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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27

Most OF the group chose con-
tract but at the far end OF the
rooms goodly number OF auction
tables we're in play. There was no
great busting about during the
changes, players merely changed
partners at their respective tables.
Miss Fannie Bethel. with score
OF 6O4O. captured first prize and
was permitted to select from a
choice array OF articles on display
Second prize went to Mrs. Lucille
Hill. with score OF $40 Mrs. Hill
wore a black crepe model finished
in scroll design OF white silk
braid. Her hat was a black felt
halo banded in white. Other con-
tract prizes were won by Mrs. A
Marshall. Mrs. virgie Brooks, and
Mrs. Mary Roberts.
First auction prize was taken
by Mrs. Mable Halle. what SUR
prise. Mable- playing auction
when she dearly loves conlractD
She wore a nifty gray flannel suit
buttoned down front and very red
hat with long quill Mrs. J. Wiiher.
spoon won second prize and Mrs
Granville Nixon. third Mrs. Nixon
wore cell blue sport dress will
her dubonnet suede hat Mrs Alma
Mitchell and Mrs Wilhelmenl'
Waundlese won other auction priz
es.
There was such an array OF be
flowerd hornets and such an ar
ray OF choice garments that II Il
difficult 10 sort them all. Marjori,
Hackeit wore smart combina
ton OF vivid shades the dress o
wood violet crepe and the hat ;
chartreuse Robin Hood Odesss
Trotter In figured silk crepe made
simply. wore black bonnet viii
chenille veil caught In snood 81
feet. Jackie Burris was all hearts
and flowers about the head
Matryce Cole. Calanthe Pettiford
Gwendolyn Daugherty and Heller
Pettiford made II a family four
some. Thelma Williams. Karar
Aston. Aileen McCampbell anC
Mary Taliaferro were together
Mrs. Jane Smith was concentrating
on honor tricks; Lydia Goggins
Hazel Lyman and Eddie Robinson
were playing just for fun We 'spose
We saw Nellie Watts looking
awfuIly smart and Frances Owens
in her fur coat and wide white
sailor: Lucille Lee. Mary Roberts
and Theresa Bailey together: Der.
nice Iloagland. Frances Moss In
dusty pink Jersey suit with blue
accessories; Ruth Van Zant in blue
figured silk worn with huge blue
straw bonnet: Bertha Henderson
Betty Game Myrtle Seabrooks
Jennie Young and scores OF others
who. IL not intent on bridge. were
certainly devouring the ices and
cakes.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
Bingo! The Peerless
Club Is At 1t Again

The Young womens Peerless
Art club entertained host OF
friends at Blngo Party on Satur-
dy April 20 AT the lovely home
OF Mrs Ethel Harkless on Hague
avenue The affair. the proceeds OF
which will 20 to charity, was a
grand success There were q large
number of useful and handsome
prizes to delight the lucky ones.
Among the many guests and MEM
hers present were Ruth Washing
ton. Anna Freeman. James Edward
Roberts. Mary Poole. Maud Gould.
Elizabeth Glass. Wary Moore Mary
Lindsay. Donall Lindsay. Claude
Simmons Rose Lee Kons.. Erma
Wallace. Sarah r. watts. Henriet-
IA Stephens. James S. Poe. Mrs.
Floyd Sullivan. Alfred l.. Row
man. Leila NJ. Hendricks. James
Harkless Jr. Hilda Mason. Ethel
Harklese. Necia Harklcss. Ann r..
Bowman. Sadie l.. Lindsay. Sadie
Straughn. Louise Tibbs. Edna
Porter. Ernest and Hattie ward.
Fredericka Stafford. Irene watt.
and many others
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
Alpha Club
STYLE Show
AHighlight

The Style Show given last Friday
night by the Alpha club OF the
Presbyterian church. was very
spectacular and carried out splen-
didly in every detail. showing
styles in women's clothing from
the babes in bassinets. thru the
school day period 10 the time when
the baby heroine reached the de-
butant age: showing street. sport.
and evening wear; then the choos-
ing OF a trousseau for the debu
tant's marriage. eliminating In a
beautiful wedding scene. Finally a
freside scene ended the show.
when the hero and heroine had
reached their three score and ten
age.
The pianist for the occasion was
Ruth Hornsby. Mrs. Anna Lewis
was the narrator OF the story. Mrs.
Glenn McKesson was the chair
man and Mrs. Elsie Mann, presi-
dent OF the club
Those who modelled were: Ven
VT fNdllthl DlgouA ubt HtiVf
Barbara Jear Sowell. baby heroine.
Jennie l.. Harper. bride: Paul Rus
sell Mann. groom; Alfredo Pat
ricio. best man; Stanley Hitchins.
usher: Lillian Williams. matron OF
honor: Conchita Porter and Ellen
Daugherty. bridesmaids: Bernice
Daugherty and Jeroline Sneed.
shopkeepers and models: Conchita
Porter. Miss Jennie Harper. Miss
Verona STEELE. Miss Dorothy Mil
Ter. Miss Violet Banks, Mrs. Lii
liam Hunter. Miss Betty James and
Miss Armetta Owens. models;
Marion McClain. flower girl; Char
les McClain. Jr.. ring bearer Rev.
Henry Porter. hero at the ripe old
age: and Mrs. Chas. Hill. heroine;
Marion McClain. Dannie Wilkinson
and Bonnie Wilkinson, birthday
scene
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
Detroit Association OF
Women's Club Meets

The Detroit Association OF Wo-
mems Clubs held rs monthly hoard
meeting Friday, April 10. at the
Phyllis wheatley Home on Eliza
beth street. The president. Sadie
l.. Lindsay presided A very COM
plete representation OF the twen-
ty-one clubs in the Association
answered roll-call to Mrs Jose
phine Vincent. the organizations
secretary.
This being the last meeting be-
fore the annual meeting and the
election OF officers final reports
were heard from all committee
chairmen. Individual club reports
will be heard at the Annual Meet
ing
Mrs. Helen Wilson was appoint
ed chairman Of the committee to
have charge OF the reception for
the Women Delegates TO the
Worlds General Conference Of
the AME Church and the IS Years
OF Negro Progress Exposition both
OF which will be in May. All AS
ISOLATED club presidents OF repre-
sentatives are requested 10 contact
Mrs. Wilson as soon AS possible.
At the next meeting. the An
nual Meeting, officers will be elect-
ed for the coming year. This meet
ing will be an all day affair All
unfinished business will be wound
up at this time and final reports
heard. There will be an afternoon
intermisSion during which lunch
con will he served
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
Sara Stephens Offer
Pupils In Recital At
The Grinnell Studios

And the night shall be filed
with music. "--lIongfellow.
On May at p. m. in the even
ing, the concert hall OF Grinncll
Brothers Music house on 1916
Woodward avenue. will resound
with preludes. nocturnes and ara
besques which the students oil
Mrs. Sara Levi Stephens will pre-.
sent for the public's pleasure
There Is no admission and the pub
lie is cordially invited to be pre-
sent.
The carefully arranged program
is under the personal and able li-
rection OF Mrs Stephens who il a
figure In music circles and well
known TO old DetroIters. Mrs. Res
sic Borton. popular matron. will
assist as reader. Leon Edward Pat
terson. lyric soprano and directrese
az Congregational church. who Is o
favorile OF Detroit's music lovers.
will slug: n group OF Cass Tech
meal high school goods will lend
their melodlons voices and several
plano quartets and one piano sex
tete from Mrs. stephens school
will appear.
Members and former members
OF the piano-forte class and many
from distant places plan 10 at
tend. Guests are especially re-
quested TO gather early. Mrs.
stephens will be at the register
ready TO receive and welcome them.
The program will close with a
brief presentation OF Mothers
Day" as a memoriam 10 the late
Fredonia Burgess Levi. Mira.
stephens mother. who. for twenty
years. was an ardent and civic
minded worker for Negro causes.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
Camp Norcom Tourney Entices A
IScore OF Bridge Enthusiasts At ny"

sterling the YWCA Camp Nor
the back and take
bridge that induced huge crowd
afternoon All this making cer-
little darngs. viii be amply pro-
camp which goody.
Williams the committee assisted by
Miss Mcclure who busy with
with front
yelling The members
include Mamie Alexander Mrs Edna Pondexer
Mrs Helene Nesbrooks
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
ss.ss
" hafs
Cookl.nq2
. . . . .

does love abide in your little nest? well, do you in
tend to let it rest in peace designed to bring that sparkle
HIS eyes pep up his adad appetite the marvellous
recipe for broed white wish coaxed from robert
bowles.
place l boned white fish (2I2 lbs) in broiling pan,
cover with Glove garlic and small sliced onions, brown
for minutes. onion, with salt, pepper
and pinch of sugar. pour tbsp WORCESTERSHIRE
sauce bsp. casup with strips of bacon. broil
at $50 degrees f. when ready pour drawn butter over
all and set to with satisfaction.
these Accomplishments evening of smiling
smugy his pipe:
asparagus tips bedded in lettuce garnshed with hard
cooked egg and smothered in hollandaise sauce.
baked potato--an idaho for perfection.
hot corn sticks.
butermilk (if you're from the south you probably
arel.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
Club Women's Notes

The Executive Committee OF the
Association OF Colored Womens
Clubs will convere at Plymouth
congregational Church on Satur-
day. May is. Delegates from the
clubs In the state will attend The
annual state Convention will meet
In Lansing. Mich. June 80. July
/, .. ard 3. 1910.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27
SPRING MORNING

woke In the morning
And looked up In the skies
The sun came through the window
And shone bright In my eyes
I was happy II reminded me
That spring has come Ut last
And what was left OF winter
Were memories OF the past
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27

Miller, Miss Beulah Lewis Miss
Arneta Mcleod. Mrs. Gertrude
Gibson. Miss Pattie Dixon. Mrs.
Josephine Ramsey. Mr.. Moore and
Miss Anne Johnson.
The Bee Few Beauty college is
planning a Hair style show and
dance TO be given in May. Watch
these columns for the date
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-27

strolled into the garden
Aud looked al all the flowers
The hyaclnih and lilac scents
Arose like CHATTING hours
The robin In the bird bath
Began 10 sing and sing
I knew what Il was saying
"Tis spring. lis spring. lis spring
ny Zchadah Mitchell
Grade "a: Age IL
900 u. Forest
Evening star., 1940-01-07

lie and semi-public buildings along
East Capitol street, to balance the
Mall development to the west and to
give impetus to a new movement
toward the east. Congress has made
available $500, 900 to start construc-
ton of the armory during the cur
rent fiscal year, with an ultimate
limit of cost of $2,700,000 for the
building. In the meantime devel-
opment of the Anacostia Parkway,
including preliminary grading of
the great sports arena at the east
end of East Capitol street, Is 60
ing forward gradually.
Another vitality important pro-
gram which has been initiated dur
ing the past year and which is ex-
pected to reach full fruition during
the new decade is the establishment
Of the Municipal Center project.
Coupled with this has been the de-
velopment of the adjoining District
Courts Building group, which also
Evening star., 1940-01-07
moved to some other suburban point

moved to some other suburban point
If the c. A. A. moves there.
The long advocated development
of the area east of the Capitol, now
apparently beginning in earnest,
may prove to be an important fact
during the coming decade. The Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission and other agencies hold
such a development is of vital ne
cessity to restore balance to a city
which has grown lopsidedly toward
the west and north, with resulting
building and traffic congestion,
which during the last few years
has become increasingly serious.
Construction of a much-needed
National Guard armory at Nine
teenth and East Capitol streets, ad-
joining. Anacostia Park, is to be-
gin this year and well may prove to
be the opening wedge for the
strongly advocated program Of pub
Evening star., 1940-01-07

goes into the new decade and should
reach fulflllment during that period.
Congress also has provided an
initial appropriation to start con-
struction of a new central library
building Immediately adjacent to
Pennsylvania avenue west of John
Marshall place. This building,
which eventually is to house the
Board of Education, will be for. all
practical purposes, a part of the
Municipal Center development.
Carrying forward the Municipal
Center, courts and library projects
during the coming decade, should
alter tremendously the character of
most of the down-at-heels area
north of Pennsylvania avenue be-
tween the Capitol Parkway system
and the business heart of downtown
Washington. The development of
this system of parkways around
the Capitol, including creation Of
the new Botanical Garden and the
Evening star., 1940-01-07

bypass around Washington This
bypass. which should become an ac-
complished fact during the new
decade, is merely recognition of
the fact that Washington rapidly is
becoming a great city and must be
SO treated in all future plans for de-
velopment of not only its immediate
vicinity but of a great area in the
adjoining States. Tri-city planning
for the Washington Baltimore An
napolis area has been established on
sound basis during the past decade
and will bear fruit during the COM
ing decade on a scale which may
now be difficult to foresee.
An important start on the Fed
eral building program for the new
decade was recommended by Presi-
dent Roosevelt last Thursday in his
budget message, which provides for
construction of six new buildings
and continuation of several others
now under way. OF particular i'm
portance from the standpoint of
city planning was the decision to
locate two of the new structures in
East Washington-one an $3.50, 900
Office building near Lincoln Park,
adjacent to East Capitol street; the
other new Army Medical Library
and Museum near the Congressional
Library.
The Federal Government, during
the past decade, has virtually ex-
hausted the possibilities for further
development of the downtown area
of the city. Buildings put up during
the past 10 years, or which now are
being erected or which will be COM
menced during the early part of
this new decade, will fill not only the
Mall Triangle-wholly a develop
ment of the past decade-but the
Southwest building area in which
three very large Federal buildings
now are under way, and the North
west rectangle, of which the new
Interior Department Building is the
keystone.
The results of this dearth of fu-
ture building sites already are be-
coming apparent. The Naval Med
ical Center is moving from Consti-
tuition avenue to Bethesda to join
company there with the National
Concer Institute and the National
Institute of Health, creating one of
the Nations largest and by far its
most beautiful development dedi-
Gated to the advancement of medi-
cine and surgery.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority,
scattered through nine widely sep
arated buildings in downtown Wash
ington, is seeking to establish itself
away from the city's congestion at
the new Washington National Air
port.
Will Be Decentralized.
This decade may witness the be-
ginning of a great decentralization
of activities here which will lend
an impetus to the development of
the outlying areas and SO color the
the entire future growth of the Ma
tional Capital. The new David w.
Taylor Model Testing Basin which
the Navy is completing at Carde-
rock and the great naval radio base
1t is establishing at Cheltenham,
Md, are other examples OF this
important trend, as are the Belts
vile Research Center of the Agri-
culture Department and the high
way research laboratory of the
Public Roads Administration, To-
Gated at Gravelly Point but to be
Evening star., 1940-01-07
beautiful formal parkway extending

beautiful formal parkway extending
to Union Station, has been another
important program of the past few
years which should go forward into
the new decade to give an increas-
ing beauty and dignity to the whole
area around the Capitol and the
head Of the newly rebuilt Mall.
Large building programs are in
progress at the historic Washing
ton Navy Yard and in that munich
pal area south of East Capitol street
which includes the District Jail and
the Gallinger Hospital group.
The Alley Dwelling Authority is
carrying on into the new decade q
slum-clearance and low-cost hous-
ing program which should be of vast
importance to the National Capital
during the coming 10 years.
Private housing has more than
kept pace with this new semi mi-public
housing program. During the year
Evening star., 1940-01-07

sylvania avenue NV, began in q
period of national depression which
for long promised little in the way
Of concrete achievement.
The decade which is just begin
ming, on the contrary, finds Wash
ington and its growing metropolitan
area in the midst of a period of
growth of all kinds which, if it con-
tinues at anything like its present
rate, should within another 10 years
bring further amazing transfer
nation to this whole area.
There have been predictions that
the population of Greater Washing
ton during the new decade will pass
the 100000 mark, with the popula-
ton of rapidly developing Arlington
County and Alexandria passing the
100000 level.
Such growth can only mean an
acceleration of the development OF
Washington from the quiet easy
going city of pre-World War days to
a bustling metropolis which. of ne
cessity, will possess a far different
character from that at any time in
Its past
Big Changes Assured.
For city which is suffering from
growing pains, as Washington is to-
day, continued growth in the COM
Ing decade must continue to bring
adjustments which will profoundly
alter the city in material way. A
Washington which has not accepted
calmly such changes as the Thomas
Circle underpass to relieve an in
creasingly acute traffic congestion,
may find this only the beginning of
D necessary series of changes along
similar lines which will continue
during the coming 10 years.
Serious consideration already Is
being given to the construction of a
subway or subways to lessen surface
congestion during periods of peak
traffic flow. The Thomas Circle un-
derpass and the K street grade sep
aration at Rock Creek are merely
forerunners of similar developments
in all parts of the city to which SER
ious consideration is being given
today. Construction of an elevated
highway over K street in George
town has been studied as means
of alleviating very serious problem
on M street; there is very pressing
need for some such solution of the
problem at Fourteenth street and
Maine avenue S.W.
The great metropolises are turning
to the motor parkway, free from
grade crossings and other barriers to
traffic flow, as an answer to the
problems which confront them. The
Mount Vernon highway is a local
example of this type'of treatment,
which unquestionably will be ex-
tended-perhaps even vastly extend
ed-during the coming decade in
this vicinity. Planning officials al
ready are preparing for the day
when such parkways will lead into
the National Capital from all direc-
tions, with an accompanying segre-
cation of private and commercial
motor vehicle traffic. Development
OF the Anacostia River park as q
great motor parkway to Baltimore
and the North is in the planning
stage and may well be the first of the
great parkways out of Washington
during the 1940-l950 period.
Other Areas Involved.
Maryland, by constructing the Po-
somac River Bridge at Ludlows Ferry
the first bridge between Washington
and the mouth of the Potomac, is
preparing the way for q major trad1c
Evening star., 1940-01-07
City and Suburbs Reach
Up to High Populations
Beauty to Be Produced Here
By Great Public Works Which
Already Have Been Started

Editors Note What is Washngtons future? Along uhot
lines the Nations Capital likely to deueop during the
several gears? What sort of city Di it be by 1850?
Though there certain
tons the most tangible clues comuny
found examination of its pas-especaly
past Such analysis based definite plans tooed logically
should be of general interest to Washingtonians.
The olo1Ding article the first
The Sunday Star
hensipely the questions Washington's future.
Evening star., 1940-01-07
By Joseph S. Edgerfon.

decade growth which probably has equaed
IN its history the National Capital
holds farer population
Of the worlds
The
Glacier County chief., 1940-03-01
CHAPTER XIX

The horses and their riders were
invisible in the shadow where the
high wall curved away from the
moonlight. O'Leary spoke hoarsely:
THAT must ha' been a snorter!
You could ha' heard that punch half
way to Delhi. Who did you hit?"
Mind your own business. Why
did you whistler"
''Stoddart sent man from camp
to overtake you. He gave the mes
sage to me. He said there'd come
a sweeper, running like hell, from
Mrs. Harding in the guesthouse. She
says she has to see you in a hurry,
it's important, and won't you come
quick?"
whats become of the sweeper"
'He lit out. He said ais quiet at
the palace"
Nothing else new?"
''No."
Norwood thought second: You
60 to the Residency. Ask to see
the Resident in person. Give your
message to nobody else. Here
here's my card. Send that in. Ask
the Resident to stand by the phone
Glacier County chief., 1940-03-01
Government Scientists Record Speed of Bird Flight

The swiftest birdf1ight ever re-
corded accurately IS in the neigh
borhood of ITS miles an hour. Ordi-
nary, unhurried flight averages from
20 to 40 miles an hour, according
to the species.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has compiled a COM
plete record of the measured flight
speeds of North American and Eu-
ropean birds. The swiftest denizen
OF the skies, according to this COM
pendulum, is the California duck
hawk whose speed, measured with
stop watch from an airplane, was
found to be between ITS and $50
miles an hour. The eagle is rela-
lively slow. The Department of Agri-
culture compiler, found one rather
questionable recorded speed of 12O
miles for a golden eagle. Only two
entirely trustworthy records of eagle
speeds were found-one of 80 and
the other of 60 miles.
Bird speed records more than 20
years old are worthless, the report
explains, because any possible
means of measurement was quite in
accurate and some fantastic esti-
mates were made, ranging up to S
or miles a minute. Most such
guesses, and by far the most trust
worthy, were made by hunters. A
hunter. aiming at bird in flight.
Glacier County chief., 1940-03-01
IS Miles Down

The greatest depth at which en-
gineers have tapped for oil is just
over three miles. Seismographic
readings tell us that there is oil
IS miles under the earth's surface,
but with our present methods of
drilling we cannot hope to tap this
store. Now oil experts have de-
cided that the more efficient of
two possible methods must be
used. Both Of them do away with
the heavy, unwieldy shaft, thou
sands OBJECT long, which must be
capable of standing enormous
stresses and temperatures.
One method is to send down a
motor which fits snugly against
the sides of the well, and which
can be driven by thin, steel
encased wire. The other is to
have a small water turbine behind
the bit, and drive it by means of
water and mud, pumped at high
pressure. This method is being
used in a modified form in many
parts of the United States and
Central America.
Glacier County chief., 1940-03-01

had to make three subconscious esti-
mates-the distance of his target,
the speed at which it was moving
in order that he would know how
far ahead to aim and the speed of
his bullet. The skilled marksman
learned to make allowance for these
three factors instinctively, but never
could explain satisfactorily how he
did it. Only one of these elements
of craftsmanship, the velocity of the
bullet, could be measured ac-
curately.
But, says the report, 'it has been
found recently by experiment that
there is an appreciate loss of time
in pulling the trigger. Against the
sky it is practically impossible to
gauge the exact distance of the bird,
and the distance it travels may be
exaggerated because momentum
will carry shot bird some distance
before it falls. An overestimate of
a very few feet in these figures will
result in the computation of very
high speeds for game birds. Gum
ners have been prone to attribute
speeds of 100 or even $50 miles an
hour to ducks"