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Evening star., 1948-06-29
Waitress in Chicago
Admits Role in Detroit
Torture Staying
BY The A.sceioisd Press

CHICAGO, June 29.-Police said
today q 2l-year-old waitress has
made an oral statement that she
participated In the torture Staying
Of a wealthy retired building con-
tractor in Detroit June II.
Held In connection with the slay-
ing are Evelyn Lari, who Police
Sergt. Frank Sheehan said gave
details OF the killing, and Ralph
Ray Hunter, 30, . cook. Chicago
and Detroit police officers seized
the pair on the South Side yester-
day.
Sergt. Sheehan said Hunter,
named by Miss Lari as being pres
ent when the contractor, Elmer B.
Jones, u, Of Detroit. was tortured
and slain, has denied knowledge Of
the crime.
Another Woman Held.
Detroit police are holding a wom-
an in connection with the Staying.
Another man. identified by Sergt.
Sheehan as James Saccketti, 80, is
sought.
Hunter was seized yesterday on a
South Side street corner. Miss Lari
was taken into custody several hours
later at a South Side hotel. Police
questioned them most of the night.
Early today Sergt. Sheehan and
1t. John Barton of the Detroit police
announced the woman had talked
Sergt. Sheehan said the woman told
this story:
She and Hunter left Chicago by
bus for Detroit June II and regis
tered at Detroit hotel that evening,
There they we're joined by Saccketti
and Juanita Cook, now under arrest
in Detroit.
Invited to Home.
Miss Lari, an acquaintance OF Mr..
Jones, telephoned the contractor the
following night and Mr.. Jones in
vited the four to his home.
Saccketti started fighting with MI.
Jones over his attentions to Miss
Lari, the woman said, and Hunter
joined the struggle when saccketti
seemed to. be getting the worst
of it."
While Hunter held Mr.. Jones,
Saccketti beat him on the head
with a pistol which he had taken
from drawer. Mr.. Jones collapsed.
The two men took $25 from Mr.
Jones pockets and then burned the
soles of his feet in an effort to
make him tell the combination OF a
wall safe. Police said they later
learned the safe contained $2,56O.
Finally, she said, Hunter and
Sacketti knotted a pillowcase
around Jones neck. Leaving their
victim unconscious, they retrieved a
two-karat diamong ring which Mr..
Jones had hurled across the room
and the four left.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Baltimore Man, Daughter
Die in Motorboat Blast
By the Associoted Press

DUNDALK, Md, June ga Bal
timore man and his l0-year-old
daughter died yesterday when their
motorboat exploded in Bear Greek
and sank.
Two boys in the boat escaped.
Baltimore County police identi-
fed the dead as Chandler Twyford
and his daughter Gail.
The boys who escaped were Will
liam Fox Payne, IA, and Richard
Blair Long, 10, both of Edgemere.
Richard swan ashore and sum-
moned aid. William was semicon-
scious when pulled from the water
by the operator of a speedboat who
responded to Richards calls for
help.
Police said the motorboat engine
became overheated while it was tow
ing another boat. Mr. Twyford cut
the second boat loose and tried to
make shore.
About so yards from the pier. the
engine exploded and all four occu-
pants of the boat were thrown into
the water
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Sauter Wins Restoration
AS Police Commissioner

In surprise move the Montgom-
cry County commissioners today
reinstated Board Member Wesley I.
Sauter of Bethesda as police COM
missioner.
The action was taken after the
commissioners were informed by
their attorney, F. Barnard Welsh
that appointment of some one to
the post is mandatory.
The job, which pays 81 200 a year,
had been ordered abolished last
March Is after an eight-months'
dispute between Mr.. Sauter and
others members of the board.
Mr.. Welsh explained today that
when the March Is action was
taken it was based on a 1889 law
making the appointment permissive.
He said he discovered today. how
ever. that the law had been amend
ed in 1943, making the appointment
mandatory.
Mr. Sauter's reappointment was
made retroactive to March 25.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Marlin Predicts Gains
In Areas Traditional|y
Held by Democrats
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

House Speaker Martin predicted
today that Republicans will gain
several congressional seats in tradi-
tionally Democratic territory this
fall.
These will include three in Cali
fornia and several in Southern bor-
der States, he told reporters. All
435 House seats are on the block
in the November elections.
Some of the border States could
20 Republican very easily" he said
"Take Tennessee, for instance. Also
Virginia is a lot closer to going
Republican than many people
realize.
I'VE will pick up at least three
House seats in California, and
hear that a couple In Florida are
pretty shaky."
Sees Gain Of Is.
Mr.. Martin repeated his earlier
prediction the Republicans will picl
up "at least Is" new House mem
bers this year.
There are now 244 Republican
1856 Democratic and two American
Labor Party members IN the House
Four seats are vacant.
Mr.. Martin, preparing to leave
for a months vacation at his home
on Cape Cod, said he sees no rea'
son why Congress should have t<
come back to work this year.
Meanwhile, Representative Lands
Republican, of Indiana, said tina
what he called the liberal" ticke'
of Gov. Dewey and Gov. Warren vii
give the Republicans "an ever
chance" of winning the labor vot'
for the first time in 20 years.
I'VE ought to get about so pc
cent of the labor vote, Presiden
Truman 40 per cent and Henry Wal
lace's third party about 10 per cent,
Mr.. Lands told reporter.
Hartley Is Retiring.
Mr.. Lands, ranking Republican
on the House Labor Committee, 1
in line for chairman in the mex
Congress if he Is reelected and thu
Republicans retain control of Con
gress. Chairman Hartley is retir
ing.
The Hoosier said he believes tina
Gov. Dewey, the COP presidentia
candidate, and Gov. Warren, hi
running mate, will be willing to &C
cept amy modification of the Taft
Hartley Act that may be necessary.
The two Governors, he said, of1e
"a liberal ticket that will appeal II
the rank and file of labor"
Mr.. Lands commented, 1T prob
ably would have been differen
story" if Senator Taft, Republican
of Ohio had been nominated.
He predicted that the Republican
ticket will win the votes. amon
others, of most of the coal miners
railroad workers and building trade
members.
Act May Be Modified.
Some notifications of the Taft
Hartley Act probably will be mad
at the next session of Congress, MI
Lands said.
For one thing, he said, the section
dealing with free speech ant
political spending will have to b.
rewritten in view of the recon
Supreme Court decision that tn
act does not ban political indorse
ments in union newspapers.
Mr.. Lands said the decision wa
in line with Congress intent, bu
that the section needs to be re-
worded to make this. cleNs-
I'VE never intended to deny free
dom of speech" he said. "Th
principle purpose was to eliminat
large campaign donations by labo
examinations. y.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Truman Approves Giving
Dormitories to Howard

President Truman has signed the
bill for transfer of two Govern
ment- -owned wartime residences to
Howard University.
The two buildings. Lucy Diggs
Slowe Hall and George Washington
Carver Hall, have been occupied by
colored Government employees. They
are given to the university without
cost. The structures are permanent,
brick, fireproof buildings.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
News Official PIedqes
TO Work With Guild
For Improved Press
By the Associoted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.-The
American Newspaper Guild heard
from a newspaper executive that
mot all publishers, editors and gen.
eral managers are in relentless war
against you and your expanding
powers.
Paul c. Smith, editor and general
manager of the San Francisco
Chronicle, told a dinner meeting Of
the guilds 18th convention last
night:
Large numbers of these pub
fishers, editors and general mana
gers will gladly work with you in
the further development of re-
sponsible American press.
II hope the guild in the future
retains all the vitality as an effec-
tive trade union that it has evi-
denced in the past" he said.
Harry Martin, guild president, of
Memphis, Tenn, assailed Tory
members of Congress" in his key
note speech for what he described
as "a year of tragic reaction"
Mr.. Smith praised Mr.. Martin for
his work at the recent United Ma
tions conference at Geneva, Swift
zerland, on freedom of press and
information.
Many are fighting on your side
when this battle grows beyond re-
gional and national limits" he de-
clared.
The San Francisco newspaper
executive said "our job today is to
try to render this job of ours COM
prehensible to the people of this
world"
But it is basic that we must first
achieve some degree of understand
ing of this world. That is our
struggle.
Your problem is to educate your
selves and your editors and your
publishers to this real responsible
ity. 1t is problem in which we
have To grow together"
Evening star., 1948-06-29
MoIoyon Town Captured
By Two Guerrilla Bands
By the Associo'ed Press

SINGAPORE. June 29.-Two guer-
rilla bands striking from the Ma
layan jungle captured the town OF
Jerantut in Pahgna state last night
The raiders set fire to the police
station. then withdrew with at least
five hostages, including police Off
Ger, after shooting up the town
which lies 250. miles north of Singa-
pore.
Sir Edward Gent. high commits
sioner for the Federation of Malaga
left for London today to confer with
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creecf
Jones on the Malayan situation,
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Peiping Group Protests
Bombing of Civilians
By the Associated Press

PEIPING. June 29.-A movement
against bombing of Chinese cities in
the civil war was started here today
by 122 university professors and
students.
They acted after the recent air at
tack by government planes on Kali
fling in Honan Province. A large
number of civilians were reported
killed.
One American professor, Robert
Winter of Tsinghua University,
ioined in the protest of the bombing
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Rod and Gun Editor Dies

OTTAWA, June % (P). - John
Turner, Royal Canadian Mounted
Police historian and conservation
editor of the sports magazine. Rod
and Gun. died yesterday in his 68th
year. He was considered one of
Canada's foremost authorities on
hunting and fishing.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
College Housing Bill Signed

The bill granting colleges and UNI
versities ownership of temporary
housing placed on campuses by the
Government to House student vet
Grams was signed yesterday by Presi-
dent, Truman. The measure was
sponsored by Representative Nc
Gregor, Republican, of Ohio.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Health Officer Named

LURAY, Va, June 20 (SpeciaD -
The Page Warren Shenandoah
Health Unit has announced the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Robert Hisey OF
Shenandoah as sanitation officer for
Page County.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Embarrassed?
It's Up to You

When there is a chance of telltale
odors, promptly use Keys Powder
(hygienic)-two teaspoonfuls to two
quarts of warm water Don't
risk the embarrassment of not
being sure. Folds of tender tissues
are rinsed and cleansed: away goes
every sign of odor. 1t is soothing
and refreshing; easy to use. Two
sizes; Csc and sl25 at your favor
ite drugstore.
KEYS POWDER-to be sure!
Evening star., 1948-06-29

Two cargo planes a week now fly
Haitian handicraft products to the
United States.
Evening star., 1948-06-29

Mozambique now has its first tex
tile spinning and weaving mill, near
Beira.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
RESORTS.
WRIGHTSvILLE BEACH, N. C.

VACATION At WRIGHTsVILLE BEACH
N. c., is fun. Splendid bothins, fishing,
voter sports. Ample accommodations;
rooms, apartments, hotels. Make reser-
vutions now. Write, wire-Chomber OF
Cnmmerce
Evening star., 1948-06-29
MARYLAND.

= BEAUTIFUL PASADENA INN
The ideal vacation spot AL land and
water sports Excellent fishing; Nearby ano
reasonable Restricted clientele Booklet.
FRED HARPER, Royal Oak, Md.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Sun never sets !.

Hans Won Kaltenborn, reac-
tionary news commentator on the
Mutual network, calls charges
that U. S. foreign policy is i'm
periahstic Communist propa-
ganda."
But last week H., w.. Kalten-
born, the man with the authorita-
tive voice, in effect admitted the
charge. Commented Kaltenborn:
THE sun never sets on Ameri-
can armed forces"
In pre-Kaltenborn days, the
phrase used to be: ''The sun
never sets on the British. En-
pire."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Furniture workers give
solid vote to Wallace

, CIO furniture workers wound
up their sixth constitutional con-
vention in Chicago last week
with unanimous endorsement of
Henry A. Wallace for President.
All top officers of the union
were reelected unanimously
The convention also went ON rec
ord with resolutions:
Denouncing the Mundt bill, or
any facsimiles of it;
Calling for CLIO unity in sup
port of the militant policies on
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

is in the mind

A BOUT a month ago Emil
N Schram, president of the
New York Stock Exchange,
told a congressional committee
that initiation is "a state of
mind"
This new pseudo-psychiatric
school of economics now has a
fervent disciple - none other
than Alfred P. Sloan, chairman
of General Motors Corp.
Sloan, at stockholders
meeting in Wilmington, Del, re-
Gently, reported the company's
profits for the first three
months of 1913, after all taxes
and bills, were 500, 500, 900 as
compared with a mere $60,800,-
900 for first three months of
1947.
Then. after consulting his
dream-book. Sloan came out
with this gem: THE profits of
the industry in general are more
emotional than economic" If
such profits are emotional. the
boys are mighty close TO an
hYsterical jag.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

hogs, chickens, turkeys, cows;
they can its food; they prepare
its meals; they operate its laun-
dry; they tend its grounds; shovel
its coal; bind its books. There is
even barbershop school, !"
where all wards get haircuts
from students"
THERE was still little indica
ton of the real story of ST.
Charles, when Col. Hodgin COM
pleted his u m m airy of the
schools" workings, and rose
from his desk to take me on
tour of the grounds.
But outside Hodgin's office. in
the reception room. sat a young
boy with his arm in a sling. and
bandages around his head. He
cracked up on the farm" Hod-
gin muttered nervously. hurry
ing me through the room TO the
outside porch. Yes. that's it
he cracked up on the farm"
l wondered how was this
boy injured. Could he possibly
be the victim of st. Charles no
torious discipline-that Col. Hold
gin was later to admit?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Speed demons

1T may take Congress 100
i years to pass good civil
rights, housing or minimum
wage legislation, but when the
boys are dealing with their own
bread and butter they can real.
ly cook with gas.
The Senate took just three
minutes to pass a bill on June
3-one that provided SIS, 1862, 726
to pay congressional salaries.
And in that near-record three
minutes, the Senators found
time to add $5O3,036 to the Or
iginal amount voted by the
House.
This amendment. reported
one newspaper. made if neces-
sarY for the measure to be re-
turned TO the House for ex-
pected quick agreement"
But quick.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Bios costs bar $500;
press smothers story

Jr.. owners of the State Tavern.
SOL N. State. TO pay damages TO
Peter Gallagher.
GALLAGHER told Judge Hell
Ter that the discriminatory act
occurred about July 81, 1916,
after he entered the tavern and
ordered a bottle of beer.
"He was informed by the de-
PENDANTS and their agents that
the defendants would not serve
drink to any member of
the Negro race" Gallagher's suit
charged, adding that he was then
compelled -. to leave the
tavern"
At Judge Heller's request, the
Mayors Commission on Human
Relations assigned two investi-
gators, one Negro and one white
to the case.
Judge Heller said they report
ed that the Negro had to pay so
cents for a bottle of beer which
cost the white investigator only
rs cents. A glass of draft beer
cost the Negro investigator 20
cents. the white man only 10
cents.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Two truths

president Truman was
homeward bound from
his "non-po1itical" tour this
week-and one thing at least
had come out of it.
1t was viouS that if
Truman is renominated the
Democrats will conduct high
ly-demagogic campaign, making
with the talk about civil rights,
price control, social welfare, etc.
1t shouldn't be hard to prove
how thoroughly Truman himself
sabotaged this program in col
fusion with the Republicans.
Out of all the political jab-
bering as the '48 campaign got
into full swing, two statements
emerged as pure truth:
TRUMAN: This is one of the
worst Congresses we've ever
had"
THE COP: Truman is one
of the worst Presidents we've
ever had"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

ON the University of Chi
" cago campus, the maya
zine pulse" sometimes gets
pretty close to the heartbeat
of the students and faculty.
In a poll on the presidential
race in its current issue, the
magazine produced an interest
ing cardiogram.
Henry Wallace was far in the
lead with AZ votes from the 100
faculty members who partici-
pated. His two closest rivals
were Stassen and Taft with 26
each.
Sidelight: A theology profess
sor wrote in the name of Will
ham z. Foster, Communist
leader.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

rs time for Illinoisans to
begin to wonder why St.
Charles, the Illinois State Train
ing School for Boys, is breed
ing = not curing = delinquent
boys.
It's time that we knew the
facts -. about what goes on
inside St. Charles - the sadis-
tic beatings, harsh discipline for
young boys who have known
nothing but kicks and slaps and
abuse.
Last week The Chicago Star
front -paged the story of Joseph
L. Minnifield's resignation from
his post as supervisor of Social
Service at st. Charles.
Then. The Star charged that.
st. Charles has been exposed
often during its 50-Year life
span in periods of political
shake-up &. but each time
local newspapers lifted the lid
covering ST. Charles abomin-
able operation =. just long
enough for shake up in the
schools administration. then
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
lis time to have the
truth about St. Charles!

the wraps were carefully put
back on the scandal"
The Star hit the nail right
on the head. In this past week,
local newspapers came out for
blood. They want a shake-up in
the personnel at ST. Charles.
But why is the superintend-
emf of ST. Charles. j. c. Hold
gin. on his way out? What is
his two-and-one-half year rec
ord? What conditions will a
new superintendent find ex-
isting at Illinois crime incu-
bator? And why is the politi-
clan who holds the actual adj
ministrative reins at ST. Charles
Governor Dwight Green ig-
nored. while newspapers make
scape-goats out of his appoin-
tive administrators?
Unhampered by the political
apron strings which bind other
local newspapers, The Star isn't
afraid to tell the story. This
week The Chicago Star begins
a series of articles, in order to
arm its readers with the inside
story of ST. Charles.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Whose truce?
TT HERE is an ominous quiet
in Palestine this week. 1t

TT HERE is an ominous qqbiet
in Palestine this week. 1t
is truce without peace.
Among those who are watch
ing and supporting the valiant
struggle of a long-tortured peo-
pie for a homeland, there is a
fear that the truce was a defeat
for the Jewish people.
viii the Arabs be in a
stronger position when the
fighting resumes?
The hint that the truce was
a U.S.-British-Arab piece of
treachery is contained in a re-
cent statement by Britain's
puppet, King A b du1lah of
Transjordan, who declared in
amazement over Jewish hero
ism and resistance:
They have turned it into
second Stalingrad. They refuse
to surrender"
Was the truce engineered to
give the Arabs time to regroup
their forces, secure more sup
plies and prepare for a new
assault?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

A State st. tavern has been
ordered to pay $500 damages to
a Negro against whom it dis
eliminated, The Chicago Star
learned this week.
The Star also found out that
the daily newspapers had the
facts in the case three weeks ago,
although they refused to print
the story.
The case was heard before
Judge Samuel Heller in Munich
pal Court. On May 81 he ordered
Peter Nechipor and his son. Peter
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Mac DougalI Hq.

Curtis D.. MacDougall, Pro-
gressive candidate for Senator,
this week opened campaign head
quarters in his home at SGT JUL.
son av., Evanston. Earle A.
Bronson, 800 Simpson St., Evans
ton, was named treasurer of the
volunteer MacDougall for SEN
ator Committee, which is now
engaged in a Embarrassing drive.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Cont'd
st. Charles
From Page

$500. FROM rage l
in turn. appointed his chum. Col.
H. E. Thornton. as assistant di-
rector. and Thornton. also a Ma
tional Guarder. placed Hodgin in
: control of the ST. Charles reform
school. Of course. Hodgin is also
a Colonel in the National Guard.
HODGIN is on the skids. He
may be replaced any day now
possibly by Charles w. Leonard,
now director of the social serv-
ice department of the Catholic
Youth Organization in Chicago
since the Illinois Youthful Of
tenders Commission has been
stumping for his custer.
He submitted his resignation
last April, when things began
getting hot, but no action has
yet been taken.
Before taking me on tour of
St. Charles, Hodgin briefly out
lined the workings of the insti-
tuition. At present, AIT boys, be-
tween the ages of 10 to II, are
wards of st. Charles. There are
also 80 - in Hodgin's words -
tougher boys" serving time at
the ecurity Branch of ST.
Charles, in Sheridan, Ill. Sheri-
dan-aptly called Little Alca-
traz" by st. Charles wards-is
nothing more-or-less but a prison
eell-block set in the flat prairies
SO miles from st. Charles.
WARDS of St. Charles are
housed in ID cottages" on the
grounds, and "honor wards" live
in the institutions seven farm
cottages" Although ST. Charles
receives 100000 b ally
from the state, it is operated on
a self-sustaining basis.
Hodgin, and former st. Charles
administrators, like to boast that
the boys are getting good voca-
tional training = Il wish that
when l was boy" Hodgin re-
marked reverently several times,
81 had had the opportunities that
these boys have to learn a voca-
ton" - But actually the boys
themselves sustain the institu-
ton.
st. Charles wards work the
$3.50 farm acres owned by the
state institution; they tend its
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
organization was

which the organization was
founded;
CONCERNING the Marshall
>plan as Wall Street-inspired;
Opposing the draft Or universal
military training;
Asking Federal legislation to
halt lynching, racial discrimina-
ton, restrictive covenants and
: the poll tax;
Ending the embargo on arms
to Israel.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

Science has confirmed that a
Chinese girl has gene nine years
without eating.
Employers need not bother
sending scouts to China. 1t is
also reported that this method
cannot be taught to American
workers.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Frank M. Davis Executive Editor
Carl Hirsch Managing Editor
william Sennett General Manager
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