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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-10
YOUNG PEOPLES
DRAMATIC CLUB
DINNER GUEST

Mr.. and Mrs. Cyril Baker Of Mel
rose avenue had as their dinner
guests Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. David
MeGill and baby Irene. A pleasant
evening was spent after dinner.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-10

Freedom has brought 10 us respon
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Lithuania Is Accepted
As Soviet Republic
BY the Associated Press.

Dy tuE hosoSldtcu EIcoS,
MOSCOW, Aug. 3.-Lithuania was
accepted tonight by the Soviet Su-
preme Council as the fourteenth re-
public of the Soviet Union. The
council then adjourned until Mon
day at 6 pm.
The assembly hall was crowded
with many guests-representat
of the sciences, art, the army and
navy, honored factory workers. dip
lomatic representatives and foreign
JOURNALISTS.
Joseph Stain, Premier Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotoff and
the members of the Soviet presidium
were seated in boxes. Prolonged
cheers greeted Stain.
The Lithuanian plenipotentiary
commission then entered and was
applauded. There were speeches of
greeting in Russian, Lithuanian and
other languages.
Lithuania's petition for admission
into the Soviet Union then was pre-
sented and approved unanimously.
The German wireless said the
council also voted to incorporate
in the Lithuanian Soviet those ter
ritories of the White Russian So
Wet which are predominantly in
habited by Lithuanians. The wire
less said the proceedings were car
ried by radio to Lithuania. where
crowds gathered around loudspeak-
ers.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

They all live on Long Island-Col
Theodore on a nearby estate and
Mrs. Derby on Oyster Bay. Her son
Kermit is with the British Army.
Her other child, Quentin, was killed
in the World War
Dresses in Crisp White.
For many years after her hus-
bands death, in 1919, Mrs. Roose-
welt wore black and a black veil.
In recent summers, however, she
has dressed in crisp white.
Her close friends know her as an
excellent conversationalist with a
fine sense of humor. She is a
skilled linguist and speaks f1awless
French. -~~-r --,-,
She has travelled all over the
world. Once she said, All my jour-
neys begin and end with the ocean.
I have salt water around my
heart, as the Breton saying goes"
Although she has lived a quiet
life in recent years, her force has
been felt in the political arena.
She received an ovation when she
introduced Herbert Hoover, candi-
date for reelection, at the national
convention in 1882. She made her
first airplane flight, a trip to WASH
ington, in that campaign.
In 1886 she was convalescing from
her injuries suffered in a fall. She
busted herself with needlework anc.
at 75-won prize in a needle
work show.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Executive C|emency Saves
McAffee From Chair

William Major McAffee, So, col
ored slayer scheduled to be executed
August % for the murder of Mrs.
Henrietta B. Anderson in August,
1887, was granted executive clemency
yesterday by President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt lifted the death
sentence against McAffee on the
ground that his confession of the
Staying may not have been voluntary
and that he was drunk when he
committed the act.
Communication of the sentence end
ed long series of pleas by his at
torneys, Robert I. Miller and Joseph
A. McMenamin, who took the case
to the Supreme Court. McAffee had
been found guilty twice of first
degree murder by District Court
juries and his execution had been
postponed numerous times.
McAffee was convicted of murder
ing Mrs Anderson with a furnace
shaker. She was a resident of an
apartment house where he was the
janitor.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Mrs. Lionel AtwiII Sells
Green Valley Estate
BY the Associat ted Press.


BALTIMORE, Aug. 5.-"Rain-
bow Hill, showplace home of Mrs
Lionel Atwill, wife of the motion
picture actor, and daughter Of Mrs
Edward T. Statesbury, has been sold
to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry R. Rosen-
berg, it was announced today by
Mrs. Atwill, who said she is going to
join her husband at their home in
Santa Monica, Calf
The Green Spring Valley estate,
which was offered as honeymoon
place to the Duke and Ducness of
Windsor in 1887, contains % acres
of farm lands and lawns and vas
built at an estimated cost of 81 ,000,-
600 in 1917.
Mr.. Rosenberg is president Of the
Grown Central Petroleum Corp. His
wife, the former Ruth Blaustein, is
the daughter Of Louis B. Blaustein,
founder of the American Oil Co.
The purchase price was not dis
closed.
Mrs. Atwill's mother, Mrs. Stotes-
bury, lives in Washington at 23O0
Foxhall road NV Mrs. Atwill was
first married to Walter B. Brooks,
jr., in 1911, who built the Green
Spring Valley house. Following her
divorce from Mr.. Brooks she mar
ried Maj. Gen. Douglas Macarthur
in 1922 She was separated from
him in 1923. She married Mr.. At
will in 1929.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, ST.,
Nearing 79> Still Lives in Future
Interest in Events to
Keep Her From Oyster
Boy on Birthday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, sr., whimsically
doubts that any one remembers
she once lived in the White House.
Her lack of concern on the point
indicates how, although she will oe
79 Monday, she still is looking f(>-
ward rather than back.
1t is her continued interest in
current affairs that is leading her,
for the first time in nine years, to
spend her birthday anniversary
away from Sycamore Hill. the
rambling Victorian country house
overlooking Long Island Sound
which was the summer White House
when her husband was President.
She is deferring her customary
trip down from her Brooklyn, Conn ;,
summer home to Oyster Bay so
that later in the month she can
come and be host at a Republican
women's rally.
The slender, silver haired woman
who is called "the chieftess of the
Roosevelt clan" is in remarkably
good health for her years. She
wears spectacles only when reading,
and walks. after hip injury in a
fall five years ago, seldom using a
cane
The extent of her actual partici-
patton in the presidential campaign
remains to be seen, but certainly it
will have the support of her prestige.
Dinner Family Affair.
Her birthday anniversary dinner
Monday will be a family affair.
Her Connecticut home, 20 miles
from Norwich, where she was BORN,
is full of historic associations tor
Mrs. Roosevelt. The white frame
house with Mansard roof and a big
veranda dating from Revolutionary
days, was the General Putnam Inn,
built in 1850 and frequented by Mrs.
Roosevelt's maternal great-grand-
father, a Revolutionary officer.
Some of her ancestors are buried
in little cemetery near the place.
Mrs. Roosevelt bought the place.
Mortlake Manor, in 1927 because of
family attachments.
Three of her children-Ethel. who
is Mrs. Richard Derby; Col. Theo-
dore and Archibald - are near
enough to join her on her birthday.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Form Hand Hurt in Fall

Glenn Weaver, Is, an employe
on the Bellevue Dairy Farm on
Agar road, near Hyattsville, Md,
was being treated today at the
Washington Sanitarium, Takoma
Park, Md, for fractured collar
bone, bruises on the head and a
possible conclusion suffered yester-
day when he fell from a horse on
the farm after saddle strap broke
He was taken to the sanitarium by
the Bladensburg Rescue Squad.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

fish, are Albacore. Amberjack, Barb,
Blackf1sh, Blueflsh, Bonefish, Cod,
Cero, Corvina. Darter Drum, Flying
Fish. Finback, Haddock, Halibut,
Herring, Kingf1sh, Shad. Sllversides,
Trigger, Wahoo and Whale.
The 80 destroyers, named after
naval heroes, are Chevalier, Bristol,
Ellyson, Hambleton, Rodman, En-
mons, Macomb, Laffey, Woodworth,
Forrest, Fitch, Cory, Hobson, Sauf-
ley, Waller, Strong, Taylor, De
Haven, Bache, Beale, Guest, Ben
nett for Aviation Machinist Floyd
BennetD, Fullam, Hudson, Hutch
ms, Pringle, Stanly, Stevens, Hal
ford, Leutze and Watson.
Names are yet to be selected for
approximately 200 ships to be con-
structed under the two-ocean Navy
program.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Father Calls 'Puu|ine Revere
'PuDDet' of Red Comrades

and labeled the meeting a means of
recruiting more misguided mar
tyrs."
Miss Summers, described by her
father as riding somebody's white
horse from Trojan stable is
expected here Wednesday afternoon
from Chicago bearing a scroll from
the Committee to Defend America
by Keeping Out of War. The scroll
urges mobilization for peace" and
defeat of the Burke -Wadsworth bill.
In Detroit two young men claim
ing to represent the Committee to
Defend America by Keeping Out of
War confided that her ride" was
mainly by bus.
The trip is presumably by bus
from one town to another, with a
horse to be rented at each stop for
saunter on the streets.
She hopes to see President Roose-
welt and plans to ride up Pennsylva-
MIA avenue to the Capitol, where
she will leave her message with
House and Senate members. She
will be greeted by the Washing
ton Peace Mobilization, which will
hold public meeting August 20 at
the National Press Club.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Capt. Rush, Navy Hero,
Dies at PaIIanza, Italy

Ey the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Aug. Sword was re-
ceived here today of the death in
Pallanza, Italy, yesterday of Capt
William Rees Rush, U. S. NJ, retired
80, wartime commander of the Bos-
ton Navy Yard and holder OF the
Congressional medal of honor for
distinguished service during the
Mexican campaign of 1914.
AS commander of the battleship
Florida, Rush led a landing party
that captured a custom house at
Vera Cruz
A native of Pennsylvania, grad
uate of Annapolis and a veteran of
more than As years in the Navy, he
served as lieutenant during the
Spanish American War.
After his retirement from service
in 1919, Rush settled in San Reno,
Italy.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Roosevelt Searches Records
To Name New Naval Craft

President Roosevelt has made a
long search through his record of
heroes, famous vessels, fish and
cities, and selected the names of So
warships for which contracts have
been awarded under the IL per cent
naval expansion bill, it was an
nounced yesterday by Secretary
Knox.
The three aircraft carriers now
being built will be called the Bon
Homme Richard, Intrepid and Kear-
sarge.
The 13 cruisers named after cities,
are Amsterdam IN. ", Santa Fe,
Tallahassee, Birmingham, Mobile,
Flint, Pasadena, Springfield, Topeka,
Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh and
st. Paul.
The % submarines, named after
Evening star., 1940-08-04
StimuIont Kept Nozis Awake
In Drives, Professor Believes

until slower moving reinforcements
could catch up with tnem.
Sometimes that PROBABLY meant 48
continuous hours of action and ten
sion. no sleep ana al imperative
need for unbroken alertness.
DR., Leake said physicians with the
Panzer units probably administered
benzedrine sulfate or some like stim-
ulant to the men.
He described benzedrine sulfate as
a plentiful, non-haoit forming, syn
thetic drug with stimulating effect
something like coffee. 1t has been
used experimentally also as an
agency TO counteract morning
after" effects or heaoaches. In this
country its sale to the public is
restricted.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

Nineteen -year-old Elane Sum-
mers, riding here as Pauline Re-
we're" to protest against conscription
legislation, yesterday drew criticism
from her father, Seattle attorney,
who said she was pink and a
pretty puppet paraded to propa-
gandize against American prepared
ness"
In an alliterative statement, Lane
Summers, according to an Associ-
ated Press dispatch from Seattle
said that in the plot in this piece
of publicity the cosmetics of comedy
thinly camouflage the tartar of trag-
edy.
Years ago, in real heroism, Paul
Revere rode to rouse the ranks of
the American Revolution In the
present promenade the people should
smell the smokescreen of the Red
comrades seeking to subvert our lib
critics from within"
Two years ago Mr.. Summers son,
Thane, was killed while fighting for
the Loyalists in Spain. A few hours
before a mass meeting was held at
Seattle in memory of his son, Mr.
Summers assailed the interests back
of the meeting as more Moscow
Evening star., 1940-08-04

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-The
way Germany's Panzer divisions
ripped through Holland, Belgium
and France indicates the Nazi SOL
diers were given some powerful stim-
ulant which kept them awake and
in fighting trim for 48 hours at
stretch, according to DR.. Chauncey
D. Leake, professor of pharmacology.
at the University of California Med
ical School
These mechanical units, advanc-
ing sometimes at 30 10 so miles an
hour. penetrated Allied territory so
fast they soon were isolated from
their bases and supply lines. They
had to hold their positions unassisted
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Cudohy to Fly to London
From Lisbon on Visit
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 3.-John
Cudahy, United States Ambassador
to Belgium, will fly to London to-
morrow for private VISIT 1t was
reported tonight.
The envoy was scheduled to sail
for the United States Thursday on
the American Export liner Excalibur
with fellow diplomats and the Duke
OF Windsor, but changed his plans
at the last minute.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Jewish Painter Given
Decoration by Carol
BY the Associated Press

1kosVNIuNtRt
BUCHAREST, Aug. 3.-The deco
ration by King Carol of Mendel
Herzcu, Jew who holds the title
painter of the walls of the pal
ace" was made public in the official
gazette today, while in an adjoining
column it was announced all Jewish
officials must relinquish their posts
under the new anti-Semetic laws.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Accused Film Director
Forfeits $4,000 Bond

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 3 (P).-The
$4,000 bond of Gus Mems. Holly
wood film director, was forfeited in
Municipal Court today as he failed
to appear for preliminary hearing
on morals charges.
Mems lawyers said yesterday they
had been unable to locate him and
feared for his safety. Sheriff's
deputies are conducting a search.
Police said members of his family
asserted Mems left home Thursday
morning dressed in old clothes and
with only 81.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
New Movie Firm Turns
To Carpet Cleaning
BY the Associated Pre-.

BY the Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calf, Aug. g.
Seven months ago Rufus LIE Marie
Productions filed articles of in
corporation to engage in the mo
tion picture production and dis
tribution business in Los Angeles
County.
Today the directors filed an
amendment to the original articles
changing the company's name TO
Thrifty Carpet Dyers, Inc.
Its purpose: To engage in the
business of cleaning and dying
carpets, cleaning and dying cloth
materials of every kind"
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Bible Gloss Picnic Todoy

The Happy Home Builders Bible
Glass OF the Wilson Boulevard
Christian Church, Arlington, Va,
will hold its annual Sunday school
study and picnic at Breezy Point
Beach, Md, today. Mrs. Tom r.
Boiling is president of the class
and will be assisted by Mrs. James
Walton Follin, Mrs. Otis H. Hans
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Clipper to Finish tooth
Atlantic Trip Today

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-The Yankee
Clipper is scheduled to arrive at
La Guardia Field tomorrow morn
ing, completing the Tooth round trip
transatlantic crossing by Pan
American Airways' Clippers.
Since service was started in May
1889, Clippers have carried $500
paying passengers and 306, 900
pounds of mail across the Atlantic.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Cueumbers Really Cool,
Hot Weather Tests Show
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr., Aug. 3.-Cool as
a cucumber means exactly that.
With the temperature in the
muggy COS, a group of semitic
minded Omahans tripped out 70
Edward Bailey's cucumber patch.
Genevieve Albers. a surgical nurse,
jotted down the official temperature
SO degrees. She noted the ground
temperature-98 degrees. Then she
inserted the Thermometer into a
large, well-formed cucumber.
In less than a minute the mer-
curry went down to 78.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Spoken Letters q Success

After a year of operation, Ar
gentinas "Fonopostal' service, by
which one may record spoken let
ters' and mail them to friends, is
declared a success.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

brough and Mrs. George L. Splitter
in arranging the trip.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

Deaths in "home accidents" in
Cuba in June totaled "a while trans
portation claimed only 10.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21

The annual conference of the
North Carolina division of the
American association of University
Women will convene on Friday,
April o6, at the Sir Walter Raleigh
hotel in Raleigh, with DR.. Josiah
Morse, head of the department of
psychology and philosophy at the
University of South Carolina, and
Professor George \. Shlpman, a
member of the Duke university de-
partment of Political science, as the
featured speakers. Mrs. c. t. Wan
ger, of Charlotte, state president OF
the organization, will preside over
the two-day session.
The convention theme for this
year as announced last evening by
Mrs. Wanzer, will be "Woman's
Place in the New Economic Set-Up."
Dr.. Morse will speak at the dinner
meeting on Friday evening on
Educated Woman's Place in the
New Set.up." DR.. Shipman will
speak at the luncheon meeting on
Saturday. His subject will be MAX
ing the Democratic Process Work"
Registration will begin on Fri.
day morning at u o'clock. Prior to
the opening session of the division
the board of directors will meet for
an executive session at luncheon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
Miss Kelley And
Theron Skiles Are
Engaged To We'd
Bride-Elect Is Granddaughter
Of Mrs. M. L. Kelley,
OF Wilmington

Mrs. Raymond c. Kelley, OF Co
lumbia, South Carolina formerly OF
this city, t h { engage
ment of her daughter, kathryne
Elizabeth, to Theron Montgomery
Skies, son of Mrs. Eloise NJ. Skies
of Columbia, S. c.
The wedding will take place the
latter part of May.
Miss Kelley is the granddaughter
of Mrs. M. L. Kelley, Of this city,
n the daughter of the late K, C.
Kelley, formerly of this city. She is
2, graduate of Columbia High school,
where she was a member of the Nat
tonal Honor society. For the past
several years size has been employ
ed with Dun and Bradstreet, Inc,
in Columbia.
Mr.. Skies is a graduate of the
University of South Carolina, Mag
ma Cum Laude, at the University he
was q member of the German club
at Carolina. Mr.. Skies is now con-
nected with the state highway de-
partment in Columbia, S. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
Visitors

stage in "Spooks'' will be Tom
Polvogt, a newcomer to the New
Hanover High school this year, but
one who has made for himself an
important place in his class. Tom
my is president Of the Alpha chap
ter of the Boys Hi-Y. a member
of the Bible club, in the hundred
and seventy-fivc pound division of
the finals in the Intra-mural Box
ing Tournament. IN the recent
Dramatic club presentation of APP
ron String Revolt" he gave an ex-
cellent performance.
With such an array OF talented
performers there is no doubt that
"Spooks'' will be a production OF
unusual merit. Members of the
Senior Play committee who are
working on the staging and cos
tunes of the play are Eloise Beth.
ell, president of the Dramatic club
Evelyn Atkinson, Louise Hooper,
Louise Wells, Allen Strange, presi
dent of the Senior class, Bill Berry,
and Sig Bear. The faculty com
mittee in charge is composed of
Mrs. Cleves Symmes, Miss Abilene
Jones', Miss Jane Allsbrook,~ and
Miss Martha Stack.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
BRADLEY'S CREEK
PIT. A. CONDUCTS
REGULAR MEETING

The Bradley's Creek PIT. A met
Thursday night, April Is. In the alb
sence of the president the vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. A. B. Powlas, presided.
Reports of various kinds W e r e
heard. Dale K. Spencer, principal,
announced a chance in his schedule
for the children W h o live on
Wrightsville Beach. He annocnced
also an operetta W h i C h Misses
Louise Banck and Beverly Davis
will present the latter part Of May.
Mrs. Katherine Rivers presented
a Fathers Night program. Rev. j.
E. Allard spoke on the subject "The
Responsibility Of the Father in The
Home and School," Mr.. Allard COM
mented on the obvious fact that
very few men attend PIT. A. meet
ings. AS the association is working
primarily for the welfare of their
children, fathers should be inter-
! ested enough to attend the month
ly meetings. Mr.. Allard said that
fathers could help their children by
helping them to In understanding
of the community life and by help
ing them to an appreciation of the
value of an education.
The entertainment feature con-
sisted of several numbers by the
Recreation Boys. The quartette IS
composed of Richard Shepard, Leon
Gibson, Isaac Gurganious a n d
| Dempsey Watts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
State Division OF University
Women To Open Meet April e

The board includes state officers,
branch presidents and standing com
mittee chairmen.
Following the luncheon the first
general session will be held from 2
until 4 o'clock. Mrs. Clyde Hoey,
wife of the governor, will be hos
tess to the delegates at tea at
the governors mansion at 5 o'clock.
Following this will be the banquet
meeting with DR.. Morse as the hon
or guest.
There will be a general session
on Saturday morning from $50 I'M
til - o'clock. The convention will
close with a luncheon starting at
1890, with adjournment not later
than 2 p. m.
Miss Virginia Ward, of the hos
tess branch at Raleigh, will be the
convention chairman for this year
and has been in charge of arrange
ments for the meetings. Mrs. Fred
Terrell, president of the Raleigh
branch, will be the official hostess
TO the delegates.
Both of the convention speakers
are outstanding members of their
profession. DR.. Morse is the author
of several psychological works and
is a past president of the Southern
Society for Psychology and Philo-
sophy, as we'll as a past president
Of the University Commission on
Race Questions. He has been a
teacher at Clark university, Univer,
sity of Texas, Kansas, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, and Cornell.
Professor Shipman has been a
member of the Duke faculty since
1888. For three years previously
he was engaged in research work
for the Princeton Local Govern
ment survey, of Princeton univer-
sity. Before going to Princeton,
Professor Shipman was a member
of the faculties of Cornell uni
versity and West Virginia univer-
sity. His field is Public Admins.
tration.