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Yugoslavia Increases
Catholic Persecution,
Trieste Bishop Says
ty th# Aiftociot»d Pr*«t
TRIESTE. Sept. 21- The Most
Rev. Antonio Santin. Roman
Catholic bishop of Trieste and
Capodistria. charged today that
a wave of religious persecution
had begun in the Yugoslav occu
pation zone of Venezia Giulia
from which five Catholic priests
fled during the past 10 days.
The prelate said in an interview
♦ hat "in the past 10 days the Yugo
slav regime has been on the attack
against the church," and he ex
pressed serious concern for the
Catholic clergy in the Yugoslav
tone.
"All live priests who fled were
told secretly that they had been
placed on the purge list and advised
to seek refuge,” Bishop Santin said.
*T deprecate their action in leaving
their posts, however, and intend to
•end them all back to continue their
duties."
Archbishop to Bp Tried.
Farlier this week the Yugoslav
sovprnment, announced the arrest
In Zagreb of Archbishop Alojzi.jc
Stepinac. head of the Roman Cath
olic Church in Yugoslavia, who will
go on trial for "crimes against the
people” next week. The trial of
18 others—12 of them priests- was
halted to permit the public prose
cutor in Belgrade to draw up an in
dictment of the archbishop.
Bishop Santin said the anti
Cstholic campaign apparently be
ean September 11 in Venezia Giulia,
with the abduction of the Rev.
Bonifacio Francesco. Paris, priest
of the small town of Villa Gardossi.
The bishop said he was told by an
eye-witness that Father Francesco
was "ambushed'’ on a country road
by six Yugoslav soldiers and an
officer, who took him away In a
truck.
Nothing has been heard of the
priest, and his brother, who made
persistent inquiries, has been ar
rested and imprisoned. Bishop San
tin said. Indignantly, the bishop
rejected any suggestion that Father
Francesco or any of the five who
fled their parishes ever had collab
orated with the Germans.
In Italy Throughout the War.
Father Francesco, who is 32. was
In Italy throughout the war, and
only recently took charge of the
parish at Villa Gardossi. The,
bishop said thp young priest "did
not even see any Germans,” and
that at least two of the other five
priests were known for their hos
tility to the Nazis in defense of
their local populations. One had
been sentenced to death toward the
end of the German occupation, the
bishop said.
The diocese of Trieste and Capo
distria is almost, entirely in Yugo
slav zone B. But during the past
three months the bishop has not
beep;^h)e to visit any of his par
ishes beyond the Morgan line,
which divides Venezia ^Giulia into
Allied and-Yugoslav zones, he said.
He added that Yugoslav authorities
had informed him that if he vis
ited the parishes, they would "not
be responsible for his saietj.”
Car Stoned by Women.
Bishop Santin said recently he at
tempted to travel to Ottilia a Slo
vene suburb of Trieste, to confirm
a class, oil *150 children but had to
t ui rr batfc when ’his car was stoned
by a group of women.
"Many of these women later
went to the local priest and asked
him to beg my forgiveness." the
bishop said. "They said they had
been ordered to stone the car as
'a political demonstration' by local
Communist leaders, who did not
’gl! them who would be in the car.
Tne Communists then took the op
portunity to exclaim in their news
papers that the people of Otcina
did not want the bishop,”
Italy to Free Monks
In Duce's Body Theft
y By tf*# Associated Press
kOMF. Sept. 21 The Italian
news agency Ansa said two monks.
Father Pa tin i and Father Zucca.
who were accused of participating
hi the theft of Benito Mussolini's
body, would be released from jail
under the amnesty of the republic.
The body, removed front Milan s
potters field in April, was recovered
last month in a monastery at Pavia
and has been hidden in a secret
place bv the Italian government.
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AGENCY
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LONDON—‘FLYING DRAINPIPE'—This odd-looking air craft
resembling a “Flying Drainpipe” is Britain's first jet helicopter,
known as the Cunliffe—Owen W-9. It was among the many
new type aircraft exhibited recently at Radlett Aerodrome,
Herefordshire, by the members of the Society of British Air
craft Constructors Ltd, —Wide World Photos.
Reserve Officers to Hold
Meeting Tomorrow
A meeting for Reserve officers in
the Military District of Washing
ton. to discuss plans for the Or
ganized Reserve Corps, will be held
at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the auditor
ium of the Interior Department
Building.
Col. Julian W. Cunningham, sen
ior Reserve instructor for Washing
ton. will speak. Plans will be dis
cussed lor activation of Reserve
units in the Military District and
the formation of composite groups
for training.
Plant Hiring in July
Equal to 1943 Rate
Manufacturing plants hired work
ers last July at the same rate as
in July. 1943. when war production
was in full swing, and lost fewer
,than in any corresponding month
since 1941. the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported last night.
The employment rate was 78 per
1.000 and reflected increases in both
the durable and non-durable units
of manufacturing, especially in the
steel, automobile and food indus
tries. The June rate was 67 and
that of July. 1945, was 58.
The July separation rate of 59
per 1,000 compared with a rate of
57 for June. The July, 1945. separa
tion rate was 77. The so-called
"quit rate," as distinguished from
las offs and other discharges ac
counted for three-quarters ot-aii
'Separations. it was 45 pet U>®3s
compared with 40 in June and 5'2
in July, 1945. but was still the
lowest for ant July since 1943. BLS
slated.
The layoff rale ot 8 per 1,000
was the lowest oi any month since
April, 1945, and the lowest. -^July
figure since 1943.
Women left manufacturing Jobs
at the rate of 67 per 1.000 in July,
as compared with 63 in June. The
separation rate for men workers
was 54 as compared with 55 the
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9 Die in Buildings' Collapse
FRANKFURT. Sept. 21 i.'T).— At
least nine persons were killed and
24 injured as more than 40 bomb
weakened buildings and houses col
lapsed today in the worst windstorm
io hit this war-rubbled citv since
1942.
Weather Report
United States Weather Bureau
forecasts issued at 10 p.m.
District of Columbia—Clear with
mild temperatures, highest about
80. Tomorrow increasing cloudiness
probably followed by showers.
Maryland — Generally fair and
mild except for a few widely scat
tered showers. Tomorrow increasing
cloudiness probably followed bv
showers.
Virginia—Generally fair and mild
except tor a lew widely scattered
showers. Tomorrow increasing cloud
iness probably lollowed by showers.
ttiver Krport.
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Reece Declares U. S.
Might Lose Next War
If Democrats Stay In
fty th# Associated Press
FRENCH LICK, Ind . Sept. 21.—
Charging that New Deal ' economic
cannibalism" was destroying the
country's productive power, National
Chairman B Carroll Reece tonight
told Indiana Republicans that un
less their partx won November's
election America might lose the next
war.
In a speech before the Indiana
Republican Editorial Association,
Ml. Reece asserted:
'They (the Democrats> are de
stroying the welfare of the worker
bv destroying the tools with which
he makes his living, and they are
destroying our national security by
killing off the mechanical workers
that enabled us to win history's
greatest war.
Say* Radical* Dominate Democrat*.
"Unless something is done—and
done this November—we might, not
win the next one. The American
people realize this situation, and
that is why they are going to elect
a Republican Congress this year."
iMr. Reece omitted the two
paragraphs immediately foie
going for lack of radio time, but
they were contained, in copies
of his text given to the press and
lie said the> expressed his senti
ments. i
The Democrat* are no longer "the
party of Jefferson and Jackson, or
Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson,"
Mr. Reece asserted. adding:
"It is a captive party dominated
by radicals, and has become the
Siamese twin of Red Fascism."
(food Job For Moscow.
The national chairman said "The
radical advisors of the administra
tion, and the radical dictatorial
leaders of the CIO-PAC, are cer
tainly not stupid. They know the
inevitable results of their policies
"So, exactly what is the idea?
"To my mind, there is but one
answer—Red Russia."
Mr. Reece asserted it would be
difficult to prove that "the radicals
who have stolen the Democratic
party * * * are actually working for
Moscow even though our own De
partment of Justice lias a tremen
dous amount of evidence."
"But," he went on. "it ran be
proven that if they were, they
could not be doing a better job
for Moscow,"
Anderson Plans Speech
On Food Prices Tuesday
ly the Associated
ALBUQUERQUE. N. Mex . Sept
21 Secretary of Agriculture An
derson said today he would fly to
Worthington. Minn . and then to
Minneapolis for addresses in both
cities October 3 and return to his
Washington office October e.
Mr. Anderson also disclosed that
he will discuss food prices over a
Nation-wide hookup at 8:15 p.m.
Tuesday, speaking from Albu
querque.
Col. R. L. Harrison of Albuquer
que. assistant administrator of the
Production Marketing Administra
tion. who has been making a survey
of European agricultural conditions,
will report to Mr. Anderson here
this week end.
The Secretary has been vacation
ing at his ranch here for several
weeks, reporting to a temporary
office some afternoons.
Gas Set Off by Train
Blamed in Mine Blast
ly tti« Associot.d Pr#«i
McCOY. Va , Spot. 21.-Officials
of the Bureau of Mines and the
Virginia State Deoartment of Mines
said todav that “a sudden libera
tion of a large quantity of methane
gas probably ignited bv a locomo
tive'' caused the explosion Thursday
in the Great Vall\v Anthracite Coal
Mine which killed one worker and
seriously injured two.
The decision was made after an
extensive survey of the mine. Cloyd
Martin, mine superintendent, de
clared that damage was about 25
per cent more severe than that from
a similar blast last April 18, in
which 12 men were killed.
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Halsey Still Regrets
A-Bomb, But Is Sorry
He Called It a 'Toy'
fty th* A»»ociat«d *r*»s
Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey
explained yesterday that he didn't
aim to say that the atomic bomb
was just a toy or that scientists
made the decision to drop it on
Hiroshima.
He issued a formal statement on
his return to Washington, dealing
with remarks attributed to him in
an interview September 9 at Buffalo.
N. Y. Vigorous protests had come
from some civilian scientist who had
worked on the bomb project.
Admiral Halsey was quoted in the
interview as saying that: It was a
mistake" and "unnecessary exper
iment" to drop the first bomb on
Hiroshima because the Japanese al
ready had put out peace leelers and
the dropping of the bomb revealed
a new weapon: that "scientists had
this toy and they wanted to try it
out so they dropped it.”
The former commander of the
Third Fleet stuck to his guns on one
point. He didn't recede from a state
ment he made at the time of Japan's
surrender and repeated at Buffalo
that he was sorry the atom bomb
had been discovered and that it was
used. He deplored "exaggerated
statements that the atomic bomb
was responsible for the collapse of
Japan."
But he had the following to aav
about the other points of the inter
view :
"I was in no wav cognizant of
the origin of the bomb nor the
immense amount, of work that had
been done to perfect it. I naturally
knew that, it was a culmination of
the efforts of industry, military au
thorities and scientists. What part
each had in the development I did
not know then nor do I know now.
"In an informal talk with a re
porter in Buffalo I made the state
ment. in effect, that I knew nothing
about the atomic bomb nor the ex
periments at Bikini. I was cogni
zant that the bomb had killed an
immense number of Japanese in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I also re
peated that I was sorry# the first
bomb had ever been dropped because
the Japanese had already requested
terms of peace through the Rus
sians.
"Ill-advisedly, I used the word
toy.’ ’Toy’ is navy slang for any
new weapon. It is only in this
sense that I used the word. No sen
sible person could think of a weapon
that killed thousands of people as a
toy in the commonly accepted sense
of the word.
“I do not think I used the word
scientists’ in connection with
dropping of the bomb. Certainly
no man with 45 years of military
experience would make the state
ment that scientists were in a po
sition to dictate when, where and
how a military weapon of this po
tentiality should be used. Further
more. I had no intention of inti
mating that scientists were responsi
ble for the drop."
Anniversary Dinner Set
For FWA Architect's Office
High ranking Government offi
ciate anti engineers plan to attend
a dinner October 1 at the Hotel
Statler to celebrate the anniversary
of {lie founding of the Supervising
Architect's Office of the Federal
Works Agency, it was announced
last .night.
Undersecretary of Commerce Al
beit behindIfr will be toastmaster.
Aniiing those'-jnvited are Maj. Gen.
Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works
administrator; Brig. Gen. John S.
Bragdon of the Army Corps of En
gineers, Rear Admiral Joseph F.
Jelley, jr„ assistant chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks; Daniel
W. Bell, president of American
Security & Trust Co., who is a
member of the Decontrol Board, and
Chairman Lanham of the House
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, who is retiring from Con
gress.
The dinner is being sponsored by
a group of 20 manufacturers of
building construction materials.
Rifes Held in Lincolnia
For Fatally Burned Child
Funeral services for 2-year-old
Betty Ann Reno, who died of burns
in Alexandria Hospital Thursday,
were held yesterday at the Lin
colnia Methodist Church. Burial
was In St. Stephens Cemetery, Cat
lett, Va.
The girl was burned while playing
willi matches in the yard of her
parents’ home near Lincolnia, ac
cording to tier mother, Mrs. Janies
H. Reno. A son, Carroll, 5, who wa.s
playing with his sister on top oi a
woodpile, wa.s not burned. Mrs.
Reno said her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Maggie C. Reno, ran to rescue the
child, but she already had suffered
first, second and third degree bums.
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4 Dead, 37 Hurt,
Red Cross Terms
Falls Worst Peril
Palls were the greatest single
cause of home injurieis reported b.v
the Red Cross Accident Prevention
Service last week. Four persons
were killed and 37 required hospital
attention.
Among them were three children
who fell from second or third story
windows and one w'ho fell from •
second story porch.
One child fell from a fence and
fractured his leg. Another, running
with a pencil in his mouth, lacerated
his palate in falling.
Rolling off a table, an 8-month
old baby was caught by hLs mother
before Hitting the floor, but went to
the hospital for treatment of mus
cles pulled.
So far this year 164 persons have
died here from home accidents, com
pared with 136 deaths at this time
last year.
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Man Fatally Hurt by Push
Through Swinging Door
ty Atsocioted
CHICAGO. Sept. 21. — Robert
Hutton. 30, was injured fatally to
day when pushed through a swing
ing door of the Port Dearborn Ho
tel after an argument with an un
identified man.
A waitress in the hotel. Miss Jean
Williams, 33. told police a man be
came annoyed at Mr. Hutton and
pushed him through the door and
left with a girl companion a few
minutes later. Mr. Hutton died
eight hours later.
Detective Sergt. John Hannan
reported Mrs. Lillian Gordon of
Chicago said she believed Mr. Hut
ton was her nephew who had been
a jockey until he was 21, when over
weight forced his retirement. Rec
ords at the office of the Daily Racing
Form listed a Robert Hutton of
Cincinnati as a jockey who rode his
first winner in 1937 at the age of 16.
China Reds Reported
Evacuating Kalgan as
Nationalists Advance
ty th« Aisocto*«d
PEIPING. Sept. 21.,—The Chi
nese Communists were reported
hastily evacuating Kalgan today
as one of three government col
umns reached within 30 miles of
that great base in Chahar prov
ince.
American travelers arriving from
Kalgan said the Communists al
ready had removed hospitals, fac
tories and supplies and had quickly
mobilized trains, trucks, camels,
oxen, donkeys and even rickshas
for departure in a matter of hours.
These travelers said four UNRRA
specialists had left by cart to join
hospitals in the countryside and
that the Communists had taken
into protective custody a ‘•cease
fire' team with American personnel.
Reds Reconsider Stand.
Although Chinese government
forces were near, these sources said
there was as yet no evidence of war
in Kalgan except for an occasional
government reconnaissance plane
high overhead.
Under strong military pressure,
Communist political leaders were
reported in Nanking dispatches to
be reconsidering their previous im
placable opposition to United States
Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart's
peace committee proposal, but were
confronted by a new government
demand that they come into the
National Assembly in November.
The Peiping Catholic newspaper
Social Welfare said one government
force moving on Kalgan had crossed
the border of Sutyuan and another
had crossed the border of Jehol.
The Suiyuan border is but 30 miles
west of Kalgan. while the Jehol
border is 75 miles east.
inirn irraf Attack* Nankou.
A third government army, accord
ing to Chinese military sources,
was attacking Communist-held
Nankou. railroad town near the
Great Wall, 75 miles southeast of
Kalgan. * *
Progovernment accounts agreed
with the travelers that the "Com
munists were evacuating Kalgan
and said they would probably go
to Tolun, 150 miles northeast, al
though hill-girt Kalgan is favorably
situated lor delen.se.
The Newspuper Hsin Sheng Pao
Quoted military sources as saying
the situation of the Communists in
Kaygan was "increasingly grave"
and that they planned to evacuate
the city without a fight after
destroying installations.
While unconfirmed, those accounts
were in line with broadcasts today
from Yenan, Communist capital,
which pictured government forces as
capturing cities only to find them
selves "surrounded by a sea of ho«
tile gueirillas, with our main forces
hidden to strike a telling blow."
Communist Sees hong War.
The Communist radio commen
tator said. "A long war is still ahead,
ana thp Kuominlang 'government
party* attacking troops have plenty
on their hands to hold onto their
gains."
A Naanking dispatch of the As
sociated Press said the government
was reported to have demanded that
the Communists name their dele
gates to the National Assembly as a
new condition lor issuance of cease
fire order.
Previously the government had de
matided that the Communists get
out of five key areas, but since then
it largely has thrown them out by
fotc«*of arms.
Garden Group to Elect
The American University Park
Garden Club's September meeting
will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the
home of Mrs. Robert L. Wescotl,
4501 Ellicott street N.W. J. Morton
Franklin will speak on arrange
ments for the Potomac Rose Show
Officers will be elected.
Index of Living Costs
Up 1.9 Per Cent in 1
Month Ending Aug. 15
The general cost of living In-,
creased 19 per cent during the'
month ending August 15. the Bu-i
reau of Labor Statistics reported
yesterday.
The rise in the bureau's con
sumers' price index covering large
city family budget items such as
food, clothing, rent, fuel and house
hold furnishings, was attributed
principally to a 3.3 per cent advance
in food casts for the month, before
price ceiling were put back on meats,
fats and oils.
In an accompanying wage survey,
the bureau reported a general aver-:
age wage increase of about 14',*
cents an hour for manufacturing!
plant workers whose pay was raised
between V-J day and last May.
11.5 Per Cent Overall Wage Gain
Approximately one-filth of all
factory workers, however, did not:
share in geneial upward adjust-(
menu and the over-all average'
gain mounted to about 11'2 cents!
in those industries. Ewan Clague. |
commissioner of labor statistics,
reported.
The price survey indicated that1
on August 15 the consumers price
index was 43.7 per cent above the‘
1935-39 average.
Besides the 3.3 per cent increase
in food prices during the month
ended August 15, other living es
sentials increased 0.7 per cent, on
i he average, the bureau stated. Pood
prices were 17.R per cent higher
than in mid-June and meats ad
vanced 39 per cent, from mid-June
to mid-August, according to the re
port.
Price changes resulting from the
return of ceilings on meat will be
reflected in the September index
"if meat supplies are large enough
to provide an adequate sample of
prices " the bureau explained.
Sample D. C. Price* Given.
Although the bureau did not prof
vide complete percentages for
Washington, it reported that in
creases in butler prices ranged
from 3 cents in this city to 7 cents
; in Cleveland and Los Angeles be
i tween September 4 and 17. It cited
'ihe following other sample average
price increases for Washington:
Chicken up 5 cents a pound, cheese
up 6 cents, green beans up 1 cent,
coflee up 2 cents as compared with
5 cents in Chicago.
! The general survey from mid
Julv to mid-August showed a 1.1
i per cent increase in clothing prices.
0.8 per rent for house furnishings,
and 0.9 per cent for services. Prin
cipal advances were listed for cook
stoves, sheets, wool and cotton
blankets, tobacco products and
gasoline.
i The rent index rose 0.2 per cent
from June 15 to August 15 on the
basis of first, rent surveys in 16
cities during the temporary lapse
of OPA last, Junp.
Col. Greening Given Plaque
For War Prisoner Exhibit
Col. C. Ro.v Greening. Army Air
Forces officer who directed the pris
oner of war exhibit which closed
yesterday at Lansburgh & Bro. de
partment store, was presented with
a bronze plaque for bringing "the |
amazing ingenuity and heroism of'
the American prisoner of war in ■
Germany" to public attention
through the display.
The presentation, which took
place in the store, was. made by
Irving Mills, head ol the Washing-:
ton Barbed Wire Club, in the name
of the International Association of
Barbed Wire Club, organizations ol
former prisoners of war.
Col. Greening, who was a flight
officer on the initial air raid on
Japan, organized the exhibit while!
he was a prisoner of war at Stalag
Luft 1, in Germany.
The w eek s showing here w as at
tended bv approximately 115.000
persons and ended a national tour
of lfi cities, during which nearly
8.000.000 viewed the exhibit.
The show will now be dismantled
and turned over to tfie War Depart
ment for eventual display as a per
manent war exhibit.
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National Guard Told
It Must Lead Defense;
Gen. Reckord Honored
|v tK* Aikociotad ffMi
BUFFALO. N. Y . Sept. 21 — Gov
Eoward Martin of Pennsylvania,
today told the National Guard As
sociation it. must be prepared to
defend the Nation agaVnst "enemies,
foreign or domestic.”
Declaring ‘ there is a group in
American that would destroy the
American form of government,"
Gov. Martin said:
"It has made no attempt to
study the greatness of the Ameri
can way of life nor to realize that
this country saved civilization bv
Its great production and its great
armies. I can see breakers ahead
for America. We must build a great
system of national defense and this
association must take the lead.”
Gov. Martin said the Nation was
"in the midst of the most import
ant mission of our long history—
a mission to secure the peace of
the world." and added:
“You are the type of idki and
this is the type of organization on
which the country must lean
heavily."
Gen. Reckford Honored.
Gov. Martin conferred the Penn
sylvania Distinguished Service Med
al on MaJ. Gen. Milton A. Reckord
of Baltimore, former commander of
the wartime 3rd Service Command
which embraced Pennsylvania, i
Maryland and Virginia.
The accompanying citation
praised Gen. Reckord's work "in
preventing sabotage and keeping
up the morale on the home front,.”
The associaticn re-elected all offi
cers and chose Columbus, Ohio, for
its 1947 conference.
It* officers are Maj. Gen. Rllard
A. Walsh. St. Paul, Minn., presi
dent; Gov. <Maj. Gen.i Martin,
past president; Brig. Gen. James
C. Dozier, Columbia. S. C.. vice
president: Brig. Gen. Fred M. Wa
terbury. New York, secretary, and
Brig. Gen. Milton R. McLean, To
peka. Kans.. treasurer.
Gen. McLean received a silver
tray in recognition of his 25 years
of service as an officer of the asso
ciation.
Included among resolutions adopt
ed by the National Guard was one
calling the proposed re-establish
ment of a four-year course at West
Point an "anachronism.''
Strengthens Caste System.
“Such a plan.” said the resolu
tion. "will contribute materially to
the caste system so firmly estab
lished in our Army today and as
firmly controlled by West Point
graduates.
"Memoers of this association feel
that, with a few noted exceptions,
the leadership in World War II
proves conclusively that four years
at that institution does not build
the best democratic leadership for
out* countrv."
Asking that West Point become
a post-graduate school, the resolu
tion added that officer material can
better be molded from 22 to 24
year old graduates of other col
ieges who have taken ROTC train
ing. than "18-year-old high school
graduates.”
In another resolution, the asso
ciation sought the privilege of en
listing men for the National Guard
at the age of 17 instead of 18 to
45 as at present.
A German firm is making 10.000
pocket sundials a month to %-ver
come the shortage of watch*- .
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Funeral Services Held
For Michael Weingarten
Funeral services for Michael Wein
garten, 75, retired tailor who died
Thursday at his home, 1808 Wis
consin avenue N.W., after a long
illness, were held at 2 p.m. Friday
at Danransky* funeral home. 3.MU
Fourteenth street N.W. Burial was
in Kesher Israel Cemetery.
Born in Russia. Mr. Weingarten
came to this country about 40 years
ago He moved to Washington in
1922, later operating a tailoring busi
ness in the Grafton Hotel.
A member of Kesher Israel Con
gregation. he was a linguist and
reader of several foreign languages.
He had many friends in the diplo
matic service.
Surviving are his widow. Mr*.
Mary Weingarten: two sons. Her
man Weingarten, tailor; Morri*
Weingarten. an attorney: a daugh
ter, Mrs. Philip Schlein. also an
attorney, and two grandchildren
all of Washington.
Killers of Cheese King'
Hunted in Chicago
• y th# Associated Pr»»s
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—Police were
searching tonight for gunmen who,
by the light of flashlights, shot and
killed Vincent James Benevento, 46,
Known as the “Cheese King.
Benevento, operator of a rheese
companv in Chicago, was killed as
his wife, Jeane. looked on In *
tourist cabin near Waukegan. 111.
He had survived a gangland attempt
on his life December 28.
Dr. Noland Is Appointed
Arlington Pension Chief
Dr. S. T. Noland of Arlington hM
been appointed chief examiner of
the newly formed Arlington Countv
Pension and Retirement Board. Leo
C. Llovd, board president, an
nounced last night.
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