Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • Page 12

THE BINflnAMTON WiESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1943. 12 Knew Costello as Businessman Of Good Repute, Says Aurelio Father Draft Laid to Navy's Need for Men Dad of Seven Ready to Fight No Hiding in War Plant, He Declares Spy Suspect Refuses Food Mrs. Behrens Is Reported on Hunger Strike JUST BETWEEN US By THOMAS CAWLEY V- NT 'I Third of Calls Required for Sea Services, Army Leveling Off THE local band of National Woman's Party parishioners is small but fervent. A special ardor is that of Mrs. Margaret L.

Moore of Binghamton, an influence among Republican women, who organized the local chapter Washington, Aug. 30 (U.R) figures indicated today that man of good repute an I definitely disavow any knowledge of his alleged criminal background. I was shocked to learn about it." Meanwhile, Democratic and Republican leaders were to meet again today in an effort to reach agreement on a candidate in the First District to oppose Magistrate Aurelio. The leaders, Michael J. Kennedy, head of Tammany Hall, and Secretary of State Thomas J.

Curran, chairman of the New York County Republican Committee, met last night but reached no decision and said they would meet again today. Mr. Aurelio, nominated by both the Republicans and Democrats, was repudiated yesterday. Mayor F. H.

LaGuardia, meanwhile, threatened to start proceedings for removing Mr. Aurelio from the bench. He said he did not have power to remove Aurelio, but could ask the Bar Association or the Appellate Division for action. heavier manpower requirements of New York, Aug. 30 Magistrate Thomas A.

Aurelio, In his first public statement, since District Attorney Frank S. Hogan charged that Mr. Aurelio's nomination for Supreme Court justice was brought about by Frank Costello, said today he knew Costello only as "a businessman of good repute." Mr. Hogan had described Mr. Costello as "czar of the slot machine racket." Hogan issued a statement Saturday that his office overheard a telephone conversation in which Mr.

Aurelio thanked Mr. Costello for bringing about his nomination for Supreme Court justice. The district attorney said the conversation was overheard while his office was seeking evidence against Mr. Costello. "I have read the newspaper reports in connection with my conversation with Mr.

Costello made public by District Attorney Hogan," said Mr. Aurelio. "I recall such conversation during my brief acquaintance with Mr. Costello of about six months standing. I know him to be a business the navl forces are contributing in part to the approaching draft of an estimated 446,000 fathers.

Kansas City, Aug. 30 Peter Werp, father of seven, who says he'll take his chances in the draft rather than run for cover in a war plant, was a step nearer military service today. "I'm a cinch," the 36-year-old bank accountant reported cheerily after his preliminary physical examination. "It'll be the same when I'm called to Fort Leavenworth for induction, too. I'm like that fellow who said he was disgustingly healthy." A bank employe for 15 years, Mr.

Werp was one of several hundred fathers who reported for preliminary examinations Sunday. If he is drafted, his family Detroit, Aug. 30 The Detroit News today says that Mrs. Theres Behrens, 44, one of four persons arrested last Tuesday on presidential warants charging violation of the war-time Espionage Act has refused food since Thursday noon Besides Mrs. Behrens those held in the first application of the wartime version of the Espionage Act with its possible death penalty are Miss Grace Buchanan-Dineen 34 Dr.

Fred William Thomas, 44 surgeon, and Bertrand Stuart Hoff-man, 27, a seaman. Each is held under $50,000 bond. At Receiving Hospital, the News says, Mrs. Behrens has announced her determination to accept no food as long as the present charges are held against her. Arkansas is the largest pro.

ducer of hardwood of any state in the union. Navy Department statistics of present and planned strength of SERVING THEIR COUNTRY Carl II. Pierson. left, son of Mr. and Mrs.

C. H. Pierson, Birdsall Street, Greene, was promoted to second lieutenant at Eagle Pass, Texas, and is now stationed at Tallahassee, Ha. Corp, Richard McDonald, center, grandson of Mrs. F.

E. McDonald, 103 Seminary Avenue, and son of Mrs. Frances Dennison of Caldwell, N. has been awarded the Silver Star Decoration for bravery in the Tunisian campaign. Corp.

Robert A. Springer, whose wife resides at 202 Maine Road, West Corners, is now in Sicily after almost a year overseas. Enlisting in the army July, 1939, lie trained at Indiantown Gap, before sailing for England. the navy, marine corps and coast guard showed that better than one-third of the men drafted this month and who will be inducted during the remaining months of 1943 will go into those forces. Reliable sources, who declined to give actual figures, said this was a higher ratio than in the early part of 1943 and apparently due to NAZI DIPLOMAT RESCUES BRITISH FLIERS Lisbon, Aug.

30 The crew Cabo Raso near Lisbon was nirlcpri nn hv a flprman-nwnpri would receive $122 a month, and Mr. Werp himself $22. That hardly approaches his bank salary, Amarillo, is the leading source of helium in the United States. of a three-engined British plane yacht, manned by the secretary of which crashed today seven miles the German Legation. he acknowledged ruefully.

the rapid expansion of the seven-ocean fleet. Army Levels Off While navy demands increase, army demands are slackening at a comparable pace. There already have been assurances that the army is leveling off and that its future manpower needs will depend on the number of battle casualties and the rate of loss through sickness and non-combatant deaths, as well as discharges for various reasons. ry- i last year. What Mrs.

Moore, her two closest collaborators and about 20 other members here want is the Constitution of the United States to say that men and women are equal. Specifically, they want it to say: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." THE going has been slow in the 34th Congressional District, but it is not discouraging, Mrs. Moore says. While big names in the county take opposite sides on the question, Mrs. Moore's job is to bring as many women into the fold as possible and go to work on legislators.

Representative Hall has uttered words of favor, and although Mrs. Moore has been doing a little promotion among the local members of the State Legislature, she feels this is a little premature. The National Woman's Party literature asks: "Do You Know That a Woman Does Not Have: Equal control of her property? Equal control of her earnings? Equal right to make contracts? Equal opportunities in professions and industries? Equal opportunities in government service? Equal pay for equal work? Equal control of national, state and local government? Equal right after marriage to her own identity?" LINED up on the question, for instance, are U. S. Senator Hattie W.

Caraway (pro); Carrie Chapman Catt (who calls the whole thing a snare and a delusion); Katharine Hepburn (pro); A. F. of William Green (con); Clare Booth Luce (pro); Mrs. Roosevelt (con). Mrs.

Moore has felt mildly gratified ever since 98 women turned out in the spring to hear one of the National Woman's Party speakers here. All told, the actual membership, with Mrs. Moore officially known as the 34th As of July 31, the combined strength of the navy, marine corps and coast guard enlisted personnel was 2,038,000. On Dec. 31 this is expected to reach 2.624,000, an increase of 586,000.

This would mean a monthly demand upon selective service for 117,200 inductees. Need More Officers It also was known that combined demands of the army and navy are averaging 300,000 a month, and will continue that rale through December if selective service estimates prove correct when the actual calls come through for November and December. The October call is "a shade lower" than 312,000. In addition to the demand for enlisted personnel, the navy will require an additional 30,800 officers. Under present regulations, few of these will come from the age groups under 35, except for flight olhcers.

Congressional District chairman, is a little more than 20. The women are all right, but there are the men, against whom the major i complaint is they are not inclined to discuss it seriously, or, at best, realistically. Mrs. Moore, her two aides, Mrs. Helen Scholderer and Mrs.

Leda Scudder, and the others have nothing against men particularly. They just want to overcome 'the opposition there is to the proposed constitutional amendment, "After all." says Mrs. Moore philosophically, "there was opposi- tion to the Constitution, too." rlERE are men, however, who say to Mrs. Moore: "You've rot everything now. What more do you want?" This can be infuriating.

MAN BEATS DO(f San Pedro, Aug. 30 WV- The roof-rending snores of Bolo, huge English bulldog mascot of 1 the Fort MacArthur reception center, brought a ban against his sleeping in the barracks. Buddies of Private Paul J. Brown, a cook, claimed Mr. Brown's nocturnal wheezes were just its potent, and arranged a contest.

Bolo was placed under Mr. Brown's bunk, but after 90 minutes of competi- tjon crawled out and slunk from i the barracks, Mr. Brown's pals said. Mr. Brown now has private sleeping quarters, too.

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