listening to the mothers who
asked for mercy and to the husband
of the victim to "let the law take its
course" Gov. Sparks, who has often
publicly said he is opposed to capital
punishment, announced he would
not intervene.
The mothers of the youths, Mrs.
Joseph Hockenberry and Mrs. Bobbie
Reedy, told similar stories-both
boys had been irresponsible since
childhood and had spent much time
in confinement. The pair escaped
from Gallinger Hospital in Wash
ington February l, 1944-a few days
before the crime.
w. E. Brobston, a court-appointed
attorney for the youths, argued that
his clients did not have a fair trial
because they were without benefit
OF a State law providing for sanity
commissions in such cases.
Won't Recommend Mercy.
Mrs. Reedy cried to the husband
OF the victim at the hearing:
MY boy, in his right mind, would
not harm any woman"
Afterward she accosted him with a
request that he recommend mercy.
Face drawn, the husband replied
Il could not conscientiously do so
in the interest of society"
| The husband was a witness at the
double electrocution.
Reedy was the first to die, al
1912 am, and Hockenberry a few
minutes later.
The two youths escaped from
Gallinger Hospitals mental obser.
vation ward after overpowering ane
severely beating an elderly guard
Hockenberry was under sentence
for assault and Reedy was serving
sentence for joyriding.
After leaving the District they
drove to New Orleans and Birming.
ham in stolen automobiles.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
First Veterans Set Up Homes
At Historic Fort Washington

buildings will be painted white,
trimmed in green. Facilities for
moving pictures, bowling and other
games will be put in. A laundry
will be installed in one of the old
buildings and a library in another.
Will Plant Flowers.
Were going to put flower gar
dens right where Indians used to
fight" one veteran explained.
The Stars and Stripes, first raised
at the fort when there were only
l3 stars on the flag, flies now. Just
as did the soldiers stationed there
to defend the, Potomac during past
wars, the veterans will rise and go
to bed by bugle.
Situated IA miles from Washing
ton, across the Potomas from Mount
Vernon, the fort has no busline to
the city yet.
Might be some trouble that way
when some of the young vets of this
war come in" a veteran of the
World War grinned. But as for
me, towns in walking distance. I'm
from Iowa"
Two veterans wandered along the
bluff in yesterdays warm sun. They
stopped to stare at the dry old moat,
and the sunken court. with doors
leading to long g-abandoned store
rooms. over yonder is the dun
geen," one pointed out. And that
old house there, that 81 where
George Washington spent tis 43rd
birthday, it says in that booklet
of instructions.
I They walked down to the bluff
where in the seventeenth century
Col. John Washington defeated q
band of 1850 Indians. Along the
Potomac where the men walked
British ships sailed triumphantly in
1914, after the fort had been ordered
abandoned by its commanding Of
dcer.
The two veterans reached the
rivers edge. They showed their
hats back on their heads, and ar
ranged the fishing poles they'd
brought with them. They cast their
lines, and set there silently in the
sun. The bobbing corks on their
lines were the only things moving.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Uniform Maternity Leave
Adopted for D. {. EMPLOYEES

A uniform set of rules governing
maternity leave for District govern
ment employees was adopted yester-
day by the Commissioners.
Drawn up by Health Officer
George c. Rutland, the rules are
the same as those adopted by the
Children's and Women's Bureaus of
the Labor Department and conform
to standards for maternity care in
industry.
The rules provide minimum of
SIX weeks leave on presentation Of
medical certificate, and at any
time during pregnancy a woman
may be granted "a reasonable
amount" of additional leave if COM
plications arise.
After the birth, the employe is
entitled to at least two months
leave and additional time if neces-
Sary.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Bodies of Two Youths
Recovered From River

The bodies of two Montgomery
County youths who were drowned
February Is when their boat cap
sized at the mouth of the Monocacy
River near Dickerson, Md, were re-
covered from the Potomac yesterday
near Whites Ferry.
Police said the body of David
Donald Warfleld, Is, was discovered
by Wade Showers, Oscar Rhodes and
Warren Warfield about 11z miles
from Whites Ferry. The body of
the other youth, Walter Poole, jr.,
IA. was found a few hours later.
Both boys were from Dickerson. A
third occupant of the boat, Walter
Rachel, "a, young Poole's brother
in-law, swan to safety.