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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS FRIDAY. JANUARY 1. 1943 Spectacular Crime and Violent Death Mark Detroit's Old Year Wedding Bells Ring Out Old Year Dewey Takes Governor's Oath" in New York Murder Tops Rising List of Violence U.S., British Blow Aimed at Argentina Washington Backs London Denunciation of Latin Nation's Relations with Axis T- a- I in) i i. iit ifi n- tr-i-i -1. i I'M a i ill -V -o-a' I f) V- Tr.flll1l,.Wl 'fotfTjwin Mi i ml -mniiiiri flilllm iinmm Jury Indicts 10 in Boston FireLiquiry Building Official, Police Captain, Fire Lieutenant and Club Owners Are Accused Br the Associated Press BOSTON, Dec.

31 The Cocoa-nut Grove holocaust, with its death toll of 489, flamed again today in the indictment of 10 men, including Boston's building commissioner, the night club owner and manager and a police captain. An apparently angry Suffolk County Grand Jury returned 11 secret indictments in all and simultaneously lashed out at "1 a i and "incompetence" among Boston officials. Manslaughter was charged in the indictments against Barnet Welansky, owner of the grove; James Welansky, manager of the club, and Jacob Goldfine, wina steward. Each were held in $10,000 bail, double surety. Others indicted included James H.

Mooney, Boston building commissioner; Police Capt. Joseph A. Buccigross, and Fire Lieut. Frank L. Linney, who inspected the Grove several days prior to the fire, all accused of wilful neglect of duty.

Charged with conspiracy were: Samuel Rudnick, contractor; Rueben O. night club designer, and David Gilbert, employed on construction in the new cocktail lounge. State Police identified the tenth man named in the indictments as a building inspector for the city. Associated Press Wirepholo- Republican to hold the office in 20 years. Looking on at the ceremony is Mrs.

Dewey. Thomas E. Dewey was sworn in as governor of New York by Supreme Court Justice Philip McCook in Albany Thursday. He is the first Rites for Wilkinson Ex-DSR Head, Saturday MR. AND MRS.

GERALD M. COXDO Their idea of starting New Year right PAT ON THE BACK FOR U.S. Tocsin of Doom for Axis Rung by Nation7 Editors By the Associated Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 31 Th.

United States, the State Department said today, is in full accord with a British announcement deploring Argentina's policy of maintaining diplomatic neutrality with, the Axis. The statement was in reply to queries based on the British Foreign Office statement issued in London today which deplored Argentina's relations "with the enemies of humanity." LONDON, Dec. 31 (AP) The British Foreign Office issued this statement today concerning Argentina's relations with the Axis: "It is understood that certain agency messages and press articles emanating from or published in London have been quoted in Buenos Aires, and that one article has been summarized in an official information bulletin of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs in such a way as to suggest that His Majesty's Government are in sympathy or in agreement with the policy of neutrality now being followed by the Argentine Government. "The fact, however, is that His Majesty's Government deplore the policy of Argentina in remaining in diplomatic relations with the enemies of ha- manity. 'They are astonished that an official Argentine publication should apparently have attempted to suggest the contrary, since they have been at pains to leave the Argentine Government in no doubt of their views." Informed circles said the false impression that Britain condoned, Argentina's policy grew from an I erroneous dispatch that the British Government was satisfied with Argentina's recent action In limit' ing the amount of wordage Axis diplomatic representatives could send daily in code.

Sailor Gives Medal to Heroic Girl ORANGE, N. Dec. SI (AP) Nine-year-old Mary Drury, who lost both her legs under a railroad train on her birthday Dec. 18, had a medal for valor today. It was sent her by an unidentified sailor in Boston who enclosed this message: "You deserve this more than I do." 500 atfwr MONARCH FOODS si fust toad! SAFElT-WITHOUT DRUG HABIT If yes wint tt tii ef sly Ut at cannot Sitt kecaass leu feoS team yea leelini sentry, empty, constipates1 4 like St hen erne settees' teiina poenst ser week with the sis' sf itaunt CRYSTA JELL This 'salk-alet-Bllneralt' csmsisatles often titien: sseeeier elirainetten of foes rwidie: relief from that tit nnnjtr' bleat: eneriy vitamins all In ens.

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Stores. Mass sy St hilt Rio-Fori Proa. Detroit JL Ij HEMW I I I mi Funeral services for Ralph B. Wilkinson, widely known Detroit attorney and former president of the Detroit Street Railway Com- mission, will be held at 1 p. m.

Saturday from the William R. Hamilton Co. chapel, 3975 Cass, with interment in Woodlawn Mausoleum. Services will be conducted by Detroit Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, of which Mr.

Wilkinson was a member. He died Wednesday at his home, 720 Virginia Park, after a six-week illness. He was 74 years old. Surviving are his wife Mary, a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Dickinson, and a son, Albert G.

Wilkinson. Born in New York City, Mr. Wilkinson came to Detroit with his parents when he was 4. He was graduated from the University of Michigan before entering the practice of law more than 50 years ago. For many years he was a member of the law firm of Wilkinson, Lowther and O'Connell and was the author of a leal textbook entitled "Wilkinson on Mechanics' Liens." Serving as a member and president of the DSR during the admin- he handled me municipalization oi the system.

Besides his membership in the Detroit Commandery, he was a past master of Union Lodge, AM, and a. member of the Detroit and Michigan Bar Associations, the t.l)ii"'n4 ii mm" Hi nuiwii 11 ir rnniw Dank and Tavern Are Robbed, but Holdups Show a Decrease; Bad Checks Mount BY FATRICK McDOUGALL Free Press Staff Writer During last year, $8 killings took place in Detroit, which was an increase of more than 12 per cent over 1941. Of the 1942 cases 39 were outright murders. Inspector John O. of the Homicide Squad, said.

In the previous year there ere 78 killings and of that total 51 were deliberate murders. S8 ARE JUSTIFIED Whitman said that of the total r.f 88. six were manslaughter cases, and 38 were justifiable homicides where no warrants were issued because of self-defense or where verdicta of Coroner's juries ruled them such. Five other cases have not been classified, but are still under investigation. During the twelve-month period Fix old murder cases were cleared up with arrest of suspects.

The investigation Into the circumstance surround i the death of John Duval Dodge last August resulted in more newspaper publicity than any other homicide case during the year. Much mystery surrounded a drinking party he attended a few hours before he died in Receiving Hospital with a fractured skull. After days of investigation by the police and Prosecutor's Office, a Coroner's jury heard the evidence and announced th2 death as being accidental while he was detained in McClellan Precinct Station. REMAINS A MYSTERY Another homicide case which remains unsolved was the death in the Detroit Leland Hotel of Clyde A. McCoy.

Fort Wayne attorney. His death resulted from knockout drops." McCoy's naked body was found on the floor of a room in the hotel. A quick investigation revealed that he had been fatally drugged. A drinking companion was held for several days and released. Biggest holdup of the year occurred when four bandits walked into a tavern at 9102 Michigan and robbed Henry Addison, seventy-three-j ear-old CO AAA proprietor, vi 4 For the first time since aoo a Detroit bank was held up and robbed.

The robbery took place on July 13, when two men entered the Commonwealth Bank, at 15141 Livernois, and robbed the manager, Alfred Smith, of $2,400. Holdup Squad detectives arrested the holdup men and turned them over to Federal authorities and both were given long prison terms. HOLDUPS DECREASE Holdups in general had a sharp drop under 1941. In 1942 there were 70S holdups while in the previous year the total was 1,011. Burglaries also fell off.

During 1942 there were 2,103 and in 1941 there were 2,370. Police say that the reason for the drop in the general crime picture is due to the fact that most people are gainfully employed, making good money and do not have to resort to crime. Bogus check complaints are increasing, according to Detective Ruben W. Sutter, who heads the detail. He said that in 1941 he had 5,407 complaints but last year the total was 5,819.

In Recorder's Court the number of felony cases dropped from 3,828 in 1941 to 3,216 in 1942, Clerk of the Court Burke Montgomery announced. He said that misdemeanor cases, on the other hand, rose from 18,931 in 1941 to 20,174 in 1942. Lieut. James Lupton of the Accident Prevention Bureau reported that fatal accidents dropped 16 per cent and that injury accidents fell off 19 per cent. In the case of non-injury crashes there was a falling off of 23 per cent over the previous year.

FATALITIES DROP Lupton also reported that there was a 10 per cent drop in pedestrian fatalities and a 19 per cent reduction in pedestrian injury accidents over the previous year. The number of persons killed on Detroit streets in all types of accidents during 1942 was 237 compared with 276 for last year. Of the total. 221 were motor vehicle accidents and for the same period of 1941 the number was 267. The most serious traffic accident of the year took place in Hamtramck when 16 persons were killed in a DSR bus.

Two Quit Race for Auditor Having surveyed the potential opposition in the Spring election fight for Wayne County Auditor, an plum, two candidates withdrew their names from the contest as the deadline for withdrawals was reached at 5 o'clock Thursday. Stanley Sadowskl, of 7704 Helen, an engineer employed by the City, and Joseph L. Wisniewski, Hamtramck safety commissioner, both Democrats, quit the fray. Wisniewski is the First District Democratic chairman. The remaining seven Democratic candidates are County Treasurer Jacob P.

Sumeracki. State Reps. Gerald L. Murphy and Fred R. Dingman, State Senator Leo J.

Wilkowski, John W. Smith, of Eovse: Walter Nowicki and James J. Murphy. Fred A. Mahoney, Re-publican, is unopposed, in his party's primary.

Free Press Photo Service Men Celebrateby Being Married Home on furloughs, two service men, a corporal from Fort Custer and a naval aviation gunner from Jacksonville, rang out the old year in Detroit Thursday with wedding bells. The USO center at Cass and Lafayette held its first wedding, and the last of 1942, when Corp. Jack Diederich and Mrs. Lydia Smouse spoke their vows in the evening befcre Adj. Artnur wat-kins, Salvatisn Army chaplain at tached to ta? USO.

Thursday morning at St. Joseph's Churtii, the marriage of Gerald M. Ondo, 20 years old, of 9728 Woodlavn, and his childhood sweetheart, tulia Sanbear, 18, of 9541 Milner.jvere solemnized. Corp. Diectrch's bride, a thirty-one-year-old vidow, is the daughter of Mr.

aid Mrs. Andrew H. Kreutziger, O' Center Line, Mich. The groom, 2), is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. V. Diederich, of 18784 Saratoga, Baningham. Engaged rnre than a year, the couple schedued their wedding for the first day of Corp. Diederich's six-day furlopgh Thursday.

They left immediaely after the ceremony for a prief wedding trip in Canada. Matron o5 honor at the ceremony was lis. Donald Diederich, the bride's ster and wife of the groom's broLer, who acted as best man. I Gunner Ccf-Io arrived home on furlough Tut day and completed arrangements to vaive the five-day period the marriage license. He is? lue back Monday at the Naval ayktion base at Jacksonville, whey' his bride will join him later.

WILL WIJtlAVE ANOTHER i WORLD WAt? We had one, and now Noi is upon us. Will there be a fc. Prof. William Lyon Pfclps believes it is unnecessary a explains why in a story you mist read. Sunday's Free Press.

ALL STORES V7 rre and aiL reistance nesVcon-' contey-tt vCOAP' caps' i.i are Clatter of War Plants Welcomes theNew Year Detroit Flier Is Killed in Libyan Action Lieut. Harry F. Belobraidich, widely known Detroit athlete and aviation enthusiast, has been killed in action while serving with the American Air Force attached to the British Eighth Army, it was learned Thursday. The War Department, which previously had reported Lieut. Belobraidich as missing, wired his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. bran Frank Belobraidich, of 20785 Curie. Van Dyke, that he had been killed on Sept. 14 a date which coincides with the fighting which drove Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces out of Egypt. Commissioned on March 11, Lieut.

Belobraidich flew a transport to the Middle East in July. The last word which his parents received from him came in a letter postmarked the day of his death. The flying officer, who was 23 years old, was a graduate of Cass Technical High School and attended Lawrence Tech and Wayne University before joining the Air Force. During his student days he took part in several Golden Gloves boxing tournaments and held private licenses both as a glider flier and pilot. A brother of the dead pilot, William John Belobraidich.

is serving in the Navy as an aviation cadet. Governor Names 3 Defense Councils As the last official act of his administration, Gov. Van Wagoner Thursday appointed local defense councils in Wayne, Northville and Allen Park. Those appointed were: Wayne: Sherman L. Bunnell, chairman; Clyde C.

Maben. Albert R. Walker and Robert C. Holland. Northville: Elmer E.

Perrin, chairman; Chub J. Smith, Mrs. Mollie Lawrence, Barton Connors. Alex Lyke, George Locke and Jeanette Lawrence. Allen Park: Etril L.

Leinbach, chairman; Henry V. Herrick, Stanley H. Burbank, Richard Lamb, Ernst Lancashire, Leo Menard, Ben Goodell, Marvin Harrison. Joseph Campbell. E.

K. Ewald, Richard Toutant. Jacob Burger, Jobi Dobson and Anton Bobely. WEAPONS ica's secret weapons. He uncovered them, and he demonstrated them.

So the correspondents who saw them are able to write that we have the weapons and that they seem to work with deadly effectiveness even if it is not permissible to tell just what they are and what they do. There i one weapon which, with typical Yankee impudence, already has been nicknamed the "Bazooka, because of Its resemblance to Comedian Bob Burn' famous musical instrument. Th writer is not allowed even hint at its nature, its construction or in usage, but some day, when the Ordnanco Department is se to announce it, the American put -se i 4r-ng to get a real thrill stnrtw that auch an ingenious if has) twen developed for its men. And the utories of victories Je possible through use of the Bazooka" should write some chapters in this war which will make the most hair-raising exploits of the last conflict look tame. 9 yard and every heart on the home front." From his editorial chair of the Kansas City Star, II.

J. Haskell said Americans have done "some grumbling in the rood old Democratic way. But this has not affected our war effort." He said the Mid-West recognized as its province the supplying of the nation's food and there would be no "faltering in the task. W. S.

Gilmore, editor of the Detroit News, said that the "worst year for a Democracy like ours is the first year of a great war. we have survived that year." Warning that material comforts and necessities mean little without international peace and justice, John Faschall, editor of the Atlanta Journal, asked: "Our soldiers can and will bring us victory, but can we promise them, even here in the United States, a government, an economy and a civilization worthy of their bravery and sacrifice?" From New York City, Charles Merz. chief editorial writer of the Times, said: "The crowd in Times Square tonight is shouting Happy New Year, and this cry finds its echo in the nation. As a people we are determined, and we are hopeful, and we have even found a certain kind of happiness in a new faith in ourselves and a new appreciation of our destiny." Ralph Coghlan, editorial page editor of the St. Louis PostK Dispatch, urged "an expression' of our war aims, as a powerful "weapon against our enemies." He asserted that Hitler had capitalized on his "new order" and Japan likewise had profited from its description of the "Oriental Co-Prosperity Sphere." RAIL STRIKE DELAYED LONDON, Dec.

31 (UP) Action on a resolution calling for a nationwide railroad strike was postponed today until Jan. 15 by delegates the conference of the Railway Locomotive Men's Union. INCOME TAX DEDUCTIONS! Do you know exactly what contributions you ran deduct on your Income tax report If not, be sure to read William J. Coughlin's lucid explanation in Sunday's Free Press. into Bizerte meter Howitzer mounted on an M-7 motor carriage, were among the many items seen, and a demonstration of tanks, armored vehicles and jeeps, plowing through mud and wet sand, also was staged.

When the demonstration was over Gen. Campbell, speaking with obvious relish, told how the so-called "Mossbacks and Brass Hats" in Washington were keeping a jump ahead of the vaunted German technical skill. SAND BLASTING ALL METALS Volume capacity now available. Equipped to handle large pieces. Also shot blasting.

STAR SANDBLASTING SERVICE K. Melthols TWtobrook 1-1223 RALPH B. WILKINSON Trominent lawyer dies Detroit Athletic Club. Detroit Boat Club, Bloomfield Hills Country Club, Optimist Club and Noontide Club. ing crowd in Times Square, the City had 2,100 policemen and 1,000 City Patrol Corps members on duty.

Also on hand were 500 air raid wardens and 350 regular and auxiliary firemen. LONDON. Jan. 1 (Friday) (AP) A throng as polyglot as London has ever known sang and cheered and toasted the New Year in. Hundreds of thousands of persons, packing the West End streets of the darkened capital, and blocking all traffic from St.

Paul's to Hyde Park corner, voiced a mighty roar as Big Ben chimed midnight. Then they started singing Tip-perary and Auld Lang Syne were the favorites and blowing horns and making noise with anything at hand. Hundreds of American soldiers thronged Piccadilly Circus. The majority said that it the biggest, and gayest New Year's celebration they ever had seen. ARMY BARES SECRET By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Dec.

31 Nine editors representing some of the nation's outstanding newspapers tonight lauded America's accomplishments in its first year of the war and expressed confidence in the outlook for 1943. The editors addressed the nation from newspaper offices in various cities in a special New Year's Eve broadcast by WEAF and the NBC network shortly before midnight. COMPARISON DRAWN Erwin D. Canham, maanaging editor of the Christian Science Monitor, in Boston, declared: "We have come a far distance In 1942. In 1943 we will go even farther.

On last New Year's Eve we were withdrawing from Bataan. Tonight we are at the doors of Bizerte. and in a score of other strange places. Our soldiers and sailors and airmen have proved a great thing. They have proved that the Americans of our generation have all the courage and endurance and sacrifice and wit that Americans have had down through our fine year3." Speak'ng in Emporia, William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, said: "In 1912 the democratic idea motivating the United States ha done in twelve months what the totalitarian states have been doing for 12 years.

This has been done by the dynamic force of democratic faith." From Chicago, Paul Scott Mowrer, editor of the Daily News, pointed out that this is America's first total war, and the "hardest we have ever had to fight. More effort and sacrifice are demanded of the civilian population, in particular, than ever before." For 1943, Mowrer said, "it is our hope, with the aid of our Allies, to break the power of Hitler. After that, Japan." MUST WIN FIRST Lawrence C. Martin, managing editor of the Denver (Colo.) Post, warned that America must concentrate on- winning the war in preference to attempting solution now of peace problems. "In 1943 we've got to kill Nazis and Japs faster than they can kill Americans," he said.

"We've sent a million fighting kids to many fronts. But it's a job for factory, farm, ship No other country, in so far as the ordnance department knows, has anything to compare with the "Bazooka Gen. Campbell asserted. Everything from a brand-new carbine, which will kill a man at 300 yards, to the monster sixteen-inch coast artillery gun, which will sink a battleship at 29 miles, was shown and demonstrated by the Ordnance Department here. A huge and highly mobile Howitzer, so powerful and accurate that it could be set up at South Ferry in New York City and hit the front door of an apartment house in Washington Heights; and the weapon which helped beat Rommel in Egypt, the 105-miIli- OPTOMETRIST Capable refractionist.

Good salary. Excellent opportunity for the right man. COLE'S, 1107 Farmer St. Continued from Tage One facing the enemy on New Year's Day in fact, every day and every night," their statement said. "It is unfair not to give them the same full support they are giving us." Many Detroit plants also made personal appeals to their men to keep the wheels humming on full production schedules.

Besides a poster reminding workers that men on the fighting fronts will be at their battle stations New Year's Day, N. A. Wood-worth Ferndale, used the plants public address system in direct appeal to all three shifts. In answer to those pleas, reports from the war plants indicated that factories where vitally needed war stuff is made would operate full blast all day Friday. In some plants, in which a shortage of materials or tools is likely to cause layoffs within the next few weeks, the employees will have a holiday.

Production officials said that plants which exceeded military requirements would also be closed Friday. New York and London Greet the New Year By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, Dec. 31 Young 1943 chased careworn 1942 right up war-dimmed Broadway tonight, and they were both pretty conspicuous without uniforms. For on this econd New Year's Eve of the wir, soldiers, sailors and Marines of the United Nations constituted a laffce segment of the millions here who cheered, sang and sometimes just howled the old year But it wasn't sound and fury. 1 In reverent silence, hundreds bowed their heads i prayer at St.

Patrick's Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Watch Night services were held in other churches throughout the city. Dimmed-out Times I Square attracted the usual thousands to sing the National Antiiem at midnight. Those along the vater front watched for the Statue Liberty in New York harbor po flash a V-for-Victory signal- from her upraised torch five minutes after 1943 became a reality.

To handle the jostling, shriek- Wait Until U.S. Bazooka Brigades Get ST i bl i I'M i a a Near York Times Service ABERDEEN, Md.t Dec. 31 A secret weapon which is already being produced in quantity and is in the hands of infantrymen, will make the American soldier the mo3t dangerous fighting man in the world, according to Maj. Gen. Levin H.

Campbell, chief of ordnance, who talked to newspaper correspondents visiting the Aberdeen Proving Ground yesterday. Ever since the beginning of the war, the Germans have loved to boast of their "secret weapons." many of which never appeared after the publicity was over. OUTGUESSED NAZIS Campbell and other high-ranking officers of the Ordnance I4-partment infringed a bit on the Nazis' stamping ground when, in the course of a pecml tour arranged by Under-Secretary of War Robert Patterson they howed correspondents not one, but several, secret weapons. The difference was that Gen. Campbell, a salty-speaking sol- "dier, did not Just talk about Amer aaa fr.