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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12

degree. Worn with a rough white
straw hat and white bag the outfit
becomes definitely appropriate and
charming for restaurant or country
club wear.
For city roofs or dinner at home
mother, noted for her discriminating
taste in dress, wears a gray silk
chiffon dinner gown with elbow
length pulled sleeves and high
shirred bust line as shown centered
in the picture. White flowers with a
delicate tracery of wine are caught
at the base of the V neckline.
For country club dining or a gath
ering of her sorority club MEM
bers, or for an evening of enter
tainment multi-colored silk print
with slightly 1ared skirt, topped
with a long bolero jacket with
pushed-up three-quarter sleeves as
illustrated to the left should prove a
perfect choice. The advantage of
this modish gown is that removing
the bolero the dress is transformed
into a formal for more sumptuous
occasion.
Fall fashion trends give promise
of very elegant fabrics that tune to
the call of the mode that comes
from the frankly forty group. Silk
faille bengaline, MORE, stiff taffetas
and stately brocades are fashion
firsts on the list and they are being
made up simply and exquisitely as
becomes a lady of dignity and poise.
The new hustle frocks are prov
ing interesting too, to the frankly
forty" woman. While the old time
hustle effects may have been the
inspiration for present styling yet
the modern versions are modified
and artfully interpreted via grace
full butterfly bows and Grapes and
other skilful manipulations.
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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
Fine Red Flannel
Jackets Popular

If you long for color, gaiety and
style served all in one, buy new
bright jacket smartly tailored of fine
red flannel. The younger set is
making a dash to the sports sections,
walking out proudly wearing a COW
eted red jacket over their midsea-
son light dresses. The fad is going
strong during the evening hours for
a red tailored jacket over a party
frock is a young girls pride at the
present moment The jacket of red
velveteen is also chic.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
Style Notes

Call is for white silk or rayon
jersey costume.
Again black and white goes
"tops" in fashion.
You must have at least one
washable lace dress.
Streamers abound on hats wide
of brim or otherwise.
Emphasis is on lingerie shirt
waist with contrast skirt.
Wear white sharkskin redingote
over your gay print frock.
Lingerie frock with exquisite
detail is midsummer favorite.
Daytime stark white costumes
are highlighted with touches Of
gold.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
Edited by Edythe Mae Gordon
TO THE lockwood
(Ernm HmhrnrCnN

From Hubyerse)
You boast no loneliness of form.
Nor lift your head in towering pride
No wood from out your bole is hewn
10 grace the house where men abide
As earliest harbinger of spring
Wrapped in snowy feathered ciond
You call to crocus and anemone
To cast aside their winter shro1d
30 eaaste you seem through summer
days,
R4L wanen hot winds of August flee
ana Itho deecy cumulus leck the sky
J oq scorn all melancholy
I yourself in scarlet's passion
S9educing every passer-by
10 make mems pulses run and play.
In autumn bold, in spring so shy.
BOYD TUCKER.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12

When little girl wants to dress
her prettiest she chooses a "dar-
ling" little frock of daintiest flow
cred dimity just such as you see
in the picture. The colors of the
fowerets that are scattered all over
the dimity are repeated in the
shocking which adorns the waist
top in such a way as to form a
yoke effect and develop quaint full
ness at the waistline. White gloves
and white shoes add the finishing
touch to the costume of this tiny
lady of fashion.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
Fashion in Favor
Of Gold on White

For a new thrill try gold military
looking buttons on your daytime all
white suit or dress or redingote
coat. Another way of achieving the
new gold and white mode is to belt
your white dress or coat with gold
kid. Ultra moderns are wearing
gold mesh hair nets under their
snow white hats.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
William Clack

William Clack, shipping clerk for
the J. B. Hudson Jewelry Co., was
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

there is nothing to distinguish
them from the homes of any other
groups in comfortable circum-
stances.
The Negroes living on the North
Side of Minneapolis are for the
most part those families in the
lowest income group. A large num-
Der of them are renters who are
living in houses definitely below
the accepted standards for physi-
cal and moral health because their
incomes are insufficient to pay the
rent for better homes.
About 125 Negro families are
living in the Sumner Field homes
which are modern dwellings pro-
vided by the government at low
rental for families with small in
comes. Negroes comprise about %
per cent of the tenants in the
Sumner Field homes and they have
been commended by the manage
ment of the project for the peace
able and intelligent manner in
which they conduct themselves.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
Present Day Negro
Minneapolis

The present Negro population of
Minneapolis is reckoned at approx
mately $500. The majority of them
belong to the medium and low in
come groups and they reside in all
of those sections of the city where
their incomes will permit. Negroes
will be found living in the South,
South Central, Southeast, North
east and North sections of Mime
apolis. The greatest concentrations
of the Negro population are on the
North side of Minneapolis and in
the South and South Central part
of the city.
A very large proportion of those
living in the South and South Cen
trail sections are home owners with
a reasonable amount of economic
security. 1t is in this section that
many of the postal employees and
business and professional people
live. Their homes are beautiful
and the lawns are well-kept and
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
IN EDUCATION

hOSplCdl Oh the OOllege OF mar
macy.
Negro Letter Men (FootbalD
Robert w. Marshall, Sr., Jack Har-
pole, Dwight Reed (St. PauD
Horace Bell.
Myrtle Wormley was student in
structor in the Art Department
1937-1938.
There are three Greek Letter
College fraternities composed of
Negro men of college grade which
are represented by chapters at the
University of Minnesota. The first
of these to be established was Mu
chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra
ternity. In school years of 1880
1881 and 1931-1932 this chapter
ranked first in scholarship COM
parison of all the fraternities at
Minnesota. An alumnus of Mime
sofa, Raymond w. Cannon, became
National President of Alpha Phi
Alpha which is the largest organi-
cation of Negro men of college
grade in the world.
There is one sorority represented
by a local chapter at Minnesota
University composed of Negro
women of college grade known as
Alpha Kappa Alpha. On several
occasions this organization held
first place in the scholarship rat
ings of the sororities at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, notably the
school years of 1930-31 and 1881
80.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
These People Made Possible
This Special Century Edition
and Mrs. M. Wright.

and Mrs. M. Wright.
Mr.. Tommie Graham, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Burke, Mr.. and Mrs. B. Starks,
Mrs. Lulu Bailey, Mrs. Anne Smith,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Pullens, Mr.. Henry
French, Mr.. Sylvester Carter, Mr..
Robert Marshall, Mr.. Robert Wal
lace, Mr.. George Wallace, Mrs.
Pansy Chavis, Mrs. P. M. Wright,
Mr.. John Sellers, Mr.. Frank T.
Crowder, Mrs. R. S. Underwood,
Mr.. Phillip Ware, Mrs. Alice Nor
gan, Mrs. Hazel Curry, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Curry.
Cecil E. Newman, Mrs. DeVelma
Newman, Chas. w. Washington,
Cecil Taylor, Miss Martha. Kaye,
Rev. Carlyle F. Stewart, John
Moultrie, A. ]. Evans, Miss Mag
nolia Latimer, Lewis Ewing, Mar
tin Brown, Mrs. T. Vaughn, Mrs.
M. Bell, Talmage B. Carey, John A.
Cook, Sylvester Carter, VIM. H.
Crump, Robert Mallory, Major Gull
berson, w. M. Ewing, Mrs. A.
Goldman, DIR. w. D. Brown, Mrs.
w. d. Brown, Mrs. A. White, Carl
Wade, w. H. Richardson, Tom
Paul), E. H. Payne, Walter Mccoy,
William Taylor, William J. Clack,
Mrs. John Wright.
Calvin Mason, Leonard Madden,
Mildred Strader, Erma Clardy.
r. B, Moulden, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
Deering, Mr.. N. j. Hunter, F. C.
King and Mr.. Harvey W. Nash.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

Mrs. Betty Wagner, Mr.. John
Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Beas-
ley, Mr.. William Kelly, Mr.. Charles
Mcleod, Mrs. Corinne Bum, Mrs.
E. L. Sims, Mr.. and Mrs. E. l..
Sims, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Smith,
Mrs. Sarah Benson, Mrs. Alice
Whitley, Rev. ]. j. Clayburn, Mr..
Joe Kidd, Mr.. and Mrs. N. w.
Kintchlow, Mr.. Garnett Davis, Mrs.
Lucille Ray, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Reddick, Mrs. W. M. Ewing, Mr..
and Mrs. James Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Taylor,
Mrs. Gertrude Smith, Mr.. James
Eddings, Mrs. Dovie Phelan, Mrs.
M. L. Brown, DR.. Wilbur Wright,
Mrs. Lena Cobb, Mr.. Payne Cal
houn, Mr.. Howard Martin, Mr..
John Woodhouse, Mrs. Cannon, Mr..
Thomas B. Warren, A Friend, Mrs.
M. Owens, Mr.. Andrew Clark, Mr..
James Burrell, Mr.. VIM. Wormley,
Miss Myrtle Wormley, Mr.. Lewis
Ewing, John Yates, Mrs. Gertie
Thompson, Mr.. Landon.
Mrs. Mary Crump, Mr.. Pearl
Ball, Mr.. Albert Allen, Rev. H. w.
Bolts, Cornelia Burns, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. L. Boyd, Mr.. James Slem-
mons, Miss Eleanor Byars, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Crowder, Mrs. M. Chand-
Ter, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Nc
Clellan, Miss Alma Byars, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Mitchell, Rev. A. W. Viii.
son, Mr.. and Mrs. o. Ray, Mr.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

name was Boone, and during the
Civil War he was a Corporal in
the LIST Minnesota Regiment, Com
pany H, in which he enlisted. He
told US many interesting expert
ences of the war.
81 remember the terror reign of
the James and Younger Brothers,
Clel Miller, Charles Pitts, and Bill
Caldwell. Three of them were
killed by citizens. They were buried
in the afternoon and by night the
men that killed them had dug their
bodies up because they wanted to
save the skeletons. They were
trapped in the fields because the
man that knew the way out of
Mortified got killed. For days they
existed on green corn and hazel
nuts.
81 was married in 1891 at my
home in Mortified to Miles Can
non. I was a member of the first
choir of St. Peter A. M. E. Church.
Our men in those days were work.
ing mostly as hotel walters and
BARRIERS. My church and club af-
filiatiOns were many, and l was
P. w. G. S. and P. W. G. A. of the
Order of Eastern Star.
During the early 1900's, Homer,
my son, was a clerk in the County
Treasurer's office, and during the
war, in which he enlisted in 1918,
he was drum major for the Uni
versity of Minnesota band. He led
the Liberty Loan parade in St.
Paul and led the Victory Loan
parade in Minneapolis.
"My other two sons, Miles and
Raymond, went into the drug bust
ness in 1914 in Minneapolis and
were in that business until 1924 at
14O0 Plymouth Avenue. When Ray
mond went to the war in France,
Miles stayed on in Minneapolis and
ran the store.
"Some of the early settlers that
l remember we'll were ]. Frank
Wheaton, Solomon Saunders, and
julius Todd. Wheaton was lawyer
and graduated from the University
of Minnesota. He was responsible
for the Civil Rights Law. He was
a member of the legislature and
also delegate to the Republican
convention. Gale Hilyer's father,
Andrew Hilyer, was the first col
ored man to graduate from the
Law School of the University of
Minnesota.
Solomon Saunders was a sales
man for the New England Fur
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

honored on September 20, 1899, at
a banquet held in the Dayton Tea
Rooms for Dayton and Hudson
employees. He was presented with
a platinum medal containing five
diamonds for 81 years of service.
He has worked for the Hudson
company, owned by the Geo. N.
Dayton Co., longer than any other
employee.
Urban League
The Urban League is another
Community Fund supported social
agency which has served the COM
munity for the past IA years, Two
Negroes are employed in this
agency, an executive secretary and
an office secretary. 1t has for one
of it's detectives the securing and
maintenance of amicable economic
relationships between Negroes and
white employers and workers, and
high standards of training for
social work.
Mr.. C.. w. Washington is the
present Executive Secretary of the
Minneapolis Urban League, which
is located at 240 S. Fourth St.
Phyllis Wheatley House
There are two social agencies in
the city in which Negroes COM
prise the entire personnel.
One is the Phyllis Wheatley
Settlement House which is located
in North Minneapolis and which is
the center of a great part of the
social life of the Negroes of that
section. This settlement house was
opened in 1924 by the Women's
Christian Association with Miss w.
Gertrude Brown serving as its first
head resident. 1t has been a con-
structive influence in the lives of
the Negroes in the community dur
ing the past Is years.
Miss Magnolia Latimer is at
present the head resident of Phyl-
lis Wheatley House.
There are at present IL res
taurants operated by Negroes in
Minneapolis.
Negroes own a large, modern
laundry which employs a large
corps of workers.
Eight cleaning and repair estab-
lishments for the care and removal
ton of wearing apparel are owned
by Negroes.
Negroes serve their community
with two grocery stores; four bar
Der shops; two beauty salons; three
building contractors; seven sales
men; two physicians; one dentist;
six attorneys; Is social workers;
two weekly newspapers; two NOR
ticians, and three commercial art
lists.
Eight churches serve the re-
igious needs of the Negro COM
munity.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
"REMINISCENCES
By EstYr Bradley

Mrs. Miles o. Cannon, 34OO Oak
land Avenue, came to Minneapolis
in 1887 from Mortified, MINI.
In an interview with Mrs. Can
non she said, 81 came to Mime
apolis from Mortified, and as a
young woman l worked in the
Register of Deeds office in Hen
nepin County. 1 recorded the deed
for the home of James A. Cunning
ham and his wife, one of the first
of the home owners of our group.
"My mother and father and
grandparents came to LIE Sueur,
Mimi, in 1859 from Wilmington
City, N. Car, and in just a short
time moved to Mortified, where
we made our home. My fathers
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
Notes on Some Prominent
Present-Day Citizens

CARNATIONS and the Minnesota Edi-
torial Association.
Bob Marshall
Robert "Bob" Marshall, just an
other prosperous law abiding
Negro citizen, will long be re-
membered by sport fans as the
football star who played right end
on the University of Minnesota
football team in 1903 and made the
scoring play in that memorable
game between the University of
Michigan and the University of
Minnesota which ended in a to
tie.
Martin Brown
Martin Brown is one of the
enterprising Negro business men of
Minneapolis. He has owned and
operated an automobile service and
filling station on the corner of Mar
quette Ave. and 18th st. for many
years. Quite recently he has moved
his place of business to Second
Ave. S. and 18th st.
Two other notable Negro figures
in Minneapolis are John Thomas,
youth worker and N. Y. A. Super
visor, and Leo Bohannon, who is a
Public Relief Department super
visor in the Department of Public
Relief.
Mrs. Lulu Maxwell is one of the
oldest social workers in Mime
apolis in point of service, and has
won the respect of both Negroes
and others by the intelligent and
honest manner in which she has
always discharged her duties.
Mrs. Katherine L. Smith, who is
said to be the first Negro child to
be born at st. Anthony Falls, is
familiar figure in music circles
of the city. She has conducted sew
eral choirs, and composed and re-
arranged much of the music used.
She is still actively engaged in
this type of work and enjoys the
friendship of such people as Mrs
Carlyle Scott and
William Clack
William Clack, shipping clerk fol-
the ]. B. Hudson Jewelry Co., was
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
CHARACTER SKETCHES Oh
PROMINENT PRESENT
DAY CITIZENS

W. NJ. Smith is a retired postal
employee who has always been
active in civic affairs. He worked
as a postal clerk for many years
and won promotion to the position
of supervisor, from which he was
retired on a pension. He is a MEM
Der of the Phyllis Wheatley Board
of Directors; the Urban League
Board of Directors; the Speakers
Bureau of the Community Fund;
the Bethesda Baptist Church Choir,
and the staff of the Minneapolis
Spokesman newspaper.
w. Squire Neal
W. Squire Neal, the owner of
the beautiful Neal Funeral Homes,
Inc, in Minneapolis and st. Paul,
is the son of John Neal, who came
to Minneapolis in 1857 and who
figured so prominently in the de-
velopment of this community.
The Brown Brothers
w. Donald Brown, MD, and
R. J. C. Brown, MD, who at pres
ent are the only Negro physicians
in Minneapolis, are the sons of the
late r. S. Brown, who came to
Minneapolis in 1898 and was the
first Negro medical doctor in Min
neapolis. Both of the Doctors
Brown are graduates of the Uni
versity of Minnesota M d C l
School, where they made brilliant
records for themselves.
C. E. Newman, the editor and
publisher of the Minneapolis
Spokesman and the st. Paul Rec
order, two weekly Negro news
papers, is only SO years old, yet he
has owned his own newspapers for
the past six years. Prior to that he
was editor of the Twin City
Herald. Ten years ago he was a
Pullman porter and today has
newspapers with a combined circu-
lation of 6,700.
He is a member of several or
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

famous Minneapolis Negro Johnson and Dean
Ir Johnson) internationally dancing
boards the worlds theatres for so
years they Minneapolis the famous cake
walk a old Lake Harriet pavilion.
played civilized country
globe weeks the couple played the Minnesota
theatre They reside home at 816 E. 36th st.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

One of the city's most colorful
guardians of the law" was Henry
Gleason Thompson, known most
Familiarity as Police" Thompson.
Appointed to the force in 1900, he
had a distinguished career from
that time until his retirement in
1927. He lives at his family home,
3133 Clinton Ave, with Mrs. Emma
Evening star., 1939-12-02

giving this year. But then some
times she is beautiful, and If that
doesn't make sense blame 1t on
the Bergman personality. She is
a sensitive actress, this young lady,
and she can wrap an audience up
in a mood; when she is joyous, so
too are you and when she has a
problem it is your problem. She
can play the daylights out of a pi-
ano, too.
You know already what Mr.. How
ard can do in role which just
suits him. This one suits him and
he creates a sensitive portrait of a
not-too-young man bewildered by
sudden pangs in his heart. Edna
Best, as his wife, and John Haln-
day are others who help round
things out.
The Capitol's stage show is no
table principally because of the pres
ence in it of Larry Adler, the fell
low who makes the harmonica q
musical instrument. His Second
Hungarian Rhapsody" and medley
of American folk airs are very fine
The rest of the bill is devoted to
the doings Of Frank Paris with
some tricky marionettes, the songs
of Ruth Craven, the comedy at
tempts Of Carter and Holmes. the
dances of Robinson and Martin and
several moments with the Rhythm
Rockets. the brightest being a ball.
room number, the most amazing be-
ing the "Redskin Romp." There
also is another of those special Sam
Jack kaufman overtures.
Evening star., 1939-12-02

phases of Alfred Hitchcock's direc-
ton, Jamaica Inn" is nothing to
inspire dancing in the street, but
Laughton's loose-lipped scoundrel
is man not to be missed.
OF Cook, at whom many people
start laughing when they see his
name on the program, his act can
be set down at once as up to the
Cook standard. It is Laugh
Factory" the billing says, which he
sets up on the Earle stage, and the
proprietor works overtime and with
his old imitability practically to
glut the market with merriment.
He is raconteur, clown, cracked in
ventor, juggler, vocalist, imitator,
ukelele virtuoso. in fact everything
but janitor around the plant.
X X
Daphne DuMauriers best seller of
villainy on the villainous coast of
Cornwall, produced by Mayflower
Pictures. English branch of Para
mount. is an ideal vehicle for Laugh
ton whatever its defects as screen
drama in other ways. As a country
squire, moving diabolically toward
the cherished insanity of his fore
fathers, Laughton has one of the
times Of his professional life. 1t
Is quite natural that he should, what
with role that gives him an op-
portunity to combine the admins
tration Of justice on one hand with
the conduct of a snarling band of
brutal pirates on the other.
1t is just the sort of grim, furiously
paced theme which Hitchcock likes
to show as full of comedy possibili-
ties. He usually accomplishes it
with his own artfulness of direction,
but either because inspiration failed
him this time or because he had an
actor of Laughton proportions. he
allowed the latter to do most of the
work. Laughton, of course, is a horse
for that sort of thing, even to look
ing like one when he feels that 1t
creates the effect he is seeking.
Incidental to the development of
the squire's madness, a great deal
happens on the dark, stormy stage
OF which eerie Jamaica Inn, the
pirates hangout, is the centerpiece.
Ship wrecks are arranged, the squire
acting as mastermind of the opera
tions, the innocent are slaughtered
with a carefree gaity, romance is
born, love demonstrates that it can
thrive on brutality, the law is frus-
trated, manners are Knocked and
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

NationaE"Kiss the Boys Good
bye" Lucia Lull in the Clare Boothe
hit comedy: 2:30 and $50 pm.
Earle-"Jamaica Inn," melodrama
in the Hitchcock-Laughton manner
II am, l:40. 4:25, tbs and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, $3.50, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Palace-'Drums Along the Mo-
hawk" excitement in pre-Revolution
history: 1905, 2:25, 4:50, ITO and
9:35 pm.
Capitol-"Intermezzo," a new per-
sonality. Ingrid Bergman, and an
ill-starred love: II am, 1:45, 4:30,
7:20 and 10 pm. Stage shows: 12:45,
$3.50, $40 and 9 pm.
Keith's-"Tower of London" hor-
ror out of history: 11:40 am, lao.
$40, $40, TAO and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Private Lives
of Elizabeth and Essex" with Bette
Davis as the queen: II am, los,
$40. Sis, 7:20 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"At the Circus" more
Marx madness: II am, 1:10, 3:20,
$50, TAO and $50 pm.
Little-"The 1nformer," back again
and welcome: 1870 am, las, $50.
$50, 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Armies Hold Drills
On Trans.Lux Screen

Pictures from Finland not being
in yet there is not much change this
week in the newsreel situation.
There are new shots aplenty on the
new Trans-Lux bill, to be sure, but
the same old things go on in the
same old way. The United States
Army has war maneuvers down at
Fort Benning, Ga, and the German
Army maneuvers in its West Wall
Notifications, the intent in each case
being about the same. The pictures
from Germany show just an air-raid
drill SO the boys will be prepared
when action comes. From another
sector, though, comes a reminder
that this is in earnest, a reminder
via smoking wreckage of a pair of
German planes.
Other items include the address
by Queen Elizabeth thanking British
women for their fortitude, Mr..
Churchill's talk in which he calls
Mr.. Hitler some names, the launch
ing of an italian battleship, Brit
ish convoy sneaking through the
mine barrage, a Japanese bombing
fleet dropping death on that front