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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Anti-SaIoon
League Plans
New Dry Drive
Strategy Mapped
As ; LIST Convention
Assemblies Here

The 31st national convention Of
the Anti-Saloon League of America
today was devising strategy to re-
peat its successful fight of the World
War period when it helped attach
a prohibition amendment to the
Federal Constitution.
This country will be dried up"
again as America carries out the
national defense program, accord
ing to leaders of the convention,
which opened yesterday at Calvary
Baptist Church.
Today white-haired DR.. Howard
Hyde Russell IS, who founded the
national league here in 1895, will
address the convention. He as
serted to newspapermen that "a
revival of the spirit" of World War
days will Stree the United States OF
legal liquor before 1885," The trend
will emphasize local action first, he
said, pointing out what he said were
an increasing preponderance Of dry
decisions in II 900 local options since
repeal.
81 ,5OO,OOO Fund Sought.
A $1,5O0,000 fund is to be raised
for a new drive, it was announced by
the league president, Bishop Ralph
S. Cushman of st. Paul, MINI.
Plans for it were being worked out
today in business conferences Of
officials.
Industrial and Army expansion
in the present emergency will slow
up liquor consumption independ-
emily of league action. according to
Alonzo L. Baker of Los Angeles, field
secretary of the Race Betterment
Foundation, who will speak at to-
nights session.
Employers are going to demand
steady workers, and the Army is
going to demand steady soldiers"
said Mr.. Baker.
when I was in the Army in
1917 remember soldier had to
be up, with a clear head, at am.
Bishop Cushman criticized Army
officials for allowing beer sales at
camps where drafted men will serve.
He attributed the Army decision to
pressure of -beer barons trying to
put into our men the habit and
taste that ruins"
Camp Dry Zones Urged.
A dry zone should be thrown
around every camp, declared George
w. Crabbe of Baltimore, general
SECRETARY of the league. otherwise
a selectee will be a very strong
boy if he comes out as good as he
went In"
Luren D. Dickinson, 81-year-old
Governor of Michigan, advocated a
return to "old- time religion"
After Gov. Dickinson had told
his audience that you can't stop
me until I'm ready to stop; I'm here
to get close to you, tell you things
that are facts" it took him half an
hour to greet an enthusiastic hand
shaking crowd.
He said that ministers and
churches are letting us down" on
the liquor question What women
and girls are doing today exceeds
anything in days when was young.
Twenty-Five per cent of all crime is
due to drink but we're not going to
get discouraged"
Other speakers tonight will in
clude DR.. Oscar F. Blackwelder of
the Lutheran Church of the Ref
ormation, who will discuss THE
Church and American Democracy,
and Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, whose
topic will be 1--WE Will March For
ward"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Youth sFataI PLUNGE
From K|ingIe Bridge
Is Called Suicide
Son Of Consular Official
Is Found in Roadway;
Motive Unknown

The motives behind the suicide OF
Henry Boernstein, 18-year-old son OF
an American consular official, were
unexplained today as police closed
their investigation of the case
The youths body was found on
the roadway under the Klingle
Street Bridge early yesterday He
had plunged 80 feet to instant death
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued a certificate of suicide after
talking with members of the boy S
family. The youth, whose father is
Ralph A. Boernstein, American
Consul at Leghorn, Italy, lived here
with his uncle, Ivan Strasburger,
1924 Chevy Chase parkway.
The body was discovered by a park
policeman, George r. SHIRLEY, who
was cruising near the scene. An
Emergency Hospital ambulance was
called and doctor pronounced the
youth dead about 1886 am. yes
terday.
Attended Party With Friends.
I. Young Boernsteoin was senior at
Woodrow Wilson High School and
had expected to leave school shortly
to go to Fort Bliss, Tex, with the
260th Coast Artillery, District Ma
tional Guard, of which he was q
member.
He went out Saturday night with
some friends, attending party at a
night club in Maryland. His friends
accompanied him to his home and
left him there around 2:30 am.
Members of the Strasburger fam
lily, with which he had lived fol
the last Is months, could advance nc
reason for the suicide. The youth
had suffered from asthma, but had
been hoping that his forthcoming
service in Texas would help his
ailment.
His parents left him here so thai
he might finish his schooling. A
7-year -old brother accompanied the
family to Italy.
Young Woman Saved.
A young woman, who was saved
from a similar death when passers-
by prevented her from jumping OF
the Calvert Street Bridge, was held
at Gallinger Hospital today for men,
tai observation. She was uniden-
titled.
She owed her life to Robert w
Berberich, 81, of 2011 Klingle roae
NV, a clerk. Mr.. Berberich tolc
police he was driving across the
bridge yesterday when he noticed
a young woman standing on thu
outer edge of the bridge.
An elderly woman on the side.
walk, who the police were unable
to identify, seemed to be pleading
with the girl. Mr.. Berberich stopped
his car and rushed to the railing
to which the young woman was
clinging.
He grasped her about the waist
just as she let go. She struggled to
break away. crying:
81 don't want to disgrace them"
Others rushed to the scene and
helped drag the girl back over the
rail. Police were called and re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Bishop freeman Explains
Pohick S Early Role

BY Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
POHICK, Va, Nov. 25.-Parish-
toner's of Pohick Church, where
George Washington was a vestry-
man, yesterday heard the Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop Of Wash
i1gton, stress the role of early
churches in the setup of national
government.
The relation between the govern
ment and the Episcopal Church
system was explained by Bishop
Freeman. Builders of Pohick
Church in 1774, including Gen.
Washington, George Mason and
George william Fairfax, also were
among the founders of the country,
he recalled.
An altar cross, a personal gift,
was presented to the parish by
Bishop Freeman and received by the
Rev. Edwin c. Runkle, rector. Bishop
Freeman was assisted in the service
by the Rev. Clyde Brown. diocesan
missioner, and Canon Edwin Slater
Dunlap, executive secretary of the
Washington Diocese.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters, for a.
hour period ending at 8 am.
yesterday:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 40.
Motorists injured, 7.
Motorists arrested, 1853.
Pedestrians injured, 4.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 8.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right of way to pedes-
TRANS, none.
The traffic record for 24-hour
period ending at 8 am. today:
Fatalities, / motorist.
Accidents, "a.
Motorists injured, 6.
Motorists arrested, 1874.
Pedestrians injured, 5.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations, none.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right of way to pedes-
TRANS, none.
Killed In 1910 traffic, IS; by
November Is in 1889, rs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Catholics Here Unite
In Prayer Services
For War; Victims
1900 Gother for Mass
At c. U. Celebrated by
Bishop Corrieon

Washington Catholics at Catholic
University and at the churches OF
their faith throughout the city
united in prayer yesterday for the
war dead in response to an appeal
from Pope Plus XII.
Nearly $500 persons gathered for
a midnight mass celebrated by
Bishop Joseph M. Corrigan, rector
of Catholic University, in the
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-
ton. Bishop Corrigan later re-
turned to preach at the solemn high
mass.
In his sermon, the bishop read
excerpts from the Pope's letter
which asked for the day of public
prayer that all those who have
died as result of the war may
obtain eternal rest, that all those
who suffer or mourn as a result of
the war may be comforted, and that
true peace may be restored in JUS
tice and all peoples united as
brothers"
Services were conducted at the
shrine all night long from the mid
night observance to the solemn high
mass at which the Most Rev. Amletc
Giovanni Cicogani, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, ponti-
ficated. Student priests and pro-
fessor priests off1ciated and as
many as Is low masses were being
read at the same time.
The Rev. John j. Reilly, director
of the shrine, said at the holy hour
service yesterday that his holiness
had called upon the world for
prayer before our prayers become
those of desperation"
Material preparations in this
country, Father Reilly continued
are for a war of defense, although
there is more real power for peace
in the hearts of those who lool
upon Mary as the queen of peace
and address her Son than in al
the output of our aircraft factories.
The deacons Of honor to thu
apostolic delegate were the Rev. DR.
Pascal Parente, assistant professor
of ascetic theology, Catholic Uni.
versity, and the Rev. DR.. James A
Magner, procurator of the univer.
sity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
treated and released from the
Fredericksburg Hospital after the
accident.
5 Killed in Virginia
Traffic Accidents

By the Associated Press.
At least five persons were killed
in Virginia week end traffic acct
dents. Another was killed by train.
The dead:
Melvin Thomas Bennett, 10, Of
Scheduled, and Julius Hankins, 10,
Of Spray, N. c., whose necks were
broken when their motor cycle
crashed against a tree near CAL
lands, Pittsylvania County, Satur-
day night.
Mildred Allen, 10, Of Richmond,
injured fatally yesterday in the COL
lision of an automobile and a bus
just outside Of Richmond city limits.
Fourteen other occupants of the
auto and the bus were treated at
a Richmond hospital.
H. e. Coffman of Winchester and
M. T. Dame of Clifton Forge, killed
in the crash of two automobiles near
Clifton Forge Saturday.
Lonnie w. Blanton, So, Seaboard
Air Line Railway conductor, crushed
to death beneath q freight train
after he had fallen between two
cars in the industrial section along
the James River sputh Of Richmond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
jefferson PIT. A. Group
To Hear Dr.. FLICKER

The Parent Teacher Association
of the Thomas Jefferson Junior
High School will meet at 8 O'Clock
tonight. DR.. Paul Ellicker, execu-
tive secretary of the National Asso-
citation of Secondary School Princi-
pals, will lead a panel discussion on
Citizenship Education and the De-
tense Program"
The groups study club will meet
at the school at 10 am. Wednesday
when DR.. James H. Fox, dean OF
education of George Washington
University, will speak on 1.-THE Home
as an Educational Institution.
moved her to Gallinger for observa-
ton.
All marks which might aid in
identifying the young woman had
been stripped from her clothing.
She refused to give her name and
would not explain her act.
She was between Is and 80 years
of age, was S feet Z inches tall,
weighed about 125 pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
BioIoqicuI Society

Habits of mountain lions, as
studied by M. E. Musgrave of the
Land Utilization Division, Interior
Department, and the ways of poi
sonous snakes, as observed by F.
M. Uhler of the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service, will be the
subject of talks at a meeting of
the Biological Society Saturday at
pm. at the Cosmos Club.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

home 1 did blow upon it, Why? saith
jehovah of hosts Because of my house
that lieth waste while we run every
man TO his own house.
10. Therefore for your sake the
heavens withhold the dew, and the Earth
withholdth its fruit.
II. And I called for a drought upon
the land, and upon the mountains, and
dDon the grain and upon the new
vine. and upon the oil, and upon that
which the ground bringeth forth, and
upon men. and upon cattle, and upon
ali labor of hands.
u Then Zerubbabel the son OF
Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Je-
hozadak, the high priest, with all the
remnant of the people, obeyed THE
VOICE of Jehovah their God, and the
words of Hagva the proghet las Je-
hovah their God had sent him; and
the people did fear before JEHOVAH.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

of THE WHOLE WORLD. Such class of
treachery ia not so inducive to the
black American citizenry. l am re-
minded of story two neighbors who
knew not each other. One of them
OWNED A COW, but had not FEED.
The other had feed, but owned no
stock. neither had anything to buy
with. The cows master prayed for
feed one night and the neighbor who
had feed heard the prayer which con-
tanned great promise to pay in milk
and butter. The cowless neighbor re-
turned home proud because he saw
PLENTY of milk and butter on hi
table in just few days. The first nigh
ne sent FEED TO his neighbor he wa
rewarded with milk and butter. Thi
continued for several nights. Noticin
the physical improvement Of the cow
| less neighbor, the cows owner be-
came jealous and sent nothing bu
"blue joint ((S1immed milk whicl
brought the two back together to re-
new THE COVENANT. Cow captai
says in reply to cowless captains re
quest of him to send some butter wv
get no more than we can use". !
seems that it is taking all from u
although we furnish much of the fee
20 support our (my) country.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14
Sunday School
Lesson

JUNE 1t
HAGGAI URGES THE BUILDING
OF GODS HOUSE -Haggai
GOLDEN TEXT Let US consider on,
another to provide unto love and goo,
works, not for saking our own as
sembling together, as the custom =.
some is Hag. 1924, 25.
Haggai 1:2. Thus spealeth Jehovah of
hosts, saying Thus people say, 1t is
not the time for us to come, the time
for Jehovah's house to be built.
81, Then came the word of Jehovah
by Haggai the prophet saying,
dwell in your ceiled houses, while this
house lieth waste?
s. Now therefore thus saith Jehovah
of hosts: Consider your ways.
g. Ye have sown much, and bring
4 It is a time for you yourselves to
in little; We eat, but We have not
enough; we drink but we are not filled
with drink; we clothe you, but there
is none warm; and he that earneth
wages to put it into bag with holes
1 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts:
g. Go up to the mountains, and
bring wood, and build the house; and
I will take pleasure in it. and l will
be glorified, saith Jehovah.
came to little; and when we brought IT
9. Ye looked for much, and, 10, it
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American Society Of composerssI
Authors and Publishers, is PAINS
taking craftsman. He goes over and
over his songs, polishing a word
here, a note there until he is sat.l
isfied it represents the utmost OF
grace and winsomeness Of which be-
is capable. IA. a
49,
All White House rooms are equip.
ped arith radio sets, and F. d. Ri
spies report, Is an eager listener to,
words and music 4ohile motortng.l
The new generation is growing
up ignorant of the quaint termin1
ology which used to flavor thst
vaudeville world. Young people to.
day think pit musician" is guy
that plays in mine. that only a
sheriff can stop a show" and that
next to closing" is bankrupt sale.
In a yelling contest between
prairie hogcallers and Swiss yodel-,
ers, our bet would be on the for-
mer. . There's always a moon or
weather song issuing from the mills.
Latest moon song is "Moonshine
Over Kentucky" "a neat title), BY
Lew Pollock and Sidney Mitchell.
Latest weather song is IF It Pains
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14
BY z. D. Brent

The blessed SAVIOR laid down his life
for his friends, both God and men. All
because of the interest he had in bStn
He saw His responsibility even be-
fore he reached the most SEVERE test.
he would mention this test along the
journey of life which is proof that He
was well informed as to what the
cashier would demand of the payer. He
saw that without the shedding of blood
there was no deliverance from THE
SLAVERY OF SIN. He paid to save
the world-we say, and, as a citizenry
we will have to do the same thing
without the shedding of blood. There i.
no delivsrencs hoaa 8s hands a
swiftly approaching ENEMIES, via
military wars. But the blood can be
split in vain, in the effort to save the
country in which we live.
The blood of Jesus Christ cannot
fail, if applied. Surely, we as black
opponents of American policies, both
national and international do want ouI
white American brothers to know tina
II we are given a chance (put intc
power) we will probe our sincerity il
a more conspicuous way. We are tryin,
to get back to where we have BEEN
WHERE? Africa. No, but if there, j.
will be all right Although, few of u.
have ever seen the country of THE
BLACK MANI But we are trying t.
get back to the Senate, the office Of
Superintendent of Education, office Of
= State Governorship, and US Attorney
General etc
The propaganda offered to the Neg
roes (us) during the World War was
ineffective to the Negroes GERMANY
tried to cancel the interest of the
NEGROES (us) to keep him out of the
World War; but he saw that to yield
to such persuasion would forever
blacken the Negro (us) in the EYES
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

~ Berlin Fifty Years Old
~ It doesn't seem possible Irving
Berlin has been writing songs for
thirty years. Recently he celebrated
Ibis 50th birthday. His melodic gift,
Ibis. fair for deft rhymes upon senti-
Imental themes seem as fresh today
los when he burst upon Broadway
kwith his carefree carol, my Wife's
Gone to the Country"
Berlin, who for several years has
Dad the select ranking OF IA IN the
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14
GUARD YOUR TONGUE

Again ye have heard that it hath been
said by them of old time, Thou shalt
not forswear thyself, but shalt per-
soxm unto the Lord thine oaths: But
ther by heaven; for it isGod's throne:
I say unto you, Swear not at all; nei-
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstooE
neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city
of the great King. Neither shalt thou
swear by thy head, because thou canst
not make one hair white or black. But
let your communication be, Yea, yea;
Nav nav: for whatever is more than
these cometh of evil. Matt. 5:33T.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

Researchers are still trying to-
find out who wrote the first waltz
and what it was called. One would
think they'd rest content with theI
fact that Johann Strauss wrote the
best ones.
1t is nearly that time of year,
when Strauss appears on the music
racks Of the Boston Symphonic
The Boston band, more than any,
other. can make a Strauss waltz
the most soothing and the most
seductive OF ear syrups.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

country carefully, to find some
thirty-two girls who not only know
their way around Handel and
Handy, but who could, if necessary,
pass muster in a Broadway front
line. Like most musicians they
work hard, but unlike their brothers
there's no recess poker game for
them, no midnight romping in the
.eatacombs of swing for recreation.
Even if they wished to lark around
Spitalny is duty bound to keep his
charmers under strict surveillance.
That's the promise, he told me, he
l. L.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

blow a trumpet
or pet a piano.
A n d musical
ability and good
looks rarely go
together. Phil
Spital ny's job,
then, was all the
harder when he
decided that I
girls orchestra
was what the
country needed.
He managed,
by securing the
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

ANYTHING that they shall ask, it shall
10 done TO rthem of my father which
&c in heaven. For where two or three
are gathered together in my NAME,
rt1ERE AM in the midst of them
Matthew 1882
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

VINO (areS Dy Josi
Burke and Edgar Le5-
lie. A happy mann 4
of singing sad SONGS
doesn't seem as pToht-l
able as a sad manner Of
singing happy songs. e. .
Don't hear so much CT
Ravel's "Bolero" any
more. 1t certainly was.
massacred in its time,
Bobby Clark finished il
off for the comics. ELe
once played the OPEN.
ing bar on a clarinet,
stopped suddenly, sid
to the audience: "Mul.
tiply that 1913 times and
you have 'Bolero'."
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Please allow space to let the many
readers know that Lodge 1874 has lost
one of its best members, one of its
most loyal workers In the person Of
Brother Sid Webbs. He passed this life
on June s, 1910 and leaves to mourn
the loss, wife, six daughters, one soi1,
three brothers and host of relatives
and friends. We pray that our loss is
heavens gain.
L. D. Robinson, Reporter.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14
Uhp N1nrnH nf JpHuH: 4
MAKE YOUR CHOICE

Lay not up for yourselves treasures
upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt and where thieves break
through steal. But lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, WHERE
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt
and where thieves do not break thru
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

UNLESS a girl Is easy on the
~ eyes she's taboo on the band
atand. no matter how well she can
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

The grandson Of Te-
cumSeh, famous Indian
soarrier, is a radio ten.
;pr. From tomdhalVks TO
$enors in three genera.
ieinneg
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14

utaQe TO tner parents.
F-S-P
Music right now is
their all-consuming in
terest. 1t will continue
to be until the right
men come along. Spit
alny is hopeful that the
right men will turn out
TO be-for several years
Schubert and Men
delssohn and Johann
Strauss.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14
Thy word lamp my feet and light unto my phPsam 9O5
Press Radio Bible Service. Ise. Cipeiuuaii, Ohio

nor steal: For where your treasure is
THERE will your HEART be also
Matthew 6:19-2l.
THE POWER OF PRAYER
Verify I say unto you, Whatsoever ye
shall bind on earth shall be bound III
heaven; and whatsoever va shall loose
or earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Again say unto you, That if two of
you shall agree on earth as touching
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-06-14
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Continued from last week.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Fascist Reverses Stir Speculation on Effects
To Britain and Germany if Italians Surrender

point Of view might be expected.
Italy has now 0osses deducted)
something like SO destroyers, 70
large torpedo boats GEO to 300 tons), =,
10 to 30 motor torpedo boats, and
IL small minelayers.
These would all be tremendously
useful in the protection of British
shipping in the Atlantic theater.
In addition, Italy has under con-
struction IL small cruisers of $500
tons and Al knots speed which
would make ideal ocean escorts for
conveys. These are all in advanced
stages of construction. 1t is hardly
to be expected that in the critical
situation now existing with regard
to conveys, British would not insist
as part of the armistice condi-
tions on the handing over of these
smaller ships, which would help so
very much.
Check Against Japan.
The release of British warships
now operating in the Mediterranean
would affect something like 40 de-
stroyers, perhaps few escort vessels
and a substantial number Of cruisers.
A squadron, Of capital ships. with