The Lithuanian American Week du lieu suivant : Chicago, Illinois • 1

Fumtrly JAUNIMAS kv -y --i Entered as second class matter; January at. the-post, office at Chicago, uxider the Act-of March 3, 1879 ii No. 15 Chicago, Illinois, Friday; april 1942. 1 I .1 F1VEXENTS Named1 1 v. Grinius President; Prof JL Secretary; Petras and' the Juozas Pmnskis Vice-President; 3b Rabinavicius, and A.

members. 1 1 1 X-V i -1 i it. i. i A. Col.

Kazys Grinius, who named -President of the Lithuanian, National Council. Heisthesonof third President Kazys Grinius; -t In His Troubles Too The first of the League of Citizens' of Lithuania in the United' States held, in Illinois, tliis week. More than 30 mem-. bers representing the Chicago, Njcw York and, Cleveland coun-cilsadoptcd a 'far reaching program' for action in behalf of liberation- of their homeland. The who at tended the arc most of having fled from Litli-nssfia the soviet forces in the summer of 1 910.

Among them are people Who have held high positions in free. Lithuania i.e. diplomats, journalists, writers, educators and economists. 'Formation of Lithuanian National Council; and 'the adop ifoikdr a bf, principles and a program for action" for Lithuanian' citizens living abroad, were the main point in the agenda. Council Formed.

The council will consist twenty persons. 'Twelve named at the conference, while eight will he appointed by the council at a later -date. Tills provision was made with the view of including in the movement Lithuanian citizens who arc residing, in other free countries. Those elected to the Council arc: Col. Kazys Lithuanian military attache; Prof.

Kazys the. Rev. Juozas Prunskis, former editor of the leading Lithuanian Catholic daily, XX (Petras economist; Henrikas diplomat, former counselor with Lithuanian Legations in Washington and1 London; Jonas former member of the Lithuanian, parliament Antanas novelist, former secretary of the Lithuanian; Legation, at. the Vatican; Stasys. Gabaliaus-kas, Catholic journalist; Dr.

Jonas Starkus, former director of Lazdijai high Robinzonas, lawyer, author rity on constitutional law; the Rev. Antanas Dcksnys, and the Rev. Kazys both of. whom arc writers. Rabinavicius and Robinzonas arc of Jewish descent.

The executive board of seven TEXT OF DECLARATION The declaration in which the CmAicil declare itself tp he the spokesman for the oppressed people of Lithuania was adopted by unanimous vote. Full text of the declaration follows: The Lithuanian National Council, elected by the League of Citizens of Lithuania in the United States, convened1 in their General Organizing Conference in Chicago, April 19-12, through its authoriz'd1 District Committee; delegates, unanimously makes the following dcclcration: In expressing its deepest gr.it-i tude to the people and government of the United' States for the hospitality and kindness shown to its members, the LNG particularly appreciates the op-jwrlunity given to it to express freely its opinions and desires; Whereas, in the course of this, war, Lithuania has been occupied twice by totalitarian powers, and the second ec culpa tiom is in force to this day, The LNC expresses its firm conviction that the victory of the Allied Democracies will return 1o oppressed humanity the opportunity to lead a peaceful amf orderly existence, as outlined in the Atlantic Charter; The -LNC. in particular expresses its deepest gratitude io the great President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who lias so solicitously protected the interests of In kv pendent Lithuania; The LNC places all of- Its hopes for the future in the c-tory of the United States in 10 present LNC considers of the most important points in its program to be, its insistence that its numbers whole-heartedly and unequivocally support the efforts of the Government and the people of the United Stag's to win this war; The LNC is convinced (Continued un page 2) Marcinkus of RAF. Is a Nazi Prisoner In the last issue of THE WEEK appeared a story Ly Sgt.

John Lindzius of the British Army in which lie told that Capt. Marcinkus, formerly cf Lithuanian air force, and recently a pilot-officer in the Royal Air Force, was announced as during the battle in the English Chan-. nel against the fleeing Nazi warships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. This week, we received a message from Sgt. Liudzius.

advising that according to the latest information available the Lithuanian flyer is not dead but that he is reported to be a prisoner of war. Hie full text of Sgt. Liifdzius message follows: had news today from the Royal Air Force station from which Capt. Marcinkus operated and they tell me that he is now' reported to be a prisoner of war in BOOK OF PUTINAS POETRY PUBLISHED LISBON. A collection of latest ppetry was recently published in Kaunas.

The book is entitled (Angry Days). Most of the poems were written during the Soviet occupation. Recent headlines about several school teachers having trouble with the parents of their pupils bring to mind that the first know'n schoolmaster in this country to fall out with loving fathers and mothers was a Litliuanian. It happened nearly three hundred years ago. It seems tliat a Lithuanian name W'as Alexander Carolus Curtins, a school master in the New Amsterdam colony in 1659 was accused of not being capable of maintaining proper discipline.

And this, coupled with the eagerness to be a successful businessman led to his dis-. missal several years later. Tin's interesting historical item is recorded in a book called Making of Our Middle by Elnier EIls-wortli Brown, published in 1905. Brown relates that the thriving brtrghers and inhabitants of the New Amsterdam colony, then under the rule, of the Netherlands government, in the decided to establish a school in. which tlieir children coukl learn how to read and w'rite.

They drafted a petition to the proper authorities in which was named as follows: Col. K. T-TT-T.